50: Chapter 50 The Thirty-Two Strongest

On the seventh day, when it was Chen Changyue's turn, his opponent was at the Qi Refining 6th Layer Perfection, whose strength could be considered second only to those Cultivators in the Late Stage Qi Refining.

Unexpectedly once again, Chen Changyue won, but it was a narrow victory, and his injuries were even more severe than his opponent's.

Chen Changqing immediately brought him to the private room, took out a bottle of Medicinal Pill, and cast a healing Spell, which allowed him to recover slightly.

However, he would no longer be able to continue participating in Spell battles to prevent new injuries from coming before the old ones healed; nevertheless, he politely declined everyone because he wanted to keep fighting to strive for some benefits for the Family.

Chen Yuanjin and Chen Yuanwu tried to persuade him together, but in the end, when they truly could not talk him out of it, they had no choice but to agree with him.

Meanwhile, Chen Changqing went out to buy some High Grade healing medicine for him.

Fortunately, the tournament was considerate of these heavily injured Cultivators and allowed everyone to rest for three days before starting the matches again.

On the eleventh day, fifty people successfully advanced, and the other fifty eliminated people needed to compete to fight for the remaining fourteen slots.

By the time they decided the fourteen slots, a full five days had passed.

On the sixteenth day, the sixty-four people started the Top 64 elimination tournament.

Almost everyone standing at this moment was at the cultivation level of the Qi Refining 6th Layer; even if their cultivation had not reached the Qi Refining 6th Layer, their strength was definitely at that level.

There were not many Cultivators left from the various Foundation Establishment families in Qinghe County. Besides the three people from the Chen Family, there was one person each from the Zhou Family, Li Family, and Zhao Family, while all participating Cultivators from the Wang Family had already been eliminated.

Nearly one-tenth of the participating Cultivators were entirely from Qinghe County, and this battle record made all the Cultivators from Qinghe County feel proud and exhilarated.

After all, most of the other counties only had one or two people left, while the Cultivators from the Taihe Prefecture territory were the most numerous, with nearly half originating from Taihe Prefecture.

During this period, Chen Changyue's body had fully recovered, and coincidentally, the Chen Family's first battle belonged to him.

Arriving at the ring, Chen Changyue silently glanced at his opponent and estimated the opponent's strength in his heart. He had previously watched the opponent's Spell battle, knowing they were a Cultivator with both offense and defense, possessing a pair of metal-attribute Magical Artifacts called the Golden Cloud Scissors, as well as a defensive Magical Artifact called the Golden Armor Shield.

Chen Changyue's expression was solemn; what he worried about the most were Cultivators of this type because he focused heavily on offense. If the opponent defended on one side while attacking on the other, it would indeed be very difficult for him to win.

However, he also had his trump cards. Although they had already been revealed in front of others, he presumed the opponent must have been on guard against them for a long time.

After the referee permitted the match to begin, Chen Changyue immediately took the initiative. The chiyang sword in his hand flew out, slashing towards the opponent's head with a single strike, while he pinched out several Talismans in his hand. After throwing them out, he summoned a battle-axe Magical Artifact.

The opponent looked up, and a Golden Armor Shield horizontally blocked in front of them, stopping all attacks. The Golden Cloud Scissors flew out, attacking him from both the left and right.

Facing the opponent's counterattack, Chen Changyue was unhurried. With just a thought, the nearby battle-axe Magical Artifact horizontally slashed toward the pair of Golden Cloud Scissors. Then, he circulated the Golden Radiance Art, and a wave of high temperature radiated from the surface of his body, evaporating all other attribute Spiritual Qi around him except for the fire Spiritual Qi. Subsequently, streams of fire Spiritual Qi condensed around him, forming a giant fireball that struck toward the opponent.

The opposing Cultivator was no simple figure either. After blocking the first wave of attacks, they threw out a Rank 1 High Grade Azure Barrier Talisman to block this fireball.

Boom!

As the flames dissipated, the opponent appeared in front of everyone without any injuries; all those attacks just now had not been of much use.

Chen Changyue's eyes flashed. Although he was somewhat surprised, this situation was also within his expectations. He immediately manipulated the battle-axe to entangle with that pair of golden light scissors, and with a wave of his right hand, the chiyang sword flew back into his hand. Under his Cultivation Technique, all the surrounding fire Spiritual Qi gathered onto the sword.

"Not good." The opposing Cultivator was greatly alarmed. They immediately outputted their mana with all their might, causing the light of the Golden Armor Shield to flare brightly, making its defense even stronger than before.

"Flame Radiance Slash." Chen Changyue let out a low shout in his heart, and a slash three zhang long instantly broke through the air, arriving before the opponent in the blink of an eye.

Hiss! Clang!

The opponent's Golden Armor Shield successfully blocked this move, but it had already lost a great deal of spirituality, looking like it could no longer be used.

The opponent glanced at it with a pang of heartache, put the shield away, and then drove the Golden Cloud Scissors with all their might to attack him.

After Chen Changyue used this Spell, the mana left in his body was minimal, only about twenty percent or so remaining.

Knowing that he could not drag it out any longer, he immediately launched a fierce all-out attack, depending on who would fail to hold on first.

After a while, both of their bodies were covered in wounds. Among them, Chen Changyue's most severe injury was his left abdomen being cut open, with blood gushing out like a waterfall; he timely used the mana in his body to stem it so that he could barely continue the Spell battle, while the opponent's shoulder was slashed open—fortunately, they also reacted in time, otherwise they would have been diagonally slashed into two halves.

When the two of them fought to the very end, they were both persisting purely by their own willpower. Such a miserable state made the other Cultivators inwardly full of admiration and dread; if it were them, let alone continuing to battle after sustaining these injuries, it remained unknown whether they could even continue standing.

After a while longer, the two of them finally decided the winner, and it was still Chen Changyue who won. He had almost lost by a hair's breadth. Enduring his injuries, he glanced at the opponent with a hint of admiration in his eyes, and then slowly said, "Fellow Daoist, perhaps the two of us might even become friends."

The opponent lay on the ground, smiled slightly, and then left the scene supported by their clansmen.

As soon as Chen Changqing arrived beside Chen Changyue, he immediately took out a Rank 2 Low Grade Spirit Pill, the Rejuvenation Pill, from his Storage Pouch and fed it to him, then took him away.

After taking the Rejuvenation Pill, Chen Changyue's complexion recovered some color, and his whole person improved a lot. Rank 2 Medicinal Pills were indeed extraordinary; although they could not resurrect the dead, they could instantly pull someone on the verge of death back from the gates of hell. This bottle of Medicinal Pills had cost him two thousand Spirit Stones, totaling five pills, and two had been used up by now, but he felt that being able to save Chen Changyue made the price worth it.

Moreover, Chen Changyue had already advanced into the ranking of the Top 32, which had already exceeded everyone's expectations.

Next were Chen Changqing and Li Qingling; not a single person in the Chen Family felt there was any problem with the two of them winning.

As for the other three families of Qinghe County, only the Zhao Family was kicked out, while the other two families still remained. One of them was named Li Qingxuan, whose cultivation was at the Qi Condensation 7th Layer Middle Stage, and solely judging by strength, he might be able to rank in the top ten.

Zhou Ziye's luck was also quite good, and the Qi Refining 6th Layer opponent he faced was no match for him either.

After everyone finished their matches, the organizers let everyone rest for another day.

On the eighteenth day, the Top 32 elimination tournament began. The remaining ones who could walk to this point were all able to obtain rewards; although there weren't many, at least the matches over these past few days had finally yielded some benefits.

Compared to the rest of the Cultivators, they had simply been plagued by terrible luck—not only did they receive no rewards, but they also lost quite a few good things, which meant that apart from seeing the world this time, they gained no benefits at all.

This time, the first to enter the arena was Li Qingling, and she was facing a Qi Condensation 7th Layer Cultivator.

As soon as that person entered the arena, countless young Cultivators began to catcall and hoot.