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Chapter 397 Two Nascent Soul Stages
Lin Zhao sensed that the opponent's spiritual energy foundation was approximately ten million streams of spiritual energy from this sword strike.

As expected of the seventh place in the Imperial Election, with such strength, being suppressed below his own now infamous reputation, he should indeed feel resentful.

Faced with the opponent's fierce and earth-shattering sword strike, Lin Zhao extended one palm and unleashed a level seven spirit talisman emitting a faint white light.

She didn't even summon a weapon or use any spiritual skills; she simply casually cast a talisman.

Seeing this, some people in the audience started cursing.

Upon seeing this, Duan Yannian's face darkened. The next moment, he poured all his spiritual energy into the sword. Due to the excessive release of spiritual energy, his expression even became somewhat distorted, and his voice became hoarse.

"Lin Zhao, go down!"

The gray sword energy transformed into a dragon, roaring and howling, sweeping towards Lin Zhao.

Lin Zhao extended a finger and touched the talisman he had cast.

Upon seeing this, Duan Yannian let out a cold laugh.

Dragon Ember Slash is the highest-level spiritual skill he has mastered. When he unleashes his full spiritual energy, even the top five Nascent Soul cultivators at the Great Perfection stage would have to contend with it for quite some time.

Lin Zhao, with such arrogance, just wait and see what happens to him!
He thought this, and so did the people below the stage. Only the few elderly men sitting on the judges' table looked at each other and remained silent.

One of the elders couldn't help but exclaim, "A level seven spirit talisman, combining offense and defense! Just who was the unparalleled master who trained this child in spirit talisman mastery?"

"It must take a lot of spiritual energy to control this kind of talisman, right?" the old man beside him asked. "But this little girl seems to be doing it very easily."

As the two were talking, the gray dragon collided with the talisman that Lin Zhao had unleashed.

The tiny talisman looked as insignificant as an ant in front of the enormous, terrifying, and somewhat ferocious gray dragon. Lin Zhao, standing behind the talisman, stood with his hands behind his back, looking like he was waiting to die.

Some cultivators below, who didn't understand, started cursing.

"What is this! If you want to die, go die somewhere else, don't dirty our eyes here..."

Some cultivators wanted to continue speaking, but the sudden explosion of the dragon instantly drained all their strength from them.

Using that talisman as a point, a line was drawn from that point, and a plane was drawn from this line, separating Lin Zhao's battle platform from Duan Yannian's.

The dragon exploded, scattering fragments of the battle platform and filling the air with smoke on one side, while the other side remained completely still, as if nothing had happened.

At this moment, there was a deathly silence between heaven and earth.

At this moment, only the booming sound of Duan Yannian's explosion and the faint sound of rubble breaking apart remained in this world.

The battle arena was made of special materials and surrounded by restrictions set up by those at the Tribulation Transcending stage. Duan Yannian's attack naturally wouldn't break through the restrictions, but the fact that it could damage the special materials like this was enough to show the power of his move.

However, even such a terrifying spiritual technique could not break through the surface formed by that tiny spiritual talisman.

Who dares to believe it? Who can believe it?
However, the truth is right in front of everyone, and they have no choice but to believe it.

After an unknown amount of time, the smoke cleared, and Duan Yannian, his face ashen, looked at the spotless, smiling girl in front of him. His expression twisted for a moment before he finally lowered his head.

His all-out strike seemed like a joke to his opponent.

Looking back on my past words and actions now, they seem utterly ironic.

After the level seven talisman finished its work, it quickly dimmed. Lin Zhao smiled at Duan Yannian and said, "Thank you for your kind words."

Duan Yannian gave a wry smile and wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth: "I'm convinced. Let alone whether you can be on par with Ji Wantang, you must be stronger than the others in the top five!"

A single talisman could injure him like this; among the top five, apart from Ji Wantang, no one else possesses such ability.

Lin Zhao laughed and said, "Thank you for your kind words, Brother Duan. You should go and rest now. The backlash from your spiritual technique still has some power."

Lin Zhao's talisman simply served a defensive and feedback function. In other words, Duan Yannian's current injuries were entirely due to the fact that his own spiritual attack was too powerful, and the talisman simply reflected this back to him.

Duan Yannian coughed for a while, nodded, and said to the referee, "I concede."

The referee nodded, gave Lin Zhao a complicated look, but ultimately breathed a sigh of relief.

After all, compared to Ji Wantang, Lin Zhao was clearly much more lenient in her methods, even though both were overwhelmingly superior.

In that case, my work should be much easier.

The nine battles that followed Lin Zhao were much easier.

She defeated Duan Yannian, who was ranked seventh, as if it were child's play. When she fought the rest, she didn't even have to use a single spirit talisman. She simply formed spirit seals and casually brushed her opponents off the battle stage.

After the tenth opponent stepped down, Lin Zhao's gaze fell on the red-clad girl on the high platform.

She paused for a moment, then slowly said, "Ji Wantang, it's time for things between you and me to come to a conclusion. Come down."

At this moment, Lin Zhao no longer concealed his spiritual energy and completely unleashed his aura.

The moment her aura appeared, everyone felt the earth and sky tremble.

"Nascent Soul?! The power of heaven and earth! Lin Zhao has actually broken through to the Nascent Soul stage!"

"My God, does that mean there will be two Nascent Soul cultivators in this Imperial Election?"

One person chooses two to become gods! This is a situation that has never occurred since the Ancestral Phoenix Plane appeared!
Faced with the terrifying aura that Lin Zhao unleashed, the girl on the stage slowly stood up and appeared opposite Lin Zhao in the next moment.

"Only with your current strength are you qualified to be my opponent."

The referee felt the oppressive power struggle between the two, and even as a cultivator at the Fusion stage, he felt a sense of unease.

He slowly walked out, about to announce the start of the competition, when a golden light suddenly broke through the space on the horizon.

Then, a solemn and majestic voice came from the spatial rift.

"By imperial decree, Duke Dingguo Ji Wantang is directly promoted to the Upper Selection and enfeoffed as Prince Ding, Marquis Wu'an Lin Zhao is promoted to Prince Wu'an and promoted to the Upper Selection. Today's battle will be conducted by the Upper Selection."

The imperial edict from the Ancestral Phoenix Emperor caused everyone's expression to change.

Only the two people in the field did not.

At this moment, nothing and no one can stop them from the battle they have been waiting for.

"If we don't act now, we'll always have trouble in the future." Ji Wantang looked at Lin Zhao: "How about a battle in the arena in the Divine Soul World?"

Lin Zhao asked, "How will the battle in the Divine Soul World be conducted?"

Ji Wantang sneered, pointing her slender, blood-red sword at Lin Zhao: "Since we've decided who's superior and who's inferior, and who's going to decide life and death, what do you think?"

Lin Zhao's Heavenly Phoenix Bone Sword appeared in his hand: "Since we are divided into superior and inferior, and determined to live or die, very good! Between you and me, only one of us will be chosen as the superior."

Ji Wantang sneered without saying a word. The next moment, in everyone's sight, the two of them actually did not accept the imperial decree of the Ancestral Phoenix Emperor and disappeared from the spot.

However, most of them can understand.

The next Ancestral Phoenix Emperor will be one of these two. The new emperor will not need to follow the old king's rules and regulations too much.

After all, people from the Phoenix Medicine Sect and the Bright Hall would be receiving the imperial decree later.

But everyone heard what the two of them just said.

It now seems that the outcome between the two was already decided before the election.