Chapter 10 Challenge Information

The Identity Jade Token serves as a possession of every Qinglin Academy student and a symbol of their disciple's identity.

Aside from recording Xu Nian's name and his status as a basic-level student, there was a strange line of data on it.

This line of data was known as "points," and it was the universally recognized medium of exchange within Qinglin Academy.

To put it plainly, points were the equivalent of money for the daily living expenses of Qinglin Academy students. Whether it was for food, clothing, shelter, or transportation, cultivation resources including Combat Techniques and Combat Skills, everything was exchanged using points.

Without points, you would find it difficult to get by in Qinglin Academy; you might even starve to death.

Of course, each month Qinglin Academy provided its students with a hundred points, but these one hundred points were only enough to maintain a normal life for a student.

If you wanted to obtain more cultivation resources, you had to earn points through your own efforts. Therefore, although Qinglin Academy seemed to have a hands-off approach, the competition within it was incredibly fierce.

There were many ways to earn points, from completing various levels of missions to gain corresponding points to selling treasures to the Academy in exchange for points.

Besides these methods, there were many other ways to earn points, among which the quickest place to earn them was the arenas.

The so-called arenas were where students earned points through sparring with one another.

Before the match, the arena would evaluate each student's strength and set the number of points for the match. The winner of the match would get corresponding points, while the loser would have points deducted.

Of course, students could challenge each other, privately setting the points as a bet. Once one side won the match, the Identity Jade Token would automatically transfer the points to the winner's token. It was truly magical.

The most interesting aspect for Xu Nian was that the arena had a special rule, which allowed competitors to hide their identities and use codenames for the competition.

As long as they wore masks during the competition and chose an appropriate codename, no one would be able to recognize their true identities. In this way, he wasn't afraid that his Divine Demon Refining Body Cultivation would be exposed, especially since the arena was a place where both Spirit Academy and Body Institute students competed together.

Xu Nian changed into a set of black clothes and tucked a prepared pure black mask into his chest before sneaking out the door and heading towards the arena.

Upon arriving near the arena, he found a secluded place, put on his mask, and then directly entered the arena.

There were many masked people inside the arena, so Xu Nian's appearance didn't attract any attention.

As soon as he entered the arena, what stood before Xu Nian was a giant stele towering ten meters high and about five meters wide.

On this stele were densely packed light characters, which shifted over time. Especially the characters at the bottom moved more noticeably, while those at the top barely changed even after a long while.

"This must be the Dark List of the arena!" Xu Nian softly mumbled to himself while looking at the huge stele.

Within Qinglin Academy, there were three major lists: the Azure Dragon List, the Hidden Dragon List, and the Dark List.

Among them, the Azure Dragon List naturally ranked the strong ones in Qinglin Academy. Those who could enter the top twenty of Qinglin Academy students could find a place on the Azure Dragon List.

Those who made it onto the Azure Dragon List were all elites and outstanding figures among the Academy's students.

The Hidden Dragon List was a potential list, which also had only twenty names. However, it was not ranked by strength, but by potential.

What surprised Xu Nian was that he, along with Chen Wudi and Ouyang Tianlan, were all on the list, and his own ranking was neither high nor low, exactly at number ten. As for Chen Wudi and Ouyang Tianlan, they ranked twentieth and nineteenth, barely making it onto the list.

The reason Xu Nian managed to rank tenth upon entering the Academy was due to his Emperor Level Bloodline Talent, and being ranked twelfth might have been because his own strength was relatively low.

Because of this, Xu Nian received eight hundred more points than others every month.

As for the Dark List, it was unique to the arena. The identities of those on this list were mostly nominal, and few knew their true identities. There were a hundred slots on this list.

The ranking was not based on strength but on consecutive victories. The more consecutive victories one had, the higher the ranking.

Currently ranked first was "Demon King," with forty-eight fights, forty-eight wins, and forty-eight consecutive victories.

Second place: "Destruction," with forty fights, thirty-nine wins, and thirty-nine consecutive victories.

Third place: "Emperor Ba," with fifty-seven fights, fifty wins, and thirty consecutive victories.

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The more Xu Nian looked, the more amazed he felt, especially about this Demon King who had fought forty-eight matches and won every single one, maintaining a 100% win rate.

Such an achievement was probably something that only the top fighters on the Azure Dragon List could achieve, and even there, their ranking wouldn't be low.

The further down he looked, the more matches the ranked fighters had fought, but their record of consecutive victories wasn't as impressive.

Often, after ten consecutive victories, a powerful fighter would step forward to put them back in their place. Thus, it's imaginable how difficult it was for Demon King to achieve forty-eight consecutive wins.

However, the more challenging it was, the more interested Xu Nian became. Only in such brutal combat could he gain more actual combat experience and continuously improve himself.

Besides these three major lists, Qinglin Academy also had an unofficial list known as the Beauty List, which was limited to women. There were only ten spots on the list, and the criteria for entry did not consider strength but only a contender's beauty.

Thus, every woman who made it onto the list was an astonishing beauty, as if she was a celestial beauty herself.

Nevertheless, Xu Nian wasn't interested in this list and didn't pay it much attention. It was Chen Wudi who had a great interest in it. The existence of this list was something Chen Wudi had told him about.

Without further thought, Xu Nian made his way to the Challenge Stone.

The Challenge Stone was the place to issue competitive challenges. By placing one's Identity Jade Token on it and inputting the requirements for an opponent's strength with one's thoughts and placing the corresponding bet, one could issue a challenge.

Other challengers who saw the challenge and met the requirements could accept it.

Challengers could also directly issue a challenge to the top fighters on the Dark List, and if the other party agreed, they could fight.

Xu Nian walked up to the Challenge Stone, placed his Identity Jade Token on it, and entered the following information:

Challenger: Dragon God

Strength: Basic Nine-Star Body Cultivation

Challengee: First-star of Star Realm (Spirit Cultivator or Body Cultivation, either)

Wager: 100 points

That's right, the codename Xu Nian chose for himself was Dragon God, as his Divine Demon Physique was the Nine Dragon Supreme Divine Body.

As soon as this challenge was issued, those challengers who were viewing the challenges erupted into a frenzy.

Everyone began to buzz with conversation, marveling at the audacity of whoever dared to issue such a challenge.