Chapter 263

After the meal was almost finished, Shen Liang raised his glass and said: "I toast Brother Xu a cup; that day you and I fought each other with a palm, and you were able to suppress me; you are worthy of being a genius on par with Lu Ren."

"That day doesn't count; if we fought seriously, I might not necessarily be able to beat you."

Xu Yang said modestly and clinked glasses with Shen Liang.

An Ping put down his chopsticks and asked curiously: "Brother Xu, forgive my ignorance, but I have never heard of a large family with the surname Xu in Qingyuan."

Several of them knew each other before and also knew each other's backgrounds, the only thing they didn't understand was Xu Yang.

Xu Yang's expression remained unchanged, and he said: "I don't come from any large family, but from a farming household; naturally, you haven't heard of it, Brother An."

A look of embarrassment flashed across An Ping's face.

Shen Liang smiled: "Brother Xu being able to walk to this step from a farming background is much stronger than us."

Tang Xiao nodded: "Yes, if we were from the same background as Brother Xu, we would definitely not be able to walk to this step; I have spent at least ten thousand silver taels from my family practicing martial arts over the years."

Several people didn't care much about Xu Yang's background; Xu Yang being able to shake Shen Liang back with one palm meant he had the qualifications to sit on equal footing with them; as for who could walk further in the future, it was really hard to say.

Guo Huai said: "I once heard people mention that Brother Xu, you have no family support; if you don't mind, you can come to my Guo family to be a guest elder, and you can get two hundred taels of monthly allowance."

"It won't delay your cultivation in the Profound Heaven Sect either; just help my Guo family do a few things every year."

"In the future, for the inner sect assessment, the Guo family will also help you."

This monthly allowance was very high; in Qingyuan County, a Gang Qi martial artist being a guest elder for someone would never have a monthly allowance exceeding one hundred taels.

The most important thing was the last point!

Countless outer sect disciples of the Profound Heaven Sect were unable to worship into the four peaks and become inner sect disciples for a long time, the main reason being that they couldn't complete the inner sect assessment.

With the help of the Guo family, the possibility of completing the mission would be much greater.

Shen Liang and the other three on the side were all somewhat moved, wishing they could replace Xu Yang and agree to Guo Huai.

"Sorry, I don't have any plans to become a guest elder for any family at the moment." Xu Yang politely refused.

If he hadn't learned to refine the Coagulated Blood Pill, he would really have to seriously consider Guo Huai's words, but now he wouldn't even consider it.

What he lacked was no longer money, but resources.

If Guo Huai exchanged the money for a Gang Qi realm elixir like the Origin Returning Pill, he should be interested, but such things, presumably the Guo family couldn't produce.

Guo Huai smiled: "No matter."

He was just looking at Xu Yang's talent not losing much to Lu Ren, wanting to see if there was a possibility of taking Xu Yang for family use; Xu Yang's lone-wolf personality was basically known to those who knew him.

If Xu Yang were willing to join a family, it wouldn't be his turn to speak now.

It was just that in his heart, he had already judged that Xu Yang wouldn't go far.

In a place like the Profound Heaven Sect, without family support, it was too difficult to achieve anything.

A meal was soon finished, and the five people dispersed.

Xu Yang took the twenty contribution points he had just obtained and the contribution points he had looted from Yun Feng, exchanged them for an Origin Returning Pill, and only then returned to the courtyard where he lived.

There was no one in the courtyard; they should all be doing missions.

He entered his room, closed the door, and took out the Origin Returning Pill to take it.

Activating the Bear-Bearing Sutra, the elixir turned into a heat flow and swept through his whole body.

At the same time, the news of the deaths of Fang Yu and Wen Hao on the Ten Elites List spread among the outer sect disciples, causing a great sensation.

Many people tried to inquire why the two died, but they couldn't find out anything.

Two hours later, most of the medicinal power was refined, and Xu Yang opened his eyes from his closed state.

【Bear-Bearing Sutra Gang Qi Chapter · Minor Success (287/4000)】

Sighing lightly, he stood up from the bed.

With Minor Success in Gang Qi, the effect of the Origin Returning Pill had weakened a lot; previously, one Origin Returning Pill could increase the progress of the Bear-Bearing Sutra by more than one hundred, but now only seventy or eighty remained.

More than half a month of cultivation plus two Origin Returning Pills, the progress of the Bear-Bearing Sutra was actually less than three hundred.

Calculating according to this progress, it would take more than fifty Origin Returning Pills for him to reach Major Success in Gang Qi.

Even if he could get one Origin Returning Pill from the Zhu family every month, and then exchange for one in the Profound Heaven Sect, it would take him more than two years to collect enough Origin Returning Pills.

Of course, this didn't mean it would take him more than two years to reach Major Success in Gang Qi; besides elixirs, he would also practice on his own.

But it would take at least about a year to reach Major Success in Gang Qi.

Pushing open the door, Xu Yang found that Jiang Ping, Sun Tao, and the others had already returned and were discussing the deaths of Fang Yu and Wen Hao with Wang Weihua and the others.

"Haha... Junior Brother Xu, you're back, congratulations." Seeing Xu Yang, Sun Tao happily stepped forward to congratulate him.

Xu Yang was stunned and said: "Senior Brother Sun, where does the congratulations come from?"

Could it be that Sun Tao knew about his Minor Success in Gang Qi? That shouldn't be.

Jiang Ping smiled all over his face and said: "Junior Brother Xu, you don't know yet, right? Wen Hao and Fang Yu, these two geniuses on the Ten Elites List, are dead; Lu Ren has been promoted from the tail to eighth, and you are now tenth on the Ten Elites List."

Upon hearing this, Xu Yang almost couldn't help but curse; he just wanted to be low-key, wasn't this putting him on a fire to roast?

Why Wen Hao and Fang Yu died, he knew too well.

If these two weren't geniuses on the Ten Elites List, maybe they wouldn't have died in the valley where the Earth Vein Spiritual Fire was located; even goods like Yun Feng could escape, so Wen Hao and Fang Yu naturally wouldn't be bad.

It was just that the two were Ten Elites geniuses, so they were entangled by experts from the Blood Lotus Sect at the first moment, and didn't even have a chance to escape.

"Who ranked this? With my talent, how am I qualified to be one of the Ten Elites?"

"I don't know either, everyone is saying so."

Xu Yang really intended to find out who ranked the Ten Elites List and go find the other party to change it; unfortunately, it seemed no one knew who ranked the Ten Elites List.

He was already low-key enough, how could someone still be staring at him? It seemed that the matter of Minor Success in Gang Qi must never be exposed; if there was no breakthrough after a period of time, he should be off the list.

"Brother Xu, don't be modest; our small courtyard has two Ten Elites geniuses, which is very rare in the history of the Profound Heaven Sect." Wan Hai smiled.

Jiang Fan said: "Brother Xu, I heard that you were one of the people with Wen Hao and Fang Yu; do you know how they died?"

Once these words were spoken, Jiang Ping and the others no longer paid attention to Xu Yang becoming one of the Ten Elites, but looked at him curiously.

Sun Tao was greatly surprised: "Junior Brother Xu's mission this time was actually with Wen Hao and Fang Yu."

Xu Yang was secretly surprised at Jiang Fan's well-informed news, actually even finding out about this, and shook his head: "I can't say how they died; I can only say that many people died this time."

Hearing Xu say he couldn't say, Jiang Fan understood in his heart; he was a little marquis and knew more things, so he guessed it in an instant and didn't ask further.

"Brother Xu survived a disaster, there must be future blessings." He sighed.

Through Xu Yang's words, he already knew what kind of crisis Xu Yang had encountered.

"Why can't you say?" Wang Weihua asked persistently: "Is there any secret?"

Jiang Fan's expression sank, knowing that he had caused trouble for Xu Yang, and shouted: "If you can't say, you can't say; why ask so much?"

He was enthusiastic and didn't have the airs of a little marquis, and under normal circumstances, he was always amiable.

Seeing him rarely get angry, the others who wanted to ask further had to shut their mouths.

"How many people died in the end? This should be something you can say." Zhang Yong asked curiously.

Xu Yang nodded: "Not many, just over a dozen; not many from our batch, many were disciples from the previous batch."

Once these words were spoken, everyone gasped; they thought it would be the limit if five or six people died, but it was actually over a dozen, and they were all Dragon-Ascending disciples from the previous batch.

Disciples from the previous batch could live until now, so even if they didn't have Minor Success in Gang Qi, they weren't far off, so among the dozen or so people who died, I'm afraid there were several experts with Minor Success in Gang Qi.

At this moment, they finally understood the meaning of Jiang Fan's words about surviving a disaster; Xu Yang being able to return alive was truly surviving a disaster.

Xu Yang looked at Zhang Yong and Jiang Ping again and said: "By the way, Yun Feng is also dead."

What?!

Yun Feng is also dead?

Jiang Ping immediately roared: "Good death, this beast exploited us, and finally there is retribution."

Zhang Yong also clapped his hands and said: "It's a pity I couldn't see with my own eyes how he died; it would be good if Cao Rong and Gu Haoming also died."

The two only felt incomparably happy and immediately pulled Xu Yang and Sun Tao, wanting to treat the two to a drink.

Anyway, it was lunchtime, and someone was treating them to a meal, so Xu Yang naturally wouldn't refuse, and the four of them immediately left the courtyard.

Not long after walking out of the courtyard, the four of them saw a familiar figure.

Lu Ren!

An aura of "no strangers allowed" emanated from his body, essence light surged in his eyes, and his momentum was extremely strong.

He glanced at the four of Xu Yang from afar and turned to walk away with large strides.

"He has reached Minor Success in Gang Qi." Xu Yang whispered.

Lu Ren went deep into the Yunling Mountains to fight for his life, and I'm afraid his gains were not small; his aura was more fierce than in the past, definitely having experienced life-and-death tempering, and his hands were stained with human blood.

Zhang Yong nodded: "Not bad, two days ago he returned from outside and announced that he had reached Minor Success in Gang Qi."

Jiang Ping sighed: "Lu Ren's talent is indeed astonishing; it is said that Gu Haoming and the others wanted to win him over again, but were rejected by him."

Gu Haoming and the others saw that Jiang Fan didn't make things difficult for Lu Ren, and their minds became active again, wanting to make up with Lu Ren and pull him back into the Dawn Society, but Lu Ren refused.