When the sect competition ended, Yang Mu and Shi Dixuan had a total of fifty-one jade plaques. Yang Mu stuffed all jade plaques into Shi Dixuan’s arms and they stood together on the nearest teleportation array.
After a burst of light flashed in the teleportation array, the two of them returned to the Yuling Sect.
By this time, many people had already come out of the teleportation array. Yang Mu looked around and quickly found the elders and disciples of the Yuan Sect. Then, he walked over with Shi Dixuan.
Compared to before, the Yuan Sect was missing two disciples, but their master had come out. However, they all appeared somewhat disheveled.
Yang Mu approached and asked in a low voice, “Where are your disciples?”
The two elders showed expressions of sorrow.
Seeing their expressions, Yang Mu naturally understood that these two disciples might never come out.
A group of people waited in front of the teleportation array for a while, and during this time, many more people came out one after another.
At this point, the sect leader of the Yuling Sect had already closed the teleportation array, which indicated that there might be no more survivors in that realm.
Yang Mu surveyed the other sects and could see that most of them had lost many disciples, and some even lost their elders.
From this perspective, the Yuan Sect didn’t lose many disciples. Despite being one of the weakest sects, their casualties were relatively low, which could be considered a kind of skill.
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Yang Mu maintained a calm appearance on the surface, standing there quietly, listening to the personnel as they reported the number of jade plaques in the hands of the Yuling Sect leader.
In reality, he felt a slight tension in his heart, and his palms were slightly sweaty from the nervousness.
Shi Dixuan also perked up his ears, listening to the personnel counting. After all, their rankings could determine if they could obtain a beastman for the final prize. With his current strength, even saving one beastman from the hands of humans would be a significant accomplishment.
As for the other elders and disciples of the Yuan Sect, they wore somewhat embarrassed expressions. Their strength was modest, and being able to hold their own in the sect competition was already a decent achievement. When they were preparing to depart, they were full of confidence, thinking that even if they couldn’t secure the first place, their performance wouldn’t be too bad.
But when they arrived at this competition, they realized the vast difference in strength between them and others, and a sense of timidity crept into their hearts. When the sect competition officially began, they felt their own insignificance even more.
While walking in the forest, they were discovered by elders and disciples from other sects. After those individuals took the jade plaques from them, they didn’t even bother to eliminate them.
Now, they didn’t have a single jade plaque left. When the personnel responsible for counting came later, wouldn’t they lose all face in front of everyone?
Although the Yuan Sect still had Elder Yang in the Nascent Soul stage, in the hearts of these elders and disciples, Yang Mu might not be able to seize many jade plaques.
Yang Mu listened as the personnel reported the numbers of jade plaques, and when he heard the number “fifty,” his heart tightened. However, when he saw the personnel move on to count the next person’s jade plaques, he quietly breathed a sigh of relief. It was close. If that sect had acquired just two more jade plaques, they would have been out of contention for the top spot.
The counting personnel continued their count, and Yang Mu didn’t hear any numbers exceeding fifty, which filled him with joy.
After the jade plaques of all the other sects in the Yuling Sect’s square had been counted, the counting personnel finally approached the Yuan Sect. Apart from Yang Mu and Shi Dixuan, the members of the Yuan Sect were somewhat embarrassed.
Members from the other sects also displayed varying degrees of disdain. The disciple with fifty jade plaques even had a self-satisfied expression, preparing for his expected first-place finish.
Shi Dixuan, under the scrutiny of all present, produced the jade plaques. The counting personnel meticulously counted them and then, somewhat unbelieving, reported a number.
“Fifty-one.”
The entire area fell into silence.
No one had expected that an Elder from a small sect in the Nascent Soul stage, along with a disciple who hadn’t even reached the Foundation Establishment stage, would manage to seize fifty-one jade plaques.
Even Yang Mu himself felt like he had been incredibly fortunate. After all, many sects in the Yuling Sect had their own Nascent Soul stage elders, and he had encountered only a few on his journey.
Wasn’t this more about luck than anything else?
However, luck is also a form of strength.
The leader of the Yuling Sect looked at Yang Mu with a certain degree of admiration. In the minds of these people, it was evident that Shi Dixuan, who was in the Qi Refining stage, couldn’t have been the primary force in seizing these jade plaques. They must have been taken by Yang Mu and then given to his disciple.
“Hahaha, since it is Elder Yang of the Yuan Sect and his disciple who have obtained the most jade plaques, they are the first-place winners of this sect competition,” the leader of the Yuling Sect laughed heartily while hiding his true thoughts.
The rewards for the sect competition would only be given to the top three winners, and anyone beyond the top three would receive nothing. The leader of the Yuling Sect then announced the names of the second and third place winners. Then he waved his hand, instructing a disciple to lead the top three winners to receive their rewards.
Handing out rewards away from the public eye had its advantages. If everyone knew about the rewards for the top three winners, it might attract the greed of unscrupulous individuals, potentially causing trouble for the winners.
Yang Mu’s first-place reward consisted of pills, weapons, and a white wolf trapped in a beast-control cage. In this continent, creatures like wolves were already considered quite powerful. The Yuling Sect’s rewards could be considered generous.
The wolf, trapped in the beast-control cage, had its cultivation completely stripped away, leaving it only with the ability to move. It lay listlessly in the cage, but when it looked at humans, its eyes were filled with hatred.
Yang Mu expressionlessly took out a beast-control bag and waved it in front of the wolf, then put it away.
After thanking the Yuling Sect, Yang Mu hurriedly led the Yuan Sect members back to their own sect.
Li Yuer had originally wanted to have a good conversation with Shi Dixuan after the sect competition ended. However, while waiting for Yang Mu to collect his reward, she intended to seek out the Yuan Sect group’s whereabouts, but she found that they had already disappeared.
She rushed back to the Yuan Sect on her flying sword and saw that Yang Mu had returned to his room, gifting the two beastman he had obtained in the competition to Shi Dixuan.
Yang Mu thought that if Shi Dixuan kept acquiring more beastman, he might be able to open a zoo.
Ignoring the complex look Shi Dixuan gave him, Yang Mu shut the door with a firm “thud” and returned to his own room. He had finally found a moment to rest, but his rear end had barely warmed the seat when he received a summons from Yushi An.
With a hint of resignation, Yang Mu went to where Yushi An was located. However, this time, Yushi An didn’t lead him to the main hall but to a stone house.
A cute wolf.
Another beastman to the collection! (=^w^=)/
Thank You for the new chapter (´∩｡• ᵕ •｡∩`) ♡
A stone house??
Please not the one where he took the semen of a beastmen, he probably wants to “exchange” Yang Mu’s beastmen with something else.
That or may be he wanted to see if he could breed/share them among the two of them.