If I upgrade, I can win prizes

Chapter 483: Rush for Points
Lu Ang looked around. There were nine people in this small circle of geniuses. All of them had the strength of the Nascent Soul stage, which showed that they should all have natural spiritual roots.

However, most of them were stuck in the early stage of the Nascent Soul. Only the "Xie Bian" whom he replaced and another formation genius from the Tianji Sect were in the middle stage of the Nascent Soul. This guy was ranked exactly 40th.

The other few players are also ranked within 120th place and can be considered as seeded players with the possibility of advancing. In order to increase the chance of advancing, choosing to form a group is naturally an excellent strategy.

The twenty-three of us are like the leaders in this small group and have a lot of prestige.

Since they agreed to form a team, Lu Ang didn't waste any words. He used his thunder magic and took the lead, leading them into the dense plant forest in the distance.

The plants in this place really give people a very different feeling. They are clearly motionless trees, flowers and plants, but as soon as you enter the forest, you feel a vague sense of malice surrounding you. Even when you use your spiritual sense to explore, you cannot find out where this malice comes from.

Fortunately, perhaps because they sensed the powerful spiritual fluctuations on everyone, no plant monsters suddenly attacked.

Lu Ang didn't understand the classification of spiritual plants, but the disciple of the Shenmu Sect in the team did. His previous ranking was only 118th, at the bottom of the small group, so he actively demonstrated his value:
"The fruit on that tree over there is the Fire Melting Fruit, but unfortunately it is only of the third-grade middle grade, and it is not yet fully mature, so the effect of refining medicine will be greatly reduced."

"That spiritual herb is not right! Ordinary saber-toothed grass doesn't have that color! The red spots on it smell a bit bloody, maybe it has sucked blood! Ah, it's also level three, forget it."

"Everyone, head over there! There is a strong aura of plants and trees over there, there must be high-level spiritual plants! This is the secret method of my Shenmu Sect, it will be a great help in finding herbs!"

"Level 4! I told you there's a Level 4 spiritual plant here! Let me see, um... it looks like Edelweiss, one of the main ingredients for a Level 4 longevity pill."

"No! There's something wrong with the fluff on it. It seems to be too much. Let me take a closer look... It's a spirit! It ran away!"

……

As he exclaimed, a milky white ginseng that was more than half a person's height suddenly pulled out its long legs from the ground, and started running wildly in one direction with big strides!
The land beneath its feet seemed to form waves, appearing layer by layer under its feet, like surfing, making its speed incredibly fast.

“Catch one first!” The genius from Lihuo Sect was the first one who couldn’t help himself. The spirit bead in his hand flashed, and a fire whip flew out like lightning, shooting towards the long-legged ginseng.

However, the ginseng was incredibly agile. It dodged the fire whip with a little avoidance and continued to flee madly.

"Don't use fire! Don't use fire!" The disciples of Shenmu Sect shouted, "Edelweiss is a water-based spiritual plant. Using fire will hurt its spirituality! The score will definitely drop later!"

"It's just a fourth-level spiritual plant." Someone said nonchalantly: "Can you advance if you hand it in at this level?"

"Right! If you want to advance steadily, I think you must have five level five spiritual plants to be safe." Someone stopped and said, "Don't waste your time on this little thing."

Lu Ang also made a decision: "Stop! Look around, is there any place with stronger plant energy? We need to hurry!"

The Shenmu Sect disciple quickly gave a suggestion: "It seems there is one over there... but it's a bit far away, I'm not sure if there is anyone at the Divine Transformation Stage."

“Let’s go there!” The formation genius from the Tianji Sect confirmed: “I seemed to see the Minglun from the Great Vajra Temple also flying in that direction!”

"Right! We are not familiar with this place, but Fanmen must be very familiar with it." Someone shouted, "Maybe they have memorized the map of this secret place a long time ago! We are still searching here painstakingly."

"Hey, the Brahma Sect has always been so petty in doing things." Someone sneered: "If you can't afford to lose, don't play. You always use this kind of already developed secret realm trial, and your family members take advantage of it."

……

While chatting, everyone changed direction and headed in the direction indicated by the disciples of Shenmu Sect.

Everyone kept going along the way, but they also saw many disciples from small sects fighting with strange-looking spiritual plants and monsters. Some of them successfully subdued the spiritual plants, while others were covered with spiritual plants such as ivy, had their legs broken by the branches of giant trees, or were directly dragged into the ground by some plants. There were even some geniuses who fought for the same spiritual plant, and no one cared.

Fortunately, the Brahma three-piece set was indeed effective. From time to time, one could see Pure Land Talismans being activated, and figures disappearing directly into the secret realm.

After observing for a while, I found that the Pure Land Talisman was activated very quickly. The attacks of some Nascent Soul level spiritual plants could be blocked instantly and directly dissolved without the slightest gap. However, it took about two seconds to transmit it.

As everyone sped along, they could see fewer and fewer other geniuses, and soon there was no trace of anyone else around except this small group of ten people.

"It's right there! There is a spiritual plant of the God Transformation Level!" The genius of the Shenmu Sect seemed to have discovered something and suddenly shouted.

Following his guidance, they came to a small pond with a radius of several dozen miles: "There must be a fifth-level spiritual plant under the water! It is most likely a water-borne plant!"

After all, he is at the fifth level, one major level higher than everyone else. Even with so many geniuses, no one has the slightest intention of underestimating the enemy. The genius of Tianji Sect took out the formation flags and set up the formation, while other geniuses also stood by the lake, each taking out a magic weapon.

As the leader, Lu Ang took out the Thunder Ruler and started the fight: "I'll try first, everyone get ready!"

Let's talk, the ruler was raised, the method of attracting thunder was used, dark clouds gathered in the sky, and then were instantly shattered by a thunder as thick as a bucket, which pierced straight into the water from the sky.

"boom"

"Ow"

The water splashed and exploded, accompanied by a shrill wail, like a banshee.

Immediately afterwards, countless black vines shot out from the pool, covering the sky and shooting towards everyone, especially towards Lu Ang.

The vines were incredibly fast and extremely hard, like flying swords, whistling as they cut through the air. Their momentum was terrifying, and an ordinary Nascent Soul cultivator would probably not be able to dodge even a single vine.

Fortunately, all those present were geniuses with natural spiritual roots and outstanding strength. Challenging higher-level enemies was as easy as drinking water or eating. They all used their magic and escape techniques, and none of the vines in the sky could hit them.

Lu Ang also casually swung out the ruler, forming giant lightning blades that chopped all the vines that were coming towards him into pieces, turning them into fine blades all over the sky.

I have to say that this Thunder Ruler is really good. It has reached the level of the fourth-grade top-grade. It is full of spirituality and has some intelligence. It has a strong blessing on various thunder attribute attacks. It can almost reach 20% to 30% of the effect of the Purple Lightning Hammer. It is really top-grade. There is no telling how many black vines there are. Everyone keeps destroying them, but vines continue to shoot out from the pool without stopping.

"We can't fight like this! Bring it up!" The genius from Kanshan Sect was the first one who couldn't help himself.

The team had all five elements. A female cultivator from the Shuiyue Sect took out a small azure seal and began to continuously inject magic power into it to activate it.

This should be a magic weapon for controlling water. With a flash of light on the small seal, all the water in the pool flew into the air at once, then shattered and scattered in an instant, turning into drizzle all over the sky.

The fifth-level spiritual plant in the pond was finally exposed to everyone.

It was a strange spiritual plant with a diameter of ten feet, an oval shape that was thick at the bottom and thin at the top, covered with black scales, and with roots connected to it by countless black vines.

"This is the Ink Scale Fruit! A fifth-level Ink Scale Fruit! The main ingredient for high-level water-based body-refining elixirs!" Shenmu Sect's Tianjiao shouted immediately, "It's fully ripe! Everyone, don't damage the flesh inside the scales! Those vines can be destroyed at will, they have no value!"

With his hint and a clear target, everyone attacked more comfortably. Using various methods, they soon eliminated all the vines hidden in the mud at the bottom of the pool.

Although these vines can still grow again at a very fast speed, but under our saturation attack, their regeneration speed is far slower than the speed at which we destroy them, and they pose almost no threat to us.

From this perspective, the decision to form a team was indeed a good one. If there was only one person, the attack strength would not be able to suppress the growth of these vines no matter what. It would be very difficult to get this spirited Black Scale Fruit.

"How do we tame this thing?" Looking at the fruit body getting closer and closer, some people began to get anxious.

"It is indeed troublesome when it becomes a spirit..." The genius of Shenmu Sect took out a turquoise box and a bronze mirror from the storage bag on his waist.

As he cast the spell, an emerald green light shot out from the mirror and hit the ink-scaled fruit, allowing an emerald green aura to slowly envelop the entire fruit.

When it was completely wrapped, it suddenly stopped moving. The Shenmu Sect's genius showed a look of joy: "Fortunately, it should not have been a spirit for long, and its intelligence is not high! I have completely suppressed it!"

Go ahead, he held up the box and shouted, "Collect!"

The black scale fruit instantly shrank from big to small, and finally became the size of a fist, and was put into the box by him.

The first goal was achieved, and everyone's burning gaze suddenly enveloped the small box.

Fortunately, the genius of the Shenmu Sect was also very self-aware and knew that this was a hot potato. He immediately controlled the box to fly in front of Lu Ang and said, "Let Brother Xie keep these collected spiritual plants and distribute them together in the end!"

Lu Ang took the box and looked around the room. The thunder power on the ruler in his hand crackled and the heavy thunder aura suppressed the whole room, and soon the greed in everyone's eyes faded:
"Yes! Let Brother Xie keep it first! It's safest with Brother Xie."

"Fellow Daoist Xie is ranked 23rd, so he will definitely advance. He will definitely not be greedy."

"I think, after all, there are only eighteen days, so I still need to collect some fourth-level spiritual plants just in case."

"Let's fight first. If we don't have enough at the end, we can use the fourth-level ones to make up for it!"

"These fifth-level spiritual plants are so difficult to subdue, I don't think other people can get many either. Two or three out of the five should be enough to advance."

……

Everyone has their own thoughts, but fortunately the cooperation has not been broken down and everyone is still full of energy.

The rest of the journey was relatively smooth. The genius of the Shenmu Sect was good at searching, and the others were also powerful and each had their own unique skills. No matter what kind of enemies they encountered, they had appropriate countermeasures. In addition, the cooperation became more and more tacit. In less than ten days, everyone had accumulated twenty-two fifth-level spiritual plants, and there were more than a hundred fourth-level ones.

For ten people, if each person was given two fifth-level and three fourth-level stars, it would be more than enough. However, no one knew what the final points would be for advancement. In order to be on the safe side and increase the chances of advancement, they did not stop and rarely rested every day, still intensively looking for and fighting monsters.

Of course, there were dangers during this period. They encountered a fifth-grade high-quality longevity peach tree. The tree looked inconspicuous, but it was extremely powerful after becoming a spirit. It could drive the peach blossom miasma to form a formation of a hundred soldiers. They tried to take it down three times in a row but failed. Three of them were seriously injured and had to give up and leave to recover.

Everyone also encountered a sixth-level spiritual plant, which was a water lily on a vast ocean. The evil and overwhelming pressure from it made everyone afraid to even get close and they could only avoid it from afar.

During this period, he occasionally encountered other top-ranked geniuses. These people were not stupid, and they also formed teams, some with three, four, and some with five or six people. He also saw two teams fighting for the spiritual plants in their hands.

Fortunately, his small group was large enough, and no one dared to attack along the way. They all chose to secretly avoid him. Lu Ang also rejected other people's suggestions to rob and chose to continue fighting monsters.

During this period, I also saw a contestant ranked in the top ten, who was Zhang Yunling, the Taoist from Chunyang Taoist Palace.

That guy was indeed very powerful. The pure white flying sword in his hand was extremely powerful. He was obviously only at the peak of the Nascent Soul stage, but he was able to suppress the spirit plants and monsters at the middle stage of the Spirit Transformation stage. With one strike of the sword, it could be said that the might of heaven was so great that nothing could stop it and it was extremely terrifying.

No one had any idea about him and they tacitly avoided him without any suggestion. However, Lu Ang didn't know if it was an illusion, but this guy seemed to glance at him in between killing monsters. He should be looking at his group of uninvited guests to prevent any accidents, but Lu Ang always felt like he was looking at him.

Could it be that his [False Form] magical power was exposed? This is the Disha magical power produced by the system. Even the two Returning Void Dragon Kings can't see through it. Is that possible?
As for the fake body, since it had no strength, Lu Ang did not let it run around. Instead, not far from the starting point, together with a few geniuses from small families in the early Jindan stage, he picked as many spiritual materials as he could, acting as if he was trying to get as much as he could, and was not at all noticeable.

After fighting and killing all the way, they finally took down a Jade Thousand-Blade Bamboo. After obtaining this fifth-grade lower-grade spiritual plant for refining weapons, Lu Ang and his team finally met the target that Lu Ang had been dreaming of.

That was also a small team, with only five people, cooperating with each other and fighting a fifth-level spiritual plant monster.

There was a man in this team holding a huge axe and standing in the front to fight the monsters. He was the young patriarch of the Zhurong clan.

Lu Ang did not avoid him like before, but turned to look at the Lihuo Sect's genius: "Xiao Zhu, how about we help you get revenge? Eliminate this guy!"

Zhu Yan, the genius of Lihuo Sect, immediately showed great joy: "Sure! I'll let him covet my wife!"

(End of this chapter)