I Shall Seal the Heavens - chapter-866

The crowds in the Ninth Mountain and Sea were watching on the vortex
screens, and could see everything that Ling Yunzi and the others
encountered.

That included the decomposing, half-headed man, as well as all the other
things lurking in the mists.

Many gasps could be heard from the cultivators in the Ninth Mountain and
Sea. For most of them, this was their first time ever seeing the Ruins of
Immortality. In previous trials by fire, outsiders were not permitted to
see these things, but this time was different. Not only were the prizes
astonishing, but for the first time, everyone was able to catch a glimpse
of the Ruins of Immortality.

Although it was only a tiny portion, it was still enough to capture the
attention of innumerable cultivators.

When they saw the gigantic corpse, cries of shock echoed out in all
directions. Then the ancient Dao Tree appeared, and even greater shouts
of astonishment could be heard.

“It’s actually… growing on the top of the giant’s corpse!”

“That’s the ancient Dao Tree? What exactly is it? Why is it called a
Dao Tree?!”

“That corpse… Heavens! I never imagined that things that huge
existed! How is this possible?! If that thing wasn’t dead… who could
possibly fight it? It’s… actually a real corpse!”

The faces of the Patriarchs up in the starry sky palace were calm; all of
them were familiar with the Ruins of Immortality.

However, they were all wondering what motive the Three Great Daoist
Societies had to allow all the crowds on the outside to see.

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A huge corpse. An ancient tree.

“The tree leaves are the arenas,” said Ling Yunzi. “The leaves on
the left side will be the Nascent Soul battleground. The leaves on the
right are for Spirit Severing. As for the central main trunk… that is
where the Dao Seeking fights will take place!” As his words echoed out,
Meng Hao stood there on one of the leaves on the main trunk, at the
bottom level.

All of the other Dao Seeking cultivators were also located on
bottom-level leaves. When they looked up, they could see that the
branches sticking out from it were arranged in layers, the highest of
which was ten levels away.

The higher the level, the fewer the leaves. In fact, at the apex, there
was only one golden leaf, which was completely eye catching.

As for the battlegrounds on the left and right, they were also arranged
in levels, although instead of climbing straight up, they moved out to
the side. Similarly, though, as they reached their ends, the leaves grew
sparser, until at the very end of each, was a golden leaf!

Three golden leaves. Those were the limits of the ancient Dao Tree, and
the locations where the final matches would be fought.

Even as Ling Yunzi provided his explanation, he and the other two old men
performed incantation gestures and produced magical materials which they
used to begin to set up teleportation portals on the giant’s corpse
beneath the tree.

After the teleportation portals took shape, the three old men performed
incantation gestures and pointed out, causing boundless light to shine
up. Out in the sects of the Ninth Mountain and Sea, as soon as the light
from the teleportation portals rose up, Zhao Yifan, Taiyang Zi, Fan
Dong’er, and other Chosen all stepped forward onto the teleportation
portals at their locations. Light flashed, and they vanished.

When they reappeared, they were standing atop the giant’s corpse in the
Ruins of Immortality.

It only took the space of about ten breaths of time for roughly a hundred
people from all the sects to arrive. Then, cracking sounds could be heard
as the teleportation portals shattered and faded away.

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As Fan Dong’er and the others spread out, they looked around with
trembling minds. This was apparently their first time coming to this
place as well.

From the leaf he stood upon, Meng Hao could see Fan Dong’er, Taiyang
Zi, even Sun Hai and others. His eyes flickered and a smile appeared on
his face.

Ling Yunzi waved his sleeve, causing the nearly one hundred Chosen to fly
out toward tree leaves according to the level of their cultivation base.

Soon, Fan Dong’er and the others were standing on leaves on the lowest
level of the tree. As for Fan Dong’er, she wore a white robe, and
behind her swirled a globe of white mist. It was very thick, making it
impossible to see exactly what was inside.

The leaf she stood upon wasn’t very far away from Meng Hao, and he
couldn’t help but glance over at her. His eye was especially caught by
the white mist behind her.

Fan Dong’er noticed him looking at her, and frowned. However, she knew
the two of them would soon be fellow disciples of the same sect, so she
suppressed her anger and merely glared at him.

Meng Hao quickly looked away, focusing his attention on Zhao Yifan, then
Li Ling’er. When he looked at Li Ling’er, he subconsciously…
checked out her rear end.

He could still remember how he had spanked her two times, leaving her
buttocks uneven.

Li Ling’er glanced at him coolly, then ignored him completely. Feeling
somewhat pleased, Meng Hao then looked around until he noticed one
particular young man who happened to be looking at him.

When their gazes met, the young man trembled. He was… naturally, Sun
Hai.

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Sun Hai didn’t recognize Meng Hao, but for some reason, when Meng Hao
looked at him, it caused him to gasp and be filled with a cold,
unsettling feeling.

At first, Meng Hao didn’t recognize who the bald-headed youth was. But
after a moment, his jaw almost dropped.

“What happened to all his hair?” he thought. “I seem to remember
leaving quite a bit behind.” It wasn’t just Meng Hao who was sizing
up these Chosen. Many of the other competitors in the trial by fire were
examining them closely.

Not much more time passed before Ling Yunzi’s voice was heard once
again.

“The arena matches of the Nascent Soul, Spirit Severing, and Dao
Seeking, will be completely separate from each other, and shall progress
separately. The ancient Dao Tree leaves upon which you stand contain a
teleportation function. Not only will it teleport two people onto one
leaf to fight, but it will also teleport the winner to the next level!

“The matches will proceed in this fashion all the way until the final
battle.

“In the arena matches, life and death are determined by fate. Defeat
will result in elimination from the competition. If you utter the words
‘I concede,’ then you will also be removed from the competition.

“Bear in mind that we are in the Ruins of Immortality, and danger lurks
everywhere! Even if some strange things appear on the outside, things
which attempt to distract you, or lure you out, you must under no
circumstances leave the tree leaves.

“On the tree leaves, you are safe. If you leave them, though… it is
impossible to say whether you will make it back alive.

“And now, let the arena matches begin!”

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Almost in the same instant that the words left Ling Yunzi’s mouth, Meng
Hao suddenly cried out loudly.

“Patriarch, wait a moment!”

His voice echoed out, attracting quite a bit of attention from those
around him. Ling Yunzi frowned and looked over at Meng Hao. At first he
was tempted to ignore him, but after thinking about the expression on
Meng Hao’s face when he held the Feng Shui compass aloft, his heart
softened.

“Yes, what is it?”

“Patriarch, I wanted to know, the enormous corpse down there, is it a
cultivator?” Actually, Meng Hao wasn’t the only person who wanted to
know the answer to that question. All of the competitors were wondering
the same thing. As for the newly arrived Chosen, they remained silent;
they had already asked about the subject when they were in the outside
world.

Ling Yunzi remained silent for a moment. He didn’t actually have the
sole authority to answer such a question. He looked over at the other two
men, and all of them exchanged glances. Then, they produced jade slips
which they used to communicate with their sect headquarters, inquiring as
to whether they were permitted to respond.

After a moment, Ling Yunzi put his jade slip away and looked back up at
Meng Hao.

“This is a God of the Pāramitā!”

After uttering those words, Ling Yunzi didn’t wait for anyone’s
reaction. He immediately called out again, “Let the arena matches
begin!”

Meng Hao’s mind trembled, and he couldn’t keep himself from taking in
a deep breath in response to the answer he had just received. A God….

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Actually, all of the trial by fire participants were mentally shaken.
However, even as this happened, the world in front of them distorted, and
they began to grow blurry. In the blink of an eye, everyone grew clear
again, and they were on the next level of leaves.

However instead of being alone on the leaves, each person was now facing
an opponent.

Meng Hao found himself looking at a young man who had originally been
bursting with power. However, as soon as things grew clear and he saw
that he was facing Meng Hao, his face fell.

He was not one of the Chosen from the outside sects, but rather one of
the competitors from the trial by fire. Furthermore… he had been on the
same altar as the middle-aged man upon whom Meng Hao had vented his anger
earlier. He had personally witnessed the entire incident.

Although he felt torn inwardly, his eyes quickly filled with a fierce
light. He let out a powerful roar and employed the full power of his
cultivation base as he turned into a prismatic beam of light that shot
toward Meng Hao.

Meng Hao’s face was calm as the young man closed in. He raised his
right hand and punched out into the air, then spun and began to walk
toward the edge of the arena.

Almost in the same moment that he turned, a huge boom could be heard, and
blood sprayed from the young man’s mouth. Although he had been
approaching like a shooting star, in that instant, his light went dim,
and he was forced back more than thirty meters, where he coughed up
another mouthful of blood. His expression was now dismal, and his face
ashen.

He was well aware that Meng Hao had been holding back. The blow just now
had been directed at the air in front of him, and had it actually landed
on his body, he would not have gotten off as easily as being forced back
a bit and only slightly injured.

He took a deep breath, then looked sadly at Meng Hao, clasped hands, and
bowed deeply.

“I concede,” he said, sounding a bit bitter.

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As soon as the words left his mouth, he faded away, returning to the
first level of leaves, which indicated that he had been eliminated. As
for Meng Hao, he sat down cross-legged at the edge of the arena and
looked around at the other matches that were taking place.

He was feeling quite pleased with himself, but as for the cultivators
from the Ninth Mountain and Sea watching the arena matches, they were
completely shaken by Meng Hao’s power.

“One punch… into the air! And he actually injured a peak Dao Seeking
cultivator!”

“This Fang Mu hasn’t even used any magical techniques! He’s just
relying on the strength of his fleshly body!”

“No wonder he could stand up to the pressure outside those altars! Such
fleshly body strength is extremely rare!”

The first round of the arena matches was a simple thing for Zhao Yifan,
as well as the other Chosen. None of them needed more than ten breaths of
time to secure victory.

Meng Hao looked around at the other arena locations and identified about
ten other people besides the Chosen who were worth paying attention to.
Among those, one was the masked young man Li Yan. Another was the
cultivator with the mosquitos, and a third was a young boy who was also
one of the trial by fire competitors. Although he never spoke, he had
made it into the group of one thousand Dao Seeking competitors, and had
his own unique capabilities.

In the first round, he attacked viciously, the result being that his
opponent was instantly reduced to a bloody pulp.

The fourth person was a garrulous old man who constantly shivered and
muttered to himself. His first opponent was a Chosen from the Seven Seas
Sect. Strangely, as soon as he appeared in front of the mumbling old man,
the Chosen suddenly seemed to go crazy and tried to charge outside of the
leaf arena. Were it not for Ling Yunzi immediately intervening to save
him, he would have been in great danger.

Of those four people, the one who caused Meng Hao the greatest
consternation was not the garrulous old man or Li Yan, but rather, that
unprepossessing young boy!

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“He has at least thirty percent of the power of a true Immortal!”
thought Meng Hao, looking at him closely. Almost in the exact instant
that Meng Hao looked at him, the boy turned his head to return the gaze.
Their eyes locked over all the various arenas between them, and the
boy’s mouth twisted into a vicious smile.