Chapter 420: Must seize the opportunity, the shock brought by the Eldest Young Master

The ninth year of Does Does Da Xia, January 15th, at nightfall.

In the cultivation arena on the third floor of the Martial Arts Pavilion, Seeing Xiang Liang, like the thousands of people around him, was sitting cross-legged with his eyes closed. Medicinal power and blood energy alternated around his body, constantly flushing open the pores on his body surface and seeping into the flesh and blood part under the skin membrane.

His face was tightly furrowed, and he always wore a painful expression. Clearly, the process of medicinal power seeping into the skin membrane and destroying flesh and blood was not so easy to bear.

But even so, he still gritted his teeth and persisted.

In fact, of the nearly a thousand people on the third floor, the expressions of the thousand people in the front row were almost exactly the same as Seeing Xiang Liang's. Some people's facial expressions were even twisted to the point of distortion, and the intensity of the pain they were enduring was clearly much higher than his.

I don't know how long it had been, but when the fire-red medicinal power around his body dissipated, Seeing Xiang Liang's brows gradually relaxed, and the pain on his face slowly subsided.

"Late Cold-Resistance stage, 11 jin. It's only been two months, and it can top my one or two years of bitter cultivation. It's really fast to cultivate in the Martial Arts Pavilion!"

Seeing Xiang Liang opened his eyes and immediately clenched his fists. Sensing the improvement in his strength, his expression was immediately excited.

In early October last year, Xia Chuan promoted him to Deputy Chief of Punishment in Hong Sect. Supposedly, he should have been able to go directly to Hong Sect City to take office, but his appointment was officially reported to the Prison Department the next day and was directly rejected by Li Tiancheng.

The reason Li Tiancheng rejected it, when spoken of, was a bit embarrassing, which was that Seeing Xiang Liang's strength at the time was only a little over 6 jin, which was really too far behind.

Actually, thinking about it carefully, it's right. At the Hong Sect policy discussion last September, all six hundred-plus people in the camp with ranks were present, and the lowest strength was 15 jin. Seeing Xiang Liang's performance in the Prison Department was indeed quite good, and his age and aptitude were sufficiently excellent, but having 6-plus jin of strength to serve as Deputy Chief of Punishment was indeed a bit inappropriate, not to mention it was such an important Does Does Da Xia station as Hong Sect City.

But Xia Chuan had already given his word, so Li Tiancheng naturally had to take it seriously. Thus, he discussed it with Xia Chuan and came up with a compromise plan, which was to advance Seeing Xiang Liang a cultivation quota for the Martial Arts Pavilion, letting him improve his strength first, at least to over 10 jin, before he could take office.

Upon learning this news at the time, Seeing Xiang Liang was naturally excited.

Today's Does Does Da Xia is not what it was seven or eight years ago when he first came.

With the population getting larger and larger now, especially last year, when the final 900,000 population from Ba Shang was merged in, the total population of Xia City surged to nearly 2.6 million, and the various resources of the Camp Needs Department instantly tightened a lot.

Even basic cultivation materials like animal meat have risen in price by five times, not to mention the price increase of precious cultivation resources.

And among these many precious cultivation resources, the quota for the Martial Arts Pavilion is absolutely the most important of the important. It can be said that everyone has broken their heads trying to get in.

You must know that a three-fold cultivation speed boost is the individual usage effect of the Martial Arts Pavilion. There are many resources that can improve cultivation efficiency, such as pills, spirit wine, salt, cultivation techniques...

In fact, it has long been calculated that as long as you are sufficiently prepared, cultivating in the Martial Arts Pavilion for one day can completely top ten days to half a month of cultivation outside. Moreover, under the superposition of resources, the longer you stay, the more this cultivation speed-up effect will continue to increase exponentially.

Especially when encountering the key node of cultivation breakthrough, it is no exaggeration to say that it can even instantly save years of bitter cultivation effort. This is why the Camp Needs Department prioritizes the Martial Arts Pavilion's cultivation quotas for those with Earth-Digging Realm peak cultivation.

With such precious cultivation quotas, how could everyone not break their heads trying to grab them?

But no matter how much they broke their heads, there were only 1,000 quotas before. The early allocation rule of the Camp Needs Department was 900 quotas rotating daily, and then taking out an additional 100 quotas for everyone to auction. Under such circumstances, the transaction price of those 100 auction quotas could reach at least 15,000 contribution points.

The current price of silver in Does Does Da Xia is 1 tael for 10 contribution points. 15,000 is 1,500 taels of silver, which shows how rare the opportunity to cultivate in the Martial Arts Pavilion is!

Although in September last year, the Lord used his divine powers to increase the capacity of the Martial Arts Pavilion to 3,000, facing the current huge population of Xia City, it was still far from enough, so the signs of fighting for quotas still hadn't eased at all.

In October last year, the Camp Needs Department changed the quota allocation rules again. Now there are 1,500 quotas specifically for Earth-Digging Realm peak; 800 quotas for children in the camp between six and fifteen years old; 500 quotas for the Cold-Resistance Realm; 150 quotas taken out for auction; and the remaining 50 are specifically reserved for Department Head Xia Chuan, the Department Heads of the Eight Departments, and other top-tier people, as well as for commendations or dealing with other special situations.

Although these cultivation quotas are rotated, theoretically everyone can be queued, but considering the current population base of Xia City, rotating once is really too long.

For example, the largest batch of 1,500 quotas—the Department Head already announced at the Cold-Origin Banquet at the beginning of the year that the current number of Earth-Digging Realm peak experts in Does Does Da Xia has already exceeded 50,000. Just rotating by this number, it will take at least one month for each person to rotate once, and if you encounter someone occupying a quota during a breakthrough period, you have to wait even longer.

The key is that the number of Earth-Digging Realm peak experts is still constantly rising.

This makes it even harder!

Many people have no choice but to spend contribution points to auction those 150 quotas.

Seeing Xiang Liang actually thought about spending money to auction for a quota, but his financial resources were not enough.

After making contributions by lurking in the Great Awakening Temple the year before last, the commendations he received were not just the title conferment. The total contribution point rewards he received from the Camp Needs Department were 480,000. Added to what he had saved before, his net worth was 580,000, which was already quite substantial.

The problem is that he still has to buy other cultivation resources, and he is already married and has a pregnant wife. Moreover, he has to subsidize his younger brother and sister from time to time, so having spare cash is relative.

15,000 contribution points is the lowest transaction price. To securely auction it, it would take at least 20,000 to 30,000 contribution points. Spending so many contribution points to cultivate for one day, in order to maximize the effect, he would also need to match it with a large pile of precious cultivation resources. He calculated it himself: if he really wanted to spend contribution points to cultivate for one day, he would have to prepare at least 40,000 to 60,000 contribution points.

Many people, even if they can afford this cost, are reluctant to spend it.

In fact, there are only two hundred-plus people in the entire camp who have the financial resources to fight for those 150 cultivation quotas. Excluding the Department Heads of the Eight Departments, the rest are either full-time Department Heads of the Eight Departments, or military commanders and deputy commanders. The official rank must be at least Grade 5 or above.

This group of people, either for themselves or for their children and descendants, are really spending money to grab them every day; as for others, they generally only spend money to auction when they are about to break through or have saved enough cultivation resources to prepare for closed-door cultivation.

Given Seeing Xiang Liang's current net worth, he clearly belongs to the latter.

So in October last year, upon learning that the Department Head allowed him to advance his Martial Arts Pavilion cultivation quota in order to quickly improve his strength, Seeing Xiang Liang was almost excited crazy and almost knelt down to Xia Chuan to thank him.

The so-called advance means that he can use the cultivation quota that would only rotate to him slowly later, all at once in advance.

In order to improve his strength to the maximum extent, he has only gone out three times in total since entering on the 6th of October last year until now.

The first time was to go back and instruct his wife to send him food every day; the second time was when his father, Xiang Ping, returned from Zhaoyang on leave; the third time was the first day of the first lunar month, which was the Cold-Origin Banquet half a month ago.

After more than sixty days of forgetting to eat and sleep in cultivation, plus using up all his contribution points until only 160,000 remained, he improved his strength by 5 jin in one go. At this moment, aside from excitement, Seeing Xiang Liang felt more reluctance in his heart.

He really couldn't bear to leave the Martial Arts Pavilion. If he could stay inside and continue to cultivate, how many years of bitter cultivation could he save...

"That's about it, can't be greedy anymore. The standard the Department Head set for me is 10 jin, and I'm already at 11 jin, which is over the standard. Moreover, my contribution points are already running low. If I continue to cultivate, I won't even be able to afford Yang-Origin Pills. I still have to hurry to Hong Sect to take office. Earning more contribution points is the royal road!"

Seeing Xiang Liang shook his head, suppressed the reluctance in his eyes, stood up slowly after finishing his cultivation, quietly bypassed the people who were cultivating around him, and walked downstairs.

The Martial Arts Pavilion is now divided into five floors. The top two floors are specifically for storing martial arts techniques, the third floor is specifically for Cold-Resistance Realm cultivation, the second floor is for Earth-Digging Realm peak, and the first floor is for children aged 6 to 15.

Seeing Xiang Liang had just gone down to the second floor when he discovered that quite a few people on this floor were rushing toward the first floor, and even behind him—that is, the third floor he had just left—quite a few Cold-Resistance Realm experts were rushing downstairs.

"Not cultivating anymore? What are you going downstairs for?"

"Watching the excitement!"

"The first floor is all children; what excitement is there to watch?"

"The Eldest Young Master! The Eldest Young Master is coming to the Martial Arts Pavilion to cultivate for the first time today!"

"Eldest Young Master?"

"That's right! I almost forgot, the Eldest Young Master just had his sixth birthday during the day, and he came to cultivate as soon as night fell. Hurry up and go see!"

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Hearing the discussion of the crowd going downstairs, Seeing Xiang Liang instantly reacted. A look of deep curiosity appeared on his face, and he walked quickly toward the first floor.

There is only one person in Does Does Da Xia who can be called the Eldest Young Master by everyone, and that is Xia Chuan's eldest son, Xia Yu Zong.

Reminded by everyone, Seeing Xiang Liang also remembered that Xia Yu Zong was born on January 15th of the third year of Does Does Da Xia, and today just happened to be his sixth birthday.

It must be said that compared to the two Highnesses who have long lived in the Star-Plucking Palace—that is, the son and daughter of the Lord Xia Hong—this Eldest Young Master, Xia Yu Zong, undoubtedly appears more familiar and closer in the minds of everyone in the Inner City, and even everyone in Xia City.

The reason is also simple: up to now, Xia Yu Yao and Xia Yu Sheng, let alone the Outer City, have not even appeared in public once in the Inner City. Almost 99% of the people in Xia City still don't know what they look like, and they know nothing about other information concerning them.

Compared to them, Xia Yu Zong has appeared in the Inner City too many times, and he has even been to the Outer City a few times. Coupled with the fact that Department Head Xia Chuan has also brought him into the policy discussion hall a few times, in terms of fame alone, the two siblings Xia Yu Yao and Xia Yu Sheng are really not as good as him.

Of course, this is just the thought of the vast majority of people in Xia City.

Xia Yu Yao and Xia Yu Sheng have actually appeared in public once, just last September, after the Battle of Hong Sect ended.

The six hundred-plus people qualified to enter the Great Hall were the high-level personnel of the entire Does Does Da Xia. They had seen Xia Yu Yao and Xia Yu Sheng with their own eyes. Through the mouths of these people, some news about the two Highnesses had gradually spread in the Inner City.

Seeing Xiang Liang just happened to know a little bit about the situation through Hou Ming.

"I heard from Lord Hou that when the two Highnesses appeared at Hong Sect last year, their basic strength was already over 12,000 jin. The Eldest Young Master is of the same root and origin as the two Highnesses, so his talent shouldn't be too much worse..."

While Seeing Xiang Liang was deep in thought, he had already squeezed into the front row of the crowd on the first floor. He looked up at the martial arts arena in front, and his gaze was instantly attracted by a child who was practicing boxing.

The first floor of the Martial Arts Pavilion is specifically for children aged 6 to 15. There are not many children in this age group who have Earth-Digging Realm peak cultivation and have started to restructure skin membranes. The vast majority are in the Woodcutting Realm and Earth-Digging Realm.

Because these two stages mainly rely on absorbing and converting the energy contained in animal meat to improve their basic strength, when cultivating in the Woodcutting Realm and Earth-Digging Realm, they all have to rely on practicing boxing to volatilize the energy in their bodies.

So in the past, compared to the second and third floors, the first floor was the most lively.

But today's situation was completely different.

On the first floor at this moment, only one child was practicing boxing, and hundreds of children and half-grown boys of various ages around him directly formed a circle, all watching the child who was practicing boxing, their eyes full of curiosity and shock.

The child in the middle who was practicing boxing was wearing a jade-white custom-made small Xia uniform. From the softness of the clothing and the visual effect of its extremely textured appearance, it was not difficult to see that its material was absolutely worth a lot;

He wore a jade-colored brocade belt around his waist, hung a blood-colored jade ring, lined with silver-threaded cloud-patterned white trousers, and stepped on a pair of small white bear boots, clearly having gone through the capping ceremony. His hair was all tied up and fixed with a silver hairpin adorned with bright pearls. Because the boxing was too intense, fine soft fluff was scattered on his forehead, making his brows look even more cute and bright.

He looked at most six or seven years old. Although his face was immature, he didn't show any timidity while being watched by so many eyes at the same time. A set of long-fist Tai-Zhan routines was practiced from beginning to end, flowing like water and pleasing to the eye. In terms of proficiency, it could already rival many adults in Xia City. ===== CHAPTER 421 =====