Hearing Zheng Xian's words, Yang Qi could not help but nod his head. Zheng Xian's view was not wrong. He was indeed a little reckless this time, but he was also confident in his own strength. Even if Zheng Xian had been prepared, he had made some progress compared to when he fought Baili Xiang in Tianwu Continent. Moreover, he did not go all out in the previous fight, so he might have won!
"Thank you, Senior Brother Zheng, for reminding me. I will be careful." Yang Qi nodded, and then said seriously, "But a follower of Zheng Xian underestimated my Qingdi Palace and Tianwu lineage. It's really too much. If I don't fight, it will make outsiders look down on us."
"this… "
After hearing this, Zheng Xian opened his mouth and his expression became extremely complicated. After a moment, he sighed and said, "Over the years, our Qingdi Palace has indeed declined a lot."
As for the decline of the Green Emperor Palace, not only Zheng Xian, the old man of the Green Emperor Palace, but even Yang Qi himself had noticed this after flipping through the classics in the Gongfa Hall. The cultivation world has always respected strength, and the Zhenwu Sect has implemented a sect system with many factions, so the competition between factions is naturally more intense.
“Although strength is respected in the cultivation world, strength is gained through fighting. If you keep retreating, it will only make others more unscrupulous.” Yang Qi said calmly.
Hearing this, Zheng Xian couldn't help but fall silent. It is a consensus in the cultivation world that the strong are respected, but apart from the strong, there is another type of practitioners that people are wary of, and that is the practitioners who protect their shortcomings!
Once you provoke this kind of practitioners, you will get into endless trouble, so most practitioners are unwilling to provoke those practitioners who protect their own shortcomings.
It is a fact that the Green Emperor Palace is declining in strength, but if it cannot even protect its own shortcomings and safeguard itself, then even if the Green Emperor Palace is not declining in strength, it is doomed to decline!
"Maybe you are right." Zheng Xian looked at Yang Qi with a complicated expression.
The Qingdi Palace's tolerance and concession over the years did not make other factions stop, but instead made more factions indifferent to the Qingdi Palace. This tolerance and concession may be wrong!
Zheng Xian looked at Yang Qi in front of him and said slowly, "But let's talk about this after you win."
Only with sufficient strength can one have enough confidence. If this challenge fails, what Yang Qi said will be nothing but a joke, and the Qingdi Palace will only be looked down upon even more.
Looking at Zheng Xian leaving, Yang Qi couldn't help but nod secretly. He must win this challenge, not only for the Qingdi Palace, but also for the restoration of the reputation of Emperor Haoyang!
The day of this challenge is more than half a month later. Because Wei Yi has just broken through to the middle stage of the five-star martial emperor, it means that he can suppress his own cultivation to the middle stage of the five-star martial emperor. The gap between a cultivator who suppresses his cultivation and a cultivator who has just broken through to the middle stage of the five-star martial emperor is greater than that between a cultivator who suppresses his cultivation and a cultivator who has practiced in the early stage of the five-star martial emperor for a period of time!
Therefore, after accepting the challenge, Yang Qi began to retreat again, striving to improve his strength in the next half month.
Just when Yang Qi was in seclusion, the middle-aged man who was responsible for delivering the challenge letter rushed back to Wei Yi's palace and reported to Wei Yi that Yang Qi had accepted the challenge.
"Well done." Upon hearing this, Wei Yi looked at the middle-aged man with appreciation. Although the middle-aged man took a little longer, at least he achieved his goal.
The middle-aged man's face lit up, and he continued, "Sir, according to my investigation, Yang Qi seems to have just broken through to the middle stage of the Five-Star Martial Emperor."
"God is helping me!"
Hearing this, Wei Yi couldn't help but laugh.
He had seen the footage of Yang Qi participating in the competition in Tianwu Continent, and naturally saw that Yang Qi was quite strong. Under the suppression of his cultivation, he could not be afraid of Yang Qi's soul attack, but it was not so easy to defeat Yang Qi head-on. Now that Yang Qi's cultivation had broken through, it actually made his chances of winning higher, which was naturally a happy event.
Wei Yi's eyes narrowed as he looked at the middle-aged man in front of him and said, "This time the competition will be held in the outer city. During this period of time, immediately spread the news to me. I hope that as many practitioners as possible will watch the competition. Do you understand?"
"Yes, sir!"
The middle-aged man nodded, and then quickly left the palace.
"If I win this battle, even if I can't get the quota directly from Yang Qi, Master can take this opportunity to mediate for me." A gleam of brilliance flashed in Wei Yi's eyes, and he said with a cold smile, "A cultivator who came out of nowhere dares to take away this young master's opportunity!"
The person who was most angry about the opportunity being taken away was not Emperor Jialuo, but Wei Yi. After all, Emperor Jialuo had told him about this opportunity a long time ago, and he had even prepared for it for a while. Who would have thought that the opportunity he had was snatched away by someone else? As for the leader of the Zhenwu Sect, not to mention him, even his master did not dare to refute him, but they were not afraid of the unknown Yang Qi in the Qing Emperor Palace!
"I will definitely teach your Qingdi Palace a lesson this time, so that you can clearly realize that the current Qingdi Palace is not the same as it was before!" Wei Yi said with a gloomy face.
With the publicity from Wei Yi, the news about the battle between Yang Qi and Wei Yi in the ring had spread throughout the Zhenwu Sect, and even some practitioners in the Zhenwu Star Region had heard the news. Many practitioners privately praised this battle as a competition between the first genius of the Qingdi Palace in billions of years and the genius of the Jiaye Emperor's lineage. Jiaye Emperor was the ancestor of the Jialuo Emperor's lineage. Although he was called the ancestor, in fact, Jiaye Emperor's lineage belonged to the emerging forces of the Zhenwu Sect, and the history of existence was less than one billion years, which could not be compared with the history of the old forces like the Qingdi Palace.
The conflict between the new and old forces of the Zhenwu Sect was already very fierce. What was involved now was a competition between the fastest-growing lineage of Emperor Jiaye in the past 10 billion years and the oldest lineage of Emperor Qing, who were both mid-level Martial Emperor geniuses. Therefore, after the news spread, it immediately attracted countless practitioners, and even some powerful people who came from the Zhenwu star field.
The outside world was in turmoil, but Yang Qi, who was in seclusion, was immersed in cultivation. He was completely unaware of what was happening in the outside world. He only ended his seclusion when there were only three days left before the challenge.
"Yang Qi, come quickly."
As soon as Yang Qi finished his retreat, he received a message from Emperor Haoyue.
Yang Qi checked the information on the message token and sighed in his heart, "It seems that Emperor Haoyue also knows about the battle between Wei Yi and I. I hope he supports my decision."
The Qingdi Palace has been enduring and making concessions over the years. Ultimately, it must be related to the top leaders of the Qingdi Palace and the Palace Master, Emperor Haoyue. Now that he rashly accepts Wei Yi's challenge, Emperor Haoyue may not agree.
Shaking his head, Yang Qi stopped thinking about it, and left the palace in a flash, heading towards the cave of Emperor Haoyue. (To be continued)