C92 Struggle for the quota

Ye Yang paid the fee of twenty days in one go, it cost him forty thousand points, making him feel heartache.

He entered the top-level training room and sat cross-legged on the floor. He fully activated the inscription on his arm and began his cultivation.

Now, Ye Yang had called this inscription "Stealing the Heavens", meaning trying to steal away the fortune of the heaven and earth.

But Ye Yang did not dare to give this rune to everyone to use. He was afraid that their cultivation would not be able to keep up for they levelled up too quickly, causing their foundation to be unstable.

Ye Yang had already died once, so they could not compare to his comprehension.

The Heaven Stealing rune operated, and it was as if his entire body was covered by countless small black holes that continuously devoured the surrounding Spiritual Qi Of Heaven And Earth which was nourishing Ye Yang's dantian.

The cyclone in Ye Yang's body no longer expanded, but instead, following its circulation, the water-like Genuine Essence within the cyclone started to grow at a visible rate.

Twenty days passed in a flash. When Ye Yang came out of the the training tower, he had broken through from the initial stage of the Warrior to the peak of the Warrior.

Currently, the Genuine Essence in Ye Yang's body had already formed a pond with a diameter of ten meters.

It could be said that even if he were to use all his Genuine Essence to activate the battle skills, Ye Yang wouldn't need to worry about not having enough Genuine Essence left.

The Trembling Feather Ranking had already begun, and ten days later, the top fifty would be selected to fight over the Trembling Feather Secret Realm's qualification tokens.

The whole academy was in an uproar. Almost everyone gathered near the arena, and there were dozens of matches going on every day.

The people from the Eight Desolations City also started to challenge one after another, hoping to get a good rank. But Ye Yang did not say anything, he just warned them to be careful.

Ye Yang did not participate in the competition, instead he rented a new laboratory. But the rune he tested this time was a little different.

This was also a solution that Ye Yang came up with when he was creating the "Heaven Stealing" rune. This was the "Explosive" rune that Ye Yang had invented.

Its theory was exactly the opposite of the "Heaven Stealing" rune's condensing principle. The "Explosive" rune used the diffusion theory. Ye Yang had tried using a normal "Explosive" rune before and it already had the power of a warrior's strike.

Now Ye Yang wanted to try and see what effect the "Explosive" rune would have when it was inscribed on the weapon.

After two days of hard work, Ye Yang finally carved the "Explosive" rune onto more than ten weapons.

Ye Yang took the finished product, left the academy and entered the mountain. He casually walked to a mountain and saw a cave.

Ye Yang shot a sword towards the cave from great distances. The instant it entered the cave, Ye Yang used the soul power to trigger the "Explosive" rune.

Bang.

Half of the mountain had been blown away by the explosion, and rocks and sand were flying everywhere.

Ye Yang could not help but be shocked. Such astonishing power. Even the martial general wouldn’t be able to tolerate the explosion.

Ye Yang's face was filled with joy, this was his ace in the hole. He did not expect that after coming to this world, he would actually invent TNT.

If ordinary hundred refined weapons were this powerful, then what kind of effect would the treasure weapon have when exploded?

After looking through the ring for a while, Ye Yang only had two treasure weapons left, one of them was his own black iron spear.

As for the other, it was a bright silver spear, which Ye Yang cherished the most. He would find a suitable rune to inscribe on it and it would definitely become his powerful support.

And since the black iron spear had been with him for such a long time and helped him for many times, he couldn't bear to part with it. He shook his head and thought that he could talk it about later when he was capable of doing so.

When Ye Yang returned to the academy, at the center of the yard stood a tall stone tablet with fifty names neatly engraved on it.

Coming in front of the Trembling Feather Ranking, he took a quick glance at it and realized that Ye Yuhan, Ye Qingxuan and Zhao Xuefeng from the Eight Desolations City were all on the list.

Ye Yuhan was ranked seventh, Ye Qingxuan was ranked thirty-two, and Zhao Xuefeng, who was only a warrior at the Eighth Empyrean, was actually ranked twenty-seven. He must have completely understood the elementary form of the blade intent.

He took a look and saw that the first place was Lan Wenjun, second was Mu Tianfan, and Wu Youruo was ranked third. Ye Yang also found that Mu Bai was at the thirteenth place.

He did not expect that he had actually reached the peak of the Martial Master, which was beyond Ye Yang's expectations.

He saw that Lan Caidie was ranked seventeenth and Guan Yanxue was at the twenty-first place.

However, after looking through it again, he did not see any other familiar names. He shook his head. It seemed that the competition for the Trembling Feather Ranking was quite fierce.

Ye Yang came to the arena, he realized that there were changes there. At the side of the arena, there were a total of fifty chairs.

There were numbers on these chairs that ranged from one to fifty.

Ye Yang learned that there were eight hours of competition every day. The students could challenge the students on the chairs based on their own strength, and if they won, they could take over their opponent's position.

Eight days had passed, and everyone had already figured out the strength of the students on the list. Basically, no one challenged the top 20 rankings.

When Ye Yang arrived, Meng Fei, who had just broken through to martial master realm, was in the middle of challenging the forty-ninth position. Unfortunately, his strength was weaker than his opponent's, and he was kicked off the arena in a sorry state.

Seeing that Ye Yang had arrived, he immediately complained to Ye Yang with a crying face, "Boss, you're finally here. I have been bullied badly, you have to help me restore my honor!"

Ye Yang said with a cold face, "Restore your honor by yourself if you have any ideas. I won't help you."

"You can’t treat me like this, boss, I'm your younger brother. If I were bullied, you would lose face as well. As the saying goes, even if you want to hit a dog, you still have to take into account its master," Meng Fei said with infinite grievance.

Ye Yang really wanted to kick him twice. But there were too many people here, so it would be inconvenient for him to do anything.

Meng Fei was a good person but he angered others in two ways. For one thing, he was too lazy. Otherwise, with his talent, he would definitely not be worse than anyone else.

However, it was a pity that he was either thinking about playing tricks on others or trying to pick up hot chicks. He was least interested in cultivation.

For another, he was too chatty without scruple. He often said whatever he wanted to say without thinking at all.

"Shut up! If you keep talking, I'll throw you on the stage to challenge Lan Caidie," Ye Yang said as he gritted his teeth.

Meng Fei shuddered and immediately shut his mouth.

Ye Yang walked towards the arena. His appearance caused the entire audience to cry out in alarm.

"Look, the Demon King who has disappeared for a long time returns!"

"I wonder who he'll challenge?"

"However, based on his current aura, he's only at the peak of the warrior. He'll probably pick the lower-ranked ones."

"What do you know? Back then, Ye Yang had just entered the warrior realm and killed Zhao Zilong, a Martial Master at the Third Empyrean. How could you possibly judge Ye Yang's strength?" A fan of Ye Yang said.

After Ye Yang went up on stage, a few of the people who were familiar with him greeted him, and Ye Yang nodded slightly towards them.

After running down the seats, in the end, his eyes landed on the fifteenth seat because he saw clearly that it was a disciple from the Nan Li City.

"You. Come out!"

Following Ye Yang's shout, the disciple could only bite the bullet and go up on stage, pulling a fighting stance towards Ye Yang from far off.

The moment the referee said "Start!"...

Ye Yang immediately rushed to the disciple and punched him. The disciple from the Nan Li City immediately let out a sigh, and blocked the punch with all his strength.

However, the difference in strength between them was too great. The disciple was kicked off the arena by one move.

"With just one move, he was able to easily knock a martial master at the Ninth Empyrean out of the arena. He is truly worthy of being my hero!"

"The Demon King really lives up to his reputation!"

"I wonder what ranking he would get if he were to use his full strength?"

Ye Yang walked to the fifteenth seat and made a gesture towards Lan Caidie, but Lan Caidie rolled her eyes at him.

Just as Ye Yang sat down, Lan Wenjun walked towards him in front of everyone's extremely astonished gazes.

Ye Yang was also stunned, but he still cupped his fists and laughed: "Brother Wen Jun, long time no see!"

"Hehe, long time no see, let's find a quiet place and talk. After all, no one will challenge your position." Lan Wenjun laughed.

"Alright!"

When they left their seats, the referee glanced over at them without saying anything. After all, no one dared to challenge this position, so he pretended not to notice them.

When they arrived at the last row, Lan Wenjun said in a somewhat serious tone, "Presumably, Brother Ye already knows about the matters regarding the Trembling Feather Secret Realm. As a brother, I want to ask for your help.”

"Brother Wen Jun, please speak. As long as it is something Ye Yang can do, I will not refuse."

"I hope Brother Ye can take care of my sister in the Trembling Feather Secret Real when you meet her," Lan Wenjun said.

Ye Yang was startled. Given their relationship, even if Lan Wenjun didn't mention it, Ye Yang would definitely take care of Lan Caidie.

Since Lan Wenjun had solemnly brought it up, there must be another reason. "Could it be that there's something fishy about the Trembling Feather Secret Realm?"

"I haven’t found any dirty tricks yet, but there will be a lot of enemies inside. There will be no restrictions on entering, and it's normal for people to murder for property." Lan Wenjun said with a serious face.

"Originally, I did not approve of Xiao Die entering here, but she did not listen to me at all. After entering the secret realm, everyone would be sent to different places at random. Not only are there tyrannical demonic beasts inside, there are also many traps. Every time the Trembling Feather Secret Realm was activated before, more than half of the people who came would die here. "

This was the first time Ye Yang had heard of this, and couldn't help but be worried for Ye Qingxuan. However, if he asked Ye Qingxuan to give up this chance, she would regret for her entire life. Ye Yang finally understood Lan Wenjun’s care and thought.

"Set your heart at rest, Brother Wen Jun. As long as I meet Xiao Die, I will definitely not let her be harmed," Ye Yang nodded.

"Alright, with what you just said, I'm relieved." Lan Wenjun heaved a sigh of relief after hearing Ye Yang's reply. "Here is a simple map of the secret realm. It roughly records some of the dangerous locations in the secret realm. You can take a look when you go back. It should be of some help to you."

Ye Yang took the scroll. "Thank you very much, Brother Wen Jun."

In the next two days, the competition was indeed the most intense. However, all of them were competing for the last ten spots.

The position of the 50th place, in particular, had to be changed several times a day. However, what surprised Ye Yang the most was that Feng Qinger with silver hair could actually win the forty-eighth place given that her cultivation was only at the Warrior at the Eighth Empyrean.

Feng Qinger had actually relied on her elegant movements and her unpredictable archery skills, to defeat three martial masters in the arena that was extremely disadvantageous to her. After the final bell chimed, she firmly defended her position.

Feng Qinger happily smiled at Ye Yang, which instantly made countless male students jealous.

"Oh my god, since when did our academy have a silver-haired goddess? I am such a failure for not knowing her."

"Furthermore, by the looks of it, she seems to be very familiar with the Demon King. Alas, the Demon King is also the invincible opponent for all men. It's fated that the beauties no longer have anything to do with us!"

Just as everybody was talking about the matter, Bai Yunzi's voice resonated throughout the entire audience. "The top fifty will gather tomorrow morning and head to the Trembling Feather Secret Realm."