To ensure fairness and impartiality, the martial arts competition among the hundred sects of the Ninefold Heaven will be conducted by drawing lots.
The same number comes in two colors: red and blue.
Two factions that draw different colors but the same number will compete for advancement.
Each sect only has one qualification, but the person can be changed, since injuries are inevitable in battle.
This also demonstrates the overall strength of a sect. If your sect has the ability, you can have different cultivators participate in each competition.
After discussing the matter, Sun Yuan Lin Heng offered to fight the first battle, and Lin Heng would then take over the battle Sun Yuan the Origin Vein.
After a moment's thought, Lin Heng nodded in agreement.
The battle for the Origin Vein is when the major sects of the Ninefold Heaven will unleash their trump cards; for Sun Yuan to act with his current strength would be far too dangerous.
Having comprehended the complete Law of Time, Lin Heng Lin Heng roam freely in the Ninefold Heaven without the intervention of the Thirteen Factions.
After the first round of the draw, Lin Heng's Qian Yuan Sect drew an opponent from a sect called the Five Baleful Intent Gate Sect, who sent a Devil Race cultivator who had reached the Third-Turn Samsara Realm.
This person is already the strongest cultivator in the Five Baleful Intent Gate.
While the Third-Turn Samsara grant them the power to run rampant in the Ten Regions, they become mere supporting characters in the Great War of a Hundred Sects in the Ninefold Heaven.
When Sun Yuan and the Devil Race cultivator clashed, less than ten seconds had passed. With an absolute advantage in strength and weapon, Sun Yuan easily knocked the opponent unconscious with a single blow, then grabbed him and tossed him out of the arena like a chicken.
In the initial battle selection, none of the hundreds of sects displayed any particularly impressive performances, and the battles were mostly one-sided.
It was only in the second battle that several sects began to put on a spectacular showdown, including the Fire Ghost Sect, which fought against Sun Yuan.
This is a race from a special place, similar to human souls.
The most troublesome aspect of the Fire Ghost Sect is undoubtedly their ability to become invisible.
This is a supernatural power that cannot be detected with the naked eye. Even when using the power of the soul to probe, it can only be detected at the moment the other party circulates their energy.
Sun Yuan suffered a significant loss in their initial encounter.
But gradually, as Sun Yuan got used to his opponent's strange ability, the tide of battle began to turn.
While the Fire Ghost Sect's stealth ability is indeed troublesome, it is also when they are stealthy that they are most vulnerable.
The damage taken while in stealth mode is ten times that of normal.
At the beginning of the battle, although the opponent inflicted some injuries on Sun Yuan, most of them were minor and insignificant. However, before Sun Yuan could exert his full strength, the Fire Ghost Sect had already displayed their trump card divine power.
Once Sun Yuan realized his opponent's weakness, he unleashed an indiscriminate attack with his Heaven and Earth Primordial Staff.
In the battle space where the two were, every time a member of the Fire Ghost Sect disappeared, Sun Yuan's indiscriminate attacks would immediately engulf the entire space.
The Heaven and Earth Primordial Staff, High-Grade Chaos Spirit Treasure, combined with Sun Yuan's Nine-Origin Overlapping Waves Staff, caused the Fire Ghost Sect cultivator extreme discomfort even from being merely grazed by the shadow of the cudgel.
After several indiscriminate attacks, the man finally gave up on using his invisibility ability.
With Sun Yuan and the Fire Ghost Sect cultivators engaged in a direct confrontation, the outcome of this battle was decided much faster.
Enraged by the attack, Sun Yuan killed the Fire Ghost Sect cultivator with his staff, achieving a crushing victory.
In several battles, no one was able to force Sun Yuan to reveal his Demon Race form.
As for the minor injuries and energy depletion, these were no big deal for Lin Heng.
The precious medicine, aged five million years, was consumed by Sun Yuan as if it were a tonic.
With Lin Heng's terrifying collection, Sun Yuan could be said to have maintained his peak condition when he entered the top 16.
With the next match set to determine the top eight, Lin Heng shared his and Situ Jiannan's thoughts after watching the game with Sun Yuan.
"Among the sects that have entered the top sixteen so far, most of them are only at the Sixth-Turn Samsara Realm. Although these people have comprehended Time Acceleration, your Nine-Origin Overlapping Waves Staff is somewhat special. You are only at the Sixth-Turn Samsara Realm. You can completely break through the opponent's Law of Time with your attack power."
To be honest, Lin Heng was also quite surprised by Sun Yuan's Nine-Origin Overlapping Waves Staff.
This staff technique is not only terrifying in attack power, but it also contains the Law of Time, but Sun Yuan is unable to perfectly utilize the law within the staff technique.
Even so, Sun Yuan's Nine-Origin Overlapping Waves Staff allows him to be unafraid of cultivators who have only comprehended Time Acceleration.
While humans cannot keep up, the Law of Time can be automatically defied when performing staff techniques.
To put it simply, the Law of Time works on Sun Yuan, but it's useless against the Nine-Origin Overlapping Waves Staff.
Although he couldn't keep up, his body moved in perfect unison with the staff technique, allowing Sun Yuan to defy the law of Time Acceleration.
This was the first time Lin Heng had ever heard of such a staff technique, and both he and Sun Yuan were quite looking forward to seeing what kind of power the Nine-Origin Overlapping Waves Staff would unleash when it reached its full potential.
A new round of draws will begin soon!
Sun Yuan glanced at the other fifteen members of the sect who remained in the arena.
Of the remaining sixteen, only three are Human Race; the rest are from races that appear rather strange.
Under Chen Yulin's instructions, the drawing of lots began.
Sun Yuan was the closest and the first to step forward.
A round ball, blue number three, was taken out of the box.
After receiving his assigned blue number three, Sun Yuan left, and the drawing of lots continued.
When it was the seventh person's turn to draw lots, blue number three was drawn again.
This is a rather strange race called the Gold Origin Race. They are a subordinate force of the Metal Clan, and are closely related by blood.
The Gold Origin Race are entirely golden in color, resembling humans in appearance, but with snake-like feet, lizard-like limbs, and a pointed mouth with fine teeth, giving them a rather fierce look.
From the previous battles, Lin Heng could tell that the Gold Origin Race's fighting style was rather fierce and aggressive.
The person who fought Sun Yuan was named Jin Maohou, a name that does indeed suit him quite well.
This guy has blond hair and loves to yell and shout during battles; his father was quite prescient.
Their battle was scheduled for the third match, so after the draw, they went to venue number three.
Eight martial arts competitions were held simultaneously, with a spatial formation set up by Thirteen Factions. Although the competition area seemed small, it actually contained an endless battle space within the formation.
" Gold Origin Race, Jin Maohou!"
" Qian Yuan Sect, Sun Yuan!"
After entering the arena, the two greeted each other politely with clasped hands, and then sized each other up.
Sun Yuan was still at the first Samsara level, while the Jin Maohou had already reached the Sixth-Turn Samsara, which was considered quite strong even in the Ninefold Heaven.
Before the battle even began, the Jin Maohou sneered, "You're lucky to have made it to the top sixteen with First-Turn Samsara. You can still forfeit now, otherwise, I won't stop so easily once the battle starts."