Ji Yuan grinned as he challenged all the cultivators that were presented.
The angriest cultivators were of course Ni Haigui, Lin Feng and Di Xiaotian who got thrown out of the fighting platform by Ji Yuan.
Ni Haigui shouted angrily to all the contestants, "Everyone! Let's get him together…"
But before he could finish his arousing speech, a shadowy figure began to flash toward Ji Yuan and it was a cultivator with a pair of venomous daggers that could poison even the strongest cultivator.
Ni Haigui and everyone were all gasping with astonishment as they recognized that the shadowy figure was none other than Ping Jinxi, the fastest cultivator as well as the best assassin cultivator in the entire Great Soul Land Continent. At the same time, he was also a level 99 Great Martial Cultivator too!
His movements were several times faster than the next fastest cultivator too!
With Ping Jinxi in action, there was no need to worry about this insolent intruder anymore.
Ping Jinxi had flashed to attack Ji Yuan.
In front of everyone, he had vanished by displaying his great vanishing skill.
Although it may seem to be his secret skill but it was actually a powerful ring that he had possessed. This ring was a profound treasure that could allow him to teleport behind his opponent, twisting the fabric of space for him to reappear to attack his opponents without even giving away a hint.
As soon as he had appeared next to Ji Yuan in an attempt to cut the throat of his opponent from behind, Ji Yuan's sword fingers had struck his forehead and had sent him to fly off the platform.
Ping Jinxi was furiously flung off with a simple tap by Ji Yuan as he hit rows after rows of weapon racks and he was even sliding against the ground for a good 100m with his head. This caused all his teeth to break and to fall off.
Ji Yuan gasped softly, "Ops!"
He had used a little too much force when Ping Jinxi had suddenly appeared behind his back and his natural instinct had taken instinctively taken over by retaliating against this Ping Jinxi.
It was not to say that this Ping Jinxi would be able to hurt Ji Yuan in the first place as he may not even get past his invisible protective aura. Moreover, Ji Yuan was also a golden celestial and his golden body was denser than most mundane rocks.
Even if Ping Jinxi's venomous daggers could scratch him but poisons were useless against the golden celestials as they could easily neutralize it with their golden blood.
Also, speed attacks and surprise attacks are actually useless against a true cultivator as their divine senses can alert them to any presence that was near them.
And this Ping Jinxi was too near to him.
The defeat of Ping Jinxi, the greatest cultivator in the entire Great Soul Land Continent shocked all the cultivators that witnessed it.
Ni Haigui stammered, "Everyone… attack him together!"
Even though he had said so, he did not dare to make a first move.
If this intruder was powerful enough to defeat even a level 99 Great Martial Cultivator, what could a mere level 69 martial cultivator like him was able to do?
But still there were thousands of cultivators that were charging at Ji Yuan in an attempt to nail him.
When they were attacking Ji Yuan, they had also unleashed thousands of powerful manifestations against him.
But all the powerful manifestations did not even seem to affect Ji Yuan; he was not burnt, frozen, electrified, slow, poison and even gigantic spikes that poked against his crotch did not affect him.
Ji Yuan almost yawned at their powerful soul manifestations which was more fanciful than anything that he had seen.
But to him, this was merely cultivation illusions and not even a real profound manifestation.
He was beginning to think that these cultivators were all schooled in a friendly cultivation school and no matter how grand their manifestations were, they would never be able to kill anyone.
In Ji Yuan's Desolate Celestial Fraternity, the most direct way to kill another cultivator was to hack him with a sword or hit him with a fist that shattered all his five organs.
In Ji Yuan's long life, he had witnessed many of his fellow cultivators that perished in battles, duels and against the profound beasts.
But today, this was the very first time that he had witnessed cultivators from the lower realm that only cultivate the soul and to create all sorts of fanciful manifestations to unnerve their opponents.
In order to create more fanciful manifestations, they had to kill the powerful profound beasts of their land to absorb their profound beast animus.
But the problem was cultivating the soul cultivation, they would never become a true cultivator and their so-called powerful manifestations were completely useless against a true cultivator, even against Ji Yuan when he was a fourth realm cultivator with a weak soul cultivation.
It is because when a cultivator could cultivate to the 4th cultivation realm, which is the True Energy Level to use the profound energies as profound power, illusions simply doesn't work anymore.
Ji Yuan was a little speechless that the cultivators in this place would rather cultivate to gain even more powerful manifestations through the profound beasts than to train their body, mind, soul and weapon to become a true cultivator.
He wondered how these mortal cultivators would be able to cultivate their manifestations once all the profound beasts were killed by them?
Of course, he knows that this was due to the actions of the Iron Mountain Immortal Tie Da that misguided them so that these mortal cultivators would not become a true cultivator and be a threat to him.
Ji Yuan simply sent his ten fingers to display his sword bursts as he sent explosive waves of sword energies to erupt from all around him and sending many of the cultivators to fly off.
He took care not to aim at them directly as even his weakest sword energy bursts could even kill these mortal cultivators.
"Sword energies?!"
"He knows sword energy?"
"Only a level 100 Great Martial Cultivator will be able to grasp the sword energies technique…"
"He is a level 100 Great Martial Cultivator?!"
Many of the attacking cultivators did not even dare to come close to Ji Yuan anymore as they were fearful of his sword energies attacks.
The Soul Emperor Ni Tianhe shouted, "Fools!!! Bring out the Divine Zhuge Crossbows and kill this intruder!"
Immediately the hundreds of cultivators that were the royal guards of the Martial Soul Empire that were armed with the Divine Zhuge Crossbows began to march heavily in their heavy amors as they formed several firing lines against Ji Yuan.
Once the Soul Emperor Ni Tianhe saw that the firing lines had been completed, he ordered. "Fire at will! Kill this intruder that dares to disrupt our Martial Soul Competition!"
At his order, hundreds of bolts began to fire aggressively and at great penetrating speed toward Ji Yuan, literally showering Ji Yuan with thousands of deadly bolts that could easily kill even a Great Martial Cultivator.
But against Ji Yuan, all these bolts simply fell harmlessly all around him, not even coming close to him.
The Soul Emperor Ni Tianhe, the cultivation sect leaders, the cultivation sect elders and everyone else were all stunned with great disbelief by what they were seeing.