This nationwide competition has finally come to an end. Although it was short, it popularized the concept of cultivating immortality to all the people of Divine Land.
The practitioners' bizarre spells and fighting styles left a deep impression on everyone.
Shortly after the final, the staff gave Wu Ting and Lin Yinxuan a full-body treatment. Although their Magic Power didn't have much time to recover, their physical condition had returned to normal.
The athlete regained consciousness, and the next step was the final awards ceremony.
This award ceremony was highly anticipated, as to emerge victorious from such a competition and win the championship, their strength is unparalleled in the entire Divine Land. In fact, in the hearts of many viewers, Wu Ting's strength has become the undisputed number one in the Divine Land, since they were unaware of Li Xingkong's existence.
Judging from the strength Wu Ting displayed, whether in defense or offense, his overall combat power was roughly equivalent to a fully equipped modern squad, and even surpassed it in agility and mobility. This was a combat capability that was hard for ordinary people to imagine.
If everyone were this strong, what would be the point of the Eagle Country? Divine Land would immediately become the number one power on the entire Earth Star.
After clearing away the remaining parts of the arena, the competition area was emptied, and staff members stepped forward. In unison, they began casting spells, and soon the awards ceremony area was erected from scratch.
These staff members are all practitioners, and their abilities are naturally beyond those of ordinary people. They built the award platform from scratch using magic. The entire process only required a few people to cast a few spells, and the award platform was built on its own.
This is yet another manifestation of magic in people's livelihood. After all, although battles are inevitable, they are not the mainstream of social development. Most of the time, society is peaceful, and the role of cultivation in people's livelihood is equally important.
These two Turn Earth into Mud and Turn Earth into Steel, are undoubtedly very useful in construction. What might have taken a dozen people several days to do could be accomplished by one person in less than a day.
As the saying goes, social development is the progress of productivity. In the past, science and technology were the primary productive forces, but now, cultivation of immortality is showing signs of replacing science and technology as the primary productive forces. This process will only become more and more obvious as cultivation of immortality becomes more and more widespread.
With the awards ceremony over, the four finalists took to the stage one by one. Wu Ting and Lin Yinxuan defeated each other, taking first and second place respectively. Similarly, Brother Gou and Tie Xingzhen also fought, with Brother Gou taking third place by a narrow margin, while Tie Xingzhen ultimately only managed to secure fourth place.
This ranking was actually pretty much what they had estimated before the competition. The only difference was that Wu Ting had suddenly emerged, which was something none of them had anticipated.
The group had already taken to the stage, but the award presenter was nowhere to be seen. Just as the audience was buzzing with discussion, wondering who would be presenting the award, Li Xingkong made his move.
That's right, the award was presented by Li Xingkong himself. It wouldn't be appropriate for anyone else to present the award on this occasion. The main reason is that the award recipients are all cultivators, so the person presenting the award naturally can't be too low-class. If an ordinary person were to come, it would have to be someone of high status and power. It's not easy to arrange someone for the time being.
Ultimately, it was decided that Li Xingkong would present the award, since he was the true number one cultivator in Divine Land.
Furthermore, the way this character appears needs to be adjusted. If he appears just like an ordinary person, without any special significance, what kind of effect will it have?
Therefore, Li Xingkong had already left the venue before the awards ceremony began and walked outside. The staff inside the venue gave Li Xingkong a signal when the others went on stage to receive their awards.
Upon receiving the signal to begin the operation, Li Xingkong immediately launched into his entrance act.
With a wave of his hand, the duffel bag Li Xingkong was carrying opened on its own, and a sword flew out from it. The sword light rippled, circled Li Xingkong a few times, and emitted bursts of sword chants.
This sword was specially crafted for Li Xingkong by Old Tang. The entire blade was made of Bone-Tempering Grass and forged using the most advanced forging techniques available at the time. It took a long time to complete. Overall, it looks like a Han Dynasty sword, but it also has a modern feel to it. The blade is long and slender, about 1.1 meters in length. The blade is white, while the overall body is dark in color with gold patterns. Li Xingkong's name is engraved on the hilt.
The sword was undoubtedly a fine sword, but so far it hadn't had much use. Its only purpose was to be used for sword riding and as a means of transportation. And because of this purpose, Li Xingkong gave the sword a very simple name: Swift Lightning.
Driven by Li Xingkong, the Swift Lightning quickly floated in front of him. Li Xingkong lightly leaped onto the sword, and then a flash of light appeared on the entire blade of the Swift Lightning. The man and the sword rushed into the sky at an extremely fast speed.
As the audience members waiting for the award presenters were looking around the venue, trying to find someone who looked like the presenter, a sword's cry was heard coming from the sky above the venue.
The sword cry sounded familiar to many, and soon some people remembered the incident of Earth Star splitting in two not long ago. Those who witnessed the scene said that they saw the sky being cleaved open, accompanied by a sword cry.
The sound is so similar to that of that time that many people instinctively connect the two events.
"Holy crap, could there really be Sword Immortal?"
Someone began to mutter to themselves.
After all, there were cultivators among the participants in this competition, but while their strength was impressive, it wasn't strong enough to surpass modern firepower. However, splitting Earth Star in half was something that the entire world couldn't do at the moment.
As the audience searched for the source of the sound, the people on the awards stage exchanged bewildered glances. They knew that the commotion could only have come from one person.
"Zheng!"
Just then, a circular bolt of lightning seemed to streak across the sky above the entire venue, circling the ceiling and drawing everyone's attention.
Just as everyone in the room looked up at the ceiling, the ceiling of the venue shook, and then, like a teapot with its lid lifted, it was lifted up by an invisible hand.
The venue is large enough to accommodate several thousand people for the competition, and there are also spectator seats for tens of thousands of people to watch. Its area is quite large, and the ceiling is also large enough that even if you played football on it, you could divide it into more than a dozen football fields.
And now, such a huge ceiling has been so easily lifted up. If the staff present hadn't remained silent, the audience would have been ready to run away.
After the ceiling was separated, it did not fall down as they had expected, but instead remained suspended in the sky. As the ceiling opened, a lightning-fast shadow flew in from outside the venue through the crack between the ceiling and the venue.
It was moving so fast that all people could see was a ball-shaped, lightning-like object flying in from outside the arena, then circling the entire field several times above the stands before landing on the podium in the center of the arena.
A burst of white light erupted, and a figure appeared on the awards stage. He stood on a sword, hovering above the stage, more than half a meter off the ground.
The newcomer was none other than Li Xingkong. His simple entrance left everyone speechless.
Congratulations on winning this match.
Li Xingkong reached out and touched the medals, which flew out of a box held by a staff member not far away and landed in the hands of several people.
After receiving the medals that had been handed to them, the individuals had different thoughts.
Wu Ting and Li Xingkong were old acquaintances, but Li Xingkong's methods. He only felt that after a year, the gap between them seemed to have widened. Lin Yinxuan, on the other hand, was among the first batch of cultivators on the moon. He had personally witnessed Li Xingkong emerge from seclusion, and he would never forget that moment. Although the award ceremony was also quite grand, it was still not as shocking as that time.
Brother Gou and Tie Xingzhen had been in the military since they began their cultivation, and this was the first time they had ever seen Li Xingkong. However, this appearance made them feel as if the sky had fallen.
Is this level of strength really achievable by humans? Incredulity was evident in both of their eyes.
As for the audience, they were all in a very strange state of silence ever since Li Xingkong appeared on the awards stage.
Li Xingkong's commotion was such a huge shock to them that most of them hadn't recovered yet.