Jade Lake Pageant

Jade Lake Pageant (瑶池盛会 yaochi shenghui), organized by the Skywood Divine Palace in the Southern Xuan Region. It is held in the Jade Lake Sacred Land.
== Invitation letter ==
Guo Ran hastily handed a letter over. Long Chen opened it and saw Chu Yao’s graceful handwriting. The general meaning was that the three of them were very happy in the Skywood Divine Palace, and they were accompanying Chu Yao’s master and getting her cultivation pointers.
Originally, they had planned on returning after a few days, but the Skywood Divine Palace’s Jade Lake Pageant was about to start. That pageant was a heaven-sent opportunity for soul cultivators.
The three of them were planning on participating, and they also wanted Long Chen to come too. Chu Yao vaguely hinted that there was something inside that could change Tang Wan-er’s life.
However, the Jade Lake Pageant was something that would gather all the elites of the Southern Xuan Region. Even soul cultivators from other regions would come. Chu Yao and Meng Qi alone didn’t feel any guarantee in getting what Tang Wan-er needed, so they hoped Long Chen could come too.
This letter was written a month ago, but he had been in seclusion in the Heaven Splitting Battle Sect. Although Guo Ran had personally taken a trip to the Heaven Splitting Battle Sect to tell the seven bosses to notify Long Chen about this as soon as he came out, the Heaven Splitting Battle Sect’s men really were coarse. Guo Ran’s words had gone in one ear and out the other.
Going to the Southern Xuan Region means passing through the Ancient Battlefield.
== Venue ==
There was a huge channel in front of the transportation formation. The entire path was packed full of people that stretched as far as he could see. All these disciples that had come to register were Soul Transformation experts. Furthermore, the majority were women. This was Long Chen’s first time seeing so many female cultivators gathered in one place.
== Requirements ==
There are two requirements to attend the Jade Lake Pageant. One is that you must be a soul cultivator whose Spiritual Strength reaches a certain standard. The other is the vouching of your sect to guarantee your identity. There’s quite a fee for attending, and that fee is normally paid by the sect. Without it, they won’t let you in.
Geniuses from other regions can attend, but in order to show consideration to the people of this region, the test standards for them are increased by a hundred times. 
Quite a few people were shocked that Long Chen came from a different region. There were very few disciples from other regions that had the power to attend the Jade Lake Pageant. The test was something only a few strong soul cultivators could pass, and to have its difficulty increased by a hundred times made it almost impossible.
“For natives, their soul value must reach ten thousand points to enter. As for you, you’ll need to reach one million points at least. Di Xin also had to take this test to enter, so we aren’t being biased. Of this, you can be sure,” said the disciple.
“Normally, we just need to use the spirit testing stone, but it caps out at twenty thousand points. You’ll need to use the spirit testing tablet.”
The Skywood Divine Palace’s Jade Lake Pageant required participants to be at the Soul Transformation realm and have a soul value of 10k points. That made countless geniuses cry in private.
Even Empyreans wouldn’t necessarily have such powerful Spiritual Strength, and if they didn’t, then not even Empyreans would be allowed to attend the Jade Lake Pageant.
== People ==
Everyone here was a genius, and even the weakest was a rank seven Celestial.
After seeing the perverted man being beaten, quite a few other men’s expressions changed. Feeling a bit guilty, they became much more reserved. No one wanted to become the next target.
There was a saying that a person’s accomplishments were three parts destiny, seven parts hard work, and ninety parts looks. This perverted man was a perfect example. Everyone else was fine, but only he was beaten so badly. He used himself to prove that in the end, having a decent face was still very important.
In the chaos, Long Chen took out a cloak and put on the hood, covering the majority of his face.
Although this place was the Southern Xuan Region, his fame from the Eastern Xuan Region was too resounding. Just this first woman had felt him to be familiar. She had to have seen him in a photographic jade.
=== Han family ===
Han Feifei and the Han family arrive too. Lady Han had a violet golden invitation card and could enter without registering.
One of the Han family members was a whip expert, and his movements were very skilled. His whip was like a living viper, which had countless barbs on it. Anyone struck would be in immense pain. There was also a special poison on it that would cause scars even if Heavenly Dao energy was used.
Long Chen caught his whip. His hand moved so fast that others couldn’t even see it. The expert tried to pull back his whip, and the whip’s runes lit up. It was a powerful Ancestral item. However, no matter what he did, the whip was like a little snake caught in Long Chen’s grasp. He couldn’t pull it out.
“You should bless your luck. If the weather wasn’t good today, you’d be a corpse. Scram!”
Long Chen shook his hand ever so slightly. That expert coughed up blood, while every inch of his whip exploded, its fragments scattering through the air.
=== Skywood Divine Palace ===
The one who had appeared was a young woman in emerald-green robes. She was one of the Skywood Divine Palace’s Elders. As a wood cultivator, she gave off a gentle feeling. She was a Life Star expert. Following her shout, those people stopped, glaring at Long Chen.
=== Person who ate stones ===
That fellow exploded into blood mist, and even his Yuan Spirit exploded. He was fully and completely dead.
Although that man who was killed had been told by others that the cloaked person was Long Chen, he had felt that Wang Shan was the peak heavenly genius of the Southern Xuan Region and thus shouldn’t be any weaker than Long Chen. So even if that person was Long Chen, Wang Shan should be able to protect him. So he had told Wang Shan about how Long Chen had said disrespectful things about Di Xin with exaggerated details, all so that Wang Shan would handle Long Chen.
Even if Wang Shan wasn’t able to defeat Long Chen, he had presumed that the two of them would have a mighty fight of giants. That would at least be some vengeance for making him eat stones.
However, he had never expected that even before a challenge was issued, Long Chen would instantly capture him. By the time he regretted it, it was too late.
The blood mist slowly dissipated. A rank eight Celestial was slain just like that.
== Trivia ==
*Jade Lake (瑶池 yaochi), same hanzi as in Jade Lake Sacred Land
==References==
Category:Event
Category:Southern Xuan Region