"Xu Yang's here!"
"I heard he came within a hair of making the Ten Elites Ranking. What a shame."
"His luck was terrible. Just when he was about to make the ranking, a dark horse came charging out of nowhere."
When Xu Yang appeared, many people felt sorry for him. The resources awarded to those on the Ten Elites Ranking had slipped right through his fingers. His luck could hardly have been worse.
Even setting aside the cultivation time in Heavenly Wind Valley, the contribution points and Mystic Origin Qi-Transforming Pills alone were worth nearly a hundred contribution points combined.
A Marrow-Cleansing Martial Artist might not earn that much in a month of risking his life for the sect.
"Congratulations!"
Xu Yang paid no attention to those comments and walked toward Zhang Yong.
"I just got lucky," Zhang Yong said with a smile.
Although everyone had ultimately escaped unscathed, capturing that Phantom Leopard cub had been a brush with death.
"Only you could smile after something like this. I don't think I could bear it," Zhang Yong said with a smile, feeling sorry for Xu Yang as well. Back then, he had hated Xu Yang for ages over having a single tael of silver from his share allotted to him. It was hard to imagine how Xu Yang could miss out on so many resources without showing the slightest reaction.
"What's yours is yours. If I'd made the ranking, wouldn't someone else feel they were just a step away and that I shouldn't have shown up?" Xu Yang said with a smile. He had deliberately concealed his abilities in the first place, so naturally, he had nothing to brood over.
"Look! That's the Young Marquis, Jiang Fan, first among the Ten Elites."
Jiang Fan and Jiang Yan arrived together, stirring