Chapter 810: Chapter 104: The Third Challenge

Upon entering the living halls at Longxi, the Arbitrator separated the four of them, assigning each to a prearranged compartment.

Tang Luo looked up at the number two plate above his compartment, realizing that the rooms were arranged according to their rankings in the second stage: thus, Xiang Loulan must be in room number one, and Cao Changqing in room number three.

Glancing at the furnishings of the small room, he noticed a paper album sealed with candle wax on the table, bearing the title “Secret Arts Atlas.” The scholarly Four Treasures of the Study—brush, ink, paper, inkstone—in room number two did not seem to differ from those in the other compartments, indicating that, just as Master Wei had said, the rankings of the second stage did not affect the challenges of the third stage.

However, this strong sense of an imperial examination felt baffling to Tang Luo: they were all martial artists capable of cleaving mountains and cracking peaks with their fists—what was the purpose of these writing implements—were they to compete in poetry and couplets?

Finally, after all participants took their seats in the quiet rooms, the kind-looking elder spoke softly, his voice not loud but spreading through every small chamber in the Divine Fire Hall like a spring breeze caressing willows, eliciting exclamations from everyone.

“The final trial of this Longzhou Youth Martial Arts Tournament is an assessment of both your martial arts cultivation and your imagination.”

“Before you is the ‘Secret Arts Atlas,’ which contains three hundred and sixty types of martial arts techniques covering Yin and Yang, the Five Elements and the Eight Trigrams, soul, intent, curses, and spells—nothing is left out. Due to time constraints, I have omitted the parts about technique cultivation and recorded only the involved meridians, the eventual outcomes, and the compatibility aspects.”

“The question for the third stage is how to enable a martial artist who has just entered Fierce Realm, without having awakened any bloodline abilities, to cultivate five secret techniques to achieve the utmost strength.”

combine them. The brush, ink, paper, and inkstone on your tables are for your calculations. You need to write why you chose these techniques, how these combined techniques will attack, how they will defend, how they will cope with

use your manuscripts as a basis to simulate in the Illusionary Dream Space, creating a phantom spirit possessing the five techniques. Therefore, the deeper your understanding of the combined techniques, the more complete and powerful the phantom spirit will manifest. At the end of the assessment, Master Chen will pit your designed technique combinations against others in a controlled showdown. Ultimately, the one

place in both the first and second stages, but your rank falls beyond the hundredth in this stage, your overall

was mediocre, shining in the third stage can earn you a very high ranking. Not only that, but the secret arts research departments

will collect them. Of course, you can choose to submit early, but this won’t give you any advantage,

assessment for the third stage officially

kind-eyed elder made his final announcement, thick barriers of Spiritual Power rose around the hundred or so compartments of the Divine Fire Hall,

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Luo didn’t rush to start writing; instead, he activated his pupil technique to observe the Lingbi but found that even with his keen eyesight, he could not see through the Lingbi

to their limits, almost able to hear the movement of Spiritual Power, yet still, he heard not

wiped off the fiery seal

and Yin Wood Spiritual Power and stimulate it with incantations to break protective techniques. Once the technique affects the target, their heart will

in one’s flesh, and nourishes them with essence blood and Spiritual Power. These locusts are impervious to knives and spears, water, and fire. When facing an

the seven major acupoints: Abundant Fullness, Blinded Shu, Central Pillar, Great Gigantic, Stone Gate, Business Curve, and Yin Capital.

his chin with one hand and flipped through the thick “Secret Techniques Catalogue” with

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