When Long Yu surrendered to Ye Ziwei, many people felt that Long Yu's strength was only so-so.
However, this was entirely due to Ye Ziwei's heaven-defying strength. Ye Ziwei had the ability to force Long Yu to surrender, but no one else had the ability to do so.
In fact, when facing Long Yu, the vast majority of people did not even have the ability to resist.
Long Yu won two matches and surrendered one, advancing to the second round of the strongest emperor realm cultivators. There were more than twenty thousand cultivators left in the tournament, and they were all experts who had gone through the first round of eliminations.
However, to Long Yu, as long as he didn't encounter an expert at Ye Ziwei's level, there was no difference in the strength of others.
Three days later, the second round began. Long Yu was immediately assigned to face a peak emperor realm expert from a remote region. This person seemed to be the emperor of that remote region's dynasty. Judging from his temperament, it was obvious that he had held a high position for a long time. His demeanor was dignified without being angry.
Long Yu used the same old trick against this person. He concealed himself completely with balanced control so that his opponent couldn't find him. Then, he suddenly launched a sneak attack. The series of attacks left his opponent with no way to fight back. In the end, he had no choice but to surrender.
His next opponent was a peak emperor realm middle-aged woman from the Su Family Medicine Hall. Long Yu used the same method to force his opponent to surrender!
It was only after Long Yu's two victories in the second round came out that everyone came to their senses. Long Yu was definitely not someone to be trifled with!
Although his strength seemed mediocre when he was facing Ye Ziwei, that was because Ye Ziwei was too strong. Now, when the others were facing Long Yu, they didn't even have the strength to retaliate. It was truly unbelievable.
However, this was the truth. A junior who had just stepped into the initial stage of emperor realm was actually able to defeat a senior who had been famous for a long time.
The consecutive victories caused everyone to take Long Yu seriously again.
Long Yu was also constantly observing the battles of Yu Hanxin, Black Knife, Ye Ziwei, and the others. He had a deeper understanding of his strongest opponents.
"Ye Ziwei didn't even use her trump card against her opponents. It seems like I'm putting a lot of pressure on her …"
Long Yu narrowed his eyes. He could see that Ye Ziwei had held back a lot in the other battles. Up until now, he could only determine the basic strength of these strongest opponents, but he still didn't know what their trump cards were.
On the other hand, other people's understanding of Long Yu also stopped at a basic level. What Long Yu had shown so far was only what people had investigated a year ago. It was just that his level had increased.
As for what new techniques Long Yu had obtained in the past year, no one knew. Only those who had fought against Long Yu felt that Long Yu was a bit strange. This person could easily see through the weaknesses of certain defensive methods, formations, and offensive methods. He seemed to have an extremely keen sense of power.
However, the people of Shen Wu World wouldn't be able to figure out what was going on even after a few hundred years …
The fifth stage of Balanced Control was undoubtedly useful in battle. The amount of world spirit energy required to cultivate this secret martial art was definitely enough for Long Yu to step into the late stage of emperor realm.
It was easy to imagine just how terrifying the amount of world spirit energy required to cultivate Balanced Control was. However, the effects of reaching the fifth stage were also quite good. It allowed Long Yu to gain the upper hand in a battle that should have been evenly matched.
Two days later, the third round began!
A total of 11,000 people participated in the third round. Long Yu's first opponent was a genius from one of the 6 sects and 10 countries, the Watermoon Sword Sect. He was at the peak of emperor realm and had once reached the 18th floor of the Illusion World of the Five Emperors. His achievements were impressive and his talent was not low.
Although this person's strength couldn't compare to Yu Hanxin or Ye Ziwei, he still surpassed normal emperor realm peak martial cultivators and definitely had the strength to fight against an early stage emperor realm cultivator!
Long Yu spent quite a bit of effort to deal with this person.
When Long Yu hid himself, this person also did the same. Unfortunately, Long Yu had Balanced Control, so all camouflage and concealment were useless. He easily found his opponent and ambushed him.
However, his opponent's swordsmanship was extremely powerful. He did not defend at the first moment, but instead used offense as defense, forcing Long Yu to break away from his never-ending state of attack. Now, he could only defend against his opponent's swordsmanship.
An Ancient Grade Sword Technique, an Ancient Grade Sword War Weapon, and a peak Ninth Heaven Divine Ability, all of this put some pressure on Long Yu's defenses. Fortunately, he had the Fallen Dark Star and Balanced Control, allowing Long Yu to block the opponent's attacks with the smallest amount of force.
In the end, Long Yu found an opening in his opponent's attacks and used Nine Underworld Heavenly Light to envelop the opponent again. Then, he launched a series of attacks and forced the opponent to use the Life Medallion to defend himself and admit defeat.
After that, Long Yu encountered the grandson of an elder of the Alliance of Five Emperors. This young man's talent was quite good, and he was especially good at the power of spatial divine runes. He was extremely nimble in battle, and he was able to dodge many of Long Yu's attacks.
Unfortunately, Long Yu found an opportunity to envelop him with Nine Underworld Heavenly Light, and this person was completely powerless. This was because Nine Underworld Heavenly Light sealed all the power of spatial divine runes. With the power that this person was best at sealed, how could he fight against Long Yu?
As for dispersing the Nine Underworlds Heavenly Light, he was able to do it. Unfortunately, before he could dispel the first piece of Nine Underworlds Heavenly Light, Long Yu had already waved his hand and scattered the second piece. Unless he was able to disperse the Nine Underworlds Heavenly Light at an extremely fast speed, he was bound to be trapped within the Nine Underworlds Heavenly Light and face Long Yu's endless attacks.
In the end, this person could only helplessly admit defeat.
It could be seen that Long Yu's opponents weren't weak at all. In fact, if it were a life or death battle, Long Yu might not even be able to kill his opponent. Instead, it was very likely that his opponent would escape.
However, this wasn't Long Yu's limit yet. Long Yu planned to advance two more rounds in his current state before making preparations for a breakthrough.
Right now, his inner world had a circumference of ninety-nine thousand kilometers. As long as he could increase it to fifty thousand kilometers, he would be able to step into the middle stage of the emperor realm. The transformed inner world would increase Long Yu's basic strength by at least three times.
As long as Long Yu wanted to break through, he could do so at any time. It just depended on whether or not it was necessary.
… …
Long Yu's consecutive victories caused many people's faces to darken.
Originally, most people thought that Long Yu would be eliminated very quickly if he were to participate in a battle between the strongest emperor realm cultivators with his current state of having just stepped into the emperor realm.
But now, Long Yu had undoubtedly slapped them in the face with reality!
In the Tianqin Dynasty, the Tianqin First Prince had already lost all hope in the current Long Yu. He had never imagined that Long Yu's strength had already reached such a level.
Originally, the Tianqin First Prince was looking forward to his third brother and second sister killing Long Yu in the battle between the strongest king realm cultivators. But now, he knew how laughable that thought was.
Although his second sister was one of the strongest king realm cultivators in the Tianqin Dynasty, she couldn't even stand up to the people around Long Yu, let alone Long Yu.
As the First Prince of the Tianqin Dynasty, his strength had reached the middle stage of the emperor realm. This was already quite impressive in the Tianqin Dynasty. After all, he was only in his twenties.
However, he had been eliminated in the first round of the strongest emperor realm cultivators. If he were to face Long Yu, he would definitely lose miserably.
"I let you escape back then. I didn't expect you to have grown to such a state now …"
The Tianqin First Prince was filled with regret and hatred!
He remembered that he had once led his personal guards to invade the territory of the North Snow Dynasty in order to get rid of Long Yu and Shu Chan. Unfortunately, after a series of actions, not only did he fail to get rid of Long Yu and Shu Chan, but the two of them had gained the trust of the people of the Snowdance Corps instead.
After losing that opportunity to get rid of Long Yu, he would forever lose the chance to kill Long Yu. Now, even if all the people of the Tianqin Dynasty attacked together, they might not be able to touch a single hair on Long Yu's head …
This feeling of not being able to take revenge was incomparably hopeless.
And now, it was not only the people of the Tianqin Dynasty who felt the same way as the Tianqin First Prince. There were many other forces who had enmity with Long Yu!
For example, the Shenluo Empire.
The person in charge of the Shenluo Empire now was the First Prince of the Middle-stage Emperor Realm. He had originally expected his second brother to avenge his third brother in the strongest emperor realm cultivator competition, but his second brother was eliminated in the second round. Instead, Long Yu passed the third round and entered the fourth round.
According to the strength that Long Yu had shown so far, ordinary people were no match for Long Yu, not to mention those at the peak of the Emperor Realm.
Just the gap between the strongest emperor realm and the strongest emperor realm had allowed Long Yu to improve so much. After the strongest emperor realm, if Long Yu improved again, even if it was only by one realm, he would be able to fight against a Middle-stage Emperor realm cultivator.
At that point, no one in the entire Shenluo Empire would be able to subdue Long Yu, not even the First Prince of the Middle-stage Emperor realm!
Originally, the First Prince of the Shenluo Empire had thought that since Long Yu's cultivation realm had yet to increase, he would still have plenty of opportunities to kill Long Yu. However, he had never imagined that Long Yu's growth would be so heaven-defying. In such a short period of time, he had reached a level where he could fight against ordinary Emperor realm cultivators.
Despair!
This was the feeling that struck the hearts of the people of the Shenluo Empire.
Qin Chang Yue, the patriarch of the Qin Clan in the Sacred City of Five Emperors, was also in despair. Qin Chang Yue was shocked by Long Yu's battle prowess in the strongest Emperor Realm. There was no doubt that the current Qin Chang Yue was no longer Long Yu's opponent.
Although Qin Chang Yue was an Early-stage Emperor realm cultivator, he was no match for Long Yu in other aspects. If he were to fight against Long Yu, he would lose miserably.
Qin Chang Yue's face turned ashen when he thought of the battle to the death between him and Long Yu after the Martial God Conference.
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