Chapter 380 It Starts Now (2/2)

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Four days later, Nilo, Finn, Cynna, Fyro, Zack, Sigg, and Ivan were teleported, along with the old regious Mercantile Ethics However, due to the density of cultivators that surrounded the building, their group was teleported a few hundred 's entrance

All of these groups of people belonged to the coroup accoranted the honor to participate in the One Above All competition While in the thousands, the participants present in this area were only the ones that had been invited by the Egregious Mercantile Ethics, and si place in nule look, the old man Golden Cauldron, as well as his son and the seven students, had felt the power of the young cultivators to be extrees of immortality Nevertheless, their poere not as ied within the large spectruh immortality Some of them were cultivators at the initial phases, while others were so powerful, that even Mister Mir could not co None of these powerful cultivators would try anything against the roups of ih ilo the system, and would interveene whenever soloainst one of the arrogantly

An example of this, was the way they had looked at the roup the moment they had arrived Lead by two seniors eren't even at the high iroup of kids in their twenties and thirties to a challenge against the overnroup appeared odd to the other cultivators, was the fact that while the other sroups had come with numerous escorts and only one or two participants, that was not the case for their group, in which were seven participants, and only two escorts

”Are they here to spectate?” Asked a ed cultivator to his peers All of them were the leaders of their own companies, who had decided to make small talk while the rest of the participants arrived

A woman who appeared in her late thirties, but that also ehtieth phase of high iroup, and said, ”They e of immortality They can't be participants They do not qualify”

The old roup were not here to nored the voices that were purposedly high enough to reach their ears, and o find your faood luck to you” Said the Silver Alchemist to the two childhood friends, who immediately after, bowed politely at him and his father, and ran in the direction of their own fa for them since before they had arrived

Theleft, numerous barriers made out of sound and spatial essence forroup

Numerous powerful cultivators hidden within the crowd immediately sent their senses into the barriers that had been erected, but when their senses pierced through the thin layers of space and sound blockade, all they were about to hear, were the distorted sounds of slowed down voices, which resembled a lament from the underworld more than an actual conversation

What they couldn't hear, were the words that the old man Golden Cauldron had reserved for the five students, which were, ”Watch each other's back, and if you can, try to separate yourself froious Mercantile Ethics”

The barriers disappeared just in time for the students to nod, and say in unison, ”Yes master”

On an unperceptible level of sound essence, nu exchaned between the hidden experts of the conglo? I could only hear a slowed down voice I couldn't understand anything” Asked a cultivator with a husky voice

A second, and , ”What I have heard was nothing but a screeching noise It only lasted a moment, and after that, the barriers broke”

”What a brilliant use of time essence” Said a third and ed to an old man

These three cultivators were only a few of those who had been put in charge of keeping an eye on the members of Hiel academy Unfortunately, they had encountered an obstacle that they hadn't expected, and failed in their task Before another chance could present itself, the ttime for the event to start, had finally arrived

At the gates of the conglouards which surrounded two individuals Mister Mir, and the leader of the conglomerate, Gen Stein The telcomed by the rest of the company leaders with a deep and polite bow, and the words, ”We welcome leader Stein”

The only feho did not act accordingly were thenew to the conglomerate, were not aware of the appropriate custo words, the area became dead silent A silence that was broken by the leader of the congloround in order to make himself visible to everybody else, said, ”Today is an ireatest competition that has ever been presented to the citizes of the universal governeneration of cultivators The next judges, generals, and explorers ood luck Do your best, follow your hearts, and co”

After he finished speaking, he slowly raised his right hand up to the sky Caged in between his index finger and thumb, was a nail sized bead which shone with the power of a distant star Unfortunately, its beauty was destroyed right after, as with little to no strain, he shattered it in between his fingers

The brilliance of the bead exploded into a wave of light that encompassed every cultivator around, and left it's own shadow of light on the ground in the forood luck” Said Gen Stein right before the platform starte to shi+ne, and every cultivator in possession of a participation token disappeared from the side of their family members