20: Chapter 20 Earning Points

Li Fan had never been one to care too much about Face, so he quickly cupped his hands and asked for a points token.

To his surprise, the Cultivator from the Xuanxing Department in mid-air actually gave him one, acting very nonchalant, as if the item were of little importance.

A moment later, all four people present had a points token, occupying the top four spots on the leaderboard.

"We shall meet again, everyone. I hope we can reunite at the School Exam Sect in the future."

After the standard procedure was completed, the team of Xuanxing Department Cultivators flew away, seemingly in a hurry to distribute points tokens to others.

Li Fan weighed the token in his hand.

It seemed this item was much easier to obtain than he had imagined. He estimated that before long, a large number of people would be on the leaderboard, and in the end, the final ranking would depend on quantity.

Thinking of this, he looked at the three people not far away and said, "Do the sensible thing."

The three men were still unconvinced; what they feared was Qian Zhenzhen dealing with them outside. Didn't Li Fan just say he didn't have much of a background? Three against one, the advantage is mine.

And so, in the blink of an eye, the token Li Fan was weighing in his hand turned from one into four, while the three men lay on the ground, looking disheveled.

He didn't use excessive force, just suppressed the three of them with Spiritual Qi.

"Continue searching for Luo Qingqian."

Li Fan's thoughts were the same as Qian Zhenzhen's, who had just left. Why go through the trouble of collecting tokens himself when it's better to rob a sucker?

Putting away the tokens, he took to the air and flew toward the depths of the dense forest...

Seeing Li Fan leave, the three of them scrambled up in a sorry state, brushing off the dust, their backs already soaked in cold sweat.

"A Qi Refining big shot... truly terrifying."

"Stop talking nonsense, hurry up and chase that team of Xuanxing Department Cultivators, see if we can get another token!"

"Brother Xiao is right, let's go!"

Just as this group was about to set off, a cold female voice came from behind them. "Where do you think you're running?"

The three of them stiffened and slowly turned around. The person who arrived was none other than Qian Zhenzhen, who had returned. She stood quietly in the forest mist, her expression cold. She couldn't be bothered with small talk. "Zhang Xiao, where are the points tokens?"

Cold sweat broke out on Zhang Xiao's forehead, and he gave a wry smile. "They're gone now. If you don't believe me, look at the leaderboard."

Qian Zhenzhen didn't even bother looking at the leaderboard, her eyes sharp. "They're gone now, which means you had them before. Tell me, where did the tokens come from?"

As she spoke, Spiritual Qi gathered in her hands, looking as if she were about to attack. Zhang Xiao had previously only feared her background, not knowing that Qian Zhenzhen had also already achieved a Breakthrough in Qi Refining, so he had to honestly tell her everything.

Meanwhile, Li Fan was still searching for Luo Qingqian while checking the leaderboard. He discovered that Qian Zhenzhen's points were also increasing, each time by 30, and she now had 120 points.

"She really did figure it out." It wasn't hard to guess that tokens could be obtained through the Xuanxing Department personnel, so Li Fan was not surprised.

Not long after, when he checked the leaderboard again, a large number of people had made the list, and his ranking began to drop rapidly, already falling outside the top one thousand.

As the points in the students' hands increased, Li Fan estimated that it wouldn't be long before a chaotic battle broke out, at which point the entire Secret Realm would become extremely dangerous.

Li Fan, in the sky, had to hasten his search for Luo Qingqian.

After several fruitless searches, Li Fan had to use the most primitive way to find someone. "Qingqian—! Where are you?"

Not long after his shout faded, a commotion came from the rocks and trees in the distance. A figure draped in a gray robe, wearing a strange mask, walked slowly from behind a tree.

"What Human Race Cultivator dares to disturb this King's rest?"

Looking at the incongruous mask, Li Fan's mouth twitched violently. [strongest face-slapping system has gone offline.] [Strongest Underdog Counterattack System has come online.]

"Since you're here, become blood food for this King."

The System notification popped up, and Li Fan was instantly alert. The appearance of the Strongest Underdog Counterattack System meant that the person disguised as a monster before him had a higher Realm than his own.

But since the System was triggered, it meant he had the strength to fight. As the Cultivator rushed over, Li Fan checked the wondrous tool given by the System for the Strongest Underdog Counterattack System: [Dog-Beating Stick].

He then looked at the rushing Cultivator; the mask he was wearing really did look a bit like a dog's head.

The Cultivator's speed was not very fast, as if he intended to let Li Fan run away, just going through the motions.

"Pretend to run and ambush him." So Li Fan pretended to flee, intentionally shouting, "Don't kill me..."

"Human Race blood food, stop right there!" While reciting his lines, the dog-headed Cultivator complained in his heart, "He's clearly in Qi Refining, why is he running so slow?"

As Li Fan was still putting on a show of running away, he suddenly caught sight of a familiar figure—Luo Qingqian.

She was hiding on a tree branch, clearly having been intimidated by this dog-headed Cultivator as well.

Li Fan then channeled his Spiritual Qi, his speed suddenly increasing. He flew in front of Luo Qingqian, scooped her up by the waist, and continued to speed away.

"This brat, his speed actually picked up when he saw a woman." The dog-headed Cultivator following slowly in the sky felt insulted and was unhappy.

"Wants to play the hero saving the beauty, without weighing his own worth." He increased his speed directly, and at the same time, a gray mist began to condense in his hand.

However, he found that no matter what, he couldn't catch up to this Qi Refining Cultivator carrying a girl, and he became somewhat exasperated.

"Damn it, if it weren't for the script saying I'm just a newly transformed monster and not allowed to use long-range Spells..."

But before long, he saw Li Fan's speed slowly drop, and he felt a surge of joy.

"In the end, he's still just a Qi Refining Cultivator; how can he compare to an awesome Foundation Establishment expert like me? Just honestly hand over the tokens."

The distance closed rapidly. Upon reaching him, he shouted and swung the mist blade he had been condensing for a long time. "Go to hell! Human!"

Li Fan suddenly accelerated, made a swift turn, and at the same time, a ripple emanated from within his body. Vast Spiritual Qi surged out, pressing straight toward the dog-headed Cultivator.

As a Foundation Establishment Cultivator, the dog-headed Cultivator still had that much reaction time. He quickly tried to activate his signature defensive Spell, but discovered that the circulation of Spiritual Qi within his body was extremely sluggish.

Watching the incoming attack, the dog-headed Cultivator could only curse, "Damn it, Spirit Reflection," and then he was pressed to the ground and passed out.

A long time later, when he opened his eyes again, the two were already gone. "These young people, they just don't know how to hold back. If he had grasped Spirit Reflection, he should have said so earlier."

After channeling his Spiritual Qi to clear the dust from his body, he habitually felt his pockets, and then froze for a moment. "Where are my twenty tokens!"

High above the Zhongmen Secret Realm, three Nascent Soul Cultivators were pointing out the landscape with great interest. "It was hard work coming up with these rules," the Vice Minister of the Xuan Gui Department said with some satisfaction.

The Xuannü Civilization was a civilization that had contacted the cultivation world relatively late, as it had previously been a harmonious society focused on technological development. Many good seedlings, upon reaching the Golden Core stage and going out to encounter the real cultivation world, did not understand the treachery among Cultivators and ended their lives prematurely.

"It's just right to let these little brats get familiar with it in advance." "I'd say there are still good seedlings in this batch."

The Vice Minister of the Xuancha Department sipped tea and chuckled, "Look at that kid; he's already grasped Spirit Reflection. With one move, he put your Xuanxing Department's man into the ground."

Although the school exam Secret Realm was very vast, for the Divine Sense of a Nascent Soul Cultivator, overseeing the entire situation was not a problem.

The veins on the forehead of the Vice Minister of the Xuanxing Department bulged. This was clearly saying that their Xuanxing Department people were incompetent, tripping up at the hands of a mere brat.

However, thinking that the opponent had Spirit Reflection, catching them off guard, even if one were a Realm higher, there really wasn't any good way to deal with it.

He suppressed the anger in his heart and also took a sip of tea. "This kid is indeed not bad; it would be suitable for him to come to our Xuanxing Department for further training later."

"That's where you're wrong. I saw him handle your Xuanxing Department people cleanly and neatly; he's more suitable to come work for our Xuancha Department."

The Vice Minister of the Xuanxing Department could no longer hold back. "Blue-haired water ghost, are you looking for trouble?"

The Vice Minister of the Xuancha Department took out a small notebook and began recording something. "Vice Minister of the Xuanxing Department - Vice Minister Zhou Duan, maliciously insulting a colleague, suggesting a second character assessment..."

The third person on the side, the Vice Minister of the Xuan Gui Department, found it somewhat amusing, but still came out to mediate.

"Yuanming, don't anger him; you know his temperament." Now, proper inspections were all operated on terminals, yet she specifically pulled out an old-fashioned small notebook.

Besides, these verbal remarks couldn't have any effect on characters of this level. "Come, come, drink tea, drink tea. This is Advanced stuff brought in from another Star Domain."

Hearing this, Yuanming put the notebook away. "Old Zhu, just let him be. With his temperament, sooner or later something is going to happen." "Mind your own business."

Old Zhu continued to sip his tea. Seeing they were about to argue again, he casually found a topic to divert them. "Duan-duan, what's going on with those abnormal Secret Realms around the teleportation portals? Some of them are even next to the station of my Xuan Gui Department's subordinate office."

Vice Minister Zhou Duan looked unconcerned. "They are just some Secret Realm anomalies. Recently there haven't been many people to investigate carefully, so I simply dispatched Nascent Soul Cultivators to guard the outside." As he finished speaking, he patted his chest. "They are all small problems."

Inside the abnormal Secret Realm on No. 6 Central Street, a masked person in black didn't know who they were communicating with through a sound transmission array. "Rest assured, this time we will definitely do something big."

A lackey on the side was worried. "Boss, acting so ruthless this time, aren't you really afraid that the people from the Xuanxing Department will go crazy later?"

The masked boss put away the sound transmission array and patted the lackey's shoulder. "That's why you need to go out more. So what if it's the Xuanxing Department?"

"In the end, the Xuannü Star Domain where the Xuannü Civilization is located is just one of tens of thousands of Star Domains in the Changgong Galaxy." "And the Changgong Galaxy is just a turbulent borderland. To break through the limits of Nascent Soul, one must look higher..."

Speaking of this, his gaze looked toward the sky outside the Secret Realm, as if piercing through endless distance to see a broader world. "Ahem, I've digressed. Are the brothers in the other Secret Realms ready?"

The lackey checked the message. "Everything is going smoothly. There are far fewer Xuanxing Department personnel outside. I don't know what they all went into that school exam Secret Realm for."

The masked boss nodded. "Don't worry about it. Just wait for orders from above. It will get chaotic later." "At that time, countless Star Domains like the Xuannü Civilization will erupt in unimaginable catastrophes." "And we are just insignificant members under the great trend..."