Perfect victory!

  Chen Rongyuan's Water Spirit Sword was struck by Xiao Shanguang, the sword almost flew out of his hand. He was hit by the transmitted lightning and his whole body suddenly became numb, losing control over his body for a moment.

  The little hedgehog let out an excited hum at this time, and the quills on its back emitted a yellowish glow, shooting out a mud arrow with a whoosh.

  Bang!

  The arrow shot onto Chen Rongyuan's body, causing him to stumble backward several steps, letting out a muffled groan and spitting out a mouthful of blood.

  "Thunder System Magic, has paralyzing effect!"

  Chen Rongyuan stood firm on his feet, and it was only then that his body slowly recovered from its numbness.

  He gritted his teeth and raised his hand, casting a water sphere shield to attempt to use the Water Concealment Technique to hide himself once again, thoroughly avoiding Ye Chen's lightning attack. Only by hiding his figure did he perhaps still have a chance of winning.

  Ye Chen would never give him a chance to escape attack, another flash of lightning on his left hand, raised his hand and blasted out.

  A thunderbolt flashed out for more than twenty feet in an instant.

  Crack!

  Chen Rongyuan was struck by a small lightning bolt again, let out a miserable cry, and his whole body went numb. The water ball's light shield shattered, and the Water Concealment Technique was disrupted once more.

  The little hedgehog's earth arrow, closely followed by another one.

  Bang!

  Chen Rongyuan was hit by a series of spells, spitting out a mouthful of blood and being knocked to the ground. He had endured two lightning strikes and two earth arrows, already exceeding the physical endurance of a fourth-layer Qi Refining cultivator.

  The little hedgehog ran past, arched its back at Chen Rongyuan, and saw that Chen Rongyuan couldn't get up. Only then did it proudly stick out its butt and run back to Ye Chen's side with a swagger, seeking praise. Even it could see that even if Chen Rongyuan could stand up again, he wouldn't be able to pose much of a threat to Ye Chen anymore.

  "We lost!"

  "Your Highness!"

  Several servants of the Chen family rushed into the arena and helped up Chen Rongyu, who had been defeated.

  "Prince, let's go to the 100th hut and rest for a few days! After you recover from your injuries, we'll take back the 50th hut. ...Even if we can't beat Ye Chen, we'll go and seize the 51st!" "Exactly, it's impossible for everyone to be this formidable!"

  Several servants hurriedly advised him, worried that Chen Rongyuan would be severely hit after his defeat in the war.

  "Don't comfort me! In the world of cultivation, who hasn't been defeated in battle?"

  Chen Rongyuan smiled bitterly and suddenly coughed up a mouthful of blood.

  He was very clear that the ranking of this hut only had symbolic meaning, and it didn't mean that a higher-ranking hut owner was necessarily stronger than the first-ranked hut owner. It was also possible that their strengths were very close, or even that a lower-ranking hut owner was stronger.

  He is the master of No. 50, but that doesn't mean he can definitely beat No. 51 and No. 52. A tiny gap in strength, just a small mistake, and the outcome would be completely different.

  Ye Chen, as the 100th hut owner, directly took down this 50th hut owner, showing that even among low-ranking hut owners, there are also strong ones.

  He was unwilling to accept defeat at this critical moment. Defeat once and he couldn't challenge again for a month.

  "Let's go! Losing to a powerful Lei Xiu is not unjust. There are only two months left until the Lich Tower in Chong Town, and I still have one chance. At that time, I will challenge the masters between 60th and 70th place and strive to move up to a higher Lingquan Pavilion."

  Chen Rongyuan was in low spirits.

  Several monks from the Chen family, as well as many followers of Chen Rongyuan, escorted Chen Rongyuan away in a somber mood to the 100th hut. Dropping directly from the 50th hut to the 100th hut, this blow was especially heavy psychologically.

  Ye Chen quietly watched as Chen Rongyuan walked away.

  This Qing Shan Lake hut, someone stays behind and someone leaves. Just like Chen Rongyuan replaced the previous owner, just like he was replaced by Chen Rongyuan today. One or two months later, after he left, this No. 50 hut will also change to a new owner.

  "This is just a small step on the path of immortality cultivation, there's still a long way to go ahead!"

  Ye Chen secretly thought in his heart.

  Thousands of monks watching from the mountain peak were deeply shocked. Chen Rongyuan, who had the Water Concealment Technique, was unable to pose much of a hindrance to Ye Chen and was defeated. It was a complete victory, Ye Chen's complete victory.

  It's not about skill, but a complete victory of strength. This challenge, repeated a hundred times, still belongs to Ye Chen.

  The monks who supported Chen Rongyuan all looked gloomy and hastily followed Chen Rongyuan away.

  Over a hundred loose cultivators who stood on Ye Chen's side cheered and boiled over.

  The rest of the majority of monks are small family monks and scattered monks with no specific stance, purely to watch a lively fight.

  Ye Chen won the battle, and has already replaced Wang Ran, who was ranked fifty-third in the Luoshu, to become the highest-ranking Lianqi period fourth-level cultivator among the many scattered cultivators of Qing Shan Lake, and his status among the scattered cultivators began to rise rapidly.

  The outcome of this challenge will soon be known throughout Qing Shan Lake and spread among the scattered cultivators and small family disciples.

  But many of the lesser samurai had different ideas.

  Originally wanted to see if Chen Rongyuan's jokes would lose face for the Chen family.

  They also want to see how much strength Ye Chen, this hundredth hut owner, has and whether he is worth their attention.

  But the result of a fierce battle left them shocked and amazed, never expecting Chen Rongyuan to lose so unexpectedly. Not to mention Chen Rongyuan, even if they were on stage, it's not necessarily going to be much better.

  "The five spiritual roots are the most common, and the vast majority of cultivators possess these five spiritual roots. Ice and wind spiritual roots are rare, and it's only occasionally seen in one person among dozens of cultivators. Thunder spiritual root is the rarest, and it's only found in one or two people among hundreds of cultivators."

  "Ye Chen unexpectedly had a rare Thunder Spirit Root, he was a Thunder System cultivator!"

  "The Thunder System cultivator has no natural nemesis. When fighting against a Thunder System cultivator, there is only one way to win: prepare a set of defensive robes that can greatly weaken the thunderbolt, allowing you to withstand the power of the Thunder System's magic."

  "Ye Chen is not only a Thunder Repair, but also has a Stone Skin, his strength far surpasses Chen Rongyuan. Not to mention the 50th hut, even if it's one of the top 30 huts, he might have a great chance! Chen Rongyuan's Water Concealment Technique was originally enough to secure the position of the 50th hut master. But running into Ye Chen is his bad luck!"

  Those young family members looked at Ye Chen with changed eyes, without any disdain, only worry and fear.

  The battle at Duò Lóu ended, and the thousands of cultivators who had come to watch gradually dispersed.

  Among them are many Louzhu Shushi, and even three of them are among the top 30 Louzhu.

  Three young monks wearing high-ranking Buddhist robes walked down the stone steps of the mountain, leaving the summit. The monks going down the mountain saw them and all gave way.

  "I happened to hear that a powerful loose cultivator appeared in Qing Shan Lake, so I came to take a look. Unexpectedly, I really saw a 'surprise'! What do you think of this battle?"

  A monk wearing a light green robe smiled.

  "Ye Chen's strength is far from being only 50th, he can definitely be ranked within the top 30. If he still wants to exchange for a better Lingquan Pavilion, then he will have to challenge one of the top 30 pavilion masters. The top 30 are all young masters from great families like ours, so it'll be a fierce battle! Heh heh, he went straight from 100th to challenging 50th. Do you think he'll come up with another shocking rank-jumping challenge, directly challenging the 25th pavilion master from his current 50th position?"

  A monk in blue robes beside him was talking incessantly.

  "The master of the twenty-fifth hut is Wang Zhuo. If we're really unlucky and our crow's mouth comes true, Wang Zhuo will probably have a tough battle ahead of him. Fighting against a Lei system cultivator, regardless of winning or losing, it won't be a pleasant experience!"

  The green-robed Taoist priest smiled and said.

  The three of them, along with a young man, were deep in thought and hadn't spoken up yet.

  "Zhu Qi Feng, what are you thinking about? Why are you distracted?"

  The green-robed Taoist priest asked strangely.

  "Ah!"

  Zhu Qi suddenly woke up with a start and smiled, "Nothing, I just remembered something trivial."

  "Oh, what's the big deal?"

  "I vaguely remember that about two months ago, when I was passing through the Bao Zhu Lin with some of my clan's younger generation, we encountered two Qi Refining Second Layer cultivators from a small family who were beaten by a young Qi Refining Second Layer cultivator. The small family cultivator asked for my help at the time, but I didn't pay much attention to it. Now that I think about it carefully, the appearance and eyes of that young cultivator are very similar to those of Ye Chen, the master of hut number fifty. I'm wondering if they might be the same person?"

  "Impossible! If that's the case, he went from Qi Refining stage 2 to Qi Refining stage 4 in just two months, advancing one level per month. This cultivation speed is too astonishing! It's possible for a large clan's disciple, but for a rogue cultivator without financial support, it's simply impossible!"

  The two owners of the hut both looked shocked.

  Among the younger generation of Tianyun Xianyuan City's aristocratic families, only a handful of cultivators could achieve such rapid cultivation speed.

  "Who knows this! Ye Chen suddenly appeared at Qing Shan Lake, who also knows what his origin is?!"

  Zhu Qi shook her head.

  "It's not unprecedented for the direct descendants of the Nine Great Sects' leaders and elders to be sent to small countries or remote areas to hone their skills, hidden from the world, only to return to the sect after passing through the Xiancheng Zhuo Town's Demon Tower."

  "This possibility also exists!"

  "If it's like this, then his cultivation speed increasing by tenfold wouldn't be unusual at all."

  "The sect leader, the elder's direct descendant, at 15 or 16 years old has already become a foundation-building period cultivator, many people have achieved this. That kind of cultivation speed, us Xiancheng family cultivators can't even catch up with their dust, let alone keep up!"

  The two owners nodded in deep agreement.

  Three people did not calm down.

  Zhu Qi Feng is the twenty-sixth hut master, ranking relatively late in the first thirty.

  If Ye Chen were to rush into the top thirty, he would likely include his twenty-sixth place as one of his backup targets. Two months ago, he was a small figure who didn't even catch his eye. Now, he has become someone he must treat with caution.

  In Zhu Qi's calm heart, a ripple was stirred up.

  The Fiftieth Hut.

  Ye Chen has now become the master of this thatched cottage, and is chatting with Zhu Dahao, Qian Shanli, Feng Yan and more than a dozen other cultivators who are also somewhat famous in the scattered repair.

  "Ye brothers, don't you see that those small family cultivators are now looking at you with fear in their eyes. You defeated Chen Rongyuan, and I'm afraid no one will dare to challenge you again. Your reputation will soon surpass Wang Ran's, and you'll become the strongest loose cultivator on Qing Shan Lake!"

  Zhu Dahao exclaimed, "Ye brother, after taking down the 50th hut, what are your thoughts? Do you plan to continue challenging higher hut owners? If so, it's best to prepare as soon as possible. The higher you go, the more difficult the challenges become!"

  The emotions of the cultivators were also extremely agitated, their expectant eyes gazing at Ye Chen.

  Many of them hoped that Ye Chen could break into the top thirty. This would mean that Ye Chen's strength was enough to contend with the disciples of the great families. It also meant that the master they followed was a master who could contend with the young masters of the great families.

  Ye Chen looked at them deeply, his expression surprisingly calm, and said in a light tone, "There are still two months before the Town Demon Tower, during this time I will focus on my cultivation. That's it, other things, let's talk about them again after a month."