131: Chapter 131 A Plan That Started Strong but Ended Weak

The group of Elders and retainers watched Lin Xiao not far away with slightly stiff expressions, their hearts bleeding. Another fifty thousand sets of Medium Grade Magical Artifacts gone!

One after another, that was a full 160,000 divine power points! Thinking of the loss of these divine power points, the Elders and retainers felt a pang of heartache.

Although these resources all came from their Family—even if they weren't lost, they wouldn't have been given to them anyway—it didn't stop them from feeling pained.

"As expected of Young Friend Lin, your financial resources are truly profound. With such results, I'm sure your Family's main branch will be pleased with you."

"Indeed. Although there is a suspicion that Young Friend's assessment utilized some tricks, the strength of your Second-order Believers is something everyone has witnessed. You must have put a lot of effort into these Believers; it is truly a great blessing for them to become your Believers."

Listening to these people's compliments and Yin and Yang, Lin Xiao maintained his standard faint smile.

"Seniors, it is a bit too early to congratulate me now. After all, there is still the final assessment left. If some unexpected accident happens in the end, wouldn't these current congratulations make me feel ashamed? Let's save the congratulations until after the exam is finished."

This was truly an attempt to leave no path for survival.

The smiles on the faces of the Elders, already forced, could no longer be maintained.

"Young Friend's Believers must be exhausted from the continuous battles, and your gains today are already quite significant. How about we just skip this final assessment?"

[Heartbroken over just this little bit? If you don't have the money, why try to set up a trap? It's truly pathetic and funny.]

It was merely a few tens of thousands of sets of Medium Grade Magical Artifacts. If not for the desire to deliberately cause trouble for these people, Lin Xiao wouldn't have even bothered with such trifles.

After all, he had spent 500,000 divine power points on the Star Destruction Cannon alone, not to mention those Talismans, Medicinal Pills, and the medical treatment for those Believers who were injured due to carelessness.

Those Magical Artifacts and cities couldn't even begin to cover his losses.

"Seniors, what are you saying? As a student, how can I retreat when facing an assessment? Losing is a matter of strength, but not even daring to fight is a matter of attitude and courage! If I lack the courage to face an enemy in a safe environment, what will happen in the future when I go to the battlefield? Facing powerful alien races, are we supposed to become deserters?!"

You—!

Hearing Lin Xiao speak with such glib tongue and slap such a heavy label on them, the Elders and retainers cursed inwardly!

They just wanted to lose fewer resources; how did it escalate to being deserters in just a few sentences? This topic was too serious, so serious that they had to immediately clarify their stance.

"You can eat whatever you want, but you cannot say whatever you want! When did we ever say we wanted you to be a deserter?!"

"Our intention was to show consideration for Young Friend's Believers. Since Young Friend does not appreciate it, then so be it. If you want to continue the exam, then do so. It's just that when we came out, we only brought these ten Demigods. For the insufficient number, we will have to trouble the school to fill them in."

They had already sent word to the Family earlier that the three Demigods didn't need to be replaced. Now that another five had been lost, they had already stripped the remaining two Demigods of all their resources. They even intercepted the extra core Believers. After all, they were at the Qi Refining Realm, so they could at least recoup some resources.

Principal Li Qingyun, listening from the side, spoke up with a chuckle.

"It is the school's duty to fill the numbers for the assessment, but the Demigods kept by the school are not as good as those in your Families. They cannot be equipped with full sets of Medium Grade Magical Artifacts, and the city walls do not have the blessing of dual-element Law. Even in quantity, they are only a thousand Qi Refining Realm Believers. I'm afraid that even if I make up the eight people, they won't be as strong as the single Demigod you sent earlier. I am saying this in advance to avoid a situation where you think I am intentionally going easy on him later."

Principal Li Qingyun not only had no conflict of interest with Lin Xiao, but he actually had requests of Lin Xiao. Naturally, he would not help these Families.

As soon as he said this, the Elders and retainers, whose expressions were already ugly, felt as disgusted as if they had swallowed a fly. Eight Demigods combined were not as strong as one of the Demigods they had sent earlier? Then what was the point of this assessment!

Several Elders immediately chose to flick their sleeves and leave, too lazy to even utter polite pleasantries.

In the end, only three remained to witness the assessment results. As for the matter of the bet, Lin Xiao did not specifically mention it. He believed that a bet witnessed by the Principal would never be violated by these Family forces, unless they intended to publicly slap a Third-order Deity in the face.

Without the existence of unexpected factors, Lin Xiao easily obtained the final victory in the last assessment.

It was even much easier than the first assessment, and the subsequent assessments for ordinary students proceeded quite smoothly.

Except for a few individual students who wanted to take a gamble and ended up with all their Believers dead, all the Divine Beings under Lin Xiao were assigned to Class One with excellent results.

Unlike the joyous atmosphere on their side, angry roars were constantly emanating from the meeting rooms of each Family at this moment.

"So you are telling me now that not only did the plan to strike at that kid fail, but we also have to send five Elders to work as his subordinates? Did you ruin your brain while Cultivating? Why did you agree to a bet with absolutely no benefits? Where are the benefits if we win?!"

The questioned Elder's face looked terrible. After carefully reviewing the bet again, he realized that it only stated what would happen if they lost, but there was no agreement on what would happen if they won.

[Damn it! What is going on? Why did I agree to this kind of bet?]

Although the Elder was also filled with confusion, he naturally would not admit his own oversight at this moment. He immediately began to defend himself.

"I admit that I did not carefully check this bet or discuss it with everyone, but it was mainly because that kid was too cunning. He deliberately pretended that if we didn't agree to the bet, he wouldn't accept the Heavenly Pride Mode assessment. In order to let the plan proceed smoothly, we were forced to agree to his request. We thought that since this kid would be utterly defeated, he would certainly be too embarrassed to mention the bet again. Besides, it's just some Divine Beings and Demigods; we could just empty out the Demigod slave races kept within the Family and throw them to him..."

This was the true inner thought of the Elders and retainers in the examination hall earlier. Although influenced by fate, they did not think there was anything wrong with this choice; they only blamed that kid for being too shameless. Who, in their right mind, would equip their Believers with so many Puppets for no reason? Not to mention those Talismans, Medicinal Pills, weapons, and armor.

It can only be said that they still did not take the other party seriously enough. Even though they knew that the kid had an extremely abundant amount of divine power points, they subconsciously ignored this point.

The Elder's answer was not entirely wrong; if any of them had been in the other party's position at that time, they would likely have signed this bet as well.

But now the plan had failed, and tens of thousands of divine power points had gone down the drain. Someone had to be held responsible for this!

Since there was now a ready-made scapegoat, they would naturally not be bored enough to snatch this black pot.

The Second-order Deity Clan Chief's Divine Power instantly swept through the entire meeting room.

"Although your starting point was good, it has had a very bad impact. You count as one of the Family's five Deity quotas, and you must find a way to fill the remaining four. This bet was not in our plan, so you must bear the consequences yourself. Considering that what you did was ultimately for the Family, the Family will provide the Divine Beings and Demigods. I can only give you three days. After three days, no matter what method you use, you must gather the five Deity quotas. If you cannot gather them..."

The Second-order Deity Clan Chief did not finish his final words. After all, the other party was a Family Elder, and this time it was to complete the Family's plan, so he could not be too harsh. But if the other party could not find five people within three days, he would have to use his own methods to make up for the missing ones. The losses involved would be fully borne by this Elder! Even if it meant emptying out all of this Elder's resources to do so.