Hearing the collective resistance from everyone.
Cao Guanlin chuckled softly.
"Ling Zhan, you've already earned the highest merit. There's no need for you to compete for kills anymore."
"Just oversee the battlefield with your three divine beast maidens."
"At least give others a chance."
Cao Guanlin said with a smile.
Ling Zhan had no objections to this.
The reason he actively participated in the demon-clearing operation, aside from his deep abhorrence of the Demon Arrival Organization's heinous actions, was also to complete the system's task.
The Tianyan Rankings points were just a bonus.
Actually, he didn't lack A-grade or higher enchanting materials and forging materials at all.
The last time, those four hundred-level divine beasts compensated him with plenty of materials to avoid fulfilling their promises.
Of course...
Points are always better to have more of.
Primarily, Ling Zhan wanted to exchange for some B-grade or higher general skills.
General skills don't belong to any specific class, so Ling Zhan didn't have many general skills.
Also, he could use a large number of Tianyan Rankings points to exchange for gold-grade equipment below level 30 at the academy.
Don't forget.
The Thousand Mechanisms Ring has now advanced to a lower-grade spirit artifact.
Its talent 'Spirit Devour' allows the Thousand Mechanisms Ring to gain spiritual energy reserves by devouring other equipment.
The current spiritual energy reserve of the Thousand Mechanisms Ring is (100/10000).
Once the spiritual energy reserve is full, it can attempt to break through to a mid-grade spirit artifact.
How much equipment it needs to devour to fill the spiritual energy reserve will have to wait until the demon-clearing operation is over to experiment.
...
As night fell.
The power of the Order on the Great Demonic Array completely dissipated.
This signaled the beginning of the demon-clearing team's attack.
Without the support of the Order's power, the Great Demonic Array crumbled instantly under the fierce bombardment of the leading teachers.
Since the three third-tier powerhouses of the Demon Arrival Organization had long since retreated.
The ensuing battle was a one-sided slaughter of the Demon Arrival remnants by the demon-clearing team.
No one showed any mercy to these Demon Arrival remnants.
Whether they knelt and begged for mercy or cried bitterly, they were all mercilessly killed by the members of the demon-clearing team.
At the celebration banquet after the battle.
Naturally, Ling Zhan became the center of attention.
But unlike before, the gazes on Ling Zhan this time were filled with reverence and admiration instead of disdain and contempt.
Not only that.
The Dragon Kingdom officially announced generous rewards for Ling Zhan, the chief merit holder, allowing him to choose any one of three A+ grade general skill books as a reward.
Tianyan Academy also announced a reward of 500,000 Tianyan Rankings points, an A-grade general skill book, and a large cash prize for Ling Zhan.
"Sigh, look at those rewards, I'm so jealous and envious!"
"Yeah! Normally, let alone A-grade, even A- grade general skill books are kept under lock and key, and you can't buy them even if you have money and points!"
"Alright, at least he didn't compete with us for kills. If he had participated in the last battle, I guarantee 70% of us wouldn't have gotten any kill points!"
That's true.
Especially those who witnessed Ling Zhan single-handedly wipe out all the Demon Arrival remnants in the small fishing village, they were grateful he didn't participate in the final battle.
Of course...
Shou Jingyuan, Ke Long, and the students fromMantra Academy were absent from the celebration banquet.
They claimed to have urgent matters to attend to.
But everyone understood, Shou Jingyuan and his group probably didn't have the face to attend the celebration banquet.
As long as Ling Zhan was present, Shou Jingyuan would undoubtedly be the target of countless mocking and teasing glances.
Making him feel as if he were covered in ants.
"I'm starting to look forward to this non-specialist's performance in the Global Beast Competition..."
"Indeed, I bet the top geniuses from other countries will also get slapped in the face like we did, right?"
"By the way, who do you think is more impressive now, Li Chaoge or Ling Zhan?"
"I don't know, they haven't fought. But I do know that Ling Zhan is definitely more impressive than Shou Jingyuan!"
"..."
The day after the celebration banquet.
The students from various schools returned to their respective schools.
Of course...
They had other places to support.
Those who were to participate in the Global Beast Competition stayed for training.
Considering the points rewarded in the previous National Freshmen Exchange Trial.
And the points Ling Zhan exchanged by selling some materials given by the four divine beasts.
Ling Zhan's current Tianyan Rankings points had already surpassed a million.
Officially making him the tenth richest on the Tianyan Rankings.
The first place was a senior in his fourth year, a third-tier level 82 powerhouse.
His Tianyan Rankings points were 32 million.
He had been on the frontline for a long time without returning to the academy.
But he had a highly professional team managing his points.
As mentioned before.
Every third-tier or fourth-tier powerhouse usually had a team managing their assets.
These team members might just be ordinary people, but they were all elite talents in their respective fields in the ordinary world.
The materials, equipment, elixirs, forging, enchanting, and other aspects in Tianyan Academy all had traces of this senior's team.
It's said that two popular cafeterias in Tianyan Academy were industries under this senior's name.
Also, forging, enchanting, and elixir shops were contracted by this senior's team.
The top five were all seniors in their fourth year.
The next ones were seniors in their third year.
Worth mentioning, Li Chaoge was ranked ninth on the Tianyan Rankings.
Total points: 2.62 million.
One rank higher than Ling Zhan.
But...
Ling Zhan had no interest in these virtual ranking points.
He felt that since he had such a large number of points, there was only one thing to do: spend the points.
He first went to the equipment exchange, and under the astonished gazes of everyone, spent 100,000 points to buy 80% of the equipment in the store.
Then.
He spent 200,000 points to invite a divine-grade enchanter named 'Zhou Tie'.
And a divine-grade weapon forger named 'Qiu Jiawen'.
Worth mentioning...
Qiu Jiawen was the forger of the Thousand Mechanisms Ring.
And Zhou Tie was the enchanter of the Thousand Mechanisms Ring.
This showed that Tianyan Academy actually valued this monstrous talent, who took the top spot in the Southern Province Entrance Trial as a non-specialist, quite highly.
They specifically invited these two divine-grade professionals to craft weapons for Ling Zhan.
Since the forging attributes of spirit artifacts didn't need enhancement from forgers, only needing 'Spirit Devour' to devour other equipment to enhance attributes.
So the divine-grade forger responsible for crafting the Thousand Mechanisms Ring wasn't invited.
The reason Ling Zhan spent so many points to invite these two divine-grade professionals was to develop the seventh form of the Thousand Mechanisms Ring!
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