Chapter 461: Old Faces
"Song Wanqing." He muttered and his eyes subconsciously widened.
He and Zhen Yuan hadn’t seen Song Wanqing since they left the Canglan continent.
Unexpectedly, more than a thousand years later, he saw her again.
[Ayuan, Song Wanqing is in the Myriad Treasures Pavillion ship.] He transmitted and Zhen Yuan turned his head to look.
A moment later, he smiled and looked away with an expressionless face.
[She no longer has anything to do with us.] He said and Shen Xu remembered Jingyu’s technique.
[You are right.] He said and also looked away.
However, on closer look, he spotted more acquaintances in several ships.
In addition to Song Wanqing, he saw Song Wanfeng; the Tianqi continent’s Myriad Treasures Pavillion young master, Tan Cheng; the fourth young master of the Formation Tower City, Zhao Fei; Tan Cheng’s fiancée, Lin Xiang, and finally Xiao Weimin, Zhu Huang, and their harems.
’As expected, Xiao Weimin and Zhu Huang are also here.’ Shen Xu thought and unconsciously sighed.
[Lin Xiang joined the Ten Evils sect.] Zhen Yuan observed and the double nodded.
[There was no turning back from the moment she chose to plunder yang to nurture yin.] Shen Xu said with an expressionless face.
At this time, the group leaders flew from their ships and gathered several metres away.
"Old Luo, you don’t seem to have brought enough people." A middle-aged man said, looking at Luo Jianfeng.
Hearing this, Luo Jianfeng clenched his hands and narrowed his eyes.
However, he soon suppressed his anger and regained his usual calm.
"Shall we draw lots?" He asked and the middle-aged man raised an eyebrow.
"Old Luo, how do you plan to handle your quota?" He asked.
"My Tianxuan sect has countless geniuses. Some of our geniuses will guard multiple plots during this competition." Luo Jianfeng said and the other leaders couldn’t help but be surprised.
Similar to the Tianxuan sect, their sects also had many geniuses.
However, all the participants were either fusion realm or Mahayana realm cultivators. Considering this, letting a disciple guard more than one plot would only exhaust them, leading to mistakes and loss of territory.
After all, the guardian may have to accept back-to-back challenges with no chance to rest!
From the leaders’ perspective, it was best for the Tianxuan sect to abandon some plots and fiercely guard the remaining.
"Fellow Daoist Luo, this...." Xu Xue; the Snow Mountain sect’s group leader started, but stopped halfway.
"Brother Luo, are you sure about this?" Bai Jing, the group leader of the Myriad Tools sect asked.
"Let’s do it this way." Luo Jianfeng said and after exchanging a glance, the others nodded.
Soon after, the nine leaders prepared one thousand wooden tokens and put them in a sack.
The sack looked ordinary at a glance.
However, not even a tribulation transcending realm cultivator could see inside or tamper with the wooden tokens.
"Which group will go first?" A female cultivator asked.
"Shall we draw lots?" Someone suggested.
"It actually doesn’t matter. Getting a good plot depends on luck so it doesn’t matter whether someone goes first or last."
"Let’s draw according to the order of arrival."
In the end, the leaders adopted the last suggestion meaning that the cultivators of the alliance of casual cultivators would draw first, and those of the Tianxuan sect would draw last.
After that, the leaders returned to their ships and informed their elders and disciples.
[Xiao Weimin, Zhu Huang and the others will draw lots before us.] Shen Xu said with a solemn expression.
[You are worried that they will draw all the good plots?] Zhen Yuan asked and the double nodded.
[Xiao Weimin has the protagonist’s halo after all.] Shen Xu said but Zhen Yuan wasn’t too worried.
[Your luck is only slightly inferior to Xiao Weimin’s. We will definitely draw good plots even if we go last.] Zhen Yuan assured.
[Ayuan, I have been wondering...] Shen Xu started and subconsciously narrowed his eyes.
[What’s wrong?] Zhen Yuan asked.
[Do we need to use different competition rules for each plot, or can we use one rule for all our plots?] The double asked and Zhen Yuan narrowed his eyes.
[Let’s hope that we can use one rule for all the plots.] The man said.
Zhen Yuan wanted to arrange formations on all his plots.
That way, he could guard his territory without exhausting himself.
[I hope so too.] Shen Xu said.
One hour passed in the blink of an eye.
At this time, a loud horn resounded in the surroundings and the elders instructed the disciples to disembark from their ships.
After going down, everyone gathered on the shore and waited for the drawing to begin.
"The Alliance of Casual cultivators will go first." A voice said and fifty casual cultivators queued before a table.
The table was fifteen metres long and a sack was placed at the centre. Additionally, the nine leaders sat behind the table, each with a map in front of them.
"You can draw a lot." Xu Xue said, looking at the first person in the queue.
A moment later, the person reached into the sack and drew a wooden token.
"Plot forty-seven." Xu Xue announced and each of the leaders marked their maps.
"Plot forty-seven..." Zhen Yuan muttered and used his spiritual sense to check the plot.
[How is it?] Shen Xu asked.
[An average plot. It doesn’t have a law pillar but it has quite a few golden rocks and an immature golden light grass.] Zhen Yuan answered and the double nodded.
In this way, the casual cultivators drew lots but most got average plots with few resources.
However, that changed when the forty-nineth cultivator drew her lot.
"Plot sixty-six." Xu Xue announced and recorded the details.
[That one is a good plot. It has many golden rocks, a mature golden light grass and three immature ones.] Zhen Yuan said and Shen Xu couldn’t help but look at the female cultivator.
The person looked average.
However, she was only sixty thousand years old but her cultivation was already at the peak of the Mahayana realm.
’Her luck is not bad.’ Shen Xu thought and was about to say something but suddenly gasped.
"Not again." He muttered.