Free Web NovelChapter 1092: Chapter 1092: Post-Match Arrangements
"So, it’s better for me to focus on recuperating. Just tell them that I suffered internal injuries from the tournament and need some time to recover. It’s okay to exaggerate a bit." Pei Yan lazily leaned back in the chair and finally decided.
Hearing this, no one else had any objections. Ye Ruozai nodded and turned to the arena to convey this message to everyone. After he left, Pei Yan got up and returned to his bedroom, officially beginning to adjust the origin power to stabilize and integrate the newly advanced abilities.
Pei Yan stayed indoors for a whole week during this rest period. When he reappeared before everyone, the exhaustion had completely vanished from his body. Having just finished organizing himself, he appeared in the hall, refreshed, to receive everyone’s congratulations.
The person who caught his attention among the crowd was Gu Shenghui, who woke up three days after Pei Yan had entered seclusion. Feeling the dense aura emanating from Gu Shenghui’s body, Pei Yan curiously placed his hand on Gu Shenghui’s wrist. Gu Shenghui, seeing this, did not resist and let down his defenses, smilingly allowing Pei Yan to check. After a moment, Pei Yan said with surprise, "Such thick origin energy! What Di Xin said was true. Gu Chu, after advancing, your origin energy is more than doubled compared to your peers; in my view, it’s at least four times! The energy is so dense, almost like a liquid, though not comparable to the Master of Origin, who can manifest origin into solid form, it’s still extremely rare among cultivators, something I’ve only felt in those old monsters known for years."
"Ah! It seems I’ve turned misfortune into fortune. The massive amount of origin energy now in my body has unexpectedly affected the control over my supernatural abilities, and it looks like I need some training time to fully master it." Gu Shenghui said, patting Pei Yan’s shoulder apologetically, "Because of my carelessness in the arena, I put you in danger. As a senior, I failed to play my role at the critical moment."
"As long as the ending is good, right? Exchange Di Xin’s move with me earlier, and I’d probably fall for it unknowingly. Luckily, under the pressure of the tournament opponents, I gained insight into an ultra-powerful ability. Overall, my gain is even greater!" Pei Yan finished and sat on the hall’s chair, changing the topic, "What happened after the tournament?"
"What else? With three contestants, one’s unconscious, one’s claiming serious injury! Only Ye Ruozai had to brace himself to go on stage and receive the reward." Wang Wenze, recalling Ye Ruozai’s embarrassed look when receiving congratulations from the Immortal Palace, couldn’t help but laugh out loud.
"Did they question or express anger about my absence at the scene?" Pei Yan asked curiously.
"No, amid fighting three and bearing injuries for the narrow win, even your swift departure from the scene to resolve the Blood Race incident was seen as you struggling to cover your injuries, matching their assumptions about the fight and assuaging some of their concerns about you," Elder Lin responded in approval.
"That’s good!" Pei Yan breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing that, turning to an important matter, he excitedly asked, "What about the prizes? The Divine Artifact? Can we use them? And the Blood Slaughter Origin Power?"
"Uh..." Hearing this, everyone looked at each other and then at Wang Wenze. Under the gaze, Wang Wenze sighed, stepped forward, and asked quietly, "Pei Yan, there’s a good news and a bad news about this matter. Which would you like to hear first?"
"Playing this game? Let’s start with the bad news!" Intrigued by his demeanor, Pei Yan joked as he leaned on the chair, "Don’t tell me the Immortal Palace is refusing the reward; I doubt Lin Ruxue would do something so disgraceful?" freёwebnovel.com
"Not at all, the Immortal Palace promptly presented six Divine Artifacts from the six planes and three Origin Seeds as prizes, which are now kept with Lin Junzhao. She said she would distribute them at a crucial time in battle." Wang Wenze shook his head in response.
"Oh, that’s not bad! It’s not really bad news. Whether in her hands or ours, there’s not much difference." Realizing Lin Junzhao went to great lengths and paid a high price for the tournament, controlling the prizes thereafter wasn’t surprising. He recalled after the tournament, Lin Junzhao hadn’t returned after parting from his body, and wasn’t attached to anyone present; he couldn’t help but ask "So, where’s my elder sister now?"
"After the tournament, she returned to the Immortal Palace with Lin Ruxue. She sent a message saying she is safe, seemingly negotiating solely with Lin Ruxue about your promised prize." Pei Jin interjected to explain.
"Isn’t that good? What’s the bad news then?" Pei Yan asked in confusion.
"The bad news is that Blood Slaughter reneged!"
"Blood Slaughter reneged? What did they renege on?"
"Due to Lin Daozi’s sneak attack incident, Candle Dragon promised to compensate the Daoist Realm with five Powers of Origin, but post-tournament, Candle Dragon negotiated to prevent the Immortal Palace from taking the prizes alone, thus decided to exchange the Origin Power for the prizes. During the transaction, the Blood Slaughter party exchanged their exclusively Blood Slaughter Plane’s two Powers of Origin for the second-place deserved two Origin Seeds, ending the trade immediately after and leaving the Immortal Palace domain with the Origin Seeds, not caring for the six pseudo-divine artifacts."
Wang Wenze said, looking at Pei Yan’s face, which started to look difficult, and whispered, "Lin Ruxue promised earlier that if we obtained five Powers of Origin, she would give each of us and the Spirit Monster Plane one seed, but now they only secured two, and the Immortal Palace isn’t generous enough to be selfless, so these two Powers of Origin are only used for their disciples for now."
Pei Yan reached out and clenched a fist in mid-air, his expression twisted in disgust like eating fly-crap. Moments later, he slowly opened his fist, showing helplessness and enlightenment, "I knew things wouldn’t go so smoothly, no wonder! Six pseudo-divine artifacts against one’s core secretive Power of Origin, I wouldn’t exchange either, just that Immortal Palace is too pedantic, even now talking fairness and deals to the other side, alas!" Pei Yan sighed and then offhandedly asked, "What’s the good news?"
"The good news is Lin Ruxue also felt she owes you, so besides promising to craft a Divine Artifact for killing a Child of Origin, she promised to craft an additional one for you for killing just Di Xin."
Hearing the news, Pei Yan’s face finally showed some smile. Actually, between the Divine Artifact and Blood Slaughter Origin Power, he wanted the Origin Power more, because only with Blood Slaughter Origin Power could he achieve balance with the foundational Origin Power within, but since it’s unattainable, having a Divine Artifact as compensation is still good.
