Chapter 3824 — The End of the Challenge Tournament
The Blossom Guardian · Page 1 of 3
Even if the whole lot of them went down in utter defeat, the two of them would at most lose ten points apiece—and to men who were now formidable figures of the early Foundation Establishment stage, what did that even matter?
Meng Zhou, likewise an expert of the early Foundation Establishment stage, had already been completely suppressed by these two. And apart from Wei Zhao, their leader, no other newcomer in Qingyun Pavilion had the strength to stand against the pair; the newcomer challenge tournament to come had become, for them, a feast of points to be taken at will.
In the rounds that followed, Xiao Che and Qiao Hongcai could almost certainly seize over a hundred points between them. Set against that, the ten points deducted for the spirit herb trial was a trifle hardly worth mentioning.
Nor was it only the two of them. Even for Wei Zhao, who had entered forty spirit herb seeds, the consequences of total failure were nowhere near as disastrous as they imagined. On the foundation he had laid with two successive perfect, god-tier scores in the earlier stages, even a forty-point deduction left the other newcomers no chance whatsoever of catching him.
Across the whole of Qingyun Pavilion, the only newcomer who might pose a threat to Wei Zhao was Meng Zhou, ranked second.
If Meng Zhou could now, in this newcomer challenge tournament, crush his way upward and plunder points madly, and if Wei Zhao were docked forty points on top of that, then a sliver of a chance would still remain to drag Wei Zhao down from his altar.
Unfortunately, Meng Zhou was still in the middle of recovering from his injuries. To say nothing of dealing with Wei Zhao, he could not even clear the two great mountains of Xiao Che and Qiao Hongcai beneath Wei Zhao. And if things went on this way, Meng Zhou would never in this lifetime catch up to Wei Zhao!
That being so, for Wei Zhao and his two companions, whether the spirit herb trial ended in total wipeout, whether how many points were docked, had ceased to matter in the slightest.
Having thought this through, the long-suffering senior brother could not help but smile. When one's strength grew great enough to tower over everyone else, then no matter how tortuous the process, no matter how great the blunder, the outcome had long since been decided.
But at this moment Wei Zhao spoke, his tone indifferent: "That said... whether you two are short of those points or not is none of my concern. Only—who ever said my spirit herb seeds were going to be a total wipeout?"
"Huh?" The long-suffering senior brother and the others were struck dumb on the spot. The results of the other newcomers' first batches had long since come out; any spirit herb seedlings successfully cultivated would surely have been delivered to the spirit herb garden for scoring.
The environmental demands of spirit herb seedlings far exceeded those of the seeds themselves. Given the conditions available to the newcomers of the Welcoming Hall, even the newcomers of the best-provided Chongtian Hall were nowhere near meeting the basic requirements for seedlings. And if one did manage to cultivate them but kept them in one's own hands instead of turning them in, the outcome was a hundred percent certain: they would wither and die in one's keeping, and all that effort would come to nothing.
Therefore, anyone who succeeded in cultivating even a single spirit herb seed would rush it to the spirit herb garden at once. Otherwise, no matter how many seedlings one raised, it was all for naught.
And from what the long-suffering senior brother and the others knew, Wei Zhao had not set foot in the spirit herb garden once during these days. Which meant that, no matter how many seeds Wei Zhao had planted in his first trial batch, one thing at least was certain: he had not yet successfully cultivated even a single one.