Chapter 174: Target Points
"If you can make it into the top ten, you’ll also get some great rewards. Plus, the more individual points we have, the better it is for the Celestial Cloud Sect’s overall team ranking."
Regarding the rankings for the Four-Sect Trials, Fang Yun already had a clear understanding.
The Four-Sect Trials consisted of twenty-five people from each sect, for a total of one hundred participants.
The lion’s share of the rewards for individual points went to the top ten.
The top ten took eighty percent of the total individual rewards, while eleventh to thirtieth place took eighty percent of the remaining rewards.
The final seventy participants received very few rewards.
Besides individual point rewards, there were also team point rewards.
The team point reward was a share of Spirit Stones.
First place took fifty percent, and second place took thirty percent.
Third and fourth place received fifteen percent and five percent, respectively.
Fang Yun didn’t know how other sects divided their team rewards.
He did know that his own sect distributed the Spirit Stones according to the proportion of individual points each person earned.
Convinced by Fang Yun, Song Qiaoqiao nodded to show she understood.
She had absolute confidence in Fang Yun’s strength.
Aside from consuming a lot of Spiritual Power, Fang Yun’s techniques had no other drawbacks. In the Secret Realm, he could use medicinal pills to quickly recover his Spiritual Power.
As long as he prepared enough pills to restore his Spiritual Power, Song Qiaoqiao believed Fang Yun could achieve an excellent result.
The two chatted as they quickly made their way to Battle Peak after officially leaving the Inner Sect Disciple residential area.
Battle Peak.
In the center of the area normally used for Magical Combat and sparring, a medium-sized Spirit Ship was docked.
A medium-sized Spirit Ship had fifty individual cabins and could generally carry a maximum of fifty people. However, if people were willing to squeeze onto the deck, it could hold over a hundred without a problem.
With twenty-five disciples participating in the Four-Sect Trials, plus three supervising Elders, there were only twenty-eight people in total.
A medium-sized Spirit Ship was more than enough.
When Fang Yun and Song Qiaoqiao arrived at Battle Peak, they saw a group of four led by Wu Junxin and walked over.
Among the four, Wu Junxin and Lu Zefeng were on the list for the Four-Sect Trials. Yao Shuixiao and Zhang Cailing hadn’t managed to make the cut.
Both Yao Shuixiao and Zhang Cailing were there to see the others off.
It was worth mentioning that Wu Junxin and Yao Shuixiao had made their relationship official. Lu Zefeng and Zhang Cailing, however, just had a normal junior brother-senior sister relationship, one that was closer to that of siblings since they often undertook missions together.
Yao Shuixiao, who also lived in Sector Jia, had arrived at Battle Peak early today.
Ever since Bai Qinying reached Foundation Establishment and became an Elder, Yao Shuixiao rarely hung around Fang Yun and Song Qiaoqiao.
Fang Yun completely understood her behavior. If he were in her shoes, he wouldn’t want to be a third wheel either.
"Elder Bai."
"Mm."
The six of them hadn’t been chatting for long when Bai Qinying landed beside them.
Bai Qinying was one of the three Elders leading the group this time, a suggestion Fang Yun had given her at the end of the Inner Sect Grand Competition.
"Fang Yun, how many points are you planning to get in the Four-Sect Trials?" Bai Qinying asked, looking at him.
In the Secret Realm, one could obtain points by killing energy bodies.
The energy bodies were divided into three levels: elementary, intermediate, and advanced.
An elementary energy body’s strength was equivalent to a Cultivator at the Eighth or Ninth Layer of Qi Refining, while an intermediate energy body had the strength of a Qi Refining Tenth Layer Cultivator.
Finally, the advanced energy bodies were even stronger than a typical Half-Step Foundation Establishment Cultivator, and killing them awarded the most points.
"My goal is one hundred points," Fang Yun replied.
According to the information he’d gathered, the first-place winner in past Four-Sect Trials usually scored between sixty and eighty points.
If he could get one hundred points, first place would be basically secured.
"Very good! You’re not short on ambition."
Bai Qinying nodded in satisfaction. Fang Yun’s goal was excellent; it had already surpassed her own.
If it were her, she would have only set her target at seventy points.
This was a high goal as well. After all, killing an elementary energy body was only worth one point, an intermediate was three points, and an advanced was ten points.
Defeating an opponent would earn you half their points, but that was on the condition that you could find an opponent and prevent them from escaping.
Energy bodies would actively attack and wouldn’t flee, but if a human opponent saw you and thought they couldn’t win, they would definitely run.
No one wanted to be eliminated, and they certainly didn’t want half of their hard-earned points to be stolen.
Bai Qinying chatted with the six of them for a while, and then, seeing it was about time, she boarded the Spirit Ship.
About ten breaths after Bai Qinying left, Feng Tianrui’s resonant voice echoed across all of Battle Peak.
"Disciples participating in the Four-Sect Trials, board the Spirit Ship!"
Among the three supervising Elders, Feng Tianrui was the head Elder. Of the three, he not only had the highest Realm but also the greatest strength.
"Senior Brothers and Sisters, it’s time to set off!"
"Go, Senior Brother Fang!"
"Senior Brother Fang Yun, come back with first place!"
Many Outer Sect Disciples were shouting, all cheering for Fang Yun.
Among the disciples, Fang Yun was already very popular, especially among the Outer Sect Disciples.
While chatting with Song Qiaoqiao and the others, Fang Yun also paid attention to the voices around him. It seemed that among the Outer Sect Disciples, the so-called representatives of the three major factions supporting him had all come.
’They’ve even created representatives now.’
Realizing the situation, Fang Yun didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.
Fortunately, this phenomenon was limited to the Outer Sect Disciples. Although there were some among the Inner Sect Disciples who supported him, none of them were involved in the squabbles of the three major factions.
Fang Yun noticed that after becoming Inner Sect Disciples, these cultivators tended to become more mature.
"Junior Brother Fang, you really have a lot of junior brothers and sisters supporting you," Wu Junxin said with a hint of envy.
"You could try taking first place on the Inner Sect Ranking. Maybe then you’ll have a lot of junior brothers and sisters supporting you too," Yao Shuixiao teased.
"First on the Inner Sect Ranking." Wu Junxin couldn’t help but glance at Yuan Yunfan, who was preparing to board the Spirit Ship in the distance. "I should focus on becoming sixth on the Inner Sect Ranking first."
Not long after meeting Fang Yun, he was already seventh on the Inner Sect Ranking.
He was still seventh on the Inner Sect Ranking now.
He had only briefly held the sixth-place spot before being pushed down by Yuan Yunfan.
During the Inner Sect Grand Competition, he had been lucky and defeated Yuan Yunfan by leveraging his advantage in Spiritual Power.
Not long after the Inner Sect Grand Competition ended, he challenged Yuan Yunfan to a ranking match and lost.
Yuan Yunfan, now at the Qi Refining Tenth Layer, was already fifth on the Inner Sect Ranking before the rewards for this year’s rankings were settled.
As for the current sixth-ranked disciple on the Inner Sect Ranking, Wu Junxin hadn’t fought him yet.
Of the top ten on the Inner Sect Ranking, only four were participating in the Four-Sect Trials: besides himself, Fang Yun, and Yuan Yunfan, there was also the disciple ranked ninth.
The other disciples on the Inner Sect Ranking didn’t meet the age requirements.
The most unfortunate case was the third-ranked disciple on the Inner Sect Ranking. A Half-Step Foundation Establishment Cultivator, she was thirty-one, just one year over the age limit.
Otherwise, if she had participated in the Four-Sect Trials, she probably would have achieved an excellent result.