Auspicious Clouds Like a Canopy, Feigning Retreat to Capture

Yi Tianzheng looked somewhat displeased, but he did not rashly intervene, choosing instead to wait and see.

"Yun Xuan, don't be presumptuous!" Ling Xiao frowned and sharply voiced his displeasure.

"Second Senior Brother, you know perfectly well how much I gave up for this spot. Why does he get to be a main member while I become a substitute? What gives him the right? Just because he defeated Song Daoling? What the hell is Song Daoling?" The fury Liu Yunxuan had suppressed for so long erupted completely at this moment. He did not even spare his normally respected Second Senior Brother any face.

At his level of cultivation, ordinary matters were no longer worth getting worked up over, much less losing his composure like this.

But this grand competition was not merely about fighting for the Earth Infant Fruit. The rankings obtained in the competition also concerned their future development. Even for a force with foundations as deep as Myriad Manifestations Palace, resources at the Golden Core Stage were limited, and the path upward was even narrower.

This time, a record-breaking twelve Earth Infant Fruits had matured. That represented twelve opportunities to form an Infant.

Even so, there was not enough to go around. Several Protectors within the palace were still waiting in line; there were too many monks and too little porridge.

Therefore, he needed to begin preparing for the next ripening of the Earth Infant Fruit.

The Earth Infant Fruit bore fruit once every six hundred years. At his age, he could absolutely hold on until then. What he needed to do now was accumulate as much merit as possible to exchange for an opportunity to form an Infant in the future.

This grand competition was an extremely crucial part of that. As long as he could make