Eternal Sovereign

After everyone had sat down, Eldest Prince said: "Everyone, our Yunlan County's past sessions had already failed to produce any good results many times. This not only made this prince and father lose face, even all of you received contempt from the other Red Dragon Guard s."    

These words caused a portion of the Red Dragon Guard s to feel a bit sad.    

Especially Mingyu. As the number one expert of Yunlan County, he would sometimes join forces with the Red Dragon Guard of other counties to complete missions.    

For example, in other counties, there were wanted criminals that came to the Yunlan County, and they needed to borrow strength from the Yunlan County.    

Or perhaps the Yunlan County s wanted to go to other places, so the Red Dragon Guard that completed the missions would need the help of the other counties' Red Dragon Guard s.    

During the time they were doing missions together, Mingyu could clearly feel the contempt the other counties had towards them.    

The reason was simple. The overall strength of Yunlan County, or should we say the average level of Yunlan County, was inferior to that of the other counties.    

In this day and age, strength is the foundation of a single person or force. Without power, everyone looks down on you.    

Even though everyone had Red Dragon Guard, that did not mean that everyone had a good relationship with each other, because the Yuan Combination Stage provided by King Jing Cheng was limited in number. With Jingzhou of nine countries, there was no need to compete with everyone to get rid of King Jing County.    

Every ten years, they would compete for the four spots given by King Jing Cheng. This competition was extremely fierce.    

Therefore, it was unavoidable for Red Dragon Guard from different places to dislike each other.    

Seeing everyone's expression, Eldest Prince said: "Everyone is clear about the previous session's situation, so this year, this prince wishes for everyone to give their all and release the aura of our Yunlan County!"    

"Make the Red Dragon Guard from other places not dare to look down on us anymore!"    

"If everyone can enter the top four, this prince will guarantee that a large portion of the resources will be directed towards you, and I will also guarantee that everyone will advance their Yuan Combination Stage in the shortest time possible, and become Azure Dragon Guard!"    

The dozen or so Red Dragon Guard s who had already signed up immediately all had fiery looks burn in their eyes.    

Putting aside the difficulty of advancing to the Yuan Combination Stage, just the amount of resources expended was definitely not a small amount.    

The reason why many powers, sects, and families, with Innate Genuine Returning Stage overseeing them, could not produce a single Yuan Combination Stage was because their aptitudes were lacking?    

No, resources!    

Even if one became a Red Dragon Guard, they would be able to obtain a large amount of cultivation resources through completing missions. But compared to the resources needed to advance into Yuan Combination Stage, this little bit of resources was still insufficient.    

There were many people who came from ordinary backgrounds. Even if they had the potential to raise their Yuan Combination Stage, because of their family's concern, they were unwilling to leave home to seek support from other forces. In the end, they could only stay at the Genuine Returning Stage level for their entire lives.    

A martial artist's cultivation was like a pyramid. The higher one went, the fewer people there were. Besides some people who couldn't reach that level because of their potential, there were also cultivation resources that couldn't keep up.    

But now, Eldest Prince gave him a guarantee!    

As long as they entered the top four in Flood Dragon Warfare, and got a replacement for Azure Dragon Guard, Eldest Prince would use all his strength to help them promote their Yuan Combination Stage. How could this not make the Red Dragon Guard students excited?    

But...    

Compared to these excited Red Dragon Guard, the Red Dragon Guard people who came to watch the battle did not have a headache. Instead, they were not in the game, so they naturally saw everything clearly.    

It wasn't as if they didn't know what level the Flood Dragon Warfare of the previous years was. In their eyes, this year, only Chen Junzong had a sliver of hope.    

No matter how excited he was, it would be useless if he couldn't get a placing in Azure Dragon Guard.    

Waiting for the audience's excited head to drop a little, Eldest Prince said: "Coincidentally, this time there will be sixteen people registering, and the selection method is very simple. Two against two is enough, after two rounds, the remaining four can represent our Yunlan County to participate in the Flood Dragon Warfare!"    

"There's no need to draw anymore lots. This prince will directly call out the names. Those who are chosen, choose your opponents yourself."    

When these words were spoken, many of the Red Dragon Guard s that had registered trembled, as they sized up the rest of the people with cold eyes, and pondered in their hearts about who they should choose as their opponent.    

Experts definitely wanted to choose the weaker ones.    

Eldest Prince did this because he didn't want to see a fierce battle and end in the elimination of the strong.    

Of course, Eldest Prince could also cheat and separate the strong from the weak. However, Eldest Prince was unwilling to do that, and that was not in his nature.    

Thus, they decided to leave the decision to Chen Yi and the others.    

Eldest Prince believed that the strong would not be so stupid as to directly choose the strong.    

If there really was such a foolish person, then he would just lose the right to be ranked, and at most, his Yunlan County would be mocked once again.    

Eldest Prince said, "Chen Junzong, choose your opponent."    

Everyone was surprised. The first one was Chen Junzong?    

All of the Red Dragon Guard s that had registered started to get nervous, probably because Chen Junzong was the only one out of the sixteen of them who had stepped into the Half-step Yuan Combination Stage.    

Even though he had just broken through, he had still made a breakthrough. Compared to the fact that most of them only had perfect Genuine Returning Stage, Chen Junzong already had the advantage in terms of realm.    

The awakened bloodline had reached the Earth Realm, and he had skillfully grasped several Earth Realm martial arts. His sword energy was also nearing the late stage of perfection, and not only did he fail to draw the other Red Dragon Guard closer, he had even thrown it quite a distance.    

Whoever fought Chen Junzong would have a high chance of losing.    

In terms of flaws, it was most likely due to the fact that the Earth-ranked divine ability had not been awakened. However, earth-ranked divine abilities were difficult to awaken in the first place, so this flaw was nothing to worry about.    

Strictly speaking, this wasn't considered a flaw at all.    

"Chen Junzong?" Upon hearing these words, Chen Yi narrowed his eyes and followed everyone's gaze.    

An extremely young man stood up. Looking at his appearance, he seemed to be a weak scholar.    

This person also came from the Chen Family, who knows if he would be targeted. After all, the Tianxiang Peak Faction had a lot of authority in the Chen Family right now, and it was very likely that it would affect Chen Junzong's attitude towards him.    

"If I meet him in the first round …" Chen Yi felt that this was getting tricky.    

Since Chen Junzong had stepped into the Half-step Yuan Combination Stage, then the Innate Body had definitely reached the Fourth Rank.    

Furthermore, his [Burning Devils Body] was only comparable to a top-notch [Third Order]. Adding the [Holy Body] of a Saint-rank, and the Innate Earth Fiend Body, he might not even be that much stronger.    

He would have to use the [Burning Demon Spirit] to suppress his opponent.    

But the other party also had a Half-step Yuan Combination Stage Innate Genuine Qi. No matter how strong Chen Yi's Pure Yang Genuine Qi was, it could not compare to the quality of Half-step Yuan Combination Stage.    

If they were to really fight, Chen Yi wasn't completely sure that he could win. Even if he could win, it would be a crushing victory. In the worst case scenario, he might be eliminated in the next round.    

"Give me a little more time." Chen Yi sighed secretly.    

After breaking through the Quasi-innate, Chen Yi clearly felt that the speed at which the [Burning Devils Body] was leveling up had increased by quite a bit. Even the suppression of the Divine Blood cultivation system had weakened by a lot.    

Obviously, after breaking through to another level, many of the shackles around Chen Yi had loosened.    

If he were to raise it by another two or three levels, the [Burning Devils Body] and [Holy Body] would not change much.    

For example, if you broke through to the ninth level of Quasi-innate, [Burning Devils Body] and [Holy Body] would definitely have an astonishing increase.    

With the All-powerful Body and the Quasi-innate level, Chen Yi's progress was definitely at a tremendous pace, there wouldn't be much of a hindrance to it. As long as Chen Yi was given some more time, his overall strength would definitely increase greatly.    

Unfortunately, there wasn't enough time.    

Today was the internal selection.    

Second Prince and Jingxue also looked worried. They looked at Chen Junzong and then looked at Chen Yi.    

However, what made Second Prince, Jingxue, and Chen Yi surprised was that Chen Junzong did not choose Chen Yi as his opponent, and instead chose one of the sixteen people with Red Dragon Guard that was relatively close to the bottom.    

"You didn't choose me? Do you not know of my existence? Or did you just look down on me? Or perhaps you intend to attack me again in the second round? " Chen Yi stared at Chen Junzong as he pondered in his heart.    

At this moment, Chen Yi saw Chen Junzong look over at him. Then, he smiled at him and slightly nodded his head.    

Chen Yi was stunned. He didn't feel any threat or coldness from this smile, but... See the kindness? Close?    

Was the enemy trying to please him?