Chapter 247: The Competition Begins

Chapter 247 – The Beginning of the Competition

Finally, Xu Chuniang delivered the Blood Soul Fruit and left the store with a paper contract, agreeing to pick it up seven days later.

Out of the alley, a glance at the opposite store, opened a gambling game.

There were many cultivators gathered outside the store, discussing the opening of the betting game.

“If I say, this year, this first, still belongs to the Wan Jian Sect, after all, the strength is there. The first is Wan Jian Sect, the second, I am more optimistic about Cold Mountain Sect, they have already been the second for two consecutive times.”

“As for third, it’s hard to say. The strength of the Infinite Sect, the Easy Sect, and the Myriad Dan Sect are all in between, but this year is the Myriad Dan Sect’s home turf, so I’m afraid that this third, is going to fall to the Myriad Dan Sect’s head.”

“Between the Immeasurable Sect and the Easy Sect, I’m more optimistic about the Immeasurable Sect, I’ve heard that amongst their disciples who came this time, there is a natural born Buddha son who is extremely extraordinary, and has the ability to dispute for this third.”

“In that case, it seems that the Loose Sect is afraid to be at the bottom this time.”

Xu Chuniang stood on the sidelines and listened for a while, not caring much.

The Grand Competition hadn’t even begun yet, and it was still too early to say this.

Seeing that it was getting darker, she didn’t stroll around the marketplace anymore and directly returned to the Myriad Dan Sect’s compound.

In the following days, she didn’t go out again, but quietly waited for the arrival of the Five Sect Grand Competition.

As time passed, other than the Easy Sect and Ten Thousand Swords Sect, people from the other two sects also arrived one after another.

And the Five Sect Grand Competition was officially kicked off.

The Grand Competition consisted of a total of three matches, and the content of the first match was to travel to a spirit stone vein and collect empty spirit stones.

Empty spirit stone is the raw material for making storage items, very precious, with the characteristic of being able to hide itself, hard to find.

If you don’t look for it carefully, you won’t be able to get it even if it’s right in front of you.

For every ethereal stone acquired, one point will be awarded, and the final ranking will be based on the total number of points scored.

After learning that the first competition was to find the Empyrean Stones, Elder Tang of the Ten Thousand Swords Sect, who was leading the team, frowned slightly.

According to the usual practice, the three competitions of the Five Sect Competition had a fixed general direction, which were Collection, Combat, and the Hundred Arts of Immortal Cultivation.

This collection of Empyrean Stones was in line with the requirements.

It was just that the empty spirit stones were not many in number on the one hand, and on the other hand, they had the characteristic of concealment, which invariably lowered the advantage of the Ten Thousand Swords Sect.

Let the five great sects, stand on the same starting line.

However, the Ten Thousand Swords Sect was equally fearless.

Even if they were unlucky enough to lose some points, they would be able to catch up with the others.

With this in mind, Elder Tang of the Ten Thousand Swords Sect’s frown spread out again.

The Ten Thousand Swords Sect thought that even if they were behind in the first match, they would be able to catch up in the remaining two matches, so they remained silent.

Cold Mountain Sect’s Elder Zuo was not so good-natured.

“Hehe, your Myriad Dan Sect is really original, it’s hard for you to come up with such tasks.”

The elder of the Myriad Dan Sect opened his eyes and glanced at him, “Likewise to each other, that competition in the Cold Mountain Sect sixty years ago is also still fresh in my mind.”

Elder Zuo couldn’t help but be dumbfounded at his words, sixty years ago at the Cold Mountain Sect, the items collected were unique to the northern part of the ridge, and the disciples of the Cold Mountain Sect had a great victory.

In such a comparison, the collection of empty spirit stones set by the Myriad Dan Sect was, on the contrary, much fairer.

The matter outside the vein was not known to the group of disciples.

Ever since they entered the vein, they dispersed in all directions and penetrated into the various mine paths, exploring towards the places where there might be empty spirit stones.

Xu Chuniang was no exception, and after entering the mine, she randomly searched for a mine path with fewer people. As she was about to continue deeper, she suddenly felt the small walnut in her Yuan Shen move a bit, and then she had a feeling that there was an Empyrean Stone just to her right.

She swept through that area with her divine sense and did not find anything special.

But that feeling, however, grew stronger.

Without a word, Xu Chuniang reached out her hand and probed towards her right.

Not long after, she touched a nearly transparent white round stone, which was really an ethereal stone.

Her heart was pounding, the little walnut was actually able to recognize the concealment of the Empyrean Stone and find out where it really was.

Although she didn’t know why, but with Little Walnut’s help, wouldn’t she be sure to win this game?
Xu Chuniang took a deep breath to press down the excitement in her heart, and continued to walk towards the depths of the mine, not long after, that premonition appeared again.

She plowed away some of the soil on the lower left, and soon, another Empyrean Stone arrived.

Subsequently, the third and fourth Empyrean Stones were also found one after another.

It was only when there were no more ethereal stones in this mine tunnel that Xu Chuniang returned to the original mine, stepped into another mine tunnel, and continued picking up ethereal stones.

Empyrean stones, which were extremely difficult to find for others, were a dime a dozen in her case.

In these two hours, Xu Chuniang didn’t know how many ethereal stones she had picked up, she didn’t count, there were about seven or eight of them.

Collecting empty spirit stones lasted for a total of three days, and these three days were enough for her to walk through most of the mine paths and caves of this spirit mine.

By then, the number of ethereal stones would be even more amazing.

Xu Chuniang smiled faintly and continued to pick up the ethereal stones.

Three days passed in a flash, and no matter how many ethereal stones were picked up, all disciples had to leave the mine.

“Alas, the luck is just too bad, digging three feet into the ground, I’ve only managed to find three Empyrean Spirit Stones.”

“Only got three pieces? I got four. I don’t know how many others have gotten.”

“Don’t mention it, I only got two pieces. I see that this Myriad Dan Sect is making us look for ethereal stones in order to keep the score from being pulled too far apart.”

“That can’t be helped, who asked this to be the Myriad Dan Sect’s home field?”

Xu Chuniang was the last one to leave the vein, and when she left, she was still a bit reluctant.

In just three days, she had picked up a total of one hundred and thirty-seven Empyrean Spirit Stones, a quantity that could not be described as not huge.

If she took out all the Empyrean Spirit Stones, it would only startle everyone.

However, with most people only getting a few Empyrean Stones, she only had to take out ten, and that would be enough to deliver.

If she really had to take out all the Empyrean Stones, it would be hard to answer if she was asked about the reason instead.

Xu Chuniang smiled faintly, and before she left the mine, she purposely put the extra Empyrean Stones into the Walnut World, leaving only ten at her side.

Thinking of this, she took out the bag containing the Empyrean Stones, and was about to hand over all of them when she suddenly felt a lightness in her hand.

Xu Chuniang immediately had a bad feeling, when she first took it out, the bag in her hand was still very weighty, but now it was light, as if it contained nothing.

She opened the bag and was speechless, there was really nothing inside.

Without having to think about it, she knew that it was definitely Little Walnut’s tampering, actively absorbing the Empyrean Stones in the bag.

Xu Chuniang’s divine sense probed into the walnut world, and was about to go fetch the empty spirit stone, but fetched an empty one.

The one hundred and twenty-seven empty spirit stones that she had put in not long ago, now there was not a single one left!
(End of chapter)