The Prodigies War

After cultivating the White Metal Dao body, Lin Xun put all his attention on perfecting his Great Dao Field.

Buzz—

As he flipped his palm over, the crystal clear Dao Emptiness Plate that was as perfectly round as the moon appeared in the air. Within the plate, a pair of mysterious symbols that looked like a pair of swimming fishes were deducing endless wonderful wisps of the dao.

The Dao Emptiness Plate assisted cultivators in deducing and understanding the essence of grand daos!

After taking a deep breath, Lin Xun immersed himself within it.

Right away, wisps of grand dao power that he had grasped appeared in the Dao Emptiness Plate.

For example, Star Annihilation Heaven Devourer, True Dragon Grand Dao, Tai Chi Grand Dao, Immortality Grand Dao and the grand dao of water and fire…

They all appeared in detail in the vast space of the Dao Emptiness Plate, and then reflected as clear as day in Lin Xun’s mind.

With a serious look on his face, he tried to comprehend and deduce them, when a rush of miraculous power surged out from the Dao Emptiness Plate and thereby greatly sped up his comprehension and deduction of the grand daos!

Many things that had seemed vague, blurry, obscure and confusing in the past were being resolved one by one.

Lin Xun was completely immersed in the realization, so delighted that he couldn’t free himself from it.

At the same time, his Great Dao Field emerged behind him, occasionally taking the form of a furnace, occasionally turning into an abyss, and occasionally returning to the state of primal chaos.

The gathered grand dao powers grew increasingly pure and powerful as Lin Xun continued to comprehend and deduce them.

……

Time flew by, and several months had passed in the blink of an eye.

While Lin Xun was in closed-door cultivation, the outside world was in turmoil.

As the Dao Debate Assembly approached, the dao debate selections in the forty-eight states of the Great Primordial Chaos World, except for the Central Plain State, all came to an end.

The top ten strongest experts were selected in other states through a similar selection process as the one in Cloud State.

Forty-eight states meant that a total of four hundred and eighty peerless experts emerged from the selection, who would participate in the upcoming Dao Debate Assembly!

The Great Primordial Chaos World was so vast that even if the Central Plain State was cast aside, there were still hundreds of millions of experts in the other states.

In the end, only four hundred and eighty of them were qualified to participate in the assembly.

Unquestionably, those four hundred and eighty people had to be the most dazzling and remarkable group of supreme Saint-Kings.

However, the focus of attention was still on the number one candidate of each state.

“Miss Xuanyue, here is all the information that we have collected recently. We have listed the names, cultivation levels, and background of the top ten experts from each state.”

Jiang Heng, Ji Qian, and other disciples from Xuanji Dao Sect handed a jade slip to Jintian Xuanyue.

“Thank you.” After Jintian Xuanyue expressed her gratitude, she skimmed through the information.

Her gaze directly landed on the number one person of each state, and she temporarily ignored the other experts.

“Wang Yichen, the number one of Qing State’s Dao Debate Contest, is the number one core disciple of Spirit Snow Sword Sect. He possesses the strength of the perfect Supreme Saint-King Stage and is hailed as the number one sword dao Saint-King in Qing State.

“Ming Qiyang, number one figure of Spirit State’s Dao Debate Contest, is a leading figure of the younger generation of Yellow Spring Sect. He practices the Netherworld Spirit Dao Scripture and is known as the number one Saint-King of spirit cultivation in Spirit State.”

“Xu Qingjian, ranked first in Star State’s Dao Debate Contest, is the number one supreme Saint-King in Star Battle Sect...”

Seeing the names, Jintian Xuanyue felt an indescribable feeling of pressure in her heart.

The list included all top experts in the forty-eight states, and every one of them was an impressive and outstanding character, the best of their respective state!

“The top experts of each state can’t compare to Young Master, but they should at least be as strong as Lu Dubu and Wu Huang,” Jintian Xuanyue murmured in her heart.

The list was made up solely of dazzling figures from the forty-eight states. As far as she knew, the core disciples of the Great Six Courts and Great Ten Battle Clans in the Central Plain State were abnormally stronger than others!

Moreover, participants of the Dao Debate Assembly were not limited to the Great Primordial Chaos World. Countless peerless monsters from other worlds in the starry sky had already arrived, eagerly looking forward to the Dao Debate Assembly.

“The Dao Debate Contest of Cloud State made us realize that there is always someone better in this vast world.” Jiang Heng sighed, “Now, in less than one month, the Dao Debate Assembly will take place. At that time, how many unbelievably powerful experts will show up?”

Those words made Ji Qian and other disciples of Xuanji Dao Sect sigh emotionally.

In this world, there was always someone greater and stronger. Who dared to claim to be truly invincible? Who dared to claim to be undefeatable?

After a long moment, Jintian Xuanyue carefully put away the list. She would not forget that the young master had instructed her to gather information about the upcoming Dao Debate Assembly before he went into closed-door cultivation.

“The number one cultivators of each of the forty-eight states are now being kept a close watch on by some of the genius talents in the Central Plain State.” Ji Qian suddenly said aloud, “Some even declared that, when those number one cultivators enter the Central Plain State, they will show them their powers and assert their dominance before the Dao Debate Assembly even begins.”

Those words scared quite a few people.

If the Great Primordial Chaos World was the largest world in the Ancient Nebula Road, the number one world known to everyone, then the Central Plain State was the number one state in the Great Primordial Chaos World!

The Great Six Courts, Great Ten Battle Clans as well as many frighteningly powerful imperial clans were all established there. As a result, it had given birth to countless splendid monster-like characters.

Why would the Dao Debate Assembly draw the attention of all worlds in the starry sky?

This was because it was held by the Great Six Courts!

Which of the Great Six Courts did not have monsters who were so powerful and tyrannical that they could not be measured in the conventional way?

If such people kept a close watch on the number one experts from the forty-eight states, then that indeed was enough to make everyone take notice!

“This is not empty talk. As far as I know, Kong Zhao, the number one core disciple of the Primordial Dao Court, who is also known as the Rising Star of Primordial, has said that before the Dao Debate Assembly begins, he will make the number one experts of each state bow their heads!” said Ji Qian.

Jintian Xuanyue couldn’t help but scrunch her brows together.

Kong Zhao!

How would she not have heard about him before? He was ranked fifth on the All Heavens Saint-King Rankings and he shook the starry sky and rose to fame as early as hundreds of years ago.

He came from the Imperial Kong Clan and he was known as the Rising Star of Primordial and the Best of Kong Clan.

There were countless titles and rumors about him.

“Back when we were on Whirlwind Ship, Young Master had killed many experts from the Kong Clan. Then after arriving in the Great Primordial Chaos World, he also killed Kong Yu and his group of people from the Primordial Dao Court. If Kong Zhao knew about these matters, he definitely would target Young Master…” Thinking of this, Jintian Xuanyue couldn’t help but worry.

Anyone who could make it into the top ten of the All Heavens Saint-King Rankings had to be a renowned peerless genius of the nebula.

And Kong Zhao was fifth on the list!

“But Young Master is no ordinary person. If Kong Zhao dares to bring him trouble, it’s hard to say who will win in the end.” Jintian Xuanyue thought to herself.

“Kong Zhao is only ranked fifth yet he dared to say something so arrogant. I wonder how terrifying those who are ranked above him would be...” someone mumbled.

“As far as I know, those who are currently ranked in the top ten of the All Heavens Saint-King Rankings would have already broken through to the Quasi-Emperor Stage already had they not wanted to be eligible to participate in the Dao Debate Assembly,” someone said in a deep voice. “In short, they have been suppressing their cultivation. Whoever encounters them at the Dao Debate Assembly can only call themselves unlucky.”

“That’s not necessarily true. The All Heavens Saint-King Rankings is just a list. It’s impossible to include all the amazing people in the world on it.” Someone else analyzed, “Among the peerless monsters from other worlds in the starry sky, there is bound to be remarkable characters who are in no way inferior to Kong Zhao and the others.

“Let’s not talk about others, just take Fellow Daoist Jin Duyi for example. His name is not on the All Heavens Saint-King Rankings, but now, he is the number one expert of our Cloud State Dao Debate Contest!”

Many people echoed his thoughts.

“That’s right, I also heard that the Mythical Huang Dao Court plans to re-rank the All Heavens Saint-King Rankings at the Dao Debate Assembly.”

Ji Qian suddenly said aloud, “Regardless of what Fellow Daoist Jin Duyi’s ranking is at the Dao Debate Assembly, given the strength he has demonstrated, he can easily make it onto the All Heavens Saint-King Rankings. As for what his rank would be…that will depend on his performance at the Dao Debate Assembly.”

Jintian Xuanyue quietly listened without expressing her opinion.

However, she knew that her young master would likely run into some unexpected powerful enemies at the Dao Debate Assembly.

After all, the Dao Debate Assembly was an unprecedented event where geniuses, talents, and monsters of the same cultivation stage gathered together. Every one of them possessed abnormal strengths!

“I wonder what ranking the young master will achieve in the end...” Jintian Xuanyue said absently.

Similar discussions happened in almost every state of the Great Primordial Chaos World. Countless major forces and countless cultivators were full of anticipation for the grand event.

The entire world was stirred up and news about the Dao Debate Assembly became more and more intense.

Lin Xun and other number one figures of the forty-eight states had become the center of attention.

Of course, the name mentioned the most was of course Jin Duyi.

Similarly, in the Central Plain State, the list of the forty-eight number one cultivators including Lin Xun was also presented to the Great Six Courts, Great Ten Battle Clans and other major forces.

Lin Xun, who was in closed-door cultivation, was completely unaware of all this.

In this recent period of time, with the help of the Dao Emptiness Plate, his Great Dao Field became increasingly strong and began to show signs of reaching the state of ultimate perfection.

But still, he was not quite there yet.

“It's still not enough...”

This day, Lin Xun woke up from meditation with a deep frown.

He was only one step away from tempering his Great Dao Field to ultimate perfection, but this step felt like an insurmountable barrier. He could not break through despite trying thousands of times.