Chapter 1361: Han Houzhi

"Everyone!"

Standing in the void, Wei Tong looked at the crowd and said, "There are too many people, so please test quickly!"

"No delaying!"

"Additionally, your points are synchronized and displayed on your qualification badges for the third round; they not only show your score but also your real-time ranking!"

"Start the competition immediately!"

Once Wei Tong said this, everyone lined up and began the test in an orderly fashion.

It took almost just one breath to test one person!

Next, Xin Baobao threw a punch and achieved a score of over 4.2 million.

Firmly in third place!

Aside from Wang Dun, Han Houzhi, and Xin Baobao, the highest score belonged to He Pingsheng.

Most of the other Golden Immortals were under one million!

The vast majority of the general public were under three hundred thousand!

The difference between ordinary prodigies and top-tier prodigies was clear at a glance!

Body refinement and soul refinement are not quite the same.

Spiritual sense, physical strength, and blood-Qi power all grow naturally with one's cultivation base, but there are very few soul-refinement cultivation techniques in the world, and heavenly treasures for it are extremely rare, so there are few immortals who refine their souls.

But body refinement is different.

First of all, there are many body-refinement techniques, and there is no shortage of high-tier ones.

Besides techniques, there are also many heavenly treasures that can assist in body refinement.

Blood-Qi, essence blood, various spirit fruits, and so on.

Furthermore, as one's cultivation base increases, certain divine abilities have doubled requirements for physical toughness, which in turn forces cultivators to temper their physical bodies.

Consequently, among immortals, having a powerful physical body is a common phenomenon.

As for someone like Kong Shengji, who, after breaking through to the Golden Immortal stage, spent over a thousand years raising his cultivation from the first layer to the sixth layer in pursuit of realm advancement, he certainly did not have enough time to temper his physical body.

Therefore, in this round, he fell far behind.

Gradually, his ranking even dropped outside the top one hundred.

"Master, go for it..."

Soon, it was He Pingsheng's turn again.

Because the previous strike didn't count as a score.

When it was He Pingsheng's turn, Luo Bingyao shouted encouragement from the side, and everyone's eyes turned to He Pingsheng once more.

He Pingsheng smiled lightly, then raised his hand and threw a punch.

Ding ding ding ding...

The numbers on the stone tablet scrolled and finally settled: 4.96 million!

It was just a tiny bit higher than Han Houzhi's 4.89 million.

It wasn't that He Pingsheng was intentionally suppressing Han Houzhi, but rather that when he exerted his strength this time, he only used twenty percent, displaying eighty percent.

Using eighty percent of his strength, he achieved a score of 4.96 million.

If he used his full strength, He Pingsheng felt he should be able to achieve a score of over six million.

But there was no need!

Top three was enough!

Too little would make him seem fake, and too much would attract attention.

As for whether Han Houzhi and Wang Dun had exerted their full strength, He Pingsheng didn't know.

He didn't care either.

"Heavens... second place, over 4.9 million!"

"This Wang Dun is too strong!"

"Indeed, I hadn't heard of him before, but this person's spiritual sense is powerful, and his strength is also this formidable!"

"Looking at it now, this guy's ability is probably on par with He Pingsheng's, right?"

"Hiss... I heard that He Pingsheng and Wang Dun are actually fellow disciples?"

"Too strong. I want to know what kind of sect could cultivate such powerful geniuses?"

"When he scored over one million just now, didn't some people say he was cheating?"

"Now that he has a score of nearly five million, why is no one saying he's cheating?"

"It's simple. If you are better than others, they envy you... but if you are far better than them, they don't even have the energy to envy you anymore..."

"Hahahaha..."

Next, the competition continued!

He Pingsheng had nothing to do, so he found a place to sit cross-legged in the void and watched leisurely.

Then, after a while, Luo Bingyao, Xin Baobao, Wang Dun, Han Houzhi, Ji Wuxin, and others came to his side one by one.

Ji Wuxin was also good, scoring just over two million, ranking in the top ten!

"You two..." Han Houzhi looked at He Pingsheng and Wang Dun and transmitted his voice: "Could we borrow a place to talk?"

He Pingsheng and Wang Dun nodded.

Then Han Houzhi pointed his finger slightly, opening up a barrier.

This barrier could block spiritual sense probing.

The barrier enclosed the three of them.

Although the three were inside the barrier, they didn't need to speak aloud; instead, they communicated via spiritual sense to prevent others from eavesdropping.

This way, even if a Great Luo Golden Immortal's spiritual sense scanned in, they might not be able to spy on the content of their conversation.

"Two fellow Daoists!" Han Houzhi said: "A few days ago, did you two feel anything special?"

"Special feeling?" Wang Dun looked serious and said: "Which aspect is Fellow Daoist Han referring to?"

Han Houzhi said: "To be honest, I felt that a few days ago, someone sneaked into the River of Time and peeked at my past and future..."

When saying this, Han Houzhi's gaze became incredibly sharp.

He Pingsheng and Wang Dun looked at each other and also nodded.

That's right, He Pingsheng also felt it.

Although that peeper didn't find his time traces, he knew that someone was summoning his time traces within the River of Time.

"Phew..." Han Houzhi let out a deep breath, his eyes narrowing: "Great Luo Golden Immortal... Great Luo Golden Immortal..."

"Could there be any other Great Luo Golden Immortal who had the opportunity to contact the three of us and take away our aura, other than the one you have in mind?"

Clearly, both of them knew who Han Houzhi was talking about.

That was Wei Tong.

Therefore, He Pingsheng and Wang Dun also nodded.

If someone really was peeking at their River of Time, then it truly couldn't be anyone other than Wei Tong.

Wei Tong is the Immortal Emperor's good corpse; doesn't that mean the Immortal Emperor is the one peeking?

Wang Dun smiled: "Fellow Daoist Han, do you mean your secrets have been peeked at?"

Han Houzhi looked deeply at He Pingsheng and Wang Dun and said: "If I was peeked at, could you two escape?"

"Hahaha..." Wang Dun laughed loudly and said: "We can escape, we can escape... My junior brother and I are not afraid... Neither of us has any secrets."

Han Houzhi also chuckled: "Since you two have no secrets, then I have no secrets either!"

Han Houzhi was not afraid.

Not to mention that even when facing a Great Luo Golden Immortal, he had means to escape.

Just saying that although he felt his past and future were peeked at, he also felt that the peeper didn't seem to succeed in seeing his secrets.

What's there to be afraid of?

"So what if there are no secrets?" Han Houzhi changed the subject: "Entering the River of Time to peek at others' past and future is a great cause and effect, a great karmic debt!"

"Since the other party disregarded this cause and effect and karmic debt to enter the River of Time to peek at the three of us!"

"It shows they naturally have something they covet!"

"If they didn't see the secrets, would they just let it go?"

"I wonder if you two have any way to deal with it?" Han Houzhi looked at Wang Dun.

Wang Dun smiled: "Hehehe, Fellow Daoist Han, no need to worry about me and my junior brother, hehehe..." ===== CHAPTER 1362 =====