Chapter 140: Second Place... (1/2)

My muscles tensed for a little bit as the shock slowly came to me. I looked around and see everyone dropping their jaws in shock at the score we got and somehow, it made me feel a little bit consoled since we only got second place.

To think that we only got second place after killing at least four hordes? Sigh~ reality does hit hard when it shows up.

One by one, the other parties and their members dropped their jaw at the outstanding numbers we've achieved. And although they looked please, I could see the disappointed expressions on Liu Zhi, Blade, and Wu Yan's faces. I didn't even look downtrodden about it but they looked worse.

For one, Liu Zhi looked aggravated, clenching his fists while biting his lips as he hung his head down. As for Blade, he glanced at me once, and then he tried so hard to avoid looking me in the eyes. Wu Yan was the same, they look crestfallen... and it's the most expression I could get from them ever since I met them. I was genuinely surprised that they could make those expressions. After all, they never seemed like the type to feel that bad after a loss.

I guess I never really knew them that well.

”Come, on. We have to go upstage.” With a sincere and warm smile on my face, I patted them on the shoulder, indicating that we should go and receive our prize. I mean, it's still second place, and we were up against parties with a lot of members and some of them were even on the Ancient Realm or something.

”Believe it or not, Liu Zhi's party only has four members at the moment and they are already this strong. And what's more, three of them are in the Immortal Realm and the last member is just on the King Realm.” Shen Rong lightheartedly said as he let out a hearty chuckle.

I'm guessing he said that just so Liu Zhi and the others would feel better. But the reaction he received was something he didn't expect.

”Haah?!” Shi Yanmei exclaimed as she heard Shen Rong's obvious hints. Clearly, Shen Rong was implicating that the others were on a much higher rank than his party. And yet, they managed to snag second place.

And unsurprisingly, she wasn't the only one who reacted the same way.

”No way, are they really?!”

”How many Ancient Realm Cultivators do we have? Is this real?!”

”Yeah, I've known Liu Zhi's party for years. They are still in the Immortal Realm. This is surprising.”

”Wait, really?! Then what does that make us?”

”I presume the one who got first place is the Meili Sect?”

”Figures, they have a lot of Ancient Realm and Dao Realm cultivators in their main party.”

”Their main party has a dozen members right? That's three times more than Liu Zhi's party.”

”Shut up, our team has fourteen members and we didn't even make it to top three.”

”Maybe they just got lucky, they might've found thirteen thousand Stage-1's”

”Are you stupid or what? How could you find a horde like that.”

”Yeah, how? We couldn't even find a single Stage-1 around.”

”Maybe they hunted every Stage-1s?”

”Then that would've taken them the whole day. Are you for real?”

Even though the others were unintentionally showering them with compliments, Liu Zhi, Blade, and Wu Yan still seemed downhearted as our party walked up the stage. If it were me, I would have stopped short and turned around, addressing everyone that we're the best party in the area. But somehow, that didn't even occur in their minds. They were too engrossed with the loss... but why?

”I'm sorry, Yong Rui. As the leader of this party, we should've gotten first place with you in our team.” Liu Zhi said. ”I swear in my life that I will definitely get stronger. Or at least, strong enough to be able to assist you.”

”Yong Rui, even though you gave us all those Essences and Pills, and even gave us cultivation techniques... we were still not strong enough. It would've been so easy to get first place since you were with us... but it was our own fault we only got second place.”