Infinite Save: I Cultivate Immortality Through Reincarnation - Chapter 246: The Official Beginning
“Just as long as I beat them, I can eat as many pastries as I want?”
Staring at the arena platform in front of her, Si Youyou turned her head, tilting her little face upward to ask Chen Yan.
“Of course.”
Chen Yan replied, though somewhat perfunctorily.
Because his mind was currently completely not on Si Youyou in front of him.
From just a moment ago, someone had been staring in his direction.
Or rather, they were staring at Si Youyou.
This had also long been within Chen Yan’s expectations. A six-year-old at the Martial Spring Realm was completely unheard of throughout the entire history of Chenping Continent.
Chen Yan glanced sideways at Mr. You beside him.
Mr. You appeared quite calm, or rather, completely at ease.
Take one step, watch one step.
If it really doesn’t work, just run away.
That was Mr. You’s plan.
“First match, Feixue Sect’s Gao Ye versus Nanshan Sect’s Xie Shuo!”
The sound of the gong rang out.
Both were names of cultivation sects Chen Yan had never heard of before.
Two Martial Spring Realm cultivators leaped onto the platform from left and right. The one on the left, wearing daoist robes of white and blue and with handsome features, was Feixue Sect’s disciple, Gao Ye.
The one on the right, wearing light brown daoist robes, was Nanshan Sect’s Xie Shuo.
Looking at the two of them, Gao Ye appeared considerably younger than Xie Shuo.
Gao Ye looked to be in his early twenties, while Xie Shuo on the other side was at least over forty-five.
Their auras were also completely different; Gao Ye was more sharp and aggressive, while Xie Shuo was more reserved.
“Please.”
Xie Shuo said.
The next instant, Gao Ye raised his hands and pressed his palms together in front of his chest. The temperature on the arena platform immediately dropped several degrees, and a mist of frost rose around Gao Ye.
Immediately after, several crystalline, sharp ice spikes condensed in the air, shooting straight toward Xie Shuo’s abdomen.
Too slow.
Chen Yan thought to himself.
What seemed like a fierce, imposing attack was actually just a bluff.
Chen Yan knew very well how large the combat power gap was between a Qi Circulation Realm cultivator and a Martial Spring Realm cultivator.
But seeing the technique displayed by that Feixue Sect’s Gao Ye, Chen Yan even felt that Qi Circulation Realm disciples from the Five Great Sects could exchange a few moves with him.
“It’s the Feixue Sect’s Martial Spring Realm technique, Icy Cold Piercing Snow!”
From the surrounding crowd came such an exclamation.
“Senior Brother Gao truly lives up to being the most outstanding genius of Feixue Sect’s younger generation. To be able to so easily activate Icy Cold Piercing Snow at such a young age, Feixue Sect has a worthy successor!”
Another person, who seemed to know that Feixue Sect disciple, boasted like this from within the crowd.
Compared to the arena platform at this moment, the voices from the crowd were more attention-grabbing for Chen Yan.
It sounded like this Feixue Sect cultivator named Gao Ye had quite a reputation among the younger generation of cultivators.
Immediately after, Xie Shuo standing opposite Gao Ye stomped his foot on the ground. The bluestone bricks of the arena platform beneath his feet were instantly crushed into powder. Then, half-crouching in a horse stance, he threw a punch toward Gao Ye’s direction.
“Break!”
Xie Shuo shouted loudly. Ripples of true qi emanated from his fist.
The several ice spikes in front shattered one after another, and then the powerful true qi ripples continued smashing toward Gao Ye’s direction.
Thump!
After a dull sound, Gao Ye was seen flying horizontally out of the arena platform.
Instantly, the voices that had just been praising Gao Ye vanished.
“Winner, Xie Shuo!”
The sound of the gong rang out again.
Xie Shuo bowed toward Gao Ye, who had fallen below the platform and was already unconscious, then turned and walked down the arena.
Immediately after, whispers began to emerge from the surrounding crowd.
“Who is this Xie Shuo? How is he so fierce?”
“I don’t know either.”
“You young people not recognizing him is normal, after all, Xie Shuo is already in his forties now.”
Beside the group of young cultivators gathered together, a cultivator who looked somewhat older spoke up:
“Twenty-seven years ago, Xie Shuo once represented Nanshan Sect in the Heavenly Summit Mountain Dao Inquiry.”
Heavenly Summit Mountain Dao Inquiry!
As soon as these five words were uttered, all the young disciples present who heard them immediately became solemn with respect.
It must be known that those who could participate in the Heavenly Summit Mountain Dao Inquiry were, without exception, absolutely, one-in-ten-thousand, or even one-in-a-hundred-thousand, heaven-chosen talents among cultivators.
“Nanshan Sect actually had the qualification to participate in the Heavenly Summit Mountain Dao Inquiry?”
A young cultivator asked.
“Of course. Although Nanshan Sect has long since declined, thousands of years ago, Nanshan Sect once produced a Myriad Transformations Realm cultivator.”
“Myriad Transformations Realm!”
The voices among the young cultivators became noisy again.
Having a Myriad Transformations Realm cultivator overseeing a sect could make it a first-rate sect on Chenping Continent.
For Nanshan Sect to have fallen from a former first-rate sect to even inferior to a third-rate sect like Feixue Sect, many things must have certainly happened over these thousands of years.
“And then? How did Senior Xie Shuo perform in the Heavenly Summit Mountain Dao Inquiry?”
Another young cultivator asked.
“He was eliminated in the first round. It’s said he was instantly killed in one move, and that was with the opponent holding back.”
The older cultivator shook his head regretfully as he answered.
“Someone could instantly kill Senior Xie Shuo in one move?”
The young cultivators widened their eyes. In their eyes, Gao Ye was already an unattainable, lofty existence, yet his flashy but ineffective moves were completely worthless before Xie Shuo.
Such a powerful Senior Xie Shuo was actually instantly killed in one move even at the Heavenly Summit Mountain Dao Inquiry?
“There’s no helping it. To be honest, Xie Shuo was indeed quite unlucky back then, encountering a Dao Inquirer from Lingxiao Temple in the first round… It was precisely because of that experience that Xie Shuo’s Dao heart was nearly shattered. Even now, over twenty years have passed, and he still hasn’t stepped into the Qi Sea Realm.”
The Dao Inquirers of the Five Great Sects were existences on a completely different dimension.
If you encountered a Dao Inquirer from the Five Great Sects in the first round, then there really was nothing to be done.
Chen Yan listened to the cultivators chatting and nodded.
If Si Youyou’s opponents were all of this level, then the champion position of this Floating Light Summit Dao Inquiry should be practically assured.
Don’t look at how, during sparring with Mr. You in the courtyard, Si Youyou was completely toyed with in the palm of his hand. But Chen Yan knew very well to what extent Si Youyou had progressed after being fed moves for half a month by an Immortal Ascension Realm great power.
If it were a battle of techniques on the arena platform, Chen Yan believed Si Youyou’s current combat power would be comparable to his own back on Heavenly Summit Mountain.
Of course, his self without using the Hidden Immortal Art and the Great Derivation Art.
After several more rounds of boring matches, the sound of the gong rang out again.
“Eighth match, Rogue Cultivator Si Youyou, versus Cangkong Pavilion’s Shangguan Chen!”
When the surrounding crowd heard the name Shangguan Chen, they instantly erupted.
Cangkong Pavilion, a first-rate sect in the Northern Region of Chenping Continent, and Shangguan Chen was hailed as the number one heaven-chosen talent of Cangkong Pavilion in five hundred years.
As for his opponent, Si Youyou…
When the surrounding crowd saw the little girl who struggled even to climb onto the arena platform, the previously erupting atmosphere instantly froze solid.
