Chapter 311 Becoming a Saint on the Spot
Finally, the names displayed on the Heavenly Tablet Pavilion entered the final top ten.
"Tenth Place: Lingzhou: Zhao Family"
The voice of the Yellow Turban Strongman rarely trembled.
Everyone saw a clear light as thick as a water bucket pouring down like a river from the sky, violently pouring into the Azure Jade Pavilion in the outer ring.
The runes floating within the pillar of light actually condensed into physical forms, drifting down like gold foil.
Obviously, there was an essential difference from the clear light before!
However, this clear light ultimately landed upon a jade cauldron in the hands of the Zhao Family Head, causing the surrounding cultivators to secretly sigh in regret.
But only the people of the Zhao Family, after sensing something, suddenly cheered as an entire clan. They had obviously obtained some unknown enormous benefit.
At the same time, when the Zhao Family Head looked towards the Immortal Spirit Pavilion, Xiao Chen also cupped his hands towards the Zhao Family Head to express congratulations.
The Lingzhou and Qingzhou where both parties were located bordered each other, and they could be considered neighbors among the top sects. Since the two families had no conflicts of interest, naturally, having one more friend was far better than having one more enemy!
Subsequently, surprise appeared again!
"Ninth Place: Yunzhou: Luofu Sanctuary!"
"Boom—"
Rampant spiritual pressure swept out like a tsunami, nearly lifting the entire roof off the pavilion.
The figure of the Luofu Holy Lord slowly rose within the pillar of light. His white hair turned black, his wrinkles smoothed out, and the acupoints all over his body shone like stars.
The most shocking thing was that a phantom of a fragmented sun wheel emerged behind him—this was exactly the mark of the Half-Step Saint Realm!
"This is... a Quasi-Saint!"
"Old Jing Ke actually..."
Several sect heads of top sects lost their composure and stood up, unaware even as their teacups overturned and soaked their clothes.
This time, no sect could sit still!
If even the outer ring pavilions could create a Quasi-Saint, then what about the eight pavilions in the inner ring... Everyone's eyes unconsciously swept towards the pillar of light that pierced heaven and earth at the top of the Heavenly Tablet Pavilion.
The atmosphere on the square suddenly became stifling.
Countless scorching gazes collided in the air, as if they could rub out sparks.
Lin Wan stared at the fragmented sun wheel above the Luofu Holy Lord's head.
Compared to the ecstatic bystanders, the expression of that newly promoted Quasi-Saint appeared somewhat painful—he was futilely clawing at his chest, as if something were about to break out of his body.
However, it was soon forcefully suppressed by him using True Essence, and only then did a relieved expression appear on his face.
Obviously, he was very satisfied with his own changes.
Inside the various pavilions, discussions were rife:
"Even the ninth place produced a Quasi-Saint, so what about the sects ahead? How will it be for eighth place? How will it be for fifth place?"
"Could it be that we will truly witness the birth of the Saint Realm today?"
Whispering spread like a plague.
Everyone realized that after today, the power structure of the Xuanying Continent would likely be completely rewritten.
And the opportunity to rewrite history was currently suspended high above that obsidian Heavenly Tablet.
And what followed seemed to confirm these people's conjectures—
"Third Place: Lizhou: Chu Family!"
The voice of the Yellow Turban Strongman suddenly rose, almost cracking.
The clear light shot from the Heavenly Tablet was no longer a pillar of light, but a surging galaxy, carrying the sky full of stars falling towards the red copper pavilion in the inner ring.
The ground of the entire Heavenly Capital City began to tremble.
The roof tiles of the Chu Family pavilion instantly vaporized, revealing the green-robed old man sitting within.
The Chu Family Head, Chu Shanhe, suddenly opened his eyes, and in his pupils were actually phantoms of the sun and moon rotating.
"Boom—!"
When the first wave of clear light was poured onto his head, the bones all over his body emitted crisp sounds like popping beans.
Three hundred and sixty-five major acupoints simultaneously spurted out impure air, condensing into a chaotic nebula behind him.
The Chu Family children observing the ceremony were overturned by the air waves, but they ignored their embarrassment, staring fixedly at the top of the Family Head's head—where nine golden lotuses were blooming in succession.
"Nine Turns Saint..."
The whisk in the hand of an elder in some pavilion fell to the ground.
When the second wave of clear light fell, Chu Shanhe's skin began to vitrify.
Black impurities seeped out of his pores, but in the instant they left his body, they were evaporated into green smoke.
He painfully looked up to the sky and let out a long whistle, and the sound waves shattered the window frames within a radius of a hundred zhang.
The third wave of clear light was the most violent.
Chu Shanhe's physical body began to collapse, only to reconstitute amidst the collapse. First, his legs turned into light particles and dissipated, then vitrified bones regrew from his waist; next, his chest exploded, and his five viscera and six entrails bloomed like a lotus amidst the light halo; finally, even his head turned into a pure ball of light, within which the three souls and seven spirits could be faintly seen weaving and reorganizing.
"Condense!"
With a shout, all light particles suddenly contracted. The newborn body was like a jade statue meticulously carved by a divine craftsman, with Great Dao patterns flowing through every inch of skin.
When Chu Shanhe opened his eyes again, the sun and moon phantoms in his pupils had solidified; the left eye was the sun, the right eye was the moon, and between opening and closing, stars were born and died.
"Rumble—"
Thunder suddenly came from above the nine heavens, but it was not tribulation thunder, but the resonance of heaven and earth!
The chaotic nebula behind Chu Shanhe completely dissipated, forming a ten-thousand-zhang Dharma Idol with the same appearance as him.
The Dharma Idol carried the blue sky on its head and stepped on mountains and rivers, triggering a tide of spiritual energy for ten thousand miles with its breath—this was the true pressure of the Saint Realm!
"He actually... really became a Saint!"
"The Chu Family Ancestor was already in the Saint Realm, now..."
"Two Saints in one clan! Another clan with two Saints!"
The entire square was as if it had been ignited; noise, shouts of surprise, and sighs of praise intertwined, sweeping past like a torrent.
Everyone's gaze was focused on Chu Shanhe, as if he were the center of this world.
Even in the other pavilions in the inner ring, sounds of gasping came out one after another.
Chu Shanhe stood in the center of the square, his figure appearing extraordinarily tall amidst the crowd.
He slowly raised his hand, and a miniature star gradually emerged in his palm. This star emitted a faint light, but it seemed to contain endless power.
Everyone's gaze stared tightly at that star. They saw that with a light grip from Chu Shanhe, that star was actually instantly crushed into countless streams of light, as if it were fragile porcelain.
These streams of light circulated rapidly between his fingers, as if being pulled by an invisible force, and finally recombined into the Chu Family's secret transmitted "River and Mountain Seal".
This simple action caused the Dao Hearts of all the Heavenly Human Realm experts present to tremble.
They could feel that power which was completely above the Heavenly Human Realm, a strength that could not be described in words.
From this moment on, those who previously stood on equal footing with Chu Shanhe could only start looking up to him.
He had already surpassed the Heavenly Human Realm and become a completely new existence.
And the title people used for him would also become—
Saint Venerable.
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