Hunting the Spiritual Beasts with even more enthusiasm, Jian Shen in just the next one week completely filled the remaining part of the token.
Once he did that, Jian Shen upon killing the next beast found that everything on the token disappeared and a single strand of bright yellow colour appeared.
While there was a little disappointment inside Jian Shen because yellow didn't really make him feel that it deserved to come after silver, he did feel relieved due to seeing some change and not a brighter shade of silver again.
Following this, Jian Shen while getting rid of the fools that dared to target him spent less than two weeks in filling up the token after which the yellow colour finally turned into gold.
Unfortunately, by now there was less than three days left for the competition to end due to which Jian Shen no longer had enough time to leisurely hunt the Spiritual Beasts since it was guaranteed for him to not be able to fill the token and take it to the next level in the remaining time.
Luckily, he didn't need to do so anyway.
After all, it had already been four days since Jian Shen had sensed the remaining competitors moving around a lot.
All of this was because they needed to gather in a single place and let the designated individual take all of their Spiritual Points and in this way group all of their efforts together.
But they wouldn't do that right away of course.
Instead, they'd wait until the very last hour to do this.
Because, giving up their tokens meant that they would leave, and once they did there's be no one to protect the only remaining individual.
Taking out the special jade slip Cui Yan gave him, Jian Shen didn't need to do anything and from just holding onto it he began sensing the direction it was pointing in.
Looking in that specific direction, Jian Shen understood how it was that the members of the four clans managed to gather in a particular location without any troubles.
After finding out where the Cui Clan's members were gathering at, Jian Shen who had been sensing a lot of movements around him ignored everyone that travelled in that direction.
Instead, he began following the members that travelled in the other three directions.
Out of all of these, one of them would belong to the Dong Clan, while the remaining would lead him to where the Qi Clan members and the Wu Clan members were at.
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Spending two days looking around without trying to hide himself in any way because every one of the camps was set up quite far away, Jian Shen could only consider it as his bad luck for going to the camps of Qi Clan and Wu Clan.
Not that it mattered though, now that he knew where those from the Dong Clan were at, it was only a matter of time before he found them and took all of their Spiritual Points.
After all, as long as Jian Shen managed to obtain enough Spiritual Points to rank in the top four while at the same time pushed the Dong Clan to the 5th spot, not only would he obtain a higher ranking than them, but due to supporting the Cui Clan he'd also fulfil his promise to Cui Yan in helping her clan become the final winner and give them the chance to change the city's name into whatever they wanted.
Like this, with less than one day left till the end of the competition, Jian Shen began running at his best speed to reach the location where thsie from the Dong Clan were all gathered at.
If only he could fly or use the Intent of Space.... Lamenting at how he was unable to use either of them, Jian Shen could only travel through the night without any rest and finally reached his destination with just a few hours to spare.
Now all that he needed to do was find a way to kill/capture as many of the participants as possible and try his best to not let any of them escape.
Given that every token mattered, Jian Shen couldn't afford to be lax and let many of them escape.
But since there were close to a hundred and fifty of the participants that supported the Dong Clan remaining, Jian Shen wasn't sure what he should do that would let him defeat all of them in one fell swoop.
Hmmmm.... Assassination tactics?
Shaking his head since someone or the other would find out something and alert the others of his action, Jian Shen threw this idea away as soon as it entered his head.
Hmmmm... Since sneaking around wouldn't get things done, I'll just be as loud as possible!
Given that he was a single individual and possessed a token that was gold in colour, those from the Dong Clan were sure to look down on him and try to attack him.
Even though obtaining his token might not be enough for the Dong Clan to obtain two of the top four spots, it should be enough for them to secure the 1st rank due to which they were guaranteed to attack him.
And as long as they did so, Jian Shen was confident enough in making those that were inside his domain stay back and deal with them without any trouble.