“I, rabbit, is really a thrifty, bread-winning rabbit!”
Whitey happily kept the spirit stones it earned and took out the original flavoured underwear it had stolen last night. As long as it could sell this, it would be able to buy a treasure of heaven and earth.
“The underwear of Qin Feng’s teenage years is sold for the low price of 20 spirit stones!”
“I’ll pay 25 spirit stones!”
“.........”
The sisters of the Moon Goddess Palace were serious in the matters of men, and the original flavoured underwear had immediately incited a series of shrieks.
Hu hu!
The piercing sound of wind resonated within the forest as Qin Feng, who was seated beneath the waterfall, opened his eyes suddenly. He jumped into a furious pose as the invisible Sword Qi surrounded his body.
Pong!
The invisible Sword Qi exploded as it faced the incoming energy straight on, causing the water to splash in all directions.
A large and small beauty appeared at the side of the waterfall, it was the Moon Goddess and Zi Yuan. Unlike the Zi Yuan seven years ago, her appearance had lost the girly appearance, and with a smile or a frown, she revealed a boundless aura.
Apparently, she had learned some kind of powerful cultivation method that could only be cultivated by women during the past few years as she cultivated with the Moon Goddess.
“Not bad. Your understanding of Sword Intent and Sword Heart has grown deeper.”
The Moon Goddess looked at Qin Feng with appreciation. He hadn’t caused her to regret her actions of breaking the palace’s rules seven years ago by giving him the title of the Son of God. She believed that the Moon Goddess Palace would definitely become stronger because she did so.
“How can I marry sister Moon Goddess if I’m not strong? I’m still smart enough to know that.”
Qin Feng raised his eyebrows slightly at her as he showed off his figure.
Plop!
Zi Yuan charged forward angrily and kicked Qin Feng into the waterfall, “You’ve been pining after my aunt for so long, how dare you overlook the great beauty next to her?!”
“How bold!”
Qin Feng peeked out of the water. He didn’t know what Zi Yuan ate growing up, but the scale had indeed been growing quite significantly. It was the size where even a hand wasn’t enough to hold it.
“Pervert!’
Zi Yuan’s face turned red from the sexual harassment as she started fighting with Qin Feng once again.
“Stop bickering, the two of you!”
The Moon Goddess was used to Qin Feng’s behaviour and spoke indifferently, “Qin Feng, the Yin Yue Imperial Dynasty’s once-in-a-decade Death Elimination Tournament is coming up in a few days. Are you interested in participating?”
“Death Elimination Tournament?”
Qin Feng frowned, recalling that he had heard of this elimination tournament before.
After the Yin Yue Imperial Dynasty’s reform a century ago, the Death Elimination Tournament had become the key to the Yin Yue Imperial Dynasty’s rise.
It was similar to the Gaokao, where the great influential forces of the Yin Yue Imperial Dynasty would send out promising members of their families to partake. Anyone that was able to pass was then prioritised and groomed by the Yin Yue Imperial Dynasty.
They enjoyed a powerful faculty and an abundance of resources to cultivate. It could be said that they would receive anything and everything.
The only difference it had with the Gaokao was that while you could fail and retake the test, the Death Elimination Tournament was true to its name, the participant would die when they failed.
Although Qin Feng wasn’t concerned with matters of life and death, he was concerned with whether or not he could meet with his beloved Chosen Ones.
At this moment—
A sister’s cheer could be heard from a distance not too far away, as if celebrating the fact that she had bought the underwear for 100 spirit stones.
“White Glutton!!!”
Qin Feng landed behind Whitey with the gracefulness of a dragonfly landing on water.
Whitey puffed up hearing this name and shouted angrily in response, “My name is Qin Whitey, Qin Whitey, Qin Whitey! Whoever dares to call me White Glutton again, I’ll definitely bite them to death!”
“Got it, White Glutton!”
Qin Feng nodded to express that he heard it, but he had no intentions of changing the way he called it.
And here he was, wondering where his underwear disappeared to before he could even wash it. So it was auctioned off by this rabbit.
“It’s the Moon Goddess!”
As if little students that had just seen a teacher approaching, the group of sisters ran away from the scene in a panic.
“Whitey, you’re too much!”
Zi Yuan puffed her cheeks angrily at the side as she reproached Whitey for its actions.
“I didn’t want to do it either, but I’m hungry……”
Whitey quickly revealed a pitiful expression, as if it had suffered so much throughout its life.
While it didn’t have any treasures of heaven and earth to eat when it was young, it at least had carrots to fill its stomach. However, for some unknown reason, even the carrots were gone now.
If it didn’t take out some things to sell, it would definitely starve to death.
“Haah……”
Qin Feng sighed powerlessly. It wasn’t that he didn’t want to feed the rabbit, but he truly didn't have villain points left.
His life was tough too. If he didn’t find another victim soon, ptui, he meant Chosen One, he would have to change his occupation to a flower thief. [1]
While his income would be low, it would at least be barely enough for his day-to-day expenses.
Just at this moment—
A sister came to report, “The great Son of God, there is a prodigy outside hoping to challenge you.”
“Another one?!”
Qin Feng was speechless.
There had been a constant influx of people coming to the Moon Goddess Palace to challenge him ever since he was titled as the greatest prodigy in Huang Gu. It was a pity that none of these people were the Chosen Ones he was looking for, and so, they all failed to pique his interest in the slightest.
“The great Son of God, this person is not an ordinary person. He is a Heavenly Youth Scholar from the Great Xia Imperial Dynasty.”
“The Heavenly Youth Scholar!”
Qin Feng’s brows furrowed, thinking he wasn’t unfamiliar with this name.
If he had remembered correctly, it probably was correct, the Tang Dynasty had relied on the imperial examination system and Heavenly Youth Scholars in the earlier phase of the country to end the dictatorship of the influential families and increased centralised dominance.
So, was the Great Xia Emperor doing this to whittle down the power of the influential families?!
Quickly—
Qin Feng found a file contacting the relevant information.
Seven years ago, the Great Xia Emperor had announced his intentions of taking in his own disciple, and the chosen prodigies would all become Heavenly Youth Scholars.
The entire country of Great Xia became chaotic upon hearing this news. Becoming the disciple of the emperor was an unparalleled glory to them, and even the great influential families were tempted by the three words.
As a result, the lively selection of the Heavenly Youth Scholars commenced. Unsurprisingly, the children of the great influential families all won, but there were also plenty of peasants that had made it through.
The Great Xia Emperor stayed true to his words. He accepted the prodigies from both influential families and the poor to become the Heavenly Youth Scholars.
“That old man is really going against the influential families!”
Qin Feng could tell with one glance what the Great Xia Emperor was scheming.
While the three words, ‘Heavenly Youth Scholars’ were incomparably prestigious, they were nothing more than tools to the Great Xia emperor.
The commoner prodigies didn’t have any backing behind them, leaving them with no choice but to rely on the emperor in the future and become swords that he could wield to deal with the influential families.
With the official relationship of master and disciples, Heavenly Youth Scholars could not disobey his words without committing treason. In terms of morality, the Great Xia Emperor won.
At the same time, Qin Feng was also incredibly curious about the person who had given such a great idea to the emperor behind the scenes. With his dozen years of experience being a bookworm, that person was most likely a Chosen One that he had been searching for for the past seven years.
Rumble!
A loud sound came from the front of the palace, followed by the scolding that came from the Heaven Youthly Scholar.
“Qin Feng, if you have the guts to be a traitor, then you should have the guts to show yourself! I know you’re at home, don’t cower inside……”