Chapter 705: Chapter 678: Attack
 

Xu Fan looked at the spirit treasure in front of him that contained the Great Dao of Time, falling into deep thought.

He was pondering how many spirit treasures he would need to ascend to the Mahayana cultivation level.

“Grapes, can you tell me what the most common spirit treasure is that contains the Great Dao of Time in the cultivation world?” Xu Fan asked.

A small transparent crystal stone, about the size of a ping-pong ball, appeared in front of Xu Fan.

“The Space-Time Crystal, which is most prone to form in areas of unstable space. To condense this small piece of Space-Time Crystal would take hundreds of thousands of years,” Grape explained.

“How long can this small space-time crystal accelerate time?” Xu Fan asked.

“This small piece can accelerate time for 8-10 years.”

Xu Fan picked up this small piece of crystal stone, studying it carefully.

Then he placed it back within the pile of time spirit treasures.

“Once Number One and Number Two finish at the Elder Council Headquarters, I’ll ask the Council for a batch of time spirit treasures. Maybe they can make up enough time crystals for me to advance to the Mahayana stage,” Xu Fan said with a smile.

He estimated that after he advanced to the level of the Mahayana Esteemed One, he would only need a few more decades of closed-door cultivation.

And when he emerged again, he would be bold enough to declare that all present were beneath his level.

Even if the Incarnation of the Golden Winged Roc arrived, Xu Fan could beat him back.

Lost in pleasant thoughts, Xu Fan didn’t notice that the outermost Celestial Killing Array on Hidden Spirit Island had lit up.

It wasn’t until Grape issued a warning that Xu Fan looked up to the sky.

“That Purple Jade Jiaolong has quite some skill in choosing a location for divination, managing to bring out half the power of the Celestial Killing Array,” Xu Fan commented, looking at the brightness of the outer formation.

At this time, the entire Hidden Spirit Sect was immersed in the joy of the harvest.

Thanks to Grape’s vast computational capabilities, every disciple’s battlefield scene had been recorded.

Any spoils of war from killing demons were cleaned up by puppets and then distributed to everyone.

Xiang Yun was looking at a small light curtain at the moment, his mouth almost unable to close due to the wide smile.

“Since it’s the Semi-Yang Gold Stone, the sun-attribute Dao Artifact-level spiritual sword now has a destination.” Xiang Yun said with a smile.

“Coincidentally, I have a pile of Half-Moon Black Stones among my spoils of war. Are you interested?” Xiong Li said, patting Xiang Yun’s shoulder.

“What do you want in exchange?” Xiang Yun looked at Xiong Li and asked.

“What exchange between brothers? If you like it, just take it,” Xiong Li said cheerfully.

Xiang Yun looked at his brother’s gestures, sighed and said, “I’ll exchange the Gang Gold Iron for it. Isn’t that what you’ve always wanted, Senior Brother Xiong Li?”

“That’s more like it, my good junior fellow.”

Xiong Li laughed. He practiced the Five Elements Body Refining Technique. During the later stages of practice, he needed to absorb the power of the gold source from various elemental spiritual ores to refine his body.

“I originally wanted to collect a Gold Chopping Sword Array, but unfortunately I couldn’t gather all the parts.” Xiang Yun said.

“What’s the Gold Chopping Sword Array? Isn’t the Yin-Yang Sword Array better?” Xiong Li laughed, having some understanding of the Sword Formation Dao.

“There are no strongest sword arrays, only the most suitable ones.”

While some were celebrating, some were frustrated. There were people who performed well and people who performed harshly on the battlefield.

Li Leihu looked at the points ranking list from the fight with a somewhat ugly expression.

The average points for demon kills of the third-generation disciples were lower than that of the outer disciples.

Even though a thousand of the outer disciples participated this time, a loss was still a loss.

Bai Xuan, dressed in a white robe, walked over to Li Leihu.

“Don’t worry about whether the results are good or bad. This time the outer disciples who were sent out were all the best disciples, it’s normal that the average points are a little bit lower,” Bai Xuan said with a calm face.

“A loss is a loss, there’s nothing more to say about it.”

“Let’s compete again next time.”

Hearing Bai Xuan’s words, although Li Leihu felt a bit better, he still understood that Outer Disciples were not necessarily inferior to the Inner Sect Disciples in a certain sense, particularly in terms of talent and aptitude.

“Next time we compete, there should be a wager.” Bai Xuan said, squinting his eyes.

“What kind of wager?” Li Leihu asked.

“The cultivation quota for the Five-Colored Mountain Peak.” Bai Xuan answered with his eyes squinted.

Even though the opportunity to cultivate on the Five-Colored Mountain Peak was not open to Outer Disciples, the quota could be transferred to them.

“In that case, your proposition seems to be unfair to my over 90,000 third-generation disciples compared with your best 1,000 Outer Disciples.”

Li Leihu was not fool, he was aware that the opportunity to cultivate on the Five-Colored Mountain Peak was the most valuable cultivation secret realm in Hidden Spirit Island. Each disciple had only one opportunity to enter each year and could only cultivate for one day each time.

The results of cultivation, if properly grasped, could advance one’s understanding of Dao as far as a whole year in the outside world could.

“How about the average of the points of the top 10,000 third-generation disciples?” Bai Xuan proposed after some thought.

“Okay, what happens if you lose?”

“If we lose, you will be considered as the Chief of the Outer Disciples, and you can take 10% of the total points earned by all Outer Disciples within a year.” Bai Xuan answered.

Li Leihu nodded at this.

At this moment, Xu Fan in the distance happened to notice this scene.

“Indeed, where there are outstanding talents, sparks can ignite. That kid is not ordinary, he has a very methodical approach and is deep in stratagems.” Xu Fan said with a smile.

Following Xu Fan’s gaze, Xu Yuexian also saw Bai Xuan.

“Actually, I wanted to tell Master before that Bai Xuan and Qin Lu should be exceptionally admitted to the Inner Sect.”

“Why didn’t you say it later?” Xu Fan asked.

“Later, Star Ci told me that the entry examination for third-generation disciples had been watered down a bit.”

Xu Yuexian believed that no matter how outstanding a new disciple might be, if they didn’t hold the Sect in their hearts during critical moments, they would still be useless.

“Truth be told, those two Outer Disciples are quite good too, they have righteous worldviews, only lacking slightly during key moments.”

“One thinks the world revolves around him, and the other is overly emotional.”

“There’s nothing wrong with this inherently, but perhaps the problem lies in joining our Hidden Spirit Sect.”

“These disciples definitely have the qualifications to be key cultivation targets in the Holy Lands of top-notch sects.” Xu Fan said with a smile.

“It’s a pity that at that time the teleportation array was sealed. Even if they wanted to go to other Sects, they couldn’t.” Xu Yuexian added.

“I proposed to sell those two disciples to other Sects earlier, but Master wasn’t happy about it.” Li Xingchi, who had noted the topic of Xu Fan and Xu Yuexian’s conversation, approached and said.

“Their destiny lies here. If they went elsewhere, their potential would be ruined.”

“At least they had some connection with our Hidden Spirit Sect. We can’t harm them.” Xu Fan shook his head.

Just then, the Celestial Killing Formation on the outer perimeter of Hidden Spirit Island showed signs of fluctuation.

“Master, the outer Celestial Killing formation needs more Spiritual Qi to block the probing of Cause and Effect.” Pu Tao said.

“Transfer half of the Immortal Spirit Qi from within Five-Colored Mountain Peak to supply the Celestial Killing Array.”

“I don’t believe he would risk his life just to calculate our location.” Xu Fan looked up at the Celestial Killing Array in the sky.

At this moment, a ringing sound, like shattering glass, echoed in his ears.

The outermost Celestial Killing Formation had been broken.

“Wow, there are really those who don’t care about their lives.”

“Pu Tao, bring the speed up to the fastest and let’s leave this place of trouble first.” Xu Fan quickly ordered.

As his words fell, a purple light flashed in the distance followed by a dragon chant reverberating throughout the Vast Void Domain.