The Martial Emperor with Dragon Blood

With the Spiritfox Clan safe, Ye Mo didn’t linger. He returned to the Asura Palace and told Miao Miao everything that had happened. Miao Miao was grateful and incredibly touched. She would have even given him her body to thank him if it wasn’t for the fact that there were no romantic feelings between the two.

In the blink of an eye, nine days passed. After the battle with Chen Fan, Ye Mo understood how strong his enemies were, and he didn’t waste even a second of his time.

Since Ye Mo reached the second rank and his spearlight reached fifteenfold, he hadn’t spent his time tempering his mental state. He spent most of his time in cultivation, while Hong Ling had taught Ye Mo the fourth style of the Sky Blood Spear. But the style wasn’t that easy to learn.

The Blood World wasn’t a single target attack. Rather, it was a wide-area attack. It wasn’t excessively powerful, but it was very effective in killing off a huge number of enemies at once. That was why Hong Ling had said that it would be hard to learn the technique without first reaching the second rank.

If, after dealing a wide-area attack, he had to release a few more attacks because there were survivors, it would be pointless to use this technique.

Now that Ye Mo had reached the second rank cultivation heart, the prowess of his spearlight had increased as well. A single Blood World attack of his would be sufficient to kill a large group of Transcendence Seventh Realm experts. That was quite a shocking result.

But it was understandable, since the fame of the Sky Blood Spear wasn’t for nothing.

After all, if Ye Mo wanted to fuse his Heart Transcendence with the Mountain and River Diagram, he needed to reach at least the third rank cultivation heart. He longed for the treasures within the Mountain and River Diagram.

A single Violet Estate would be enough for his Heart Transcendence to reach another level.

During this period, Nangong Yurou had come looking for Ye Mo several times. When she found out that Ye Mo was participating in the Saint Elect tournament, she delivered him a large number of Transcendence Pills to help his cultivation. The other senior brothers were envious when they saw that.

The next day, when the first ray of the sun shone upon the earth, the entire Door of Desolation filled with excitement.

The number of people gathering at the Outer Peak reached a brand new height, while several figures could be seen flying out of the six palaces to the Outer Peak.

The crowd today was indeed rather terrifying. The competition to be held in Purgatory would be hosted by Elder Taotie. The palace masters of all six palaces were there, and some Saints of the Inner Peak were standing above, watching everything unfold.

They were all exceptional experts that had made their name many years ago. Some of them were so old not even Liu Qingyun knew them. They were the experts of many years ago, and many disciples had ultimately passed away over time. There were also a lot of Saints that were members of the Asura Palace, but they were disciples from a long time ago. Some weren’t even in the Door of Desolation anymore and had headed to other, more powerful, zones to further their cultivation.

Not many elders were there as the day’s match would be a knockout match. After a portion of the participants was eliminated from the competition, a single-elimination open tournament would be held. And only the ultimate victor would become the Saint of the Door of Desolation.

It would be an arduous competition. None of those capable of ultimately becoming a Saint were pushovers.

The Saint had a revered status, and even in other zones, their status as a Saint of the Door of Desolation would be sufficient to awe many. The Saints were basically the strongest experts below the Profound World Realm.

In the history of the Desolate Mountain, there were a few disciples of the six palaces that had reached pseudo Profound World Realm. These disciples had all been recruited to the Desolate Mountain to become the Saints, and one could say that these specially recruited disciples enjoyed a status even higher than the Saints that had qualified through the competition.

In this year’s Saint Elect tournament, many First Heaven Society members were participating as well. Of course, they weren’t joining under the name of the First Heaven Society. Rather, they joined as the disciples of the six palaces.

Although nobody was sure who would be the victor this year, many people guessed that the champion would ultimately be Liu QIngyun. With his strength, if he became the Saint, it wouldn’t come as a surprise.

At present, the Outer Peak was filled with figures landing from the sky above.

From the Asura Palace, three people met the requirements to participate. The three were Ye Mo, Taiyi Qinglian, and Gao Mingkun. Ye Mo had a combat prowess of Transcendence Sixth Realm, so he was definitely qualified to join. As for Taiyi Qinglian and Gao Mingkun, they had both reached Transcendence Seventh Realm and were thus qualified.

All three of them were currently waiting at the entrance to Purgatory. They were interested to see who else would be participating, and which of the Four Great Generals would be joining as well.

In a short while, over 100 people were already gathered there at the entrance.

They were all members of the six palaces.

With them gathered there, it became obvious that there were quite a lot of Transcendence Sixth Realm and above disciples in the six palaces. The Human Dao Palace alone had over 50 of them, while the other 50 people were members of the other five palaces.

Ye Mo could also sense a few powerful presences from amid the Human Dao Palace participants.

These few presences were far beyond the disciples of the other five palaces.

One of those with such a powerful presence was Liu QIngyun, who Ye Mo knew. In fact, Ye Mo realized that Liu Qingyun had since reached the Transcendence Ninth Realm.

Apart from Liu Qingyun, there were three other people with powerful presences as well.

One of them was an extremely burly man dressed in a Daoist robe that looked rather out of place from his build. He had a tall nose and was the leader of the First Heaven Society’s Four Great Generals, Chu Tian.

The other two people were also very powerful, one emitting a fiery aura and the other emitting a frosty aura. They were Chi Huo and Nian Bing, the Flame General and Ice General of the Four Great General.

And the final person was Chen Fan, the Mundane General that Ye Mo had defeated once before.

While Ye Mo was sizing them up, the five of them revealed a hidden sense of hostility toward Ye Mo. In fact, their hostility was so hidden even Ye Mo himself did not notice it.

During this Saint Elect tournament, the young society head had planned to deal with Ye Mo. If all five of them considered him their enemy, Ye Mo wouldn’t be surprised at all.

“Since everyone is already here, I’ll announce the rules of the Saint Elect tournament.”

Elder Taotie smiled and continued, “Our knockout round shares some similarities with the Six Dao Tournament, but there are some differences.”

Elder Taotie’s voice was powered by his Profound Power and it spread into everyone’s ears clearly.

“In this round, you will still be slaying demons for points, but what’s different is that the Zone of Demon experts will also be aware that you will all be in Purgatory for training. Thus, they will also enter, and you may kill the demons from the Zone of Demon to gain points, as well.”

Elder Taotie waved his hand, and rays of light shot out, sending a seal into everyone’s hands.

“By sending a strain of your consciousness into the seal, you will be able to check your points and the points of the other participants. This is how this competition differs from the Six Dao Competition. In Purgatory, you may also fight each other for points, and, after elimination, you won’t be sent out of Purgatory immediately. Everyone will have to wait for three days, when the exit will open. The 10 competitors with the most points will advance to the next round three days later.”

Hearing Elder Taotie’s words, Ye Mo finally understood that this competition would be far more intense than the last. Since everyone could see the points of other participants, they would be able to selectively plunder their competitors. And since the losers wouldn’t be sent out of Purgatory, it was clear they would be able to actually kill other disciples in this competition. And, with the Zone of Demon experts joining in the fray as well, deaths wouldn’t even be much of a surprise.

“Don’t feel that the competition is too cruel. Yes, this is a dangerous competition, but the title of Saint is worth all of you putting your lives on the line.”

The competition was going to start anytime soon.