Chapter 94 – Ascension Token (2/2)

Lin Shan helped Yang Ye up and said, “If you want to rescue your mother, then you must change the rule set by the Founding Ancestor of Flower Palace. In order to change this rule, you need absolute strength. Yes, absolute strength. So long as you possess absolute strength, then not to mention changing the rules of Flower Palace, it wouldn’t be a problem even if you wanted to annihilate Flower Palace. But possessing absolute strength is easier to be said than done! In the last 10,000 years, only a few people in the southern territory have accomplished that!”

“What about the second?”

“As for the second….” Lin Shan said slowly, “The second is to possess the Ascension Token. You’ve probably heard of the Ascension Rankings. The Ascension Rankings is held jointly by the Grand Qin Empire and the six great powers. Besides being a compet.i.tion for resources, there’s also another reason for this compet.i.tion, and it’s to foster geniuses. As for why the six great powers and the Grand Qin Empire want to foster geniuses, you’ll naturally find out in the future. For the sake of making all the geniuses in the southern territory to partic.i.p.ate in the Ascension Rankings, every single sect would provide a large amount of extremely tempting prizes, and the Ascension Token is one such prize. The holder of the Ascension Token can ask the various powers of the southern territory to do something for the holder. Of course, it couldn’t be too excessive.”

“I can ask the Flower Palace to let my mother go if I possess the Ascension Token?” Yang Ye spoke with slight excitement.

Lin Shan shook his head slowly and said, “No. But you can ask them to lighten your mother’s punishment and buy time for yourself. After all, even a Spirit Realm expert won’t be able to last long at the bottom of Pa.s.sionless Cliff.”

After a long time, Yang Ye took a deep breath and said, “How do I obtain the Ascension Token?”

Lin Shan looked at Yang Ye and said in a low voice, “Obtain the first in the Ascension Rankings!”

“The first?” Yang Ye’s eyes narrowed as he muttered.

Lin Shan said in a low voice, “Kid, don’t think that it’s easy because it isn’t easy at all. If you hadn’t comprehended Sword Intent, then even if you possessed an extraordinary natural talent and possessed gold element Profound Energy, it would still be extremely difficult for you to ascend into the top 50 of the Ascension Rankings. Now that you’ve comprehended Sword Intent, ascending into the top 30 is probably not a problem for you. However, I’m not trying to dampen your spirits but obtaining the first with your current strength is impossible! After all, all those geniuses in the top 100 of the Ascension Rankings are capable of surmounting their cultivation to do battle.”

Yang Ye nodded lightly. He naturally knew how difficult it was to ascend the Ascension Rankings. Not to mention anything else, Just the Origin School’s Yuan Ye that Su Qings.h.i.+ mentioned that day was an extremely terrifying existence capable of going against a King Realm expert while at the First Heaven Realm. Moreover, Yuan Ye was only ranked at the 14th position in the Outer Court Rankings of the Origin School. Since the 14th was already so formidable, then what sort of terrifying existences were the others ranked above him?

Moreover, what about the geniuses from the other three colossi like the Grand Qin Empire and the two palaces? How many monstrous geniuses did they possess? There were a few billions of people that populated the southern territory, so how many monstrous geniuses would there be? Yang Ye was extremely confident, yet he wasn’t conceited, and he would never think that he was invincible just because he could surmount a realm and instantly annihilate a First Heaven Realm expert.

A true First Heaven Realm expert that hadn’t relied on any external forces to advance in cultivation was extremely terrifying, just like those First Heaven Realm experts in the Sword Servant PaG.o.da. Yang Ye’s strength had improved greatly, but Yang Ye was unable to instantly annihilate the Sword Servants at the First Heaven Realm just as he’d done to Liu Qingyu. Moreover, he didn’t dare say for sure if there were no First Heaven Realm experts within the southern territory that were more formidable than that Sword Servant. After all, the southern territory was too huge, and there were too many monstrous geniuses.

With the First Heaven Realm Sword Servant and King Rank Darkbeast from within the Sword Servant PaG.o.da as his benchmark, Yang Ye was extremely clearly aware of his true strength.

But so what about that? It’s very difficult indeed for me to seize the first position with my current strength, but don’t I still have another half a year of time? This half a year of time is my opportunity to turn the situation around!When he thought up to here, Yang Ye looked at Lin Shan and said, “Master, I want to temper myself in the Grand Myriad Mountains!”

If he wanted to improve his strength even more quickly, then cultivating diligently indoors wouldn’t do. He had to undergo even more actual combat and even more life and death battles!

“Are you sure?”

Yang Ye nodded. No matter if it was for the sake of Su Qings.h.i.+ or his mother, he had to partic.i.p.ate in the Ascension Rankings. But the position he required now was countless times more difficult than before.

Lin Shan nodded lightly, and then he flipped his left hand, causing 10 talismans to appear on his palm. He said, “There are three low-grade high-rank Lightning Strike Talismans. If you encounter an expert you can’t defeat, then toss these three Lightning Strike Talismans at that person. These three high-rank Lightning Strike Talismans are still very threatening to Spirit Realm experts!”

Yang Ye’s heart felt warm. He didn’t refuse them and received the technique talismans before he bowed to Lin Shan, and then he turned around and walked out of the room.

As he watched Yang Ye leave, Lin Shan stroked his beard and nodded lightning. He said with a smile, “A pretty good kid. He has good natural talent, and his character and disposition are exceptional. That little girl, Bao’er, finally did something good for me!”