Chapter 600: Selecting Treasures (First Update, Requesting All Support)

Li Zhangsheng held up the Best Student Award trophy; it was an exquisite jade trophy, and the reward represented by this award allowed one to enter the Core Royal Garden to select any one demon pet.

In the Core Royal Garden, a group of spirit beasts of superior quality and above are kept, and it is rumored that there are even quasi-god clans.

It is precisely because of this that Li Zhangsheng was extremely eager for this reward; relying on his special ability, he could contract the highest-quality spirit beasts.

Given the scale of the Core Royal Garden, it is highly likely that spirit beasts of top-tier quality are kept there.

After all individual awards were presented, this year's Academy Exchange Tournament finally concluded successfully, but in three months' time, the Yecheng Arena will become the venue for the National Tournament.

Not long after, the head eunuch serving Dou Zhangsheng arrived at the Yuanling Academy rest area carrying a golden tray.

On this golden tray were placed several different boxes, as well as as many as forty certificates for the Advanced Demon Taming Art!

One Advanced Demon Taming Art per person; even if these Advanced Demon Taming Arts could not be taught to others, one had to admit this was a grand gesture.

Li Zhangsheng was very expectant, wondering if there might be a remnant scroll of the "Zhou Celestial Star Demon Taming Art" among them.

"These Advanced Demon Taming Art certificates are the reward for winning first place; regardless of whether they competed, every representative student gets one! These boxes are the individual rewards for Principal Xu, Li Zhangsheng, Zhao Shuyi, and student Luo Xiaoman!"

After the head eunuch finished speaking, he began to distribute the rewards on the tray to everyone.

As the Best Team Leader, Xu Wenhua naturally had a share as well.

Among them, Li Zhangsheng received three boxes, corresponding to the gold box for Best Student, the silver box for Best Lineup, and the wooden box for Fastest Progress Student.

Xu Wenhua's Best Team Leader award was also a silver wooden box, while Luo Xiaoman's Best Newcomer award was a wooden box.

Judging from the colors of the boxes, there was naturally a significant gap in the rewards.

Li Zhangsheng opened the three boxes; the wooden box contained fifty mid-grade Soul Crystals, while the silver box contained two Core Treasury Certificates, which could be used to randomly select two treasures in the Core Treasury.

Li Zhangsheng was also extremely eager for the Core Treasury; last year, he had obtained the Innate Cloud Qi and the "Hundred Poisons Tempering Golden Body" which contained the map to Danwang Biefu in the Core Treasury.

This time, he did not know what he would obtain, which filled his heart with anticipation.

Although they were both silver boxes, Xu Wenhua's silver box did not contain two Core Treasury Certificates, but rather a Top-tier Secret Technique certificate.

The value of the two was not much different, but for Li Zhangsheng, the Core Treasury Certificate was clearly more important.

As for the final gold box, it contained an exquisite piece of gold foil depicting a beautiful landscape; this was the Core Royal Garden certificate that Li Zhangsheng had been looking forward to for a long time.

At this moment, Miao Yinfeng and Ding Dangmao arrived at the Yuanling Academy rest area.

The two of them were each carrying a large flag, and the slogan on them had changed from the original "Yuanling Academy Must Win" to "Yuanling Academy, Literary Success and Martial Virtue, Eternal and Everlasting, Langya Number One."

This was Ding Dangmao's hidden design; just like his name, it always gave people a feeling of being overflowing with flamboyance.

"I knew there would be such a day, but I didn't expect it to be this year. Sigh, if only I had been born a year later."

Miao Yinfeng came before Li Zhangsheng, truly envious of the honor of winning the top academy.

Li Zhangsheng shrugged and said, "Senior, if you had been born a year later, we might have fallen out of the ranks of the Four Great Academies last year!"

This was true; if Miao Yinfeng had been born a year later, it would have been equivalent to the Yuanling Academy lacking a Fourth Rank student last year. Even if the Li Zhangsheng of last year could defeat Fourth Rank students while being of a lower rank, two fists are no match for four hands, and they might not have been able to beat Yecheng Academy, let alone the even stronger Tiandu Academy.

"You're right!"

"Senior, how is the collection of the National Tournament medals going?"

"I've already collected them all, how about you?"

"I've only collected one so far; I'll take a few days to collect the rest after I go back."

For the current Li Zhangsheng, the difficulty of collecting medals was very low and he could easily handle it; he planned to collect all the medals before advancing to the Sixth Rank or even Pseudo-King.

As long as he collected five medals, he could directly obtain the qualification to participate in the National Tournament Qualification Tournament.

Soon, Li Zhangsheng ended his conversation with Miao Yinfeng, then greeted Ding Dangmao, and hurriedly left the arena with Zhao Shuyi, rushing toward the Core Treasury.

Dou Yuanhua and Dou Yuansheng, the two brothers, also possessed two Core Treasury Certificates; given their status and means, it was hard to guarantee they wouldn't find out the location of the highest-quality treasures.

This was why Li Zhangsheng was so impatient; if he were a step late, he would be devastated.

In order to reach the Core Treasury faster, Li Zhangsheng summoned Aixi, and after having Zhao Shuyi grab Aixi's claws, he rode Aixi toward Yecheng.

In just a few minutes, Li Zhangsheng, familiar with the route, brought Zhao Shuyi to the location of the Core Treasury.

The Core Treasury was heavily guarded, with squads of imperial guards protecting the entire treasury, and a Sixth-Rank Expert was even stationed there.

Of course, the current Li Zhangsheng was not afraid of a Sixth-Rank Expert at all.

After presenting the Core Treasury Certificates, the two of them successfully entered the Core Treasury and began to select treasures.

In the Core Treasury, four long tables were placed, and on each long table were dozens of boxes of different materials; they were all locked and accompanied by a Self-Destruction Restriction.

There seemed to be a few more boxes here than last year, but most were still boxes that had not been picked by anyone.

At the first moment, Li Zhangsheng released his Mental Power, sensing the energy fluctuations emanating from these boxes.

From the feedback of his Mental Power, Li Zhangsheng could see over a hundred exceptionally bright light spots, at least all Heaven and Earth Wonder grade treasures, with many reaching the Heavenly Essence Grade; the only pity was that there was only one treasure that reached the Heaven and Earth Rare Treasure grade.

This was normal; even the Imperial Family did not have many Heaven and Earth Rare Treasure grade treasures, and being able to place one or two here was already very rare.

At the first moment, Li Zhangsheng locked onto the location of the light spot of the Heaven and Earth Rare Treasure grade treasure.

Ding No. 25!

Li Zhangsheng successfully obtained the box, and immediately after, he picked the brightest box from the dozens of Heavenly Essence Grade light spots.

Even as treasures of the same Heavenly Essence Grade, there was a significant gap between them; this light spot was relatively close to the Heaven and Earth Rare Treasure grade light spot, but it was just a little bit off.

These two boxes, one was a square jade box, and the other was a long wooden box.

By the time Li Zhangsheng finished his selection, Zhao Shuyi had also finished hers; she impatiently opened a box and obtained an Advanced Dual-Effect Treasure Enhancer.

Looking at this treasure, the look of anticipation on Zhao Shuyi's face disappeared; although the Advanced Dual-Effect Treasure Enhancer was good, it was among the bottom tier of the many treasures in the Core Treasury.

At this time, Zhao Shuyi rubbed her hands and opened the second box.

This time it was a jade bottle; after opening the stopper, one could see silver liquid contained inside, faintly emitting a poignant moonlight.

Li Zhangsheng was clearly stunned for a moment when he saw this bottle of liquid; why did this thing look so familiar?

Moonlight Divine Water!

With just one glance, Li Zhangsheng recognized it.

The Three Lights Divine Water in Li Zhangsheng's hands was already running low, not enough for the next upgrade of the Six-Rank Star Palace Lotus Platform; the simplest way to obtain Three Lights Divine Water was to search for the three types of divine water: Sunlight, Moonlight, and Starlight.

He still had one bottle of Sunlight Divine Water left in his hand; if he could obtain this bottle of Moonlight Divine Water, then he would only be missing the Starlight Divine Water.

At this moment, Zhao Shuyi also recognized it.

Without hesitation, Li Changsheng asked, "Shuyi, do you have any thoughts of parting with it?"

"Sure, what do you intend to use as a bargaining chip?"

Zhao Shuyi agreed immediately; after all, the Moonlight Divine Water was of no use to her, and given her strength and background, it would be very difficult for her to collect all three types of Divine Water.

Rather than that, it would be better to use it to trade for suitable resources; Li Changsheng was generous, and Zhao Shuyi was not afraid of suffering a loss.

"How about this, I will exchange these two treasures with you, what do you think?"

Li Changsheng thought for a moment and took out two Heavenly Essence Grade treasures.

These two treasures were the Dark Mysterious Crystal and the Yaohua Gold Jade, which significantly increased the probability of corresponding attribute Demon Pets breaking through to the Leader rank.

Although the Moonlight Divine Water was a Heavenly Essence Grade treasure, its value was not very high due to its lackluster efficacy.

Even though the Dark Mysterious Crystal and Yaohua Gold Jade were one grade lower, the combined value of the two clearly exceeded the Moonlight Divine Water.

"Deal!"

Zhao Shuyi felt she had taken a bit of an advantage, so she naturally agreed without reason.

At this time, the Ninth Prince Dou Yuansheng stepped into the Core Treasury.

"Brother Li, Miss Zhao, I didn't expect you to arrive a step before me."

Contrary to Li Changsheng's expectations, Dou Yuansheng took the initiative to greet them.

One had to know that Li Changsheng had led his team to defeat the Royal Academy and had even defeated him on the spot; logically speaking, the two sides should be at odds like fire and water, yet Dou Yuansheng did not show it.

Li Changsheng was quite impressed by Dou Yuansheng's breadth of mind and tolerance; such a person was more likely to accomplish things.

However, after this defeat, although Dou Yuanhua was the most miserable, Dou Yuansheng could not avoid the result of a sharp decline in his reputation.

"Brother Dou, we only just arrived. By the way, where is Brother Yuanhua? Why don't I see him coming over?"

Li Changsheng was still thinking about his trade with Dou Yuanhua.

Dou Yuansheng shrugged and replied, "Him? He is likely still sulking."

Thinking back to when Dou Yuanhua and Dou Niwan discussed the topic of Li Changsheng last year, Dou Yuansheng wanted to laugh; he was not the only one who heard it at the time, and he feared that all the participating team members of the Royal Academy had heard it too.

At the end of the previous Exchange Tournament, Dou Yuanhua had said that Li Changsheng posed no threat to him in the next Exchange Tournament. And as long as he got through the next one, he would graduate from the Royal Academy and retire with his achievements.

As it turned out, Dou Yuanhua slapped his own face and was defeated by Li Changsheng on the spot; now, Dou Yuanhua was likely afraid to see Li Changsheng again.

While Li Changsheng and Dou Yuansheng were conversing, the Huating Academy fourth-year student Qin Feng also stepped into the Core Treasury; he was also a member of the Best Lineup.

Upon seeing the three of them, Qin Feng nodded to them in a friendly manner and walked straight into the treasury to select treasures.

Li Changsheng chatted with Dou Yuansheng for a while; he could clearly feel that Dou Yuansheng seemed to want to win him over, but Li Changsheng kept changing the subject and did not discuss that aspect at all.

Soon, Li Changsheng bid farewell to Dou Yuansheng and left directly with Zhao Shuyi.

Watching Li Changsheng's departing back, Dou Yuansheng could only sigh lightly and began to select treasures in the Core Treasury.

After parting ways with Zhao Shuyi, Li Changsheng went straight to the Core Royal Garden.

Today's goal: Three, pigs, verify!

(End of this chapter)