Zhou Donghuang, a late Dharma adept of the Lightning Sword Sect, had managed to accumulate over 3000 points just by killing beasts at the late Dharma stage in this year’s Alliance Hunt.
What kind of joke was this?
In the history of the entire Alliance Hunt, there had never been any late Dharma adept who had managed to kill more than 300 beasts of his own stage!
“In the history of the Alliance, even for nominated ultimate Dharma adepts, it was rare to hear of someone killing more than 300 ultimate Dharma beasts… Don’t forget, the Hunt only lasts for 3 months,” someone said aloud.
“Disciples of the late Dharma stage would first try to kill ultimate Dharma beasts… Could it be that Zhou Donghuang had bad luck and only managed to meet a few ultimate Dharma beasts, and was thus forced to mass kill late Dharma beasts?”
“Well, if that’s the case, it would provide a good explanation for this situation.”
“It seems as though Zhou Donghuang’s luck was really rather terrible, and he only met many late Dharma beasts but few ultimate Dharma beasts.”
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Now, a majority of the crowd felt that Zhou Donghuang had chosen to kill many late Dharma beasts due to this reason.
They assumed that Zhou Donghuang had bad luck and only met with very few ultimate Dharma beasts and instead had only come across late Dharma beasts.
“What a pity!”
Even disciples of the Lightning Sword Sect felt pity for him. “With Zhou Donghuang’s talents, unless his luck was truly bad, this would not have been the result that we expected.”
“Brother Donghuang is really too unlucky to have only met with mostly beasts of the late Dharma stage.”
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Just as the disciples of the Lightning Sword Sect were feeling pity for Zhou Donghuang, others were rejoicing secretly at his plight. “What’s the point of being strong? If he has no luck, he is still unable to accumulate many points.”
Among these people was the disciple of the Yuanyin Order, Zhong Chengcai, but many others were people who were unfamiliar with Zhou Donghuang.
All these people had one similarity, which was that they tended to be jealous of those who were better than them, and it did not matter who these individuals were.
The more talented others were, the more jealous they were.
For these people, as they tended to waste time feeling jealous, it affected their training, and this toxic cycle meant that they seldom ended up succeeding in their personal ventures.
Jealousy was indeed a monster, after all.
“Hu Jingshan, do you think that someone’s luck could be so horrible that they would meet up to 300 late Dharma beasts but not be able to even meet a few beasts of the ultimate Dharma stage?”
Baili Feiyang rarely spoke first, but this time, he chose to speak up first and seek Hu Jingshan’s opinion.
“I think this is rather impossible.”
Hu Jingshan shook his head as he looked at Zhou Donghuang’s back; his eyes shone. “I feel like this Zhou Donghuang is about to give everyone a huge surprise. I have a very strong gut feeling about this,” Hu Jingshan said.
On the other hand…
Towards the assumptions of the crowd, Zhou Donghuang, the person in question, did not offer any explanation and instead continued to mind his own business and pull beasts out of the space ring in his hand.
Now, he began to take out the brains of beasts that were of the ultimate Dharma stage.
At the start, everyone, including the people of the Lightning Sword Sect, all assumed that Zhou Donghuang would not be able to take out many brains of beasts of the ultimate Dharma stage.
However, as time passed, they were stunned yet again.
This was because, within a short period, Zhou Donghuang had managed to take out over 100 brains of beasts of the ultimate Dharma stage!
Possessing brains of over a hundred beasts of the ultimate Dharma stage, what did this even mean?
According to the rules of the Alliance Hunt, for Alliance disciples of the late Dharma stage, killing one beast of the ultimate Dharma stage and presenting its brain would allow one to gain 100 points.
100 brains of beasts of the ultimate Dharma stage meant that a late Dharma disciple would be able to accumulate a total of 10000 points!
“As I predicted.”
Seeing this, Hu Jingshan smiled. “My instinct was indeed right… What a fright! Having hundreds of brains of beasts of the ultimate Dharma stage as well over 300 brains of beasts of the late Dharma stage… that’s really a sight to behold!”
“There’s more…”
Baili Feiyang reminded him at this point.
Indeed, Zhou Donghuang was not done retrieving all the brains in his space ring.
Now, Zhou Donghuang was still slowly retrieving brains from within his space ring, and they were all brains of beasts from the ultimate Dharma stage.
Because of this, those people who were initially shocked now tensed up completely, and their breathing had almost stopped. They watched Zhou Donghuang without a word to see exactly how many beasts of the ultimate Dharma stage he had managed to kill.
“128…”
“136…”
“152…”
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Now, many people were counting along as Zhou Donghuang continued to retrieve the brains that he had attained from the Guiyao planet, which were all brains of beasts at the ultimate Dharma stage.
“There’s 200 now.”
Once the 200th brain appeared before the crowd, everyone felt as if their hearts had been harshly stabbed.
Was this Zhou Donghuang crazy? Would this go on forever?
With the brains that he had already pulled out, his total score would already be around 23000 points!
Even so, he was still continuing to retrieve more brains!
“How… How can this be?”
Now, even Luo Qinghan was staring with a look of utter confusion at Zhou Donghuang’s back.
At this moment, in her brain, a raspy voice sounded out. “For disciples at the late Dharma stage, even if they possess ultimate Dharma spirit weapons and intend to fully focus on killing beasts at the ultimate Dharma stage, they will at least have to train their Dharma Power and master the art of Dharma Power Control.
These words were spoken to her by the young man dressed in white, Zhuge Haotian, and they had been deeply ingrained in her head.
During the process of the Alliance Hunt, the ability to kill a beast at the ultimate Dharma stage within seconds was only possible for the rare few who had managed to master Dharma-body integration against ultimate Dharma beasts. With the use of an ultimate Dharma spirit weapon, these people could then easily kill the ultimate Dharma beasts of the Guiyao planet within seconds.
However, for those ultimate Dharma adepts who had not managed to master the Dharma-body integration technique, even if they possessed ultimate Dharma spirit weapons, they would not be able to kill ultimate Dharma beasts so easily.
Now, Zhou Donghuang had taken out so many brains of late Dharma beasts as well as brains of ultimate Dharma beasts, which proved a singular point thoroughly: he definitely managed to train his Dharma Power to the stage of Dharma Power Control!
Unless he could kill an ultimate Dharma beast within seconds, it would have been impossible for him to kill so many ultimate Dharma beasts within the short period of the Alliance Hunt.
For late Dharma adepts among the Alliance, even those who had trained their Dharma Power to the Dharma-body integration stage, killing an ultimate Dharma beast would still require much effort. They would also need time to heal and rest afterwards, and it would be hard for them to consecutively kill several ultimate Dharma beasts even if they came across others.
“300.”
Once Zhou Donghuang had retrieved his 300th brain of an ultimate Dharma beast from the space ring, everyone became numb with shock. Even the Alliance Deputy Leader, the old man in the mid-Divine Transformation stage, also had on a face of utter confusion and shock.
His emotions had never been so intense in the last few years.
He could not even remember when was the last time he had been so shocked by something.
And yet, today, a young man from the Lightning Sword Sect had caused his heart much unrest.
“That is all.”
Finally, Zhou Donghuang pulled out his 368th brain of a beast of the ultimate Dharma stage from the space ring, and this total tally had even exceeded that of the brains of the late Dharma beasts!
“Is that all?”
Seeing as Zhou Donghuang had finally finished with his movements, everyone felt a wave of fatigue rush over them as if they had just completed a fierce battle, causing their bodies to feel drained.
“Is this Zhou Donghuang even human?”
“I think his total points have crossed 40000!”
“40000 points… In the history of the Alliance Hunt, I don’t think anyone has even exceeded 20000 points, let alone 40000 points!”
“How could he have accumulated so many points?”
“Unless… Unless he had already managed to train his Dharma Power to the legendary step of Dharma Power Control!”
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Many people began to suspect that Zhou Donghuang had indeed mastered the legendary stage of Dharma Power for Dharma adepts, Dharma Power Control. This was the only reasonable explanation for his performance.
“Zhou Donghuang…”
The Lightning Sword Sect Leader, Yu Yucheng, looked at Zhou Donghuang. His body was still trembling from the shock, as this result was wilder than he could have ever imagined.
Previously, he had assumed that due to his bad luck, Zhou Donghuang would not attain many points in the Hunt.
However, instead, he had received an unbelievable score!
40000 points.
Was Zhou Donghuang even mortal?
Yu Yucheng could imagine, once word of today’s results was leaked, the people of the various elite sects of the Alliance and people of the two Transcendental Forces of the Hengliu galaxy would get a huge shock!
“Sect Leader Yu, didn’t you say that your Lightning Sword Sect disciple, Zhou Donghuang, had had bad luck in the Alliance Hunt? You were lying to us!”
At this point, several of the other Sect Leaders who had been consoling Zhou Donghuang before now glared exasperatedly at him. “Sect Leader Yu, you are really rather cunning, we spent so much effort consoling you, and yet you were lying to us all along and playing us like fools.”
“Sect Leader Yu, this isn’t over yet. You owe us an explanation for this!”
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Towards the indignation of the various Sect Leaders, Yu Yucheng replied with an expression of bitterness and frustration. “I was also under the impression that Zhou Donghuang’s luck was not good and that he would have a poor performance.”
He had also felt cheated by Zhou Donghuang.
With such an impressive performance, why couldn’t he have shown more positive emotions when he had left? His poker face had caused such confusion that even Sect Leader Yu had been fooled as well!
“I’m sure that he has managed to master Dharma Power Control!” beside Baili Feiyang, Hu Jingshan exclaimed out loud confidently.
Baili Feiyang nodded his head as well. “If he managed to kill all those beasts by himself, he couldn’t have done so without using Dharma Power Control.”
At this point, the Alliance Deputy Leader, the old man of the mid Divine Transformation stage, appeared before Zhou Donghuang within an instant and glanced kindly at Zhou Donghuang. “Zhou Donghuang, have you trained your Dharma Power to the stage of Dharma Power Control?”
“Mhm.”
Zhou Donghuang lightly nodded as he knew that there was no use denying this fact now. Well, he had never planned to deny this fact in the first place.
After all, it was true that he had indeed managed to master the technique of Dharma Power Control.
Even He Mengxi and Da Zhuang had managed to master Dharma Power Control after they had shifted to the Deity’s Tribulation style of training, the Thousand-Star Sword Technique and the Fiery Thunder Training Regimen. It was just that they were not as skilled at using it as he was.
If not, they too would have attained more outstanding results than they already did in the Alliance Hunt.
