Top-level Qi Luck: Leading My Clan to Cultivate

Not long after, the two returned to their cave abode.

In the main hall of the cave abode where guests were received, Lin Tianming and Qin Xi sat opposite each other, both with calm expressions and steady breaths.

It seemed that neither of them had expended much in the great battle they had just fought.

At that moment, Lin Tianming looked at Qin Xi, whose expression was as usual, and asked with concern, "How are you, Fairy Qin?"

Upon hearing this caring inquiry, Qin Xi's cheeks turned slightly red, and a touch of joy stirred secretly within her heart.

Yet she maintained her composure, forcibly suppressing the agitation inside, and then responded.

"Thank you for your concern, Lin. The demonic beasts weren't very strong in this battle, and with Lin's timely support, combined with Fairy Sun, our expenditure wasn't substantial," she replied.

"Hehe... that's good, that's good!"

Lin Tianming smiled and nodded, then pondered the next moves of the demonic beasts in order to make his arrangements.

The great battle had just concluded, and the Demon Beast Army had retreated once again. Considering the remaining power of the demonic beasts, breaching Yuyao City would be no small feat.

However, with the Blazing Flame Celestial Lion and the Blood Jiao unharmed, the overall strength of the demonic beasts remained formidable.

Yet, barring any surprises, the demonic beasts would not easily withdraw, nor would they launch an immediate attack.

Under such circumstances, the Human Cultivators also had a brief period to rest and reorganize.

As for the duration, it might be similar to the last time, perhaps ten days to half a month in the short term, or even two to three months in the long term.

No matter how long it was, he had to seize the time for cultivation, to improve his strength as much as possible in order to survive in the great battle and even compete for a spot in the Tianfeng Secret Realm.

With these thoughts in mind, he then said to Qin Xi, "Fairy Qin."

"There should be a period of calm coming up. Once the new Demon Hunter Leaderboard is out, I intend to go into closed-door cultivation for a while. If Fairy Qin has nothing urgent, you might also seize this time for cultivation," he suggested.

Upon hearing his words, Qin Xi nodded. She had also come to a similar conclusion to what Lin Tianming had said.

Besides, she would have made this plan and arrangement herself even if he hadn't mentioned it.

Regaining her composure, Qin Xi replied with a smile, "As it happens, I have planned the same, but for the matter with Li, I'll have to trouble you to speak to him, Lin!"

"Rest assured, Fairy Qin, I will take care of it!" Lin Tianming replied, then stood up, gave her a bow with his fists clasped, and headed to his cultivation room.

Watching Lin Tianming stand up and leave, Qin Xi's bright eyes flashed momentarily before she too walked towards her cultivation room.

Two days later, on the plaza in front of Zhenyang Hall.

By this time, a large number of cultivators had gathered, including both loose cultivators and members of various families and sects. The scene was bustling with small groups here and there engaged in lively discussions.

Lin Tianming blended into the crowd, his sharp eyes fixed on the leaderboard in front of him, a slight smile flickering across his face.

Today was the day the results of the second great battle were unveiled. Although he had a rough idea of the points he had earned for the demonic beasts he killed,

he had no way of predicting other people's results. Some might fall in rank, or others might surpass them—it was all possible.

With potential changes like these, only the leaderboard could provide the most accurate information.

So, early in the morning, he had left the cave abode to check the Demon Hunter Leaderboard.

Looking over the leaderboard, the names were still familiar, with the majority of rankings unchanged and only the points continually rising.

However, there was still a small portion of unfamiliar names that had entered the top fifty, placed in relatively lower positions.

As he expected, the top five positions were still occupied by the genius cultivators, with no change in their rankings.

Long Qingshui was in the first place with one thousand and sixty points, the only cultivator among all whose points had surpassed a thousand, clearly in a league of his own.

Jun Buhui and Jiang Yuyao followed closely behind with 970 and 930 points, respectively.

Further down, among people familiar to him, Zheng Xiao's rank fell from sixth to seventh, while Li Xiuyuan maintained his eighth-place ranking.

Other cultivators who ranked higher than him in the first round of scoring saw varied changes: Deng Guanghua fell one spot to twelfth, Yang Tongshun remained at thirteenth, and Hu Yuan continued to hold the fourteenth place.

As for himself, in this round of the great battle, he killed a Second Order Late-Stage Bloodthirsty Jiao and subdued another; later, he supported Li Xiuyuan and Hu Yuan, and together they killed two more Second Order Late-Stage Demonic Beasts.

Therefore, his points should have increased by at least two hundred, very likely approaching or even surpassing seven hundred points.

As expected, after this battle, his points reached seven hundred and fifty, and his ranking rose one place to fifteenth on the overall leaderboard, only twenty points behind Hu Yuan in fourteenth place.

Continuing the comparison upwards, he was only fifty points behind Yang Tongshun, who was ranked higher.

Above him, the point difference between the tenth and fifteenth positions was small, spanning only over a hundred points; killing one or two more Second Order Mid to Late Demonic Beasts could greatly boost one's ranking.

Clearly, the duration of this second round of the great battle wasn't long, due to the strategy changes of the Demon Beast Army, plus the surviving Second Order Demonic Beasts from their ranks were becoming stronger.

Therefore, it became even more strenuous for Foundation Establishment Cultivators to kill them, leading to a significant difference in point increase compared to the first round.

Under such circumstances, it was hard for large-scale changes in the high rankings on the leaderboard to occur – at most, a swap between one or two ranks.

Nevertheless, Lin Tianming's ranking and points were still quite considerable.

In the next great battle, if he maintained this momentum and state, it was very possible he could surpass Deng Guanghua and a few others ahead of him, thus breaking into the top ten of the overall leaderboard.

Besides the cultivators from the Zhenyang Sect, among the many Loose Cultivators and those with family sect backgrounds, only Zheng Xiao, who ranked higher, led by a considerable margin in points, making it difficult to catch up with him in the short term.

However, there were three spots for the Tianfeng Secret Realm allocated to them, and as long as some steady progress was made in accumulating points and displacing a few people ahead, securing an entrance spot into the secret realm wasn't an extremely difficult task.

Thinking of these things, Lin Tianming felt excited, and even looked forward with some anticipation to the upcoming great battle.

After calming himself down, he glanced at the crowd that was engaged in various discussions, exchanged pleasantries with a few Cultivators he knew, and then left the square, walking towards Li Xiuyuan's cave dwelling.

A short while passed.

Inside Li Xiuyuan's cave dwelling, Lin Tianming sat opposite Li Xiuyuan; the two sipped tea and chatted casually.

At that moment, Li Xiuyuan picked up his teacup, invited Lin Tianming to taste it, and joked with a smile.

"Lin, congratulations, your ranking on the overall leaderboard has advanced even further!"

Upon hearing this, Lin Tianming took a light sip of his tea and then responded with a smile.

"Heh..."

"It's all thanks to Li's help. When assigning tasks, you handed over some lesser demonic beasts for me to deal with and generously allocated points for the assistance provided. Without that, advancing further wouldn't have been so easy!"

His honesty was evident; he himself had speculated about his score before looking at the leaderboard.

By his estimates, an increase of two hundred and fifty points in the second round would already be decent.

Yet, after the post-battle point distribution, his score went up by a hefty two hundred and eighty points, thirty more than expected.

Though those thirty points might not seem like much, equivalent to just one or two Second Order Demonic Beasts, after three rounds, it almost amounted to the score of a Second Order Late beast.

In addition, even though thirty points seemed negligible, the difference between almost every rank on the Demon Hunter Leaderboard was merely thirty to fifty points.

For some, just a ten-point difference meant being two ranks apart.

As time went on and the Demonic Beasts grew stronger, gathering points became more challenging, and a surplus of one hundred and eighty points could lead to very different outcomes.

In such a situation,

even the slightest subconscious bias from Li Xiuyuan could have a massive impact on his subordinates.