Cultivation Art Training Points Rankings, first place: Evergreen Sect, 1,460 points.
Second place: Daoxuan Sect, 218 points.
Third place: Azure Luan Sect, 205 points.
Fourth place: Supreme Purity Sect, 200 points.
Seventh place: Shadow Demon Sect, 120 points.
Eighth place: Falling Cloud Sect, 115 points.
Ninth place: Limitless Sect, 108 points.
Tenth place: Dao Inquiry Sect, 102 points.
The top ten on the cultivation art training points rankings had all passed one hundred points, but only the first-place Evergreen Sect had broken straight past fourteen hundred, leaving everyone else far behind.
The main reason the Evergreen Sect had so many points was that Tie Dali and Liu Yurou had trained several cultivation arts to high levels.
Tie Dali had already trained the low-grade Yellow-tier Tiger Roar Fist to consummate mastery, adding 50 points, and the high-grade Yellow-tier Fierce Tiger Roaring at the Mountain Fist to consummate mastery as well, adding 200 points. Together with the high-grade Yellow-tier Three-Transformation Evergreen Art, which he had trained to the pinnacle, adding 400 points, he alone had earned the sect 650 points.
Meanwhile, Liu Yurou had trained the mid-grade Yellow-tier Wind-Splitting Claw to consummate mastery, the low-grade Profound-tier Clear Breeze Returning Spirit Sword Art to major attainment, and the high-grade Yellow-tier Three-Transformation Evergreen Art to the pinnacle as well, earning the sect a total of 660 points.
The two of them alone had earned the sect over thirteen hundred points.
After all, the two had already cultivated in the sect for fifteen years.
The other sects' disciples had only cultivated in their sects for fifteen days. Even someone who could train a single cultivation art to major attainment would be a genius among geniuses.
In this week's cultivation art training progress competition, the moment the rankings came out, every sect master was left dumbfounded by the first-place Evergreen Sect's score.
In all the previous cultivation art training competitions, no one had ever surpassed a thousand points on the first day.
Only with a hundredfold time acceleration could a sect barely break past a thousand points on the sixth or seventh day of the competition.
Yet now, the competition had only just begun, and the Evergreen Sect already had over fourteen hundred points.
That meant at least two people in the sect, or even more, must have trained Profound-tier cultivation arts to consummate mastery or even higher to achieve such a score.
How the hell were ordinary S-rank sects like theirs supposed to compete with the E-rank Evergreen Sect?
Most sects attributed the Evergreen Sect's enormous first-day score entirely to its disciple with a heavenly spiritual root.
That heavenly spiritual root disciple had probably encountered some special opportunity, allowing them to train a particular cultivation art with such ease and reach that level.
Sect World 999's chat channel.
During the previous two weeks, whenever the weekly competition began, quite a few sects would make bold declarations in the world channel about how high they intended to rank.
Now, however, no one proclaimed any lofty ambitions in the Sect World chat channel anymore.
Originally, Perfected Daoxuan, the Daoxuan Sect's sect master, had still held a sliver of hope of overtaking the Evergreen Sect.
But now, not only did the Evergreen Sect have a Foundation Establishment cultivator, its cultivation art training progress was also terrifying to such a degree that he had completely lost any desire to compete with it.
He had seen things clearly now. Although his Daoxuan Sect could rank second in Sect World 999, compared with the Evergreen Sect, the gap was simply as vast as heaven and earth.
Starting this week, first place in every weekly competition would probably belong to the Evergreen Sect.
Within the Evergreen Sect's territory, outside Lin Feng's cave abode.
Since this week's main competition concerned cultivation art training progress, with no accompanying trial, most of the Evergreen Sect's disciples were training within the sect.
A small portion of the disciples handled matters such as routine patrols within the sect and inspections of the surrounding towns.
With the Evergreen Sect's current blessed-land-level spiritual aura, the newly recruited disciples' cultivation progress was climbing steadily.
Lin Feng had also established special rewards for disciples who trained their cultivation arts.
Anyone who trained any cultivation art to minor attainment within seven years would receive five hundred low-grade spirit stones; anyone who trained any cultivation art to major attainment would receive one thousand low-grade spirit stones; anyone who trained any cultivation art to consummate mastery would receive two thousand low-grade spirit stones; and anyone who reached the pinnacle would receive five thousand low-grade spirit stones.
The generous rewards sent the new disciples into raptures. Apart from eating, they spent every day in their cave abodes training the high-grade Yellow-tier Three-Transformation Evergreen Art, along with either the Tiger Roar Fist or the Wind-Splitting Claw, their enthusiasm for training soaring.
These rewards applied not only to the new disciples but also to the sect's existing disciples.
At this moment, Tie Dali had come to see Lin Feng.
The main reason was that Lin Feng had once told him to come and see him before breaking through if he felt he was about to reach the Golden Core Realm.
Going from an Acquired mortal to the Golden Core Realm in three weeks was far too outrageous, even for someone with a heavenly spiritual root.
Of course, in reality, Tie Dali had already cultivated for no fewer than seven years since obtaining his heavenly spiritual root. For someone with a heavenly-grade spiritual root, seven years was more than enough to enter the Golden Core Realm.
Today, Tie Dali felt that he could already break through to the Core Formation Realm, so he had made a special trip to see Lin Feng.
When Lin Feng learned that Tie Dali was about to break through to the Core Formation Realm, a trace of delight and excitement appeared on his face.
But if he let Tie Dali break through directly, it would probably trigger another world announcement.
If reaching the Foundation Establishment Stage in two weeks was understandable, then reaching the Golden Core Realm in three weeks would arouse suspicion and panic among even more sects.
Lin Feng wondered whether there was any way for the Evergreen Sect to receive the world rewards for advancing to a Golden Core sect without the world issuing an announcement.
Soon, Lin Feng had an idea.
He turned his attention to his one remaining targeted trait draw.
Now that the sect had advanced to a Foundation Establishment sect, it could equip three traits. However, it currently had only two traits equipped, One Day Like a Year and Myriad Convergences of the Spirit Ruins, leaving one vacant slot.
It would be ideal if he could obtain a sect concealment trait that blocked world announcements while still allowing him to receive world rewards.
Thus, Lin Feng decided to use this targeted trait draw.
Before drawing, he performed the mysterious ritual again, then chose to draw a trait.
[Congratulations, host. You have successfully drawn the golden sect trait Hidden Sect Mystic Aura.] [Hidden Sect Mystic Aura: a golden sect trait. Once equipped, breakthroughs by Evergreen Sect disciples and sect advancements will not trigger world announcements, but Sect World rewards can still be obtained; it can conceal the sect's spiritual aura, making it appear to be an ordinary sect when outsiders investigate; it can hide sect disciples' cultivation, functioning like a sect-wide concealment divine ability. All sect disciples can conceal themselves at will without needing to train any additional concealment cultivation arts.]