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The nine forms of the Divine Stele were an absolute art of the Ancient Stele Clan and could only be imparted to disciples. Even if Zhou Qing was a guest elder in name, he still wasn't qualified.

However, Zhou Qing's weapon was a monolith, and he had also contributed greatly to the ancient monolith gate. Thus, Su Mu had considered breaking the rules and passed down the《 Nine Styles of the Mystical Tablet》 to Zhou Qing as a reward.

Cai Yuanhu and the others shook their heads.

The ultimate art of the sect was undoubtedly important, but the fact that the ancient monolith gate was as glorious as it was today was all thanks to Zhou Qing. In consideration of reason, it wasn't excessive for him to impart the《 Nine Styles of the Profound Tablet》 to him.

Zhou Qing was also very happy when he heard this.

He had seen Su Mu use the《 Nine Styles of the Profound Tablet》 at the Ranking Tournament.

The power of the ninth form, ”Star Fragment”, was incomparably strong. It had definitely reached the level of a top-grade magic technique.

A single tablet could tear apart space!

If he could learn the《 Nine Styles of the Profound Tablet》, coupled with the broken monolith, then his combat strength would definitely rise to another level!

After obtaining everyone's opinion, Su Mu did not waste any time. With a slight intention of his will, a jade slip emitting a faint golden light appeared in his palm.

”This is the《 Nine Styles of the Profound Tablet》. Take it as the reward for this year's Ranking Tournament, and pass it down to little friend Song!”

Su Mu smiled and the pale golden jade slip flew towards Zhou Qing.

After a moment of thought, he continued, ”In addition, after the Lan family has handed over their properties to the Ancient Tablet Sect, they will grant you the jurisdiction of a small city. How about that?”

Zhou Qing received the jade slip and his eyes lit up when he heard this.

There were a thousand cities in the Profound Heaven Continent. In addition to the nine major cities, there were also five hundred major cities like White Ridge City. The remaining cities were all small cities.

The managers of the major cities were the Mysterious Sky Sect and the Thousand An Merchant Guild. As for the smaller cities, these two giant monsters didn't even catch the eye and were under the direct control of the hundreds of immortal sects.

The Lan family alone had more than sixty small cities under their jurisdiction. After the ranking competition this time, they would have to split them into thirty ancient monument sects.

Now that Su Mu had given Zhou Qing the authority to rule one of them, it was no small feat!

Although small cities could not be compared with large cities and major cities, all kinds of industries were available.

The benefits obtained by governing a small city were of great value to a sect.

Up until now, Zhou Qing had obtained all of his cultivation resources by fighting for them. It was not easy to obtain these resources.

However, if he could obtain the authority of a small city, then at least before he broke through to the Mortal Realm, he would no longer have to worry about resources!

”Then I shall accept your request. Thank you, Sect Leader Su!”

With that thought in mind, Zhou Qing smiled and cupped his hands in acknowledgement.

Seeing that he agreed, Su Mu's face also lit up.

Su Mu was well aware of what it meant for a cultivator to rule a small city.

However, this was also an investment!

Since Zhou Qing wasn't willing to join the sect, then he would invest in him!

If such a genius were to succeed in the future, then all the investments made today would receive a hundred times the returns.

Su Mu waved his hand. As his Fa Li surged out, a screen of light was formed in front of him. On the screen of light, there was a map of the Mysterious Sky Continent.

This map was extremely detailed, to the point that the names of every single city were marked.

On the map, the names of 60 small cities were glowing faintly. Obviously, these small cities were the loot from this trip.

”Little friend Song, you can choose which one you want!”

Su Mu smiled.

Zhou Qing nodded slightly and looked at the map. After a moment, he suddenly had a thought.

”Clan Master Su, is Spirit Head City okay?”

Su Mu was startled when he heard this. However, his eyebrows slowly knitted together.

”It's not impossible. ”But this city is extremely close to where the main residence of the Lan family is located …”

”It's fine.”

Zhou Qing broke into a smile. ”The Lan family is nothing to worry about!”

Su Mu knew that Su Hao must have his own reasons for his insistence. Thus, he didn't try to dissuade him and nodded in agreement.

Then, he thought of something and said seriously, ”Little friend Song, if the Lan Family causes trouble for you, inform me. The Ancient Tablet Sect will do everything in their power to protect you!”

Zhou Qing's heart warmed. He hurriedly expressed his thanks, ”Thank you, Sect Leader Su!”

After exiting the Procedural Hall, Zhou Qing headed straight for his own courtyard.

The Ancient Tablet Gate held a grand banquet to celebrate. Su Mu initially wanted to invite Zhou Qing to join them, but after considering how tired he had been recently and needing to rest, he didn't urge him to stay.

After returning to his room, Zhou Qing waved his hand and the hundred storage rings he had obtained from the spatial realm appeared on the table, piled up like a small mountain.

Looking at the storage rings, Zhou Qing was in an excellent mood.

During this trip to the ranking tournament, his gains could be said to be enormous.

After two hours, Zhou Qing finally finished counting all the spoils.

In this pile of storage rings, just the gold and silver alone had brought in 1.2 million gold to Zhou Qing!

In addition, there were more than 5000 Soul Concentrating Pills, nearly 500 of all kinds of healing pills, and even more so for extremely precious pills like the Body Nourishing Pill.

Amongst the personal belongings of these heaven's pride level cultivators, there were only a few spiritual herbs and pills. Although most of them were quite precious, they were not priceless treasures like the True Blood Lotus or the Thousand Spirit Buddha Lotus.

Finally, there were the martial arts techniques of the various immortal sects.

Zhou Qing directly ignored the low and middle grade martial arts. His goals were high grade and top-grade. It would be great if he could find a few ultimate skills like the《 Nine Styles of the Profound Tablet》.

However, the sect's absolute arts were of great importance to the sect. If there were no special circumstances, these Chosen would not have brought them with them.

After a round of screening, Zhou Qing finally acquired ten high-grade martial arts, two top-grade martial arts.

With such a large harvest, the space within the Fate Stone simply couldn't fit inside. Zhou Qing simply picked two of the larger rings from a large pile of storage rings and placed them all in, filling them to the brim.

After counting the spoils of his battle, Zhou Qing muttered to himself for a moment. Two jade slips the size of a palm appeared in his palm.

The cyan jade slip was obtained from the Sumeru world and recorded down a top-grade magic of the Mysterious Sky Sect.

The faint golden jade slip was gifted by Su Mu just now, and recorded the Ancient Tablet Sect's ultimate technique, the《 Nine Styles of the Profound Tablet》.