DLWAV CH55

Once Fu Mu, who was thoroughly “ripened,” reacted, only one thought remained in his mind—that Ao Ruize didn’t look like a member of the Dragon Clan at all. He was clearly a member of the Nine-Tailed Fox Clan, and one who had mastered the art of seduction. Otherwise, how could he make him dizzy and confused with just a few words?

However, no matter how annoyed he was, lying on the bed weak all over, all Fu Mu could do was lift his foot and kick… and rub against the culprit behind him.

As for pulling up his pants and denying knowing anyone as agreed… his pants had long since been torn apart by Ao Ruize…

And in the next second, Ao Ruize, who had been woken up by him, pressed up against him again, merely thinking he was implying something.

He said: “Awake? Perfect, it’s dark again.”

Fu Mu: “…”

The result was that by the time Fu Mu came out of the room, it was already five days later.

—It wasn’t because Ao Ruize found his conscience and finally agreed to let him go, but because the Mingxiao Conference was about to begin.

Fu Mu, who finally pulled his pants up, secretly made up his mind that he would never fall for Ao Ruize’s tricks again.

Because Ao Ruize, who came down from his bed, did not stop at the mid-Golden Core stage.

In just a few short days, his cultivation had soared to the Great Perfection of the Golden Core stage.

However, Ao Ruize didn’t really take this matter to heart.

But the situation on the Milk Dumpling’s side wasn’t very optimistic.

Because it had been squatting in the market for nearly a week without seeing that cultivator again.

When it returned to the Dragon Clan’s temporary residence, it was just evening.

Clearly, tomorrow was the day the Mingxiao Conference would officially kick off, but along the way, the faces of those Dragon Clan disciples didn’t look very good, especially after seeing Ao Ruize.

So much so that Ao Ruize couldn’t help raising his eyebrows.

And not long after Ao Ruize returned to his residence, Long Jingdan arrived.

Because Ao Ruize was absent when the elders introduced the process of the Mingxiao Conference to them earlier, she came over now to give Ao Ruize a make-up lesson.

“The Mingxiao Conference is divided into eight major competitions: Martial Arts, Alchemy, Talismans, Artifact Refining, Spells… Under these eight major competitions, they are further divided into two small competitions: Nascent Soul and Golden Core. The top fifty of each small competition will be compiled into that year’s Hundred Cyan List (Ranking of Young Talents) for that specific competition.”

“We are participating in the Martial Arts Competition.”

Of course, she was participating in the Nascent Soul competition, while Ao Ruize was participating in the Golden Core competition.

As she spoke, she took out a jade tablet and handed it to Ao Ruize: “This contains detailed information on some outstanding Golden Core disciples from major sects and families this year. You can take a look.”

Not only because they were about to become Ao Ruize’s opponents, but also because they would definitely spare no effort to suppress Ao Ruize in the arena.

After all, if they could defeat Ao Ruize, the Dragon Clan’s Young Clan Leader, in the arena, their reputation would definitely double.

“Okay.”

Ao Ruize took the jade tablet casually.

Then he asked casually: “By the way, why do the people in the clan look like they aren’t in high spirits?”

Hearing this, Long Jingdan’s eyebrows also raised: “That’s because the top five of each small competition can receive a generous reward…”

These rewards were mainly provided by one Sect, three Factions, four Schools, and the Four Great Families. According to custom, the organizer of the competition would directly bring out five prizes for the first place to choose first, then the second place… and so on. The remaining last prize would go to the fifth place.

“Didn’t our Dragon Clan produce a Young Clan Leader with extremely high bloodline concentration like you this year?”

“They all guessed that the Dragon Clan would definitely collect Spirit Washing Pills for you to wash away the miscellaneous spiritual roots in your body and improve your aptitude.”

“Naturally, they don’t want you to grow up smoothly.”

Although to the outside world, the one Sect, three Factions, four Schools, and the Four Great Families seemed to always stand together, internal competition had never ceased.

This was perfectly normal.

“Then they thought of a good idea. They took out four main ingredients for refining the Spirit Washing Pill. Three were placed in the rewards for the Martial Arts Nascent Soul competition, and one was placed in the rewards for the Martial Arts Golden Core competition.”

“And these four main ingredients happen to be the ones the Dragon Clan hasn’t managed to procure yet.”

“Besides this, they also selected several magical treasures that Long Tiancheng and others urgently need right now and put them into the rewards.”

“This afternoon, the Clan Leader gave the word, asking us to pick those four main ingredients for refining the Spirit Washing Pill as much as possible after fighting our way into the top five.”

Although the Clan Leader promised afterwards that he would give them another compensation.

But they became even more unhappy.

Because they felt that Ao Ruize, this so-called Young Clan Leader, was completely useless and would only drag them down, yet the Clan Leader and others were biased towards him in various ways.

Of course, these were just their excuses.

“The real reason is that in the past, resources in the clan were tilted towards us. Now that you’ve become the Young Clan Leader, all resources in the clan are tilted towards you, so they naturally are dissatisfied.”

So the plan of those major sects and families had obviously succeeded.

But Long Jingdan wasn’t angry at all. Instead, she lifted her chin: “However, Long Tiancheng and the others are taking things too much for granted. After all, whether they can get into the top five of the competition is still up in the air.”

Hearing this, Ao Ruize also smiled.

The next day, the conference officially kicked off.

Hundreds of thousands of people gathered in the enormous venue; the scale was undeniably grand.

At the opening of the conference, as usual, the Sect Master of the hosting sect gave a speech, the boredom of which can be imagined.

So Ao Ruize simply turned his head and admired his wife’s unparalleled beauty.

Fu Mu: “…”

What kind of lecher is this?

Is he really not afraid that others will discover something?

Fortunately, after two quarters of an hour (30 mins), the Sword Sect Master finished his speech. Soon, the Martial Arts Competition began.

The first was the Golden Core competition.

The Clan Leader immediately turned to look at Ao Ruize and the others, especially Ao Ruize: “Go.”

Ao Ruize and the others immediately stood up: “Yes.”

Long Tiancheng and the others followed suit.

They sneered endlessly: “We only hope our Young Clan Leader can last a little longer. That way, our Dragon Clan won’t lose too much face.”

If they were like this, let alone the disciples of other families and sects who specially came to watch this match.

“How many rounds do you think this new Dragon Clan Young Clan Leader can last?”

“How many rounds? If he can last past the first round, the Dragon Clan should thank the heavens and earth.”

“After all, he is only at the early Golden Core stage right now.”

Hearing this, Fu Mu, who just happened to be ‘passing by’, couldn’t help frowning.

So much so that by the time he realized it, he had already subconsciously used sound transmission to issue an order to those Hehuan Sect disciples also preparing to participate in the Golden Core competition to help Ao Ruize as much as possible.

After all, although that guy’s cultivation skyrocketed to the Great Perfection of the Golden Core stage because of plucking him, and 99% of the people on the field didn’t have cultivation higher than him.

But cultivation gained from plucking wasn’t solid enough after all, so he felt that Ao Ruize’s current strength was at most at the mid-Golden Core stage.

Leaving aside how regretful Fu Mu was afterwards, in the arena, because the Martial Arts Golden Core competition always had the most participants among all major competitions, unlike other competitions, the first round of the Martial Arts Golden Core competition was a grand melee. All participants entered one arena for a chaotic battle. After two hours, the two hundred participants still standing on the stage could enter the next round, until the final rankings were decided.

With the sound of a gong resounding through the entire venue, the Martial Arts Golden Core competition officially began.

Long Jingdan’s subordinates immediately surrounded Ao Ruize, protecting him firmly behind them, including one at Golden Core Great Perfection, two at late Golden Core, and three at early Golden Core.

Seeing this, other Dragon Clan disciples, remembering the Clan Leader’s instructions, could only reluctantly surround him as well.

Seeing this, disciples of other sects and families not far away couldn’t help but sneer.

Then they looked directly at each other: “White Five (Bai Wu), Vermilion Three (Zhu San), Black Six (Xuan Liu), Brother Zhao… what do you say?”

The young man addressed as Bai Wu immediately said: “Let’s knock down those fish in troubled waters first, then deal with Long Ruize; it won’t be too late.”

It was also because there were too many people on stage now, making it inconvenient for the audience below the stage to see how they knocked Long Ruize down.

The others laughed loudly and said: “Okay.”

Unexpectedly, before their voices fell, Ao Ruize suddenly released dozens of ice pillars, sweeping rapidly in all directions. Some lower-level participants who hadn’t reacted yet were directly blown away, falling off the arena.

“What?”

The people present were instantly stunned, including the Dragon Clan people and the Hehuan Sect people.

Because they didn’t expect that Ao Ruize not only didn’t turtle in a corner to delay time but instead took the initiative to attack the participants.

Was he crazy?

“No, his cultivation is definitely not just early Golden Core—”

Xuan Liu of the Black Tortoise Clan, who was almost hit by Ao Ruize’s ice pillars, immediately said: “Could he have broken through to late Golden Core?”

But how was this possible—after all, Ao Ruize had mutated bloodline and become the Young Clan Leader only a month ago. How could he bypass the mid-Golden Core stage and break through to late Golden Core so quickly—

But soon, he knew exactly what was going on.

Because in the next second, Ao Ruize killed directly towards him.

A minute later, two mid-Golden Core disciples of the Black Tortoise Clan were heavily injured by Ao Ruize while trying to protect Xuan Liu.

Those Dragon Clan disciples subconsciously charged forward to follow.

Five minutes later, all Black Tortoise Clan disciples present were knocked down by them, and Xuan Liu at the late Golden Core stage was kicked directly off the arena by Ao Ruize.

Then, he targeted the people from the Divine Calculation Gate.

And this time, the one kicked off the arena became Bai Ruishi of the Divine Calculation Gate.

He was also at the late Golden Core stage.

Everyone was stunned again.

In other words—

“Golden Core Great Perfection. Long Ruize’s current cultivation is definitely Golden Core Great Perfection—”

“How is that possible?”

Just at this moment, Ao Ruize led people to kill towards Zhu San and others of the Vermilion Bird Clan.

Bai Wu made a prompt decision: “Deal with Long Ruize first—”

Seeing this, the Hehuan Sect people swept away the gloom in their hearts—because they didn’t understand why Fu Mu would order them to protect Ao Ruize.

After all, if they protected Ao Ruize, those big families and sects definitely wouldn’t let them off, so their final ranking would definitely be affected.

But now, none of this mattered.

After all, how could the Hundred Cyan List be more important than making the big families and sects other than the Dragon Clan lose all face?

So they immediately charged forward too.

Seeing this, those rogue cultivators also followed them to kill towards those big families and sects.

In fact, they had long hated these big families and sects for ganging up against them rogue cultivators as soon as they came up. Because of this, in the recent dozen Mingxiao Conferences, the number of rogue cultivators in the Martial Arts Hundred Cyan List could be counted on one hand.

Even though many of them rogue cultivators were not weak.

And thinking about it, they knew that after those big families and sects dealt with Ao Ruize, they would inevitably come back to deal with them. So since they were going to clash with these big families and sects anyway, they might as well fight amidst the chaos.

So this melee instantly turned into a real chaotic battle.

Then in just ten minutes, the number of people on the field decreased by another quarter.

Ao Ruize retreated behind everyone at the right time, took out a top-grade spirit stone, and replenished his spiritual power.

After replenishing his spiritual power, he charged out to kill again.

Ten minutes later, the Beast Taming Gate was completely wiped out.

Twenty minutes later, the Lingyue Sword Faction followed in the footsteps of the Beast Taming Gate.

Thirty-five minutes later, the last mid-Golden Core disciple of the Spirit Pill Faction was also knocked off the arena.

…

Half an hour later, those still standing on the arena were only seven or eight Dragon Clan disciples, a dozen Hehuan Sect cultivators, twenty-some rogue cultivators, and Bai Wu and others of the White Tiger Clan.

Bai Wu’s face had completely stiffened.

He gritted his teeth and said: “Young Clan Leader Long, since only us few are left on the arena anyway, we can all advance directly to the next round. How about we call a truce here?”

He said word by word: “After all, I already have half a foot in the Nascent Soul stage, so in terms of strength, you really might not be my opponent.”

Ao Ruize smiled. While absorbing the spiritual power from the last two top-grade spirit stones, he said: “Not how about anything.”

“After all, you didn’t plan to show us mercy just now, did you?”

“As for whether I am your opponent, it doesn’t count if you say it; it only counts if we try.”

Hearing this, Bai Wu’s face turned completely black: “Long Ruize, don’t be smug—”

However, before his voice fell, Ao Ruize waved out dozens of water blades attacking towards Bai Wu again.

Five minutes later, as Bai Wu flew out backwards and smashed onto the ground not far away, fainting directly before he could say another harsh word, the first melee of the Martial Arts Golden Core competition completely ended.

For a moment, the whole venue was dead silent.

They never expected the final result to be Ao Ruize crushing the disciples of other big sects and families all the way, knocking off more than a dozen Golden Core Great Perfection and late Golden Core cultivators, and taking the first round of the Golden Core competition.

Those Dragon Clan disciples who reacted and those Hehuan Sect disciples who hadn’t even calmed their breathing yet couldn’t help but fall silent.

Especially those Hehuan Sect disciples. They were originally thinking that if they helped Ao Ruize, it would inevitably affect their final ranking. But now, Ao Ruize directly led them to fight their way into the Hundred Cyan List…

“What is this—”

A young man beside Long Tiancheng said with a stiff face: “This is just the Golden Core competition. No matter how many Golden Core Great Perfection cultivators he knocks off, he still can’t possibly be our opponent. Don’t forget, we are already mid-Nascent Soul cultivators…”

But no one present took up his words.

So what if Ao Ruize only participated in the Golden Core competition?

The point now was no longer this match, but that he had advanced from early Golden Core to Golden Core Great Perfection in less than a month—

One should know that even for favored children of heaven like them, it would take at least twenty years to advance from early Golden Core to Golden Core Great Perfection.

Ao Ruize’s future achievements could be imagined—

So only one thought remained in their minds instantly: that this slap from Ao Ruize on their faces was really loud enough.

Most importantly, they were probably going to lose.

In a situation where they hadn’t even had time to officially start targeting Ao Ruize.

And on the rostrum, the faces of those Clan Leaders and Sect Masters were incredibly ugly.

Before tonight was over, the entire cultivation world would know about how the disciples of their sects and families united to deal with Long Ruize, only to be stepped on and rubbed against the ground by Long Ruize.

Even the gazes they cast towards the Dragon Clan Leader and others changed instantly.

The Dragon Clan hid so deeply!

Knowing nothing about this, the Dragon Clan Leader and others, whose surprise was no less than theirs: “…”

Could they say that just now, they were still thinking about whether to leave early to avoid these Clan Leaders and Sect Masters mocking them after Ao Ruize was knocked off the arena?