Reverse the Sea

　　The entrance test for the preparatory disciples of the Heavenly Sword Sea began.

　　A few of the five hundred preparatory disciples were missing. They all thought they had no chance and left early.

　　It didn't matter much. After all, in a few days, hundreds of others would follow in their footsteps and leave.

　　There was nothing praiseworthy about persisting here. Only success was worth it.

　　On a huge arena, more than four hundred disciples would engage in one-on-one battles randomly within five days.

　　These were all the rules for this entrance test.

　　Supervised by the Second Elder, as long as no one died, they could fight as they liked. Of course, if someone did die, there was nothing that could be done about it. After all, who could guarantee anything?

　　Just like in previous entrance tests, the disciples with the weakest combat power, the worst talent, and the fewest connections were the first to be eliminated.

　　These disciples were often Ancient Seeds from poor and weak families, coming from remote areas of the star region. They might be considered prodigies in those remote areas, but they really didn't amount to much in the Heavenly Sword Sea Sect.

　　The second batch to be eliminated were the Ancient Seeds from wealthy families. They would give gifts to other powerful disciples, so they had better relationships and were eliminated later. Moreover, most of them didn't get seriously injured.

　　So, sometimes, the jianghu wasn't just about fighting.

　　With the five-day time limit, the fighting became extremely intense.

　　The weaker disciples were all eliminated by the second day.

　　The remaining disciples were at least at the Great Vehicle Realm.

　　Di Du and Qiu Li had always been standing in the center of the arena. The area around them was still empty, and no one dared to challenge them.

　　They weren't in a hurry to fight either. They planned to compete for the first place on the last day. Otherwise, if others took advantage of them in the middle, it would be more than they could bear.

　　Besides them, some fierce Supreme Seeds were also having a good time in these battles and quickly established their positions. No one dared to mess with them.

　　The positions in the arena were ranked according to the center where the two potential Great Emperors were standing. The closer one was to the center, the higher the position, and no one dared to challenge them.

　　Apart from Di Du and Qiu Li, a dozen or so fierce Supreme Seeds were lined up one after another.

　　It was like this until the fourth day. Everyone thought this would be the final pattern.

　　However, the sudden appearance of the Three Thousand Fire Feathers broke this situation. Almost instantly, it repelled the Supreme Seed standing in the third position. The Three Thousand Fire Feathers swirled around and formed a human figure.

　　Chi Yu grasped the robe condensed from flames and suddenly spread it out. At the same time, he took a step forward, with dark flames leaping under his feet. Facing Di Du, he said in a deep voice.

　　"I want to fight you."

　　Di Du was stunned for a moment and hesitated, "We fought hundreds of years ago. There's no need, right?"

　　"Let's fight again." Chi Yu's tone was extremely firm.

　　"Then this will be a normal fight, and it's normal to get injured." Di Du said warily.

　　Even though more than a hundred years had passed, he still clearly remembered that the last person who injured Chi Yu had probably already been reincarnated by now.

　　"Okay." The dark flames under Chi Yu's feet suddenly leaped up, wrapping around his whole body. His head transformed into the head of a red crow with a long tail of flames trailing behind. He opened his beak.

　　It was full of flames inside.

　　The cultivators watching this competition became interested.

　　They had all heard that Chi Yu was once called the stepping stone for potential Great Emperors. They didn't expect that in this entrance test, he would dare to fight a potential Great Emperor again.

　　Was he trying to break through with this?

　　The onlooking cultivators were quite intrigued.

　　In the spectator seats, a big yellow dog sitting at the back clenched its paws tightly and watched the upcoming fight on the arena very seriously.

　　Chi Yu spread the wings formed by the Three Thousand Fire Feathers behind him and suddenly flapped them, charging forward.

　　It was supposed to be a remarkable battle, but it didn't last long.

　　When the fifth day passed, the fight between Chi Yu and Di Du hadn't ended yet. However, it could be seen that Chi Yu was always at a disadvantage, and Di Du seemed to be holding back a bit.

　　Chi Yu didn't continue the fight either. He lowered his head and walked off the arena without saying a word.

　　The big yellow dog stood beside the arena, with a broom placed next to it, and also didn't say a word, like a frozen wooden figure, feeling that whatever it said would be wrong.

　　Until all the onlooking cultivators had left.

　　The big yellow dog picked up its broom, carried it on its shoulder, and slowly walked towards the Sword Forest.

　　It always felt that without Chen Xia, something was really missing.

　　Would it be much better if it was the one in prison?

　　For the first time since its existence, the big yellow dog started thinking about a question related to others, but it really couldn't figure it out.

　　So it simply threw the broom on the ground and pointed at it and cursed.

　　"Useless thing!"

　　After a while, the big yellow dog picked up the dusty broom again, hugged it in its arms, and sighed in an extremely soft voice.

　　"Useless thing."

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　　There were no more preparatory disciples in the Heavenly Sword Sea. They had all become formal disciples and entered the caves that only formal disciples could enter.

　　As for the next batch of preparatory disciples, it should be two hundred years later, which was earlier than Chen Xia's release from prison.

　　After all, being able to serve a five-hundred-year prison sentence in the Heavenly Sword Sea was unique.

　　Chen Xia's life in the sword prison was getting better and better. With the chess pieces and tea, it added a lot of fun.

　　Sometimes, he would incorporate the obtained sword intent into the chess pieces or put it into the tea.

　　This would create some interesting effects. The "chariot" in the chess game would charge recklessly with sword intent, extremely sharp, and it really had the feel of a magic treasure.

　　Also, because it was too dark inside the sword prison, Chen Xia specifically took a few shiny eyes of sea beasts and hung them in the prison as lanterns.

　　The effect was quite good.

　　Anyway, the seawater was pitch black. Chen Xia thought that these sea beasts didn't need their eyes anyway, so it was better to give them to those who needed them.

　　For example, himself.

　　Chen Xia thus turned the eyes of sea beasts into his own lamps.

　　Time passed slowly in prison, but when he really thought about it, most of the time had already passed.

　　He had already been in prison for three hundred years.

　　The sea beasts around him had all gotten to know him. Many times, they not only came to spit at him but also to defecate.

　　However, they all kept a long distance and didn't dare to get close, for fear that Chen Xia would gouge out their other eye as well.

　　Chen Xia didn't care much. The provocations of these sea beasts weren't that serious.

　　But in recent days, no sea beasts dared to come.

　　Because the sword wave of this year was coming soon.

　　Chen Xia sat on the ground, looked at his tattered clothes that were barely hanging on his body, and thought that if he endured the sword wave again, the clothes probably wouldn't be able to hold on.

　　That wouldn't be good.

　　The sword intent in the distance was surging, and huge waves were roaring, coming from the deeper sea area, carrying an extremely vast sword intent, almost about to stir up half of the sword sea.

　　Chen Xia stood up, straightened his tattered clothes a little, and didn't even look directly at the surging sword wave coming towards him.

　　He ran his hands through his rather long hair and pushed it back, revealing his still handsome face.

　　The sword intent arrived first, followed by the monstrous wave.

　　"Go away."

　　A calm voice rang out.

　　The huge wave several kilometers away from the sword prison actually reversed direction and crashed onto the deep sea. All the numerous sword intents fell into the sea!

　　Chen Xia calmly tied up his long hair with sword intent.

　　This was Overturning the Sea!