Chapter 2707 - 552:
On the vast platform atop Immortal Gathering Peak, everything was already in chaos. One Golden Immortal Realm disciple after another was madly snatching at those bamboo tokens, but because they kept attacking and interfering with each other, for the moment no one could actually get their hands on a token.
On the peaks to either side, everyone watched these disciples fighting over the bamboo tokens and began speculating one after another.
"What do you all think the Hundred Peaks Sect means by doing this?"
"This should be Sect Leader Cao’s arrangement, right? Look, some people have already been injured because of the scramble. If not for experts rescuing them, they’d probably be dead by now.
I think Sect Leader Cao is telling them that everything must be done within one’s limits. If this were a real battlefield right now, they’d already be dead."
Beside him, an elderly man wearing a blue long robe with a stern face slightly nodded and said, "Indeed so. But perhaps Chief Cao has other intentions as well—such as educating those other cultivators.
These are all people of their own clan, yet just for the sake of those bamboo tokens, they’re all striking so viciously.
If they were on an actual battlefield, would they also strike at their own clansmen like this?"
"Maybe there’s another meaning. Look, none of them have gotten a bamboo token yet. Why is that? Because everything is too chaotic, each is fighting his own battle. What if they could cooperate with one another?"
"Wanting them to cooperate is difficult. After all, they come from countless different Great Teachings. If disciples of the same Great Teaching try to cooperate, disciples of the other Great Teachings will just interfere."
"Chief Cao, this distribution of bamboo tokens is truly full of subtlety."
Cao Zhen listened to their comments, and the corner of his mouth twitched slightly. He had never thought that deeply about it; he simply wanted to separate out their strength a bit to prevent the stronger ones from running into each other too early, that was all.
How did it end up with so many interpretations?
Sure enough, once a person reaches a certain position, any random sentence he says will immediately be given countless explanations by others.
Just like those reading comprehension questions back when he was in school; if the original author were brought in, the author would probably be completely baffled.
Though the battlefield was chaotic, under the mutual snatching and attacks, some bamboo tokens still descended and drew close to the crowd.
Suddenly, a handsome cultivator in white robes let the aura in his body erupt in an instant. A vast, boundless pressure surged out in all directions. At the same time, his figure shot straight into the sky, and in a flash he seized a black bamboo token and then dropped back down.
"Black?"
"He’s not fighting for a colorful bamboo sign, why’d he grab a black bamboo token?"
For a moment, all the Golden Core Stage cultivators fighting over the tokens froze. Many of them knew this person; he absolutely had the qualifications to compete for a colorful bamboo sign.
Not only those currently scrambling below—on the high platform, several high-level figures from the Great Teachings also showed looks of puzzlement.
"This... that’s Fang Shengqing of the Return to Heaven Sect, right? He should be someone at the Golden Core Period Limit. Why did he go and grab a black bamboo token?"
"This little fellow is quite interesting. Isn’t he afraid of running into another expert?"
After Fang Shengqing seized a token, he quickly retreated toward the rear, falling back as he shouted loudly, "You guys can slowly keep fighting over those colorful bamboo signs. There are too many people here, it’s too chaotic. I’ll just take a black bamboo token.
As for whoever gets a colorful bamboo sign and runs into me, well, that’ll just be his bad luck."
His voice was filled with an extreme confidence.
He was someone at the Golden Core Period Limit—so what if he took a black bamboo token?
Never mind a black token; even if he took the lowest-grade token, so what!
Arrogant!
All around, the various Heavenly Prides heard this arrogant declaration and flew into a rage. In an instant, streams of terrifying aura surged forth; beams of divine skill light clearly more dazzling than the surrounding radiance shot out, and figures streaked through the air.
In the void, many of the colorful bamboo signs were directly taken by these Heavenly Prides. They hadn’t made their moves at the very start; they’d only been waiting for the right moment.
But that guy was simply too arrogant, actually looking down on them like this, even saying that whoever ran into him would be unlucky. That was plainly looking down on everyone present.
He wasn’t the only one at the Golden Core Period Limit.
Xingchen Zi blended into the crowd, and while everyone was scrambling, a star appeared beneath his feet. His whole person turned into something like a meteor, streaking across the void, and in an instant he snatched up a colorful bamboo sign and landed on the ground.
He possessed the Starry Divine Physique, and his master’s movement technique was cultivated based on the stars. Naturally, he had also learned this entire set of movement technique from his master.
As the colorful bamboo signs grew fewer and fewer, more people turned their gaze to the black or white bamboo tokens.
Some people, with no other choice, could only fight for the lower-grade tokens.
Those who obtained bamboo tokens naturally retreated to the rear. The ones left behind grew fewer and their cultivation bases weaker, and the fighting became far less chaotic.
At last, after two hours, everyone had obtained a bamboo token.
Nie Jie glanced toward Cao Zhen, and only after seeing Cao Zhen nod did he speak: "There are numbers written on your bamboo tokens.
In a bit, arenas will be set up here. Each arena will have a number, for a total of one hundred arenas. In an hour, find the arena corresponding to your number and just step directly onto it. Those numbered after one hundred will wait—when there are free arenas, you’ll be allowed to go up."