Rise from a Poor Family: My Martial Arts Counterattack

Chapter 390 The sealing period has arrived; the top 100 spectators watch.

Boo!
Inside the main hall of Canglan, golden crows occasionally swooped past amidst the flames, trying to break free of the fifty-foot range. Ji Cangtian raised his hand and slapped, sending invisible energy towards the golden crows.

The next moment, the golden crow went out like a wilted eggplant and obediently returned to the flames.

"You beast, if anything happens to any of my sect's disciples, I will forever imprison your flames in the extreme cold."

Ji Cangtian murmured, "All innate fires possess spirituality, and the Golden Crow Radiant Flame before us is no exception. The only difference is that this Golden Crow Radiant Flame has been sealed within the formation for a long time, and it is unknown how much of its spirituality remains."

……

Amidst the flames, the surging Golden Crow Radiant Flame energy rampaged through Lin Chen's meridians, constantly damaging his body. Fortunately, within Lin Chen's heart, boundless Azure Wave energy poured down, allowing the charred meridians to slowly begin to recover.

Lin Chen had no time to care about the destruction and reconstruction of his body. At this moment, he was focused on circulating the Boundless Divine Appearance Technique to extract and subdue the energy of the Golden Crow Radiant Flame.

This is a necessary process for the Boundless Divine Art to absorb the innate fire.

Between Lin Chen's eyebrows, the mark of the Li Huo flame was faintly visible, and flames also appeared in the acupoints all over his body, with a ball of flame in each acupoint.

These flames quickly spread along the meridians to the limbs and bones, like a fire net constantly driving the rampaging Golden Crow Blaze's energy towards the dantian.

Bang bang bang!
The Golden Crow's Radiant Flame energy seemed to sense the crisis and began frantically ramming against the fire net, but it was unable to break through the fire net and was eventually compressed into the dantian area by the fire net.

call out!
The Golden Crow Radiant Energy, which had been contained within the dantian, suddenly condensed into a golden crow. Its three-legged claws reached out and grabbed at the fire net, tearing at it as it tried to break free.

But at that very moment, Li Huo and Cang Lan intertwined into a vortex, forcefully dragging the Golden Crow to his dantian. The entire vortex spun rapidly, accompanied by flames at Lin Chen's acupoints.

The flames began to flicker, once, twice, three times...

After nearly a hundred attempts, the flame suddenly split, and after one leap, it changed from one flame to two flames.

Two flames coexisted within the acupoints, radiating warm energy throughout the limbs and bones.

Lin Chen, who had been keeping his eyes closed, finally opened them at this moment, having completed the step of absorbing and refining the Golden Crow Radiant Flame.

Next comes the final step: the Eternal Divine Body.

Back then, he absorbed and refined the energy of the Separating Fire, and cultivated into a Giant Form, capable of transforming into a ten-zhang-tall fire giant, but that was only the first form of the Divine Form.

"What kind of divine form will it take this time?"

A hint of anticipation flickered in Lin Chen's eyes. The Boundless Divine Appearance Technique was an extremely special cultivation method, not only because its cultivation mainly involved absorbing innate fire, but also because its subsequent changes were unpredictable.

The changes in the Eternal Divine Body depend on the type of innate fire absorbed.

Of course, to reach this point, he needs to absorb enough Golden Crow Radiant Flame energy; what he just received is not enough.

boom!
Lin Chen once again absorbed the Golden Crow Radiant Flame within a ten-zhang radius of his body in one go, as if sucking in a whale.

These fiery energies entered the body and quickly settled in the dantian, eventually appearing at the acupoints, where they slowly merged and intertwined with the fiery flames.

A quarter of an hour, half an hour, an hour.

……

It's unclear how much time has passed, but golden flames erupted from Lin Chen's acupoints, and dark golden patterns appeared on his skin, with faint phantom images of golden crows flapping their wings flowing within them.

His body did not expand as it did in his first giant form; instead, it shrunk to a normal size, but contained an even more terrifying explosive power.

As Lin Chen's body shrank, his vertebrae emitted a metallic clanging sound, and two dazzling golden rays tore out from his shoulder blades, transforming into fiery wings entirely condensed from Golden Crow Radiant Flame. Each feather exhaled a high temperature capable of incinerating space.

After the pair of fiery wings appeared, the afterimage of a golden crow's long howl floated in the void, and the phantom of a blazing sun seemed to rise and fall behind Lin Chen, its majestic pressure distorting space.

Unfortunately, this form only lasted for a moment before dissipating, and the fiery wings on its back quickly retracted.

The Golden Crow's Radiant Flame doesn't have enough energy!

Lin Chen began absorbing the remaining flames around him once again, stabilizing the Golden Crow Radiant Flame energy within his body.

……

……

Canglan Main Hall.

Qiao Yuan appeared in front of the main hall, but did not step inside.

In just three days, he had already broken through to the Innate Realm, and in another quarter of an hour, Lin Chen's three-day sealing period would end.

Lin Chen hasn't broken through yet, so he'll have to step in first.

Lin Chen chose to start a 100,000-win streak challenge because he couldn't refuse the challenges from the martial artists ranked after him in Martial Arts Mountain, and those ranked ahead of him also couldn't refuse Lin Chen's challenges.

These three days are the preparation time given to everyone by Martial Arts Mountain, so that when Lin Chen challenges them, some people will be unable to fight due to being in seclusion and will be judged to have automatically surrendered by Martial Arts Mountain, which would make them feel unwilling.

"Sect Master, how much longer will Lin Chen take?"

Qiao Yuan looked at Ji Cangtian. At this moment, in front of the main hall, not only Qiao Yuan was there, but Zhao Yulin was also there, as were Du Xiaofeng and his two disciples.

"I estimate it will take another two to three days."

“Alright, I’ll try to buy Lin Chen two or three days.” Qiao Yuan nodded and took out the Martial Dao Seal from his pocket. His current strength on Martial Dao Mountain is still below the Innate Realm. Only after going up there and experiencing a challenge will Martial Dao Mountain upgrade him to an Innate Realm martial artist.

……

Qiao Yuan descended from Wudao Mountain after only ten breaths.

"This disciple is now ranked thirty-eighth."

Qiao Yuan calmly recounted that, having broken through to the Innate Realm, defeating the previous non-Innate Realm martial artist was an easy task.

"Qiao Yuan, I thank you on behalf of my junior brother."

Chai Daoqi spoke up, explaining that he and Qiao Yuan were more than ten years apart in age. When Qiao Yuan began cultivating, he was already a Xiantian martial artist.

"Senior Brother Chai, I'm not doing this for Lin Chen, I'm doing this for the Canglan Sect."

However, Qiao Yuan didn't appreciate it. Chai Daoqi's lips twitched. This Qiao Yuan was really arrogant.

Fifteen breaths later.

The Martial Dao Seal in Qiao Yuan's hand suddenly trembled. After the Martial Dao Seal calmed down, Qiao Yuan frowned slightly: "Sect Master, Martial Dao Mountain has opened the spectator slots to the top 100."

"As I expected."

Ji Cangtian wasn't surprised. This was the rule of Martial Dao Mountain: when someone reached the summit, all the Martial Dao Seals could reflect the battle that led to the summit.

Every battle to reach the top is a battle that the entire Yan Dynasty is watching.

The difference is that in the past, only the final battle to reach the top was open for viewing, but this time it is the battle of the top 100 that is open for viewing.

This is from the Martial Arts Mountain. They learned that the Canglan Sect was going to have Qiao Yuan stand up for Lin Chen and take on the challenge from the innate martial artists behind them, so they deliberately exposed this matter.

For the Canglan Sect, this will be a test of its reputation.

Lin Chen's winning streak challenge was exposed, and if Lin Chen succeeded in reaching the top, it would be fine. However, if he failed, it would be a huge blow to the reputation of the Canglan Sect.

If one fails to reach the summit despite all one's efforts, it is because the Canglan Sect is incompetent.

Elders Zhao Yulin and Du Xiaofeng exchanged a glance. After Qiao Yuan updated his strength to the Innate Realm, Martial Dao Mountain suddenly opened the 100 Strongest Spectator Tournament, which was specifically aimed at their Canglan Sect.

However, both of them also knew that this was the treatment any disciple would face if they wanted to reach the top.

The Martial Arts Mountain is not aimed at the Canglan Sect, but at everyone who wants to reach the top, especially those who want to break records.

Five hundred years ago, a genius disciple of the Myriad Souls Sect also wanted to try to win consecutive victories and reach the top. Martial Dao Mountain also opened the spectator mode. After fighting against several innate martial artists, the other innate martial artists found out the trump cards of this Myriad Souls Sect disciple and he finally stopped at third place.

The disciple of the Ten Thousand Souls Sect broke the record of 90,000 consecutive wins to reach the top, and that was already so impressive. If Lin Chen wants to achieve 100,000 consecutive wins to reach the top, Martial Dao Mountain will definitely target him.

"Sect Master, Master, Elder Du, I'm off."

With only a few breaths left, Qiao Yuan once again entered Martial Dao Mountain.

Three breaths later!

The martial arts seal hovering above Qiao Yuan's head emitted a screen of light, illuminating the sky above.

Not only did a light screen appear above Qiao Yuan's head, but all the disciples who held martial arts seals were also illuminated by the light.

East Sea Divine Palace, Thousand Machines Sect, Taixu Sect, Tianyang Palace, Star Luo Sect, Xuanshuang Sect...

At this moment, throughout the entire territory of the Yan Dynasty, not only the twenty-four super sects, but also geniuses from other sects who possessed martial arts seals, were all staring at the light screen in the sky.

Although it was the top 100 spectators, everyone knew that the top 100 martial artists of Martial Arts Mountain, apart from those who challenged Lin Chen or were challenged by Lin Chen, would not challenge anyone else at this time.

what!
But the next moment, when they saw the two figures appear on the light screen, along with the introduction of their identities and backgrounds, many people exclaimed in surprise.

Who is Qiao Yuan of the Canglan Sect?

The two figures on the screen were a disciple from the Xuan Shuang Sect, which was also a super sect, and the other was not Lin Chen, whom they had originally imagined, but a disciple named Qiao Yuan.

"Wasn't it Lin Chen who launched the winning streak challenge to reach the top? Why is it Qiao Yuan who came out?"

"The Canglan Sect anticipated that many geniuses would try to stop Lin Chen, so they sent other disciples to buy him time, allowing him to challenge the 30th-ranked person. Once he enters the top 30, those innate martial artists who have never appeared on Martial Dao Mountain will have no chance to challenge him."

A powerful figure from a certain sect immediately saw through the trick; it was indeed a clever tactic.

……

Inside the Martial Arts Mountain.

Upon seeing Qiao Yuan appear, Su Lin, a disciple of Xuanshuang Pavilion, instantly understood the inside story.

"I thought Lin Chen was some kind of genius, but it seems he's a coward who even sent someone to protect him on Martial Arts Mountain."

Faced with Su Lin's sarcasm, Qiao Yuan's expression remained unchanged, still cold and aloof. He raised his right hand, pointed out the Canglan Finger, and a giant finger descended from the sky.

(End of this chapter)