Inside the cave, Li Baxian and Feng Yuechan stared blankly at Lu Ye.
After quite a while, Li Baxian finally said, "Didn't you say it was someone else?"
"I thought it was someone else too, because by my own calculations, I shouldn't have had that many Hunting Points. The first-place holder had exactly a thousand more Hunting Points than I calculated. But just now, after I killed two Tier Five cultivators, the first-place holder's Hunting Points increased by two hundred and forty..."
Earlier, five people had besieged Li Baxian and Feng Yuechan. By the time Lu Ye arrived, one of them had already been killed by Li Baxian.
Lu Ye had ambushed that Tier Five Formation Cultivator, then killed another Tier Five cultivator, cutting down two in succession.
With his Tier Three cultivation, killing Tier Five cultivators across two tiers earned him one hundred and twenty Hunting Points apiece. The first place on the Hunting Rankings had originally held one thousand five hundred and fifty Hunting Points, but after Lu Ye killed those two Tier Five cultivators, it became one thousand seven hundred and ninety—an increase of two hundred and forty.
Combined with the fact that he had not found his own name around the ninetieth rank, Lu Ye could basically conclude that the person ranked first was himself.
Otherwise, there could not have been such a coincidence in the numbers.
"The Hunting Points on the Hunting Rankings are exactly a thousand more than your own calculations? Where did they come from?" Li Baxian asked in confusion.
"After thinking it over and over, there's only one possibility."
As he spoke, Lu Ye took the Golden Spirit Sign from his Storage Space. "It should have come from this! Each day in the Hunting Ground, Heavenly Mechanism selects one person and grants