Dual Cultivation: A Carefree Journey Through Another World, the Empress Falls into My Hands

In fact, most inner disciples believe that Jian Shisan of Tianquan Peak and Wu Pojun of Tianshu Peak have the greatest chance of becoming the top inner disciple.

Therefore, the most inner disciples bet on these two to win.

As for the others, they naturally have their own supporters.

Even Chu Yunfan has a lot of supporters.

However, most of Chu Yunfan's supporters were inner disciples who had only recently entered the inner sect.

They had witnessed Chu Yunfan's prowess in the outer sect, and given that Chu Yunfan had previously defeated Ye Feng and Jueying, his strength was unfathomable.

Therefore, they were the inner disciples who trusted Chu Yunfan the most.

Just as everyone was placing their bets, a voice suddenly rang in their ears.

"I'm betting on myself to win, one million low-grade spirit stones!"

As the voice faded, a storage ring landed on the gambling table in front of the fat man.

"What?! One million low-grade spirit stones!"

The fat man excitedly picked up the storage ring and began counting the number of spirit stones.

Meanwhile, the area around the betting station was in an uproar.

"That was Senior Brother Chu Yunfan's voice just now!"

"Yes! I realized that too. He actually bet himself on winning first place in the inner sect competition!"

"One million low-grade spirit stones, it seems Senior Brother Chu Yunfan is very confident in his strength!"

Should we also stake some spirit stones on Senior Brother Chu Yunfan?

……

With the competition about to begin, many inner disciples sped up their betting.

Then, amidst everyone's eager anticipation, the battle for the top ten rankings officially began!

Chu Yunfan's first opponent was Lie Shanhe, the chief disciple of Kaiyang Peak.

Kaiyang Peak's swordsmanship is renowned for its sharpness.

Lie Shanhe, at first glance, is like a sword drawn from its sheath, exuding an incomparably sharp aura and giving people a sense of his sharp edge.

Lower-level inner disciples would feel a stinging sensation on their bodies if they looked at him too much, as if countless swords were piercing them.

Chu Yunfan immediately recognized that this was the sword intent that Lie Shanhe had comprehended, which was too sharp and its edge was exposed.

In fact, the sharpness that Lie Shanhe has shown is only the tip of the iceberg of his true strength.

"As expected, none of the chief disciples are simple!"

Chu Yunfan's gaze turned serious, and without further ado, he prepared to strike first.

Before the audience could even see what was happening, Chu Yunfan had already used his perfected Wind Sword Intent to conceal himself in the air and then quietly sneaked into the vicinity of Lieshan River.

Immediately afterwards, Chu Yunfan unleashed the fully-mastered "Tianji Shadowless Sword," instantly appearing beside Lie Shanhe.

The Wind Spirit Sword in his hand was pointed directly at Lie Shanhe's throat.

However, as soon as Chu Yunfan made his move, he felt an extremely sharp aura emanating from Lie Shanhe, causing him excruciating pain.

Especially the hand that held the sword, which was closest to Lie Shanhe, was the one that felt the most intense stinging.

Before he could even stab Lie Shanhe, the skin on his sword-wielding hand had already cracked open, revealing streaks of blood.

The sudden pain and injury caused Chu Yunfan to pause involuntarily for a moment.

In that instant, Lie Shanhe had already reacted.

Lie Shanhe used his movement technique to instantly move away from Chu Yunfan.

At the same time, Lie Shanhe silently shouted in his heart:

"Cross-shaped Mountain-Splitting Slash!"

Two streaks of snow-white sword light crossed in a cross shape and flew rapidly toward Chu Yunfan.

As the two sword lights flew, they continued to grow rapidly.

By the time they reached Chu Yunfan, the two sword lights had each grown to fifty meters long, completely sealing off the area around Chu Yunfan's body.

Seeing this, Chu Yunfan didn't have time to think and immediately used the "Tianji Shadowless Sword" to teleport away from the original spot.

However, as soon as he left, a new sword light slashed towards him!

The moment this sword light appeared, it shone with an incredibly piercing light, and the entire sky above the arena seemed to dim for a moment because of its appearance.

And this sword light was incredibly fast.

So fast that even Chu Yunfan didn't have time to react before the sword light arrived in front of him.

Most importantly, it is the power of this sword light.

Even though the sword light hadn't hit Chu Yunfan yet, Chu Yunfan subconsciously felt that his body had already been cleaved in two by the sword light.

However, Chu Yunfan knew that it was the sharp sword intent carried by the sword light that caused him to have an illusion.

Of course, if Chu Yunfan hadn't dodged the sword light in time, then this illusion would have been more than just an illusion.

However, the sword light came too fast, so fast that Chu Yunfan had no time to dodge, let alone use any martial arts techniques to defend against it.

In fact, in the eyes of the audience, Chu Yunfan had already lost at this moment.

Even the seven peak masters watching from afar couldn't help but shake their heads.

The move that Lie Shanhe just used is called "Sword Drawing and Heaven-Slaying Technique," which is the most powerful peak Heaven-rank sword technique of Kaiyang Peak.

The terrifying aspect of the "Heaven-Slaying Sword Technique" is that it is a move that combines the practitioner's essence, energy, spirit, and spiritual power, and then unleashes them all at once in an instant.

This move is incredibly powerful, possessing the ability to truly split mountains and cleave seas.

With Lie Shanhe's strength, he unleashed this sword strike.

Unless Chu Yunfan is wearing a defensive artifact of the saint-level, he simply cannot withstand it.

Unless Chu Yunfan can predict the direction of Lie Shanhe's attack when Lie Shanhe uses this move and avoid it in advance.

Although the "Heaven-Slaying Sword Technique" is terrifyingly powerful and incredibly fast, it also has a significant drawback: it requires a period of charging time to unleash its full power.

Although Lie Shanhe had cultivated this energy-gathering time to an extremely short degree.

However, someone of Chu Yunfan's strength could still detect it.

However, in order to dodge Lie Shanhe's Cross Mountain-Splitting Slash, Chu Yunfan did not notice Lie Shanhe's action of using the "Sword-Drawing Heaven-Slaying Technique" for a moment.

At this moment, facing the sword light that was so close at hand, Chu Yunfan had no choice but to use another trump card to deal with this crisis.

Suddenly, an invisible sword intent emanated from Chu Yunfan, quickly enveloping the sword light of the "Sword Drawing and Heaven-Slaying Technique" layer by layer.

Immediately afterwards, to everyone's disbelief, the sword light that had been radiating immense power suddenly dimmed as if it had suddenly become impotent, eventually turning into a wisp of spiritual energy and dissipating into thin air.

In that instant, the entire competition arena suddenly became completely silent.

Everyone was so shocked by this scene that their mouths dropped open, and they were speechless.

The peak masters watching from afar were so excited that they stood up from their chairs, staring at Chu Yunfan's figure with only four words in their eyes.

"how is this possible?"