Past life sage: This life a dual cultivator

"Where is junior sister Yali?", another expert from the Fragrant Lily sect asked after not finding Hu Yali among the cultivators of her sect.

"We have not seen elder Yali since yesterday night", one of the girl from the Fragrant Lily sect replied.

"Strange! What is she doing? It is her responsibility to take you to the venue of grand sect competition", the expert murmured to herself.

A frown appeared on her veil clad face after she waited for a while. She chose not to wait any longer and spread her soul consciousness towards Hu Yali's room.

A look of astonishment appeared on her face after she witnessed the unique condition of Hu Yali. "I can't beleive it. How did she manage to enter into a state of enlightenment?", she muttered to herself with a surprised look on her face.

"Girls, let me arrange someone to escort you. I need to stay here and protect junior sister Yali", the expert spoke to the gathered cultivators from the Fragrant Lily sect.

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The battles were in full swing when Zhan Chen's group reached the venue of the grand sect competition. Thirty three people were already choosen in the previous day. So, the battle of the next day was aimed at selecting other sixty seven participants for the top hundred list.

Zhan Chen chose to cultivate while the crowd was enjoying the fierce battle occuring on the stone platforms. Lu Mingxi seemed to like the serene look on Zhan Chen's face while he was cultivating. So, she looked towards him time to time while everyone was busy watching the competition.

"I wonder how far he will go in this final round", she thought to herself.

Battle continued for hours and winners started to emerge one after another. Without the monstrously talented cultivators like Zhan Chen and Jia Lingyi, the battle became lot easier for the remaining participants. They compete among themselves fiercely and did their best to win three consecutive battles on the rock platforms.

The Spirit palace experts tweaked the norms for selection after few hours of competetion. The cultivators only needed to win two consecutive battles to enter the grand sect competition.

The Spirit palace did so to speed up the competetion and it brought a frenzy among the remaining participants. The competition became lot easier compared to before but it brought up the fear of elimination among the remaining participants.

Everyone was eager to enter the stone platforms as sooon as possible and it made the battles more competetive than before.

Fierce battles were fought among the remaining participants and gradually winners started to emerge who managed to achieve two victories consecutively.

The battle continued for few more hours and it was almost noon when all hundred cultivators got selected for the top hundred list.

"Now, let's come to the most exciting part of the competition. We have designed a special test for the cultivators in the top hundred list.

It will be a three layered test. The cultivator who will pass the three layered test in the least possible time will be declared as the winner of the competition.

Other ranks will also be declared according to their results in the three layered test", one of the Spirit palace expert declared.

A commotion erupted amongst the crowd after they heard the announcement of the Spirit palace. "There will be no more battle?", a cultivator asked his companion with confusion all over his face.

"I don't know but the test must be interesting. I want to see how the Spirit palace will select the top ten and the winner of the competition", his companion replied.

"A test! That will surely dampen the mood. I was looking forward to see the battles among the top ten competetors", another person added from the side.

The Spirit palace did nothing to adress the doubts emerging in the minds of the crowd. Rather, they chose to gathers all the participants in the top hundred list.

"Congratulation, everyone. All of you have performed splendidly in the competetion.

Majority of you may be wondering what is the purpose of selecting top hundred instead of top ten cultivators?", the spirit palace expert looked towards the all top hundred participants.

All the young cultivators nodded their heads as they were really curious about the reason for such a change. They looked towards the Spirit palace expert for an answer after hearing his words.

"Let me answer that for you", a melodious voice interrupted their conversation. Zhan Chen turned his head and a look of interest appeared on his face after he saw the upcoming visitor.

"It is the second princess!", an uproar came from the crowd after they heard the melodious voice. All of their gazes turned towards the sky from where the melodious voice was coming.

A graceful figure appeared infront of the top hundred cultivators as they were waiting for the reply from the Spirit palace expert. All of them seemed to be hooked by the appearance of the graceful figure as their eyes stayed on the veil clad beauty who had just appeared.

"Greetings princess", all the cultivators bowed their heads slightly to show their respect for the imperial family.

"Congratulation everyone. This time my imperial family will select fifty cultivators among you. So, some of you will have a chance to talk with me later", the second princess spoke with a smile on her face.

"Now, let's talk about the reason for the changes in this year's competition. All of you will understand after seeing something I have brought along with me", she spoke and clapped her hands softly.

"Roar!", a beastly cry came from the distant sky and everyone saw the faint appearance of a mighty creature. The creature gradually became clearer and an awestruck look appeared on everyone's face after they witnessed the appearance of the majestic crrature.

"A four winged sky dragon!", Zhan Chen muttered under his breath after seeing the mighty beast in the sky. The creature gradually got closer to the top hundred participants and descended towards the ground after reaching near the location of second princess.

A solemn expression appeared on the face of Spirit palace experts after they witnessed the mighty creature in the sky. Zhan Chen felt many formidable soul consciousness on the four winged sky dragon after it landed near the second princess.

The target of the formidable experts was not the four winged sky dragon itself rather they were observing a cage placed atop the huge body of the sky dragon.

The top hundred participants were able to see the cage after the four winged sky dragon landed on the ground. A disgusting look appeared on many girls' faces after they observed the creature bound inside the cage.

The creature had a humanoid appearance and strange looking eyes. His lower half was similar to that of a human but his upper body part was completely beast like.

He had three horns protruding out of his head and had a bulky body. There were two strips of hardened skins on both of his cheeks. His arms were bulky and muscular and there were two sharp bones protruding out of his elbows.

His eyes were gleaming time to time and he looked towards the crowd with a ferocious look on his face. The voice from the crowd had subsided after they witnessed the otherworldly creature brought by the imperial family. Many had fearful look on their faces as they observed the monstrosity infront of them.