227: Arrival at the Divine Mirror Gate

Li Haotian stood on the plaza, his sharp gaze sweeping over everyone present.

"Everyone understands how difficult this competition is. To participate in the Grand Competition, one must be under one hundred years old. I, as Sect Master, will lead the team personally. Any outstanding Disciples who meet the age requirement can replace the Sect to participate."

"Each Sect has a total quota of only 100 spots. Our Sect's Disciples with the strongest Cultivation and combat power will secure these spots; the other Disciples can just wait for news."

Li Haotian intended to gather a group of Disciples to head to the location where the Grand Competition was being held. The location was not near the Heavenly Profound Sect and required a long journey of at least three to five days to reach.

A group of Disciples stood respectfully on the plaza, ready to be called upon.

The Elders watched from the side. The Elders and chief Disciples of various factions were already over one hundred years old and had no way to participate in such a competition; after all, not everyone was a Disciple of Li Haotian.

"As far as I know, this Sect Grand Competition is extremely difficult. Every major Sect wants to achieve good results in this Grand Competition, even the top ten Sects. They have specifically cultivated a batch of ninety-nine-year-old Disciples; these people are their trump cards."

The major forces were truly unscrupulous when it came to the age limit, taking in Disciples with extremely high talent whose age was right at the limit and focusing on cultivating them.

This was especially true among the top ten or so forces. The Heavenly Profound Sect once had such Disciples, but they had all died out by now.

These Disciples didn't need to do anything in their daily lives, nor did they need to handle Sect affairs. They only needed to win glory for the Sect, so they were supplied with unlimited Cultivation resources and only needed to go into closed-door Cultivation.

Occasionally, they would come out to practice combat techniques, and as long as it was sufficient, no one would deliberately demand them to do anything else.

Many major Sects had a large number of such people, and many of those ninety-nine-year-olds had reached the Heavenly Monarch Realm.

Su Yao and the others stood in front. The auras of both Su Yao and Zhang Hai were at the Mid-stage Heavenly Monarch, Little Fatty Bai was at the Early Stage Heavenly Monarch, while Du Xian was a hair's breadth away from stepping into Heavenly Monarch; he was not currently a Heavenly Monarch Powerhouse.

With them leading the team, this time should not be particularly difficult.

The entire Sect searched for a long time, and they only managed to gather less than thirty Powerhouses under one hundred years old who had reached the Heavenly Monarch Realm.

These people were mostly the offspring of some chief Disciples. There used to be basically two or three hundred such Powerhouses, but now only these thirty or so remained.

The rest either didn't send Disciples or sent Disciples below the Heavenly Monarch Realm. After some thought, Li Haotian finally decided to let these thirty-seven people go together to participate in the Grand Competition. Quality was better than quantity, and with those four guys leading the team, there shouldn't be any major problems this time.

Li Haotian saw two familiar figures in the team, and the corners of his mouth couldn't stop twitching.

They were none other than Crimson, who had just broken through to the Mid-stage Heavenly Monarch, and Xue You, who was at the Early Stage Heavenly Monarch.

Crimson was supposed to take a spot for the Chiyuan Sect, but now that the other party had been taken by him, she could only go through his channel.

Li Haotian's face carried a touch of helplessness. He then waved his hand gently and jumped onto a Spirit Boat, followed by a Peak Great Emperor Realm Expert protecting him.

Lin Tianxuan was left in the Sect to accompany Immortal Master Xuan Qing in handling the Sect's affairs, while Baili Hui became the accompanying personnel this time.

The Spirit Boat took off and sped toward the distance. The Heavenly Profound Sect continued to recover into a tense state of Cultivation. After this matter was settled, all the Disciples in the Sect felt that the Sect's Spiritual Qi was actually growing in an explosive state; this must be the heavens favoring their Heavenly Profound Sect.

Many Disciples who had reached a Bottleneck would inexplicably have a Breakthrough in their Realm just by walking in the Sect without intentionally cultivating.

This was because the concentration of Spiritual Qi in the surroundings was simply too terrifying. Every morning, the mist in the mountains was even condensed due to the excessive concentration of Spiritual Qi.

Everyone's motivation for Cultivation was very high. Those Seven Great Forces Disciples with decent talent were also absorbed into the Heavenly Profound Sect. Although they had slave brands on them, they were still given a large amount of resources; after all, it was impossible for them to betray the Heavenly Profound Sect, as they had already become beings like dead soldiers.

As long as their Cultivation was raised, the Heavenly Profound Sect would have more loyal guards.

Many Quasi-Emperor Experts also broke through to the Great Emperor Realm. It seemed that when the Peak Quasi-Emperor Experts were summoned, their memories before death remained at the moment they were Undergoing Tribulation preparing to break through to the Great Emperor Realm, only to be ambushed and plotted against.

Now, with a large amount of resources to support them, plus the dense Spiritual Qi and a stable Cultivation environment, they naturally broke through to the Great Emperor Realm.

Li Haotian did not bring these people, letting them Cultivate in peace; Baili Hui and he were enough.

The Spirit Boat quickly flew to the designated location. Everyone took a teleportation array to travel between various states, and then arrived at the venue for this competition.

The Divine Mirror Sect was responsible for this Grand Competition. The Ten Great Powers basically all had this opportunity, it was just a matter of taking turns.

This time it was the Divine Mirror Sect's turn.

The light of the teleportation array dissipated, and everyone appeared within the teleportation array. Then, according to the instructions, they left the city. A Disciple specifically responsible for receiving them appeared before them and guided them toward the Divine Mirror Sect.

"Greetings, Powerhouses of the Heavenly Profound Sect. You have so few people; did the other Powerhouses go to the city to make purchases?"

The person in charge from the Divine Mirror Sect was a very cute little girl. As a Disciple of the Divine Mirror Sect, she used her outstanding appearance to take on the task of receiving the major forces this time.

"We only have this many people in total. There are 37 contestants, and we two are the accompanying Elders."

Li Haotian spoke indifferently. The little girl's expression was stunned at first, then she smiled awkwardly.

According to past situations, she had never seen a team come directly to participate in the Grand Competition without gathering all the people.

After all, even if there were not enough Disciples with strong strength, they could completely use Disciples of a lower Realm to fill the vacancy.

Most Sects did this. Those smaller forces could not possibly Cultivate Heavenly Monarch-level Powerhouses within a hundred years, and even lower-level Soul Transformation or Nascent Soul Disciples were brought over to participate.

So even bringing some Disciples with lower Realms didn't matter.

This was the first time a team had come to participate in the Grand Competition without even gathering all the people.

The little girl smiled somewhat awkwardly, but she still respectfully led the group away from the city and flew toward the deep mountains in the distance.

That was where the Divine Mirror Sect was located. To get there, one had to fly for a while, leaving the town.

After flying for almost a thousand miles, everyone finally saw some unique buildings in the deep mountains.