Chapter 292

Li Qiang got up and said, "Let's go; I'll invite a few Junior Brothers to drink."

Sun Tao and the other three did not decline and got up one after another.

Xu Yang cupped his hands and said, "Many thanks for Senior Brother Li Qiang's kindness, but I am currently impacting the Minor Success in Gang Qi, so I won't go. When I have time, I will host a meal and invite Senior Brother."

If he really went to eat, many things would be hard to refuse.

As long as he didn't have a deep friendship with Li Qiang, whatever schemes the other party had would be useless, and he wasn't missing this one meal.

Daring to rush back to participate in the outer sect grand competition, his cultivation was at least Major Success in Gang Qi; there was no need to provoke such a person.

Li Qiang showed an unhappy expression and was about to speak, but heard Sun Tao smile and say, "The matter of breaking through is important, so we won't force Junior Brother Xu."

He knew Xu Yang's temperament well. If he let Li Qiang continue, it might turn sour, so he simply spoke first.

Sure enough, after he spoke, Li Qiang smiled: "Junior Brother Sun is right; the matter of cultivation is the most important. Then Senior Brother will wait for you, Junior Brother, to invite Senior Brother to drink after you break through."

Xu Yang smiled and cupped his hands: "At that time, I will ask Senior Brother to do me the honor."

Watching the three of them leave, Xu Yang returned to his room, sat cross-legged, and took out an Eight-Treasure Body-Strengthening Pill and swallowed it.

The scorching medicinal power spread throughout his body, and the Diamond Body Technique slowly began to operate.

Pale yellow specks appeared on his skin, and soon spread all over his body.

Cultivating to this day, his Gang Qi was no longer purely silver-white, and began to show a faint golden-yellow color.

Once the color turned into pure gold, his Diamond Body Technique would be considered Major Success.

The Gang Qi operated like spring rain moisturizing all things, nourishing blood, flesh, tendons, and bones, and its strength slowly increased.

【Diamond Body Technique · Minor Success (941/4000)】

An hour later, Xu Yang was hot all over and ended his cultivation.

It had been less than three months since the Diamond Body Technique reached Minor Success, and the progress was already about to reach one thousand. In the past, to reach this progress, it would have taken at least ten months. This was the effect of a perfect innate talent, making the Diamond Body Technique, which was a slow-grinding effort, become fast.

Walking out of the room, Sun Tao and the other three had already returned, carrying a hint of drunkenness.

"Junior Brother Xu, it's a pity you didn't go. When Senior Brother Li Qiang was eating, he taught us many techniques for survival and treasure hunting in the Yunling Mountain Range," Jiang Ping sighed.

Ever since he was backstabbed by Gu Hao and Lu Ren, he felt the goodness of people like Xu Yang and had always wanted to become a true friend with Xu Yang.

But he could always feel that although Xu Yang talked and laughed with him normally, in Xu Yang's eyes, he was no different from Wan Hai, Xu Cheng, and others in the courtyard.

Belonging to the kind of person who could say a few words, with an ordinary relationship.

He wanted to improve this situation, but Xu Yang was always indifferent.

"The Yunling Mountain Range is the place we should go to," Zhang Yong said with a look of yearning.

Xu Yang was secretly amazed. He didn't know what Li Qiang had said to make these three people yearn for the Yunling Mountain Range.

The Yunling Mountain Range was not a good place; he didn't know how many people had buried their bones in it.

Of course, some people had obtained peerless treasures from it and soared into the sky.

After all, these people were not him, and it was normal for them to be attracted to such a place containing opportunities.

If he didn't have the panel, he would definitely have to go to the Yunling Mountain Range to hunt for treasure.

However, he still intended to remind Sun Tao. As for the life and death of Zhang Yong and Jiang Ping, he was too lazy to care.

The next day, the outer sect grand competition officially began. Of the seven or eight hundred outer sect disciples, it is said that less than one hundred signed up.

Seven or eight arenas were set up in the huge drill ground at the entrance of the mountain gate.

Finishing his morning practice, Xu Yang and Sun Tao and the others rushed to the drill ground to watch the battle. In the first round, everyone who signed up from their batch was eliminated.

Including the first of the Ten Elites, Li Chuyang, who was the first to break through to Minor Success in Gang Qi, did not make it through the first round.

Because only they were at the Minor Success realm in Gang Qi, and everyone else was at the Major Success realm in Gang Qi. Even Xu Yang saw several experts who had already cleansed their marrow, and the number was no less than five.

"According to this trend, I'm afraid it will be difficult to compete for the top three next year," Xu Yang thought to himself.

However, he didn't have to win the top three next year, because winning the top three next year would be useless. They had to stay in the outer sect for three years before the disciples of their batch could join the inner sect.

It would be enough to win the top three in the third year.

He saw Li Qiang. This person had extraordinary combat power and easily advanced by defeating an opponent who had achieved Major Success in Gang Qi.

"Senior Brother Li Qiang is so strong; I'm afraid he has a chance to be in the top twenty!" Jiang Ping was pleasantly surprised.

If you can win the top twenty in the outer sect grand competition, you will likely be able to join the inner sect in the future.

If he could make friends with an inner sect disciple, the Sharp Wind Hall wouldn't dare to go too far with him.

He had already heard that Cao Rong had recently been spreading the word that he wanted to increase the amount of contribution points they handed over, but it had not been officially announced yet.

"Following Senior Brother Li Qiang, we might have a day to stand out," Zhang Yong said with expectation in his eyes.

"Liu Xiao is not weak!"

Xu Yang saw Liu Xiao defeat an opponent who had achieved Major Success in Gang Qi in less than thirty moves and successfully advanced.

The top three were impossible, but there was hope for the top twenty.

Shi Yong of the Qunying Society was very fierce and defeated his opponent in less than ten moves. He had a great chance of occupying a seat in the top ten.

Xu Yang watched for a morning and had an understanding of these experts in the outer sect, so he stopped paying attention to the outer sect grand competition.

These would all be opponents in the future, but a year later, he didn't know how many of these people would still be alive, and their cultivation a year later would also have changed, so there was no point in watching more.

He returned to the courtyard to practice the Pure Origin Finger-Splitting Technique. This finger technique mainly tempered the fingers and condensed Pure Origin Gang Qi, and the progress was a bit slow.

Condensing Pure Origin Gang Qi was fine; with the Gang Qi cultivated by the Diamond Body Technique as a foundation, condensing Pure Origin Gang Qi was not difficult. Tempering the fingers belonged to the slow-grinding effort and was very time-consuming.

Three days later, the outer sect grand competition concluded. Li Qiang ranked eighteenth, and Liu Xiao ranked fifteenth.

Shi Yong of the Qunying Society did not make it into the top ten and was eleventh.

"If you don't enter the top three, you will have a hard time joining the inner sect," Xu Yang shook his head.

Sun Tao said, "Senior Brother Li Qiang is already working on the matter of joining the inner sect. As long as one of the four peaks is willing to accept him, he only needs to complete the assessment mission to become an inner sect disciple."

The entry requirements for the four peaks of the Profound Heaven Sect were to have achieved Major Success in Gang Qi and to have stayed in the outer sect for three years.

Of course, whether any elder of the four peaks is willing to accept you as a disciple is a matter for the four peaks. If no elder is willing to accept a disciple, you won't even have the chance to do the assessment mission.

Time passed for a few more days, and it was the one-month deadline again. Xu Yang went down the mountain again to refine Blood-Coagulating Pills for the Zhu family, and returned with one Origin-Returning Pill, thirty Eight-Treasure Body-Strengthening Pills, and one Ten-Complete Great Tonic Pill.

After the last auction, his consumption at the Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion had accumulated to five thousand, and he could buy one Ten-Complete Great Tonic Pill at the Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion every month.

This day, Zhang Yong ran over excitedly, announcing that he had achieved Minor Success in Gang Qi. Xu Yang had to announce that he had achieved Minor Success in Gang Qi the day before.

"Congratulations to the two Junior Brothers for achieving Minor Success in Gang Qi!"

Hearing that both of them had achieved Minor Success in Gang Qi, Sun Tao was overjoyed and full of envy.

You must know that at this time, of the more than three hundred new disciples in their batch, only more than thirty people had achieved Minor Success in Gang Qi so far.

To be able to become one of the more than thirty people, there was no need to talk about talent. If it weren't for the lack of resources, the time for the two of them to achieve Minor Success in Gang Qi could have been even earlier.

Jiang Ping suggested celebrating and also mentioned the matter of Xu Yang saying he would invite Li Qiang to drink after achieving Minor Success in Gang Qi. Unfortunately, he went to look for Li Qiang but couldn't find him, and in the end, only the four of them celebrated and drank.

Soon, the news of Xu Yang achieving Minor Success in Gang Qi spread in the outer sect. The fact that he, a Ten Elites genius, had only broken through now caused a lot of mockery.

"My Junior Brother Xu Yang has at least achieved Minor Success in Gang Qi. Many of you who mock him are still in the Qi Gathering realm and haven't even practiced Gang Qi yet."

Whenever Sun Tao heard it, he would fight back.

Most of the people who laughed at Xu Yang for not being worthy of being a Ten Elites genius were people who hadn't even practiced Gang Qi.

Those who had truly practiced Qi into Gang would not mock him, because only those who had cultivated to this realm knew how difficult it was to achieve Minor Success in Gang Qi.