Chapter 393

Xiao Hua gritted his teeth and said, "It was he who caused me to be punished to guard Qingshan for a year."

He only said this, and didn't mention Lin Wei.

And after asking for a long time, Xu Yang was the only suspect. Regardless of whether Xu Yang had the strength to kill Xiao Chen, his next target was Xu Yang.

Without staying long, Xiao Hua soon returned to the Profound Heaven Sect.

"The last Qi Gathering Pill!"

Xu Yang took the last Qi Gathering Pill and operated the Bear Scripture to dissolve the medicinal power. The two furnaces of Qi Gathering Pills he had refined before were finally all used up. If he didn't refine elixirs, he would have no elixirs to use, and his cultivation speed would slow down.

Now there was a problem: he might be targeted by Xiao Hua as soon as he went down the mountain.

He hadn't seen an expert at Minor Success in marrow cleansing make a move, so he couldn't determine if he could rival Xiao Hua now.

"Can't take risks. I have plenty of time to wear him down."

After pondering for a while, Xu Yang decided not to take risks. He was already immortal, so it didn't matter if his cultivation growth was slow; there was no need to take risks.

Moreover, his Bear King Palm hadn't reached perfection yet, and the comprehension of the martial arts image was harder than he imagined.

For every day he faced Xiao Hua later, his strength would improve by one point, and his confidence would be greater by one point.

Time passed slowly. Among the new generation of Dragon-Ascending disciples, various news came one after another, and the geniuses on the Ten Elites list had all practiced Qi into Gang.

The disciples of their batch seemed to have exited the stage, and there was very little news.

Except for hearing a few days ago that the ninth-ranked Su Zhe had reached Major Success in Gang Qi, there was no news about the cultivation progress of Lu Ren, Han Feng, and others. It seemed everyone knew how to be low-key.

"This little beast, why hasn't he left the mountain gate? Could it be that he has a guilty conscience?" Xiao Hua frowned secretly.

He had been paying attention to Xu Yang for more than half a month. As long as Xu Yang dared to step out of the mountain gate, he would make a move.

Seven days ago, he even had people spread the news that the Ten Thousand Treasure Pavilion was holding an auction, but Xu Yang remained unmoved.

The more this was the case, the more he felt that Xiao Chen's death was related to Xu Yang. Otherwise, with the cultivation of Major Success in Gang Qi, how could he be so cautious?

One must know that in the past auctions of the Ten Thousand Treasure Pavilion, Xu Yang participated every time. This was clearly guarding against him.

"Do you think I have no way to deal with you just because you're hiding in the sect?"

Xiao Hua gritted his teeth. If Xu Yang didn't leave, he could only use other means.

"Junior Brother Xu, this is your task settlement slip, a total of eighty contribution points!"

At Departing Fire Peak, Gao Lin smiled and handed the task settlement slip to Xu Yang, "It's not that I'm talking about you, but with your cultivation, you should go to the Yunling Mountain Range to roam and seek opportunities. When will you reach marrow cleansing by doing these refining tasks?"

He originally thought highly of Xu Yang and even had the idea of taking Xu Yang into Departing Fire Peak when his three-year outer sect term expired.

But Xu Yang's recent performance made him increasingly speechless. A dignified expert at Major Success in Gang Qi didn't even dare to enter the Yunling Mountain Range, and every day he competed with those junior brothers who had just practiced Qi into Gang to do refining ore tasks with very meager contribution points, completely lacking the sharpness and progressiveness of a martial artist.

One must know that even people like Jiang Fan and Li Chuyang, even if they had family resources, would often enter the Yunling Mountain Range to temper themselves. This was the first time he had seen someone like Xu Yang, who had good talent but was cautious.

Xu Yang took the task slip and cupped his fists, "Thank you for the reminder, Brother. I plan to go to the Yunling Mountain Range in a while."

Gao Lin was somewhat speechless. He had heard Xu Yang say this several times, but he had never seen Xu Yang actually go to the Yunling Mountain Range once.

"You'd better take it to heart. Your batch of disciples is about to reach the three-year term and will face the matter of apprenticing. If you had the talent and background of Jiang Fan and Du Chuan, you naturally wouldn't have to worry about apprenticing.

But your talent is not as good as theirs, and your background is not as good as theirs.

When you submit your apprenticeship application to the peak, the elders of each peak will see that you are so timid and don't even dare to step into the Yunling Mountain Range, and no one will take you as a disciple."

Xu Yang frowned. He really hadn't thought about this problem, "Even if I can win the top three in this year's outer sect, will they refuse me because of this?"

Martial artists are brave and progressive, and many people do pay attention to this aspect. Lin Cheng used to think he was too cautious, and many people mocked him for not being worthy of being a martial artist.

Although he knew he wasn't timid, outsiders didn't know.

Gao Lin shook his head and said, "Don't think too much. In this year's outer sect Grand Competition, the top three should be Lu Ren, Han Feng, Xiong Kun, or Xie Zhan. If you want to win the top three, unless all the people ranked ahead of you on the Ten Elites list are dead."

In the last outer sect Grand Competition, Xu Yang didn't even have the courage to go on stage. Now he's talking about winning the top three; is this possible?

Moreover, with an extra year, wanting to win the top three in this year's outer sect Grand Competition would be harder than the last time.

In Jiang Fan's batch, there were only three marrow-cleansing martial artists.

By the time of this year's outer sect Grand Competition, according to his calculation, there would be at least four marrow-cleansing martial artists, and the difficulty of winning the top three would be even higher.

It was uncertain whether Xu Yang could beat Su Zhe, let alone Lu Ren, Xie Zhan, and others ranked ahead.

Xu Yang said, "Brother Gao, I'm talking about a hypothetical."

Gao Lin was stunned, pondered for a while, and said, "I don't know about that. If you can win the top three, perhaps there will be elders who don't care that you are so timid, but you definitely won't be able to apprentice to an ideal master."

Different masters naturally have different inheritances. The inheritance of a peak is naturally headed by the peak master.

But Xu Yang was so timid that even elders would dislike him, let alone a peak master or the highest disciple of the sect master.

Pondering Gao Lin's words, holding the task settlement slip, Xu Yang soon arrived at the Task Hall. Coincidentally, the deacon on duty was Xiao Hua.

Xu Yang's expression remained unchanged, and he smiled, "Deacon Xiao, this is my task settlement slip."

Seeing Xu Yang's expression, Xiao Hua's eyes were almost spraying fire, feeling that Xu Yang was mocking him for his son's death and being punished to guard Qingshan for a year.

Suppressing his murderous intent, he took Xu Yang's task slip and gave Xu Yang the contribution points he should have received.

"Thank you, Deacon Xiao."

Xu Yang took the contribution points and intended to leave, but heard Xiao Hua shout, "Slow!"

His heart sank, and he turned to look, only to see Xiao Hua smiling without a smile, "The Divine Weapon Pavilion is about to change guards, and your name is on the list of new guards. Come here to report in five days, thirty contribution points per month." ===== CHAPTER 394 =====