Chapter 776 - 721: Unexpected Turn (Seek Yue Tickets)

Chapter 776: Chapter 721: Unexpected Turn (Seek Yue Tickets)

Taking advantage of the last bit of time, everyone hurried to rest. Shen Huaxi checked Wenn Jian, Tang Weimian, and Muh Wushuang’s injuries again. After confirming there was no major issue, he sat down cross-legged with the Mountain and River Chessboard, simultaneously circulating his internal energy and staring at the chessboard, lost in thought.

Jiang Yuebai gazed at the persistent thundercloud overhead and suddenly felt an impulse. Her right eyelid twitched.

There’s an old saying that the left eye twitch signifies wealth, right eye twitch... to hell with superstition!

Jiang Yuebai rubbed her eyelid and hurried to circulate her energy to adjust her breathing.

Earlier, she absorbed considerable vitality from the Fang Family group, filling her with energy, feeling as if she had endless strength.

Though it is still during the Qingyun Conference, it doesn’t prevent her from continuing her cultivation to learn.

Of the four cultivation techniques of Kunpeng, she mastered three; now, it’s just a matter of using them more to increase proficiency. The last one is "Water Strike Three Thousand."

Having the experience of learning "Beiming Fish," learning "Water Strike Three Thousand" now is twice the result with half the effort.

Everyone was busy, and as time slowly passed, about two hours later, a line of text appeared simultaneously in everyone’s Sea of Consciousness.

The first round of the Qingyun Conference finally entered the second stage.

As the second stage rules appeared in everyone’s Sea of Consciousness, Qingyun Realm suddenly turned from day to night. Over Thundercloud Floating Island, light flickered, gradually forming a tiger head totem identical to the one on the Jade Token.

The rules for the second stage were as previously anticipated: seize the other half of the Jade Token, guard the Floating Island for one day without losing it, and the entire team will be transported to the venue of the second round.

Seeing this, Jiang Yuebai flashed to the outside of the island, releasing Divine Sense to probe the surroundings. Each floating island occupied by someone had different totems.

Glancing over, Jiang Yuebai found they were the twelve zodiac signs. Yet, of the eight Jade Tokens, none matched?

The odds are unprecedented!

Jiang Yuebai instinctively pressed the deer horn in her lapel, wondering if she had siphoned off the entire team’s fortune.

Boom!

Suddenly, a place exploded with a loud noise, flames soared skyward, immediately capturing Jiang Yuebai’s attention. Though too distant, her Divine Sense faintly detected a fierce battle between two Floating Islands.

Above both islands, the totems were the same: both were snakes.

As Jiang Yuebai was retracting her Divine Sense, her eyes suddenly brightened, discovering another floating island with a tiger head totem, sixty miles northwest of theirs.

Moreover, just now, she saw information compiled by Shen Huaxi indicating that the island was a base for a lesser-known sect.

Jiang Yuebai quickly returned inside the island, informing everyone of her findings.

Driven by luck, Jiang Yuebai, Lu Nanzhi, and Ge Yuchan set out lightly, stealthily leaving the Floating Island, heading straight for the island sixty miles away.

For Jiang Yuebai, equipped with the Michen Seal, except for weird Great Arrays like those of the Five Mountains Immortal Sect she couldn’t breach, most arrays she could directly break through.

She brought Ge Yuchan inside, while Lu Nanzhi waited outside, quickly obtaining the other half of the tiger head Jade Token.

Upon returning, she noticed five or six late-stage Nascent Soul cultivators approaching from another direction, seemingly targeting them.

Three people returned to the island. Li Shen Zhi activated the Great Array with all his might to fend off those coming for their Jade Token.

With Li Shen Zhi guarding the island, Jiang Yuebai felt at ease, while onlookers were speechless.

Previously, many focused on the small teams led by Jiang Yuebai and Lu Nanzhi, not noticing Li Shen Zhi guarding the island alone.

This time, facing numerous cultivator assaults, they realized Li Shen Zhi wasn’t just a dab hand.

His arrays layered upon layers, never-ending. Those cultivators exhausted themselves, risking injury and elimination, breaking through layer after layer, each time thinking it was the last layer, each time saying there couldn’t possibly be more layers, yet reality repeatedly dealt them crushing blows.

For someone like Li Shen Zhi who feared death, Jiang Yuebai’s island was truly solid as gold soup.

Expecting a bitter battle, the outcome was surprisingly effortless. Yet Jiang Yuebai still felt strange; why did her right eyelid twitch when things went so smoothly?

Indeed, pure superstition!

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While the Nascent Soul side went unexpectedly smoothly, the Golden Core side faced many obstacles.

Their luck wasn’t good. Yun Shang’s group held a half rabbit Jade Token, and the nearest rabbit totem was a hundred miles away; along the way, factions clashed fiercely, creating complex and dangerous situations.

Ultimately, the group decided to take a gamble, leaving Qii Yue and Shi Xiaowu to guard while the rest concentrated on punching through.

Beforehand, they had set up numerous Puppets and Mechanisms on the island, designed by Shi Xiaowu and assisted by Song Zhi’ang, crafting a few fake Jade Tokens.

If a strong enemy invades and they can’t defend it, they’ll abandon the Floating Island, leaving false Jade Tokens to buy time.

According to the rules, as long as they return to the Floating Island by the end of the day, they aren’t considered defeated.

Among the Heavenly Interence Sect’s Golden Core Disciples, Yun Shang and Hee Wangchen had the highest cultivation. Though Yun Shang was mild and Hee Wangchen timid, neither hesitated to step up, fulfilling the roles of senior sister and brother, leading their Golden Core cultivators in a blood-soaked charge.

Meanwhile, on the Divinity Transformation side, Zhao Fuyi was the first to represent Heavenly Interence Sect, facing the Taiwei Star Alliance Spiritual Platform Realm and Cold Moon Palace’s Mid-Stage Divinity Transformation male cultivators in an infinite ocean.

The male cultivator expertly wielded a pipa, creating sound waves that greatly disturbed Zhao Fuyi’s mind, initially causing chaos in her defense, rendering her incapable of fighting effectively.

Luckily, Zhao Fuyi played along, pretending to be overwhelmed, fleeing aimlessly within the field, ultimately counterattacking, raising a ’Cold Cicada Silence Array,’ instantly plunging the world into silence, vanquishing the opponent’s pipa sound wave, reversing her disadvantage.

Though Zhao Fuyi’s beginning was brutal, nearly failing several times, she ultimately turned the tide, providing a strong start for Heavenly Interence Sect.

As time ticked away, the first round of the Qingyun Conference heated up, with prodigies emerging in the Jade Token competition.

The Ten Great Powers each had unique strengths and representative figures, earning praise, making everyone eagerly anticipate the following competitions.

Some areas even set up betting pools for fun, wagering on who would rank in the top three and which sects and families would enter the Ten Great Powers.

Among their lists of bets, Heavenly Interence Sect and its disciples were prominently featured.

As the first-round contest neared its end, more than half were eliminated.

As everyone, brimming with enthusiasm, awaited the form of the upcoming second round’s battle, the azure cloud mist surrounding Qingyun Realm suddenly boiled and surged, black clouds with lightning engulfing Qingyun Realm in an instant.

Gasps pierced the sky as various factions’ stationed personnel rose from their bases, countless Divine Senses probing Qingyun Realm, yet no one’s Divine Sense could penetrate the cloud mist surrounding Qingyun Realm.

Meanwhile, all Refining Void, Integration, and Mahayana cultivators remained silent in Taibai Realm, gazing towards Taibai Realm’s direction, quietly still with no movements.