Chapter 91

As Wujiu was shouting, he had already run to the base of the arena stone, ready to welcome Huashijiu. However, seeing Huashijiu standing on the arena stone with a bewildered look, he was taken aback. Recalling the person in front of him, who seemed a bit naive, he understood and said, "Junior Brother Hua, you can come down from the arena stone now. Hmm! Take your identity jade token to the white jade square stone to collect contribution points. Hahaha—how about that, isn't this white jade stone amazing! When I first saw something similar in the sect—uh—Junior Brother Hua! Your speed is really fast—"

Before Wujiu could finish speaking, Huashijiu, upon hearing about the contribution points, his eyes lit up in a terrifying way. Then he pushed off with his feet, using both the Flight Technique and the Wind Walking Technique to their fullest extent. In a moment, he had covered the distance of several dozen meters. Wujiu only felt a blur of movement, and Huashijiu was already beside the white jade stone, placing his identity token on it.

After a while, Wujiu looked at the dazed Huashijiu and said, "Junior Brother Hua! What is this—"

Huashijiu looked at Wujiu very seriously and said, "How do I collect the contribution points?"

Wujiu: "…………"

Under Wujiu's guidance, Huashijiu happily collected one thousand contribution points and was about to leave for the Contribution Hall.

Suddenly, from the crowd that had not yet dispersed, a voice exclaimed, "I remember, I remember, he is Huashijiu from the Netherworld Mountain, the only disciple they have recruited in a hundred years."

"What—him! No wonder he is so young and has such combat strength."

"Ah, I see, he is that prodigy! No wonder he could defeat a late-stage Core Formation puppet master at the early-stage Core Formation level."

For a moment, the crowd was abuzz with discussion, pointing and staring at Huashijiu as if he were a monster.

Hearing the crowd's comments, Huashijiu looked at Wujiu with a bewildered expression and said, "Am I that famous?"

Wujiu: "…………"

Under the strange gazes of the crowd, Huashijiu left the arena stone with Wujiu, flying towards the Contribution Hall.

Although he had obtained one thousand contribution points, it was far from enough to use the Soul Condensation Bell. And it was clearly not feasible to continue winning contribution points by fighting on the arena in the short term.

This was not because the Core Formation realm disciples in the sect were afraid of Huashijiu. In fact, the various lineages of the Ziyou Sect had been famous for many years, and the true geniuses of the Core Formation realm did not take Huashijiu seriously at all. After all, to win contribution points on the arena, the amounts were small, and true experts generally disdained such behavior.

In fact, even if famous experts set up an arena, it would be difficult to gather ten challengers due to their reputation.

Therefore, although Huashijiu had gained some fame through this haphazard arena fight, it did not attract the attention of other geniuses at the same realm. Of course, the fame referred to here was not because he was the only disciple to join the Netherworld Mountain in a hundred years, nor because he was taken as a disciple by the Netherghost. The fame referred to here was the fame earned through fighting.

However, what Huashijiu did not know was that through this arena fight, he had caused a stir in the Five Elements lineage.

He Shengliang, who had fought Huashijiu, and several other disciples of the Five Elements lineage, after returning to the Five Elements Hall, spread the news that Huashijiu could use Metal Elemental techniques without hand seals. This news quickly made Huashijiu well-known in the Five Elements lineage.

Although some people were skeptical of He Shengliang's claims due to long-held beliefs, it still made Huashijiu a target of attention from top to bottom in the Five Elements lineage. Some even had ill intentions towards him.

The Contribution Hall was spacious and had a simple, grand layout. Right in the center of the hall, two stone walls, each several dozen meters long, stood out prominently, emitting a faint glow. One could faintly sense the flow of spiritual energy on the stone walls.

One was black, the other purple, with different colors but clear text appearing on both. The spiritual light flickered, indicating that these two stone walls were significant spiritual artifacts, possibly even magical treasures.

Seeing this, Huashijiu couldn't help but be stunned, thinking it was like an LED display on Earth.

Huashijiu vaguely guessed that the text on the stone walls might be tasks issued by the sect. Walking closer to examine them, he found that the text on both stone walls indeed consisted of tasks issued by the seven lineages or the sect.

Thinking of his storage bag, which contained no spirit stones, and the enormous contribution points required to borrow the Soul Condensation Bell, Huashijiu's expression became serious. He took a deep breath and, like the many other Ziyou Sect disciples around him, began to carefully read the text on the stone walls.

With Huashijiu's exceptional reading ability, it didn't take long for him to read all the tasks on both stone walls and memorize them.

Ignoring Wujiu, who was incessantly chattering beside him, Huashijiu stood between the two stone walls, silently comparing the tasks in his mind. He quickly noticed some differences.

The black stone wall had more ordinary tasks. The sect or the lineage issuing the tasks would reward the disciples who completed them with spirit stones, with only a few tasks offering contribution points. The amount of reward depended on the task, with more difficult tasks offering more spirit stones or contribution points. This mainly targeted outer disciples and inner disciples below the Soul Formation realm.

The purple stone wall had fewer tasks, and most of the disciples gathered around it were inner disciples wearing black robes, almost all of whom were at the Soul Formation realm. The tasks on this wall offered only contribution points as rewards.

Huashijiu had already gained a clear understanding of contribution points from the "Inner Disciple Handbook." He knew that while spirit stones were still very useful in the Ziyou Sect, the most crucial and high-end cultivation resources required contribution points, and sometimes only contribution points. Spirit stones were not sufficient. Huashijiu's experience at the Purple Heart Hall was a typical example.

For instance, spirit pills above the third grade in the Spirit Medicine Hall could no longer be purchased with spirit stones; they required the expenditure of contribution points.

Especially the manuals and secret scrolls of various magical techniques and spells. In the Ziyou Sect, all magical techniques and spells, except for one that could be chosen for free from a certain range upon advancing to a new realm, required the expenditure of contribution points to learn. Of course, disciples who could become personal disciples of a Questioning the Dao realm expert or the legendary secret disciples hidden deep in the Ziyou Mountains were exceptions.

Huashijiu's mind raced with thoughts. The most pressing matter was to find some tasks and earn contribution points and spirit stones.

As the tasks on the purple stone wall flashed through Huashijiu's mind, his expression became increasingly grim.

This morning, I woke up to find that I was ranked first in the new book category. I was so excited! Thank you all for your support. I hope to maintain the first place. Today, I am traveling from Tianshui to Xi'an, so the second update will be around noon, and the third update will be after 10 PM. In any case, I still need your votes—