Yang Zhai was sitting in his room, meditating. It was already around seven months since he came back to the past.
"Time waits for no one. Change is permanent, and everything changes. Nothing is free from this, not even fate. But, change is also fated. However, both of them need time. It really flies by, sigh." Yang Zhai muttered and sighed.
In a matter of time, seven months had passed. Even though he had lived so many lives, he still could help but be amazed by the time. He understood time more than others. It was because one of the major paths he had used in his plan before coming back to the past was the time path. Thus, he knew its value very clearly.
Therefore, he decided to act before it was too late.
The next day, in the classroom of the Si academy.
"Everyone, the competition is about to start. You will be going against the Si academy. Remember, this competition is not to be taken lightly. Every one of you is allowed to participate, no limitations are there for the cultivation rank, you can be of any rank and can go against any rank cultivators. Such as, it does not matter whether you are rank 1 or rank 2, you will have to fight your opponent even if they are rank 3." Elder Rem said to everyone.
"Elder, what are the competition rewards?" A disciple stood up and asked.
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Meanwhile, the Bai academy,
"The rewards are very interesting, you will be granted one wish that is within the limit of the clan. But remember, your wish will have to be accepted by the clan leader first. And it should also not be against the clan's benefits." an elder of the Bai academy was talking to her disciples.
In front of her were sitting around thirty disciples, including Hyun Hae and Lie Yi.
"The second reward is that you will be granted an opportunity to accept any elder of the clan as your master, even the clan leader." she continued explaining,
"Wow, we can have one of our wishes granted, I will choose to become a noble if I win."
"So simple, I will choose a treasure that can defend me against others."
"Huh, if I win, I will ask the clan to give me cultivation resources for ten years for free."
All of the disciples were excited to hear that they could have their wish granted. A commotion broke into the class.
"But Remember, nobody until today was able to win this competition. Forget about that, nobody could even reach the final round of the competition. They would be eliminated before that, even the clan leader could not win this competition when he was a disciple." The elder spoke again, breaking everyone's hopes.
"What?!!! Even the clan leader could not win?!"
"Sad, I thought we could win the competition."
"Forget about that, tell me what is in the competition that nobody could win?"
"Something terrifying, maybe."
The disciples' mood went to the abyss after listening to the elders.
However, there was someone who was sitting silently in the class.
"But, this time around, I think that someone will win this competition." The elder looked at Hyun Hae after saying this.
Hyun Hae was already at rank 3 third stage. So, it was to be expected that the elder hoped that Hyun Hae could win the competition.
"Huh, why is everyone looking at me?" Hyun Hae asked Lie Yi who was sitting next to her.
"Don't know." Lie Yi shook his head.
…..
On the other hand,
"A competition that can grant my wish. I waited for it to begin. It's going to be interesting. Death Warrant, I am coming for you." Yang Zhai smiled.
In his previous life, he had participated in this competition, but lost. However, the winner was Hyun Hae without anyone to fight her in the final round.
Death Warrant was something that Yang Zhai had his eyes on from the moment he transmigrated back into the past. In fact, he had decided before he even traveled back into the past to get this Death Warrant.
"Si Yu, go and bring me these materials. And make sure that you buy them from different shops. But remember to dye your face before leaving." Yang Zhai handed four thousand essence stones to Si Yu.
And he kept the others, as there were some materials he wanted to buy himself.
After that, Yang Zhai left the house as well.
He came to a shop.
"How may I help you, sir?" The shopkeeper of the shop came and asked Yang Zhai.
"Do you have Red Cactus leaves?" Yang Zhai looked around and asked.
"Yes, we do. How many do you need?"
"Two would suffice."
"Okay, wait here. I will bring them to you right now, sir." The shopkeeper left to get the Red Cactus leaves.
Yang Zhai began to look around the shop. He then saw another plant as well.
"Impressive, they also have Black Aloe Vera leaves. It looks like I don't have to go anywhere else now." Yang Zhai began to examine the plant.
This plant looked like an Aloe Vera plant, but had black stripes on its leaves.
"Sir, here are two Red Cactus leaves." The shopkeeper brought two leaves of the Red Cactus. These leaves were as long as a hand.
"Hmm." Yang Zhai nodded.
He grabbed the leaves and began to examine them.
"How much?"
"Sir, it would be four hundred low-grade essence stones, two hundred for each leaf."
"Okay, I also want two leaves of the Black Aloe Vera behind me." Yang Zhai said and then looked at the Black Aloe Vera plant.
"Okay, it would be eight hundred low-grade essence stones then, two Black Aloe Vera leaves are also for four hundred low-grade essence stones." The shopkeeper went and pulled out two leaves from the plant and covered them before handing them over to Yang Zhai.
"Very well, give me two. Furthermore, make sure that the leaves have as many stripes as possible."
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