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The once-a-year Sect Assembly is one of the biggest events of the Savage Wilderness Sect.

During the Assembly, all Inner Sect disciples have the opportunity to showcase their strength in front of the Sect's higher-ups; even the Sect Leader will personally watch.

Those who perform exceptionally will have the chance to receive the Sect's focused nurturing; from then on, their strength will advance by leaps and bounds, without question.

Early in the morning, everyone in the Inner Sect, from the Sect Leader and elders to the newly entered Inner Sect disciples, gathered towards the plaza in front of the Savage Wilderness Hall.

Xu Ming and Gu Hanmo joined up and entered together.

As for Number Two… wasn't Brother Ming busy flirting? Of course, he was obediently hanging out with Number One, Number Three, Number Four, and their group of "losers"; how would he dare to come and disturb him?

"Hm?" A cold gaze suddenly and unkindly fixed upon Xu Ming.

The owner of this cold gaze was emanating a majestic aura; it was Zhang Youtian, who ranked in the top five of last year's Sect Assembly!

"This kid…" Seeing Xu Ming and Gu Hanmo walking together early in the morning, Zhang Youtian felt inexplicably jealous and inflamed, "I clearly warned him to stay away from Gu Hanmo; he actually treated my words like the wind!"

Within the Savage Wilderness Sect, there are naturally many disciples openly and secretly pursuing Gu Hanmo.

Moreover, those who dare to pursue Gu Hanmo are all outstanding! —Those with slightly inferior conditions would feel ashamed of themselves just standing in front of Gu Hanmo, so where would they find the courage to pursue her?

In the hearts of those disciples with slightly inferior conditions, Gu Hanmo is an inviolable goddess!

So many people in the Sect are pursuing Gu Hanmo, and even the young Elder Liang Hui is obsessed with her; but Zhang Youtian has always believed that his chances are the greatest, and Gu Hanmo will definitely end up with him!

Zhang Youtian's confidence is not without reason.

In terms of strength and influence, Zhang Youtian is certainly no match for Liang Hui.

But Zhang Youtian has a huge advantage, which is—Zhang Youtian's Zhang faction is the third largest faction in the Savage Wilderness Sect, after the Gu faction and the Liang faction, and is also a neutral force in the Savage Wilderness Sect.

In order to strengthen its relationship with the Zhang faction, the Gu faction may very well betroth Gu Hanmo to Zhang Youtian! In contrast, Liang Hui, because he comes from the Gu faction's opposing force, has a slim chance of marrying Gu Hanmo.

Unless…

Unless, in the next few years, the Gu faction is completely defeated in the struggle, and then has to push Gu Hanmo out for a "marriage of alliance."

Therefore, Zhang Youtian has almost regarded Gu Hanmo as his own possession.

Now, seeing Gu Hanmo walking with Xu Ming early in the morning, how could he feel comfortable!

"Hmph!" Zhang Youtian transmitted his voice from afar, "Kid, it seems you didn't take my last warning to heart at all; since that's the case… I'm really going to let you have a good taste of my methods!"

"Heh!" Xu Ming revealed a hint of disdainful sneer.

"What's wrong?" Gu Hanmo asked curiously.

"It's nothing."

The seating arrangement for the Sect Assembly wasn't that strict, but the plaza in front of the hall was still vaguely divided into three areas—the Gu faction, the Liang faction, and the neutral Zhang faction.

Xu Ming and Gu Hanmo casually found two seats in the Gu faction area and sat down.

"Our Savage Wilderness Sect really has a lot of experts…" Xu Ming looked at the densely packed seats around him, with as many as seven or eight thousand seats.

Moreover, these seven or eight thousand people are all Xiantian experts!

Seven or eight thousand Xiantian experts… randomly drawing out a small portion would be enough to easily sweep through a country like the Flying Cloud Kingdom!

"Is it a lot?" Gu Hanmo said, "Every year, the Sect recruits Inner Sect disciples and Outer Sect disciples, totaling at least several hundred, and sometimes over a thousand; after decades of accumulation, it's not surprising that the Sect has seven or eight thousand Xiantian experts."

Xu Ming nodded silently.

Inner Sect disciples are all top geniuses in the Savage Wilderness Sect's region, and basically become Xiantian experts as soon as they enter the Sect, or shortly after entering; although Outer Sect disciples are slightly inferior in talent, most of them have no problem entering Xiantian.

"Moreover… although the Savage Wilderness Sect has a lot of people, there aren't really many experts."

In Gu Hanmo's view, Xiantian experts don't count as experts, "The entire Savage Wilderness Sect only has a few dozen Ningdan experts!"

"The Sect Leader is here!"

Someone shouted.

"Look, many of the Sect's elders have also come!"

Most of those who were making a fuss were disciples who had just entered the Sect this year.

In their eyes, the Sect Leader and elders of the Savage Wilderness Sect were all legendary figures; now that they were able to see them, they couldn't help but exclaim excitedly.

More than thirty Ningdan experts filed out from the Savage Wilderness Hall.

The middle-aged man walking at the front wore a white robe, with a hint of a smile on his face, and his waist-length black hair fluttered freely as he walked, as if flying.

He is the Sect Leader of the Savage Wilderness Sect—Gu Kongshan!

Slightly behind the Sect Leader on his side was a middle-aged man in a black robe, with an air of dominance between his eyebrows—Liang Weihe, the Great Elder of the Savage Wilderness Sect, and also the leader of the Liang faction, Liang Hui's father.

On the other side of Gu Kongshan was the Second Elder in a yellow robe, Zhang Kuang.

"Look, isn't that 'Sun-Chasing Spear' Wang Chao?"

"I heard that Wang Chao fought fiercely against another divine spear of our Savage Wilderness Sect region—Xiao Lang—at the summit of Flowing Cloud Mountain last month; the two fought for three hours, without a clear winner!"

"The two divine spears of our Savage Wilderness Sect region are unmatched to this day!"

"Brother upstairs, I have a question: Isn't it said that experts exchange blows in a matter of seconds? Why were they able to fight for three hours?"

"You don't understand this, do you? Experts' exchanges are very ritualistic!"

"Brother, please enlighten me!"

"First of all, it's a contest of aura! Basically, this link can take up about half an hour!"

"A contest of aura? How is it contested?"

"I'm not very knowledgeable about this either, but it's roughly that both sides stand still, seeing who can't help but make a move first… Whoever makes a move first, the contest of aura link ends, and they have to enter the mutual probing link!"

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"Mutual probing, how long does it take to probe?"

"At least an hour! After probing, you have to enter the 'reporting ultimate moves' link!"

"Reporting ultimate moves? What is reporting ultimate moves?"

"You don't know—any expert must have mastered many ultimate moves! If these many ultimate moves are displayed one by one, the Xuan Qi will definitely not be enough to support it! In order to prevent this embarrassing situation from happening, experts usually do this: I first report one of my ultimate moves, describing the effect and lethality of this ultimate move; you then report one of your ultimate moves, also describing it, and it must be able to restrain my ultimate move; then, I report another ultimate move that can restrain you… I have seen two top experts who had too many ultimate moves, and it was difficult to determine the winner even after reporting for eight hours! Later, they were too tired, so they took a break and continued the next day!"

"Um… can reporting ultimate moves usually determine the winner?"

"Of course not! No one has ever been convinced by anyone in the reporting ultimate moves link! Just like Elder Wang Chao and Xiao Lang, they reported ultimate moves for half an hour at the time, and no one was convinced, so they finally started fighting!"

"Who won?"

"Three moves, no winner! Then, it is said that the two went to Drunken Immortal Tower for a great treasure sword with their arms around each other's shoulders!"

"Great treasure sword? Aren't they using spears?"

More than thirty Ningdan experts walked out and sat down in order of seniority.

"Elder Liang Hui is also here!"

"Elder Liang Hui is so young!"

Xu Ming looked at the green-robed elder sitting at the end: "Liang Hui?"

Xu Ming naturally had no good impression of this Elder Liang Hui, who had repeatedly harmed him.

"If I explode with all my strength, I should be able to threaten Liang Hui, right? Hmph, it's best not to give me a chance…" Xu Ming would never be soft-hearted to anyone who wanted to kill him if he had the opportunity!

Xu Ming was gradually shedding his indecisiveness.

Just as he was thinking… suddenly, Xu Ming felt an incomparably sharp gaze fall on him, as if to see through him completely.

All of a sudden, Xu Ming had the feeling of not wearing clothes.

"Who is it?"

Such a sharp gaze must belong to the Ningdan experts on the main seat.

Xu Ming swept across a row of Ningdan experts, and just right, his gaze collided with Gu Kongshan's.

Instantly, Xu Ming felt that the other party's sharp gaze directly penetrated his eyes and probed into the depths of his heart.

Transition chapter, because I considered that the faces that haven't been slapped in front should be collected, and many new characters have also appeared, so I wrote it more cautiously, just coded it.

There will be three shifts today, and five shifts will be made up tomorrow.

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