Reaching the pinnacle from Doupo

Chapter 358: Preliminary Round Ends, Meeting Huo Xuan

"It's over, this time... I won!" Huo Zhi announced softly.

Hearing the opponent's declaration and looking at the slender hand with fierce energy swirling in the palm and holding her life in her hands, a trace of dejection flashed in Ling Yun'er's beautiful eyes.

"I lost!" After collecting her thoughts, she said calmly, "Congratulations, Miss Huo Zhi!"

"Thank you!" Huo Zhi dispersed the flame in his hand, nodded and said.

Then, she turned around and looked intently at her next opponent - Lin Yuan on the stands. She raised her eyebrows, with a hint of strangeness in her eyes.

As a hint of deep red fire appeared in the girl's eyes, the charming red lotus mark between her eyebrows became more and more bright and fiery.

In the stands, looking at Huo Zhi's slightly provocative eyes, Lin Yuan couldn't help but smile slightly. Although he had expected this due to his foresight as a time traveler, he didn't expect that this seemingly cold girl from the Yan clan would be so wild when it comes to strange fire.

After a moment of hesitation, a glimmer of ice-blue fire flashed in Lin Yuan's eyes. He used strange fire against strange fire and accepted the special battle challenge from the proud daughter of the Yan clan.

When Huo Zhi saw this, a hint of joy that was hard to conceal emerged in his bright eyes.

Afterwards, as Mang Tianchi appeared on the stage and officially announced the result, the fourth level competition came to an end... The winner was Huo Zhi from the Yan clan!

This match between the two women is undoubtedly the most entertaining one among all the matches today.

After them, four more games were played.

The fifth battle was between Hun Dan and Gu Xing. There was nothing special about this battle.

As descendants of an ancient clan, with similar skills, fighting techniques, and secret methods, it was extremely difficult for both sides to fight against opponents of higher levels. Hun Dan, who was at the peak of the two-star Dou Zun level, crushed Gu Xing, who had just entered the one-star Dou Zun level.

In the sixth battle, Lei Dong fought against Hun Ming, and this battle was a complete crushing victory.

Even though Hun Ming of the Soul Clan activated his clan emblem and his strength leapt to the peak of a four-star Dou Zun, he was still crushed by Lei Dong. He didn't even use any secret techniques or clan emblems. Such a performance caused cheers from everyone in the Lei Clan at the scene.

During the battle, the colorful thunder displayed by Lei Dong and the special fighting skills that went with it also verified some of Lin Yuan's guesses.

First, Lei Dong had indeed not yet refined the black magic thunder.

However, this is also a matter of course. The Black Demon Thunder is a real Dou Sheng-level power. It is so horrifyingly destructive that a Dou Zun will die if he touches it. There is no qualification to come into contact with it, let alone refine it.

Secondly, the Thunder Clan has mastered the method of gathering spiritual energy into elixir thunder, and can transform the colorful elixir thunder of the eighth-grade elixir into a 'thunder seed' similar to a 'fire seed', so as to use it for their own benefit.

The colorful thunder controlled by Lei Dong has an unusual spirituality. As an alchemist, Lin Yuan will never make a mistake.

The seventh battle, Shi Yi versus Lei Yun, was quite interesting.

Shi Yi of the Shi clan displayed a completely different fighting style in this battle. It was a fighting style that belonged to a strong person who practiced physical cultivation.

After performing the Stone Clan's heavenly-level body-refining fighting skills, he transformed into a nine-foot-tall wild giant, his entire body emitting an extremely fierce and ancient aura. He could tear the sky apart with a wave of his hand and crush the earth with a step of his foot.

Its defense was so insanely high that it could actually withstand the heavenly-level fighting skills displayed by Lei Yun.

At that moment, many spectators in the stands understood that the reason why body refining had not become the mainstream in the Douqi Continent was not because body refining was weak, but because body refining was difficult!
There was no suspense in this battle. The two-star Dou Zun Shi Yi crushed the one-star Dou Zun Lei Yun.

The eighth battle, Hunfeng versus Guhua.

Naturally, Hun Feng won this battle, but it was also the one that made everyone in the ancient clan most angry.

During the battle, Hun Feng did not use any means of the Hun Clan, but instead used the Emperor Seal of the Ancient Clan to fight the enemy, and the effect of taunting was maximized. In the end, he combined the five seals into one, which few people in the Ancient Clan could do, and forcibly shattered the Great Extinction Finger that Gu Hua had performed.

If Mang Tianchi had not rescued him in time, Gu Hua would probably have been killed on the spot by Hun Feng.

At this point, of the four people from the Gu clan who passed the preliminaries, only Gu Qingyang passed the first round, and the rest were wiped out.

"Qingyang, Xun'er, remember this person!"

Elder Tongxuan looked at Hunfeng with cold eyes and warned the two people beside him: "One day, this person will become a great enemy of you and our ancient clan. If you have the chance to deal with him in advance, do not hold back."

After a pause, he looked deeply at Xun'er: "Xun'er, what you will face in the future may be more difficult than expected, grow up quickly!"

Xun Er heard this, and after a long silence, she nodded seriously: "Yes!"

On the ring, without paying attention to Mang Tianchi's warning, Hun Feng smiled and waved to Xun'er, gave Lei Dong a provocative look, and then showed Lin Yuan a cruel smile, before walking down the ring calmly.

Mang Tianchi suppressed the urge to slap Hunfeng to death, announced the result of the eighth game, and threw the rescued Gu Hua back to the Gu clan seat.

And at this moment, it was almost evening.

The sun hanging high in the sky has set without anyone noticing, and the blood-red setting sun hangs obliquely on the edge of the western horizon, releasing the last of its heat to the earth.

Mang Tianchi glanced at the sky, and announced to everyone who was still looking at him with interest: "The top eight have been decided, and the first round of the competition is over!"

"It's getting late. Today's competition will end here. Everyone go back and have a good rest. The second round of the Earth Ranking competition will continue here tomorrow! As for the battle combinations and battle order, they will be as listed on the stone tablet..."

Everyone looked up and saw a complete list of opponents to fight had appeared on the black stone tablet.

The first battle: Gu Qingyang versus Hun Yu;
The second battle: Lin Yuan versus Huo Zhi;

The third battle: Lei Dong versus Hun Dan;

The fourth battle: Hunfeng versus Shi Yi.

Looking at this battle list, everyone couldn't help but feel excited.

After the preliminary round and the first round of elimination, only eight people were left! To have made it this far, none of them were mediocre. The subsequent battles were naturally far more exciting and fierce than today's elimination round!
Therefore, all the viewers were looking forward to the more exciting confrontation on the second day with a feeling of wanting more!
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When night fell, Lin Yuan and his group returned to the manor arranged by the Thunder Clan.

The twinkling lights lit up this elegant manor, which was particularly conspicuous in the mountains at night. This inexplicably quiet atmosphere made everyone feel relieved after a noisy day. In the quiet room, Lin Yuan sat cross-legged on the bed, and the moonlight poured in from the window, falling on his handsome face.

At this moment, he closed his eyes tightly, breathing long and slowly, and tiny wisps of energy from the surrounding heaven and earth continuously penetrated into his body along with his breath, and finally after being refined, they added tiny bricks and tiles to his great cause of promotion.

After returning, he did not go to Zi Yan or Xiao Yi Xian, but returned to his room, meditating and practicing while waiting for visitors...

"Mr. Yaojun, I am Huoxuan of the Yan Clan. I have something to ask you. Is it convenient for you to meet me?"

After Lin Yuan closed his eyes and practiced for several hours, a gentle and graceful voice suddenly sounded in this quiet room.

"After waiting for so long, the guests are finally here, the Yan Clan..."

Hearing this slightly graceful voice, Lin Yuan's eyebrows trembled slightly, his eyes slowly opened, a gleam of brilliance flashed across his eyes, and he took a deep breath. The energy surrounding his body suddenly turned into a dragon of air and was swallowed into his stomach in one gulp.

Afterwards, he sent some messages through the Sky Dome Network, then slowly got up from the bed, leisurely left the room, and walked to a stone pavilion in the courtyard.

In the stone pavilion, a beautiful and graceful woman in fiery red palace dress sat elegantly beside a stone table.

On the stone table in front of her, there was a pot of brewed tea. A dreamy mist rose from it, and a very pleasant fragrance emanated from it.

“I came here without asking for permission, little friend Lin Yuan, please forgive me!” Huo Xuan smiled and looked at Lin Yuan, making an invitation gesture and whispered, “However, some things are extremely important to my Yan Clan, so I have to disturb you…”

"You are too polite, senior!" Lin Yuan waved his hand and calmly walked to sit opposite her. "It is an honor for this junior to have the famous Fairy Huo Xuan come to visit in person!"

Huo Xuan raised her beautiful eyes, a touching smile appeared on her cheek, and she chuckled: "Haha, then can you guess why I'm here?" As she spoke, a strange fluctuation came from her eyes, and there was a faint feeling that made people feel dazed.

Under the pressure, Lin Yuan smiled faintly and said firmly: "The one who made the senior so impatient must have come for the secret of Qianlan Bingyan!"

As he spoke, he tapped the table lightly with his fingers. Subtle sound waves mixed with a soul power spread out from his fingertips and dispelled the strange fluctuations in Huo Xuan's eyes.

"The soul-luring technique is indeed exquisite, but it is useless to me." Lin Yuan looked directly at Huo Xuan with a serious look in his eyes.

"Although I am not talented, I think my attainments in the soul are not bad. Senior Huo Xuan, if you really want to discuss something seriously, please don't use these little tricks... It is not a wise choice to destroy the good impression that I have of the Yan Clan."

Soul-luring magic is an ancient soul secret technique with a very strange effect. It can control people secretly without anyone knowing.

However, this technique has extremely high requirements on soul power. It will only have a certain effect on people with less soul power than oneself. The extent of the effect depends on the gap in the soul realm of both parties.

Due to the existence of his natal soul pill, Lin Yuan's soul is extremely special, and his perception and resistance to this kind of method are extremely high.

In order for the soul-luring technique to work on him, the caster needs to have a soul at least in the middle stage of the Heavenly Realm, but Half-Saint Huo Xuan... his current soul realm is only half a step into the Heavenly Realm.

What's more, Lin Yuan was already prepared...Bodhi seeds and soul secrets can effectively defend against this technique.

From the perspective of a time traveler, he knew some extremely secret things, including that the Yan clan had a strong man who was good at soul-luring techniques - the Seven-Star Fighting Saint Fire Spirit Fairy. Therefore, before coming into contact with the strong man of the Yan clan, he would naturally make preparations in advance.

Huo Xuan's expression remained unchanged even though her little trick was seen through. However, a hint of embarrassment flashed across her eyes. With a thought, she retracted the special soul power she had released.

"Sorry, this is just a bad habit of mine, it's not directed at you..."

Huo Xuan moved her hands lightly, poured a cup of tea elegantly, and offered it to Lin Yuan, apologetically.

A beautiful female semi-saint personally served tea to a Dou Zun junior and apologized. If it were an ordinary person, he would probably be so excited that he could hardly control himself. He would hurriedly accept her apology, drink the tea, and take over the matter easily.

Lin Yuan took the teacup, but just placed it on the stone table in front of him, with no intention of drinking the tea.

When Huo Xuan saw this, she immediately understood that the other party was expressing distrust.

Just as she was trying to regain some trust, Lin Yuan's calm voice suddenly rang out, interrupting her thoughts.

"Senior Huo Xuan, let's save all the unnecessary polite words! How about we speak directly about our demands? Let me make one thing clear in advance. The Blue Ice Flame is related to the alchemy meeting between me and the Medicine Clan in five years, so it cannot be traded for the time being."

"For now!" Huo Xuan's eyes narrowed slightly, noticing two key words.

Judging from the tone, it seems that Lin Yuan does not value the Blue Ice Flame as much as other alchemists do the Strange Fire. He is in a completely impossible trade attitude. So...

After a moment's hesitation, she asked directly, "Mr. Yaojun, have you mastered the method of fusing the sub-fires of the strange fire and turning them into strange fire? Please answer truthfully. This question is very important to our clan... and we can afford the price!"

After saying that, she stared at Lin Yuan's face, capturing all of his subtle expressions.

When different strange fires are combined into strange fires, the significance to the Yan clan, which already possesses five strange fires, is too great, enough to greatly increase the strength of the Yan clan.

Every Dou Sheng of the Yan Clan holds a powerful exotic fire in his hand... Thinking of such a grand scene, she couldn't help but be excited and could hardly control herself.

Not disappointing Huo Xuan, Lin Yuan nodded frankly and said thoughtfully: "Although there are still some imperfections, I have indeed completed the method of synthesizing the different fires with the sub-fires!"

"Okay! Okay! Okay!" After getting Lin Yuan's confirming answer, Huo Xuan's face suddenly showed an unconcealable look of ecstasy.

"My Yan Clan wants this method. The conditions...you can propose whatever you want, sir!"

Taking a deep breath, she forced herself to suppress her agitated emotions and said in a deep voice: "Heaven-level skills, heaven-level fighting skills, top-level secret skills, soul skills, rare medicinal materials, natural treasures... As long as you are willing to exchange, these are not a problem!"

After a pause, she looked at the calm Lin Yuan and added, "Our clan must obtain this method, and no one... can make any comments!"

Although Huo Xuan's tone was quite gentle, it revealed a strong and determined tone.

"It seems that this deal... I have no room to refuse?" Lin Yuan tapped the table lightly with his fingers and said softly.

"That's right!" Huo Xuan nodded and said seriously: "Mr. Yaojun, you are a smart man. You must understand how meaningful this method of combining sub-fires into strange fire is to our clan, which has five strange fires. We will never give up!"

Lin Yuan rubbed his forehead and said thoughtfully: "Since it has come to this, I will not make any unnecessary rejection! However, I have a few conditions..."

(End of this chapter)