Chapter 54: Things Are Different

In the blink of an eye, ten years! Huashan Sect, Lotus Peak!

The new Sect Leader's succession ceremony made the entire Huashan Sect exceptionally lively, with countless martial arts people coming and going.

The outer and inner sect disciples were also busy.

The new Sect Leader, Su Fan, also had a great reputation in these ten years. Five years ago, in a great battle between righteous and evil, he fought three Demonic Cult elders alone.

In the end, two died and one was injured. One had to know that these three elders were all old-school top-tier first-class experts; Shi Jian, Poison Demon Shangren—these were all top figures among the Demonic Cult's ten elders.

Li Wufeng of that year was even worse than them.

In that battle, Su Fan's limelight was unmatched, and he was hailed as Huashan's second Sword Saint.

Who was the first Sword Saint? Naturally, it was Feng Qingyang. Feng Qingyang of that year was also extremely terrifying; when he was first-class, he forced several Demonic Cult elders to flee in panic.

Afterward, in the righteous and evil great battle, he fought two top-tier Demonic Cult experts alone, with the latter one dead and one injured.

That great battle of the Five Mountains was won extremely cleanly.

Although there were losses, they defeated the Demonic Cult. If it weren't for the fact that Black Wood Cliff was truly easy to defend and hard to attack, the Five Mountains might have even attacked Black Wood Cliff.

But even so, the Five Mountains' reputation rose greatly, and it had even gradually begun to compare with Shaolin.

After all, ten years ago, Shaolin was beaten to the mountain gate by the Demonic Cult, which was not a good look.

Ten years of time, things were truly different.

The Demonic Cult Leader Dugu Sheng, who once suppressed the world and was peerlessly invincible, had long since disappeared for many years.

Ever since the Demonic Cult attacked Shaolin ten years ago, Dugu Sheng had disappeared and never appeared again. Some people rumored that the Demonic Cult Leader had been detained by Shaolin.

Regarding this news, no one in the martial arts world believed it. Shaolin's strength was strong, but the Demonic Cult Leader Dugu Sheng's strength was truly too strong, so strong that no one dared to believe that Shaolin could capture him.

Instead, more people thought that Dugu Sheng had gone into devilish obsession while closing doors to break through to the innate realm and had died.

This possibility was still very high. After all, the martial arts practiced by the Demonic Cult were often demonic, and they were the most prone to devilish obsession.

It was precisely Dugu Sheng's disappearance that allowed the Five Mountains to easily defeat the Demonic Cult.

Otherwise, with Dugu Sheng present, the Five Mountains really wouldn't be the Demonic Cult's match. After all, in terms of top-tier combat power, in terms of top-tier experts, with Dugu Sheng, the Five Mountains couldn't fight at all.

One Dugu Sheng could compare to three people, and the Five Mountains only had four or five top-tier experts.

Among them, two were from the previous generation of Ning Qingyu and the others, and they were so old they were almost in their coffins.

In the great battle five years ago, they didn't take action at all, relying only on Ning Qingyu, Feng Qingyang, and Zuo Zhen.

And the Demonic Cult, because of Dugu Sheng's disappearance, was a dragon without a head, and the Left Emissary rebelled, eventually leading to internal strife, leaving only three top-tier experts.

Feng Qingyang occupied two alone; in terms of top-tier combat power, the Five Mountains occupied the upper hand.

In terms of first-class, although the Five Mountains were a little bit worse, they weren't much worse, and with one top-tier expert on the side, it was still an advantage.

It was precisely because of this that in the end, the Five Mountains won that great battle.

In this great battle, many people were brilliant. Here in the Five Mountains, the Huashan Sect's current Sect Leader didn't need to be said; in the youth generation, there were Zuo Lengchan of the Mount Song Sect, Tianmen of Mount Tai, and so on.

They became first-class experts at a young age.

And in the Demonic Cult, the most famous was Ren Woxing. This person unexpectedly broke through to top-tier without a sound. One had to know that his age was clearly two decades younger than Ning Qingyu and the others.

Just this alone was extremely terrifying; he was even younger than Feng Qingyang.

But in the end, the victory still belonged to the Five Mountains. Of the Demonic Cult's three top-tier experts, only Ren Woxing remained.

The Huashan Sect's Sect Leader ceremony was not cumbersome. After all, it was a martial arts sect, not a succession ceremony for an emperor. They were all martial arts people, so it was as simple as possible.

After a series of ceremonies, Su Fan returned to the Jianqi Chongxiao Hall and returned the toasts to the sect leaders and elders of various sects who came to congratulate him one by one.

"Daoist Chongxu, all is well!"

"Oh! Junior Brother Tianmen, thank you!"

"Hmm, hmm..."

With congratulations everywhere, Su Fan had to respond and thank them one after another, and at the same time, he had to return the toasts to everyone.

Fortunately, his internal energy was deep, and the wine he drank was quickly and secretly forced out by his internal energy.

Therefore, after a large circle, his expression was still normal.

The ceremony lasted until night, and people from various sects gradually left the mountain gate, but the Huashan Sect was still very lively.

After all, the Huashan Sect's inner and outer sect disciples added together were nearly two thousand. The Sect Leader succession ceremony naturally brought everyone back.

After the righteous and evil great battle, the Huashan Sect's prestige was established, and the Huashan Sect's strength rose to another level.

In ten years, the Huashan Sect alone had six first-class martial artists promoted, and now there were twenty-eight inner sect elders.

If it weren't for the righteous and evil great battle, where a few died, it would have already reached more than thirty.

However, the Huashan Sect's strength was still growing rapidly. Before long, I'm afraid this first-class number would break through thirty, or even forty or fifty, which would be no problem.

After all, Su Fan's sea-going action had already begun.

Every year, he earned hundreds of thousands, or even a million taels of silver.

Money was not lacking, manpower and material resources were not lacking, so collecting medicinal materials for Small Origin Pills was much easier, and one or two furnaces of Small Origin Pills could be refined every year.

With the assistance of Small Origin Pills in cultivation, the possibility of breaking through to first-class increased.

In this way, as time passed, the number of first-class experts in the Huashan Sect would continue to increase rapidly.

Although those who broke through to first-class with the help of Small Origin Pills might not have internal energy as condensed and deep as those who broke through to first-class on their own, first-class was first-class and could not be compared to second-class.

At worst, they would spend the next few years polishing their internal energy.

So those who could break through on their own disdained it, and those who hoped to break through to first-class quickly would also work hard to obtain contributions and then exchange them for Small Origin Pills.

Five years ago, when Su Fan began to intervene in the affairs of the Huashan Sect as the Young Sect Leader, he first proposed the suggestion of contribution points.

Whether it was inner sect disciples or outer sect disciples of the Huashan Sect, after completing the tasks deployed by the sect, they would obtain a certain number of contribution points.

These contribution points could be exchanged for everything in the Huashan Sect, whether it was martial arts, divine weapons, or pills, etc.

Even inner sect disciples needed to obtain contribution points to obtain martial arts.

At first, many elders disagreed.

After all, martial arts were the foundation of a sect, and some outer sect disciples might very well be spies from other sects.

However, Su Fan said one sentence that left them speechless, because before this, there was a spy among the inner sect elders of the Huashan Sect.

Many of the Huashan Sect's martial arts were probably already leaked out.

And Su Fan finally compromised; the contribution points required for outer sect disciples to exchange for profound martial arts were more than those for the inner sect.

Then, with the Sect Leader's final word, this policy was finally implemented.

And this policy didn't disappoint Su Fan. In five years, four outer sect disciples broke through to become first-class.

Because of the incentive of contribution points, the outer sect disciples had more motivation, so naturally, whether it was practicing martial arts or doing tasks, they were quite passionate.

It also increased the Huashan Sect's income.

Killing two birds with one stone. From then on, Su Fan's prestige within the Huashan Sect was unmatched. ===== CHAPTER 55 =====