Chapter 114 (2/2)

As he was drinking the spiritual liquid from the Stone of Oceanic World, Xue Ying became more focused.

He thought back to the three previous battles, analysing his own execution of each entire battle and learning something from it.

‘The second round of battles will be very difficult.’

‘According to the rules of Infernal Palace, the fourth battle will be an Qi avatar The fifth match should be a lower ranking native Transcendent! As for the sixth battle, it should be with a middle rank native Transcendent.’ Xue Ying thought to himself.

A Qi avatar was only something a Saint Realm expert could create. Through this, the Saint expert could form a human with merely his ‘Transcendent Qi’ which he could transform freely! Furthermore, as a Saint Realm expert, his soul would be even more formidable to an extent that he could even place part of his soul onto the ‘Qi avatar’. This way, the Qi avatar could move independently and exert a relatively strong combat power. Usually when one was adventuring, the Saint expert would use his ‘Qi avatar’ to explore the unexplored lands.

When such a Saint expert met a great danger, he would lose part of his soul when his Qi avatar died! However, at the very most, the Saint expert would lose some of his vitality which could be recovered eventually. If he were to bash onwards recklessly with his true self… he might lose his life easily!

How powerful the Qi avatar was would be determined by the amount of ‘Transcendent Qi’ and how much soul was imparted into it.

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The lower ranked, the middle ranked and the upper ranked native Transcendent were categories given by humans to the Transcendent world natives.

These native Transcendents were similar to a weaker version of Primordial Beings, and would thus have some strange innate talents.

According to the innate talents’ uniqueness and threat, the humans would categorise them into a lower, middle, and upper rank.

Actually, such categories were gleaned from how the Abyss Devils were categories! The Abyss Devils would be categorized as lower, middle and upper ranking… based on their threat. These Abyss Devils had a threat much more frightening than the native Transcendents. After all, they were frightening existences that came from the dark abyss.

Of course—

Like the native Transcendent which Xue Ying exchanged moves with previously, that expert of similar level with double the speed would merely be categorised as a ,’lower rank native Transcendent’.

A ‘middle rank native Transcendent’ was extremely frightening.

As for ‘upper rank native Transcendents’, they were rarely seen. Even the Xia Clan would have a tough time in capturing an upper rank native Transcendent. And after being captured, Demigod Transcendent mages would experiment on these native Transcendents., As such experiments would make them unable to battle, there was almost no chance of them being brought to the Transcendent Battle of Life and Death. After all, investigating the ‘bloodline and fleshy body’ was something many Transcendent mages would do! Just like the mortal ‘Si Liang Hong’ from the Azure River County, she was someone who specialised in understanding the bloodline and fleshy body.

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An hour passed in the blink of an eye.

The gate of the Hall of Life and Death was once again closed. The many mortals had long returned to the hall, waiting expectantly for the later matches. These matches promised to be even more remarkable, with the opponents becoming more and more unique!

Within the battleground…

Xue Ying stood by himself as he awaited his opponent to arrive.

“Dong!” the drum beat was just like thunder as it resounded across the entire Hall of Life and Death. Everyone quieted down.

Hua!

A streamer slowly descended upon a mountain rock. This was actually a white-robed, relatively handsome man. He carried a divine sword on his back. His entire body faintly glowed, showing that he was not a body of flesh, but was an avatar of Qi!

Xue Ying looked upon this white-robed man with consternation, “Elder Gong Liang!”

Even though the white-robed man was made up of Qi, he could recognise him with a glimpse that it was in fact, Elder Gong Liang Yuan, the person who led him into the Infernal World!

“Ah ah.” The white-robed, handsome man rubbed his nose, before giving a helpless smile, “I have no other choices. Your opponent in this fourth battle is me.”