Chapter 7: Successive Breakthroughs
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【You ditate in silence for three months. By drawing in the Spiritual Energy in the air, you finally open two ridians and break through to the fifth level of the Qi Condensation Realm】
【You are overjoyed and gain a temporary BUFF: Cultivation Speed increases by 100%】
【You suddenly feel as though the gods themselves are aiding your cultivation. Originally, you had to struggle to capture the Spiritual Energy drifting through the air, but under the enhancent of the BUFF, absorbing it now takes almost no effort at all】
【Another two months pass, and you open the last of the Primary ridians in your body. You break through to the sixth level of the Qi Condensation Realm】
【You are overjoyed and want to use this montum to break into the late stage of the Qi Condensation Realm in one push】
【You fail】
【At the seventh level of the Qi Condensation Realm, you must begin opening the Eight Extraordinary ridians. This is far more difficult than opening the twelve Primary ridians. Though heavily discouraged, you do not lose heart in the slightest】
【Another two months later, you finally open the Ren ridian of the Eight Extraordinary ridians】
【Cultivation complete. During this session, you opened a total of 4 Primary ridians and 1 of the Eight Extraordinary ridians】
【90 Slaughter Points remain and have been returned】
【Current Realm: Sixth level of the Qi Condensation Realm (50%). I hope the Host keeps up the good work and continues to work hard, ദ്ദി˶•̀֊•́)✧】
Looking at the system notifications, Lu Zhan gradually felt that the further he advanced, the more Slaughter Points he would need.
Resources!
He urgently needed cultivation resources now.
Only by increasing his cultivation speed could he reduce the consumption of Slaughter Points. Otherwise, if he wanted to rely solely on Slaughter Points to raise his realm—
it would be very difficult!!!
“But now that I’ve already reached the sixth level of the Qi Condensation Realm, by my own estimate, as long as I don’t run into a Demon Beast at the ninth level of the Qi Condensation Realm, I should be perfectly safe.”
“But in terms of hunting efficiency, Demon Beasts at the seventh level of the Qi Condensation Realm offer the best return.”
“Looks like I need to hurry. There are only fifty-three minutes left before the assessnt ends.”
Lu Zhan glanced at the assessnt tir, and a sudden sense of urgency rose in his heart.
The Demon Nest looked huge, but in truth, it was only about the size of a university campus. The Demon Beasts here also claid their own territories, so there were not actually that many of them.
If he did not put in more effort, the others might just kill them all before he could get to them.
And all of those were Slaughter Points!
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Inside the Demon Extermination Bureau, everyone stared at the projection from the Heaven-Gazing Mirror in utter astonishnt.
First place: Lu Zhan
Realm: Sixth level of the Qi Condensation Realm
Points: 110
“Hiss, just what kind of monster is this Lu Zhan? Not even half the ti has passed, and he’s already reached 110 points.”
“And it looks like he broke through two levels in a row...”
“This world is truly unfair as hell. We’re all human, so how can the gap be this wide?”
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Not only the spectators present, but even assessnt instructors like Zhao Jun and Li Cunguang were deeply shocked.
They had served as examiners for more than ten years, yet they had never seen such a heaven-defying prodigy.
“Old Li, how many Demon Beasts did you release into this Demon Nest again?”
Zhao Jun could not help asking.
In truth, releasing Demon Beasts required at least two people, one to handle the release and one to supervise it.
Zhao Jun had only been responsible for supervision, so he did not know the exact number.
“A little over a hundred, I think?”
“For Demon Beasts in the early stage of the Qi Condensation Realm, there were about fifteen at each level. There were fewer in the middle and late stages, around ten at each level.”
Li Cunguang was also sowhat dazed.
This Apprentice Demon Exterminator assessnt had a full one hundred and ten participants.
There were too many people and too little to go around.
The further things went, the fewer Demon Beasts there would be. And even if soone went through great difficulty to find one, it would likely be a hard nut that others could not crack.
Yet Lu Zhan alone had already dealt with five Demon Beasts.
Whether it was his speed in finding demons or his speed in killing them, both had reached an extre.
It was impossible for soone like that not to catch Li Cunguang’s attention.
The assessnt was still continuing.
By now, fifty minutes had already passed. Most of the Demon Beasts that could be killed had basically already been cleared out.
And Lu Zhan discovered that he was now running into other examinees more and more frequently.
In fact, he had already encountered other examinees about half an hour after the assessnt began.
But at that ti, everyone had been focused on hunting Demon Beasts.
No one had the leisure to pay attention to the other examinees.
But now things were different. There were fewer Demon Beasts left. If one wanted to increase the chances of passing the assessnt, then besides killing Demon Beasts to gain points, one could also eliminate other examinees in advance.
So the later the assessnt progressed, the fiercer the competition beca.
On a patch of grass, an ox demon was leisurely grazing. Not far away, hidden from the beast’s sight, three Martial Artists at the sixth level of the Qi Condensation Realm were facing one another in a standoff.
“Hey, fellows, my na is Zhang Qin. I only just joined the assessnt this year. If you ask , there’s no point in the three of us dragging this out.”
“What if so big expert at the seventh level of the Qi Condensation Realm shows up in a mont and kills the Demon Beast? Then we’ll get nothing, and we might even be eliminated.”
“How about this? I’ll count to three, and we all attack together. As for who gets to kill the ox demon in the end, we’ll leave it to our own abilities. What do you say?”
Zhang Qin could not help proposing.
“Not a bad idea. If we alert this Demon Beast, things will be troubleso for us.”
Wu Zixu, standing opposite Zhang Qin, nodded.
Very quickly, Zhang Qin began counting down.
“Attack!”
He finished the count, yet none of the three had the slightest intention of making a move.
Zhang Qin grew angry.
“No, brothers, what exactly is this supposed to an?”
But Wu Zixu only looked at Zhang Qin with mocking eyes.
“Enough with the act. We’re all seasoned hands here, so why pretend to be a newcor?”
Each of them was on guard against the others.
If the opportunity arose, none of them would mind tripping up the others during the hunt, eliminating a competitor in advance.
Zhang Qin was not embarrassed at all after being exposed.
If he failed to deceive them, that only ant his disguise had not been good enough. If he had succeeded, it would only have ant the other party deserved it.
“I only just stepped into the sixth level of the Qi Condensation Realm. I don’t think I’m a match for this ox demon. How about I withdraw from this competition first?”
Li Zeyu, the third of the three, said sowhat timidly.
“No!”
Zhang Qin and Wu Zixu shouted in unison.
What a joke. He thought he could just say he was leaving and then leave? What if he hid in the shadows and waited for the others to wear each other down?
They were all sly schers. Everyone understood exactly what the others were thinking.
Li Zeyu really had been planning to do exactly that, but he had not expected them to see through him.
“This won’t do, that won’t do. Then what exactly do you want to do?”
Li Zeyu raised a brow.
This was the worst kind of assessnt situation: running into a bunch of seasoned veterans, each one sharper than the next, impossible to fool.
Even if there were just one actual newcor among them, they could have tricked him and broken the deadlock.
“How about I give you the location of a Demon Beast with the strength of the eighth level?”
Still unwilling to give up, he tried to lure them.
But Zhang Qin and Wu Zixu looked at him as though he were an idiot.
If they had the strength to kill a Demon Beast at the eighth level of the Qi Condensation Realm, why would they still be wasting their breath here?
Just as they remained deadlocked, a voice suddenly rang out.
“You don’t want this Demon Beast?”
A good-natured man with an air of upright honesty appeared within the three n’s field of vision.
The three n’s eyes imdiately lit up.
Excellent. This sort of softhearted do-gooder would definitely be easy to fool. Once he was just about to kill the Demon Beast, they would make their move, snatch the prize from under his nose, and then conveniently eliminate him from the assessnt as well.
That could count as a little “favor” from veteran examinees to a newcor.
Hahahahahaha!
The three n were overjoyed.
The mont Lu Zhan drew near, the sches in their hearts were already clicking into place.
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