Chapter 1123: Jin Gushen Takes the Stage (1/2)

All that glitters is not gold, especially when the one glittering was Huo Zongxing. This was a fact well known to all, but no one spoke of it out of consideration for Huo Shentong.

Who would’ve thought that Huo Zongxing would be so brainless as to hop into the arena to challenge the Inception prince?

He’d been kicked off the stage for his temerity, but every one of the fire elemental divine sect burned as if the stomp had been right on their faces.

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“Disappointments like Huo Zongxing should be kept out of the public eye so they don’t make a fool out of themselves!” A vicious light flashed through the eyes of the divine sects’ senior council when they looked at the disgraced disciple.

Huo Zongxing fled in shambles, but Lu Yun fell into deep thought when he looked at the retreating figure.

Maybe… I’ve actually underestimated him. For some reason, this thought occurred to Lu Yun as he watched Huo Zongxing leave. But now wasn’t the time to dwell on that.

The disciples of the nine divine sects were almost frothing at the mouth to protect their future and wrest back the sacred land name. Huo Zongxing was just a small interlude in all of this.

What followed after was a series of ghastly battles.

Since the restrictions of the Inception Spiritrial Arena had been dismissed, every battle was one to the death. Lu Yun didn’t have any time to rest and fought continuously for forty-five minutes, killing eighteen sixth level mortal realm geniuses of the nine divine sects.

He was covered in blood and had been pierced through in several places. In terrible condition, he was already sitting on the floor, drooping, when the nineteenth challenger set foot in the arena.

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“He’s using our disciples to hone his combat arts!” An eternal overlord suddenly frowned. “Anyone of his level—sixth level mortal realm—isn’t his match, they’re just his whetstone!”

Dismay spread through the crowd at this revelation. The sect leaders of the nine divine sects had also identified this a while back, but they couldn’t expose the true reality of things given their status. Though they were facing a prince of a sacred palace, they still had their own dignity to consider.

“Hearken to me, disciples of the water origin divine sect! Only those ranked at number one hundred or higher of the Origin Rankings may challenge the Inception prince!” roared a heavyweight of the water origin divine sect.

The Origin Rankings was a ranking between the four origin divine sects that was used to determine the potential of their disciples. Anyone within the top one hundred could potentially become a sovereign.

A similar Elemental Rankings existed with the five elemental divine sects, and their senior council gave the same order.

Anyone without the potential to be a sovereign was just delivering their heads on a platter if they entered the Inception Spiritrial Arena. They would be the most ideal sharpening stone for the Inception prince’s blade.

The senior councils could tell that the Inception prince wasn’t well versed in his combat arts. He needed to temper his arts through a process of proceeding from weak to strong. If they allowed their disciples to challenge him willy nilly, that was just permitting them to throw their lives away and presenting a tremendous chance for Lu Yun to upgrade his combat arts.

Everyone was feeling the pressure now and understood the severity of the situation.

After killing his nineteenth challenger, Lu Yun was almost sprawled out on the ground. Fresh blood flowed freely from his body, but no one dared step forward. Even those in the top one hundred of both rankings hesitated.