142: Immortal Cultivation Skills Competition

After the competition began, you and the other contestants from the Holy Land entered the Battle Heaven Realm under the leadership of Old Ancestor Xuanji.

Upon entering the Battle Heaven Realm, you arrived at a vast starry sky filled with white jade seats.

These seats were like the stars in the sky, emitting a soft glow, as if the Milky Way were pouring down.

This was a viewing area specially prepared for the Human Race, with each seat engraved with Profound Truth Formation patterns that could both isolate external interference and clearly show the live situation of each competition venue.

You scanned the surroundings and found that several Holy Lands, such as Tianxing Holy Land and Yin-Yang Holy Land, as well as top Sects with multiple Dao Integration Realm experts like Xuantian Sword Sect and Spring Breeze and Rain Sect, had already arrived.

The Disciples they brought to compete were all extraordinary in bearing, surrounded by the radiance of Laws. What caught your attention even more was that the leaders of each Holy Land were Clones of Tribulation Transcendence Celestial Venerables. These Clones, whether sitting or standing, were only projections but still emitted a heart-palpitating pressure.

According to what you knew, in addition to one Heavenly Venerable Clone from each Holy Land, the Human Race would also have at least one Heavenly Venerable's true body presiding over each Prodigy Competition.

You cast your gaze toward the golden sun at the highest point of the starry sky. You felt a power transcending common logic lurking within it; that should be where the Human Race Heavenly Venerable resided.

The reason for deploying so much power was naturally to guard against any improper thoughts that some foolish foreign races might have.

As time passed, the Human Race's viewing area was filled with people, and it was time for the competition to begin.

At that moment, a proclamation that shook the heavens suddenly rang out in the Battle Heaven Realm: "The Ten Thousand Races Prodigy Hegemony Competition officially begins!" The voice was like a great bell, echoing in everyone's ears, as if even heaven and earth trembled for it.

Immediately after, an invisible fluctuation erupted from the core of the Battle Heaven Realm, spreading rapidly like ripples, first covering the entire Central Heaven World, and then spreading to every corner of the Profound Heaven Realm with an unstoppable force.

This fluctuation contained a strange power. Any Cultivator whose cultivation reached the Rank of Golden Core True Lord or above could clearly see the grand spectacle of the Prodigy Competition through their mental perception.

For a time, in the mountains, rivers, cities, and blessed lands of the Profound Heaven Realm, countless experts stopped their business, either sitting cross-legged or focusing their minds, casting their gazes toward this once-in-a-million-years event.

The Prodigy Competition lasted for a total of one thousand years. The first five hundred years were for the competition of the Hundred Arts of Immortal Cultivation, and the latter five hundred years were the true spell-fighting.

Although you knew many of the Hundred Arts of Immortal Cultivation, most had not reached the Void Refining level. Therefore, you signed up for four, which were the ones you were best at: Artifact Refining, Alchemy, Talisman Drawing, and Formations.

These four were considered the top-ranked skills among the Hundred Arts of Immortal Cultivation, so their competition times were three to four hundred years after the start of the competition.

Thus, in the first few hundred years, you, like other spectators and competitors, watched various competitions.

These competitions were exceptionally exciting and opened your eyes. Not only that, but they also allowed you to witness the performance of many powerful races.

In the Spirit Chef competition held in the Liuli Domain, a Dragon Clan Cultivator used lightning as a stove and actually refined lightning into edible "Nine Heavens Jade Dew Cake." In the Beast Taming competition held in the Cangmang Domain, a girl from the Ancient Insect Race drove three hundred Gold-Eating Ants to build a self-evolving palace in an instant.

Although these races were not as well-rounded as the Human Race, due to their racial talents, most of them had extremely outstanding abilities in a certain aspect. Therefore, in these Hundred Arts competitions, although the Human Race's average results were in the upper reaches, they did not win many championships.

For example, the God Puppet Race, experts in refining Puppets, are world-renowned for their unique Puppet techniques.

The Puppets they made were not only refined in Materials, but their strength also far exceeded those of the same Rank. Most amazingly, the top-tier Puppets they refined with special Materials not only possessed high intelligence but could also continuously improve their own strength through cultivation.

These intelligent Puppets often established deep emotional bonds with their masters. Many Cultivators of the God Puppet Race even chose to marry the Puppets they made themselves. This behavior was jokingly called "self-produced and self-sold" in the Profound Heaven Realm—after all, what could be more reassuring than a partner you crafted yourself?

Relying on this world-unrivaled Puppet technique, the God Puppet Race won the championship in the Puppet Master competition of the Hundred Arts of Immortal Cultivation without any suspense.

In the competition of the Spirit Plant path, the contestants from the Heavenly Spirit Race also showed an overwhelming advantage.

This was because most members of the Heavenly Spirit Race were transformed from spirits of vegetation and nature, possessing an extraordinary affinity for plants by nature.

Moreover, the true form of this year's champion contestant was actually an 8th-Rank divine medicine, showing breathtaking attainments in Spirit Plant cultivation.

While other contestants were still studying how to improve the quality of Spirit Medicine, this champion could make the Spirit Medicine burst with unprecedented vitality with just a gentle touch. After all, what existence could understand the growth needs of Spirit Medicine better than a divine medicine itself?

Unless it was the kind of peerless genius with Heaven-Defying talent in the path of Spirit Plants, it was truly difficult to gain an advantage over the Heavenly Spirit Race in this regard.

The outstanding performance of these two major races fully demonstrated the truth that "there is specialization in every field" in the cultivation world.

The God Puppet Race endowed cold Puppets with life and emotion, and the Heavenly Spirit Race allowed the spirits of vegetation to bloom with the most dazzling brilliance. Their achievements stemmed not only from racial talent but also from focused research.

As the Prodigy Competition progressed, the competition for the Hundred Arts of Immortal Cultivation soon reached the first of all the items you signed up for—Talisman Drawing!

The first and second rounds of the competition required everyone to draw a Soul Transformation Peak level Talisman and a Void Refining level Talisman, respectively.

After the two rounds, the number of people remaining was already very small.

The final round allowed everyone to perform freely. Whoever drew a Talisman with a higher Rank and better effects would be the champion.

Although there were still many races with specialties in this area in the Talisman Drawing competition, you didn't think they could compare to you.

Because, not to boast, besides a peerless Prodigy like you who had a bit of a "cheat," it was already difficult for a normal Cultivator to reach Void Refining before the age of ten million, and even harder to reach the corresponding level in the techniques they practiced.

In the end, as expected, you won the championship with your self-created "Heaven-Changing Fate-Altering Talisman."

The "Heaven-Changing Fate-Altering Talisman" was a powerful Talisman you created based on your understanding of Karma and the Law of Fate, combined with the techniques of a top-tier Heavenly Secret Master. It could grant someone a powerful Luck Fate-Pattern at the Void Refining level.

Although having a Void Refining level Luck Fate-Pattern didn't necessarily mean one could reach Void Refining, reaching Soul Transformation Peak was still effortless.