Chapter 382: Battle of Hearts and Minds

Wuling Peak, the square in front of the Wushuang Hall was bustling with people and noise.

Today is the final battle of this Tianxiao Realm Competition!

The peak battle of the spiritual silence cultivators!

Before the competition started, the onlookers came early to occupy the advantageous position. The onlookers gathered in groups of three or five, discussing.

"In today's decisive battle, I'm optimistic about Xing Yun!" A peak Spiritual Silence cultivator said with a smile: "It depends on whether Xing Yun intends to hold back on Lin Mu today, or ruthlessly crush Lin Mu."

Someone next to him said indignantly: "You can't say that. Lin Mu has never shown his true strength. I believe that once he shows his strongest attack, he will be the most powerful sword cultivator! Never underestimate a person who can repeatedly create miracles!"

The peak Spiritual Silence cultivator smiled slightly and said: "Lin Mu is indeed strong, but his talent is indeed much worse than Xing Yun, and his true strength may not be as good as Gu Yun! Luck accounts for a large part of his ability to enter the final decisive battle! In this competition, he will definitely lose!"

The person next to him wanted to get angry and argue with him, but he found that the two people's cultivation was not at the same level, so he simply kept silent, left silently, and went to another place to wait for the competition to begin.

Such scenes are common.

In the southwest corner of the square, the scene was even more lively, and the cultivators gathered together densely, in a mess.

"I'll pay one thousand spiritual stones, bet on Xing Yun!" An early stage spiritual solitude cultivator desperately squeezed to the front and said to Ye Xingchen.

Ye Xingchen took the spiritual stone handed over by the other party without looking up, left a spiritual mark on a green jade slip, and then raised his head and handed it to the excited early stage spiritual solitude cultivator in front of him.

As soon as the early stage spiritual solitude cultivator took the jade slip, he was pushed aside. Someone immediately pressed up and handed over a storage bag, smiling and said: "Fifty thousand low-grade spiritual stones, bet on Xing Yun!"

Ye Xingchen wiped the sweat from his forehead, took the spiritual stone, and handed over the jade slip again.

Like him, Dongfang Tanxiao was also very busy and could not stop for a moment. He was already sweating profusely.

Before the big competition, Sikong Pan became even crazier for some reason and changed the odds of Xing Yun to one to two thousand!

This made everyone crazy, especially now!

Many Jindan-stage cultivators from the major sects of the Tianxiao Realm came to bet on Xing Yun, often with hundreds of thousands of low-grade spirit stones, or even millions!

Dongfang Tanxiao really didn't know whether it was worth it for Sikong Pan to do this. Was he just angry with Xing Yun, so he could bet so generously?

Or did he not care about these spirit stones at all?

A few days ago, when he was counting the spirit stones, he was surprised to find that so far, in this gambling game, they had received 300 million low-grade spirit stones!

A full 300 million!

Today, after Sikong Pan changed the odds of Xing Yun to 2,000 times, even the major sects of the Tianxiao Realm couldn't sit still and came to test the waters and want to gamble.

The Wanjian Sect, which bet the most spirit stones, has bet 8 million low-grade spirit stones!

This number made Dongfang Tanxiao, who was numb to spirit stones, smack his lips.

A resource for impacting the Jindan stage is not enough for about 5 million low-grade spirit stones. 8 million low-grade spirit stones can not only cultivate a Jindan cultivator, but also help the Jindan cultivator buy a top-grade magic flying sword!

The Wanjian Sect gambled too much!

But everyone knows that no matter who gambles, it is not as big as Sikong Pan!

He is a real, crazy gambler!

Dongfang Tanxiao was busy with his hands and had no time to care about him. He simply put aside all his concerns. He couldn't intervene in what Sikong Pan was like, and he didn't have the ability. He just took the spirit stones and did his job. Sikong Pan had already given him 10 million low-grade spirit stones in private. As long as this competition was over, he would prepare to condense the Jindan!

Dongfang Tanxiao was excited when he thought about it. As long as he succeeded in condensing the Jindan, he could become the top person in the Tianxiao Realm!

Suddenly!

The crowd was quiet and the noise stopped.

Dongfang Tanxiao was surprised for a moment, and couldn't help looking at Ye Xingchen and Sikong Pan beside him. He found that the two were still as usual, recording the jade slips skillfully. Someone in the crowd shouted excitedly: "Lin Mu is here!"

Immediately, someone smiled and said: "Xing Yun is here too!"

Dongfang Tanxiao looked up and saw two groups of people flying in the sky.

One side was Yinxin and his group, and the other side was Xing Yun and Chu Zhen.

The two people who were the focus of everyone's attention today were all here!

Lin Mu followed Yinxin and others and landed in front of the Wushuang Hall, and smiled and nodded to Xing Yun.

Wushuang Zhenren and the leaders of the ten major sects had already arrived. Seeing that the two had come, they stopped talking and announced in person: "The competition officially begins!"

Lin Mu and Xing Yun nodded slightly, then drove the flying swords and flew to the largest platform in the center of the square.

But to Lin Mu's surprise, Qiu Wei did not come up, and the one who followed was Wushuang Zhenren!

Wushuang Zhenren smiled at the surprised Lin Mu and said, "I will personally judge this competition. Just go for it and show your strongest strength without any worries. Let these tens of thousands of Tianxiao Realm Spiritual Silence cultivators see the gap between themselves and the top cultivators. This will also be a boost for them!"

"Master Wushuang personally judges the competition!" Someone in the audience exclaimed immediately.

"What's so strange about this!" A Jindan-stage cultivator in the crowd said, "Lin Mu and Xing Yun are both stronger than Jindan-mid-stage cultivators. As the most exciting competition in the history of Tianxiao Realm, it is normal for Master Wushuang to personally judge the final battle!"

On the high platform, Master Wushuang smiled and said, "Don't hold back this time." While speaking, he glanced at Xing Yun intentionally or unintentionally.

Lin Mu glanced at Xing Yun, and the two of them smiled and nodded.

Master Wushuang smiled with satisfaction and said, "Of course, this is also a great boost for you! Fighting against a peak-stage master can stimulate your unlimited potential. It's not surprising that one of you two breaks through to the Jindan stage in the competition!"

Break through to the Jindan stage without relying on external objects?

When Lin Mu heard this, he couldn't help but feel that Master Wushuang was joking. Master Wushuang was indeed saying it with a smile. How high a talent does it take to break through to the Jindan stage without relying on external objects? How strong must one be?

Moreover, it does not mean that the stronger one is, the more hopeful one is to reach the Golden Core Stage.

Before, Lin Mu was already at the Half-Step Golden Core Stage, but after losing all his cultivation, he recovered his cultivation again, but only recovered to the peak of the Foundation Establishment Stage, and did not reach the Half-Step Golden Core Stage, because Yin Xin told him that the Half-Step Golden Core Stage was not the best state to reach the Golden Core Stage.

Compared with the peak of the Spiritual Silence Stage, the Half-Step Golden Core Stage is indeed one step closer to the Golden Core Stage, but when reaching the realm, the explosive power and impact force are far less than the peak of the Spiritual Silence Stage!

Because the spiritual power in the body of the cultivators at the Half-Step Golden Core Stage is becoming more and more condensed, almost becoming a semi-liquid and semi-solid state, and the operation is far less swift than the liquid spiritual power at the peak of the Spiritual Silence Stage!

Even though Lin Mu's consciousness and physique are now comparable to those of the Golden Core Stage cultivators, he still does not have the confidence to break through to the Golden Core Stage by himself.

Xing Yun smiled, but his expression did not change at all.

Wushuang Zhenren said with a smile: "I hope you can really show your true strength and make the most brilliant contribution to this competition! Leave the last glory!"

While speaking, Wushuang Zhenren's voice trembled slightly, but he quickly controlled it. He smiled at the two and flew into the air.

The last glory?

Wushuang Zhenren's inexplicable words caused Lin Mu to be puzzled. He was very careful and also found that Wushuang Zhenren's words were unnatural. Indistinctly, he felt that something bad was going to happen!

Xing Yun's face was calm, as if he knew everything.

Lin Mu couldn't help asking: "Brother Xing, do you know the deep meaning of Wushuang Zhenren's words?"

Xing Yun said seriously: "Because Tianxiao Realm is about to face a catastrophe! The entire Tianxiao Realm may be destroyed because of this!"

"Catastrophe? What catastrophe?" Lin Mu asked hurriedly.

In the past few days, he has been concentrating on practicing sword skills and not caring about worldly affairs. As soon as he came out of retreat, he vaguely felt that something seemed to be happening. Seeing that Wushuang Zhenren was abnormal, his feeling became stronger and stronger, and he felt extremely uneasy.

Who would have thought that there would be a great disaster in Tianxiao Realm!

"The cultivators will go to war with the demons, and it will not stop until death. It's either you die or I die!" Xing Yun said solemnly.

"Why?" Lin Mu was shocked and asked, "Why is this happening?"

Xing Yun did not answer directly: "The competition is important now. I will talk to you in detail after the competition is over."

"But don't worry." Seeing Lin Mu's continuous worries, Xing Yun couldn't help but comfort him: "With our Lancai Realm as a backing, you won't suffer any loss. Now just focus on the competition!"

Xing Yun smiled at Lin Mu: "At the beginning, Fairy Nishang told me that you have great potential and are not inferior to me. I didn't believe it, so I came to participate in this competition. Now you and I have entered the final battle. Obviously, Fairy Nishang is not false. You really have great potential!"

"Fairy Nishang said that I have great potential?" Lin Mu was suddenly shocked and confused.

He had never seen Fairy Nishang, so how could this matter come from?

Lin Mu felt something was wrong. Could it be that Fairy Nishang had known him for a long time?

Didn't Yinxin say that she had left Tianxiao Realm for a hundred years?

A series of confusions came to Lin Mu's mind. He was anxious and his heart was surging.

"Yin Xin really did not disappoint Fairy Nishang and trained you to such a powerful level." Xing Yun continued to praise: "Five Elements Sword Body, it is indeed a genius that only appears once in a thousand years!"

This sentence, like a lightning, suddenly struck Lin Mu's heart.

When Xing Yun said this, Lin Mu was in a panic. Many thoughts emerged, even he himself found it unbelievable, it was simply absurd to the extreme!

Did Yin Xin train him from the beginning?

All kinds of thoughts flashed through Lin Mu's mind, and he seemed to understand something vaguely.

Could it be that Yin Xin deliberately planned for him to be accepted as a disciple by Luo Yan?

Yun Meng took care of him and approached him for no reason. Did she have a motive?

Lin Mu was in a mess.

One by one, the thoughts he didn't want to think about came out one after another, making him sweat.

Could it be that Yinxin had been targeting him since he was a child?

What about the famine that killed so many people in Yanmancheng? Was that also the work of Yinxin?

It was because of that famine that he joined the Qianyu Sword Sect and was accepted as a disciple by Luo Yan.

Lin Mu thought of the Five Elements Ring and Five Elements Mentality that Luo Yan gave him. All of them were extremely rare. How could they be easily given to an ordinary cultivator?

Including the sword tactics and flying swords, they were all from Luo Yan and Yin Xin. Even the sword cultivation was proposed by them!

It turned out that they knew that they were Five Elements Sword Bodies!

In an instant, Lin Mu felt mixed emotions. Many things that seemed beautiful to him before collapsed.

His efforts and persistence were nothing but self-deceiving lies. Everything about him was planned by Yin Xin! Even Yun Meng, who was slightly attracted to him, was controlled by Yin Xin!

Yin Xin and Luo Yan had set up this shocking situation from the beginning, and only he was still in the dark!

A touch of sadness rose in Lin Mu's heart. He was no different from a puppet at the mercy of others!

Xing Yun's few words made Lin Mu so confused that he had no intention of competing anymore!