With An Yang’s death, the trip to Sifang City by Great Elder Chang Luo and Chen Mu had completely gone to waste.
Especially for Great Elder Chang Luo, An Yang was the darling nephew of the fierce tiger-like woman in his family.
If this bad news were to be sent back, there’s no telling how that fierce tiger-like woman would react.
But since things had co to this point, Great Elder Chang Luo had no choice but to write a letter, ordering his disciple to take the news of An Yang’s death back to Hunyuan Sect.
"At this rate, we can only wait for the results of the competition. No matter what, we must capture the murderer who killed An Yang and bring them back to Hunyuan Sect for your master’s wife to deal with."
On this side, the people from Hunyuan Sect were still in a bad mood over An Yang’s death.
anwhile, on the other side, Long Sixuan was all smiles.
Following the arrangent made by the Evil Cauldron Spirit earlier, Long Sixuan had nearly monopolized the hunting of all remaining Fierce Beasts around the Rift Valley Sand River.
This directly led to the near extinction of all the Fierce Beasts around the Rift Valley Sand River, besides the Three-legged Birdn who had been relocated into Ye Lingyue’s Hong ng Heaven earlier.
On the fifth day, during the last half and night, the other competitors had reached a point where there were no Fierce Beasts left to hunt.
After the latest Sifang Ranking was released,
Long Sixuan had successfully risen from the second place to the first, and was ahead of the second place, Hei Yue, by seven to eight hundred points.
As for Long Baobao, that goes without saying.
Long Sixuan had surpassed him by almost two thousand points.
With the current situation, unless Long Baobao and Hei Yue tead up to kill Long Sixuan together at the end, it was absolutely impossible for them to turn the tables and win the first place, but that was clearly no longer possible.
The cunning Long Sixuan had already hidden himself in an extrely covert location.
No matter how the other competitors dug three feet into the ground, it was absolutely impossible for them to find him in the remaining less than six hours.
The top fifty competitors on the Sifang Ranking had basically secured their respective positions.
In this way, it seed there was no need to wait until midnight on the fifth day to determine the winners and losers.
So competitors who had given up on the contest had even arrived early outside of Sifang City, waiting for the final official tally of results from the city at midnight.
The sun gradually went down.
After several days of slaughter, the Rift Valley Sand River had beco even colder.
The roars of Fierce Beasts that were once often heard on both banks were almost entirely eradicated.
The sand in the sand river, which flowed like running water, also had many areas that had turned red, marks of splattered beast and human blood.
Nurous new skeletons had also been added to the bottom of the sand river.
When the moon hung high above the city of Sifang, only half an hour was left until midnight.
On the high walls of Sifang City, several bamboo poles were put up, with a string of lanterns hanging on them, which, seen from afar, looked like glowing dragons.
One after another Four-direction Boat, swift as arrows, made their way along the sand river and docked beside the Four Directions Ferry outside Sifang City.
When Ye Lingyue and Long Baobao’s Four-direction Boat arrived, there were already nearly a hundred other boats moored there.
After nearly five days of open and secret competition, these participating competitors had more or less encountered each other, so had even fought, and thus were sowhat familiar with one another.
When Ye Lingyue appeared, so people pointed at her and discussed among themselves.
In the crowd, the Mu Brothers and their leader Mu Ying were quickly spotted.
These siblings were both skilled and lucky; although they did not make it into the top three of the Sifang Ranking, Mu Wu ranked eighth and Mu Shuang seventeenth, marking them as skilled among the younger generation.
After five days of trials in the sand river, the originally tender faces of the Mu siblings had lost so of their innocence and gained a bit more maturity.
Perhaps this was the true purpose Mu Ying had in bringing them here.
"Miss Hei Yue, it’s really great to see you again," greeted Mu Wu, seeing Ye Lingyue, the sunniness of his heroic face blooming into a bright smile.
Mu Shuang appeared excited as she squeezed in front of Feng Xun, asking various questions.
After having seen the despicable natures of Long Sixuan and Chen Mu, Ye Lingyue felt more fondness towards the not-so-scheming Mu siblings she faced now.
"Miss Hei Yue, it’s really a pity this ti. However, Long Sixuan is from the Long Family of Cang Country, his strength is indeed formidable. Don’t be discouraged, I’ve heard that the selection of Sifang City Lord’s disciple takes half from this competition’s performance and half from the World’s First Refining results. You are currently ranked second, and as long as you perform well in the World’s First Refining, you still have a chance," Mu Wu comforted Ye Lingyue.
Mu Shuang looked at Ye Lingyue with envy, comnting with a tinge of sourness,
"Hei Yue, you’re really lucky. This ti, Family Head Feng has helped you a lot, right?"
Previously, she thought that Hei Yue was about her age and would have similar cultivation, but surprisingly, the other party was so powerful that they managed to enter the second place.
However, after Uncle Mu Ying ntioned to Mu Shuang later on that, as an Array Master, Family Head Feng’s Arrays could massacre Fierce Beasts and enemies on a large scale, surely the reason Hei Yue erged so prominently was largely thanks to Family Head Feng’s secret assistance.
Therefore, Mu Shuang naturally assud that a large part of Hei Yue’s second place was due to Feng Xun’s help.
"Yes, my Feng Xun is beautiful and has powerful Arrays. He has been a great help to all along the way," Ye Lingyue replied with pride, hearing the jealous tone in Mu Shuang’s words, and not taking offense, she praised her man.
Feng Xun smiled silently at her side, his gaze on her becoming even softer and more focused, for the mont, completely ignoring Mu Shuang’s admiring eyes, which infuriated her to the point that she almost crushed her teeth in frustration.
Mu Ying and Mu Wu saw everything and both sighed internally.
Just as they were speaking, a commotion arose, and Long Sixuan’s Four-direction Boat also arrived.
As the current Acting Family Head of the Long Family, Long Sixuan was already the most famous among the competitors this ti, and moreover, he had secured the first spot on the Sifang Ranking.
His arrival captured everyone’s attention.
Disembarking from the Four-direction Boat, as Long Sixuan passed by, the crowd automatically parted, making way for him. The pride on his face was evident, like a Great General returning triumphantly, heading towards the gate of Sifang City.
On seeing Ye Lingyue and Long Baobao to the side, Long Sixuan huffed, his gaze suddenly becoming sharp.
When Long Baobao saw Long Sixuan, gazes of the uncle and nephew collided, spewing what seed like countless sparks, and Long Baobao clenched his little fists tightly.
"Little Stead Bun, let him be proud for a little while longer," Ye Lingyue pressed hard on Long Baobao’s shoulder, and the little guy nodded, loosening his hands.
"Ladies and gentlen, the Sifang City Lord has arrived."
At this mont, the Southern Envoy stepped out, and as soon as he finished speaking, an elderly man walked out onto the city tower of Sifang City.
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