Chapter 248.
Chapter 248 – The Penultimate
Corresponding to this was the change that was taking place in the Walnut World.
The original walnut world, about ten acres in size, but at this moment, is rapidly expanding towards the gray area.
Soon, the area in the Walnut World had fully doubled, and the expansion within it, was still continuing.
Xu Chuniang was suddenly enlightened, no wonder the little walnut would guide out the location of the Empty Spirit Stone, it turned out to be that it had its own needs.
Just one hundred and twenty-seven empty spirit stones, wasn’t it enough to feed its appetite?
It even swallowed the ten pieces that she purposely set aside.
At this thought, Xu Chuniang’s heart grew angry.
Originally, she had already calculated and was prepared to hand over ten Empyrean Stones.
However, Little Walnut had eaten all the Empyrean Stones, directly disrupting her plans.
Now, even if she wanted to turn them in, she couldn’t get half of them.
Right at this moment, the other disciples of the Easy Sect had already handed over all the Empty Spirit Stones in their hands as if they were counted.
After counting the number of Empty Spirit Stones, Yue Ling Zheng breathed a sigh of relief and looked towards Xu Chuniang with a hidden look of anticipation in her eyes.
“How many Empty Spirit Stones did Senior Nephew Xu get?”
Upon hearing this, Elder Wu and the rest of the disciples also looked towards the two.
The number of empty spirit stones was directly related to the score of the competition.
If they could obtain a few more points in this competition, the remaining two competitions would be easier.
Facing Uncle Yue’s eager gaze, Xu Chuniang looked embarrassed.
Originally, she had prepared ten Spirit Stones, but she had been inattentive and had been eaten up by the little walnuts, so now she had nothing left.
“Disciple, no Empyrean Stones have been obtained.”
Before Yue Lingzheng could say anything, the Easy disciples on the side all had disbelief on their faces when they heard this.
“What, didn’t obtain an Empyrean Stone? That’s too much of a stretch, isn’t it? This collection task has always been the easiest.”
“I admit that Empyrean Stones are hard to find, but not being able to find a single one for three whole days is too much. Or is it that you didn’t even make an effort to seek out the Empyrean Stones?”
They frowned, looking at Xu Chuniang with some dissatisfaction.
Huang Fu Tian even sneered, “Even the simplest collection task is done so poorly, what can be expected of her in the latter two?”
“Enough!”
Yue Lingzheng was similarly a little disappointed, only that he was even more unwilling to see the disciples under his door accusing each other.
When the Jindan Elder spoke, the others naturally didn’t dare to say anything more, only that their impression of Xu Chuniang fell to the bottom.
“Occasional failures are nothing, don’t be too concerned about this matter, prepare well for the next two competitions.”
After explaining towards Xu Chuniang, Yue Lingzheng stepped forward and handed over all the Empty Spirit Stones in one go.
After the other sects had handed in their Empty Spirit Stones, the scores manifested.
“For this competition, the Immeasurable Sect has been awarded thirty-two Empty Spirit Stones, and is credited with thirty-two points. The Myriad Dan Sect received thirty empty spirit stones and is credited with thirty points.
The Ten Thousand Swords Sect received twenty-eight empty spirit stones and was credited with twenty-eight points. The Easy Sect and the Cold Mountain Sect, who received twenty-six pieces of empty spirit stones, are credited with twenty-six points.”
“Amitabha Buddha, goodness.”
The high monk of the Limitless Sect clasped his hands together and uttered a Buddhist chant.
In this match, the Immeasurable Sect was leading by a few points. The Easy Sect and the Cold Mountain Sect, on the other hand, were temporarily at the bottom.
Overall, the gap in the score wasn’t much.
The first place Immeasurable Sect was only six points higher than the last place Easy Sect and Cold Mountain Sect.
“Three days from now, the competition for the Hundred Arts of Cultivation will be held on the Myriad Dan Sect’s practice field, so I hope that you will not be absent.”
The elder of the Myriad Dan Sect who was presiding over this Five Sect Competition, after announcing this matter, led a group of Myriad Dan disciples to go back first. On the Easy Sect’s flying boat for the return trip, the atmosphere was very depressing, with many disciples complaining about Xu Chuniang, who hadn’t been able to obtain a single Empyrean Stone.
“If it wasn’t for the one from Thousand Chance Peak dragging his feet, how would we be in the bottom half of the pack for the time being? My Easy Sect didn’t have much of an advantage in the first place, and now the pressure is even greater.”
“I heard that she is the disciple of Thousand Chance Peak’s master, Yue Yanru, so she didn’t have connections to participate in this Five Sect Competition, did she?”
“I heard that she once summited the Sacred Mountain in the Little Zephyr Realm, now it seems that I’m doubting the authenticity of this matter instead.”
Xu Chuniang was on the flying boat, and before she had the chance to return to her room, she heard all sorts of murmurs and remained silent for a long time.
She truly did not expect that Little Walnut would come up with such a stunt, making the ten Empyrean Stones she had prepared all come to naught.
In the eyes of these fellow disciples, she has just become a straw bag to make up the number of people.
Xu Chuniang took a deep breath and swept her gaze over the crowd present.
“Please rest assured, fellow disciples, I will definitely find a way to make up for the points I’ve fallen behind.”
Unbeknownst to her, it was fine if she didn’t open her mouth, but as soon as she did, a few people’s fires grew even bigger instead.
“Make up? What are you going to make up with? Think it’s easy to get those three points?”
“I’ve already inquired about the four test items for the Hundred Arts of Cultivation in three days, which are alchemy, artifact refining, talisman making, and beast control. You, a Thousand Machine Peak, can win back a few points?”
“The Hundred Arts of Cultivation is still like this, not to mention the ring competition afterward. You’re a mere formation cultivator, can you win back three points with one against three?”
Xu Chuniang was silent, that is, Cultivation Hundred Arts examined the way of formation, with her attainments in formation at this time, she really may not be able to win over the others.
As for the ring match, she could only say that she would do her best.
She could not predict how many matches she would be able to last in the ring.
Seeing that Xu Chuniang couldn’t speak anymore, the rest of the few people didn’t even bother to look at her and went back to their rooms together.
In the end, on top of the flying boat, only she and Huang Fu Tian remained.
Compared to the righteous indignation of the others, Huangfu Tian was actually in a good mood.
He was happy to see Xu Chuniang’s poor performance being rejected by the crowd.
“I thought you had a lot of ability, but I didn’t realize that you couldn’t even find a single Empyrean Stone, I really don’t know if I should say that you have bad luck or that you’ve done a lot of bad things in your day, causing the heavens to retaliate.”
Xu Chuniang, however, did not even look at him, directly ignoring him and heading towards her own room.
Seeing this, a hideous color flashed in Huangfu Tian’s eyes, which quickly disappeared again, turning into a cold snort.
“I’d like to see how long you can be complacent.”
After Xu Chuniang returned to her room and confirmed that the formation in her room was in the open state, she entered the Walnut World.
The Walnut World before her eyes was not much different from before, except for the fact that the area was three times larger and the sky looked a bit higher.
There was no aura in the entire small world, and the area bordering the sky at the boundary was still gray.
With a sweep of her divine sense, she found a cloud of chaotic consciousness hidden in the small world.
“You’re Little Walnut?”
The Chaotic Consciousness tried to escape, scurrying east and west, but she imprisoned it to death.
Xu Chuniang laughed coldly, “Fine, you glutton, can you die by eating a few less ethereal stones? Now I’ve become a drag queen!”
This competition involved the distribution of the clan’s resources and was very important.
As a result, at the critical time, Little Walnut gave her a move to take the blame, what a pitiful thing!
Chaotic Consciousness seemed to realize that he was wrong and shrunk into a ball.
Xu Chuniang was still not relieved of her hatred, and after educating it for a while, she shut it down before exiting the walnut world and pondering over the second big match three days later.
There was no need to even think about alchemy and weaponry, she hadn’t learned them at all.
As for talisman making, it was true that she had learned it, but that had been many years ago.
(End of chapter)