Outside the hotel, only the unlucky alchemist from World Relief Valley was left by himself.
The sunlight fell on him, warm and bright, but it couldn't warm his chilled heart.
Hadn't they agreed to go sightseeing together today and exchange cultivation insights?
How had he ended up going out alone?
People came and went from the hotel in pairs and groups, mostly chatting about last night's trial.
"Honestly, I think the body cultivators and sword cultivators were the hardest to beat in this trial. Those two kinds of cultivators have such an unfair advantage during Qi Refining."
"Exactly. I was just unlucky. My first three opponents were all body cultivators, then I got sword cultivators twice in a row. By the time I finally got a spell cultivator on my sixth match and beat them, I'd already fallen outside the top three thousand."
"Yeah, that's pretty rough."
"Ugh~ I wish they'd publish the rankings. Then we could see who was good enough to take first place."
"I don't really care who came first, but I'm curious which big shot set up this trial."
"Wasn't there an ancient cultivator who emerged from seclusion a while ago? Maybe it was him."
"Huh? Wasn't the ancient cultivator who came out of seclusion a demonic cultivator? He was even trying to refine a Ten Thousand Soul Banner."
"Those two aren't the same person at all. The demonic cultivator who wanted to refine a Ten Thousand Soul Banner is the older brother of 'Cang Jiezi' from three years ago. It was even announced on the Supreme Dao Sect's official website."
Their voices faded into the distance, and the conversation drifted from the trial to other topics.
If getting body cultivators three times in a row counted as bad luck, then what did getting them