Chapter 95: Chapter 86 First 1_2
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"Come on, all my True Qi is at stake in this final showdown!" Bai Xiaodie, facing the two great Sword Intents of the blizzard and flying snow, harbored the thought of making her last stand.
"Come on!"
"Even if it's the last stand, my True Qi, and my Gang Yuan True Qi, release it all!"
At the same time this thought arose in Bai Xiaodie, Ye Chen, as if sensing it, also had this notion flare up!
Both had competed to the end, to the strongest extent possible, and whoever would take first place, they would both be utterly convinced.
So, with nothing left to reserve, they went all out in battle!
In the midst of the storm and flying snow, Ye Chen and Bai Xiaodie, hundreds of feet apart, exchanged a glance and instantly understood each other's thoughts.
Then, "Boom! Boom! Boom!" Both of them burst into endless radiance.
Around Bai Xiaodie, was the boundlessly vast cyan smoke-like Heaven and Earth True Qi!
Although Ye Chen's Heaven and Earth True Qi wasn't as vast as Bai Xiaodie's, within his cyan True Qi, there flashed a silver light even more dazzling than the Heaven and Earth True Qi!
It was the Gang Yuan True Qi unique to his cultivation of the "Primordial Star Scripture," Gang Yuan Mantra, even more powerful than the Heaven and Earth True Qi!
After months of arduous cultivation, Ye Chen's Gang Yuan True Qi had already reached two of the seven True Qi Vortices in quantity, and at this moment, Ye Chen released all this Gang Yuan True Qi!
Boom! Boom! Boom!
In the finale of their full power, the range of the flying snow controlled by Bai Xiaodie once again expanded, and even the killing force on the snowflakes doubled compared to before, furiously bombing towards Ye Chen's Wind Blade Sword!
Ye Chen was not the least bit behind Bai Xiaodie, and with the infusion of the Gang Yuan True Qi, the myriad Wind Blade Swords in the sky underwent a new transformation!
The silver Wind Blade Swords, transformed by the Gang Yuan True Qi, even ground away a large swath of the Flying Snow Sword Intent that had been clashing against them!
Bombarding crash!
Coiling annihilate!
The two profound-grade Sword Intents were battling to the very end!
This showdown made the Sky Arena spanning hundreds of feet around completely obscured, even the silhouettes of Ye Chen and Bai Xiaodie were blurred within the fight.
Only the winds in the sky could be seen swirling, and the snowflakes falling!
The clansmen of the three families all looked up at the Sky Arena, watching the storm and the flying snow in the sky.
They knew that the moment to decide the victor was almost upon them!
As everyone held their breath in anticipation, after half an incense stick's time had passed in this intense battle, in the sky, one of the two clashing Sword Intents finally suppressed the other.
Everyone saw that in the Sky Arena, the cyan flying snow and the Wind Blade Swords were both depleting in the fight, but the silver Wind Blade Swords were becoming distinctly visible within the continuously diminishing Sword Intent True Qi!
These were undoubtedly the Wind Blade Swords formed from the Gang Yuan True Qi obtained by Ye Chen from his cultivation of the Primordial Star Scripture!
The Wind Blade Swords, formed by the Gang Yuan True Qi with the enhancement of the Wind Sword Intent, were something that Bai Xiaodie's flying snow could not eradicate, and in this final decisive battle, it finally showed its strength!
The Gang Yuan True Qi, unique and far stronger than Heaven and Earth True Qi, finally revealed its power at this moment!
Boom! Boom! Boom!
In the end, when these hundreds of silver Wind Blade Swords swept away most of the flying snow, Bai Xiaodie's sigh finally spread through the air.
"I've lost!"
"Ye Chen, you are the first!"
Bai Xiaodie withdrew the last of her Flying Snow True Qi, revealing her figure.
Looking at the shining silver Wind Blade Swords, her eyes were filled with astonishment.
Having battled against the silver Wind Blade Swords for a long time, even when she summoned countless Sword Intents of Flying Snow but still couldn't break them, Bai Xiaodie knew she was defeated.
She understood that Ye Chen cultivated a kind of breath far more powerful than the Heaven and Earth True Qi she controlled, this white breath she had never seen before!
Bai Xiaodie knew that perhaps only after stepping into the Spirit Sea Realm and cultivating the True Qi Spiritual Fluid could she possibly subdue this breath.
Right now, she couldn't do it!
Hearing Bai Xiaodie concede defeat, Ye Chen also gave a slight tremor in his Qi Sea, and the hundreds of silver Wind Blade Swords immediately transformed back into Gang Yuan True Qi and the remaining Heaven and Earth True Qi, flying back into his Qi Sea.
He had finally won!
Finally, he'd reached the end!
Ye Chen looked at the Sky Arena and Bai Xiaodie, his heart filled with respect for her.
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Bai Xiaodie, at only fifteen years of age, proved so powerful that she could be considered the second strongest girl Ye Chen had ever seen.
Aside from Jiang Yao, Ye Chen had never come across such a talented girl.
This battle was also incredibly tough for Ye Chen; he even pulled out all the stops and used every technique he had to defeat Bai Xiaodie.
If Bai Xiaodie had had one or two more tricks up her sleeve, he might have been the one to lose!
"Heaven is vast, Earth is vast!"
"Genius is boundless!"
"If Bai Xiaodie can fight me to this point, not to mention the other sect geniuses, and those strong contenders of the Taixuan Sect who will participate in the True Disciple selection with their True Qi at the twelfth level!"
"Those chosen by a six-rank Great Sect to participate in the True Disciple selection must have some powerful techniques up their sleeves—it's simply impossible for them not to!"
"I must continue to strengthen my abilities!"
Although he was somewhat pleased at having secured the number one spot in the top ten ranking battle, Ye Chen was not going to become complacent.
Not to mention others, he was still far from that girl, Jiang Yao, who held such great expectations for him and liked him so much.
Jiang Yao was capable of defeating mid-stage Spirit Sea Realm experts with ease!
Let alone mid-stage of the Spirit Sea Realm, Ye Chen couldn't even beat the early-stage Spirit Sea Realm experts!
Thinking of Jiang Yao, of that incomparably beautiful girl, and thinking of their pact in Taixuan three months from now, Ye Chen was filled with fighting spirit!
This time, for coming in first in the three-clan competition, he would receive the special reward, the "Ancestral Ground Secret Map," and the highest reward, "Ancestral Blood," granting him the opportunity to search for great fortunes within the Ancestral Land Secret Realm that the family opened once every few hundred years!
There were still over three months left; he had time to further enhance his strength and add a few more cards to his arsenal, a few more trump cards!
Ye Chen was confident that in over three months, at the True Disciple selection of the Taixuan Sect, he would not disappoint Fairy Jia Luo, Jiang Yao's master, and would make Jiang Yao, the girl who liked him, proud and honored!
"Jiang Yao, wait for me!"
Ye Chen whispered to himself in his heart.
Atop the Sky Arena, when the final battle between Ye Chen and Bai Xiaodie ended with Ye Chen's victory, there was a moment of silence among the audience members of the three clans below before they erupted into frenzied cheers!
They had welcomed their young generation's top ten, welcomed their youngest and number one!
"This three-clan competition has concluded!"
"The top ten ranking is now firmly set! Qian Yuan, tenth! Qian Fang, ninth! Bai Xiaofei, eighth! Bai Xiaoning, seventh! Bai Wuxuan, sixth!
Ye Xue, fifth! Qian Feng, fourth!"
"Qian Ming, third!"
"Bai Xiaodie, second!"
"And the number one of the three-clan competition, the strongest among the young generation, is Ye Chen!"
Patriarch Bai announced the final results of the three-clan competition loudly, his voice echoing throughout the entire Martial Arts Plaza of the three clans.
Every time Patriarch Bai mentioned a name, all eyes turned to that person, and when he finally spoke Ye Chen's name, all eyes were fixed on Ye Chen!
As the first-placed victor, Ye Chen deserved the respect of everyone's gaze!
In those gazes were Ye Chen's father, Ye Xiaotian, and his mother, Lin Rin's joyful eyes, as well as the excitement in the young girl Tao'er's eyes.
At that moment, the Patriarch of the Qian Family and the Patriarch of the Ye Family also proclaimed loudly, "The three-clan competition is formally over!"
"In three days, all top thirty competitors from the competition will enter the Ancestral Land, venturing into the Ancestral Land Secret Realm!"
"Now, the top ten of the family, follow me to the 'Ancestral Shrine' to receive your rewards, to claim your Ancestral Ground Secret Maps!"
At last, the three Patriarchs looked towards Ye Chen: "Ye Chen, the highest reward for you—Ancestral Blood—is also waiting in the Ancestral Shrine; soon, you will see it!"
Ancestral Ground Secret Map!
Ancestral Blood!
At the mention of these two terms, Ye Chen and the other top ten competitors were all greatly moved.
They had fought so long in the three-clan competition, and at last, they would receive their rewards.
"What will the Ancestral Ground Secret Map be like?"
"And the highest reward, Ancestral Blood — the Patriarchs mentioned it's the Lifeblood left by the great being who established the Ancestral Land, the most precious reward of the entire land, what will it be like?"
Following behind the three Patriarchs, amid the throng of countless clanspeople, Ye Chen, along with the other top ten winners, walked towards the Ancestral Shrine, contemplating as he went.