Chapter 41: Receiving Rewards (Part 1)

  The entire outer gate square was in an uproar, all the outer gate disciples were shocked and astonished!

  Xuān Tiān broke through in the final, reversing the situation, severely injuring Yáng Dǐng Jūn and taking first place in the outer sect. All of this was almost unbelievable to some of the outer sect disciples.

  Especially those elite disciples who shouted "Yang Shixiong is invincible; Yang Shixiong is the first!" earlier, couldn't accept it even more.

  In their hearts, unless it was a master of the Innate Realm, no one could defeat Yang Dingjun. Among the warriors in the Martial Dao Realm, Yang Dingjun was an unbeatable existence, an invincible existence.

  But this idea in their hearts was shattered by Xuan Tian's ruthless blow.

  Xuantian not only defeated Yang Dingjun, shattering his invincible and undefeated legend, but also, Xuantian's cultivation was less than the tenth level of the Martial Path, just nine levels of cultivation, yet he defeated Yang Dingjun in a higher level.

  Such a result is undoubtedly a kind of devastation for those disciples who worship Yang Dingjun, and their minds will collapse instantly.

  The disciples who supported Yang Dingjun were all pale, their idols shattered in their hearts. The disciples who supported Xuan Tian, after being shocked, were followed by cheers like a landslide and tsunami, deafening the ears.

  "Huang Shixiong, first place! Huang Shixiong, first place!"

  "Huang Shixiong, first place! Huang Shixiong, first place!"

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  A large number of outer sect disciples went wild with cheers.

  The myth in their hearts continues, the miracle continues, the legend continues. The ranking competition came to an end, Xuan Tian defeated all his opponents and took first place, letting their emotions soar with excitement, hot blood boiling, passion bursting forth.

  Among the outer disciples, no one was more emotionally stirred than Ma Kun.

  In the midst of cheers, Ma Huang was almost excited to jump up, Yang Shixiong lost, and the 30,000 taels of silver tickets bought by Zheng Yuhong all fell into his pocket. This time, he not only didn't lose money but also made a huge profit of over 30,000 taels of silver tickets.

  "Huang Shixiong, you are my guiding light, illuminating the path ahead in the darkness. My admiration for you is like a boundless river, endless and unstoppable, overflowing like a flood that cannot be contained. I want to worship you!"

  The horse was so frightened that it let out a loud whinny.

  However, he immediately thought that the senior brother who bought Yang Sheng's victory was a giant disciple of the tenth rank of martial arts, and last time he lost 10,000 taels of silver to Lin Dong, he wanted to default on the debt.

  This time, someone lost 30,000 taels of silver to him, and it's inevitable that the top-notch disciple would also default on his debt. If he were to ask for it back, facing the pressure from the top-notch disciple, Ma Kan wouldn't dare to resist too much.

  "Of the thirty-six strategies, retreat is the best one. He wants to find me but I won't give him the chance. I'll go out and travel for a few months, he'll want to find me but won't be able to... haha!"

  Ma thought to himself, and suddenly he was weaving in and out of the dense crowd of outer sect disciples. After compensating some of the disciples who had bought the Xuan Tian Sheng with silver, he slowly squeezed his way out of the square and left early.

  Ma was worried in his heart and Zheng Yuhong regretted it.

  Thirty thousand taels of silver, even Yang Dingjun, after two months of training outside, only earned more than eighty thousand taels of silver. Zheng Yuhong's external training, the effect of killing demon beasts is at least one level worse than Yang Dingjun, thirty thousand taels of silver, which is at least his earnings for a month.

  The tenth level of martial arts cultivation requires high-quality elixirs, such as the top-grade Washing Marrow Elixir and Condensing Qi Elixir. Each pill costs 9,000 taels of silver. Zheng Yuhong's earnings are not enough to cover his expenses, and he needs financial support from his family to barely maintain his cultivation. For more than twenty days a month, he can take the elixirs to cultivate.

  Thirty thousand taels of silver is also a considerable sum for Zheng Yuhong.

  However, when Zheng Yuhong wanted to regret and find Ma Kun, Ma Kun had already disappeared. The outer gate square was crowded with people, and he was not familiar with Ma Kun at all. He couldn't find Ma Kun from the dense crowd of outer gate disciples. Moreover, Ma Kun had already slipped away to the edge of the square.

  "Haha!" Lin Wuying and Li Yichang both burst out laughing, saying: "Zheng Shidi, in terms of insight, you're still far inferior to us. Don't look down on Huang Shixiong, spending 30,000 taels of silver to gain a lesson is worth it."

  The giant disciples next to him all burst out laughing, although many of them had previously looked up to Yang Dingjun, but they had not expressed their opinions, unlike Zheng Yuhong, who spent 30,000 taels of silver to prove that his view was correct and now they were also happy to mock Zheng Yuhong.

  Zheng Yuhong's face turned iron-green, and he was ridiculed by the giants. His face was lost, and Zhu Dan beside him also had a gloomy face. Earlier, she also vowed that Yang Shixiong would win, but Xuan Tian used the actual situation to slap both of them in the face.

  Bai Zhanhe looked at Xuan Tian and muttered, "In just a few months, his cultivation has risen from the fourth level of the Martial Path to the ninth level. Even Chu Feng, my senior brother, didn't have such a rapid cultivation speed back then. Huang Tian entered the sect and was unremarkable for several years, but why did he suddenly explode with such rapid progress in these few months? Could it be that the legendary 'enlightenment' really exists?"

  Opposite mountain peak!

  Ling Xing Yue stood up and said: "Grandfather, what's wrong?"

  The old man with white hair raised his right hand and stroked the white whiskers under his forehead, saying: "The sword techniques he uses are all sword techniques that our sect does not have."

  Ling Xing Yue furrowed her brow and said: "Could it be a family-transmitted sword technique?"

  The old man with white hair nodded his head and said, "No, I'm afraid there's no such sword technique in the world. This is a self-created sword technique that combines the moves of the Wind Chasing Sword Method and the realm of the Absolute Shadow Sword Method. This child's understanding of the Absolute Shadow Sword Method is absolutely not just about emergency inspiration, he has already mastered the realm of the Absolute Shadow Sword Method."

  Ling Xingyue said: "Could it be that he has already mastered the Absolute Shadow Sword Technique?"

  The old man with white hair said, "This can't be confirmed, but what can be confirmed is that his understanding of the realm of sword techniques is not ordinary. In the future, he will definitely understand the intent of the sword. With only a cultivation base of Wu Dao Realm 8 or 9, he was able to grasp the intent of the Absolute Shadow Sword Technique. In the future, when he understands the intent of the sword, it will definitely be earlier than that kid Chu Feng."

  Ling Xueyue exclaimed, "Brother Chu Feng is already at the third level of the Pre-Heaven Realm and has grasped the intent of the sword. Grandfather, apart from you, no one in the entire Tianjian Sect surpasses him. Didn't you say that Brother Chu Feng is a once-in-a-century genius of the sword path?"

  An old man with white hair said, "In our sect, Chu Feng is indeed a rare talent that appears only once in a hundred years. However, the land of Shen Zhou has produced many talents, including ten-year-olds who have entered the Pre-Heavenly stage and grasped the intent of the sword at the age of ten. The Divine Knife Dynasty is just one small part of the vast land of Shen Zhou, merely a sixth-grade power. Compared to all the talents in the entire land of Shen Zhou, both Grandfather and Chu Feng are nothing."

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  "Tenth round, final match, Huang Tian vs Yang Dingjun, Huang Tian wins, ranked first, becomes this year's ranking tournament, Outer Gate First Disciple, and receives the reward: a high-grade Condensed True Dan."

  The outer gate square, Han Chang came to the stage, he raised his hand, and all the voices immediately fell silent. Then, Han Chang announced the result of this match, as well as the reward for the first disciple of the outer gate.

  The outer door disciples who had just calmed down suddenly burst into another round of shocked cries.

  Ningzhen Dan is not an ordinary dan medicine, it's a Xuan-level dan medicine that can only be refined by a Xuan-level dan medicine master.

  Dan medicine and Gongfa Wujiquan are also divided into four levels: Tian, Di, Xuan, and Huang.

  The elixirs required for the Martial Realm, whether it's Tempering Body Elixir, Marrow Washing Elixir, or Qi Condensing Elixir, are all low-grade elixirs. A low-grade elixir master can refine them. Although there are few elixir masters, most of them remain at the level of a low-grade elixir master. Therefore, relatively speaking, low-grade elixir masters are more common. In Xuan Tian Sect alone, there are dozens of them.

  But the number of Xuan-level pill alchemists has greatly decreased, and in the entire Xuantian Sect, there are only three Xuan-level pill alchemists who can refine Xuan-level pills, all of whom are exceptionally high-ranking inner sect elders.

  Ningzhen Dan was actually made by the inner sect elder of a Xuanji-level dan medicine master, and it's impossible to see it in the outer sect normally.

  The effect of Ningzhen Dan is to help martial artists at the 10th level of Wu Dao, convert their internal energy into Xiantian True Qi, with a certain probability, allowing the martial artist's cultivation to break through to the Xiantian realm.

  The Genuine Elixir is divided into three grades: lower, middle and upper. The quality of each grade differs, and the probability of breaking through the Innate Boundary also varies accordingly.

  Low-grade Condensed True Pill has a 50% success rate; Mid-grade Condensed True Pill has a 70% success rate; High-grade Condensed True Pill has a 90% success rate.

  Every year, the ranking of the Disciple Competition, the reward for the first place in the Outer Sect, is only a single Low-Grade Concentrated True Dan. But this year, it's actually rewarding an Upper-Grade Concentrated True Dan, its value at least three times that of a Low-Grade Concentrated True Dan. How could the numerous Outer Sect disciples not be shocked?

  Xuántiān's face also showed a happy smile. The higher the quality of the reward's Condensed True Dan, the higher its value.

  A low-grade Condensed True Pill is worth around 600,000 to 700,000 taels of silver, while a high-grade one should be around 2 million taels of silver. Compared to yellow-grade pills, it's absolutely priceless.

  "Thanks to the sect, thanks to the elder!" Xuan Tian took over the reward from Elder Han's hand, which was a black and shiny jade box.

  Xuantian opened it and took a look. It was indeed a high-quality Condensed True Dan, about the size of two thumbs, as white as jade, without any impurities.

  "This year's ranking competition, second place, Yang Dingjun, reward sect merit 50,000 points. Third place, Bai Zhanhe, reward sect merit 20,000 points. Fourth to tenth place, all reward sect merit 5,000 points, can be exchanged for silver coins, must go to the Merit Hall to receive in person. This year's ranking competition is now over!"

  Then, Elder Han announced the names of the second and third disciples, as well as the rewards for those ranked up to tenth place, bringing an end to this ranking competition.

  This year's Outer Disciple Ranking Tournament ended in a way that no one could have predicted. No one expected that at the beginning of the tournament, Xuan Tian, who was only at the 8th level of Wudao Realm, would defeat all his opponents and take first place.

  The ranking competition ended, and every outer disciple looked at Xuantian's gaze with admiration and envy. Even those who didn't get along with Xuantian had only fear in their eyes at this moment.

  For Xuan Tian, ranking and reputation were secondary, what was most important was that he had obtained the reward for first place: a high-quality Condensed True Pill.

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