Primordial Star Scripture

"Next, who will challenge me?"

As Ye Chen spoke out, asking the Heavenly Saints in the area, many Heavenly Saints even "swooshed", directly scared into retreating several steps back.

This situation, compared to earlier when these people were desperately vying to challenge Ye Chen and complained incessantly when they were not the first to get the opportunity to fight him, formed a stark contrast.

At this time, the Heavenly Saints looked nothing like they were eager and warming up for battle.

After Ye Chen had defeated a mid-stage Heavenly Saint warrior and the powerful late-stage Crimson Source Heavenly Saint, having realized Ye Chen's true strength, they no longer harbored any thoughts of underestimating Ye Chen like before.

No.

It was not just a lack of underestimation; many of them didn't even want to face Ye Chen anymore.

They certainly didn't want to end up like Crimson Source Heavenly Saint, who was beaten to the ground, unable to even stand up, nor did they want to humiliate themselves with involuntary cries of pain in front of everyone!

For a time, these over fifty-nine hundred Heavenly Saints eerily quieted down, with not a single one stepping forward to challenge Ye Chen.

"No more challengers?" Ye Chen looked at the quiet crowd, smiled slightly, and then said to True God Zhou Lin in the Void Celestial Gourd, "Senior, if there are no more challenges, does that mean I've won?"

True God Zhou Lin was extremely shaken by Ye Chen's strength.

At this moment, hearing Ye Chen's words, he smiled and nodded to Ye Chen, then said to all the Heavenly Saints in Ye Chen's area, "If no one challenges, then it will be considered that you have given up on this challenge opportunity. The final candidate from your area to enter the 'Void Celestial Gourd' for cultivation will be Ye Chen."

True God Zhou Lin's words left many Heavenly Saints in a conundrum, afraid they would look bad if they lost the challenge, and feeling it too wasteful to give up the opportunity directly. They hesitated even more.

Eventually, many Heavenly Saints made up their minds and gave up the challenge.

After all, they knew their own strength.

Compared to the Crimson Source Heavenly Saints, they were obviously inferior and had no chance of winning the spot to enter the "Void Celestial Gourd" for cultivation in this area.

Their strength, even among all the areas, was not good enough to be ranked at the front and have a chance at one of the hundred cultivation opportunities.

Earlier, they had wanted to demonstrate their power against Ye Chen, but now they simply gave up.

Many Heavenly Saints gave up, but there were still some who were unwilling to waste the chance.

In the end, another late-stage Heavenly Saint warrior stood up to challenge Ye Chen.

As expected, Ye Chen defeated this late-stage Heavenly Saint warrior within a single move.

Eventually, even after consecutive challenges from a dozen or so people, Ye Chen didn't use a second move at all. Having resolved each opponent with a single strike, all the Heavenly Saints in the area knew that none of them was a match for Ye Chen.

Even the strongest, top-tier late-stage Heavenly Saint warriors were no match!

Finally, of the five thousand nine hundred and twenty-four Heavenly Saints who chose to challenge Ye Chen, only a little more than fifty actually fought. The rest, all gave up the challenge.

After all, nearly all of those fifty plus who fought Ye Chen were late-stage Heavenly Saint warriors. Even if they weren't late-stage warriors, they were famously formidable mid-stage warriors, but all these people were defeated, which naturally deterred everyone else from challenging and led to the subsequent warriors giving up on the challenge straight away.

In the end, even though Ye Chen's area had the most contestants for challenges, it was almost the first to finish the fights, completely confirming the candidate to enter the Void Celestial Gourd for cultivation.

Ye Chen, starting as a reserve candidate, had successfully held his position till the end, gaining the spot to cultivate inside the "Void Celestial Gourd" for one month at a time flow rate one hundred times that of the outside!

Ye Chen, faced with the challenge of five thousand nine hundred and twenty-four Heavenly Saints, still came out smiling in the end!

Once Ye Chen's area had completed the challenges, the rest, who had been keeping an eye on Ye Chen's movements, were tremendously shocked by his strength. They stopped observing Ye Chen and began their own grand matches against the warriors challenging them.

In the end, the results of challenges from various regions kept coming in.

More than half of the initial candidates came out smiling in the end.

Having the ability to arrive at this mystical realm in the first place, it was not difficult for them to seize one of the hundred training opportunities.

Of course, a small number of the initial candidates lost to the challenging Heavenly Saints in subsequent challenges, leading to a fresh turnover of contenders who would be entering the "Void Celestial Gourd" for training within their regions.

Among the Heavenly Saints familiar to Ye Chen, Palace Master Yuan Li unsurprisingly secured one of the hundred opportunities effortlessly!

Nevertheless, it was unfortunate for Mu Yao Palace Master and Skyscraper Palace Master. Even though they overcame numerous opponents, they could not hold out till the end and thus lost the chance to train inside the Void Celestial Gourd.

Heavenly Saint Long Xuan also failed to make it to the end.

Among the true warriors of the Barbaric Wilderness Continent, only Ye Chen and Palace Master Yuan Li successfully secured two spots.

The other thirty-two continents of the Lower Realm only snagged about a dozen places.

The Senior Elder of Heavenly Fire Holy Land who once accompanied Little Saint Huo Mei'er of the Leaving Fire Continent and the two powerhouses from Heavenly Evolution Continent who escorted Ye Chen and others into the Five Elements Mountain – Mystery Heavenly Saint and the Ancestral Master, as well as Ancestral Master Minghua from Purple Dawn Continent, all obtained a precious spot.

The vast majority of the remaining spots were dominated by the late-stage Heavenly Saints from the minor spiritual realms.

Once the final hundred training spots were settled, True God Zhou Lin spoke to the crowd from the void: "The hundred chosen ones to enter the 'Void Celestial Gourd' may start their training from today."

As he spoke, divine light shimmered in his hand, and a hundred tokens flew into the hands of the hundred victorious martial artists, including Ye Chen.

"These are the tokens to enter the Void Celestial Gourd. With these tokens, you can train within. Once the training period ends, you will be automatically expelled."

After arranging for the hundred victorious Heavenly Saints, True God Zhou Lin turned to the others.

"Those who wish to stay and train in this region may do so. Although this region does not offer the chance of accelerated time flow like within the 'Void Celestial Gourd,' the Heaven and Earth True Qi here is also quite extraordinary, and cultivating here should yield some results."

"Those who do not wish to train here may continue venturing into the deeper twelfth layer of the Undersea Divine Palace or return to the previous levels. However, for you Heavenly Saints wanting to challenge deeper layers of the Undersea Divine Palace, I need not stress the increased danger. You are undoubtedly well aware of it."

"Whichever choice you make is entirely up to you. Now, go forth and act on your decisions!"

After True God Zhou Lin finished speaking, he gave Ye Chen, who was among the crowd, a smiling nod before vanishing from sight.

Subsequently, over thirty thousand Heavenly Saints bid farewell to each other and made their own choices.

Those who chose to leave the region flew away, those who stayed started their training immediately, and many of the hundred who had access to the "Void Celestial Gourd" could hardly wait and swiftly flew into it.
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After speaking with Mu Yao Palace Master, Skyscraper Palace Master, Heavenly Saint Long Xuan, and the others, Ye Chen finally looked with Palace Master Yuan Li towards the hundred gourds hanging from the void.

"One month with a hundredfold acceleration of time for training, that's equivalent to more than eight years of cultivation time!"

"I can finally start a thorough and invigorating period of intense cultivation!"

Such a lengthy period of cultivation was even longer than the total time Ye Chen had spent training from the beginning of the True Qi Realm!

Ye Chen had long been looking forward to a proper period of cultivation!

Whoosh! Whoosh!

After exchanging a glance with Palace Master Yuan Li, Ye Chen moved swiftly, each choosing one of the gourds descending from the void and, using their tokens, shot into the Void Celestial Gourd.