Chapter 470: New Challenger
"Mountain Master Yu, please come down." Someone said with a helpless look on his face.
The person was at the ninth level of the reincarnation realm.
He wore a white robe and had shining golden hair.
’A cultivator from the Eternal Light Mountain.’ Yu Nianzhen thought and his eyes narrowed as he looked at the person.
Although the person had kind eyes, Yu Nianzhen was not deceived.
He could see the arrogance hidden beneath the kindness.
"Come up if you want to talk to me." Yu Nianzhen said and sat cross-legged.
A moment later, he closed his eyes and began to meditate.
Seeing this, the spectators and the gathered crowd couldn’t help but be startled.
They didn’t expect Yu Nianzhen to refuse so resolutely.
"This bastard!" Someone roared in anger.
"If he refuses to drink a toast, I will force him to drink a forfeit." Another said and tried to jump onto the main martial stage.
However, before he could succeed, he was rudely pulled back.
"Who is holding me back?" He shouted in anger.
At the same time, he turned about and looked at the person who held him back.
A moment later, his angry expression smoothened and his eyes filled with fear.
"Is it your turn to get the origin source stone?" His captor questioned.
Hearing this, the person trembled in fear.
Because of Yu Nianzhen’s bad attitude, he got carried away.
He forgot his cultivation was only at the third level of the reincarnation realm and it was not his turn to compete for the origin source stone.
"Senior, please don’t get me wrong." The person said and his captor raised his eyebrow in question.
"How is it possible for me to think about the origin source stone? If I fight and win the stone, I plan to honour the senior."
"Is that so?"
"I am not lying."
"In that case, work hard for me."
When the third-level cultivator heard this, his heart filled with anger.
His previous words were perfunctory and he didn’t expect his senior to latch on to them and take advantage of him.
Unfortunately, the arrow had already left the bow so he could only swallow his bitterness and continue riding the tiger.
"If you succeed in getting the origin source stone, your senior will not treat you badly." The senior said.
However, the third-level reincarnation realm cultivator was not optimistic.
He knew his senior brother and the man was extremely stringy.
When the time came, the gains would definitely not outweigh the losses.
"Don’t worry about anything, your senior brother will cover you."
Hearing this, the third-level cultivator sighed bitterly before nodding in agreement.
"I understand." He said and looked at the stage.
As before, Yu Nianzhen was meditating.
In the past five years, he fought many opponents and gained a lot of insights.
Some of the insights were related to things he already knew but others were completely novel.
However, Yu Nianzhen did not comprehend them blindly.
He understood that his own dao was the most important and other people’s way could only be used as a reference or supplement.
Because of this, his dao heart was a lot firmer than before and his Dao Transcending sword art was more mature.
’As expected, fighting is the best way to temper my dao heart and sharpen my sword.’ Yu Nianzhen thought and sighed.
’With the origin source stone, I will be able to comprehend more sword laws and my swordsmanship will climb to a higher level.’ He thought and then frowned.
Although he wanted to immediately use the origin source stone, Yu Nianzhen didn’t.
At the moment, he only had one origin source stone and he didn’t know if XiaoLan would get more.
If she couldn’t get more, he and Jiang Yue would have to share one stone.
Considering this, Yu Nianzhen didn’t plan to use the origin source stone before XiaoLan returned.
More importantly, comprehending the dao required a calm state of mind and a lot of time.
Knowing this, Yu Nianzhen didn’t think others would leave him alone to peacefully use the origin source stone.
’What should be will be.’ Yu Nianzhen sighed and opened his eyes.
In the blink of an eye, he exited his meditative state, stood up and retreated to one side of the martial stage.
"I am Gong Han from the Seven Thunder Mountain." The new opponent introduced himself.
Hearing this, Yu Nianzhen narrowed his eyes.
The Seven Thunder World was a high-grade world whose world mountain was in the third zone of the Reincarnation World.
In terms of ranking, the Seven Thunder Mountain was among the top one hundred in the Reincarnation World.
Most importantly, the Seven Thunder Mountain was subordinate to the Heavenly Purple Lightning Mountain.
’The Heavenly Purple Lightning world is a top-grade world and is not easy to mess with.’ Yu Nianzhen thought but he was not intimidated.
"Is there something that mountain master Yu wants to say?" Gong Han asked with a playful smile on his lips.
With his world’s status, few cultivators dared to mess with him.
Unfortunately, Yu Nianzhen didn’t discriminate.
Since he was the Cangxing mountain master, he couldn’t allow his world to be underestimated.
"What is fellow Daoist Gong challenging for?" Yu Nianzhen asked in a serious voice.
Hearing this, Gong Han clenched his hands in anger.
He didn’t expect Yu Nianzhen to be so ignorant.
’Since you don’t know how to back down, I will not be merciful.’ Gong Han thought and a trace of cruelty flashed in his eyes.
"I will challenge for the high-grade mine and the origin source stone." Gong Han said with a proud look on his face.
After speaking, he threw a storage ring and Yu Nianzhen caught it.
In the storage ring were ten thousand mid-grade reincarnation stones and a purple fruit that looked like a pineapple.
Seeing this, Yu Nianzhen frowned.
"Fellow Daoist Gong doesn’t seem to be in the second level of the reincarnation realm." Yu Nianzhen stated.
"So what?" Gong Han asked.
"For a third-level reincarnation realm cultivator, the challenge fee is twenty thousand mid-grade reincarnation stones."
When Gong Han heard that, his eyes filled with anger and his chest tightened.
As a cultivator from a high-grade world, thirty thousand mid-grade reincarnation stones were not a lot.
However, Gong Han was unwilling to let Yu Nianzhen take advantage of him.
"Why don’t you grab it!" He roared in anger.
However, Yu Nianzhen didn’t change his mind.
Although the cultivation of higher-level cultivators was restrained when they stepped onto the martial stage, their martial arts comprehension was not affected.
This automatically gave them an advantage against Yu Nianzhen who had a shorter cultivation time.
Considering this, Yu Nianzhen felt it was necessary to increase the challenge fee to compensate for the additional risk.
"If fellow Daoist Gong is unable to pay, he can leave the stage." Yu Nianzhen said with an impatient look on his face.
When Gong Han heard this, he became angrier and his hands clenched into fists.
"Who can’t pay?" He sneered and threw another storage ring.
Although Gong Han was unwilling, he didn’t want Yu Nianzhen to look down on him.
Since it had come to this, he could only pay and then take everything back when he defeated the Cangxing mountain master.
"In that case, I will accept fellow Daoist Gong’s challenge." Yu Nianzhen said and put away the contents of the two storage rings.
’The origin source stone is a curse but also a blessing.’ Yu Nianzhen couldn’t help but be happy.
In the first storage ring, there was a purple fruit.
From what Yu Nianzhen knew, the purple fruit was the reincarnation fruit.
The reincarnation fruit was a heaven and earth treasure that allowed a reincarnation realm cultivator of any level to instantly reach the peak of their level.
At the moment, Yu Nianzhen was in the early stage of the first level of the reincarnation realm.
If he refined the reincarnation fruit, his qi would instantly rise from the early stage to the peak stage.
Although this effect didn’t seem prominent, it was extremely significant.
In the reincarnation realm, a cultivator needed between five hundred and one thousand years to accumulate enough qi to reach the peak of their level.
However, if one refined a reincarnation fruit, they could ignore qi accumulation and focus on polishing their dao heart.
In this way, when the time came, they would be more assured of crossing their reincarnation tribulation.
Unfortunately, reincarnation fruits were extremely rare and they didn’t grow at a fixed place in the Reincarnation world.
’It would be a waste to refine it now. I will save it for later.’ Yu Nianzhen thought and his eyes became a little fiery.
’I hope I will get more fruits.’ He thought and subconsciously glanced at the cultivators gathered below his martial stage.
At the same time, he thought about countermeasures.
Originally, he was a fat sheep because of the large amount of challenge fees he collected.
With the addition of heaven and earth treasures, Yu Nianzhen knew he would soon be targeted by dangerous and powerful cultivators.
