"First place, Yun Xi of the Southern Spirit Sect, with 539 Identity Tokens."
"Second place, Baili Zhongxue of the North Ridge Sacred Ground, with 375 Identity Tokens."
"Third place, Yuan Shuo of the Southern Spirit Sect, with 312 Identity Tokens."
"Fourth place, Tantai Ling of the Returning Origin Stronghold, with 303 Identity Tokens..."
As the rankings were announced, everyone could only accept them, no matter how incredulous they felt.
What could they do when the others were clever enough to pull it off without anyone noticing?
Just thinking about it was humiliating!
In the first round of their Northern and Southern Regions Grand Tournament, two of the top three places had actually gone to the Southern Spirit Sect!
Everyone's feelings were especially complicated at that moment. Even the Southern Spirit Sect's elders, whom they had assumed would be delighted, felt just as conflicted.
They did not believe for a moment that a sly little fox like Lan Yue had collected fewer tokens than the others.
There was only one explanation: she had given most of her Identity Tokens to Yun Xi!
Looking at the youngsters before him, Sect Master Yun Chong frowned. "Lan Yue, you should accept the honor that rightfully belongs to you. There's no need to give someone else the ranking you should have earned."
"If you hadn't come up with this way of collecting Identity Tokens, they certainly wouldn't have gathered so many..."
Lan Yue looked back at him innocently. "Sect Master, look, aren't I still in the top ten? That's pretty good too!"
Yun Chong frowned again. "How is that the same? Although everyone in the top ten receives a reward, those toward the bottom never get much attention."
Lan Yue's inner voice was brimming with delight.
[That's exactly what I wanted!]
Yun Chong, who had