Chapter 281: He Mengxi’s Goal, The Sky Sun Fruit!

“There’s only an hour left… I should leave.”

It was an hour before the final deadline, but Zhou Donghuang had yet to meet either He Mengxi or Da Zhuang. It immediately dawned on him that there was nearly no possibility of him meeting the two of them in the following hour.

Perhaps the two of them had already gone out by now.

At the thought, he had no intention of continuing to stay here.

Whoosh!

In a flash, Zhou Donghuang’s body seemed to turn into lightning that rapidly flew out of the Guiyao planet. In the blink of an eye, he burst out of the formation.

Just then, with all eyes centered on him, he was segregated to another area.

“Those who just came out, stand over here… Then, report your name and the sect you’re from. Hand over the space ring for our safekeeping.”

All the people who had exited had to hand in the space ring; that was where they stored their beast heads.

Before setting off, the Lightning Sword Sect Leader had distributed one space ring to 40 disciples each, including Zhou Donghuang. All of them were space rings that had to receive blood in order to recognize their owners.

Zhou Donghuang and the others were now handing in their space rings collectively. The people who had taken their space rings were also unable to open the space rings for the time being.

“Zhou Donghuang, disciple of the Lightning Sword Sect.”

Zhou Donghuang stood together with the other people. A middle-aged man was collecting their space rings and recording their information. When it was his turn, the crowd of people around him immediately paid full attention to him the moment he opened his mouth.

“He’s Zhou Donghuang?”

In the Alliance, there was a total of 52 sects. Among the Alliance disciples of various sects who had come here to participate in the Alliance Hunt, other than the disciples from the four sects—the Lightning Sword Sect, the Tiansong Sect, the Yunyue Sect and the Jihan Sect—the disciples from the remaining sects did not know who Zhou Donghuang was.

It was precisely because of this that Zhou Donghuang’s appearance earlier did not cause any commotion.

Now, when they heard him report his name and sect, the gazes of everyone around him immediately landed on him collectively. This even included the person in charge of registering him.

“He looks so young… This Zhou Donghuang is about 26 years old now, right?”

“Yes. Two years ago, he became famous throughout the major sects of the Alliance. I think his name even spread throughout the two Transcendental Forces in our Hengliu galaxy… a 24-year-old mid Dharma adept who has grasped Dharma Power Control.

“Two years have now passed. He must be even more powerful now. I’m afraid that no one can match up to him in the Hengliu galaxy among those beneath the late Dharma adepts.”

…

The people around him whispered amongst themselves.

However, in this group of more than ten people, there was one person who knew Zhou Donghuang. He was a Yunyue Sect disciple. When he heard the person beside him say that it was difficult for Zhou Donghuang to find his match among those beneath the late Dharma stage, he could not help but interrupt immediately, “You guys must not know this yet. Zhou Donghuang has already entered the late Dharma stage.”

The moment these words left his mouth, it naturally created a significant stir.

Zhou Donghuang was publicly acknowledged to be a martial prodigy that came by once in a hundred years. Had he already entered the late Dharma stage after merely two years?

“This speed of practice… is way too unbelievable, isn’t it?”

“It was shocking enough that he entered the mid Dharma stage at the age of 24… At 26, he has entered the late Dharma stage?”

…

It was not only the Alliance disciples from various sects present who were shocked. Even the top-level figures of the various sects in charge of collecting space rings from the sect disciples were shocked. All of them looked at Zhou Donghuang with stunned expressions.

As for the Yunyue Sect disciple, he seemed to be very satisfied with the situation. He dropped an explosive bomb once again.

“One other thing. You guys may not know yet… the top dog of the Tiansong Sect’s younger generation, a late Dharma adept who has already grasped Dharma-body integration, Mo Yitian, previously had a friendly match with Zhou Donghuang the day before this Alliance Hunt.”

After successfully gaining everyone’s attention, he went on to say, “Zhou Donghuang gave Mo Yitian the benefit of making three moves. But Mo Yitian did not manage to hurt Zhou Donghuang at all… After the three moves, Zhou Donghuang defeated Mo Yitian in one move!”

Gasp!

…

It was no surprise at all that the words of the Yunyue Sect disciple caused the people present to suck in cold air one after another. When the crowd looked at Zhou Donghuang again, the shock on their faces intensified.

They knew who Mo Yitian was. He was the top man in the younger generation of the Tiansong Sect. He was very well-known among all the sects in the Alliance.

However, how could a person like him have suffered utter defeat at the hands of the Lightning Sword Sect disciple, Zhou Donghuang?

“I’m probably allowed to leave now, right?” Zhou Donghuang asked under the dumbstruck gazes of the crowd. He was looking at the middle-aged man in front of him who had recorded his name and sect and who had collected his space ring.

“Huh? Yes… yes.”

The middle-aged man hastily extricated himself from his state of shock and regained his bearings and frantically nodded. Zhou Donghuang then left.

The moment Zhou Donghuang left, the crowd of people immediately began to see him off with their eyes.

“I really didn’t expect that Mo Yitian had previously been utterly defeated by him… the news of his death spread just 44 hours ago. He’s truly unlucky. Before arriving at the Guiyao planet, he had been abused while he was alive. After arriving at the Guiyao planet, he was directly obliterated,” one of the top-level figures of a sect shook his head and spoke. He was responsible for recording the names of the people exiting and collecting their space rings.

The moment the words left his mouth, the pupils of a group of Alliance disciples who had just came out, shrank rapidly. “Mo Yitian… is dead?”

“Good gracious! Mo Yitian was a late Dharma adept. What’s more, he had grasped Dharma-body Integration. With the use of ultimate spirit weapons, killing ultimate Dharma beasts was no feat for him… But he actually died inside?”

“Could he have been ambushed and killed by a few ultimate Dharma beasts?”

“Even Mo Yitian died inside. Shouldn’t I be kneeling down and kowtowing to thank Heaven for being merciful and letting me come out alive?”

…

“Junior Brother Donghuang is back!”

After catching sight of Yu Yucheng in the distance, Zhou Donghuang approached him. At the moment, most of the Lightning Sword Sect disciples had already returned. When the Lightning Sword Sect saw him, their eyes lit up collectively.

As expected, Zhou Donghuang’s return attracted the attention of everyone in the Lightning Sword Sect.

Just as Zhou Donghuang had guessed, all of them had left in advance, including He Mengxi and Da Zhuang.

“Sect Leader.”

After joining the Lightning Sword Sect disciples, Zhou Donghuang first greeted Yu Yucheng.

Yu Yucheng looked at him with a smile. “Zhou Donghuang, your results this time were probably quite good, right?”

“You can say it’s not bad.”

Zhou Donghuang nodded. His expression was calm and completely neutral.

Seeing Zhou Donghuang’s expression, Yu Yucheng’s heart jolted. He silently guessed, “Could it be… that Zhou Donghuang had bad luck inside and encountered few ultimate Dharma beasts?”

Admittedly, one’s ability was important in the Alliance Hunt. But luck was also crucial.

After passing by Yu Yucheng, Zhou Donghuang then greeted the Autumn Valley Head, He Jin. After that, he nodded his head at the other three Valley Heads who were looking at him before going off to find He Mengxi and Da Zhuang.

“Little Junior Brother, why did you come out so late? Was your luck that bad?” He Mengxi subconsciously thought this.

She felt that if he had good luck, one more day or one less day would not make much of a difference to the span of three months.

Given the ability of her little junior brother, if not for his bad luck, there was no way he would have waited until now to leave.

After hearing Zhou Donghuang say “not bad,” even the head of the Lightning Sword Sect, Yu Yucheng, had guessed that Zhou Donghuang’s luck had been bad and that he had killed very few ultimate Dharma State beasts. A large part of the reason why was because Zhou Donghuang had left so late.

Hearing He Mengxi’s words, Zhou Donghuang smiled bitterly. “It was all because I wanted to wait and see if I could meet you and Da Zhuang on the very last day. But I didn’t expect you guys to leave first.”

“To see if you could meet us?”

He Mengxi was confused.

“I also killed many mid Dharma beasts by accident. I kept their heads and wanted to give them to you… but I didn’t expect you guys to leave before me,” Zhou Donghuang said.

Unexpectedly, after hearing Zhou Donghuang’s words, He Mengxi said with nonchalance written all over her face, “Aren’t they just mid Dharma beast heads? That’s nothing. One head can only accumulate ten points anyway. Only ten heads can match up to one late Dharma beast head.”

“Judging from Third Senior Sister’s words, your results were quite good this time.”

Zhou Donghuang smiled and asked, “Third Senior Sister, how many beasts did you guys kill this time?”

“Allow us to keep that a secret from you.”

He Mengxi chuckled and continued, “Da Zhuang and I have agreed to concentrate all our spoils on me alone. It probably won’t be an issue for me to attain first place… When that happens, we’ll definitely be able to get the Sky Sun Fruit that you want.”

He Mengxi’s words caused Zhou Donghuang’s heart to tremble. He could not help but feel a bit touched.

“You guys didn’t have to do that.”

Zhou Donghuang smiled bitterly and shook his head. “Frankly, my results were not bad, either.”

He knew that Da Zhuang definitely would not get any points this time. Now that he had given all his spoils to He Mengxi and they had handed over their space rings, it was definitely impossible for them to re-allocate their spoils even if they wanted to.

“Da Zhuang and I often went our separate ways to search for beasts and hunt them down. We had fairly good luck too.”

He Mengxi smiled and said, “Your results alone definitely can’t compare to us two. After gathering our spoils together, unless someone has particularly good luck… There would be no doubt at all.”

At the Alliance Hunt, everyone wanted to rank as high as possible on the scoreboard.

So, apart from the small number of ultimate Dharma adepts, the remaining people could not possibly give someone else all their spoils even if they hunted beasts together on the Guiyao planet.

Situations like that of He Mengxi and Da Zhuang were extremely rare.

It had to be borne in mind that one’s final ranking in the Alliance Hunt was extremely important to everyone. Even if they did not obtain any rewards at the time, they could still have priority to buy some precious core drugs at the Alliance Headquarters later if their results were not too bad. Those core drugs were also limited per beast head collected.

No matter how many points a person accumulated in the Alliance Hunt, he could buy only a bottle or a pill of some precious core drugs at the Alliance Headquarters.

It was precisely because of this that even among ultimate Dharma adepts, few people would give away all their spoils.