Chapter 43 The Trial Ends, First Place on the Rising Dragon Platform!
As the Yellow Wind Gourd shattered, the biting sand dust that had trapped the disciples of the Nine Heavens Holy Land instantly turned into countless scattered yellow sands, falling upon the desolate Gobi Desert.
Lin Xuan communicated with his storage ring with his divine sense and performed a Controlling Object Technique, collecting the shattered fragments of the gourd into the ring. Although the magic treasure was broken, it still had some use.
Mu Qianxue stared at Lin Xuan, her eyes filled with hatred.
This Yellow Wind Gourd was an inheritance she had just obtained. She had not even had time to get familiar with it before it was gone. The blow to her was simply too great.
Furthermore, she had previous conflicts with Lin Xuan. She thought that after obtaining the inheritance, she could wash away her humiliation, but she never expected that Lin Xuan's strength seemed to have also surged by a large margin.
However, the Yellow Wind Gourd shattered so easily after taking one hit from the Great Wind Blade Technique. The hardness of this quasi-emperor magic treasure was not even as strong as a fifth-rank magic treasure.
Perhaps the tens of thousands of years of burial had corroded the treasure's exterior, making it fragile.
And Lin Xuan's strike had just happened to land on the Yellow Wind Gourd's weak point.
From above.
Mu Qianxue restrained her impulse and did not charge forward suicidally. Instead, she retreated rationally. Although her inherited magic treasure was destroyed, her cultivation technique remained, and she knew the materials needed to refine a magic treasure to complement it. She could completely refine a new one.
After she healed her injuries, she could also discuss today's enmity!
"As long as the green hills remain, there will be no fear of running out of firewood!"
Immediately, Mu Qianxue wanted to use an evasion technique to escape.
"Ling'er, trap her!"
Lin Xuan said.
As soon as the words fell, electric arcs flickered on Zhao Ling'er's hands. At the same time, several bolts of lightning, as thick as a baby's arm, wove into a circle, trapping Mu Qianxue, who was preparing to escape, within it.
"You can leave, but hand over your storage pouch and identity token!"
Lin Xuan said.
"You... you beast!" Mu Qianxue gritted her silver teeth.
She then untied the storage pouch and identity token from her waist and fiercely threw them to Lin Xuan. After catching the storage pouch and token, Lin Xuan skillfully placed them into his storage ring.
Afterward, as Zhao Ling'er withdrew the cage woven from lightning chains, Mu Qianxue used an evasion technique and, in a few breaths, merged into the vast yellow sand, disappearing without a trace.
Lin Xuan could not be bothered to chase such a panicked, stray dog. In his eyes, Mu Qianxue was at most a minor character. Even if she could escape, what of it? No matter how she cultivated, she would only be trampled underfoot by Lin Xuan.
Immediately after, on the sand below, the twelve core disciples of the Nine Heavens Holy Land all thanked Lin Xuan with respectful faces: "Thank you, Senior Brother Lin, for saving us!"
"We are all fellow disciples of the same sect; there's no need for such courtesy. The elder has already announced the end of the trial, so I will take my leave first!"
After Lin Xuan finished speaking, he drove the Black Lizard to speed swiftly in the direction of the Tianlan Domain.
A moment later.
The tall and straight Lin Xuan stood on the back of the Black Lizard. After erasing Mu Qianxue's imprint from the storage pouch, he entered its internal space.
There were more than 120,000 spirit stones, as well as several low-grade magical artifacts and a few bottles of reasonably high-quality pills. Among them was a fifth-rank pill, which was likely what Mu Qianxue used to save her life.
Lin Xuan also noticed a wooden box standing on one side inside the space.
After opening it.
Lin Xuan merely glanced at it. What met his eyes were all women's clothes, from intimate garments to outer cloaks, a dazzling array.
At this moment, he seemed to somewhat understand why Mu Qianxue had called him a beast.
Afterward, Lin Xuan stored Mu Qianxue's storage pouch inside his storage ring. Then, Lin Xuan transferred all the points Mu Qianxue had worked so hard to obtain onto his own identity token.
Two hours later.
He arrived at the Tianlan Domain.
Before entering the Tianlan Domain, considering that the Black Lizard was too large and inconvenient for entering the city, Lin Xuan put it away. He and Zhao Ling'er went straight to the Blue Fire Dojo.
Here.
Disciples from the two Holy Lands had already gathered, numbering in the hundreds.
"So he's Lin Xuan from the Nine Heavens Holy Land. He doesn't look any different, yet he was able to trample so many candidate saint sons and daughters from the two Holy Lands underfoot to become first in this trial. Truly admirable!"
"Mm, a classic case of playing the pig to eat the tiger!"
"The Nine Heavens Holy Land can be said to have produced another formidable figure. Of the top three in this trial, two spots were taken by the Nine Heavens Holy Land. Perhaps the Nine Heavens Holy Land is truly showing a trend of rising!"
"Thirty years east of the river, thirty years west of the river; the wheel of fortune turns. This is definitely a cyclical change. Each of the Four Great Holy Lands of the Human Race is a place where the dragons and phoenixes of the human race gather. No single Holy Land can suppress another forever!"
When Lin Xuan and Zhao Ling'er stepped into the Blue Fire Dojo, they instantly became the focus of the entire venue. For a moment, almost all the disciples began to discuss in low voices.
Although their voices were quiet, with the hearing of cultivators, they could naturally hear everything clearly.
However, there was not much change in the expression on Lin Xuan's face.
With the many demons and monsters he had killed, plus Mu Qianxue's points, his total had accumulated to an extremely large value. His position at the top of the trial standings was definitely secure.
"Senior Brother Lin!"
"Senior Brother Lin!"
"Senior Brother Lin!"
As Lin Xuan passed by, many inner sect disciples, and even some core disciples of the Nine Heavens Holy Land, all respectfully bowed to him.
For a moment, the voices calling "Senior Brother Lin" rose and fell among the numerous disciples.
Lin Xuan had won their reverence with his strength.
They could all foresee that after returning from this trial, there was a high probability that Lin Xuan would be promoted to the status of a candidate saint son by their Sacred Lord.
Lin Xuan, however, calmly nodded in return. Zhao Ling'er, who was behind him, had never witnessed such a scene and appeared somewhat restrained.
Wherever the two passed, whether they were disciples from the Nine Heavens Holy Land or the Big Dipper Holy Land, they all slightly bowed their bodies and cleared a path, allowing Lin Xuan to walk to the front of the points stone tablet.
On one side of this square.
Stood a three-zhang-high points stone tablet. This was the Rising Dragon Platform. The entire platform was a light yellow color, like a piece of warm, fine jade. It recorded the top one hundred names on the trial points leaderboard.
Lin Xuan's own name was ranked first with over ten million points. The second place was Qiu Tu with eight hundred and thirty thousand points, and the third place was a person from the Big Dipper Holy Land named Li Yifeng, who ranked third with two hundred and seventeen thousand points.
The trial points rule was: killing a Foundation Establishment realm demon or monster granted one hundred points; a False Core realm demon or monster granted one thousand points; a Golden Core realm demon or monster granted ten thousand points; and a Nascent Soul realm demon or monster granted one million points!
During the trial, Lin Xuan had killed two candidate saint sons and a saint daughter, as well as several core disciples of the Nine Heavens Holy Land. The points in their identity tokens alone amounted to a value of nearly a million.
Furthermore, he had dealt with several Golden Core and Nascent Soul realm ghosts and demons. Possessing this heaven-defying ten million points was, therefore, quite reasonable.
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