Chapter 224: Titles and Bounties
Twenty-four hours later, Yu Nianzhen and Jiang Yue sat at a table drinking wine.
"We should start looking for ingredients to make the wine we owe master Yang." Jiang Yue said.
"We can look for them, but whether we can find them is a matter of luck." Yu Nianzhen said and added more wine to their cups.
"You are right. Some of the ingredients are impossible to find in the Cangxing world."
"Maybe we will get a chance to go to another world in the future."
"Did master Yang mention something?"
"He doesn’t know how to leave the Cangxing world, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t a way."
"I have often wondered why the ancient experts disappeared. Do you think they left the Cangxing world?"
"Maybe." Yu Nianzhen said and frowned.
He had also thought about the matter but never came up with an explanation. His master was also at a loss and didn’t know what happened to the ancient experts.
"We should start looking for a way when we exit the Nine Treasures secret realm." He said.
"At that time, we will be at the peak of the origin tempering realm or already have broken through to the core formation realm. If we don’t find a way to leave, we will die of old age in the Cangxing world." Jiang Yue added.
"Nascent soul realm cultivators have a lifespan of five thousand years. It’s not too bad to die at that age." Yu Nianzhen said, and Jiang Yue rolled his eyes.
Of the two, Yu Nianzhen was the more ambitious.
There was no way the swordsman would be reconciled to stop at the nascent soul realm when he knew there were higher levels.
Seeing Jiang Yue’s disbelief, Yu Nianzhen chuckled and rubbed his husband’s hair.
"We will definitely find a way. We only have to make sure we don’t die before then."
"Yes." Jiang Yue took a sip of wine and smiled.
He liked this kind of slow life, but there was no such thing as an eternal banquet.
A few breaths later, they both felt a change in their sea of consciousness and looked at each other.
"The ranking is out." Jiang Yue said.
His voice was filled with excitement, and his eyes shone from anticipation.
"Let’s check it." Yu Nianzhen was also not immune to the excitement and looked forward to knowing his rank.
"Okay."
Without another word, both closed their eyes and checked their sea of consciousness.
’Two lists?’ Jiang Yue was shocked.
Qi Shuo and Qi Feiyan had never said anything about two lists.
After being shocked, he calmed himself and injected his divine sense into one of the lists.
Instantaneously, the list opened, and a ranking of names appeared in front of Jiang Yue.
At the top of the list were the titles for nascent soul realm cultivators. Followed by core formation realm cultivators, origin tempering realm cultivators, qi transformation realm cultivators, and finally, origin forging realm cultivators.
Without delay, Jiang Yue focused his divine sense on the qi transformation realm category, and his heart skipped a beat when he saw the name at the top.
’Supreme sword god.’ He read, and his lips curled in a brilliant smile.
’As expected of my Azhen.’
After that, he looked down the list and saw his name on the fifth rank.
’It’s better than I expected.’ He thought and was quite happy.
Although he appeared confident, his heart was not calm.
The first reason for his unease was that he wasn’t sure if physical attack power was the main ranking criterion. If that was the case, he wouldn’t have a chance to enter the top ten.
The second reason was because he didn’t have a natal weapon.
From what he deduced about the Cangxing list, external weapons didn’t count as one’s own strength, but natal weapons and contracted weapons did.
Without a natal or contracted weapon, Jiang Yue was at a slight disadvantage to those who had them.
Fortunately, his illusions were powerful, and he achieved a good ranking.
’Lord of Infinite Illusions.’ He read his title, and his heart filled with happiness.
Since he didn’t know the titles of people he knew, he exited the ranking list and injected his divine sense into the second list.
In less than a breath, the list opened and Jiang Yue couldn’t help but be shocked.
’Bounty hunting list.’ He read.
Like the ranking, this list was divided into categories according to cultivation realms.
However, at the end of each title, there was at least one star and at most five.
At a loss, Jiang Yue probed a star with his divine sense, and a flood of information entered his mind.
From the information, he learned that each star represented one merit point.
If he killed a cultivator worth one star, he would receive one merit point.
’What did these people do to provoke the world to destroy them?’ He wondered and shuddered.
Urgently, he checked down the list and sighed in relief.
Fortunately, his and Yu Nianzhen’s titles were not on the bounty list.
Otherwise, they would soon welcome countless challenges.
With that thought, Jiang Yue exited the bounty list and opened his eyes.
Yu Nianzhen had also just woken up and was looking at Jiang Yue.
"Congratulations." He said.
"My ranking is not as good as yours." Jiang Yue grumbled.
"I am a little better because I have a natal sword. There is no telling if I could still be number one if you had a natal weapon."
"That’s true." Jiang Yue puffed his chest, and Yu Nianzhen tried not to smile.
However, what he said was true.
Jiang Yue had spent a lot of time enlightening on the mat he found in the Lu family’s gravity mine.
His understanding of illusions was deep, which made his attacks extremely difficult to deal with.
Since they were soul-bound contract partners, their attacks were useless against each other.
If that was not the case, even Yu Nianzhen would have to be trapped for a while if Jiang Yue attacked him.
"Your lullaby art is a treasure." Yu Nianzhen said.
"Mmmh." Jiang Yue agreed.
The more he studied lullaby, the more he realised he had underestimated it too much.
Although the art was called lullaby, it was actually a comprehensive art, which hid thousands of illusion arts.
Even after studying it for more than fifteen years, Jiang Yue could not call himself a master.
He had only learned a little and what he knew was extremely powerful.
"Our titles are troublesome." Yu Nianzhen suddenly said.
"You are right." Jiang Yue answered, but he was still happy.
After perusing the two lists, Jiang Yue knew that he and Yu Nianzhen were the only cultivators with the words: ’supreme’, ’god’, or ’lord’ in their titles.
While having these words showed their potential, they were not at that level yet!
It was expected that other sword practitioners and illusion masters would not be convinced.
Without a doubt, Yu Nianzhen and Jiang Yue could not escape the fate of being continuously challenged in the future.
"Forget that for the time being, did you see the bounty list?" Jiang Yue asked.
"I saw it." Yu Nianzhen answered.
"I suspect the titles on that list are cultivators from the Death Flower Ascension Front."
"You could be right."
When he thought about it, Yu Nianzhen felt Jiang Yue was right.
After all, the Death Flower Ascension Front was too big of a threat to the Cangxing world.
If things continued as they were, the natural geniuses of the Cangxing world would all be killed and their foundations transplanted to others.
"The titles on the bounty list are also on the ordinary ranking. However, the titles are highlighted with red."
"I saw it too."
At first, Jiang Yue didn’t understand why some titles were highlighted. However, when he saw the bounty list, he understood.
"The Death Flower Ascension Front seems to be a bigger problem than we thought." Yu Nianzhen said and frowned.
There were millions of titles on the bounty list. This meant there were millions of enemies hiding in plain sight.
"Since such a bounty list has been released, the Cangxing world won’t be peaceful in the coming years." Jiang Yue said and sighed.
"You are right, but this is also an opportunity. It is not easy to earn merit points at ordinary times."
When they transmigrated to the Cangxing world, old man Cang told them that unblocking divine acupoints and awakening divine meridians was a matter of fate.
Although he didn’t explain much, Jiang Yue and Yu Nianzhen gradually understood his meaning.
The fate mentioned by the old man referred to merit accumulated in previous lives or destined merit.
Each person in the Cangxing world was born with a destined life.
If a person was expected to earn merit in the future, the heavens discounted it and allowed them to awaken divine meridians.
Jiang Yue and Yu Nianzhen didn’t know why they awakened divine meridians. It could be because of accumulated merit from previous lives or what they are expected to earn in their future.
Either way, they were grateful for the fate that allowed them to awaken divine meridians.
Without their divine meridians, their cultivation speed wouldn’t be as fast, and their potential wouldn’t be limitless.
"I know what you mean." Jiang Yue smiled, and his eyes filled with killing intent.
