75 Number 1 Peerless Beauty (1/2)

The ceremony hall was huge and there were hundreds of people that had already gathered when Lu Qingyun had entered.

He took a quick look and was astonished by the number of beautiful maidens that were in the hall and they were all looking at his entourage.

But at the same time Lu Qingyun had a solemn expression and he was actually deep in thoughts. It was because he had suddenly realized that Qin Keqin was attracting a little too much attention for his liking and he was feeling a little sour inside…

These beautiful maidens were quite startled by the appearance of Lu Qingyun as he was really quite handsome and a great number of them were unconsciously moving their lips in their startled state.

But of course Lu Qingyun was not the star of his entourage. His sudden appearance and the four beautiful maidens that were walking behind him had suddenly caused the buzzing hall to almost fall into dead silence as everyone had turned their eyes to look in their directions.

The beautiful and moving sight of Leng Qiuyue, Ouyang Xue and Lie Xingyuan walking together were enough to cause quite a big stir and caused the hearts of many men to stop.

But the sudden appearance of Qin Keqin who was smiling delightfully as she swept her bewitching golden eyes curiously around, causing everyone, men and women to fall into stunning silence. It was as though Qin Keqin was a heavenly fairy, untainted, lofty and forbidden.

Her peerless allure was so exceedingly that many of the beautiful maidens were looking at her with shame in their eyes; it was because many of them were actually attending this ceremony to show off their personal beauties as they were not pleased that an upstart had suddenly usurped the position of the number one beauty of New Empyrean City.

They had all wanted to show Qin Keqin that she was not the most beautiful but once they had seen her, they were quite stunned…

Qin Keqin knew that she was causing a great stir and thought delightfully, ”They must really like my make-up…”

Make-up or not, Qin Keqin was an astonishing peerless beauty without a doubt.

She was smiling delightfully because it had really come from the bottom of her heart. She was really happy that she had a place among the top twenty beauties ranking and the thoughts that her two sister saintesses did not have a place in the ranking make her only all too pleased.

”Minyue, Danfeng. I am going to show off to you every now and then.”

She was soon smiling again to herself, ”Qingyun, are you proud of me today? That your beloved is in first place?…”

Only Lu Qingyun mattered the most to her now.

”Qingyun, this is my most beautiful moment today. I hope that you can remember this day…” she had a shy flush as she said in her heart.

She did not know that Lu Qingyun was not glad at all. Instead he was not pleased that she was gathering so much attention to herself.

As for the men, they were stunned by her and many of them were muttering. ”She is a goddess…”

Everyone was thinking, ”She must be Qin Keqin? It is because only she has the golden eyes that clearly marked her as a fifth realm expert…”

”I've heard that in the past, the Great Saintess Fan Yuqing is the acclaimed goddess and she has even toppled peerless beauties like the Great Saintess Feng Minyue and Great Saintess Xuan Danfeng…”

The master of ceremony was a grey hair old man. His jaws had almost dropped when he saw Qin Keqin…

He had not expected Qin Keqin to be such a peerless goddess…

Regarding the nomination of Qin Keqin as the top beauty of the New Empyrean City, he had actually quarreled with the ruling councilors as he had felt that Qin Keqin did not deserve the title.

However the ruling council had insisted because she was a golden celestial and her cultivation strength was also the highest among the top twenty beauties.

He had questioned hard with the ruling council, ”Just because she has the highest cultivation level so she should be ranked number one? This is too ridiculous.”

But the ruling council had already made up their minds firmly. Although they had never seen Qin Keqin before but they knew that everyone would be curious about her as she had been in the gossips for quite a while. However, they were unsure if she would accept the nomination since she was a high ranking golden celestial and is also a sect leader of one of the four powerhouses in New Empyrean City.

Therefore they had decided to bait her out by offering her an offer that she could not resist.

The Ruling Council of New Empyrean City had various interest groups of councilors and they controlled vast resources. When a beauty was nominated, a reasonable amount of cultivation resources would be granted to their celestial clan as well. In this way, it made the celestial clan harder to decline the nomination. Over time, this ranking became a source of pride among the beautiful cultivators.

What did the Ruling Council have to gain from the nominations?

Plenty.

A business relationship was formed between the various influencers of the interest group to the celestial clan. How could a celestial resource be transferred? It was via the interest groups. It was actually a two way transfer.

After all, if the celestial clan had any excess cultivation resources they could sell it to the interest groups and the interest groups would resell it for a profit to those that were in need through their vast networks.

In this way, the ruling council was able to keep the peace between the celestial clans in the city and also befriended the powerful cultivators to be their protectors in times of trouble. After all, there were few cultivators in the council and none among the ruling council.

That was the reason why the ruling council had made a unanimous decision to nominate Qin Keqin into the top twenty beauties ranking and even decided to have her crowned as the number one beauty.