141: The Pride Competition begins

[After exiting the Azure Profound Grand Hall, you adjusted your state within your spirit residence.]

[A few days later, the Qingxuan Sacred Land was bustling with activity as your Saint Coronation Ceremony officially began.]

[On this day, the entire Sacred Land was filled with heavenly phenomena. On the Welcoming Avenue paved with the Nine Heavens Stairs, guests from the Ten Great Holy Lands arrived in an endless stream. Radiance scattered for hundreds of millions of miles, auspicious clouds surrounded the Nine Heavens, spirit birds and exotic beasts danced among the clouds, and melodious immortal music echoed through the mountains. Even the Sacred Land Elders, rarely seen on ordinary days, appeared one after another to witness the ceremony.]

[When you stepped onto the Heaven Worshiping Platform under the gaze of thousands, the entire venue fell silent. You wore the Saint's Dharma Robe embroidered with the sun, moon, and stars. With every step, golden lotuses bloomed. The Elders from various Sacred Lands all showed expressions of shock; they had never seen such a young Void Refining Realm Cultivator.]

[Someone whispered in discussion, sighing, "Looking at the life marks on this child, he is no more than a hundred thousand years old, yet he has already broken through to Void Refining. Such talent is likely beyond even the so-called Immortal Spiritual Root."]

[The ceremony lasted for three full days. The first day was the Heaven Worshiping Ritual, where you swore a Heavenly Dao oath to protect the Human Race before the statues of the various Tribulation Transcendence Celestial Venerables of the Human Race.]

[The second day was the Dao Discussion Assembly, where you sparred and discussed the Dao with the prodigies of various sects. The profound cultivation you displayed left everyone present in awe.]

[The third day was the official coronation ceremony. When the Qingxuan Holy Lord placed the Xuantian Jade Crown, symbolizing the status of the Saint, upon your head, phantoms of dragons and phoenixes circled above the Nine Heavens. The heavenly phenomena lasted for a full hour.]

[After ascending to the position of Saint, you clearly felt a massive boost of Luck being bestowed upon you. This Luck was like a vast galaxy, continuously nourishing your Primordial Spirit and Physical Body.]

[Compared to your time as a Reserve Saint Son, the current Luck boost was more than ten times stronger. Using the Luck Observation Technique, you discovered that the power of Luck had condensed into a golden Dao Seal floating above your head.]

[This Dao Seal could not only help you comprehend Laws but also automatically protect your body in moments of crisis. You understood that from this moment on, your Luck was closely linked with the Qingxuan Sacred Land—sharing in its glory and its downfall.]

[Shortly after being titled the Saint, the Qingxuan Holy Lord bestowed a massive amount of Luck upon you. This Luck felt exceptionally familiar, identical to the Evil Spirit Clan's race Luck you had once seized. You guessed this must be the race Luck severed from some unlucky race.]

[This race Luck directly brought your Spiritual Root to the limit of the heaven grade spiritual root.]

[As for the Immortal Grade Spiritual Root above the heaven grade, it is something one is only born with, not something that can be Acquired later.]

[The concept of the Immortal Grade Spiritual Root has not actually existed for long; it is a completely new type of multi-Spiritual Root that appeared after the emergence of the Tribulation Transcendence Celestial Venerables.]

[Those with an Immortal Grade Spiritual Root are born with a strand of Origin Qi, allowing them to easily cross the many obstacles on the path of cultivation and reach the Tribulation Transcendence Celestial Venerable Realm directly.]

[From the Era of Ascending Heaven to the present, the number of people born with an Immortal Grade Spiritual Root in the history of the Human Race can be counted on one's fingers—less than ten. And without exception, all of them eventually achieved the Realm of Tribulation Transcendence Celestial Venerable.]

[The reason this Spiritual Root is named 'Immortal Grade' is mainly because the boost it provides to a Cultivator is indeed powerful, making it highly likely for the holder to break through beyond Undergoing Tribulation; hence, it is crowned with the word 'Immortal'.]

[Over the years, the Human Race has been researching how to promote a heaven grade spiritual root to Immortal Grade, but unfortunately, there has been no success.]

[At ninety-seven thousand years old, with the support of the Sacred Land and all conditions maximized, your Mind Law and Five Elements Law made great progress, reaching a comprehension level of so-called ninety-three percent.]

[Your other Laws also reached eighty percent, including the Law of Fate.]

[However, after the Mind Law and Five Elements Law reached this stage, the difficulty of further improvement rose by another level. Additionally, since the Prodigy Competition included Alchemy and Artifact Refining contests, you decided to devote most of your time to the Law of Creation.]

[At one hundred and two thousand years old, your Law of Creation reached over ninety percent. Having reached this stage in the Law of Creation, you were already able to refine Void Refining level Medicinal Pills and Heaven-Reaching Spirit Treasures.]

[At one hundred and thirteen thousand years old, your comprehension of the Mind Law and Five Elements Law reached ninety-four percent. Reaching this stage can be considered the Middle Stage of Void Refining.]

[As far as you know, among the Void Refining Realm contestants in past Prodigy Competitions, only a few have reached the Middle Stage of Void Refining.]

[In addition, your comprehension of the Law of Creation reached ninety-two percent, and your other early-comprehended Laws also reached over ninety percent.]

[Because your Karma and Law of Fate reached over ninety percent, combined with your own talent, you easily became a top-tier Heavenly Secret Master.]

[The Karma allows you to trace the roots of things, while the Law of Fate lets you glimpse the trajectories of destiny.]

[Therefore, the power of a top-tier Heavenly Secret Master is far beyond ordinary imagination. If an Advanced Heavenly Secret Master merely studies horoscopes and Luck and can graft horoscopes, then a top-tier Heavenly Secret Master can influence the fate of a small race.]

[As long as there is no being in that race who has reached the Dao Integration Realm, the entire race could become a chess piece in your hand with a single thought, and they would remain completely unaware.]

[If you had the methods of your current top-tier Heavenly Secret Master self when you first plundered the Evil Spirit Clan's race Luck, the gains from that scheme would have increased several times over.]

[With the methods of a top-tier Heavenly Secret Master, amidst such race Luck turmoil, you could have severed at least one-tenth of the Evil Spirit Clan's race Luck.]

[The methods of a top-tier Heavenly Secret Master allow you to silently change the rise and fall of a race, even leading them toward extinction without their knowledge.]

[At one hundred and forty-six thousand years old, your comprehension of the three great Laws—Mind, Five Elements, and Creation—had all reached ninety-five percent.]

[Coincidentally, in this year, the much-anticipated Prodigy Competition once again raised its curtain. This was an unprecedented grand event that had been held for countless sessions since ancient times.]

[This Peak confrontation, gathering talents from myriad races, was set at the summit of the Boundless Sea, surrounded by the three continents of the Central Heaven World.]

[Above this vast sea, a floating Realm created jointly by many Tribulation Crossing Heavenly Venerables—the "Battle Heaven Realm"—stood majestically, its magnificent Aura enough to make heaven and earth lose their color.]