59: Workers are working hard

Clang~ Clang~ Clang~

In just a few breaths, their blades clashed dozens of times.

It was clear that Bai Mo was suppressing Yang Tao, relying on his powerful spiritual energy, more solid swordplay, and superior Spirit Shift Step.

Although Bai Mo's innate spiritual energy and Blade Spirit talent were not good, he now discovered that his comprehension seemed to be extremely high.

Whether it was swordplay or Spirit Shift Step, Bai Mo progressed rapidly, many times faster than others.

Perhaps this was his true talent!

Without the system, this talent of his would not have been able to be 'unleashed' or utilized.

But now with the system, which compensated for his lack of talent in spiritual energy and Blade Spirit, Bai Mo's talent for 'comprehension' could finally be released!

Now was the time for it to first show its prominence.

Relying on stronger swordplay and Spirit Shift Step, Bai Mo suppressed Yang Tao, even leaving a few shallow wounds on him.

In contrast, Bai Mo fought with increasing ease, his body clean and without a single scratch.

Yang Tao frowned; this situation had to be broken! He couldn't keep clashing head-on with Bai Mo! Otherwise, he would definitely lose in the end!

Blade techniques, Blade Spirit abilities, and so on, all consume a significant amount of spiritual energy. Everyone's spiritual energy is limited. High spiritual energy indicates a high capacity, but it doesn't necessarily mean your spiritual energy is strong!

Here, one issue needs clarification: spiritual energy generally refers to spiritual energy capacity. However, spiritual energy intensity is different.

Everyone's spiritual energy intensity is determined by how they utilize it, for example, through compression and refinement, blade techniques, or other methods of using spiritual energy—all are applications of spiritual energy.

In simple terms, it's about the efficiency of spiritual energy utilization.

The higher the utilization rate, the stronger the effect and power of the spiritual energy unleashed.

This is also why the gap between individuals of the same rank can sometimes be as vast as heaven and earth, and why situations of the weak defeating the strong, such as one thousand spiritual energy defeating three to five thousand spiritual energy, occur. This is one of the main reasons.

Bai Mo's spiritual energy was higher than Yang Tao's, and with the power of Shi Jie · Bing Lun Wan, his spiritual energy intensity was also higher than Yang Tao's.

Now, in their direct clash, his swordplay, Spirit Shift Step, spiritual energy capacity, and spiritual energy intensity completely suppressed Yang Tao. Many people watching the situation in the arena shook their heads slightly.

The outcome was basically decided!

Unless... Yang Tao's only special ability of his Blade Spirit was strong enough to reverse the situation!

Otherwise, Yang Tao's defeat was only a matter of time!

Unfortunately, Yang Tao's special ability was a "Storm Eye." Although very strong, possessing powerful suction, endless wind blade cutting, and accelerating spiritual energy loss, it was considered a very good ability.

However, Bai Mo's strength was even greater. A combination of Dragon Hailstorm Stance and Ice Dragon Whirlwind Tail forcefully broke through it, and then he defeated Yang Tao.

Bai Mo successfully advanced to the fourth position.

After defeating Yang Tao, Bai Mo immediately went to watch Wen Yu's battle.

By the time Bai Mo arrived, Wen Yu had already finished her fight.

Surprisingly, Wen Yu had defeated the strongest freshman!

"Congratulations! You've become the new number one! You are the strongest freshman!" Bai Mo glanced at Yi Yun, the strongest freshman, who had been defeated and suffered a major blow. He had lost his spirited appearance, and his arrogant expression had been shattered by Wen Yu.

"It was an accident! He was a bit careless!" Wen Yu pursed her lips and smiled, saying, "His strength is still very strong, but he's just not as good as me."

"..." Bai Mo felt like Wen Yu was showing off to him.

Everyone who witnessed this match was shocked by Wen Yu's strength; she truly lived up to her title as the Wen family's princess! Her talent and strength were simply too formidable!

Even the strongest freshman, Yi Yun, this genius, still narrowly lost.

Yes, it was a narrow defeat, a misstep, but no matter what, a loss is a loss.

"I will surpass you!" Yi Yun recovered, walked over with a complex expression, glanced at Bai Mo, and then said to Wen Yu.

"Keep it up!" Wen Yu smiled gently and nodded.

Yi Yun looked at Bai Mo again, then turned and left without lingering.

Zhang Ling also did well, successfully winning her match and becoming ninth.

"Haha! I'm ninth! You all succeeded! That's great!" Zhang Ling looked at everyone's situation; it was all good news!

The first day of rankings basically concluded.

Various organizations extended invitations to their respective targets.

Bai Mo and his group were no exception; even though they were already wearing very exquisite "organization uniforms," other organizations, with the intention of poaching if possible, still extended invitations, promising many benefits.

But they were all rejected one by one.

Finally, after three days of ranking matches, the results were in.

First was Wen Yu, second was the "former" strongest freshman Yi Yun, third remained unchanged, still Lin Qiaoqiao, and fourth became Bai Mo.

Zhang Ling successfully fought her way to seventh place.

The others basically remained unchanged, just shifted down.

This indirectly showed that the overall ranking was quite accurate.

The ranking competition ended, and this session concluded.

The monthly ranking competitions that followed would still determine everyone's competitiveness, but they would be even more difficult than this one!

Because after this ranking, in a few days, at the beginning of next month, on the 1st, the rewards for this ranking will be distributed!

Resources would be allocated, and then the speed of progress would differ!

The strong would get stronger, and the weak would get weaker; catching up would require even greater effort!

But Bai Mo didn't care about these things; what he cared more about was how many source points he had obtained this time.

185,000!

"Holy crap! That much!" Bai Mo looked at his source points, somewhat shocked; it was indeed quite a lot!

Was the change this time that significant? He became fourth, and everyone below fourth was affected by him, as the resources obtained were all different.

The impact was indeed not small, and then Wen Yu became first. Perhaps... he had a little something to do with that too?

Bai Mo couldn't be sure, but since he had so many source points, it was a good thing!

Without a second thought, Bai Mo immediately upgraded his Blade Spirit talent to A-rank! It cost him 100,000 source points, leaving him with 85,000.

With the increase in Blade Spirit talent, his own spiritual energy increased by 16 points.

"Congratulations! Your Blade Spirit talent has reached A-rank, and you have gained Special Ability 1."

Bai Mo didn't expect that upgrading his Blade Spirit talent would yield an extra reward!

He quickly checked Special Ability 1:

Ice Domain: Unfold an Ice Domain, linked to your spiritual energy, continuously emitting cold air to affect all enemies within the domain, and can increase your own Ice-type power.

A good ability! Bai Mo's eyes lit up when he saw this special ability!

For him, this was an excellent special ability!

Combined with his own Ice-type and Hyōrinmaru, it was like adding flowers to embroidery!

Bai Mo, now earning over 100,000 source points, was clearly starting to get things going.

Tang Ziheng expressed great satisfaction.

And the other two worlds also earned Tang Ziheng a good amount of source points.

In Xu Duantong's world, six days had passed, his level had also upgraded to 12, and he had earned over 80,000 source points.

In that world, grinding was very convenient, and source point acquisition was very stable.

As Xu Duantong's level increased, he would acquire more and more source points, making it a perfectly stable source point output world, and a very good potential stock for stable source points. Xu Duantong also used these source points to exchange for several new passive skills, and also exchanged for skill points to upgrade, giving himself a good wave of strengthening!

And Lin Ze's world also started to get better.

Lin Ze and Lin Zhi continuously hunted monsters to level up. Lin Zhi had already consumed six evolution crystals. Coupled with continuous combat, she progressed extremely quickly. She was now a valiant and heroic combat girl with a ponytail, holding an alloy blade, and sharp eyes!

Ten days had passed in Lin Ze's world, and the world was becoming increasingly dangerous. Their original villa stronghold had already suffered three waves of attacks.

Lin Ze and Lin Zhi were already considering moving to a new location.

In these ten days, Lin Ze acquired 100,000 source points.

Lin Zhi contributed almost half of it. This wasn't entirely from killing monsters; it also included source points earned from Lin Ze's changes to Lin Zhi.

Lin Ze upgraded all of his abilities and still had over 30,000 points remaining.