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The fist wind was fierce, shattering the void, tearing through Sword Twenty-One’s Sword Qi, and landing heavily on his abdomen.
Everything happened very quickly, merely within a few breaths, Sword Twenty-One had been sent flying backward.
The spectators outside the spatial projection were all slightly shocked.
Sword Twenty-One stood up from the ground, frowning as he looked at Li Mubai.
He slowly picked up his longsword, with an increasingly solemn expression in his eyes.
The longsword was whistling, tearing the space in front of him apart, more and more, the endless void being annihilated within.
"Sword Intent Overlooking the Sky," Sword Twenty-One called out softly.
Behind him, the Sword Intent condensed into a towering giant sword, slashing over with a majestic momentum.
Around him, many subtle and seemingly existent Sword Intents enveloped him, quickly hiding within the void, striking at Li Mubai.
Watching all these Sword Intents coming toward him, Li Mubai appeared to be petrified with fear, actually standing still without dodging.
The Sword Intents roared along with Sword Twenty-One in a "rumbling" sound.
Just then, the explosive and world-upheaving scene everyone imagined did not occur.
Instead, as the Sword Intents touched Li Mubai’s body, they were all devoured.
His body was like a whirlpool, even swallowing Sword Twenty-One’s side sword.
Sword Twenty-One hastily retreated, looking at the scene before him with astonishment.
He couldn’t understand what had happened.
"Here you go," Li Mubai said with a smirk.
With a flick of his right hand, myriad Sword Intents burst forth, heading straight for Sword Twenty-One.
These Sword Intents were his own attack from moments before.
With innumerable Sword Intents bearing down on him, Sword Twenty-One simply had no time to defend or dodge and was directly pinned in the void.
Just as more and more Sword Intents surged over, a giant hand reached out from the void.
This hand effortlessly passed through layers of space, eradicating the Sword Intents and pulling Sword Twenty-One out from the minor world of Heavenly Primordial.
"True Martial Holy Sect’s Sword Twenty-One is eliminated," an elderly voice sounded nearby.
This was the ancestor of the Baili Family, who was in charge of the entire Heavenly Primordial minor world.
If any competitor was in danger of losing their life, he would rescue them and cancel their eligibility to compete, declaring them eliminated.
When Sword Twenty-One returned to the square, he still seemed quite shaken, pale-faced.
He had come particularly close to death, and what was more embarrassing was that he had been defeated without even using his True Fate.
The crowd in the square was abuzz with discussion; even if Sword Twenty-One was not a Saint Heir, he was still among the best of the young generation of the True Martial Holy Sect.
And now, he had lost to an obscure young man.
This made many people curious about the identity of this young man named Li Mubai.
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"Did you see it clearly?" Xu Qingshan looked at Xu Zimei and asked.
"If I’m not wrong, that was one of the Hundred Great Battle Bodies, the Hundred Arms Battle Body," Xu Zimei nodded and said.
The ability to directly devour Sword Qi and a side sword was very much like the Hundred Arms Battle Body.
’I reign supreme among the Hundred Arms,’ that’s what this constitution is about.
Xu Qingshan gestured for Sword Twenty-One to sit next to him.
"Deputy Sect Master," Sword Twenty-One said with a hint of dejection.
"You were not unjustly defeated. Indeed, there are some unexpected individuals among the Loose Cultivators this time," Xu Qingshan said.
"Train well, there’s no one who doesn’t face defeat in their lifetime."
Sword Twenty-One nodded slightly, still deep in thought about his recent defeat.
It’s true that the opponent was one of the Hundred Great Battle Bodies, but to be defeated so easily was really hard to accept.
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The images within the interspatial projection continued, and people were still being rescued from within.
After enduring more than a full day, only sixteen individuals remained inside.
This signified the end of this phase, and the final contest was about to begin.
Among these sixteen, some were expected, and some were surprises.
The True Martial Holy Sect secured two seats, one for Xiang Qianheng and the other for Jiang Xier.
The Purgatory Holy Sect also occupied two seats, one by their Saint Heir, Tian Mozi, and another by someone named Xue Kun.
The Taiyuan Holy Sect’s Saint Heir, Primordial; the Divine Sun Holy Sect’s Saint Heir, Xuanyuan Xuantian; the Immortal Spirit Sect’s Saintess, Xian Linger.
The Chi Family’s Saintess, Chi Xue; the Mo Family was represented not by their own Saint Heir but by a youth named Mo Chen.
Competing for the Baili Family was Baili Xiao. The Blood Nether Holy Sect, as an Imperial Rule Immortal Sect, had been without a candidate ever since their Saint Heir was killed by Xu Zimei.
Although the Sect Gate trained other disciples, none could match up, and they incredibly lacked even one disciple who made it into the top sixteen.
At this moment, the Elders of the Blood Nether Holy Sect glared at Xu Zimei with faces full of rage.
The Saint Heir representing the Dan Family was named Dan Qingyang.
The various Imperial Rule Immortal Sects claimed ten seats.
A top-tier power, the Immortal Spirit Sect, held one seat, as did the Myriad Beasts Sect’s Saint Heir, Kuang Qianshan.
The remaining four seats were all taken by Loose Cultivators.
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The final contest would start on the next day; the sixteen contestants, after a great battle, would also have a day to rest. 𝓷𝓸𝓿𝓅𝓊𝓫.𝒸ℴ𝓶
Inside Hundreds Miles City, betting houses had already opened wagers on these sixteen individuals.
The highest odds and the favorites were Primordial and Baili Xiao.
For the True Martial Holy Sect, since their Saint Heir Xu Zimei was not present, they were not very highly regarded.
Although the Saint Heirs of the other Imperial Rule Immortal Gates were impressive, they still paled in comparison to those two.
But regardless of the hustle and bustle inside the city, the True Martial Holy Sect party returned to their residence in a small courtyard.
Xu Zimei found a room and prepared for cultivation.
Now that the Five Spirit Beads were gathered— the Nirvana Bead, the Heavenly Thunder Bead, the Weakening Water Pearl, the Yimu Bead, and the Wind Extinguishing Bead –
The unity of the Five Spirit Beads involved a secret.
At the beginning of the world, during the Changes of the Circulation, there was no concept of Spiritual Energy.
The so-called Spiritual Energy here is not merely what Vein Practitioners use for cultivation and for opening their Vein Gates.
It encompasses all forms of Spiritual Energy gaseous states in this world.
The so-called Demonic Qi, Immortal Qi are also different states of gases, higher in grade than ordinary Spiritual Energy, but still a type of Spiritual Energy.
Without Spiritual Energy, the people of this world could not cultivate.
The notion of opening Vein Gates did not even exist.
The Five Spirit Beads represented all the Spiritual Energy of the world.
Thus, they were the origin of Spiritual Energy in the Yuan Central Continent.
After the Five Spirit Beads established the Spiritual Energy system for Yuan Central Continent, they were scattered in different directions, landing across the Continent.
After hundreds, thousands, or even millions and billions of years, they now return to the hands of Xu Zimei.
That is because Xu Zimei aims to initiate the era of cultivation on the Divine Continent, which inevitably requires the use of the Five Spirit Beads.
The Divine Continent, having evolved from the Era of Ruins to a civilized era, already accommodates organisms that have fully adapted to the world.
They even began to proliferate.
If the Great Era of Immortal Cultivation is not initiated soon, humanity might eventually venture into a technological era.
This is the course of era development and a path that must inevitably be taken.
Xu Zimei’s consciousness arrived within the Divine Continent.
