Chapter 1275 - 19: Expansion Pack [Winter Is Coming]

Among the crowd, only Wang Luqiu never thought about the position of Lingyun Saint Master from start to finish.

It’s because the internal competition within the Wang Family is too fierce, with all sorts of abnormalities and prodigies emerging endlessly.

Ever since she, Wang Luqiu, joined the Academy, she participated in numerous exchange activities between various peaks and branches, as well as exchanges between Longzuo Academy and other academies, where she consistently performed remarkably, occasionally bringing home first place.

A significant part of her reputation within the Academy and Saint Land was earned through these achievements.

Through relentless effort, she became the senior sister of the current generation of the Glazed Mingwang Hall branch.

Outsiders only see her as an infinitely charismatic figure, even the newly inducted core disciples in the Glazed Mingwang Hall often gaze at her with admiration and reverence, but she knows well enough that such achievements are nothing within the Wang Family.

With those few abnormalities around, no matter how confident she felt that she could eventually become an Empress of her domain, she considered it more prudent to find another path.

Especially with this Struggle for the Saint Son in the background, and her family’s fourth member stirring up trouble behind the scenes.

What kind of person is the fourth member?

That is the ancestor of abnormalities. Haha~ Within the family, when it comes to being abnormal, the fourth member surely ranks in the top three.

In comparison, what could she, a seemingly unremarkable future Empress, be worth?

As Wang Luqiu was filled with emotion, on the other side, the proud expression of the current Saint Master Jiang Zhencang had been replaced entirely by bewilderment and shock.

The current four Unparalleled Celestial Prides?

This is too outrageous. Those in the know realize this is a struggle for the Lingxu Treasure Manual, while those who don’t might mistake it for the legendary Immortal Seed contest~

Jiang Zhencang rarely felt a bit bewildered and lost, the initial certainty in his heart instantly dropped from ten percent to two percent.

After all, there’s still Wang Liyao hidden even deeper.

Having reached the bloodline level of Innate Spiritual Body (Unparalleled Celestial Pride), every small step forward in talent creates a huge advantage.

That’s because at the Unparalleled Celestial Pride level, once one inherits the Treasure Manual, it’s impossible to merely stop at the Early-stage Lingxu Realm. Otherwise, it’d be a waste of such phenomenal talent.

And for a country or Saint Land to nurture someone to the Early-stage Lingxu Realm already requires a colossal amount of resources. If one wishes to advance from the Early-stage to Middle-stage, and even Late-stage, the resources required become extremely daunting.

Under such circumstances, each small increment in bloodline talent means a substantial saving in resources or the ability to progress faster and further.

"Yingxuan, Lici, Lvwei, Yaoyao, your talents astound me."

Artifact Spirit Lingyun’s gaze swept over the faces of the four unparalleled candidates, swallowing saliva, feeling somewhat reluctant in heart.

Really wanting to embrace every single one of them~ But inheritance treasures always match one person to one slot, even if she wanted to take more, she couldn’t~

Ultimately, Lingyun’s gaze still fell on Wang Liyao: "The Treasure Manual favors those with superior bloodlines! Yaoyao’s bloodline talent is the highest, according to the Struggle for the Saint Son’s standards, first gets one hundred bloodline points."

"Yingxuan, Lici, Lvwei all being Unparalleled Celestial Prides, each gets eighty bloodline points."

After speaking, Lingyun looked at the other three and gently comforted them: "Don’t be discouraged, the gap is just twenty points, but the following assessments will cover leadership, martial power, charm, wisdom, and opportunity, each item gets full twenty points, you still have the chance to catch up."

"Is the gap really that big?" Master Yunyang protested, "The remaining five items only add up to one hundred points? Doesn’t that mean Wang Liyao scores a hundred-point item out of thin air?"

"What’s strange about that?" Celestial River Zhenren suddenly became proud, "At the unparalleled level, each small step up in bloodline talent is breaking limits. Wang Yaoyao’s highest bloodline, of course, gets a lead advantage."

"What about us?" Bao Bucheng from Profound Pill Pavilion and Shi Maotian from Kunyuan Mountain, two Great Celestial Pride Upper A-class, were getting anxious, they asked, "How many bloodline points can we get?"

"Twenty points in advance, no more." Treasure Manual Lingyun cast a somewhat pitying glance at them.

Had it been in past terms encountering such two individuals, the final Saint Son would have been one of them, and the Treasure Manual Spirit Lingyun would have happily accepted them as new masters.

But in this term of unparalleled gathering, mere Upper A-class has completely lost its luster.

"Only twenty points? The gap is that big..." Bao Bucheng and Shi Maotian, initially brimming with confidence, suddenly felt the profound malice from the inheritance treasure manual.

Dugu Feihong, who initially exuded a solitary invincible aura, had now been so frustrated that he felt deflated, yet still braced himself to raise his hand and ask: "What about us three in Middle A-class?"

Originally, he thought with the Middle A-class talent, this round of Struggle for the Saint Son was a sure win.

The result hit him hard. He found he wasn’t even middle-average.

"Ten points." Lingyun’s attitude towards Dugu Feihong was much more indifferent, her voice reverted to the initial casual tone, "The scoring is to delineate tiers, the rules weren’t set by me. I suggest you don’t ask too much, Middle A-class rewards ten points."

This...

All True Men present were dumbstruck; Middle A-class can only get ten points, how can they compete with Wang Liyao? They need to attain full scores of one hundred points in the remaining five comprehensive qualities competitions to surpass Wang Liyao!