21 Chapter 4: End of Tournament

The official Ranking Tournament of the one hundred champions ends after two days of fierce battles. The Ranking for the four major sects stays the same with Heavenly Sword Villa taking the first rank, followed by Xiao Sect, Burning Heaven Clan, and Heavenly Spear Thunderfire Fortress. As usual, the Imperial force did not participate due to being the host and judge, along with witnesses like Immortal Xu. In addition, no one doubt the strength of the Imperial family with more than six Overlords and over a dozen of Thrones. As for the Palace, their participation was not counted in the Ranking, they were just here as a regular guest.

The reward this time was provided by both Mighty Heavenly Sword Region and Frozen Cloud Immortal Palace. The first-place will get one Dragonscale Armor and One Qi-Revolution Pill. The second-place gets three drops of Purple Veined Marrow Quenching Fluid and one drop of dew from Nether Yin lily. Lastly, the third-place gets one Purple Striped Dragon Heart Pellet and one Imagery Crystal containing some lectures. Overall, the reward for this year Ranking was over the top and no one complained.

As for the rest of the top ten forces, there are some minor changes such as some forces move down the ranks while others did worse than before and move up the ranks. They did not receive any Ranking reward as the top three rankings but were still happy with the top ranking. Moreover, Mighty Heavenly Sword Region even invites the top ten forces along with the imperial force and the Palace to their exclusive controlled territory, Heavenly Sword Mountain Range. So far, only Heavenly Sword Villa have the permission to enter this forbidden region and set it as their base.

The goal of this invitation was to view the Demon Sealing Ritual and explores the joint-control Heaven Secret Basin Realm. Such openness from the Sword Region greatly surprises all the forces in the arena, making them regret not trying harder. However, unlike the optimistic ignorant forces, the Palace remains on guard while instructing the Imperial family to be cautious.

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"Master, can Little Che join us on this exploration?" While on their way flying toward Heavenly Sword Mountain Range, Xiao Che tag along with the help of Lingxi on her gifted floating artefact. This youth truly knows how to take advantage of an innocent girl. While she was not looking, he would whisper things into Lingxi's ear and make Lingxi blush. The only thing stopping her from interrupting his shady interactions was that the youth did not lay his hands on Lingxi's body throughout the times. 'I might have misjudged you before, now I kind of regret allowing you to interact with Ling'er and lead her to the wrong path....'

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"Master, little Che said he wants to talk to you about something important." While Xu was still in her room, pondering Qingyue's well-being, Lingxi's voice could be heard from the outside of the room's door. After reaching the destination and were assigned to an individual resting quarter for the night, she makes sure that the trio rests well for the night to ready for tomorrow's exploration, she did not expect to be interrupted. Before Lingxi could nocks the door a second time, she unlocked the door with a light swipe of her right hand.

The door opens quietly while Lingxi walks in with permission. Behind Lingxi, Xiao Che stood with a 'humble' attitude and bow his head slightly in anticipation of formally greeting Lingxi's master. His attempts to act like a righteous man distaste her like those sword fanatics. She also disliked his informal behaviors and way of talking as if he knew Lingxi and Qingyue better than her and she feel uncomfortable thinking of him talking to her gentle disciples. She nods for Lingxi to step to the side and looks at this youth directly.

"Speak, junior, what do you need to talk about." She focuses her attention on this youth, he seems ordinary with no special inborn constitution. Despite his normal appearance, she felt an unknown, strange aura from his body. This yellowish aura seems to envelop his body and prevent her from probing inside his body with her profound energy. However, this does not mean that she was interested in his strange aura or his person. She only allows him into her personal quarter on Lingxi's behalf, her attitude toward him was like any man she talked to with a neutral, cold tone.

"Have senior heard of ways to open profound entrances of genius cultivators in gaining the Heavenly God Spiritual Veined before?" He looks at her face without her white-cloth veil at this moment, causing his 'gentlemanly' face to temporarily freeze. He loses his composure and moves a couple of meters slightly toward her while she was still resting on her bed in her nightgown. Before he could cross the inappropriate line between man and woman, he woke up from his trancelike stupor after three flashes of green lights, unseen by the other in the room, from his left hand. His improper behavior just now caused Lingxi to frown while scolding 'What are you doing, little Che?!'

"I have not, however, I have seen plenty of such geniuses fell due to their conceives and hubris, such as the person currently in this room right now." She stares at him coldly; his obsessive state of mind just now did not escape her eyes. He looks at her as if they were deeply in love or something. She is not impressed by his sudden rude behavior as she instinctively knows that this youth was not the innocent type. She met plenty of such men in her long life and vanquished most of them too.

Heavenly God Spiritual Veined were overrated to her. She believes in hard work, talents, and mentoring for a successful cultivator. While having all the fifty-four profound entrances open was beneficial to a cultivator, it does not affect the talents aspect. Having more profound entrances opened just means that a cultivator could gather more heavenly energy at the same time, just much faster than normal cultivators. To progress further onto the profound way, one needs comprehension abilities more. For example, the benefits only last to the Spirit Profound Realm and were greatly reduced after one entered the Earth Profound Realm. The only benefits left would be just a higher regeneration rate of heavenly energy after the body emptied most or all profound energy in training or a fight.

"..." With Xu losing interest in the topic and in talking to him, Xiao Che sweat profusely and drenching his back. He recomposes himself and directly speaks this time without his overly confident voice and avoid direct eye contact. "This junior apologize for the untoward behavior just now; I hope senior can forgive me. What this junior meant before was that this junior knew a way to open all the profound entrances of any cultivators. This junior wish to make a deal with Frozen Cloud Immortal Palace." After finishing his little statement, he steals glances at her, waiting for her response.

"Hmm, what makes you think I would trust your statement?"

"If senior does not trust this junior, this junior is willing to open all of senior's profound entrances with little aunt as the witness. Her cultivation is higher than mine, she can stop or kill me if I have any ill intentions toward senior."

"What do you think of this, Ling'er?" Instead of answering Che, she looks toward Lingxi on the side. She did not trust Che at all, since Lingxi trust this person so much, she wants Lingxi to decide this matter. "Do you want this man to operate on your Master?"

"NO!!!" Lingxi screamed back instinctively. 'Little Che! This is not what you told me about!'