Chapter 493 Top Rewardds, End of The Competition [2]
Chapter 493 Top Rewardds, End of The Competition [2]
Seeing the lack of expression on Noah's face, Wuhan could not tell if his friend was not moved by the rewards or not, but after considering Noah's pure qi, he realized Noah might not need this reward at all.
"Ahem, moving on, this last token is a gate pass."
"Gate pass?" The audience hadn't even gotten over the shock of the second reward when they were caught off-guard by the third one.
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"Is it something like a key to some kind of secret?"
"Maybe it's a chance to enter the royal library." Everyone made their own assumptions of what the gate pass could give access to.
"Like all the high-level sects have their grottos and treasured lands that help disciples in cultivating, our Royal family also has something like that." Noah chuckled a little, sensing a hint of pride in his words.
"This land can only be accessed by people with a high contribution to the empire, but this time I have opened it for a select few champions throughout this tournament. Cultivating inside this treasure land will allow you to sense all the natural elements 10 times more clearly than the outside world and is most beneficial for those who are about to break through."
Taking a moment of breath, Wuhan created an air of suspense before adding, "This even includes experts in the soul phase!"
"What?! Is that true?"
"Heavens, I will participate in tomorrow's tournament and win."
"Why have we never heard about this before?"
"So this is the rumored hidden reward that has been talked about in the capital throughout this past month."
Wuhan smiled, seeing the enthusiasm of the audience. 'They took the bait. With this, even if they don't win, they will try to join us to obtain this opportunity.'
"Now that I have explained everything about the rewards, choose which ones you would like to take. You can only choose two; naturally, you can choose all three if you decide to join our Empire."
Wuhan did not forget to show a sly smile on his face. He knew that Noah would not join the empire; after all, he did not have the time to even keep the pretense of doing so.
However, his objective was immediately accomplished when he saw a look of confusion in Hong Mei's eyes. He wanted to use this opportunity to show that Noah was not related to him and was just one of the participants.
"Oh~ How gracious of you to offer such a chance, but I have to decline." Noah chuckled before bowing with one of his hands on his chest and the other behind his waist.
Saying that he chose the latter two glowing objects as his reward.
'Are they really not related? Is this guy not part of the empire? If he was, there was no reason for him to refuse. Or is this one more ploy to keep us in the dark about their relationship?' Although puzzled by his strange way of bowing, Hong Mei was more focused on other things.
"Now that was unexpected." Zhong Hua chuckled in amusement upon seeing Noah's action. Zhong Ben also laughed along with her, leaving the third person beside them a little annoyed and puzzled.
In his mind, only a fool would reject such an offer. Like him, there were many who thought that what Noah was doing was idiotic, but for those who had brains, Noah's actions further solidified their belief that Noah was someone with a very profound background and not someone to be messed with.
No matter how precious the rewards he was holding were, they could not eye them.
While the others were expressing their dissatisfaction with Noah's response, there was someone who was happy with it.
"Hehe~ There is no way my dear needs anyone else besides me to provide for him~ No one can give him things that I can provide for him." Xin Yan ignored the merry laughter that only she could hear and calmly sipped on the tea from the cup in her hands.
Although her lips did not touch the cup itself, the tea from the cup flew into her mouth slowly as if there was an invisible bridge between them.
Even though Xin Yan was a little annoyed by Elysia's childish actions, she did not want to dampen her mood.
Glancing at Wuhan, who was sitting with his eyes closed, she said, "Those rewards may not be any help to him, but we can still use them to help the others in the sect."
Hearing her words, Elysia, who was in her own world, paused. "Why do you want to give these rewards to them?"
'We can use these rewards to increase their loyalty. I know you think that Noah is just playing at the sect, but he is trying to nurture these people for his own purpose.'
Sigh~
Elysia let out a long breath without saying anything before shifting the focus of her gaze.
"Those people are really annoying."
Xin Yan also followed her gaze and saw familiar-looking cloaked figures hidden in the crowd eyeing Noah with different gazes. Most of them only looked at him with wariness.
"It looks like they are wary of Noah's 'background' now."
"Hmph~ They are a bunch of cowards who only know how to use people to do their bidding without even exposing their tails."
Elysia could instantly tell that all of them were humans who had their memories and souls tempered by the seal.
Just then, Wuhan's voice suddenly boomed in the colossal arena.
"With that, today's alchemy tournament finally comes to a conclusion. I apologize that we had to hasten things because of certain inconveniences."
He did not forget to shoot a snarky remark at a certain woman. Not being able to retaliate against Wuhan, Hong Mei simply took away the disciples she recruited along with her own disciples and flew out of the arena on a leaf-shaped flying artifact.
"Phew~ She ran away." Noah whistled, glancing at the departing figure of the Alchemy Pavilion's sect mistress.
Suddenly, he shifted his eyes towards a certain pair of cloaked figures hidden in the audience before looking away.
"Did you think he noticed us?" One of the two cloaked figures looked at the person beside him and asked with a hint of shock in his voice.
"I don't know, but there is no way we can pursue our plans for him any longer. He is too much of a risk that we cannot afford to take for now." Exchanging a few more words, they also disappeared from their place.