"It turned out that I had been in that closed magma cave for more than four months. After returning to the outer palace, Chu Duan realized the passage of time.

There are just over three months left until the end of the first phase.

According to the original plan, Chu Duan should have completely cracked the god sealing blood curse on the sword intent by now, so that the sword intent was unsealed and the edge was restored, but because he fell into the magma pool, entered the closed magma cave, obtained the fire of the desolate fire in the center of the earth, and refined wholeheartedly, he temporarily gave up all other aspects of cultivation and delayed.

In this regard, Chu Duan didn't care about it, the fire of the desolate flame in the center of the earth was a treasure that even the sword king-level powerhouses wanted, and if he could get it, it was a great opportunity, and for this reason, he delayed the unsealing of the sword intent, only a few months, it was worth it.

As for the Inner Palace disciple who did it to him and knocked him down to the magma pool, Chu Duan remembered him deeply, and this matter would definitely have an end, even if he was blessed by misfortune.

"Next, every day, I have to impact the god blood curse on the sword intent, the first stage is over, and when the second stage begins, it may be unsealed. Chu Duan said secretly.

Now, even if he has no sword intent, the attack power of the sword is also very amazing, and it is several times stronger than before entering the Heavenly Desolate Earth Palace.

However, for the swordsman, the sword intent is still very necessary.

The Earth Center Desolate Flame Seed was completely refined by Chu Duan, and absorbed the energy of two thousand Earth Fire Lotus Seeds, and began to recover, although it is still very weak, it can be used to refine the Sword Yuan.

In just a few days, Chu Duan's Heavenly Desolate Sword Yuan Essence Purity had truly reached the limit of entry, and then, he needed to absorb a large amount of energy and transform it into a Sword Yuan to increase his cultivation.

The low-grade True Desert Pill is already difficult to meet Chu Duan's needs, at least the medium-grade True Wilderness Pill or a large number of lower-grade True Deserted Pills, for a while, Chu Duan has nowhere to get it.

Fortunately, the desolate qi on the Heavenly Desolate God Mountain is also very rich and pure. Slowly absorbing and transforming, the Heavenly Desolate Sword Yuan in the body will also steadily increase.

Time passes, and the closer you get to the end of the first stage, the more frantic the challenge becomes.

Chu Duan didn't plan to go out, he stayed in the outer palace all the time, cultivating the Heavenly Desolate Sword Yuan every day, practicing the Heavenly Desolate Sword Technique, impacting the divine blood spell on the sword intent, nurturing the flames of the desolate fire in the heart of the earth, and dealing with challenges from other disciples from time to time. The schedule is full.

The strength of the strength made Chu Duan able to defeat the challengers again and again, and obtain one Red Desolate Star after another, of course, there were also some challengers who did not have the Red Desolate Star, but they were just lucky to see if they could defeat Chu Duan and regain a Red Desolate Star, and therefore, Chu Duan got some inferior True Desolate Pills. After taking it, the amount of sword element increased a little.

Month after month passed, some disciples were hysterical, and some disciples wanted to get more Red Desolate Stars. With a better ranking, therefore, the challenge is more crazy in the outer palace. Almost everywhere, all the time, battles.

Three days, two days. One day!

Finally, the time for the first phase has come and it is over.

The end of the first phase means that the second phase is about to begin, and before the second phase begins, there will be a buffer time for the highly tense nerves of the crowd to relax and take a breath and prepare for the beginning of the second phase.

In addition, using the buffer time, statistics and announcements will be made.

Statistics is to count the number of Red Desolate Stars owned by the disciples who participated in the Outer Palace's Hundred Years Great Competition, arrange the rankings, and then publish them, so that the disciples can know the Tao.

Chu Duan has the Red Desolate Star, so naturally he also made statistics.

Three days later, the statistics were over, the results were announced, and in the corner of the martial arts arena in the outer palace, there was a list of names, and after each name, there was a corresponding number of Red Desolate Stars.

So, there was a lot of discussion about the people who were at the top of the list.

There are more than 30,000 disciples in the outer palace, and there are at least 30,000 people who have signed up to participate in the Centennial Competition, but in the end, there are only about 1,000 people who have passed the first stage and are about to enter the second stage, which shows the cruelty of the first stage.

People whose names are not on the list means that they do not have a Red Desolate Star, they have been eliminated, and they will not be able to participate in the second stage, so they can only be reduced to audiences.

Theoretically, the disciples who passed the first stage all got about thirty Red Desolate Stars, but in fact, some people got a lot, and some people got very little, only one.

Chu Duan's own Red Desolate Stars had as many as one hundred and eighty, but among the thousand, his ranking did not even enter the top hundred, but ranked the two hundred and twenty-third.

This meant that there were as many as two hundred and twenty-two people who had more Red Desolate Stars than Chu Duan.

Of course, having more Red Desolate Stars does not definitely mean that the strength is stronger than Chu Duan, however, those disciples who can rank in the top 100 are all people with really strong strength, especially the top ten in the outer palace, they are the strongest among the disciples of the outer palace, they have been famous for a long time, and they are also the objects of talk in the mouths of everyone.

The first place on the list is Nan Wu, who has the number of Red Desolate Stars, breaking a thousand.

The second place is called Chi Xiao, and the number of Red Desolate Stars has also exceeded 1,000, but it is nearly a hundred less than Nan Wu, who is in first place.

The third is Ben Hu, and the number of Red Desolation Stars is exactly one thousand.

The fourth is Ma Yunfei, and there are more than 800 Red Desolate Stars.

The fifth place is Duan Yulong, the sixth is Zhuang Libi, the seventh is Ye Xiaoxiao, the eighth is Tang Zhen, the ninth is Nie Yunjie, and the tenth is Gao Wang.

The level of the ranking, Chu Duan didn't care, to this day, the blood spell of the gods on the sword intent has only an extremely thin layer left, it has become a little transparent, vaguely time, you can also see the prototype of the sword spirit inside, and the sword intent is within the prototype of the sword spirit.

A terrifying edge converged in it, as if it wanted to tear everything apart and slash everything out.

Soon, this divine blood spell will disappear, and the sword intent will be unsealed and the edge will be released.

When the time came, the second stage also began.

The second stage is not in the outer palace martial arts arena, but in a semi-virtual realm in the outer palace.

The Semi-Void Realm is not a peerless treasure for the Heavenly Desolate Earth Palace, it can only be regarded as a treasure.

The semi-virtual realm of the outer palace is very large, more than 30,000 outer palace disciples are completely accommodated, and there are more than enough measures, in addition to the outer palace disciples, there are also the elders of the outer palace and the elders of the inner palace and a small number of inner palace disciples, and even some of the true palace disciples have come.

After all, it is a once-in-a-century big competition, which is very grand, and it is also one of the intuitive ways to see the strength and potential of the disciples of the outer palace, therefore, even the elders of the real palace and the master of the third palace have appeared, but their position is at a very high position in the semi-virtual realm of the outer palace, and they look down condescendingly, and there seems to be a cloud and mist in the middle, so that the people below cannot see their existence.

In the territory of the semi-void, there is a huge sword fighting platform, and the sword fighting platform is surrounded by seats, with a total of four columns in the east, west, north and south, and each column has two hundred and fifty seats, which is for the disciples of the outer palace of the second stage to sit, as for the elders and so on, they naturally have their places.

On the back of the seat, there are numeric signs, one, two, three, four, five, and so on, up to one thousand.

In the sky above the sword fighting platform, there was a statue of an elder of the outer palace, holding a roster in his hand, and pronouncing the names one by one, starting from the thousandth.

The outer palace disciple whose name was read came out of the crowd and sat on the seat with the corresponding number.

One after another, the outer palace disciples came out of the crowd and walked to the seats with the corresponding numbers, and soon, the north seat was full, and the south seat was also seated.

"The twenty-third place, Chu Duan. The elder of the outer palace announced loudly, Chu Duan walked out of the crowd, walked to the east seat, found the corresponding seat and sat down.

"It turned out to be him, and when the sword intent and mysteries were permanently sealed, he could still enter the second stage, and he was able to get the two hundred and twenty-third place, which is lucky. "Above, where the disciples of the True Palace were, the male swordsman surnamed He who Chu Dui had just seen when he was brought into the Heavenly Desolate Palace by Ren Duxing showed a touch of surprise on his gloomy face, and then said with a smile.

Ren Duxing was also here, but he didn't speak, his face was calm, and he looked at Chu Duan, and a touch of surprise flashed in his eyes.

"Senior Brother Ren's vision is always not wrong, this kid has a bit of strength, and of course, he is also very lucky. The swordsman surnamed Li also smiled, and his tone was a little yin and yang.

The other True Palace disciples seemed to know that the Dao Li surnamed Sword and He surnamed Sword were targeting Ren Duxing, so they didn't interject, but because of their discussions, they also noticed Chu Du.

"I heard before that there is a disciple in the outer palace who has been permanently sealed with sword intent and mystery, and it turns out to be him. ”

"It's really tenacious enough, in the case that the sword intent and mystery are permanently sealed, he still hasn't given up on himself, such a person, if the sword intent is not sealed, he will definitely have some achievements in the future. ”

"He has been deposed, if he doesn't give up, no matter how tenacious he is, it's useless. ”

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At the top, where the three palace lords and the elders of the True Palace were located, they were also a little surprised.

Obviously, they still had a little impression of Chu Duan, after all, Chu Duan was one of the few inheritors of the five Heavenly Desolate Sword Orders, and at the same time, the sword intent and mysteries were permanently sealed and abolished by the Immortal God Clan's God Sealing Blood Curse.

When they thought about it, after becoming a disciple of the outer palace, Chu Duan should have fallen and disappeared from the crowd, but they didn't expect that he would enter the second stage and achieve a good ranking.

Two hundred and twenty-three, strictly speaking, is not a good rank, but for a swordsman who is unable to use sword intent and mystery, it is extremely difficult.

Surprised, the Third Palace Lord and the True Palace Elders didn't think that Chu Duan could do anything, maybe he would be defeated in the first round of the second stage.

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"Hmph, it's just lucky, without sword intent and mystery, he can only struggle in the outer palace for the rest of his life, nothing. "As a registered disciple of the True Palace Elder, Liu Xingcheng is qualified to enter here, along with some other Inner Palace disciples.

Chu Duan entered the second stage, which surprised him at the same time, but also took it for granted, which was very unhappy.

But no matter what, Chu Duan's entry into the second stage is a fact and cannot be changed. (To be continued......)