Chapter 172: Low Ranking (1/2)

Alex was stopped at the gate of the Hong Wu sect by the elders to check if he had permission to leave the sect, or not. But after looking at his nameplate, they immediately let him go.

Alex simply smiled and walked along the outer sect mountain.

'It's only been 2 weeks and I'm already getting nostalgic,' he thought. He walked down the mountain and reached the sect valley.

'This place is as rowdy as ever,' he thought as he laughed to himself. The disciples, both outer and inner were walking around the sect valley, minding their own business.

”Hmm… Let's go see if the ranking has changed in any way,” he thought and walked to the disciple hall. In front of the Disciple Hall was the black rock with constantly moving figures that spelled out the names of the students in the rankings.

He looked over the contribution ranking and saw virtually no difference from the time he left the sect. His name had in fact went lower by quite a bit due to not contributing enough.

'I guess that's alright,' he thought. He saw no point in the contribution points for now aside from eating in the restaurant. If he really wanted to, he would do so in a restaurant outside.

He then walked to the back of the black stone and looked at the list of Alchemy Achievements. The names were once again the same. Only this time, it was a problem.

'Where am I then?' he thought. He started looking lower and saw his name around rank number 33. 'Huh? I've made a Heaven rank pill, and that puts me to rank 33? That's impossible.'

He remembered his master saying that even core disciples had a hard time making Earth Grade pills with high harmony, and yet his Heaven Grade pill didn't give him much Alchemy achievements. He also had a lot of other pills that should have increased his ranking by a lot.

'Just what is going on? I should ask master,' he thought and took out a communication talisman. He then started sending a message to his master.

”Master, I'm back. Also, I need to talk with you about something.” He sent the message. He waited for a bit and got a reply.

”Come to my residence.”

He skipped the rest of the places and walked straight to the sect master's mountain. In a couple of minutes, he reached his home, but he skipped that as well and walked straight to the sect master's home.

He spread out his spiritual sense to see where she was and found her in her alchemy room, so he decided to wait outside. After a few minutes, Ma Rong walked out.

She looked at Alex and said, ”You are back quite early. Isn't there still 2 more days to go before you had to return?” she asked.

”Yes, master. However, something happened in the sect that forced me to leave early,” he said.