Chapter 27: Finals
In the blink of an eye, one month passed by.
In this one month, Jun had already broken through the 4th Stage of the Qi Condensation Realm.
The workshop had also started to produce many inferior grade high-level weapons and Wong Chou was close to advancing to an Artifact Forging Apprentice.
Using the [Random Talent] function, Jun has acquired 45 talents. However, he has been accumulating them and never sold a single one out of them.
That was because he had a new plan in mind, and that was to use puppets or avatars to work as brokers, who could sell these talents to others.
This was for the sake of avoiding suspicion. After all, if someone suspects that most of the customers who went to Jun's shop magically gained talents, it would bring endless troubles.
Another reason was to expand his area of influence.
For now, he has about 38 professional-type talents, and the remaining are all combat-type.
Among the professional types, [Artifact Forging Apprentice] and [Talisman Apprentice] were the most commonly repeated talents.
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In the backyard of Golden Phoenix Pavilion.
Jun was staring at four avatars of his, they had the same appearance and aura as him. Four avatars were his limit right now.
Change your appearance. Jun thought.
Receiving Jun's order, avatars began to change their appearance.
A white mist enveloped them, and when the mist cleared, the avatars had all changed their appearance.
One became an old man with white hair, giving off the feeling of a wise scholar, the other three all changed their appearance to middle-aged cultivators.
"Good, now go and complete your mission." Jun handed them ten talent scrolls each and some escape talismans.
If they got into some troublesome situations, then they could use these escape talismans. And if they have no chance of escaping, they can still self-destruct.
Anyway, other than Jun or his avatars, no one can open these scrolls. So, he can just retrieve these scrolls later in case something happens.
Following Jun's command, all the avatars left through the backside. All of them would then go their separate ways to other continents or islands.
"Master, finals are going to begin. Should I delay it?" Hua Zhneyi asked politely.
"No need, let's not delay the finals," Jun ordered and waved his hand for Hua Zhenyi to leave.
Hua Zhenyi immediately left the shop and went to the battle arena.
After a month of its establishment, the battle arena has been getting more and more popular among the locals of the Island.
And today was the day finals were going to take place, after a month of the first and second stages of the competition.
Without further ado, Jun changed his clothes into better ones and went towards the battle arena.
It was a special day, hence he would have to manage the finals himself today. In his place, Ding Xue was looking over the shop.
"Looks like I need to renovate the arena soon." When Jun arrived at the entrance, there was a long line of Qi Condensation Realm cultivators.
While all the Foundation Establishment Realm cultivators were flying on their swords above the arena.
There was limited space in the arena, hence they had no choice but to fly in the air while watching the match. Of course, they have all paid the entrance fees.
"You are here Shop Owner." All of the Qi Condensation Realm cultivators recognized Jun and greeted him politely.
Jun has become a popular figure on the Island in this short month, of course, it was nothing in comparison to all the influential figures for now.
Jun returned their greetings and entered the arena.
as soon as he entered, Hua Zhenyi gave Jun a paper, which contained all the top 10 rankings of the arena.
Jun used a projection crystal, and the rankings started to show on a large holographic screen.
[Top 10 participants of Season 1.]
[1. Hu Yaqi.]
[2. Li Jiahao.]
[3. Chen Yanhong.]
[4. Mao Li.]
[5. Chen Weiyi.]
[...]
These were all the finalists for today's match, and among them, Mao Li was the only independent cultivator under the tutelage of a Foundation Establishment Realm cultivator, Liang Kai.
"Who do you think will be the winner?" Liang Kai asked a middle-aged man next to him.
The middle-aged man is a Foundation Establishment Realm deacon from Beast Whisper Sect, Hu Yifan.
"Who else? Only Hu Yaqi has the chance of winning today's match." Hu Yifan said with an arrogant expression.
Hearing Hu Yifan's arrogant statement, Liang Kai chuckled. "You are saying this only because he's your son. If Mao Li went all out, he could easily take the first place from your son."
"You say that, but you know very well that Mao Li has no chance of even surpassing Li Jiahao and Chen Yanhong, much less my son." Hua Yifan sneered while rubbing his long beard.
Instead of flaring up with anger, Liang Kai remained calm and smiled. "We'll see. Everything will become clear after a while."
The heated conversation between Liang Kai and Hu Yifan attracted everyone's attention.
Soon, everyone started to speculate about the winner and the line in front of the betting counter became longer.
Seeing this scene, Jun nodded with a satisfied expression.
"Zhenyi, let's not make them wait any longer," Jun said.
"Yes, master." Hua Zhenyi nodded and followed Jun to the center of the arena.
As soon as Jun entered the arena, everyone's gaze landed on him.
"I am once again grateful to all of you for..." Jun was about to say something, but he stopped as soon as he sensed an extraordinary aura.
It was the aura of a Golden Core Realm cultivator.
Everyone's gaze turned towards the direction from where they sensed the aura.
Soon, a streak of light came into vision, and a figure of a middle-aged man flying on a sword appeared, it was Manager Chen.
Next to him was a young girl and a young man.
The girl was beautiful and elegant. She was Chen Yanhong, Manager Chen's only daughter, and third on the rankings.
The other young man was Chen Weiyi, the youngest son of the third elder of Chen family.
"Don't let me down." Manager Chen tapped the shoulders of Chen Yanhong and Chen Weiyi.
Soon, both of them started to float in the air and slowly descended into the arena.
After the commotion caused by Manager Chen ended, Jun wanted to say something else, but he was again interrupted by the aura of Golden Core cultivators.
Three more streaks of light appeared. They were the elders from the Sword Nurturing Sect, Beast Whisper Sect, and Nine Yin Palace.
Accompanying them were disciples of their sect, who were in the finals.
The appearance of four Golden Core Realm cultivators caused a commotion among the spectators.
This made everyone even more excited for the upcoming match.
As for why even Golden Core Realm cultivators came to the arena, it was because they wanted to show off their genius disciples.
Although these finalists weren't the most outstanding disciples of their sects and families, they were still geniuses and were even regarded as future pillars of their respective factions.
"Everyone, I, Wu Jun, am grateful to all of you for coming here today. Since everyone is eager to witness the battles that are going to take place today. I won't make you wait long." Jun cupped his fists respectfully.
The next second, all of the ten participants were standing in the center of the arena, behind Jun.
Jun waved his hand, a golden energy enveloped all the participants and their bodies all vanished.
Gifts
-- Gift
received Weekly Power Status
-- Power
Ranking 
-- Power
stone