The competition for the champion position had finally come to an end. After Director Song Xing announced the results, everyone started to leave the hall in an orderly manner.
After this battle, the biggest winner was the Yunnan branch. They went from the last place to the eighth place. The biggest loser was naturally our Guangdong branch. We went from the eighth place to the last place.
As for the other branches, they challenged us according to their original ranking. In the end, there wasn't any difference from the initial ranking.
After everyone had left, only the members of our Guangdong branch were left in the hall. Everyone had a gloomy expression on their faces. They sat there without moving or speaking.
Especially Zhang Wenfei. His complexion was pale after being injured. Currently, his face was filled with guilt. He sat there and bit his lips. His complexion was extremely bad.
In the end, I stood up and called for everyone to leave the hall and return to our respective rooms.
After returning at night, Zhang Wenfei was still sitting in his room gloomily. He didn't say a word. He didn't even touch his chopsticks when dinner was served.
I didn't know how to console him. I just went to ask him about his injuries. I heaved a sigh of relief when I found out that he would need around ten days to recover.
His injuries would definitely affect his ability to observe the True Dragon's Vein. If it was according to his previous ranking, Zhang Wenfei definitely wouldn't be able to adjust his body's condition to its peak. Now that he was in the last place, it might be good news for him.
On the other hand, Han Wennan and Lu Zhenyang's injuries were similar to his. The two of them were among the first to enter the branch. If something happened to them while they were observing the True Dragon Vein because of their injuries, it would be a huge problem.
However, the two of them were from prestigious families. Their innate talents were extremely strong. No matter if it was their families or the Metaphysics Society, they wouldn't just watch the situation unfold. They would definitely think of a way to help them.
I comforted Zhang Wenfei, but the guilt on his face didn't dissipate. I sighed. I knew that I wouldn't be able to persuade him, so I could only go back to my bed and lie down.
Zhang Wenfei felt very guilty towards the other members of the branch. In fact, I didn't feel good either. Although he had volunteered to fight, I was the one who made the final decision.
Moreover, Lu Zhenyang had used such a method to deal with the Guangdong Metaphysics Society because I had defeated him in front of everyone.
In terms of responsibility, I was obviously more responsible than Zhang Wenfei. It was just that Zhang Wenfei had taken all the responsibility on his own initiative. The other members of the Guangdong branch didn't blame me.
The next morning, as soon as Zhang Wenfei and I woke up, we heard that the Shaanxi branch, which was ranked first, had given up their spot to the Henan branch. At this moment, the people from the Henan branch had been picked up by the Metaphysics Association. They should have gone to the True Dragon Vein.
I guessed that Han Wennan's injuries weren't light and he hadn't fully recovered yet. Thus, Zhang Kunlun was given the opportunity.
After one night of contemplation, Zhang Wenfei seemed to have accepted what had happened. In the morning, he took the initiative to talk to me. "I'm going to apologize to the other members of the Guangdong branch. Then, I'll use the next few days to talk to them about cultivation problems. If I can help them increase their realms, it will be a small compensation."
Then, he apologized to me, saying that he shouldn't have acted rashly that day.
His words made me blush with shame. I smiled wryly and said, "Both of us are responsible for this. Why are you apologizing to me?
Let's go find someone else. "
Then, we went to call the other eight members of the Guangdong branch and publicly apologized to them.
After going through this ordeal, the ten members of our branch were unprecedentedly united. Although the others were gloomy, they didn't purposely make things difficult for us. Everyone sighed and angrily cursed Lu Zhenyang from the Yunnan branch and the Beijing branch.
No one was a fool. After yesterday's incident, it was easy to see who was behind it.
Afterwards, when Zhang Wenfei expressed that he wanted to discuss cultivation issues, everyone expressed great interest. However, no one looked at Zhang Wenfei. Instead, they looked at me with shining eyes. It was obvious that they had seen my strength when I defeated Han Wennan yesterday and wanted to learn something from me.
I naturally didn't hide anything and quickly started to discuss with everyone.
At our stage, what we were most concerned about was how to increase our Dao energy and how to quickly and fully absorb the Dragon Vein's Qi.
After the others asked what they wanted to know, I was dumbfounded. It was true that I had already reached the Qi Gathering Pillar realm, but I didn't have the answers to the questions about increasing Dao energy and absorbing the Dragon Vein's Qi. This was because I used the jade bracelet to absorb the Dragon Vein's Qi to increase my Dao energy, so I didn't have any reference points.
On the contrary, Zhang Wenfei shared his experience and explained what to pay attention to when absorbing the Dragon Vein's Qi, how to absorb it as quickly as possible, and how to fully absorb it afterwards.
After listening to him, I understood that there was a lot of knowledge hidden in the details.
If it were me, I wouldn't have paid attention to these things. Only people like Zhang Wenfei, who came from a prestigious family, would have their predecessors summarize these things bit by bit and form a set of theories for future generations to learn from.
Although Zhang Wenfei's master, Zhao Dingwu, was just an ordinary Feng Shui master, his senior brothers and the martial uncles of his sect were all extraordinary Feng Shui masters. Although their sect couldn't compare to the Han family of Qinling Mountains or the Zhang family of Mount Mang, it wasn't an exaggeration to call them a prestigious family.
Unfortunately, what Zhang Wenfei said didn't have much effect on me. After all, I had reached the Qi Gathering Pillar realm, so I wouldn't be able to absorb much Dragon Vein's Qi.
So, after discussing with them for a day, I didn't go to the gathering the next day. I stayed in my room and took out the mysterious dark green bead. I held it in my hand and carefully observed it.
Just like before, I couldn't feel anything from this bead. It looked like an ordinary plastic bead, not much different from a child's toy that could be sold for one or two yuan on the street.
However, after what had happened that day, I couldn't see it that way anymore. Although the dark green energy was very small, its power was amazing. If I could master that power, even if I didn't have Zhang Wenfei's Yin Yang Yama Pen, I could still fight against Han Wennan.
Unfortunately, after studying it for a long time, I still didn't have any clues. In the end, I had no choice but to call Tong Tong out and ask her, "What is the energy inside this bead? Why can't I feel it?
And it seems to be completely different from Daoist Qi. "
Tong Tong looked at me with a puzzled face. She didn't know anything and timidly said that she could only feel the power in it, but she didn't know what it was. She also didn't know what I meant when I said it was different from Daoist Qi.
Tong Tong was a Yin soul, and the power she cultivated was different from Daoist Qi. She didn't know what Daoist Qi was.
Feeling helpless, I had to give up on studying this power. As long as I could use it, I didn't care what kind of power it was.
I held the bead with both hands and closed my eyes. Then, I began to slowly move the power in it.
What was different from yesterday was that I had moved the power to the Yin Yang Yama Pen. Today, I moved the power and absorbed it directly into my body.
Everything went smoothly. Although I could only move a small amount of that dark green energy, I could easily draw it out and absorb it into my body, gathering it in the Daoist Qi column.
It was just like the Yin-Yang fish pattern that had been dyed green yesterday. After the dark green energy gathered in the Daoist Qi column, it quickly turned into a green membrane that covered the entire column.
After I was done, I put the dark green bead aside and took out an ordinary Scorching Sun Talisman. Then, I guided the Taoist energy that was wrapped in a green film onto the Scorching Sun Talisman. Soon, the Scorching Sun Talisman exploded, and a light green flame ignited on it.
I was startled. In the past, the Burning Sun Talisman had a bright yellow flame. Now, with the addition of the dark green energy, the flame had turned into a strange color.
However, what surprised me more was that I couldn't feel the temperature rise even though there was a big flame burning in front of me.
Did the Burning Sun Talisman's flame lose its temperature because of the green energy?
If that was the case, what was the use of this Burning Sun Talisman?
I thought for a while then picked up the glass ashtray next to the bed. I wanted to use it to test the temperature of the flame.
However, as soon as the ashtray touched the light green flame, the glass ashtray exploded!
What's going on?
Glass could easily explode when the temperature difference was too high. However, the room temperature was normal, so ordinary flames couldn't have such an effect. Could it be that the temperature of the light green flame was that high?
I wasn't sure yet. I looked around and found a small iron plate on the table. I carefully put it above the flame to heat it up.
The result was even more terrifying this time. The bottom of the small metal plate that came into contact with the light green flame turned red almost instantly. Then, it softened at a speed visible to the naked eye, and a small hole appeared. Molten iron slowly flowed out of the hole.
I didn't remember the melting point of iron, but it had to be at least one thousand degrees. Ordinary flames only had a temperature of a few hundred degrees.
The power of this dark green energy was actually so terrifying!