Chapter 728: Shocking Everyone!
Finally, it was Li Yun’s turn to be tested.
"Li Yun, you must perform well."
Zhu Heng spoke up. "Out of the four of us, Qi Ren and Yan Shuo have already been eliminated, and I estimate that I will not survive this round either. It all depends on you now. You must pass the test. Do not let our Heavenly Sword Sect people be completely wiped out."
"Do not worry."
Li Yun nodded and took a step forward.
Looking at Li Yun, a faint glimmer of expectation flashed through Daoist Scarlet Brow’s eyes, but it vanished in an instant.
Although Li Yun’s results in the previous round had disappointed him somewhat, he still had some expectations for Li Yun.
He hoped that in this round, Li Yun would not disappoint him again.
As for many other cultivators, they sneered with disdain. Clearly, in their view, after this round, Li Yun’s true colors would be revealed, and he would be completely kicked off the Candidate Elite List.
Under everyone’s varied gazes, Li Yun finally pressed his palm against the Heavenly Affinity Pillar.
Rumble!
Within his mind, his three souls trembled slightly at the same time.
Suddenly, the Heavenly Affinity Pillar shook violently. Then, a beam of green light soared into the sky, manifesting a pure white flower a full thousand meters wide in the void.
This pure white flower emitted brilliant and dazzling light. It was beautiful to the extreme, causing the minds of those who saw it to become intoxicated.
It was precisely the Soul Flower that had appeared once before.
"What?"
"The Soul Flower actually appeared again. And it is at the thousand-meter level."
This scene caused everyone present to be greatly shocked, to the point where they almost could not believe their eyes.
Even Daoist Scarlet Brow and the others revealed expressions of shock.
A thousand-meter Soul Flower was a highest-rank phenomenon. It rarely appeared even once across several Recruitment Conventions. Yet in this convention, it had actually appeared twice in a row.
"Wait, it is not over yet."
Suddenly, Daoist Scarlet Brow seemed to realize something and cried out in alarm.
In the next moment, an extremely brilliant light burst forth from that pure white flower.
Then, under the illumination of that dazzling light, the pure white flower actually began to change.
Those wondrous petals suddenly transformed into divine swords emitting extreme light, and the flower stalk transformed into a brilliant divine sword that rapidly grew upward.
In the blink of an eye, it reached a height of one thousand meters.
Sword Qi pierced the sky, and brilliant Sword Qi illuminated the surroundings, painting the entire sky a snowy white, like a falling Milky Way.
The scene was spectacular to the extreme.
The endless Sword Qi emitted an incomparably sharp aura, as if it could destroy everything. Even heaven and earth seemed fragile before this magnificent Sword Qi.
"Heavens!"
At this moment, all the cultivators, including Daoist Scarlet Brow, Yan Jiubian, and the other elders of the Profound Origin Immortal Sect, cried out in disbelief together.
All of them were shocked to the limit.
However, the transformation was not yet over.
Rumble!
The brilliant divine sword transformed from the flower stalk actually continued to grow.
In only a single breath, it directly broke through the one-thousand-meter mark and climbed to a length of three thousand meters.
And those sword energies transformed from the petals expanded even more rapidly, spreading across a full three thousand meters. Endless sharp Sword Qi fell grandly, as if a brilliant rain of swords had descended.
Crack! Crack!
On the ground, a crack suddenly appeared on the surface of the Heavenly Affinity Pillar. Then, the crack rapidly spread and covered the entire pillar in an instant.
With a loud pop, the Heavenly Affinity Pillar directly exploded into powder.
The Heavenly Affinity Pillar had actually shattered.
This meant that the vision Li Yun manifested had surpassed the limits of what it could simulate and exceeded the range of what it could withstand.
"My heavens!"
"How is this possible?"
Even major figures like Daoist Scarlet Brow and Yan Jiubian cried out in alarm at this moment, as if they had seen a ghost.
They were shocked to the extreme.
Since the founding of the Profound Origin Immortal Sect, instances of the Heavenly Affinity Pillar shattering were not completely unheard of, but they had only occurred a handful of times.
Those who could trigger such a vision had almost all eventually become Dao Resonance Realm experts.
In other words, Li Yun actually possessed the potential to become a Dao Resonance Realm expert.
"This kid belongs to my Soul Peak."
Yan Jiubian immediately shouted, "If anyone dares to fight me for him, do not blame me for being impolite."
"In your dreams."
Daoist Scarlet Brow snorted coldly without hesitation. "Yan Jiubian, we already let you have one genius disciple before this. Do not be too greedy. If your appetite is too large, you will choke yourself to death."
"Exactly."
Just as Daoist Scarlet Brow’s voice fell, a golden light suddenly shot over from the distance.
A middle-aged strongman wearing a golden robe, carrying a large saber on his back, and radiating an incredibly fierce aura appeared before everyone.
He barked, "Yan Jiubian, since Fan Wuhen has already gone to your Soul Peak, you can forget about this kid. He should come to my Saber Peak."
"What a joke."
Just as the burly man’s voice fell, a loud shout rang out.
Then, a tall middle-aged man wearing an earthy yellow robe appeared before everyone. He stood more than two meters tall and snorted coldly.
"Saber Madman, if this kid enters your Saber Peak, it would be a complete waste of talent. You had better forget it."
"Indeed."
As soon as the tall middle-aged man finished, a kind-looking old man in a white robe also emerged.
With a smile on his face, he said loudly, "Everyone, let us not argue. I see that this little fellow has destiny with my Free Wander Peak. It would be better for him to enter my Free Wander Peak."
In just a few breaths, three powerful experts had appeared in succession.