Ye Chen felt an inexplicable sensation of spatial transference envelop his entire body as he flew into the vast space and headed towards Void Heaven Sword Valley.
This feeling was as if he had entered another world altogether.
Clearly, within the few hundred zhang radius space atop Immeasurable Peak, which could conceal the entirety of the massive Void Heaven Sword Valley, there must be the power of spatial laws at play.
When the force of spatial transference completely vanished, Ye Chen discovered that he had arrived in a vast and boundless world.
Void Heaven Sword Valley.
This world was none other than the place of sword fighting for the martial arts competition—the Void Heaven Sword Valley!
Looking up at the sky of Void Heaven Sword Valley, one could see it filled with mysterious glows of morning light, with streams of air occasionally whizzing through the heavens and earth.
Looking down at the ground, one could see that the entire place was pitted with holes. There were pits so large they were hundreds of zhang in diameter, their dark depths unfathomable, while the smaller ones were only a few dozen zhang across.
There seemed to be countless pits, too many to count, stretching as far as the eye could see, possibly amounting to thousands upon thousands!
From within these pits echoed a heart-palpitating sound of sword cries, and peering closer into the pits, one could glimpse Sword Qi in gold, cyan, blue, crimson, and brown colors faintly appearing within.
Void Heaven Sword Qi.
Ye Chen had a feeling that the multicolored Sword Qi within these pits was the legendary Void Heaven Sword Qi, which could transform into True Qi and even aid in understanding the five great Heavenly Void Laws.
"Hmm? Where's Jiang Yao?"
"Liu Qingmei isn't here either?"
Ye Chen looked around and noticed that, like him, there were figures suspended in the void. These figures were spread out from each other, some by tens of zhang and others by thousands, and Ye Chen could sense that there were as many as five to six hundred figures.
However, among these figures, Ye Chen could not spot Jiang Yao or Liu Qingmei.
The three of them had flown into Void Heaven Sword Valley together, yet after entering, they had become separated?
Ye Chen moved, gliding through the void, and saw even more figures in this world, but still, he did not find Jiang Yao or Liu Qingmei.
"Strange."
"Could it be that Void Heaven Sword Valley is divided into several areas, and Jiang Yao and the others are not in this area?"
Ye Chen looked towards the figures in this world and shockingly discovered that these figures, like him, were all at the mid-stage of the Spirit Sea Realm.
"All at the mid-stage of the Spirit Sea?"
"Not a single one at the early or the late stage?"
Ye Chen floated in the air with sudden comprehension.
"Where is Ye Chen?"
In another part of the world, Jiang Yao and Liu Qingmei were also flying through the air, searching for Ye Chen.
Looking into this part of the world, one could see that these figures were all at the late stage of the Spirit Sea Realm!
"Ah? All of us at the early stage of the Spirit Sea got put together."
"Could it be that sword fighting only matches people of the same cultivation level for the competition?"
Through the light screens, one could see that all the figures floating in the void were gathering strands of Void Heaven Sword Qi around them. This Void Heaven Sword Qi was becoming more and more abundant around these sword cultivators, increasingly tumultuous...
Inside the Void Heaven Sword Valley.
In the mid-stage Sword Fighting Area of the Spirit Sea Realm.
"Is this Void Heaven Sword Qi?"
In the sky, Ye Chen floated calmly; his eyes were fixed on the surging Void Heaven Sword Qi erupting from the ground below, soaring upwards.
Ye Chen sensed that as the Void Heaven Sword Qi burst forth, his whole being's spirit, sword intent comprehension, including the Tai A Sword Qi and the Red Fire Flying Sword within his Sword Palace acupoint, all began to stir spontaneously!
As his intrinsic power related to swordsmanship stirred on its own, the Void Heaven Sword Qi below seemed to be drawn to him, crazily surging towards Ye Chen's body, eventually accumulating outside his body.
Looking at others in the mid-stage Sword Fighting Area of the Spirit Sea Realm, other sword cultivators were also absorbing and materializing Void Heaven Sword Qi.
However, if one were to make an overall comparison, it would be seen that many sword cultivators were only able to gather the Sword Qi slowly, bit by bit.
In contrast, at Ye Chen's side, the Void Heaven Sword Qi gathering around his body was like wild serpents and dragons, frenziedly accumulating; the speed and quantity of accumulation were by far dozens or even hundreds of times greater than those of others!
"Heaven."
"Who is that, gathering such an immense amount of Void Heaven Sword Qi?"
This phenomenon caught the attention of the sword cultivators in the surrounding void in no time. Many glanced at the small sphere of Sword Qi they had just managed to gather around themselves, then towards Ye Chen, where an impressive expanse of Sword Qi had already formed, dozens of meters in size, and they were stunned, their eyes widening in shock.
Outside the Void Heaven Sword Valley, the martial artists watching the Spirit Sea Realm Sword Fighting Tournament also noticed the anomalies in various spots on the light screen.
In the end, as Elder Xiao Supreme Elder lightly tapped with his finger, everyone could see the light screen displaying a dozen shocking images of Void Heaven Sword Qi being gathered.
"What incredible speed and quantity of Sword Qi gathering!"
"Heaven help us, there are eight streams, all from the late-stage Sword Fighting Area of the Spirit Sea Realm. Just by looking at the speed and amount of Sword Qi gathering, one can tell that there are eight unbelievable swordsmanship geniuses in the late-stage area!"
Everyone turned their gaze to the faces within those eight incredible Sword Qi streams.
When the faces became clear, many exclaimed, "The one who has already gathered Sword Qi spanning dozens of meters – that's Lu Xiaojia, the favorite to win this Spirit Sea Realm Sword Fighting Tournament!"
"And that's Mo Beiling, that is Mo Beiling gathering Void Heaven Sword Qi. Heaven help us, he has already formed almost a hundred meters in size of Sword Qi!"
"There's Fang Luohan, another hot favorite for the championship; indeed, they all have strong swordsmanship talents!"
"Those two girls, who are they? I remember now, those two girls seem to be the ones next to Ye Chen, Liu Qingmei and Jiang Yao?!"
"Heaven help us, the amount of Void Heaven Sword Qi that Jiang Yao is gathering seems to be more than even Lu Xiaojia!"
Just as countless people were exclaiming at the sight of the busiest and most tumultuous late-stage Sword Fighting Area of the Spirit Sea Realm, another voice filled with extreme excitement reached everyone's ears.
"You all... look at the mid-stage Sword Fighting Area of the Spirit Sea Realm!"
"In the mid-stage Sword Fighting Area of the Spirit Sea Realm, there's a towering Sword Qi, and the amount of Void Heaven Sword Qi being gathered seems to be even greater than those few streams in the late-stage area!"
Upon hearing this, everyone turned their heads to look at the mid-stage Sword Fighting Area of the Spirit Sea Realm.
Even Elder Xiao Supreme Elder couldn't help but tap on the light screen in response to the astounding view, revealing the figure of the sword cultivator who was gathering the soaring Sword Qi.
As they saw the young figure emerging from the tumultuous Sword Qi Light Sphere, the sword cultivators from the Southern Territory who were outside watching the tournament let out an incredibly excited scream, "Ye Chen, it's Ye Chen!"