<h4>Chapter 435 – Let’s Get Married</h4>
Trantor: Coca5156
Editor: Drea
Five years passed by in a sh. For those that had focused on cultivating, the time flew.
Ever since they had known about the n Tournament five years ago, everyone in the Gui Yuan n entered into a frenzied state of training and cultivating.
Every day, there were many people that entered the Thousand Mountains Range to train. In the outside world, the prices of Demon Crystals remained high. However, for Gu Lingzhi who had learnt Alchemy skills from the Spirit Tribe, these Demon Crystals were made into powerful Spiritual Medicine that could increase one’s cultivation level. These pills were consumed by the members of the Gui Yuan n every day such that it had almost be a staple to them. Their cultivation levels improved at a staggering speed.
Out of all of them, Gu Lingzhi and Rong Yuan had increased their cultivation level the fastest.
With Gu Lingzhi’s Inheritance Space, they entered the depths of the Thousand Mountains Range despite how scary people had described it to be.
The deepest depths of the Thousand Mountains Range had not let them down as they found many precious materials and treasures that Gu Lingzhi could use to make Spiritual Medicine that could further improve their cultivation levels. They had also managed to find some Spirit nts that were suitable for forging weapons. After adding these nts to their Fengwu and Dragon Sword, the quality of their weapons increased by another tier yet again. Their weapons were now high-grade Godly Weapons.
Just like that, their cultivation levels had both improved drastically until they became upper-ss True Gods. Their speed of cultivation caused people to sigh in admiration.
After enquiring about their experiences in the deepest depths of the Thousand Mountains Range, no one dared to question the speed of their cultivation. Their bodies were full of old and new scars, which showed the risks that they had to face whenever they went there. However, with this danger came the umtion of knowledge and wisdom.
In these five years, the Gui Yuan n became more and more powerful. Every year, the number of disciples that joined the n numbered in the thousands. Arge number of them joined due to the Gui Yuan n’s Weapon Forging methods. Gu Lingzhi’s techniques were obtained from abination of those passed down by the ancestors in the Spirit Tribe and those that she had chanced upon in the Lost Lands. Thus, her techniques were much better than those currently avable in the Realm of the Gods, but it was also much moreplicated.
Many people who were specialized in weapon-making bought these Spiritual Weapons from the Gui Yuan n, hoping to replicate it but to no avail. Thus, Gu Lingzhi’s Weapon Forging techniques became well-known throughout the Realm of the Gods for being unbeatable. Many people who wanted to devote their expertise to weapon-making but had no resources to enter the top ns that specialized in the field decided to be a member of the Gui Yuan n. The elder of the Gui Yuan n who was in-charge of managing their weapon-making sector could onlyugh at this, joking that it was entirely possible for the Gui Yuan n to be specialized in weapon-making. This angered the other elders who were in-charge of managing other sectors, yet they were unable to refute him. They could only hope that when the n Tournament was over, everyone would know that the Gui Yuan n was not talented in just Weapon Forging, but also in Alchemy and in Martial Skills.
To be talented in all aspects made them exceptional.
“Over the past few years, did we only find a hundred of them?” Gu Lingzhi asked Tianfeng Jin who held the heavy responsibility of being the Gui Yuan n’s leader.
Tianfeng Jin nodded her head, her voice carrying a heavy tone. “I’ve heard that whilst they were searching, they had seen some Ascension Members being sent into the Feixing Pavilion. They said that there were at least thirty of them, but there could be more.”
When they were undergoing the trial to ascend to the Realm of the Gods, there were over 400 people who were doing it together with them. Now, they had only managed to find over a 100 of them. As the reputation of the Gui Yuan n grew, the chances of them finding the original Ascension Members dwindled.
“Has there been no news of Yan Liang?” Gu Lingzhi asked.
They were friends from the very beginning and Gu Lingzhi could not help but be even more concerned about these people whom she had met ever since her days in the Royal School.
“No. Ever since we ascended, there has not been any news of him at all,” Xin Yi continued. He thought that it was strange.
Although Yan Liang was not good at talking and he seemed to be unperceptive, he was still a very capable person. As long as he was not unlucky enough to have ascended into a ce that was crowded with people, there was no way that he would get caught so easily. If that was the case, why was there still no news about him?
Unless...
“Let’s not care about that. If he’s safe and sound, we’ll definitely find him one day. The more important matter at hand now is how we’llpete in the n Tournament,” Rong Yuan interjected. He ced a piece of paper on the table which attracted everyone’s attention and they made their way to the table.
On the piece of paper were rules of the n Tournament.
As long as a n had Martial Artists that were above the rank of a Martial Sage, they could register to enter the n Tournament.
There were only six rounds in the entire tournament.
In order to fully showcase a n’s overall abilities, the six rounds were split into duels for singles and for teams.
The duels for singles were further split into different rounds for different ranks of Martial Artists – Martial Sages, Demigods, lower-ss True Gods, middle-ss True Gods and upper-ss True Gods.
The candidates for each duel would be decided by drawing lots. In every round of dueling, a n could send out three members of the same cultivation level topete in a round robin fashion. If they could beat the members of the other n, then they would be the victors. They would keep on dueling until there were a hundred ns left and these ns would be the top hundred in the n Rankings.
As long as a n got into the top hundred cings on the n Rankings, they could then have the right to participate in the finals where the top ten ns would be determined by team duels.
For team duels, every n could send out two representatives of around the same cultivation level to enter a Secret Territory. The number of artefacts that they could gather from the Secret Territory would correspond to the number of points that they stood to gain. The score would then be added up with the previous score from the individual duels, and the final score would determine the final cings of the ns. The n Rankings would be updated and would hold for the next thousand years until the next n Tournament.
“Thest round of individual duels is for the upper-ss True Gods, but we only have you and Lingzhi to represent us, how are we going to sign up?” Qin Xinran asked after reading through the rules of the n Tournament.
“Don’t worry, I’ve already asked around. If there are not enough Martial Artists in the n, we can just register with the number of Martial Artists that we have,” Gu Lingzhi said. Afraid that Qin Xinran did not understand what she meant, she continued to exin, “For example, in thest round of duels between upper-ss True Gods – our n has two candidates and the other n has three. For us to win, we’ll have to defeat all three of our opponents. For them, they’ll only have to defeat Rong Yuan and I.”
“Isn’t that winning by outnumbering?” Qin Xinran huffed, but she knew that the rules system was trying to be fair to those ns who had a great number of upper-ss True Gods.
Rong Yuan tapped his fingers on the table. “Lingzhi and I will register for the upper-ss True Gods duels, who’s registering for the middle-ss and lower-ss duels?”
“I’ll go!”
“Me!”
“Me.”
A few voices rang out in unison.
Rong Yuan looked at the few of them and raised his eyebrows. “We can’t all go, only a total of 8 of us can sign up. For the middle- and lower-ss duels, there are only six spots and we have to send the most powerful candidates. What about...those that are willing to register have a match between themselves now? The winners get to sign up for the n Tournament.”
“Let’s go,” Tianfeng Jin walked out the moment the words left Rong Yuan’s mouth, evidently ready to fight.
Xin Yiughed bitterly as he held onto her hand and pulled her back. “My precious darling, you are the head of the Gui Yuan n. Leave the n Tournament to the other members. When the Tournament is ongoing, we’ll have to oversee our n matters, we won’t have time topete.”
Tianfeng Jin shot a questioning look at Gu Lingzhi.
Gu Lingzhi only nodded her head, a helpless look on her face. “It seems that the rules did say that the n Leaders are not allowed topete to maintain order in the respective ns.”
Tianfeng Jin pouted and unwillingly retreated. Her eyes reddened as she looked at the contenders walking out, ready topete with each other. She suddenly turned to Xin Yi and said, “Let’s get married.”
“Huh?” Xin Yi’s brain went into overdrive immediately and thought that he had misheard.
Tianfeng Jin looked straight at him and mouthed every word clearly this time. “Let’s get married.”
Those who had not yet walked out of the doorpletely immediately turned their heads to look at them.
What’s going on?
Was she too depressed from not being able topete in the n Tournament? Tianfeng Jin then continued, “Let’s give birth to a child and let him be the n Leader.”
Gu Lingzhi burst intoughter. Only Tianfeng Jin could think of something as ridiculous as this. Gu Lingzhi knew that Tianfeng Jin had be sick of being the n Leader a long time ago in order for her to say such a thing.
“Yes...yes! Let’s get married, have a child, and make him the n Leader!” Xin Yi finally reacted once he confirmed that he had not misheard and was beyond excited. He lifted Tianfeng Jin off the ground and spun her twice.
“I’ll do whatever you say! We’ll give birth to as many children as you’d like!”
Gu Lingzhi wasughing so hard that she was on the brink of tears. Everyone who witnessed this scene followed.
Upon hearing theughter from everyone, Tianfeng Jin seemed to recover from a trance as she realized what Xin Yi had just told her. She red at Xin Yi, but there was shyness in her eyes and she did not pull away from his embrace.
It was a huge call for celebration that both the leaders of the Gui Yuan n were getting married to each other. Before the n Tournament, it would be the most important n matter. The wedding was stealing all the limelight from thepetitiveness of the n members that wanted to sign up for the n Tournament. After much lively discussions for half a month, preparations for the wedding wereplete.
After sending both Xin Yi and Tianfeng Jin into their bridal chambers, Gu Lingzhi was still in slight disbelief. She never would have thought that someone as cold as Tianfeng Jin would be the one to propose marriage to Xin Yi.
“Xinran, now you’re the only one amongst us who isn’t married yet,” Gu Lingzhi whispered to Qin Xinran, who wanted to sneak over to their bridal chamber to eavesdrop.
“It’s called ‘saving the best forst’. Now that all of you are married, I’m the most precious one!” Qin Xinran twitched her nose. Her eyes, however, flickered to Hunting Cat for a few seconds. Though it almost went undetected, Gu Lingzhi caught it.
yfully, Gu Lingzhi waved her hand and grabbed Rong Yuan who was behind her to eavesdrop on the bridal chamber as well. They jumped over the walls.
What was there to listen from behind the walls? She did not want to be secretive!
Qin Xinran, Hunting Cat, Nie Sang and the rest followed suit, giggling as they jumped over the walls, inching closer to the bridal chamber.
They thought that it would be a good idea to y this prank on Tianfeng Jin and Xin Yi, yet the moment they entered the bridal chambers, they were met with difficulty.
The living quarters of the Gui Yuan n’s leaders had to be the safest and thus, there were many active Restrictive Shields around it. The group of them that wanted to know what was going on could only curse at Xin Yi in their hearts.
In the bridal chamber, Xin Yi walked towards the bed that was draped with red satin, and finally asked Tianfeng Jin something that he had wanted to ask for a long time. “Why? Why did you want to marry me all of a sudden?”