An extraordinary aura began to permeate the air, and everyone's heart trembled, feeling an urge to kowtow and worship.
This aura contained a sense of the passage of time, invigorating everyone.
"The aura of ancient sages!" someone exclaimed in surprise.
Sages are the collective term for saints, sage-kings, and great saints, and ancient sages refer to the saints of ancient times.
Although in recent years, not only have the ancient races emerged, but also the Supreme Ancient Emperor of the Longevity Emperor's Tomb has appeared, allowing the Heaven Desolate Star to gradually enter an era of saints emerging, very few have seen the actual saint, even among the people from the Immortal Holy Lands and Ancient Aristocratic Families. The appearance of a saint's aura now has shaken everyone present.
"Look, it's Yuan Tian! The Stone King he chose has actually yielded an ancient scripture!"
Accompanying the exclamation, everyone's attention turned to the Stone King in front of Yuan Tian, now only half a person tall. At this moment, half of an ancient scripture was revealed on the Stone King, with the remaining half embedded within, becoming one with the Stone King. The saint's aura from just now emanated from this ancient scripture.
"This is… a complete saint-level cultivation method!" The beautiful middle-aged woman from the Jade Pool Holy Land revealed a look of surprise in her beautiful eyes.
"It seems that Yuan Tian is destined to be the first place in the final," the representative of the Beginning Holy Land said with a chuckle, glancing at the representative of the Ziwei Holy Land, discovering that the Ziwei Holy Land representative's face had changed.
"Oh dear, it seems we're going to lose another King of Medicine," the Dao Saint Sect's Dragon Daoist laughed heartily, his tone revealing a strange schadenfreude. They had a bet before, wagering on who could win first place in the final. The Ziwei Holy Land representative had bet on Yuan Tian first, and after betting, they remembered that if Yuan Tian took first place, then facing Yuan Tian's challenge, their Ziwei Holy Land wouldn't be confident in winning.
Now that Yuan Tian has cut out a saint-level cultivation method, unless someone else cuts out immortal gold or divine medicine, or even a demigod medicine, but the Ziwei Holy Land took a closer look, and besides Li Beifei, the other two had already cut out their treasures. They were all saint medicines, not even comparable to the saint tree cut out by the other person earlier.
As for Li Beifei, he glanced at him, the old master was still cutting, and he had already lost hope.
"Fellow Daoist Gu, you don't seem to be feeling any heartache over the King of Medicine?" The middle-aged beautiful woman noticed Gu Youxian's calm expression and couldn't help but ask curiously.
"Hehe, it's just a King of Medicine. Although our Gu family doesn't have many, it's not enough to feel heartache over one. Moreover, there's still one last person who hasn't cut yet. It's too early to draw conclusions now!"
Gu Youxian chuckled. Although he couldn't see what was inside the Stone King, he believed that Li Beifei wouldn't choose randomly, or rather, he believed in his grandfather. The Source Arts were created by his grandfather, and he didn't believe that his grandfather wouldn't teach a little to his little junior uncle.
Gu Changsheng didn't actually teach Li Beifei the Source Arts, not even cultivation methods or divine abilities, but just gave him a cheat.
"Fellow Daoist Gu is right. The competition isn't over yet, so it's best not to draw conclusions so early." The person who said this was actually the Ziwei Holy Land representative. At this moment, he was really praying that Li Beifei would have heaven-defying luck and cut out a treasure even more awesome than the saint-level cultivation method, even if it was like yesterday's quasi-emperor hand bone.
At this moment, the Ziwei Holy Land couldn't wait to take the quasi-emperor hand bone that Li Beifei had cut out in the semi-finals and use it as the treasure cut out in the finals.
The other judges just chuckled and didn't say anything, but they were convinced that Yuan Tian would take first place.
Yuan Tian was also extremely excited at this time. He carefully took out the remaining half of the saint-level cultivation method. When he held this ancient scripture in his hand, he suppressed the excitement in his heart and looked at the cover of the ancient scripture, wanting to see what cultivation method it was.
But at this sight, he was stunned!
"What kind of writing is this?" Yuan Tian was taken aback, and then fell into endless ecstasy. The writing he couldn't understand meant that it was a very ancient script, so ancient that he couldn't even recognize it.
According to the rules, the items cut out needed to be handed over to the judging panel for the judges to determine their value, so Yuan Tian carefully held the ancient scripture and came to the judging panel.
"Please take a look, everyone!" Yuan Tian said respectfully.
"You're welcome!"
The judges were all very curious about what ancient scripture this was. Although they all came from Holy Lands and aristocratic families, and the cultivation methods they practiced were no worse than saint-level cultivation methods, they wouldn't miss the opportunity to study other cultivation methods.
When they received the ancient scripture, they were immediately dumbfounded.
"This… do you know the writing on this?" the Ziwei Holy Land representative asked.
"I don't know. I've never seen this kind of writing before," the Beginning Holy Land representative shook his head.
"This shouldn't be the writing of our human race!" the Qin family representative said.
His statement was agreed upon by the others. Although human writing has also undergone various evolutions, the structure of the characters has not changed, but the characters on the ancient scripture in front of them had a completely different structure from human characters, so it was clear that it was not human writing.
"Let me see!" At this time, Gu Youxian said.
The middle-aged beautiful woman sitting not far from Gu Youxian helped him take it over. Gu Youxian took a look and said softly: "This is a demon race cultivation method. The writing on it uses ancient demon script, which the demon race no longer uses today. It's normal that you don't recognize it."
"Demon race cultivation method!"
"Ancient demon script!"
Everyone was surprised. In their impression, the demon race now also used human characters, or rather, the vast majority of races in the universe used human characters.
The reason was simple. Millions of years ago, the Longevity Great Emperor ruled the universe for hundreds of thousands of years and had already unified the writing. Only some special scriptures would use the characters of their respective races, such as cultivation methods and secret techniques that were not passed on to outsiders, while the characters used for communication were all human characters.
"Demon race cultivation method!"
The Ziwei Holy Land sighed, his voice full of regret as he said: "If it were a human race cultivation method, then the value would be maximized. If it's a demon race cultivation method, then it would have to be discounted."
As soon as these words came out, they were met with contempt from the others. You can even say such blatant demeaning words? The value of a saint-level cultivation method will not change regardless of the race. Are you bullying Yuan Tian for being young and ignorant?
Who knew that Yuan Tian also showed a regretful expression. Seeing this, the others almost exposed the Ziwei Holy Land's thoughts. You actually believe it?
"A saint-level cultivation method is a saint-level cultivation method and will not depreciate because of the race," Gu Youxian said lightly.
"Fellow Daoist Gu, you…" The Ziwei Holy Land representative was momentarily speechless. He wanted to say that you bet on that lucky kid, why are you speaking up for your opponent now?
Gu Youxian squinted at the Ziwei Holy Land representative. He simply couldn't stand the Ziwei Holy Land representative's greedy look. If you can't afford to lose, then don't hold the Stone Gambling Convention.
"I see!"
Yuan Tian wasn't stupid and immediately understood the Ziwei Holy Land representative's thoughts. If he won first place, he would definitely challenge the organizer, and this time the organizer was the Ziwei Holy Land. It seemed that the people of the Ziwei Holy Land weren't confident in winning against him!
At this moment, Yuan Tian couldn't help but feel extremely proud. So the Holy Land also has times when they're afraid!
"Damn!"
"Woof woof, my dog eyes are going to be blinded!"
Just as Yuan Tian was fantasizing, two shocking sounds that were not human resounded through the clouds.
A golden light shot straight into the sky, and the golden light was incomparably dazzling, making the great sun in the sky dim at this moment.
"Quick, activate the defensive array!"
Purple Shirt Elder shouted loudly. As his voice fell, countless mysterious array patterns appeared throughout the venue. The array patterns also emitted golden light, but compared to the golden light in front of Li Beifei, it was indeed insignificant. Fortunately, the power of the array patterns was not stronger the brighter the light. At the moment the array patterns appeared, a golden shield was built around the entire venue, blocking the golden light on the shield.
"The Golden Light Array, how many years has it been since it was activated?"
The middle-aged beautiful woman was shocked.
The Golden Light Array was the name of the array in front of them. Although the name didn't have any imposing or domineering qualities, this array was a real saint-level array, designed to prevent peerless treasures or peerless demons and monsters from escaping when they were cut out from the stone.
Actually, the Golden Light Array should have been activated when the Big Black Dog was cut out, but the Big Black Dog's performance was mediocre and no different from an ordinary Big Black Dog, so the Golden Light Array was not activated.
Now, the Golden Light Array had to be activated to suppress the golden light emitted by the Stone King, so it was very likely that another peerless treasure was about to be born.
"Is that the little guy who relies on luck?"
Dragon Daoist was stunned. He saw the Stone King in front of Li Beifei and the old master, and it was emitting an earth-shattering golden light.
Yuan Tian looked at it in disbelief, while the Ziwei Holy Land representative's face was about to burst into a smile.
"Old Master, when will this golden light dissipate?" Li Beifei asked.
"This… I don't know either," the old master shook his head.
"No way?" Li Beifei asked again.
"There is a way, but ordinary people wouldn't do it," the old master said.
"Hmm?"
The old master explained: "Those who gamble on stones and fight stones, who wouldn't want the phenomenon to last as long as possible when they cut out something so big, to let others know that you cut it out? That's a matter of doubling face!"
"Oh?" Li Beifei narrowed his eyes and suddenly said: "If I split it with a sword, wouldn't that also be a unique way to do it?"
"Uh… you wouldn't be thinking…"
Before the old master could finish speaking, Li Beifei grinned and directly sacrificed the Heavenly Pivot Sword. The sword light flashed, and with a "bang," the soaring golden light gradually dissipated.
"Clang clang…"
A golden skull fell to the ground, hitting the ground and making a crisp sound.
This scene stunned the audience!
"Damn, what is he doing? I didn't see it wrong, did I? He actually used a sword to chop the Stone King?"
"Damn it, this lucky bastard actually used a sword to chop the Stone King. How dare he? Isn't he afraid of damaging the treasure?"
"Huh, look quickly, a golden skull fell out."
"It's a bone again. Is this kid destined to be with bones?"
The audience cursed a few times, but they still noticed the golden skull on the ground. If there were no accidents, the soaring golden light from just now was emitted by this skull.
Li Beifei put away the Heavenly Pivot Sword, then picked up the golden skull and began to examine it.
"This is nothing much. It doesn't even look as good as the quasi-emperor hand bone," Li Beifei muttered. He could still feel the faint quasi-emperor aura from the quasi-emperor hand bone, but this golden skull, Old Liu said it so mysteriously, but he couldn't feel anything extraordinary about it.
"Thanks, Old Master!" Li Beifei waved to the old master, then took the skull and walked towards the judging panel.
The judges were also curious about the golden skull in Li Beifei's hand, and the Ziwei Holy Land representative was muttering in his heart as he watched Li Beifei walk over with the golden skull: Could it be that my prayer from just now worked?
At this time, Yuan Tian was still in front of the judging panel. He looked at the golden bone in Li Beifei's hand and sneered: "You really are destined to be with bones!"
"Well, I'm destined to be with bones, and you're destined to be with dogs!" Li Beifei retorted lightly.
Yuan Tian's face darkened. Okay, no matter what you say, you can bring it up to dogs, right?
"Hmph, you want to compete with my saint-level cultivation method with just a bone? Dream on!"
Yuan Tian snorted and stood aside, preparing to watch Li Beifei make a fool of himself.
At this time, Gu Youxian spoke.
"No need to look, he won!"
"He" naturally referred to Li Beifei.
"Hmm?"
The other judges hadn't even looked at it yet and all showed puzzled expressions. The Ziwei Holy Land was ecstatic in his heart, but he still had to say something polite.
"Fellow Daoist Gu, this, according to the rules, we still have to come to a conclusion together."
"Gu?" Li Beifei heard this surname and couldn't help but look at Gu Youxian. He always felt that Gu Youxian looked a little familiar, but he was sure that he had never seen her before. He had only seen three members of the Gu family besides his master, Gu Tianjun, Gu Xiruo, and the strong Gu Wei.
The reason why he felt familiar was naturally because Gu Youxian had a three-point resemblance to Gu Changsheng.
Gu Youxian chuckled and said: "If you can see anything, then take a look!"
"Fellow Daoist Gu, what do you mean?" The Beginning Holy Land representative frowned and asked.
"What do I mean? I'm just telling the truth!" Gu Youxian said.
"You…" The Beginning Holy Land representative wanted to get angry, but in the end, he didn't say anything. He took the golden skull and examined it, and after a while, his face turned ugly.
He really couldn't see anything!
"How is it?"
The Qin family representative also took it and observed it carefully, but obviously, he couldn't see anything either.
After everyone took turns looking at it, they still couldn't see anything.
"It's no wonder you can't see anything. The owner of this skull was an incredibly terrifying quasi-emperor peak powerhouse before his death. He had already reached the realm of returning to simplicity. All the aura is restrained. It's normal that you can't see it with your lack of cultivation," Gu Youxian said.
The others' faces changed slightly when they heard this. They couldn't see it, but Gu Youxian could, which meant that Gu Youxian's strength was above everyone else's.
However, they were not too shocked. They were complaining about the Gu family in their hearts, complaining that the Gu family had sent someone stronger than them to be a judge. This was different from before.
"I guess they are already complaining about Old Ancestor Youxian,"
Gu Wei, the head of the Gu family, said helplessly in the Gu family's private room.
The people sent by their major immortal forces to be judges in the past all followed a hidden rule, which was to send people with similar realms and strengths to be judges so that everyone would not be embarrassed. However, since it was a hidden rule, whether to follow it or not depended on their mood.
"Since it's a quasi-emperor skull, then it's clear that Li Yifei won!"
The Ziwei Holy Land representative said calmly, suppressing the excitement in his heart.
"Congratulations!" At this moment, Yuan Tian actually walked up to Li Beifei and congratulated him.
Li Beifei was stunned. Was this person so magnanimous?
But before Li Beifei could react, Yuan Tian continued, "I didn't expect you to be a source art grandmaster who has been hiding your strength. I, Yuan Tian, misjudged you."
After saying that, Yuan Tian turned and left.
"What the hell? I'm a source art grandmaster?" Li Beifei wondered. How come I don't know about being a source art grandmaster?
"Could this kid be out of his mind?"
Li Beifei guessed.
The reason Yuan Tian thought he was a source art grandmaster was simple. He didn't want to believe that someone could have such heaven-defying luck continuously. In his opinion, Li Beifei was the kind of person who liked to pretend to be a pig to eat the tiger, disguising himself as someone who knew nothing, and then slapping the enemy in the face.
What he didn't know was that he didn't lose to Li Beifei, but to the old six inside Li Beifei's body.
Li Beifei won first place in the final, so he was naturally qualified to challenge the organizer.
(This plot will end tomorrow, followed by a chase scene...)
