The Dragon God of Destruction
Huoyun Ying
Tianyu Star, Sword Sect
Currently the atmosphere in the Sword Sect was busy as it was preparing for the third stage of the competition.
Moreover, in a certain building in the Sword Sect that was a gigantic arena, a screen made of strange technology using qi energy was clearly visible in the eyes of many Sect disciples.
It was the leaderboard of the second stage competition that had just taken place. On the screen, there are twenty names, the number of participants and the number of Points they have.
“See! The Second Stage Competition has already started!”
One of the disciples shouted loudly while pointing towards the screen. All the disciples who were there were also directly staring towards the screen.
Although the number of students there was not much because the second stage competition had just begun, it was still quite a lot. And also, in a certain suburb in the giant arena was seen several tables with one person sitting behind him.
“Ayo... The betting has begun! You've all seen the top 20 list! For participant number..” The students who were there immediately made a betting offer after seeing the top 20 list.
The information about all the participants must have been in the hands of the students. They also anticipate who actually first qualified in the first round and earned the highest points.
However, when they all looked at the first and second ranked lists as well as the participants' names and the Perseta numbers, all of the disciples were stunned.
“Am I hallucinating? Why is this participant number 444 ranked first?”
“Not just that, see that unreasonable number of Points!”
The disciples discussed one after another when they saw the number of Perseta 444 by the name of Jie Yan, as well as the number of Points 280 Points.
All students know the rules of the second stage of the competition. Rumor has it that the first ranker to qualify for the first round will earn 50 Points.
It should be known for the Points retrieval, taking an Eternal Soul level spirit star core was only 5 Points, a 10 Point intermediate stage, a 15 Point final stage and a 20 Point peak stage.
Naturally they were all surprised that Jie Yan earned 280 Points at the beginning. It was very unrealistic even though Jie Yan was the first to reach the finish line.
“Hey, hey, I got a rumor that over 50% of the students this time failed in the first stage competition. And the cause was a disciple named Jie Yan.”
“Yes, I heard the news. It is said that many disciples fell because of it so that each of the disciples was counted to 1 point of addition!”
“Are you crazy, how could he drop 230 students? It's just a rumor! It is impossible for someone with an early stage Immortal Soul cultivation level to be able to do so!”
“Ya, right! Did you forget that the First to Fifth Elders disciples and the Law Enforcement Hall Elders disciples were also in the competition? They had all reached the level of a peak Eternal Soul stage!”
“Definitely that disciple named Jie Yan bribed the Elders so that he earned a huge starting point!”
The discussion broke back because the first rank was Jie Yan. Aside from that, they were also surprised that the second ranked was also a new disciple, with 90 Points.
Although the Points were much smaller, it was understandable because the second rank was none other than Yun Che being the second to reach the finish line.
Meanwhile, the eight core disciples including Jian Xu were at that place. For Jian Xu, he only needed 1 day to return from the second competition venue to the Sword Sect.
The other core disciples were also staring towards Jian Xu to ask for an explanation as they were naturally in disbelief as well.
Jian Xu was speechless as seven pairs of eyes looked at him as if he had a debt of millions of spirit stones.
“True, you guys can't underestimate that disciple named Jie Yan and Yun Che. Both of them did drop very many disciples, especially for Jie Yan. both of them were still very young. And perhaps the talent of both is on par with yours, Huoyun Ying’er.” Jian Xu said staring at the beautiful woman next to him.
The woman who looked very young, short, with long white hair, cheerful temperament, charming moss green eyes, and looked like a 15-year-old was dumbfounded for a while.
The other core disciples were also shocked by Jian Xu's words as they knew what kind of talent Huoyun Ying’er said to be the reincarnation of the Sword Goddess.
Huoyun Ying'er stared at Jian Xu blankly. He never considered himself the best even though all the disciples and Elders said that he was a talent that only appeared once in hundreds of thousands of years.
But it was true that Huoyun Ying'er was indeed extremely talented. Although his cultivation was the weakest among the core disciples, his swordmanship was the highest. Relying solely on sword intent and sword technique, he became the second strongest among the core disciple ranks.
“Interesting.. I want to fight them when the time comes.” Huoyun Ying'er smiled brightly as she said that.
But Huoyun Ying'er's bright smile made core disciples aside from Jian Xu involuntarily shudder.
**
Ancient Forest
somewhere in the Ancient Forest, a beam of visible light appeared. The light grew and formed the figure of a person. When the light faded, the figure of the young man who was none other than Jie Yan appeared.
Jie Yan who had just transferred to the Ancient Forest, instantly stared at all the surrounding areas. He was a little wary at the moment as it could track down many powerful auras not far from him. He knew clearly that it was the aura of an extremely powerful spirit beast.
Without wasting any time, Jie Yan instantly moved towards a place where there was no powerful aura. The aura he tracked reached the late stage Immortal Soul level. Although he was able to fight, to defeat him was quite difficult and if the fight continued, it was certain that other spirit beasts would appear to pounce.
“This forest is very dangerous!” Inner Jie Yan. He thought back to whether he needed to use techniques to control spirit beasts.
“Jie Yan, stay alert. Every now and then I can feel a powerful aura watching over this situation of the Ancient Forest!”
Xiao Ziya's voice sounded in Jie Yan's mind which made Jie Yan startled. He immediately brushed off the plan using the control technique since it could have been tracked down by the Sword Sect Elders.
“Jie Yan, I know what you want to do! I'll concentrate on tracking so you can use that technique! But it is better to use the easier way! Control one by one the spirit beasts you can control and then let them blindly attack the other disciples when the time comes! You just need to harvest their Points all!”
As Xiao Ziya's voice sounded back, Jie Yan appeared to be putting on a strange face at the moment. He never thought of it that way. Although he was cunning, he only thought that he would kill spirit beasts one by one secretly using controlling techniques.
But, thinking back on it, the process was quite long. How many spirit beasts could he kill within a few days? The number of points collected is definitely not much. But, if he waited for the other disciples to collect Points, he would only need to use spirit beasts to harvest their Points all.
“If it's like that, then I only need to subdue spirit beasts secretly then when their numbers are already very large, I only need to hunt down other disciples! Aside from that, all those spirit beasts would eventually become victory trophies as well!” Inner Jie Yan with an evil smile.
Unbeknownst to anyone, the competition this time was destined to be very chaotic because of what Jie Yan would do later.