“Disciple Ning Cheng has met the Patriarch.” After saluting, Ning Cheng slightly sized up the white-faced, beardless middle-aged man in front of him. At the same time, he secretly thought in his heart that judging from his cultivation level, the Patriarch of the Fallen Rainbow Sword Sect, Rui Bai Shan, was much weaker than the Daoist Master of the Heavenly Dao Sect.
“Well, the divine sense and true essence are indeed strong.” Rui Baishan said in a gentle tone, the first time he saw Ning Cheng, he knew that Ning Cheng’s divine sense was extremely strong.
On the side, Elder Bei suddenly smiled and said, “Ning Cheng, the Patriarch is gentle, you should relax a little.”
Ning Cheng laughed in his heart, he had never been nervous from the beginning to the end, what did he mean by relaxing some?
Rui Bai Shan said with a smile, “Ning Cheng is not half nervous, how did you talk to Yin Kongchan of the Drifting Snow Palace and Xu Yingdie of the Zhangyi Dao Sect?”
Ning Cheng scratched his head in embarrassment and said, “I wanted to end it all together, but the two of them are not very good at getting along.”
“What, you want both of them?” Elder Pei, who was relatively honest, immediately asked with some surprise.
This was what Ning Cheng was waiting for, and he said with a heated smile, “Although there were no negotiations, it has been agreed that when we wait for the Grand Competition, we will all get along and look around together and then walk around. So after the Grand Competition, I might have to return to the sect a little later.”
Elder Bei and Tantai Fei looked at each other, this Ning Cheng was a little too powerful, right? How could he even have this kind of ability?
Once again, Rui Bai Shan laughed, “Ning Cheng, it is good to grasp some things for yourself, just don’t suffer any losses. I have called you here today to ask you about one more thing. Because you have been in seclusion before, you did not participate in the sect’s Grand Competition registration. This time, my Lok Hong Sword Sect’s result is very poor, and it might be much worse than last time. I want you to temporarily replace Ham Cai Xue and enter the Xuan Dan realm disciples in the finals, what do you think?”
Ning Cheng had long guessed that this would be the case, and he said without any half-hearted reluctance, “Sect Master, Elders, I have always been a disciple of the Rainbow Fallen Sword Sect. It is only natural for me to contribute to the sect, and I will never resist.”
“Good, Ning Cheng I really did not misjudge you.” Elder Bei said with a clap of his hands.
“It won’t just be contributing, those who enter the top hundred in this sect competition will have supreme honor and even a generous reward.” Patriarch Rui Baishan smiled and said.
Ning Cheng had not thought of this, and now that the Patriarch had said this, he immediately thought of Xian Caixue, who had given up her position to him, and quickly said, “Patriarch, wouldn’t Senior Sister Xian suffer a great loss in that case?”
“No, the clan will compensate her. Besides, she can’t get many points for her strength.” Another elder whom Ning Cheng did not know said.
After a brief pause, Ning Cheng said, “How about this, my reward will be divided with Senior Sister Xian Caixue, I have been cultivating in the sect’s small spiritual domain and have already received many benefits from the sect, so I cannot take advantage of Senior Sister for nothing.”
Ruibai Shan nodded, he felt that Ning Cheng was indeed good, at least not the kind of person who was incredibly greedy. Moreover, Ning Cheng had another secret that he did not tell, that was Ning Cheng’s formation level was definitely not bad.
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The most central place in the Heavenly Dao Plaza was the place where this sect competition was held.
Today it was once again packed with cultivators, and unlike the preliminary rounds, there was originally ten rings, but now only one remained. And whether it was the competition in the Yuan Building and Xuan Dan realms, or the Yuan Soul realm and the Transgression, in the final, it was this one ring.
As for the Xuan Liquid realm, it is not a part of the clan competition. The overall strength of a clan is measured by the strength or weakness of the disciples of the Yuan Building Realm, Xuan Dan Realm and Yuan Soul Realm. Of course, the one that takes the most points is the Crossover Challenge. But if you are far stronger than your peers, you can get high points at any level.
The final of the Yuan Building Realm has already been competed, and today is the start of the Xuan Dan Realm final. Normally, there would not be so many people coming to the Xuan Dan realm tournament, only the Yuan Soul realm tournament and the crossover tournament would be filled with people. The reason why so many people had come this time was mainly to see that Ning Cheng of the Rainbow Fallen Sword Sect.
According to the speculation of all the sects, Ning Cheng would definitely represent the Rainbow Fallen Sword Sect in the Xuan Dan Realm cultivator’s final.
The final of the sect competition was a challenge system, where any cultivator who passed the preliminary round could go up on stage and be the ringmaster, accepting challenges from ninety-nine other people.
One point is accumulated for one win, and ten points for ten consecutive wins. But one point will be deducted for a loss. Every cultivator has one bottom point after passing the preliminary round. Any cultivator who has reached a negative number of points is disqualified from the challenge. That means you have one point, but you lose two games in a row, then sorry, you are a negative point and will be eliminated straight away. Moreover, your negative points will need to be paid for by the clan and will be added directly to the clan’s total points, causing the total points to drop.
Of course if you win ten matches, even if you lose nine in a row, you will still be allowed to play on stage as long as your score is still above zero. This competition is under your control, for example if you win ten points and you don’t want to compete in the following competitions, you can withdraw with your points. This is because the Top Ten Clan Judging Competition ends up calculating cumulative points and will not stop counting points just because you quit in the middle and did not get first place. Your points will also be counted towards the clan’s total score.
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“Big brother Ning, if I had known you were coming over, I would have waited a few days to come over with you.” Liang Kexin said with great joy, she had gained a lot in the past few days. When she heard that Ning Cheng had arrived at the Heavenly Dao Square, she had only just found Ning Cheng.
Ning Cheng smiled and said, “Senior sister Kexin, when we were both Xuan Liquid cultivators, congratulations on your current advancement to the Yuan Soul realm.”
Liang Kexin bristled and said, “This Yuan Soul Realm of mine is not enough for Brother Ning to slap me, I know it in my own heart. You must take first place in the Xuan Dan realm this time, big brother Ning ……”
Ning Cheng said in a small voice, “No need to take first place, just give the Rainbow Fallen Sword Sect a chance to enter the top ten sects in the Heaven Continent and that’s about it, I reckon twenty or so points should do it.”
“Twenty or so points is still not number one, that would net twenty wins ……” Liang Kexin spat out her tongue, but she knew Ning Cheng’s strength, although she was surprised, she was not overly surprised.
Ning Cheng shook his head and said, “Look at that guy in the ring, he has already won six games in a row, with his momentum, he will definitely win more than ten games in a row.”
“I know this guy, it’s Shen Buqun of the Yin Yang Dao Sect, he was eleventh in the preliminary evaluation, it looks like he’s eager to take that flying magic treasure.” Liang Kexin said with a hmph.
Ning Cheng let out an oh, “Is there a flying magic treasure reward for the first place in this Xuan Dan realm final?”
Liang Kexin looked at Ning Cheng and said, “You wouldn’t even know about the reward, would you?”
Ning Cheng shook his head, “I really didn’t know, I got the order from the sect master to close down and rest for two days, and then I came to participate in the competition.”
Liang Kexin said speechlessly, “You are really broad-minded, the first place of this Xuan Dan Realm Competition has a special Soul Condensation Pill as a reward, and there are also ten million spirit stones.”
“So generous?” Ning Cheng’s mouth almost dropped when he heard about the Extraordinary Soul Condensation Pill. He had gone through a lot of trouble and deception, but he had only obtained a top grade Soul Condensation Pill. If he had known that there were Extraordinary Soul Condensation Pills here, he would have come to the competition by all means.
Liang Kexin said with slight contempt, “What do you call this generous, this is only the first prize. Once the first place score reaches 30 points or more, there will be an additional reward of an extremely high quality flying spirit weapon. Once the first place score reaches fifty points or more, another Soul Condensation Pill will be added. Once the score reaches eighty points or more, another bottle of Raw Energy Shoot Marrow will be added ……”
“Raw Yuan Bamboo Shoot Marrow?” Ning Cheng stared at Liang Kexin with wide eyes, the Raw Essence Bamboo Shoot Marrow was countless times more precious to him than the Spirit Cleansing True Dew.
A small sip of the Raw Yuan Bamboo Shoot Marrow could restore all of his true essence, better than any spirit pills, and it also had no elixir poison and recovered quickly. He had not expected such a generous reward in the midst of such a competition. According to the lightness of this reward, wouldn’t that be even more for the Yuan Soul realm competition and the level crossing competition?
This was Ning Cheng’s ignorance of the rules of the rewards, even if the rewards for the Elemental Soul Realm were at most just a higher grade of pills, they would not be more. One had to know how difficult it was to get more than thirty points in the Xuan Dan realm competition. Even if you are strong, your true essence is still limited. And which one of those who can participate in this competition is not powerful?
“Senior sister Kexin, I’m not going to talk nonsense with you. I’m going to get my prize, by the way, if I’m not in the sect, you have to remember to look after the cave for me.” After Ning Cheng finished speaking, he had already flown and landed on the tournament stage.
At this moment, a XuanDan 8th level cultivator had just been blasted off the ring, and he almost passed by Ning Cheng on the wrong side.
“Ning Cheng went up ……”
“Ning Cheng of the Lok Hong Sword Sect has gone up ……”
“Yes, it’s that Ning Cheng who took out a bucket of Spirit Cleansing True Dew, stirred up a feud between the Big Easy Island and the Red Star Sword Sect, and even brought out the Dao Master ……”