jdhmnovel Chapter 405 Hunting Battle 7
Chapter 405 Hunting Battle 7
After winning the battle, Cheng Jiu didn't linger. He quickly treated the other's injuries to prevent them from worsening, and then skillfully scooped up the crystal from the other's waist.
Having earned the points, Cheng Jiu left without a second thought.
He will probably be forced to withdraw from the competition, given his current condition; he can no longer participate even if he wanted to.
As for his ranking, that depends on his luck!
However, having come this far, the ranking is merely icing on the cake!
Just as Cheng Jiu had expected, not long after Cheng Jiu left, an elder from the secret realm appeared and took him away.
This is a genius disciple of the Dragon Abyss Sect. We can't afford any accidents to happen to him here. We need to send him to Medicine King Valley for treatment as soon as possible to avoid any aftereffects.
The disappearance of a powerful opponent was noticed by everyone remaining in the secret realm.
This is a top ten disciple, and he also noticed Wang Qiu's opponent.
They couldn't help but be secretly shocked by Cheng Jiu's strength.
After that, all the disciples in the secret realm tacitly chose to avoid Cheng Jiu.
All the disciples tacitly agreed on one thing: the title of the first in the Nascent Soul Realm was settled!
That young Nascent Soul cultivator was participating in the competition for the first time!
Yu Qiu and Nan Yanzhe, who had noticed Wang Qiu's elimination from a distance, looked at the name at the top of the list and their fighting spirit soared. Their Guiyuan Sect should occupy at least two of the top ten spots!
The first place has been decided, but the remaining rankings will not be settled so easily.
Everyone wants to make a final push during this last period, regardless of their final ranking. But right now, these capable disciples don't want to give up so easily!
So while others were engaged in fierce battles, Cheng Jiu enjoyed a rare period of leisure.
The disciples who encountered her either saw her running away at a distance, or if she couldn't escape, and if there were other disciples, in a three-way situation, Cheng Jiu would definitely be the one eliminated, whether it was before or after.
Those who couldn't escape would only get a good beating from Cheng Jiu and have to pay up their points.
Sitting on a towering tree in the very center of the secret realm, Cheng Jiu held a piece of Golden Winged Sweet Bee Honey in his hand, taking small bites, feeling as lonely as snow in his life.
That disciple seemed to have deliberately bumped into us; he not only obediently handed over his points but also offered us snacks.
When he finally left, he hugged her leg and cried bitterly.
He had only one condition: that Cheng Jiu should no longer get involved in the upcoming battle.
Rushing along, rushing along, it's really scary to suddenly bump into Cheng Jiu!
After hearing the explanation from the Medicine King Valley disciple, Cheng Jiu had no choice but to assume his current position, standing at the highest point, overlooking the secret realm and observing the enemy. (Watching the drama unfold.)
Of course, she also had to keep an eye on the changes in points from time to time. If the second place was less than fifty points behind her, Cheng Jiu would have to make a move to hunt her down.
The difference in scores between the two may simply be too great.
Night Owl's points are rising very rapidly, but there is still a long way to go before Cheng Jiu. He firmly occupies second place on the points leaderboard, and there is a significant gap between him and the third place.
Quan Ling also took advantage of this last bit of time to surge into third place.
Finding enemies and racking up points is still too much of a waste for alchemists.
The rankings of all the alchemists on the leaderboard have declined to varying degrees.
This is unavoidable, after all, most alchemists are not very good at combat!
This kind of head-on confrontation is not something these alchemists are good at.
The Yunxiao Sect disciples, who had originally relied on the terrain, also began to take action.
The crystal map reveals that these Cloud Soaring Sect disciples are constantly flashing around the secret realm, extremely busy, and their battle frequency is the highest among the five major sects.
The other sects have already secured one of the top four spots in the competition. As for the fifth place, the Cloud Soaring Sect absolutely cannot fall too far behind the other sects!
Otherwise, how would we explain it to our junior brothers and sisters when we send them out?
In the past, the Nascent Soul and Golden Core competitions were the most prestigious. This year, the competitions have shifted to Nascent Soul and Deity Transformation, with the Deity Transformation competition in particular determining the rankings in the sect's individual competitions.
"Senior Sister Zewei is really working too hard!"
The female disciple's voice was filled with heartache and anxiety, and the crystal in her hand projected a small screen.
The female disciple stared intently at the intense battle on the screen. As the battle intensified, a thin layer of sweat appeared on her palms.
The girl in white attacked the burly man in brown with a sword. The man was only 2.5 meters tall, which made the girl look extremely petite. Her bronze skin was full of defensive beauty, and at this moment, it was covered with scratches.
Compared to the girl, the tall man was much slower, like a tortoise; even if he threw hundreds of stones at her, he might not be able to touch the hem of her clothes.
On the contrary, his opponent's sword speed was so fast that no afterimage could be seen. Every time his sword fell, it brought out a bit of flesh and blood. Apart from this, it seemed that he had no other advantages besides speed.
The girl fluttered up and down like a butterfly, her white robes now adorned with specks of red plum blossoms, some her own, some others'. Combined with her eerily calm expression, it created an indescribable sense of unease.
Like a murderous puppet, it knows only how to attack and feels no pain whatsoever.
At the strong man's command, countless rock pillars unleashed a rain of javelins, pelting down on Li Zewei.
Faced with terrifying attacks, Li Zewei moved through countless attacks as if walking a tightrope, delicate yet precisely avoiding every fatal crisis.
Li Zewei is a rare lone wolf in the Yunxiao Sect who, after entering the secret realm, did not use the terrain to ambush opponents, but instead wandered freely within the secret realm.
She didn't like gathering with others; she preferred to wander alone in the secret realm, challenging the disciples.
Before this, she was not ranked high, and was even unknown. She was rarely seen on the twelve-screen TV.
Apart from a small number of Yunxiao Sect disciples who became her supporters because of her experiences, most people didn't even know her.
I only started paying attention to her because of her recent outstanding performance.
From the very beginning, Li Zewei roamed and fought in the secret realm. In order to accumulate more points, she did not let go of any disciples from minor sects.
In terms of speed, she had sparred with Cheng Jiu far more times.
At the very beginning, her points were far ahead of everyone else, and even now she is one of the disciples with the most points in the Cloud Soaring Sect.
However, bullying disciples from smaller sects is like bullying children; it's not worth watching. The big screen focuses on the outstanding disciples and exciting battles, not people like Li Zewei.
While seemingly steady and methodical, the approach was actually unorthodox, involving frequent battles and a focus solely on offense rather than defense. For a cultivator, or even a swordsman, this was depleting their potential.
There were many wins and many losses, which offset each other.
Li Zewei almost didn't even make it into the rankings.
After most of the disciples were eliminated, she became the one whose points increased the most rapidly, without exception.
Blood stains the sword red, another victory!
Li Zewei, clutching her severely injured chest, slowly leaned against a large tree to rest.
This big tree is only three kilometers away from Cheng Jiu.
They seemed so close, yet also so far apart. If Cheng Jiu wished, he could automatically consider it an invitation from Li Zewei and openly compete with her.
But Cheng Jiu didn't do that. On one hand, she didn't want to take advantage of someone in distress, and on the other hand, she found Li Zewei quite agreeable.
Therefore, she took the initiative and handed the initiative over to Li Zewei.
The disciple who had been watching Li Zewei closely held his breath slightly, afraid that Li Zewei might disturb the beast, as the two were too close!
Li Zewei's current situation is far from ideal. In that fight, although it seemed that Li Zewei won, she actually took several punches and was barely hanging on to fight her opponent before she managed to win.
She gazed leisurely at the largest ancient tree in the forest.
Towering into the clouds and overlooking the entire secret realm, it is a naturally formed throne, but the throne already has an owner.
What is she? Li Zewei pondered, she probably doesn't even qualify as a subject.
Although she thought this way, Li Zewei was unaware that her eyes revealed an almost presumptuous desire, a gaze that was extremely offensive.
"Sigh! The sect leader never took the betting agreement seriously from the beginning. It's a pity that Senior Sister Zewei is too competitive. It's heartbreaking to see her working so hard!"
"Damn it!" A female disciple who knew the inside story was indignant. Just thinking about it made her want to grab certain people and beat them up to get justice for Li Zewei.
"Back then, it was clearly Venerable Fuqiu who was immersed in the pain of losing his daughter and fell into a mental demon."
Seeing that Junior Sister Zewei resembled her beloved daughter, he took the initiative to ask to take Junior Sister Zewei as his disciple.
Junior Sister Zewei has purple aptitude! Back then, many elders and peak masters wanted to take her as their disciple.
If it weren't for Venerable Lord Fuqiu's promise to the sect leader that he would cherish and nurture Junior Sister Zewei as his beloved daughter, he would have been in trouble.
The other elders wouldn't give up so easily either.
But look what happened! How did he do that? He had only taken in the genius junior sister Zewei for two years, and suddenly he had a granddaughter.
I don't expect her to show any favoritism towards Junior Sister Zewei, I just hope she can treat everyone equally..."
The fact that such a secret realm was mentioned by a female disciple made the surrounding junior disciples even more indignant!
She was such a wonderful senior, yet she suffered this fate! It's truly, truly hateful.
The female disciple looked at her junior sister on the screen with heartache, who was shooting like an arrow at high speed without knowing how to retreat. "Too much rigidity leads to breakage, junior sister."
But Li Zewei on the screen had no room to retreat. Compared to these Nascent Soul Realm cultivators, her only advantage was her speed, so she was willing to give it her all for points and ranking.
To make things hard to believe, Li Zewei's swift sword was forged under conditions of extreme resource scarcity, a sword she honed through self-rescue. Apart from its unstoppable momentum, it had no other redeeming qualities.
Such shortcomings were naturally noticed by the Mahayana-realm masters who happened to catch a glimpse of them on stage.
Especially for immortals like Qingxu Immortal Lord who had taken on disciples, his brows remained furrowed as he looked at Li Zewei.
As a master who had carefully nurtured her disciple, he couldn't bear to see Li Zewei like this. The traces of her upbringing were far too rough, and she was even deliberately being raised in a way that would ruin her.
But with Li Zewei's talent, let alone a large sect like Yunxiao Sect, even a poor sect like the Loose Cultivator Alliance wouldn't be able to cultivate her to this level!
It was like a piece of excellent spiritual material, but it was forcibly crafted into a low-level weapon, which was a complete waste!
Outsiders can only see Li Zewei's unstoppable, swift sword strike, but they cannot see the problem hidden beneath that sword strike, a problem that cannot be ignored under any circumstances.
Li Zewei failed to comprehend the law!
The laws are the key to higher levels!
Li Zewei didn't even mention Ye Xiao's comprehension of the laws of space or Cheng Jiu's comprehension of the laws of life; she hadn't even grasped the most basic laws of the five elements. All her attack methods were limited to speed.
This is undoubtedly a failure! Perhaps one can still handle things with ease at the Nascent Soul stage, but once one enters a higher realm, the gap becomes increasingly obvious, and one will fall to the lower level. Even the most dazzling speed will probably only be mediocre.
Given her aptitude, she shouldn't have failed to comprehend it. With a single spiritual root and that powerful regenerative ability, she clearly possesses a special physique.
Such a disciple failed to comprehend the laws!
Just outrageous!
Which irresponsible master craftsman was it?
They're ruining the future of our children! They're ruining the future of our children!
The newly appointed master, Immortal Lord Qingxu, felt extremely uncomfortable looking at Li Zewei. He couldn't help but glance at Elder Yunchen beside him, his meaning quite clear: Is this how your Yunxiao Sect trains its disciples?
Such a talented disciple, and he's been spoiled rotten like this! The Cloud Soaring Sect really knows how to spend money! (No sarcastic remarks intended.)
Elder Yun Chen's forehead veins throbbed, and he was speechless for a moment.
After all, he had only just emerged from seclusion and was not familiar with the disciples who came to participate in the competition.
The little girl was very introverted and rarely went out. She never went near the two elders, so how could he have noticed her?
Thinking this, he couldn't help but look to the side.
Elder Ningkang's forehead veins throbbed as he felt the gazes directed at him, and he felt utterly humiliated.
This is considered a scandal within their Yunxiao Sect.
If Li Zewei hadn't distinguished herself in the sect competition, they probably would never have imagined that there was a Venerable Lord who not only withheld resources from his disciples but also deliberately ruined a disciple with exceptional talent.
He's a disgrace to the sect, a traitor!
It's likely that the other side didn't expect that this sect competition would coincide with the new city's domain quota. The sect leader specifically stipulated that only disciples personally taught by elders of the Venerable Lord level or above must participate.
No one expected that this child would be so promising, actually winning the spot in one fell swoop, and naturally this child came into the sights of the sect's higher-ups.
They wanted to stand up for this child, but it was too late. His cultivation level was already fixed, and unless they were ruthless enough to start over, the child's future was probably already predictable.
But the materials that can be repaired without damage and are so precious are something that even the Cloud Soaring Sect doesn't have!
In the end, this was the only way to let Li Zewei participate in the competition.
The sect leader wanted to uphold justice for Li Zewei and help her sever her master-disciple relationship.
Unfortunately, the child was too stubborn and couldn't perceive his master's sinister intentions at all. After all, the child had been raised by his master since childhood and had been spoiled. How could he have imagined his master's bad intentions?
The sect leader went to great lengths, sending many disciples to subtly probe Li Zewei before she finally took the initiative to step forward and want to sever their master-disciple relationship.
The child was very stubborn and felt that this was a great act of rebellion. He took the initiative to propose a betting agreement, using the sect's ranking in the grand competition as the stake, to sever the master-disciple relationship.