Elder Meng's voice rang out again from the center of the platform, drawing everyone's attention back.
"At this Principle Conference, the Great Dao Society assess everyone's past performance and categorize them into four levels: Heaven, Earth, Profound, and Yellow."
He paused, then took out an antique bronze mirror from his sleeve and held it in his palm.
The mirror is dark gold in color, with densely engraved Daoist patterns along its edges, and faint spiritual light flows around it, exuding an ancient and profound aura.
"Sixteen people were selected as Heavenly-level seeds and directly entered the top sixty-four."
Forty-eight players were seeded at the prefecture level and directly advanced to the top 128.
The remaining Xuan-level and Huang-level contestants will be selected through the Heaven-Responding Mirror.
Elder Meng tossed the bronze mirror high into the air, face down, and it hovered in mid-air in the center of the training ground.
A beam of light shot out from the mirror, transforming into a huge light screen above the training ground, on which names and numbers appeared.
" The Heaven-Responding Mirror is a world within a mirror. Once you enter this world, the Heaven-Responding Mirror will automatically match you with an opponent."
The winner gets one point, the loser is eliminated.
The top 64 players advance, joining the Heavenly and Earthly level seeds to enter the top 128.
Elder Meng's voice was neither hurried nor slow, yet it carried an undeniable air of authority.
"Mysterious and Yellow-level contestants, prepare yourselves."
These words immediately caused an uproar in the stands.
Those cultivators who were rated as Xuan-level and Huang-level were either rubbing their hands together in anticipation, looking nervous, or closing their eyes to rest and adjust their state.
"I've heard that the matching of the Heaven-Responding Mirror is completely random, without any human intervention."
People were whispering among themselves.
"That depends on luck."
If you're lucky, you'll encounter weak opponents along the way and advance effortlessly.
If you're unlucky, just go home.
"You can't rely entirely on luck; those on winning streaks will encounter stronger opponents."
"No matter what, those who make it to the end must have real skills."
Amidst the murmurs, figures stood up and walked towards the center of the training ground.
They walked to the bottom of the Heaven-Responding Mirror, reached out and touched the surface, and their figures disappeared into the light.
The light screens surrounding the training ground began to display the battle situation in the mirror world in real time.
The number following the winner's name increases, while the loser's name fades away.
Hun Jiuge and Li Tiantong got up and left; they were also participants.
Wang Ping patted the two men on the shoulders:
"Go, don't embarrass the Soul Household."
The two walked to the Heaven-Responding Mirror and reached out to touch its surface.
With a flash of light, the two figures vanished.
As Wang Ping watched the name of Hun Jiuge light up on the screen, he muttered something under his breath:
"The first opponent is... thankfully, not a big shot. Jiuge is lucky."
In the center of the training ground, the light of the Heaven-Responding Mirror continued to flash, and as figures entered, beams of light shone forth.
On the stands, discussions mingled together, pushing the atmosphere of the entire city to a climax.
Han Xuanji still did not appear.
On the other side.
On the Creation Platform, the sea of clouds surges and sometimes engulfs the mountain peaks, and sometimes suddenly disperses.
For thirty years, Han Xuanji never left the Creation Platform, devoting all his energy to cultivation.
At this moment, he sat cross-legged in the center of the high platform, his blue robe fluttering without wind, and a faint halo surrounding him, as if he had merged with the entire Creation Platform.
He has cultivated the " Destruction Source Scripture " to the perfect level of the Eternal Dao Master stage.
This core inheritance from the Hall of the End is intertwined with the " Creation Dao-Evolving Scripture," which is both destroyed and restored.
He practiced both simultaneously, verifying their effects on each other, and his progress far exceeded expectations.
The final barrier was finally breached a few days ago.
The Dao Principle of Destruction has been successfully condensed.
This is his Dao Principles and final Dao Principles.
The moment the condensation was successful, the entire Creation Platform trembled.
The pale golden light of creation and the gray-black light of destruction intertwined and swirled above the high platform, finally transforming into a stream of light that entered his brow.
That was a wisp of divine thought left behind by the Sage Qiankun. Sensing that someone had simultaneously mastered the cultivation of creation and destruction, it manifested automatically, as a form of recognition and gift to the younger generation.
Han Xuanji had no time to digest the contents of that wisp of Dao thought, because immediately afterward, an even more drastic change occurred.
All ten Dao Principles are complete, and the nine Dao Principles revolve around the newly born Dao Principle of Destruction, forming a perfect closed loop.
"It's time to break through."
Han Xuanji felt his spiritual energy becoming extremely active, and the barrier that had been blocking his way vanished without a trace.
With a wave of his hand, thousands of high-grade Eternal Crystal Stone surged out from the System Space, piling up into a small mountain around him.
He frantically absorbed the pure spiritual energy from these crystals, transforming it into a source of power to break through his bottleneck.
The crystals dimmed at a visible rate, turning into dust one after another.
If outsiders were present, they would be astonished to see this.
Normally, a few hundred mid-grade Eternal Crystal Stone are enough for Eternal Dao Master to break through a minor realm.
Han Xuanji's breakthrough to this minor realm required hundreds or thousands of times more resources than that of an ordinary cultivator.
All this is because his Dao foundation is too vast. The Ten Great Dao Principles are like ten giant dragons, requiring far more nourishment than ordinary people.
However, Han Xuanji doesn't lack that now.
With a net worth of nearly ten million, he doesn't care about this expense at all.
boom--
A deep rumble came from within Han Xuanji's body, and the bottleneck finally shattered.
"It's done!"
Han Xuanji was in a great mood.
His cultivation level rose from the Eternal Dao Master Ninth Layer to the tenth level.
The energy surged like a tide, wave after wave, until it reached the chasm leading to the Eternal True Lord, and then slowly stopped.
He did not attempt to break through that insurmountable barrier.
After all, he had just condensed the tenth Dao Principles. No matter how deep his foundation was or how strong his comprehension was, he only had a 50% chance of breaking through directly.
For him to break through, he naturally needs a 100% success rate.
Han Xuanji opened his eyes, countless rays of light flashing in the depths of his pupils as he felt the immense power within his body.
The quality of Eternal Spiritual Power has been elevated to a new level.
After the breakthrough, the same move, when performed with the current spiritual power, is at least twice as powerful as before the breakthrough.
But that's not even his strongest point.
His strength lies in his understanding of the Dao Principles.
Ordinary cultivators of the Dao of Principle generally choose to cultivate one superior Dao Principles as their main focus, while other branches are cultivated as secondary focuses.
Having two superior Dao Principles is already quite good.
A genius of Zhou Lie's caliber, having comprehended two top-tier Dao Principles and supplemented them with several mid-tier Dao Principles, possesses a Dao foundation that is unparalleled and beyond the reach of ordinary people.
Even in Nine Mysteries City, he only encountered those stronger than him; it's not that he was truly insignificant.
Han Xuanji's ten Dao Principles are all high-level Dao Principles, and he has mastered them all to the point of Eternal Dao Master Perfection level.
More importantly...
Each of the Dao Principles has its own characteristics and emphasis. The combined power of these principles is not as simple as one plus one equals two.