Chapter 251: Rules (2/2)

”The Winner gets 100 points. The 2nd winner gets 80. The 3rd and 4th winners get 60 points, and 5th to 8th winners get 40 points and 9th to 16th winners get 20 points,” Ma Rong said.

”For the production and specialty competitions, its… kind of weird. You basically get points equal to 100 divided  by your rank.”

”If you are 1st in rankings, you get 100 points. 50 for a second, 33 for a third, 25 for a fourth, 20 for a fifth, and so on. So, the higher your ranking, the better points you get,” Ma Rong explained.

”Now, we need exactly 523 points to get upgraded to a 1st-grade sect. That is what we will be working for. In the overall competitions, we need to get at least that many points.”

”Any questions?” Ma Rong asked.

”Sect Leader, can't we go by last year's competition to figure out what this year's competition will be?” someone asked.

”No, it's always different,” Ma Rong said. ”We have no way of telling.”

”Will there be no non-battle and non-production-related competitions?” someone else asked.

”There will be. Those are considered battle-related since fights are sometimes inevitable,” Ma Rong explained.

Everyone else thought and found nothing else to ask. Seeing that no one had any more questions left Ma Rong dismissed everyone.

”Yu Ming, wait,” she said as everyone was leaving.

”What is it, Master?” he asked. He wondered if she was going to tell him what competitions he was going to take part in.

”Starting today, I want you to cultivate both body and Qi at the same time. Don't stop one for the other. You can only get stronger if you can increase both body and Qi cultivation at the same time,” Ma Rong said.

”But, Master I can't wake up in time if I cultivate Qi. I was thinking of skipping Qi cultivation until the end of the competitions actually,” Alex said.

”That won't do. Just do as I say and cultivate both while you can,” Ma Rong said.

”But I can't wa—” he remembered this morning, his master was crying. She told him there was nothing wrong with him falling asleep, but explained no further.

'Does she know something?' Alex thought.

”Master, can you explain to me why I will be fine if I fall asleep while cultivating Qi,” he asked.