Chapter 214: The True Beginning

Yun Che was silent for a long time, the only thing in his heart was shock.

At that time, although he was certain that Xia Qingyue’s xuan power was definitely more than the tenth level of the Primordial Xuan Realm, his guess of her true xuan power was only the Entry Xuan Realm, or at most the peak of the Entry Xuan Realm, but he did not expect that Xia Qingyue at that time would be the same as her current self as being at the tenth level of the True Xuan Realm! It was only one step away from the Spirit Xuan Realm as well.

At that time, there was no way he could have thought about it. Because for a small city of flowing clouds, a sixteen year old at the peak of the True Xuan Realm was simply more unreal than a myth.

If at that time, she directly displayed her Xuan power that was already at the tenth level of the True Xuan realm at the age of sixteen, then the sensation would not only be in a small city of Liuyun, but all the surrounding cities, including the Cangfeng royal family would be deeply alarmed, and at that time, Xia Qingyue would not be able to stay in Liuyun City at ease at all.

It was no wonder that the Ice Cloud Immortal Palace had even taken a fancy to Xia Qingyue, her talent, surprisingly amazing to such an extent!

“I see, it should be that your master was afraid that your xuan power was too shocking, so he used some method to help you hide it down, so that your xuan power aura was only at the tenth level of the Primary Xuan Realm, right?”

Xia Qingyue nodded slightly.

“The third question,” Yun Che’s gaze looked straight at Xia Qingyue, a little aggression was brought on within the calmness, “I want to know, during the period of time you were in the Ice Cloud Immortal Palace, did you occasionally think of me?”

“…… “Xia Qingyue fell silent, a few moments later, she turned around and softly said, “Time is getting late, there is still a competition tomorrow, rest early, Qingyue should also go back.”

After saying that, without waiting for Yun Che to respond, she had already moved lightly with lotus steps, and with the gentle fluttering of her snowy clothes, her silhouette had quickly moved away from …… walking without hesitation.

Yun Che didn’t chase after her, he slightly raised his Qi and softly shouted with a voice that was loud enough to be heard by her, “After tomorrow, I will definitely enter the final thirty-two position battle! If we meet at the Thirty-Two Position Battle, I hope that, you will definitely not show me any mercy!!!”

His voice slowly swung away, and Xia Qingyue’s figure, too, had disappeared from his sight.

The sixth day of the Cangfeng Qualifying Battle was also the last day of the second round of the group stage.

The one with the most eyes focused on was still the match where Yun Che was, and everyone wanted to see just how far this person whose Xuan Power was at the bottom of the list among all the disciples participating in the battle, the freak-level Super Dark Horse, could actually go in this qualifying battle.

Since yesterday’s ten consecutive victories in the second round of the group stage, Yun Che’s winning streak didn’t come to a halt in today’s group stage, but rather continued one match after another amidst one shocking sound after another.

Eleventh match:

“…… Cangfeng Royal Family Yun Che wins!”

Qin Wuhuang’s hands clenched in excitement, hating that he couldn’t raise his arms without any poise.

Twelfth match:

“…… Cang Feng Imperial Family Yun Che wins!”

Qin Wuhuang excitedly stood up, his lips shivering, his hands not even knowing where to put them in between the trembling.

Thirteenth match:

“…… Cang Feng Royal Family Yun Che wins!”

Qin Wuhuang’s black beard all began to tremble as his mouth chanted over and over again, “Top fifty …… top fifty …… top fifty now …… ”

Individual ranking into the top fifty, this was a ranking that he had once not even dared to think about! He had always had the same dream as Cang Wan Gulch, but he had only hoped that the ranking of forces would enter the top hundred, and now, Yun Che, alone, had allowed the entire Imperial Family to achieve a ranking that was unknown how many times higher than the goal of his dream……. He could imagine what Cang Wan Gulch would be excited about when he received this news.

The fifteenth and final match:

“…… Cang Feng Royal Family Yun Che wins!”

“Cang Feng Imperial Family’s participating disciple Yun Che, having won all fifteen matches of the second round group stage, directly advances to tomorrow’s elimination round!!!”

When the referee announced this achievement, he looked at Yun Che with an incomparably astonished gaze……. Fifteen consecutive victories, in the previous qualifying battles, there were very few disciples outside the four great clans who had achieved this, but it wasn’t unheard of either. And, to achieve fifteen consecutive victories with the Xuan Power of the tenth level of the True Xuan Realm ……

The referee’s mind frantically tossed a sentence …… What kind of international joke is this! Am I crazy or has the entire continent gone crazy!

Outside of Yun Che, Xia Qingyue, Ling Yun, Burning Ashes, Xiao Berserk Thunder, and the other disciples of the four great sects also ended the second round of the group stage with a clean sweep, and all of them did not need to be ranked either, and directly advanced to tomorrow’s elimination round.

“Full victory …… thirty-two strong …… even if tomorrow’s elimination match, he achieved the penultimate first place, the individual ranking is also guaranteed to be thirty-two …… “Qin Wuhuang’s butt hadn’t touched the seat for a long time, so excited that he couldn’t sit down at all, he recited dreamily under his breath, each word carrying a deep tremor. At this moment, he deeply felt that he must be dreaming, and deeply afraid of this is just a dream …….

In comparison, Cang Yue was much calmer. After all, unlike Qin Wuhuang, she had not endured the shame, indignation, and unwillingness brought about by the dismal results of many qualifying battles, and she did not have the longing that he had been dreaming of for so many years to raise his eyebrows. As she watched Yun Che knock down one opponent after another, moving towards higher and higher heights, triggering higher and higher cries of astonishment from the entire audience, her heart was filled with joy, pride, and fulfillment, and thinking back to when she first met him in Crescent City, and the little by little moments that had happened since then, she smiled unconsciously.

He is a person who always brings hope, surprise and miracles ……

Meeting him was the luckiest, most miraculous encounter of my life.

“What an unexpected result, I thought I had already overestimated him quite a bit, but to my surprise, I still greatly underestimated him. He actually entered the top thirty-two with a clean sweep. To achieve such an achievement with the True Xuan Realm can be said to be unprecedented, and in the future, it will be basically impossible for another one to appear.” Looking at Yun Che, who walked off the Sword Discussion Stage after winning fifteen consecutive matches, Ling Yunfeng sighed from the bottom of his heart.

“Hm.” Ling Yun slowly nodded his head.

“However, for him to achieve such a result, it must be said that luck also played a large part. After all, in both rounds of the group stage, he didn’t meet any disciples from the big clans, especially our four big clans, otherwise, it would have been impossible for him to keep winning consecutively. But putting that aside, he was able to make it this far with the strength of the True Xuan Realm …… Lifers can be feared.”

“Father, but anyone who can overcome their opponents by crossing over, there are only three possibilities, one is extremely gifted in the use of Xuan power, being able to utilize Xuan power twice or even many times its power, the second is that Xuan Gong and Xuan Techniques are extremely strong, strong enough to crush their opponents, and the third is gifted with special attributes such as Divine Power, Rigid Body, or Sword Intent. The most of these, is the strength of the Xuan Gong Xuan Technique to crush …… Father, can you see which Xuan Gong he is using?” Ling Yun asked cautiously.

Ling Yuefeng, however, shook his head, “His Xuan Gong, I can’t see it at all, whether it’s his fists and feet, or his heavy sword, the release of Xuan Power is fierce and unparalleled, straight put and take away, giving me the feeling of the opposite as if it’s only pure Xuan Power, without the existence of any Xuan Gong, but it’s this pure Xuan Power, the strength of which is far more than the boundaries of the True Xuan Realm… …To be able to defeat an opponent across such a wide range is something I’ve only seen in my life. It seems that after the battle, it is necessary for me to have a chat with him.”

Ling Yun glanced at his father with slight surprise. Ever since he was born until now, this was the first time he had seen his father become so curious about a youth. Yun Che, however, did have such qualifications.

After the second round of group matches, based on the number of victories, the top one hundred ranked sect disciples were decided directly, of which, the top thirty-two ranked disciples would have their final elimination matches at the main sword stage tomorrow, and after the hundredth place, as well as the thirty-third to the one-hundredth place, they would each be transferred to different sub-matches, and would have a qualifying battle for the ranked zone they were in.

Elimination match, the final stage of the qualifying battle, is also the core of the entire qualifying battle, because this is from more than 1,500 participating disciples, the strongest thirty-two decided! It represented the peak strength of the young generation of the Cangfeng Empire today! Although there were only thirty-two participants in the elimination round, it lasted for five full days, longer than any of the group stages. The venue was no longer the small sword stage, but the huge center of the main sword stage.

The following morning, just as the sky dawned, the Heavenly Sword Villa’s Sword Discussion Stage was already bustling with activity.

The final thirty-two position battle of the Cangfeng Qualifying Battle had finally begun!

In the center of the main sword discussion platform temporarily stood a huge Xuan stone, which displayed the names of the thirty-two people who had entered the thirty-two position tournament, as well as the sects they belonged to. Of these thirty-two names, all twelve disciples of the four great sects were listed, one and no less.

And in the history of this qualifying battle, it was an even more normal phenomenon, if there was even one missing on it, it would be abnormal instead. The wide gap between the four great sects and the other sects was thus evident. Therefore, this final thirty-two position battle had another name called the “Four Great Clans Battle for Hegemony”, which was no exaggeration.

“I never dreamed that our Cangfeng Imperial Family’s name would actually appear on it one day.” Qin Wuhuang looked at the huge Xuan Stone in the field, and his complexion actually carried a deep devotion. He was so excited last night that he didn’t sleep all night and came here early this morning, his excitement could not be suppressed no matter what.

The names on the Xuan Stone were more shocking than one another, and the names of the sects were more astonishing than one another, and Qin Wushan believed that Yun Che’s pace in this ranking battle would end here, as each of the other thirty-one people were simply not comparable to the opponents he had encountered before. But even though he had lost the first match, the gains from this qualifying battle had incomparably far exceeded expectations, and there was nothing he could not be satisfied with.

“Please invite the disciples participating in the thirty-two position battle to come up to the stage to draw the order of their matchups!”

There was only one referee for the entirety of the Thirty-Two Battles, and that was Ling Wulin. With Ling Wulin’s shout, thirty-two people went up to the stage in turn and drew their sparring numbers.

“Senior Brother Yun, what number …… is it? It’s actually …… number one!!!”

Cang Yue took the card in Yun Che’s hand, and the number on it, was clearly a large ‘one’.

In other words, in today’s match, Yun Che would be on the field in the first round!

“The first one is the first one, and it saves me from waiting impatiently.” Yun Che said indifferently.

“Yun Che, it’s already very, very impressive for you to have made it to the thirty-two position battle.” Qin Wouxian spoke, “However, in the thirty-two position battle, every opponent is extraordinary, especially the disciples of the four great sects, which you haven’t encountered before, and you simply don’t know how terrifying they are. Therefore, at today’s match, if you feel that you can’t be defeated, there’s no shame at all in admitting defeat earlier, you’ve already created a miracle that has shocked everyone, don’t be overly forceful or else it won’t be good in case you’re maliciously traumatized by your opponents. It’s already enough that you’ve made it this far in this qualifying battle, the next qualifying battle will be your true stage.”

Yun Che nodded his head, “Mistress Qin, don’t worry, I will definitely enter when I should enter, and when I should retreat, I won’t be mindlessly strong.”

“That’s good.” Qin Wuhuang smiled and nodded.

Holding his number plate, looking at the huge center sword discussion platform in front of him, and bearing a bunch of gazes with different meanings, Yun Che truly felt that this qualifying battle up to now, for him, was not at all the end of the road as expressed by Qin Wushang ……

Rather, it was truly the beginning!!!

[That’s right, the qualifying battle has only just begun, the previous group matches were all just walking (cou) through (zi) the field (shu), and the real competition has only begun now. That said, in Mars’s last previous book, Pigfoot and Flower Prayer Dream fought for a whole dozen chapters on the final showdown of the Argumentation War …… I’m thinking, if the next matches come with a dozen chapters each, well …… I’m sure you guys won’t beat me to death!!!!!!!!!!]