Chapter 198: The Special Reward for First Place

"The meat of the Grey-spotted Snake is delicious, and its venom is a hundred times more precious than gold; that pair of fangs is worth a fortune, so the acquisition price is slightly lower than a Violent Bear, at 3.5 million for one," Liu Yong explained with a smile.

"3.5 million? That's a pretty good price." After hearing this, a satisfied smile appeared on Lu Yu's face.

"Little Brother Lu, you really are too amazing."

Liu Yong couldn't help but click his tongue in praise, "Today is only your second day joining our Association, right? You've already killed two Advanced Fierce Beasts in a row, your total Contribution Points have suddenly reached 7.5 million, and you're about to charge into the top three of the monthly ranking."

"Really?"

Lu Yu reacted immediately, "If I can charge into the top three of the monthly ranking in the next two days, does that mean I can get an extra chance to use the Gravity Room?"

The monthly ranking Liu Yong spoke of naturally referred to the In-Jin Martial Artist Contribution Points Monthly Ranking. This list only tracks the value of prey obtained by martial artists hunting Fierce Beasts; rewards from hunting missions are not included, and it is updated once a month.

"That's right." Liu Songtian laughed and encouraged him: "Little Brother Lu Yu, keep it up! I believe that with your strength, charging into the top three will definitely be a piece of cake; you might even be able to make a run for first place!"

You have to know, this is competing against everyone in the entire Nanshan Martial Arts Association. If you can take first place, there is even a special reward from the Headquarters.

"A special reward?" Lu Yu's eyes lit up instantly.

He was determined to get this first place!

The three of them returned to the Zhai together, and as expected, it caused a sensation again.

However, compared to last time, the commotion caused this time was much smaller. Perhaps everyone had already become somewhat accustomed to Lu Yu's astonishing performance.

A few minutes later, Lu Yu's phone received a notification; the Contribution Points had arrived.

This time, including the 3.5 million contribution value for the Grey-spotted Snake and the 800,000 for that Alloy Longsword, the total reached 4.3 million.

Adding the original 6.1 million, the Contribution Points in his account now reached as high as 10.4 million!

"Ding-dong." The phone made another soft sound, and the screen displayed a new message.

Lu Yu tapped it open, and a look of surprise instantly appeared on his face.

This message was sent from the Headquarters. Because his cumulative Contribution Points had exceeded 10 million, he had been promoted from a One-Star Member to a Two-Star Member.

With the increase in membership level, the various benefits he could enjoy also greatly improved. One of the most obvious items was being able to purchase various resources from the Association at an 80% discount.

Calculating based on this, if his cumulative Contribution Points could reach 100 million, he could become a Three-Star Member, and at that time, he could enjoy a 70% discount when purchasing resources.

The smile on Lu Yu's face grew even broader. This meant that a Superior Blood Qi Pill, which originally required 20,000 Contribution Points to buy, could now be obtained for only 16,000 Contribution Points.

And 10.4 million Contribution Points could buy a full 650 Superior Blood Qi Pills, which converted to 7.8 million Potential Points!

Of course, if he hadn't known about the existence of Top-grade Blood Qi Pills before, he definitely would have chosen to buy Superior Blood Qi Pills.

But now that he knew, he couldn't do that anymore.

After all, from the perspective of cost-effectiveness, Top-grade Blood Qi Pills were clearly better; the more Contribution Points spent on Superior Blood Qi Pills, the less worthwhile it would be.

Lu Yu pondered for a moment, thinking to himself that after he went back, he had to buy a Prescription for Blood Qi Pills to see if he could use Experience Value to raise it directly to the max level, just like learning martial arts.

If he could, then in the future he would only need to spend Contribution Points to buy medicinal herbs from the Association and refine the Blood Qi Pills himself; this way, the utilization rate of his Contribution Points would be even higher.

When the day came that Top-grade Blood Qi Pills were no longer of much value to him, he would just sell the refining technique to the Association and make a huge profit.

Besides that, he planned to buy all the unarmed martial arts in the Association below the Vein Refining Realm that he hadn't practiced yet.

It was only eighty-some thousand Contribution Points, after all; in the face of this 10 million-plus in Contribution Points, it was nothing at all.

"Right, let's check the situation of the monthly ranking." As Lu Yu said this, he clicked on the leaderboard and then into the In-Jin Martial Artist category, seeing his name at a glance.

Name: Lu Yu

Realm: Transformation Energy Martial Artist

Affiliated Branch: Yong'an City Branch

Number of Fierce Beasts Killed: 2

Cumulative Contribution Points: 7.5 million

Ranking: 4

"Fourth place, huh?" Lu Yu looked up and down the leaderboard.

He remembered very clearly that the person originally in fourth place only had 5 million Contribution Points yesterday; now it had risen to 5.6 million, and the number of Fierce Beasts killed had also increased from 12 to 13.

Clearly, they had also just killed a Fierce Beast, but it must have been a group effort, so each person only added 600,000 Contribution Points.

Looking at third place, it was still the same person, only their Contribution Points had risen from 8 million to 8.8 million, less than 200,000 away from second place.

And the first place was still that Wu Jin; last time he checked, his Contribution Points were not even 10 million, and this time they had risen by nearly 1.5 million, but the number of Fierce Beasts he had killed was much lower than those in second and third place.

This indicated that the other party's squad might only have two or three people, and Wu Jin might be taking the largest share of the Contribution Points.

But that didn't matter, Lu Yu thought to himself; at most, kill two more Advanced Fierce Beasts, and this first-place spot on the monthly ranking would have to change to his name.

Jianglin City Martial Arts Branch

Inside a residence, Li Zonggui had just finished bathing. Wrapped in a bath towel, his muscular upper body exposed, he walked out of the bathroom with a light step.

At this moment, the corners of his mouth were slightly upturned, overflowing with an irrepressible smile; it was not hard to see that he was in an excellent mood.

And the facts were indeed so. Just two hours ago, he had led four In-Jin Martial Artists from the Association deep into the wilderness and successfully hunted a Gale Wolf King.

Gale Wolves usually belong to Intermediate Fierce Beasts, but occasionally a king is born among them, which is the Gale Wolf King; this is a genuine Advanced Fierce Beast.

It not only possesses astonishing speed near the speed of sound, but its sharp, indestructible claws and teeth are even more chilling.

Even for an In-Jin Martial Artist, once struck by its claws, there is absolutely no possibility of survival.

Fortunately, although this operation was extremely thrilling, they eventually turned danger into safety.

After a fierce barrage of fire, they successfully riddled this Gale Wolf King with holes, like a sieve full of bullet holes.

The acquisition price of a Gale Wolf King is as high as 3 million Contribution Points.

There were five people in their group in total, so calculating it this way, each person could get 600,000 Contribution Points. This was truly a decent harvest.

"If I can have a harvest like this every day for the next two days, maybe I really have a chance to charge into the top three?" Li Zonggui pondered to himself.

However, just as he thought this, he frowned slightly, because he understood in his heart that this hope seemed very slim.

He clearly remembered that when he checked the Contribution Points leaderboard last time, the martial artist in third place had about 8 million Contribution Points, while he only had 5 million at the time, a huge gap of a full 3 million between them.

Unless his companions were willing to record all the Contribution Points obtained from hunting prey under his name over the next two days, he would have no chance of ranking in the top three.

But thinking about it carefully, how could that be easy? Putting himself in their shoes, if it were him, how would he be willing to temporarily record the hundreds of thousands of Contribution Points earned through life-and-death struggles under someone else's name?

Even if the other party promised to return them next month, it would surely be difficult to get anyone to easily agree.