No. 1 Supreme Warrior

chapter 2261-2270

Chapter 2261 After secretly thinking about it, he spoke unwillingly. “Since Senior Brother Nelson isn’t badly wounded, you should take the time to meditate and recover. Why are you standing right now? If you need our help with anything, we will not refuse you.”

What he said did not sound enigmatic. Nelson chuckled softly and nodded at Griffin. Since he meant well, Nelson could not refute what he said. “There’s one small thing that I’m unable to make out. We sent 20 disciples here and why is there only 19 of us out here?” Everybody went silent after they heard Nelson’s question. They looked at one another and a weird look appeared in their eyes.

Griffin’s originally peaceful expression immediately turned gloomy as if he had swallowed a couple of dead flies. Nelson was extremely surprised when he saw the weird expressions on everybody’s faces. He turned around and looked at the crowd. At this moment, he suddenly realized who was the one that had disappeared.

“Where’s Jackie? I saw him stepping onto the Divine Void Slope with my own eyes. Why don’t I see him now? Did something happen to him?” Nelson asked with a slight nervousness. Content provided by NôvelDrama.Org.

The others had an even weirder expression on their faces when they heard his questions. After five to six breaths later, Riv interrupted the silence and pointed to the spot beside him. “Look at this empty spot beside me, do you still remember who stood here previously?”

Nelson looked towards where Riv was pointing at and thought about it. He immediately realized. “This is Jackie’s position! Where is he?!”

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Nelson had a sudden realization after he spoke. He immediately asked. “He’s still in the blood world?!” He did not notice how hoarse and the tremble in his voice as he spoke.

Riv sighed softly and nodded. “He’s still inside and I’m sure he’s still fighting!” Nelson’s expression instantly changed when he heard this. Even his breathing became uneven. He looked forward following where Jackie originally stood and saw that two out of the four Divine Void Warriors covered in the red light had disappeared!

Compared to the others, Nelson clearly knew what this meant. Jackie had killed at least 60 corpse puppets and this was comparable to his results. Jackie had even killed more corpse puppets compared to himself! Jackie was so strong that even he was not Jackie’s opponent? However, wasn’t Jackie only in the intermediate stage of the innate level? Nelson grew increasingly surprised the more he thought about it. The corners of his mouth slightly trembled. “Is it really Jackie? How many more people are still in the blood world?”

Riv had been paying attention to the people in the blood world. Together with the discussion everybody had just now, he was capable of repeating who was still killing in the blood world right now. “There are still five people inside the blood world. Among the five of them, two of them are disciples from the Thousand Leaves Pavilion while the other two are disciples from the Corpse Pavilion. The last one is Jackie from our Dual Sovereign Pavilion. The disciples from the other sects had already gotten rid of three obstacles. This meant that they have killed at least 90 corpse puppets. They will be able to pass the challenge if they kill 30 more corpse sects.”

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Chapter 2262 Apart from Jackie, it was just a matter of time for the four others to kill the final 30 corpse puppets. However, Jackie was much stronger than 90% of the people there even though he had only gotten rid of two Divine Void Warriors.

The surprising look on Nelson’s face was so apparent that the unconvinced feeling filled Griffin’s heart after he saw it. He could not help but speak sulkily.” That guy is just lucky. Who knew what he did?”

Nobody resonated with anything he said. Everybody knew well that he was just envious and jealous of Jackie. The stronger Jackie was, the more terrible he felt as they had a bad relationship. Everybody understood his mentality and did not say anything because of this.

However, Riv spoke with a slight tremble in his voice at this moment.”90! Jackie had killed 90 corpse sects! Look at him! The third Divine Void Warrior in front of him has disappeared!”

What he said successfully attracted everybody’s attention. Not only the Dual Sovereign Pavilion’s disciples, the disciples of the other sects also turned around to look at where Jackie was. It was true that three Divine Void Warriors had disappeared from where Jackie was and only one Divine Void Warriors covered by the red light remained. The disciples of their sect were speechless while the disciples from the other sects started discussing what happened in surprise.

“I thought that Jackie would be the one who was unable to persist among those five in the blood world. After all, he only killed 60 corpse puppets. From the looks of things, there’s a possibility that he might be able to complete the challenge! Sure enough, we cannot look down on anybody!”

After this person finished speaking, a Dual Sovereign Pavilion’s disciple standing beside him could not help but speak loudly. “What do you mean by he might be unable to complete the challenge? Remove the word ‘might’! I’m sure that my Junior Brother Jackie is capable of doing it! I’m sure he would be able to get rid of the fourth one as he successfully got rid of three of them!”

At this moment, none of the Dual Sovereign Pavilion’s disciples, apart from Griffin, resented Jackie. Previously, they felt ashamed because of Jackie, but the strength Jackie presented right now made them proud of him. After all, four out of those five who stayed in the blood world were from fourth grade sects. Among them, Jackie was the only one from the third-grade sect.

Although all of them were qualified to enter the Secret Place for Resources, they were disciples from third-grade sects and disciples from fourth grade sects were much stronger than them. They always had a feeling of being belittled by the fourth grade disciples! Right now, Jackie had finally made the third-

grade sects proud. Griffin inhaled deeply. “How’s that possible?! How can he be capable of such achievements?!”

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Griffin was slightly trembling when he was speaking as if he was unable to believe that this was happening. After he took in several deep breaths, his facial expression had been incredibly darkened. Zamian also frowned deeply while Theo looked like a family member of his had just died. They had never imagined that Jackie had already achieved such strength and was comparable to the strongest disciples from the fourth-grade sects. This was beyond their imagination!

At this moment, somebody yelled loudly. “Look! The fourth Divine Void Warrior in front of Jackie had also disappeared!”

This noise was no different from tossing a time bomb onto the calm surface. Everybody widened their eyes in surprise and looked towards where Jackie was previously in disbelief. The fourth Divine Void Warrior had disappeared and everything happened so quickly. They were still discussing if Jackie would be able to complete this challenge just now, but Jackie had immediately proved them wrong.

Chapter 2263 Just like what the Dual Sovereign Pavilion’s disciple said, he should remove the words ‘maybe as Jackie would definitely complete the challenge. On top of that, he would complete the challenge much faster than everybody else! The disappearance of the fourth Divine Void Warrior meant that Jackie had successfully killed 120 corpse puppets! What a great achievement this was! Even the eldest disciple of the Corpse Pavilion was unable to complete the mission as the fourth Divine Void Warrior did not disappear.

“Goodness me! The most important thing is that this guy is only in the intermediate stage of the innate level. Since when is somebody in the intermediate stage of the innate level so strong? There are so many of us, who are in the final stage of the innate level, who have failed! On top of that, we’re forced into the corner and are unable to fight back!” His lips were slightly trembling as he spoke. He was unable to believe that everything was true. This was such a great blow for them!

Nobody could imagine that the first person to complete the mission was an unknown disciple from the Dual Sovereign Pavilion. Although Jackie caused a commotion previously, it was within a small radius. Everybody only slightly looked up at Jackie but none of them imagined that he would have such strength and talents. Even the eldest disciple of the Corpse Pavilion paled into insignificance in front of him! The reason for the fight between the Corpse Pavilion and Thousand Leaves Pavilion seemed to be nothing after what happened!

In the blood world where Jackie was in, he had a black sword in his hand and looked like an undefeatable pine tree standing in this world filled with blood. One another another, the corpse puppets dropped dead around him. Their black blood pooled into a small river and circulated around Jackie with a swooshing sound. There was still some black blood on his sword and the blood dripped down drop by drop following the edge of the sword.

Jackie exhaled deeply and finally relaxed when the final corpse puppet died. Compared to the situation Inthe other worlds, his surroundings were much cleaner as most of the corpse puppets died from a single attack! Jackie’s means of killing wasn’t to destroy the corpse puppet’s defense. Instead, he used Destroying the Void to kill their souls. He only needed a small cut and the corpse puppet would definitely die. The corpse puppets, who were originally threatening him with their claws and fangs, had slowly fallen to the ground one after the other. The corpse puppets no longer blocked his line of sight and Jackie slightly raised his chin to look far away with burning eyes.

About 100 meters from where he was, a man in armor stood straight there with a sword in his hand. The two of them looked at each other from afar. The Divine Void Warrior was still the same and even his

expression remained the same. Jackie put the black sword away and slowly walked past the corpse puppets’ bodies on the ground. He slowly approached the Divine Void Warrior. The old announcer made it clear previously that they had won the challenge after they successfully killed 120 corpse puppets. If so, the last Divine Void Warrior he saw was no danger to him.

He did not float in midair or rushed forward. He slowly approached the Divine Void Warrior one step after the other. He spent around 10 minutes before arriving in front of the Divine Void Warrior. There wasn’t any difference between this Divine Void Warrior and the others he saw previously. Every person that stepped onto the Divine Void Slope would face Divine Void Warriors with different appearances. However, the Divine Void Warriors each individual face would remain the same.

Jackie subconsciously took a step backwards when he heard the cracking sound as if a mechanism was activated. He was afraid of something uncontrollable happening. However, the Divine Void Warrior’s arm moved at this moment!

Chapter 2264 Jackie glared alertly at the Divine Void Warrior in front of him. The Divine Void Warrior was expressionless as he stretched out his palm. A wave of grayish-black energy that looked like mist slowly gathered in his palm. Jackie was familiar with this wave of energy. He experienced it several times in the past and realized that this was the energy the corpse puppet released after they were killed.

He remembered clearly that his body experienced extreme hunger after he felt the wave of energy and It felt like that energy was the best food in the world. Right now, waves of the energy gathered in the palms of the Divine Void Warrior and there were a total of 120 waves of energy. Jackie’s heart raced as he wondered what the warrior was thinking.

The energy continued to gather like streams flowing into the river in the Divine Void Warrior’s palm. After five breaths, a maroon-colored crystal appeared in front of Jackie. Jackie could not help but exclaim when he finally saw what the crystal looked like. “Shattered Soul Crystal?”

This was a Shattered Soul Crystal the size of two thumbs. The entire crystal was red in color and looked like a piece of blood jade that had been buried for hundreds of thousand years. When observed closer, there were sparkles of red dots inside, and there was a soul-capturing beauty to the crystal.

Jackie obtained two Shattered Soul Crystals in the past, and they came from the corpse covered in red runes outside the Ten Absolutes Trap Array. One of them was the size of a thumb while the other was the size of his palm. One of the crystals had been completely absorbed by Jackie while the other was still intact and stored in the Mustard Seed.

“How can it be a Shattered Soul Crystal? Why is it a Shattered Soul Crystal?” Jackie was extremely surprised. Why did the Shattered Soul Crystal appear here? Did the Divine Void Warrior coagulate the Shattered Soul Crystal as a reward for him?

In Jackie’s memories, the Scattered Soul Crystals were precious treasures even in the Divine Void World. Only great sects would have one or two crystals. However, why does he continuously see so many crystals in this third-grade world? This did not make any sense. He was certain that there was something wrong with the West Cercei State. A long time ago, something huge definitely happened in the West Cercei State and it was definitely related to the Divine Void World.

Jackie exhaled deeply as all sorts of assumptions appeared in his head. No matter what he assumed, he was unable to make the correct decision as he did not have enough information. The same scene appeared in all five independent blood worlds. The other five people also completed their challenge within the required time and arrived in front of their respective Divine Void Warriors. However, they did not have the same perspective as Jackie and were only glaring at the crystals. They knew that this was definitely a precious treasure but they had no idea what it actually was and its function.

Although the masked man was already in the spring solidifying realm, his knowledge was still limited. After all, the world they were in was only a third grade world and was incomparable to the Divine Void World. On top of that, Jackie’s memories came from the strongest masters of the Divine Void World while

the masked man was only the eldest disciple of a fourth-grade sect in West Cercei State located in the Hestia Continent.

All of them looked at the Divine Void Warriors stretching out their hands in front of them puzzlingly. The Corpse Pavilion disciple, Lennon Wachs, even stretched out his finger to touch the weird crystal.

Chapter 2265 At this moment, a cracking sound was suddenly heard coming from the Scattered Soul Crystal, and cracks started to appear on the crystals. The cracks grew with an unprecedented speed and soon covered the entire crystal. The crystals looked like they would break at any time and the precious energy stored inside would once again be released. Both the masked man and Lennon’s response was to put their guards up mentally. They took two steps backward and once again tightened their grip on their weapons in order to react to any sudden changes. To them, the crystals seemed to be rewarded to those who managed to pass the Divine Void Slope. However, this was their assumption and none of them were sure.

Compared to the frightened disciples from the Corpse Pavilion, Graham and Benjamin’s reactions were slightly composed. Although they were also glaring at the Scattered Soul Crystals while they gradually cracked, vigilantly, they did not hide from It. Jackie was the only one who looked at the Scattered Soul Crystal in a regretful and anxious manner. After the scattered Soul Crystals crack, the energy will be immediately released. If he failed to absorb the power, the precious and pure spirit energy would be completely wasted. This was definitely a great loss for Jackie and he dared not waste any time. Before the Scattered Soul Crystal completely broke into pieces, he sat down with his knees crossed to calm himself Down and to be prepared to absorb the energy at any time

Following the last cracking sound, the Scattered Soul Crystal was completely broken. A great sea of spirit energy came pouring toward Jackie with no restriction. Jackie frowned as he immediately absorbed the energy into his own body. He performed spells with his hands and waves of black light flowed around his fingers. He quickly activated Destroying the Void and started forming the soul swords without holding

them back. In order to form the soul swords, he required the support of a strong aura. It was a waste to not form the soul swords after absorbing such a large amount of pure spirit energy!

Jackie did not require any teaching from teachers or spend any time to slowly understand how to practice the martial skills. Due to the selfless sacrifice from the previous great master, Jackie’s understanding and training toward Destroying the Void had already achieved an incomparable level. What he required was the support of strong spirit energy in order to form more soul swords. Now that he had absorbed such a huge amount of pure spirit energy from the Scattered Soul Crystals, he was forming the soul swords with an astonishing speed.

“31! 32!” Jackie slowly counted with every soul sword he formed. This Scattered Soul Crystal was double the size of the one that he absorbed previously. He felt like his veins were about to pop as he was absorbing such a huge amount of spirit power. However, Jackie was much stronger than he used to be.

During this period of time, not only did he replay how to activate Destroying the Void in his heart a few hundred times, but he had also managed to form 15 soul swords. With so much experience, he faced no obstacles and was several times faster when forming the soul swords.

Time slowly passed by and during the lengthy period of forming the soul swords, Jackie had no sense of how much time had already gone by.

“Cough, cough…” After absorbing the last trace of the pure spirit energy, Jackie could not help but cough out a mouthful of blood. The red blood stained his clothes as his complexion turned pale. However, he was unable to suppress his happiness. After he absorbed the pure spirit power from the Scattered Soul Crystal, he managed to form another 20 soul swords. Together with the 15 soul swords previously, he was capable of forming 35 soul swords at once!

Chapter 2266 Jackie had never imagined that this would happen. He initially thought that this was just a normal way of increasing his fighting prowess and had never imagined that he would obtain such benefits.

However, his body was overwhelmed as he absorbed a hefty amount of pure spirit power. As a result, he turned pale and vomited blood as he suffered from some internal injuries. To Jackie, however, this was nothing as it was incomparable to what he had obtained

A disciple of the Thousand Leaves Pavilion stared straight at the Divine Void Slope and feebly commented, “Why haven’t they come out? Were they transferred to another world after they passed the test? As we’ve been eliminated, are we unable to observe how they go through the upcoming tests?”

All five disciples in the blood world had completed their mission, and all four Divine Void Warriors in front of them had disappeared. This meant that all of them had passed the test. Still, there were no movements at where they originally stood on the Divine Void Slope, much to everyone’s bewilderment.

After all, everyone that was eliminated would be transferred back to the Divine Void Slope from the blood world, but everyone was confused and began making assumptions when those who completed the tasks had not returned. After the remaining five passed the test, the Divine Void Slope also changed. All the Divine Void Warriors placed in front of the challengers had disappeared, and the scene had regained its unobstructed view.

After some time, the people there heard something swishing, as though a strong wind had blown past the trees, followed by several muffled banging noises. All five challengers that passed through the test finally returned to their original places. They were not transported back but were tossed in midair, and the challengers could not react in time due to how abrupt they were thrown out. Thus, all five of them fell to the ground in an extremely embarrassing state. Fortunately, they were martial artists, and minor wounds were nothing to them.

The masked man placed both hands on the ground and managed to stand up. He patted the dust off his body in a speechless manner and could not help but look up toward where he fell down from.

“Our eldest senior brother is so strong! He passed the challenge without any difficulties. The group of masters are incomparable to our senior brother!”

“The treasures on this Divine Void Slope are for our eldest senior brother to take. He’s the only one with the strength to get them!”

The loud compliments drowned the voices of the rest. The disciples of the Corpse Pavilion were extremely excited when they saw that the masked man was finally returned. They did not stop talking and sang praises of the masked man continuously.

The masked man was used to this after so many years. He had always been the top disciple in his sect, and none could match up to him. As such praises had always been surrounding him, they had no effect on him.

He exhaled softly and ignored the compliments as he asked coldly. “How many people won the challenge?”

He remembered what the announcer, old-sounding as it was, had said. They would face nine Divine Void Warriors in total, and there were four waiting for him as he managed to eliminate four in this challenge. He wanted to know who else was competing for the treasures with him at this moment.

Zamian immediately replied in a flattery manner,” Five of you managed to pass the challenge.” He paused and had no intention of continuing the conversation.

The masked man exhaled softly after he heard this. There were five of them, but the others might not be able to hold out for much longer. After all, the current challenge was extremely difficult, let alone those they had to face later. He estimated that less than ten percent of those who remained would be able to continue when he heard the rules in the blood world.

True enough, his assumption was correct, and the number of people that succeeded was less than his expectation. “Is Graham Eliot one of them?”

Chapter 2267 The masked man had asked in a barely audible voice, and Zamian quickly nodded. “Benjamin Gale and Graham Eliot from the Thousand Leaves Pavilion had passed the challenge. Graham is much stronger and took a shorter time compared to Benjamin.”

The masked man turned toward where Benjamin was and noticed that he was slightly pale. Benjamin had swallowed some pills as he focused on recovering and restoring his true energy. It was obvious that everybody had used a lot of their true energy when they were in the blood world.

“Who else?” asked the masked man again.

Zamian coughed lightly as his expression turned rigid. He did not wish to mention this, but he did not have a choice. “There’s… Senior Brother Lennon from our sect and…yourself,” Zamian stuttered as he spoke, and the masked man turned around to look at him in surprise.

Zamian forced a smile, and the masked man frowned when he saw Zamian’s expression. He was extremely puzzled. “Why do you look like you’re about to cry? Just be honest and tell me what happened. Why are you stuttering?”

Something then clicked in the masked man’s mind, and he asked, “You’ve only mentioned four of us. Who’s the fifth?”

The masked man had finally asked a question Zamian had to answer directly. He gritted his teeth as he made up his mind. “It’s Jackie.”

“What!?” The masked man thought that he had made a mistake. What was he talking about? The fifth person was Jackie?

Impossible! This was impossible!

“What are you talking aboutI’m asking you who the fifth person is not how Jackie is doing hissed the masked man

Zamian exhaled deeply as he forced himself to calm down. “I’m talking about Jackie, he’s the fifth person who completed the mission. Also.. He isn’t just the fifth person to complete the challenge, he’s the first one to do so.” Zamian was immediately relieved, as if he had completed a huge mission in life, when he finally let the words out of his chest. No matter what he did, he could never escape this question

“What? What did you say?” The masked man squeezed the words through gritted teeth. At this moment, Graham and the others had opened their eyes to look at the masked man. After all, they all knew who the masked man was, and he managed to capture their attention with his heart wrenching roar.

Graham heard everything they had said, seeing as both Zamian and the masked man’s voices were very audible to the rest of them. His emotionless expression started to crumble like cracks appearing on thick ice, and he was unable to remain calm.

If he was not tending to his wounds, he would have jumped up from the Divine Void Slope or rushed over to ask if this was true!

“Is it true that he was the first?” Graham’s voice slightly trembled as he spoke.

The other disciples standing beside Graham nodded, and it looked like Zamian was telling the truth. Regardless, Graham felt that everything that happened was absurd. He remembered that Jackie was only in the intermediate stage of the innate level, and there was a limit to his strength.

He fought hard in the blood world, and only those who experienced killing 120 corpse puppets knew how difficult it was to kill all of them at once!

Chapter 2268 He fought hard at that moment and nearly finished his last true energy to kill all the corpse puppets. Everybody else faced the same issue.

Benjamin was from the same sect as Graham, and Graham had also asked him how he managed to spend the last moments after they were transferred back to the Divine Void slope. After all, fighting so

many corpse puppets had exhausted their true energy and rendered them helpless.

After enquiring Benjamin for the details of the process, Graham came to a conclusion that no matter how strong they were, as long as they were in the innate level, their true energy would still be used up. After all, the speed of their killing was in direct proportion to their strength. The faster they killed, the crazier the corpse puppets grew, resulting in more energy being drained in the process. The weaker competitors would kill the enemies with a slower speed, and the corpse puppets’ attack would be weakened.

The Corpse Pavilion’s eldest disciple and himself were unquestionably the strongest among everyone there. They were the fastest in killing enemies, and the corpse puppets in their area were the craziest. This caused a large amount of their true energy to be exhausted, although they were the strongest. In the end, they were unable to continue.

As for Jackie…

How did he manage to surpass their speed and become the first person to kill 120 corpse puppets when he was only at the intermediate stage of innate level? Was Jackie possibly stronger than them? However, this could cause the corpse puppets to go crazy and consume a huge amount of Jackie’s true energy!

The differences in their realms not only caused the differences in their lethality, but there was also a difference in the storage of their true energy. Those In the final stage of the innate level had one quarter more storage of true energy compared to those in the intermediate stage. Of course, the precondition was that both were practicing martial skills of the same level. Graham assumed that Jackie had not practiced any high-level martial skill as that required talents and a good understanding of the realms.

Only those who achieved a certain fighting prowess can practice high-level martial skills. This was a common sense that everyone had the same understanding, and that young man could not have practiced high-level martial skills. Since he had a quarter less of true energy storage compared to

Graham, how did Jackie manage to finish the mission first when Graham suffered in the end, nearly failing to complete the challenge?

Graham just could not figure it out. He looked toward Jackie, who was nearby.

Jackie stood at his position calmly as he ignored all the discussions around him.

“He wasn’t hurt?” Graham’s voice was slightly hoarse when he spoke.

The Thousand Leaves Pavilion’s disciples beside him quickly replied, “I’ve been looking at Jackie since just now, and he didn’t suffer from any wounds at all. He didn’t replenish his true energy since he returned and had ignored anyone that wanted to talk to him, standing still and looking forward in silence this whole time.”

“Impossible,” insisted Graham, unable to believe what had happened.

There was something wrong, for sure. He killed 120 corpse puppets and had struggled when he did, and he was also wounded after completely exhausting his true energy. On the other hand, Graham could not help but suspect that something was wrong with Jackie as Jackie was the complete opposite of himself. Graham knew deep in his heart that something was wrong with this guy as Jackie did not suffer from any wounds or exhaustion of true energy.

“What’s impossible?” the Thousand Leaves Pavilion’s disciple standing beside Graham asked curiously when they heard what he said.

Graham did not answer his question and only observed Jackie quietly as all sorts of ideas appeared In his head. “I think it’s impossible, too.”

Chapter 2269 Benjamin suddenly chimed into the conversation.

Graham looked over and saw that Benjamin was also deep in his thoughts as he looked at Jackie. He knew that Benjamin was thinking what he was thinking. He had also experienced the fight with 120 corpse puppets and almost failed in the end. Benjamin’s wounds were more severe than himself, so he was even puzzled by Jackie’s current condition.

“I get it now!” At this moment, the masked man, who was some distance away, suddenly spoke up. A calculative look flashed past his eyes, and he looked like he had solved the most difficult problem in his life. He spoke loudly, and as his position was apparent, he immediately attracted everyone’s attention with his boisterous exclamation. Even Jackie looked over, and the masked man sneered before narrowing his eyes. “You are practicing the soul attribute, aren’t you?!” challenged the masked man, sounding very certain with himself.

Many people, at that moment, realized that Jackie indeed practiced martial skills of soul attribute as they saw Jackie’s attack. The masked man and the others were also looking at Jackie, so they also saw everything. Jackie, however, chuckled and said nothing. He ignored the masked man and wanted to see what the masked man was about to say.

The masked man exhaled deeply. “No wonder you were so calm when you came out. You looked like you’ve just had a meal in the blood and suffered no losses when we almost exhausted our true energy! On top of that, you’re only in the intermediate stage of innate level, and you should have one quarter less true energy storage compared to us. Why are you all fine and dandy when our energy has been completely exhausted?!”

The others immediately agreed with what the masked man said. After the five of them came out, they naturally became the focus of everybody there. Compared to how tired, exhausted, and wounded the other four were, Jackie seemed to be in the pink of health, and they could not feel any changes from him. It felt like these five people did not move to the same place and were doing different things. Everybody even gossiped and theorized why they were in two different states.

The masked man turned around and faced Jackie as he spoke, “The corpse puppets had an incredible level of defense, and we had to spend a huge amount of energy to kill or incapacitate them. We had to execute strong martial skills to destroy the corpse puppets’ defense, yet you didn’t need to do that.”

The masked man paused here as a darkened look crept to his face. A hint of jealousy flashed through his eyes, no doubt envious of Jackie’s good luck. He then added, “You are practicing martial skills of the soul attribute! The corpse puppets’ weakness happens to be their soul, and you need only destroy the corpse puppet’s exterior and let your attack penetrate them. You’d be able to kill the corpse puppets’ souls easily!”

The masked man was a master that was once in the solidifying soul level and the strongest among the Corpse Pavilion’s disciples. Before anyone else realized what was going on, he had already found the crucial point of the issue and knew why Jackie was so relaxed.

Jackie could not help but think better of the masked man as the situation was just like what the masked man said. He was completely unbothered because the martial skill he practiced happened to suppress the corpse puppets. Hence, he was able to kill all 120 corpse puppets without exerting too much strength.

The masked man’s explanation could be understood easily, and everyone quickly understood what he said. This time, their surroundings were filled with chatters of discussion again. “No wonder this guy was unhinged when he came out. Turns out, he’s been cutting corners! He’s so lucky. The others killed a hundred and twenty corpse puppets with much difficulty, while he only had to break their skin to kill them easily!”

Chapter 2270 “That’s right; he got lucky! If Jackie didn’t practice martial skills of the soul attribute, I’m sure that he would’ve failed the mission and gotten eliminated!”

“He’s not qualified to advance forward with the other four!”

“That’s right! This guy is just lucky. How can he manage to advance if his skill didn’t happen to suppress the corpse puppets?!”

Many people were unconvinced, viewing Jackie like he was just a guy who hit the Jackiepot. They admired the other masters who succeeded with their true power, yet they despised and were unconvinced with Jackie. Why did he advance forward with the four other masters? Most importantly, this guy was only in the intermediate stage of the innate level. Why did he succeed when they, a group of people in the final stage of innate level, failed to advance further?

Griffin felt terrible as though he had eaten kilograms of dung. Before the masked man explained things, the thought that Jackie was stronger than him tormented him. However, he felt even worse after he heard the explanation. After all, Jackie managed to advance forward because he was lucky, and not because he was stronger than Griffin.

No matter what, Jackie would be treated as an important talent the sect would train with his current results. Who knew how much resources they were going to throw at him? Griffin felt even worse when he thought of this.

“Don’t pay attention to what they say. They’re just… jealous,” commented Riv as he eyed Jackie.

Jackie chuckled. To be frank, he had never paid attention to what the people around him discussed. It did not matter if they complimented him, envied, admonished him, or said anything bad about him. After all, the soul attribute was not something everyone could practice, let alone achieve his current achievement.

He turned around and glanced at Riv. “It’s alright.”

Riv sighed softly. Since they entered the Secret Place for Resources, the various topics surrounding Jackie had never stopped. He always managed to become the center of every conversation.

“In that case… Don’t feel too good about yourself, then!” The masked man’s voice once again suppressed the discussion surrounding them that drifted into Jackie’s ears. Jackie turned and noticed how the masked man eyed him with a strange expression In his eyes. The more the others slandered Jackie, the happier the masked man was. He was even happier when he knew that he was the one causing all this.

Jackie sneered and said, “I’d say the same thing for you, too.”

The masked man was stunned. Jackie had always managed to surprise people, and all of a sudden, Jackie was repeating the same thing to him?

“Hahahaha!” The masked man sneered and felt that Jackie was growing even more outrageous than before. “B*stard! You better hope that you’ll be eliminated in the next challenge. Otherwise, I’ll make sure that you wish you were dead when you face me!”

Jackie knew what he was talking about. The old voice said that they had to face ten challenges, but there would only be nine Divine Void Warriors. This meant that the people they had to face in the tenth challenge would be the others who also passed the other challenges and arrived at the last challenge.

The masked man raised his eyebrows and commented disdainfully, “You might not make it to the last challenge. With your current capabilities, you’ll surely be eliminated when facing the sixth Divine Void Warrior.”

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