Chapter 420: Time Array

"Are the people of the Virgin State... all women?"

In a bright great hall, He Pingsheng sat on one side of a spirit wood table, reached out, took a spirit fruit from the table, and swallowed it in one bite.

His eyes, however, were looking at the woman across the table.

The woman was wearing a deep purple Daoist robe today; she was very beautiful, very fair...

Especially the two beauty tendons exposed on the inside of her collarbone when she slightly raised her head; it was indeed enough to make one's imagination run wild.

"Tsk..." Liang Huaqiu said: "How is that possible?"

"Without men, how can they have children? You ask such a question..."

"I despise you!"

Liang Huaqiu gave He Pingsheng a look of contempt.

He Pingsheng also felt that the question he had just asked was a bit silly.

"The Virgin State, it's just that their customs are a bit different from ours; they turn the world upside down and reverse yin and yang!"

"Women's status is relatively high; whether it's a sect, the governor of each commandery, or even the emperor of this country, they are all women!"

"So, it's called the Virgin State!"

Put that way, He Pingsheng finally understood.

No wonder there were so many women.

So in this country, women were the ones in power.

"What are your plans next?" Liang Huaqiu looked at He Pingsheng.

He Pingsheng said lazily: "No plans, I'll just go into seclusion here; if you guys can't handle it later, just call me to fight!"

Can't waste time in seclusion.

This Nine-Country Grand Competition has a total of three months!

The Liang State's subsequent matches would be much simpler; just fight them one by one, and if they encounter someone they can't beat, it wouldn't be too late to ask He Pingsheng to come out.

Next, He Pingsheng didn't show his face, but swept through three matches.

Then, in the battle with the Chu State, the Liang State couldn't win, so He Pingsheng made one move, crushing six geniuses of the Chu State in one breath, and the Chu State surrendered directly.

Coincidentally, the last big match was against the Virgin State.

At the beginning, Wang Dun swept all the way.

In the end, Wang Dun was still hoping to have a match with He Pingsheng, but after Wang Dun defeated Liang Huaqiu, Grandmaster Zhen Yu chose to surrender directly.

No more fighting.

So, He Pingsheng didn't take the stage either.

"Why didn't you let that guy surnamed He go up?" Liang Huaqiu found Grandmaster Zhen Yu and questioned him with some dissatisfaction.

Zhen Yu smiled and said: "First or second, the difference is actually not that big; our Liang State and the Virgin State don't border each other, and there have been no disputes for a hundred years, so winning or losing doesn't seem that important!"

"The difference in rewards between second and first is also not big!"

"The key is that He Pingsheng and Wang Dun are senior and junior brothers; asking him to go up and duel with Wang Dun, it's better not to fight this match!"

"So, that's my thought!"

"Oh!" Liang Huaqiu said: "So that's how it is!"

"In three days, we will enter the Sacred Realm to listen to the Dao; go tell that kid to stop his seclusion, relax properly, and prepare for the upcoming listening to the Dao!"

"Yes!"

Liang Huaqiu came directly to He Pingsheng's training ground.

"Ah?" After hearing Liang Huaqiu's description, He Pingsheng said: "Second place, huh... surrendered!"

"That's fine... actually, second place is not bad either!"

"Also this, take a look!" Liang Huaqiu took out a jade plate and placed it in front of He Pingsheng.

On it were the rankings of each country!

And the individual rankings.

In the country rankings, the first place was naturally the Virgin State, second was the Liang State, third was the Chu State...

And the Qi State was ranked last.

However, this was also within expectations.

He Pingsheng had beaten Xiao Xuan until he lost his qualification to participate, and the other top two had been slaughtered by him directly.

It was equivalent to the Qi State's top three being ruined by He Pingsheng.

It would be strange if they weren't ranked last!

Below the country rankings were the individual rankings.

Needless to say, the first place was definitely Wang Dun.

Wang Dun swept all the way and had never lost once.

Further back was a heaven's pride expert from the Chu State.

He Pingsheng looked, and out of all one hundred and eight people, he was ranked sixth.

This ranking order was not based on strength, but on individual wins and losses.

No way, He Pingsheng fought less, so being ranked sixth was not bad.

"Don't worry!" Liang Huaqiu said: "I've heard that when we enter the Sacred Realm to listen to the Dao, the ranking of the one hundred and eight people will be a total of eighteen rows, with six people in each row!"

"So, although you are sixth, you are still in the first row!"

He Pingsheng didn't care.

First row or second row, he believed there wouldn't be that much of a difference.

Hmm...

I heard that the flow of time in this Sacred Realm is more than twice as fast as the outside, not quite three times.

This ten years of preaching is twenty-plus years for the listeners.

Things that need to be prepared should still be prepared.

For example, Enlightenment Pills.

He Pingsheng had plenty of top-tier Enlightenment Pills; one could last for three years, so ten would solve the problem of listening to the Dao.

Then there was the 【Spirit-Gathering Pill】; when listening to the Dao, it's not just listening, one can also divert some mental energy to cultivate.

Besides, the 【Five Elements Mixed Heaven Scripture】 in He Pingsheng's body runs automatically and can absorb pills to improve cultivation without him needing to urge it.

So the Spirit-Gathering Pills must be enough too.

He Pingsheng took out all the Spirit-Gathering Pills to check.

Enough!

It was truly enough.

As long as these two were enough, everything else didn't matter.

Three days later, the Sacred Realm opened, and the preaching began.

He Pingsheng followed Zhen Yu to the entrance of a huge array.

Here, disciples from other countries also arrived with excitement.

He Pingsheng's gaze swept over; he wanted to see Long Yuan, but didn't see him.

Don't know where that old guy went.

"Everyone..." A female Golden Core stage cultivator dressed in black walked over, looked at everyone and said: "The Sacred Lord's preaching is about to begin; all contestants can listen, please follow me inside!"

"Substitutes are also considered contestants!"

"Attention!"

"Non-contestants are not allowed to enter!"

Originally there were one hundred and eight rankings, but in reality, there were not one hundred and eight people.

Because some people were beaten to death during the competition.

But it didn't matter; just sit according to the ranking.

The array light film in front roared open a gap, and He Pingsheng and the others followed the Golden Core female cultivator into the array.

Inside the array was another world.

No sky, no earth, no sun, moon, or stars.

Only countless runes floating in this fictional space.

Huge golden runes flashed by one after another.

As He Pingsheng walked, he looked at the runes around the space, and his brows slowly furrowed.

Because he discovered that there was a type of rune here that he had seen before.

That was a golden rune.

Very mysterious, and very profound.

As for where he had seen it, He Pingsheng also remembered: an array disk.

He had a damaged array disk, which he bought at a street stall at the entrance of a mystic realm, and later it couldn't be strengthened despite many attempts.

He remembered that the old array disk had residual patterns similar to the golden patterns here.

Uh... brothers and sisters, love me, please generate electricity. ===== CHAPTER 421 =====