Chapter 400: Land Of Ice & Fire (1)

On the Fourth Floor of the Nine Story pagoda, the gravity was too much, forcing Ye Xiao to kneel down.

A stream of information suddenly appeared in his mind and he found out that he could increase or decrease the pressure here as he wishes.

"Interesting!"

Ye Xiao smiled. The gravity here could help him train his body and strengthen it.

After checking out the Fourth Floor of the Nine Story Pagoda, Ye Xiao came out of the Universe and once again appeared in the room he was in before going inside the Universe in his mind.

It was also at this moment that a servant came with a letter. Ye Xiao took the letter and read it, and after reading the letter, a smile appeared on his face.

This letter was sent to him by the Sect Leader of the Seven Star Sect, informing him that all the elders have agreed to give him a spot to participate in the competition. Ye Xiao should just concentrate and cultivate. When the time of the competition will come, he will send someone to inform him.

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_One Month Later_

Ye Xiao was called by the sect leader and he went to meet him. When he arrived at the meeting place, he saw there were already nine disciples gathered. The weakest of them were at the Late Stage of the Immortal lord Realm while the strongest of them were at the Early Stage of the Immortal King Realm.

Ye Xiao has been cultivating on the First Floor of the Nine Story Pagoda this entire month which was equivalent to ten months on the First Floor of the Nine Story Pagoda.

With his hard work, he was able to break through to the Late Stage of the Immortal Lord Realm.

Six of the nine disciples were men while the other three were women. 

Other than these nine disciples, there were three elders including the Sect Leader of the Seven Star Sect present. Not far from them, a large eagle-type bird was staring at them with its two sharp eyes.

"You are here!" Said Ling Yicheng.

Ye Xiao nodded his head and Ling Yicheng started introducing everyone present. After the introduction, Ling Yicheng told everyone to climb at the back of the eagle without wasting any time.

"Shua! Shua!"

After everyone climbed at the back of the eagle, the eagle spread its pair of large wings, flapped them, and flew high in the sky before flying in a straight line after receiving the direction where to fly.

While the eagle was flying, Ye Xiao was chatting with the nine chosen disciples.

Amongst these nine disciples, five of them were at the Late Stage of the Immortal Lord Realm while the other four were at the Early Stage of the Immortal King Realm.

The four disciples were Duan Ling Si, Feng Qing Yang, Shuang Yan, and Li Baojiao. Shuang Yan and Li Baojiao were two of the four girls.

From them, Ye Xiao got to know many important things about the competition such as only people less than 300 years old with the cultivation base at least at the Middle Stage of the Immortal Lord Realm could participate in this competition.

To watch this competition, people from all around the world would come.

Well, Ye Xiao was not interested in any of these things. What caught his attention was that people from the different worlds would come to oversee this competition and choose the top ten disciples. And after the end of the competition, they would bring those ten selected disciples with them to the world where the Competition of the Myriad Worlds was going to be held.

Ye Xiao was curious as to who will come.

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The Immortal Star World was very big and in this competition, all the First-Levelled Sects of the Immortal Star World were going to participate. There was thirty or so First-Levelled Sect in the Immortal Star World. It has to know that in the entire Golden Kingdom, there was not a single First-Levelled Sect, there were only eight Second-Levelled Sects.

It could be seen how rare a First-Levelled Sect was.

It took them a total of three days to arrive at their destination. It was a large field and in the middle of the field, a large arena was set up where the participants of this competition will fight.

Many sect groups had already arrived. The arrival of the Seven Star Sect's group attracted everyone's attention. People started pointing at the flying eagle and talk amongst themselves.

After the eagle went down and safely landed, all the disciples including Ye Xiao and elders came down and started greeting the people who came up to greet them.

There was already an area specially arranged for the people of sects to settle. After a brief chatting with others, Ye Xiao and others went to their arranged area and started resting. Leaving behind Ye Xiao and other ten disciples, Sect Leader Ling Yicheng and other elders of the Seven Star Sect went out.

As time passed, more and more groups of people from different different sects continued to come. As for the spectators, there was no lack of them.

The next morning, every disciple was called. More than three hundred disciples gathered at the field together and in front of them, three people were standing in the air. These three people were completely emotionless but the aura that was emitting out from their bodies made the people present not let out even a single voice from their mouth.

In the presence of these three people, even the sect leaders of various sects didn't dare to say anything and kept standing in their places, not daring to sit.

"Middle-Stage Immortal Emperor Realm martial artists!"

Ye Xiao muttered in his heart while looking at these three people. Seeing the attitude of these three people and expressions on the sect leaders and elders of various sects, it was not difficult for him or any other disciples to guess that these three people were the judges of this competition and have come here from different worlds.

Seeing that everyone has arrived and gathered at one place, one of these three people who was flying in the middle, said, "I am Wu Cheng and these two are Ta Mu and Huang Daniu. We will be your judge in this competition. I'll not dilly dally. Let me explain the competition's rules!"

He clapped his hands twice and a large water screen was formed in the sky that could be seen by all the people present here.

Ye Xiao raised his head and saw that the water screen was displaying the location of the scene of some island.

It was a medium-sized island, stretching tens of kilometers from one end to the other. Rather, ends should not be used as a term for describing it as it was shaped like a circle.

Yet, none of the players cared about this but the fact that the island was split into two zones, each with a completely different environment and weather!

The eastern zone was a forest covered in snow, filled with all kinds of ice and water-type species, painting a gorgeous piece of nature.

Meanwhile, the western zone had many mountains and volcanos were erupting from time to time from those mountains.

"Isn't this place the Land of Ice and Fire?" One of the disciples muttered that attracted the attention and exclamation from others. Some had the expression of lingering fear on their faces while some people who were confident in their strength had a confident smile on their faces.

"Land of Ice and Fire?" Ye Xiao also muttered in low voice. This was the first time when he heard this term.

"You don't know?" Duan Ling Si who was standing in front of Ye Xiao said in low voice: "Land of Ice and Fire is an extremely dangerous place to go. It is said that people who are weaker than Immortal King could not return alive from that place no matter what. Only martial artists who are at least at the Immortal King Realm have chances to come out alive from the Land of Ice and Fire."

Ye Xiao nodded his head in understanding. He didn't interrupt Duan Ling Si as he wanted to know more about what kind of place this Land of Ice and Fire was. But before Duan Ling Si could explain further, he was interrupted by Wu Cheng.

"As you can see, this island has two kinds of environments." Wu Cheng pointed at the water screen and said: "While the Ice Forest is friendly and doesn't have many dangers, the volcano on the other hand isn't safe at all!"

Mu Cheng looked at all the disciples of the various sects and informed them playfully, "Well, I can see that many of you already know what kind of place this Land of Ice and Fire is but those who don't know, my explanation should let you understand the depth of dangers you all are going to face during this competition."