Blue Wind Ranking Tournament
*CRACK*
*CRACK*
*SHATTER*
Aerion finally opened his eyes.
"I'm at the Fifth Stage of the Spirit Profound Realm, at long last!"
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The Noble Rogue Sect took six people to the Heavenly Sword Villa. Jun Long, Tai Xia, Tai Quin, Tai Ming, Shun Zhi and Tai Wentian. The top 3 disciples, the Commandant, General and Grandmaster. A very powerful and talented line up indeed. They used large and tame birds to fly to the Sword Villa, the journey lasted about 3 days. This time was more than enough for Aerion to completely recover from absorbing the Wind God's Domain. Where did the profound energy from the Wind God's Domain? It was refined and permanently absorbed by Aerion. Due to this large amount of profound energy, Aerion finally broke through.
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"So this is the Heavenly Sword Villa... I'm impressed" Aerion said.
Technically, this was supposed to be his first time here.
"Welcome to the Heavenly Sword Villa, Noble Rogue Sect disciples and elders. I'll lead you all to your personal courtyard." A disciple greeted them.
Personal courtyard? Does every Sect get this kind of privilege?
Aerion and the group followed the disciple to their courtyard. The Heavenly Sword Villa's disciples seemed to respect the Noble Rogue Sect far more than the other Sects. This was probably due to Tai Wentian's influence. He's well known to be one of the strongest fighters in all of the Blue Wind Empire... almost no one wants to get on his bad side.
"This is your courtyard, please select your own rooms. When night comes, I will bring the meals to your rooms."
"There isn't a banquet?" Tai Wentian asked.
"To prevent any unnecessary conflict, a banquet was not arranged. Please forgive us."
"How unfortunate, you can leave now."
There was supposed to be a banquet? To be fair, I couldn't care less.
Aerion picked his room and settled himself in.
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"Look at you, gathering more and more gold everyday. 2 million... I don't think you need anything right now?"
"Yeah, come to think of it."
"Then save it up. Trust me, I'll give you something ultra-amazing when you save up 10 million!"
"Alright."
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Name: Aerion Targaryen / Jun Long
Level: Spirit Profound 5
Traits: Attractive, Genius, Athletic, Patient, Diligent, Proud, Ambitious
Titles: Alpha, Vice-General of the Blades, Scorpion, Ranger
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Base Max: Earth Profound 5
Dragon Soul Max: Earth Profound 9
Draconic Heart Max: Sky Profound 3
Weapons: Sky Piercer, Silver Eagle, Baseball Bat, Advanced Hidden Blade, X10 Earth Profound Swords
Evil God Seeds: Fire
Special Items: Sky Poison Pearl, Mirror of Samsara
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Skills/Martial Arts
Melee: Counter Kill, Perfect Counter
Range: Crimson Demon Wave, Fire Breath
Movement: Star God's Broken Shadow
Summoning: Earth Golem Creation
Body: Wind Aura, Demon King's Explosion
Special: Observe, Sharingan, Ghost Flame, Calamity Dragon Arts, Wind God's Art, Phoenix Flame
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Bloodlines: Fire Dragon God (Aerios), Phoenix, Primordial Azure Dragon, Uchiha
Body: Dragon God Marrow, Body of a True Dragon, Virgin Dragon Seed
Veins: Calamity Dragon Profound Veins
Soul: Dragon God Soul, Phoenix Soul
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Today was the day the Blue Wind Ranking Tournament officially begins! Aerion woke up early and energised, he was ready to dish out some beatings. He wondered what the reward would be for first place since that was what he was aiming for. Every Sect grouped up to hear the rewards for first, second and third place. After that, the disciples would be checked for their age and cultivation level. If a disciple is younger than 16 or older than 20 then they would be disqualified.
"Now, let this old man declare the prize of this Ranking Tournament."
"Third place in the ranking tournament's individual rankings, will receive one 'Purple Striped Dragon Heart Pellet'. Second place in individual rankings will receive three drops of 'Purple Veined Marrow Quenching Fluid'…."
Everyone acted like it was such a big deal, I couldn't see why. Tsk, tsk, tsk, the Heavenly Cultivation Pill has no comparison. Compared to it, these fancy-named liquids are absolute trash. I personally stand by that.
"... First place in individual rankings, will receive a Sky Profound Artifact, Dragonscale Armor, that originates from the Mighty Heavenly Sword Region."
Aerion smiled, finally... something useful!
Now I have a reason to get first place other than bragging rights. The crowd were all shocked and the competing disciples looked determined. Unfortunately, only one person can get the Sky Profound Artefact... and that person's name is Jun Long!
"The top ten forces in the ranking tournament, after the exploration of 'Heavenly Basin Secret Realm', will have the opportunity to see the 'Demon' Sealing Ritual carried out personally by Elder Ling Kun of the Mighty Heavenly Sword Region with their own eyes."
Heavenly Basin Secret Realm, I've read a bit about it in one of the books in the Library. One can find great treasures there... and dangerous beasts! These beasts can be as strong as Overlord Profound cultivators. It would've been great if I were strong enough to harvest some of their Profound Beast cores... eh, maybe next time.
"The time hath come. Now, this old man declares; this session of Blue Wind Ranking Tournament, officially begins!"
At long last!
Groups of disciples started to come up when their Sect's name was called. Most of the disciples were 20 and 19 year olds. This makes sense since on average, 20 and 19 year olds are way stronger than 17-year-olds as they've had a solid 2-3 years extra time to cultivate. Eventually, it was the Frozen Cloud Immortal Palace's time. Aerion looked forward to it, he wanted to find out just how much stronger Xia Qingyue is. The last time they fought, she was at the cultivation strength of Earth Profound One! I'm expecting something around Earth Profound Three. According to the most recent tests, she would be the strongest in terms of cultivation strength. No one was recorded with an Earth Profound cultivation strength yet... she would be the first.
Aerion was left deeply disappointed when they called out her cultivation strength.
Xia Qingyue —— 17 years old —— Spirit Profound Realm level eight.
Was I lied to at the Frozen Cloud Immortal Palace? Or is she concealing her real cultivation strength...? It's probably the latter.
Everyone started talking about how amazing and talented she was, Aerion found it annoying. Why do you fools idolise others? Improve yourself and make others idolise you!
Aerion didn't bother looking at the other Frozen Cloud Immortal Palace disciples.
"Psst, Tai Quin."
"What is it, Jun Long?"
"What's your cultivation strength at?"
"Haha, you'll see soon enough."
Aerion could've just used observe to see but he might as well wait. Tai Wentian was smiling the whole time, completely confident in Jun Long's ability to win. Jun Long could fight on equal grounds against a Sky Profound cultivator... who the hell is going to beat him?
"Heavenly Sword Villa —— Ling Yun, Ling Feiyu, Ling Jie."
At last, the Heavenly Sword Villa's disciples! Everyone was dead silent, including myself. I was interested in the strength of the Sword Villa's disciples. Will they pose a threat to me? Probably not. Will they impress the crowd? Most likely!
Ling Yun —— 20 years old —— Earth Profound Realm level three.
Ling Yun... very impressive. He won the tournament last time at the age of 17! Naturally, he should win this year's as well since he's 3 years older and way stronger. No wonder why the first place reward is a Sky Profound artefact... they're confident he can "earn" it in front of everyone. Hahahahah, thank you Mighty Heavenly Sword Region for being so very generous!
The crowd went crazy for Ling Yun. After all, he was the very first Earth Profound disciple to appear today!
Ling Feiyu —— 19 years old —— Spirit Profound Realm level nine.
Ling Jie —— 16 years old —— Spirit Profound Realm level six.
The two other disciples from the Heavenly Sword Villa were pretty impressive as well.
"Blue Wind Imperial Family…"
Oh, the Blue Wind Imperial Family? Not exactly a powerhouse...
Fen Juechen —— 17 years old —— Spirit Profound Realm level six.
Feng Bufan —— 20 years old —— Spirit Profound Realm level three.
Fang Feilong —— 20 years old —— Spirit Profound Realm level two.
That's... weak, the crowd agreed with me.
"The Blue Wind Imperial Family, trash as usual."
"But they have Fen Juechen now, they might make top 300 or even top 100!"
"Perhaps."
Then, after the Blue Wind Imperial Family, the man announced "Noble Rogue Sect..."
"Tai Xia, Tai Quin and Jun Long!"
The crowd turned silent. It was the Noble Rogue Sect... and two of the disciples were Tai Wentian's children, the man who embarrassed the Heavenly Sword Villa when he participated in the Blue Wind Ranking Tournament. The third was a boy with a black mask covering his face... the Noble Rogue Sect looked interesting.
"Who's the dude with the mask?"
"He looks pretty interesting and where's Tai Wentian's oldest son? Is he his replacement?"
"He must be pretty damn strong."
"Damn, Tai Xia is really beautiful. Too bad I can't get anywhere near her with Tai Wentian's cold gaze..."
"Tai Quin... he's so handsome!"
"That Jun Long dude probably wears a mask to hide how ugly he is!"
"Haha, you might be onto something."
Why did Aerion wear his mask and hood? Why not, it made him look cool. Besides, the Frozen Cloud Immortal Palace members could hide their beauty with a vale, why can't he do the same? If he were to unleash his beauty, then the entire crowd would explode with love!
Tai Xia —— 17 years old —— Spirit Profound Ten.
The expressions on everyone's faces... was this another Tai Wentian situation!? Was that going to happen again!? The Grandmaster smiled as a proud father would. "That's my girl."
"Looks like Tai Wentian is not only a good fighter, he's also a good teacher and father."
"Damn, the Noble Rogue Sect is back on the map!"
"The Heavenly Sword Villa should just surrender the Dragonscale armour now unless they want to lose face."
"Haha, you're all dumb trash. How is she going to beat Ling Yun? That's right, she won't because she can't! There's no way Ling Yun is going to lose to a Noble Rogue Sect disciple! I bet my entire fortune on it."
"That's true. Still, she might win in the next tournament."
Tai Quin smiled at Jun Long. "You wanted to see my profound strength? Well... here goes!"
Tai Quin —— 16 years old —— Spirit Profound Nine.
I'm impressed, to say the least.
"Wow... Tai Wentian's seed must be very strong to produce such heavenly children!"
"SPIRIT PROFOUND NINE... 16 YEARS OLD!? HOW CAN YOU BE SO TALENTED!?"
"I bet even Ling Yuefeng is jealous!"
"Tai Wentian is back at it again, I wonder how strong the masked disciple is?"
Aerion stepped forward, emitting an aura of royalty. Everyone looked at him... was he Tai Wentian's secret weapon? Aerion touched the stone and his details were instantly shown.
Jun Long —— 17 years old —— Spirit Profound Five.
Tai Xia's and Quin's cultivation strength was so high that it made mine looked average. Hmph, I'll show them my true strength soon enough!
"That's good, but compared to Tai Wentian's children... it isn't very impressive."
"I was expecting more, what a bummer."
"Maybe he has god-like battle power..."
"That might actually be possible since the Wind God's Art is very powerful in the right hands."
"You dumb trash are reaching, he's a weakling. Ling Yun could cut him in half just with his sword intent!"
"I get it, Ling Yun is strong but you worship him like some god."
"That's because he is a GOD!"
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"What number did you all draw?" Tai Wentian asked
"1230"
"2019"
Aerion looked at his tablet. "1001"
To summarise, the old man said that there were 30 small groups in total. Each group has about 50 disciples. These 50 disciples fight twelve full battles over the course of 3 days. Then, the top ten disciples with the most wins from each group move onto the second round. The second round features only 300 disciples, eliminating 1200 in the process. The 1200 disciples who didn't make the cut are then sent to some lame area where no one cares about them apart from their own Sects.
Then the semi-relevant top 300 disciples have to fight fifteen full fights over another 3 days. Then they are all ranked on the number of wins, the top 32 disciples move onto the elimination round.
"We'll be in completely different groups, good luck to the both of you."
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"Group 1, first match, Noble Rogue Sect's 'Jun Long' —— versus —— Moon Worshipping Sect's 'Zhao Fu'!"