The vast and boundless sky, immense floating cities and palaces, and so on, were moving slowly, finally forming a very large and boundless spectator arena.
The Sect Master of the Taiyi Immortal Sect, Zhu Shenzi, a cultivator at the peak of the Nascent Soul Great Perfection stage, wore a simple and ancient black sacrificial robe. His appearance was majestic, and he held a small, chaotic-colored bell.
The aura on his body merged with the Taiyi Illusory Destruction Ten Absolute Great Array, emitting an infinite heavenly and earthly might.
In the eyes of the crowd, in an instant, they felt as if they were not looking at a person, but a complete Great Thousand World.
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The next second. Behind the Sect Master of the Taiyi Immortal Sect, Zhu Shenzi, a vast and boundless small world slowly appeared.
From a void shadow, it gradually became solid under everyone's disbelieving gaze.
Within that small world, streams of spiritual energy so pure that all cultivators of the righteous and demonic paths went mad, slowly overflowed.
"Dong... Dong... Dong!"
The sonorous bell sound rang out, clear and melodious.
It was the Sect Master of the Taiyi Immortal Sect, Zhu Shenzi, who, under the gaze of everyone present, struck the chaotic-colored small bell in his hand.
"Sacrifice to senior sages, establish the sect and found it, an unparalleled achievement!"
A resonant and clear voice suddenly appeared in everyone's hearts.
However, in the air, not a single sound was heard.
This voice was transmitted directly into their hearts through their bodies.
At this moment, in everyone's eyes, apart from the small world floating in the sky and the Sect Master of the Taiyi Immortal Sect, Zhu Shenzi, there was nothing else.
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Everyone in the arena watched intently.
This was an ancient sect that had been passed down for tens of thousands of years, a celebration held only once every five hundred years.
Every step of the ceremony was something they could not miss.
Because among them, ninety-nine percent of people would only have this one chance in their lifetime.
If they missed it, they would never see it again until their death.
"Sacrifice to senior sages, establish the sect and found it, an unparalleled achievement!!!"
Suddenly, the disciples of the Taiyi Immortal Sect appeared one by one.
In an instant, tens of thousands of people, densely packed, appeared in the field of vision of everyone present.
Tens of thousands of Taiyi Immortal Sect disciples gathered together, forming a sea of people.
Each of them wore ancient sacrificial black robes and shouted in unison.
Following that, these tens of thousands of people simultaneously sprinkled their blood onto the ground as they prayed and chanted.
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The whispered prayers and strong faith, through the sacrificial ritual, converged into a surging torrent of spiritual power.
These torrents of spiritual power poured into the Taiyi Illusory Destruction Ten Absolute Great Array.
The formation patterns of the Taiyi Illusory Destruction Ten Absolute Great Array continuously changed, and all the spiritual energy condensed together, manifesting as ten sky-piercing giant pillars.
As soon as these ten sky-piercing giant pillars appeared, they went straight towards the heavens without any obstruction.
The ten sky-piercing giant pillars spanned between heaven and earth, emitting a fierce, vast, ancient, and magnificent aura that could shake heaven and earth.
At this moment, the Taiyi Immortal Sect's protective formation, the Taiyi Illusory Destruction Ten Absolute Great Array, began to operate at full power.
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They appeared!
They appeared!
They appeared!
Everyone in the arena felt a darkness above their heads.
When they looked up, they almost yelped and fell to the ground in fear.
They saw that in the vast sky, the phantom of a demon god, tens of thousands of feet tall, appeared.
This demon god stood with its feet on the earth and its head touching the sky.
It had a thousand hands and a thousand heads, its body was entirely black, entwined with countless ferocious fire dragons, its fangs were a hundred feet long, and it was naked. It was the God of Slaughter.
"Boom!"
Without a moment's pause, on the other side of the sky, another demon god phantom appeared.
This demon god was even more terrifying than the previous one, tens of thousands of feet tall, holding a colossal sword ten thousand feet long, its entire body filled with sword energy. It was the God of Punishment.
"Boom!"
Another different demon god appeared. It was tens of thousands of feet tall, holding a colossal shield ten thousand feet long in one hand and a colossal axe ten thousand feet long in the other, embodying both offense and defense. It was the God of War.
"Boom!"
Following that, another demon god appeared. Its body was entirely blue, also tens of thousands of feet tall, with streaks of blue giant pythons coiling around this giant Xuanwu tortoise. Its defense was peerless. It was the God of Defense.
"Boom!"
The fifth demon god was tens of thousands of feet tall, but its entire body was covered in dense eyes. Each eye was alive, and as they rotated and closed, heaven and earth overturned. It was the God of Black and White.
"Boom!"
The sixth demon god appeared, with a bird's body and a human face, tens of thousands of feet tall. Its entire body was the color of rotten wood, and it stepped on two giant dragons with its feet. It was the God of Life.
The seventh demon god, with a python's head and a human body, stepped on two black dragons, with ancient black vines entwined around its hands. Its entire body was covered in dense black scales, emitting an aura that seemed to want to entwine and tear apart all heavens. It was the God of Destruction.
The eighth demon god was tens of thousands of feet tall, with eight giant heads and ten black giant tails beneath its body. Its ribs bore countless pairs of dense wings. It was the God of Space.
The ninth demon god, with a fish mouth and a tiger's body, its body surged with water attribute power, like a complete ocean. It was the God of the Sea.
The tenth demon god, as red as alchemical fire, with six legs and four wings, was formless and faceless. It was the God of Wisdom.
Seeing this earth-shattering change, everyone in the arena was dumbfounded.
In front of these ten colossal demon god phantoms, each of which was almost ten thousand feet tall, anyone was as insignificant as an ant.
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Even those cultivators at the Core Formation and Nascent Soul stages were completely stunned at this moment.
They stared in disbelief at the ten demon god phantoms that had suddenly materialized in the sky.
One of them, who was in the early stage of the Nascent Soul realm, even stuttered, muttering to his companion, "This... this is..."
His companion replied hesitantly, "Idiot, big idiot..."
"Isn't it obvious? It must be the formation change of the Taiyi Illusory Destruction Ten Absolute Great Array. And you've lived for several hundred years."
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The five-hundred-year celebration of the Taiyi Immortal Sect had many rituals and procedures. The celebration lasted for three days and three nights before concluding.
Following the celebration was the internal martial arts competition of the Taiyi Immortal Sect.
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"Fellow Daoists, it has been many years. Would you like to reminisce? Please take a seat and converse."
Facing the numerous cultivators of the Nascent Soul stage, a hint of a smile appeared on Zhu Shenzi's majestic face.
After Zhu Shenzi's words fell, exquisite chairs made of pure white ten-thousand-year-old cold jade floated out of thin air and ascended to the sky.
"Buzz!" "Buzz!" "Buzz!"
After ascending to the sky, these chairs slowly stopped.
Moments later, powerful auras suddenly appeared on these chairs.
Each figure was so formidable that one dared not look directly at them.
In the sky, there were currently over a hundred chairs.
Each one was worth thousands of spirit stones.
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A common Qi Refining stage cultivator sitting on it could gain immense benefits in less than an hour.
However, the cultivators who could truly sit on them did not care about these small benefits at all.
This was because the people sitting on these chairs were the true overlords of this Nine Provinces Continent.
On the ten-thousand-year-old cold jade chairs, each aura was extremely terrifying.
They were at least at the Nascent Soul stage.
In the front row of chairs, there were only nineteen ten-thousand-year-old cold jade chairs, standing there solitary.
Nineteen people were seated on them, all of them at the peak of the Nascent Soul Great Perfection realm.
The auras of these nineteen people were obscure and their figures and faces could not be seen. They were like nineteen high heavens and vast mountains, like abysses and seas.
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The Sect Master of the Taiyi Immortal Sect, Zhu Shenzi, said with a calm tone.
"Let's begin!"
"The grand competition... is about to start!" Someone muttered.
The next second, within the Taiyi Immortal Sect's territory, several consecutive loud bangs resounded in all directions.
"Boom!"
Under the astonished gazes of everyone present.
In the sky, the void began to twist.
The area of distortion continuously expanded and spread with the passage of time.
It appeared!
It appeared!
It appeared!
With almost no delay, the center of the small world split open.
From the colossal rift resembling a black hole, a white jade staircase, tens of thousands of feet long and like a behemoth, appeared.
The white jade staircase was tens of thousands of feet long and thousands of feet wide.
Two to three thousand people could stand side-by-side on this white jade staircase.
"Taiyi Immortal Sect inner disciples, please enter the battlefield! Please enter the battlefield!"
As soon as this voice fell.
From ten different directions and regions, thousands of beams of light shot out simultaneously.
Dense figures all landed on the white jade staircase.
The cultivators who came to watch the battle in the floating cities and palaces were stunned on the spot.
To this day, they still couldn't believe what they had seen with their own eyes.
There were thousands of inner disciples of the Taiyi Immortal Sect.
This... did all the inner disciples of the Taiyi Immortal Sect participate in this grand competition?
What a joke! How is that possible?
"The grand competition now begins!"
Another deep voice rang out, clearly reaching everyone's ears.
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When the first inner disciple stepped onto the white jade staircase, the runes on the staircase suddenly emitted a bright light.
The runes circulated in circles, and a great pressure suddenly appeared on the jade platform.
Immediately, a few inner disciples who were not well-prepared were first sucked by this force, then pressed down.
Finally, unable to stand firm, they stumbled and fell onto the white jade staircase, falling in a dazed manner.
"Everyone be careful, this staircase is a bit strange."
Seeing the few inner disciples at the front falter.
Someone behind them immediately exclaimed.
In fact, this was an obvious matter.
If this white jade staircase was not strange, what would be the point of Sect Master Zhu Shenzi making such a big fuss?
In the blink of an eye, dozens of inner disciples had fallen.
Seeing this, the inner disciples behind them first circulated their spiritual power to the fullest, and then cautiously stepped onto the white jade staircase step by step.