The Lin family was located in a corner of Yongning City. It had also been destroyed in the battle.
However, the courtyard of Lin Buzheng's house was fortunately preserved. Not a single brick, tile, or blade of grass had been damaged.
When Lin Buzheng returned home, he fell asleep without saying a word.
He slept soundly and only woke up at noon the next day.
Whoosh!
Lin Buzheng jumped up from his bed. He could feel his body filled with endless energy. He was in high spirits, as if he had been reborn.
His martial realm was at the peak of the fifth stage of the Qi Path, only one step away from the sixth stage.
His understanding of the Raging Bull Fist had finally broken through to the Unblemished Realm.
This meant that from now on, Lin Buzheng would no longer need to use the Reincarnation Imperial Sutra. He could use his own strength to transform into a bull.
The Three Stances of the Ferocious Tiger and the White Deer Movement Technique had also been greatly improved.
The former had reached the half-step to the Unblemished Realm, while the latter had broken through to the Unblemished Realm.
The experience of life and death was indeed the greatest improvement to a cultivator's strength.
"Brother Bu Zheng, are you awake?"
"The family has started counting the number of Merman Reverse Scales that our disciples have obtained. Don't forget!"
Not long after, the upper echelons of the Lin family sent a disciple to inform Lin Buzheng to go to the family's training ground and hand over the Merman Reverse Scales that they had obtained in the battle.
"I'll go take a look."
Lin Buzheng's heart skipped a beat. After a simple wash, he immediately left for the family's martial arts field.
Before the battle, a spirit cultivator from the main family had said that this battle was a trial for the younger generation of the family.
As long as a disciple of the family could rank in the top ten in terms of number of mermen killed, they would be brought back to the main family to be trained.
Even if they didn't rank in the top ten, they could exchange their Reverse Scales for corresponding rewards.
In this battle, Lin Buzheng had killed countless Fishmen and Fishman Warriors. His military exploits were outstanding and obvious to all.
Among the disciples of the Lin Family, there was no doubt that he was ranked first.
Right now, Lin Buzheng's trip to the clan's martial training grounds was just a formality. It was all for the sake of determining his place in the main clan in advance.
Lin Buzheng strode forward, and not long after, he arrived at the family's training field.
At this moment, the martial arts field was packed with people.
The Lin family disciples lined up in a row and ascended the high platform in the middle of the training field. Lin Yushan, the patriarch of the Lin family, personally recorded the number of reverse scales they had obtained.
Several clan elders sat upright on the stone seats behind the high platform.
In the middle of the platform, there was a jade wall that was three meters tall.
It was crystal clear and shone with a pale green luster.
From the highest to the lowest, it clearly showed the number of Reverse Scales submitted by each registered disciple, as well as their ranking among the registered disciples.
Such a lineup was enough to show how much importance the clan placed on this trial.
"Hiss, Lin Qing Qing's cultivation is only at the third rank of qi path, but she has turned in forty-three Reverse Scales, ranking eighth among all the disciples. Impressive!"
"Fifty-two normal mermen's reverse scales, one merman warrior's reverse scale … the number of scales collected by Lin Jingfeng is also frightening."
"Tsk, that's nothing. Look at the number of scales Lin Hao has collected. Two hundred normal mermen's reverse scales and ten merman warriors' reverse scales. He's at the top of the list, twice as many as the second place."
At this moment, there were thousands of disciples on the training field, staring at the rankings on the jade wall and discussing fervently.
The deep sea mermen were rank two demonic beasts.
They were powerful, equivalent to those at the fourth or sixth rank of qi path.
However, the cultivation of most of the Lin family disciples was only between the first and third rank of qi path.
Therefore, most of the disciples didn't collect many Reverse Scales of the Mermaid, only a few pieces.
A small number of clan disciples at the fourth stage of qi path and above managed to collect dozens of fishman reverse scales.
Merman warriors were rank three demonic beasts, and their strength was even more terrifying than normal mermen.
According to the rules of the trial, one Reverse Scale of a merman warrior was equivalent to ten normal mermen's reverse scales.
Apart from Lin Hao and a few other genius disciples of the family, there were not many disciples of the family who had collected the fishman warrior's reverse scale.
As for the Merman King, it was a rank four demonic beast.
Its strength was even more terrifying than a merman warrior, and it could kill a great expert that had just reached the spirit path realm. It was not something that qi path juniors of the clan could fight against.
Therefore, the Reverse Scale of the Merman King was even more valuable.
One Reverse Scale of the Merman King was equivalent to one hundred scales of a merman warrior, or one thousand scales of normal mermen.
However, up until now, no Reverse Scale of the Merman King had appeared in the statistics.
Generally speaking, as long as a disciple collected more than thirty Reverse Scales, they would be ranked in the top ten, and have the hope of entering the main family to further their studies.
Just as Lin Buzheng passed through the crowd and walked towards the martial arts arena's high platform …
A skinny man with a face similar to Fatty Lin was on the platform, handing over the Reverse Scale in his hands.
"Lin Nenghao, handed over thirty-three Reverse Scales, ranked tenth among all the disciples!"
"Tenth? Hmph, does he even deserve it? "
However, at this moment, most of the disciples below the platform looked at Lin Nenghao with endless disdain and disdain.
So this disciple called Lin Nenghao was the grandson of the third elder of the clan.
Although his cultivation had reached the third rank of qi path, when the fishmen attacked the city, he hid in his house and did not come out. He was not like Lin Hao and Lin Buzheng, who guarded the city wall and fought the fishmen to the death.
If it was just that, then it was fine.
After the battle, Lin Nenghao relied on his family background to snatch tens of Reverse Scales from the hands of several disciples, and was able to rank tenth in this trial.
All these actions made the Lin family disciples feel disgusted.
Lin Buzheng shook his head lightly.
Regardless of the time, there were always people like Lin Nenghao who were afraid of death and fishing for compliments.
"This person's name is Lin Nenghao, the grandson of the third elder of the clan."
"Fatty Lin's real name is Lin Nengchi, and he's also the grandson of the third elder of the clan …"
"Could it be that there's some relationship between the two?"
However, Lin Buzheng noticed that Lin Nenghao's name and Fatty Lin's name only differed by a single word.
It seemed that the two had a close relationship.
At this moment, Lin Nenghao walked down from the platform after handing over the Reverse Scales, but he did not leave immediately.
Instead, he stopped below the platform and looked in a certain direction with a smug expression.
"That's Fatty Lin …"
Lin Buzheng followed Lin Nenghao's gaze and immediately saw Fatty Lin's figure.
At this moment, Fatty Lin was walking toward the platform alone.
After not seeing him for a day, his fat body had lost a lot of weight.
The corners of his eyes were red, and there was a white cloth wrapped around his arm. It was obvious that a relative had passed away.
He was holding a few green Reverse Scales in his hand, making him look extremely shabby.
"Cousin Nengchi, I didn't expect you to be here too."
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