259: Harvest

"Ding! The individual Ladder Challenge Tournament has ended. Thank you to all Trial Takers for participating. The system will announce the results shortly and distribute rewards to the Trial Takers who achieved the top 100 billion rankings. The guild Ladder Challenge Tournament quarter-finals will begin tomorrow at 8:00 AM."

Following the system prompt, Huang Chen and the others were teleported back to their original locations. Soon, the giant light screen in the sky of the Star Abyss announced the final rankings for the top eight of this challenge tournament.

1st Place: Huang Chen, Huaxia Clan;

2nd Place: Luo Hou, Asura clan;

3rd Place: Tie Shengnan, Huaxia Clan;

4th Place: Yun Liefeng, Dong clan;

5th Place: Illusion Clan, Cang Yue;

6th Place: Elise, Elf Clan;

7th Place: Thorn clan, Chen Feng;

8th Place: Rain Clan, Lan Yufei;

Although everyone already knew the rankings when the competition ended, seeing them displayed still left everyone sighing with emotion.

Aside from Huang Chen's undisputed first place, Chen Feng's defeat, Tie Shengnan taking third, and Cang Yue failing to enter the top four were all far beyond people's expectations.

Especially the match where Cang Yue lost to Tie Shengnan; although when entering the top eight, Cang Yue was ranked fourth due to being challenged many times.

However, looking at his entire Ladder Challenge Tournament performance, that was the only match he lost, and it was against Tie Shengnan.

Although his character is not great, his strength is truly terrifying.

Of course, the most talked-about aspect of this competition was that two members of the Huaxia Clan entered the top four; this is absolutely an unprecedented feat.

You must know, with one hundred million clans competing, entering the top one hundred million rankings averages out to only one person per clan.

Yet this time, the Huaxia Clan had a full one hundred thousand people enter the top one hundred million, several entered the top ten thousand, and they even occupied two spots in the top four...

Such a performance by Huaxia cast a heavy shadow over all other clans.

Fortunately, Tie Shengnan's performance gave the lower-level members of various clans a major adrenaline boost, sparking a leveling frenzy throughout the Star Abyss.

Following the announcement of the challenge tournament rankings, the rewards for the individual challenge tournament were also soon released.

1st place reward: 500 points of personal bone structure, two level 80 sect-suppressing skill books (attribute of choice), and an increase of 3 million in the clan's luck.

2nd place reward: 300 points of personal bone structure, one level 80 sect-suppressing skill book (attribute of choice), and an increase of 2 million in the clan's luck.

3rd place reward: 250 points of personal bone structure, one level 80 sect-suppressing skill book (attribute of choice), and an increase of 1.8 million in the clan's luck.

4th to 8th place rewards: 200 points of bone structure, reducing by 10 points for each lower rank; one level 70 SSS skill book; 1 million in clan luck, reducing by 100,000 for each lower rank.

9th to 100th place: 100 points of bone structure, reducing by 5 points for every ten ranks lower; one level 60 SSS skill book, 300,000 in clan luck, reducing by 20,000 for every ten ranks lower.

101st to 10,000th place: 50 points of bone structure, reducing by 1 point for every thousand ranks; 10,000 points of clan luck.

10,001st to 100,000,000th place: 30 points of bone structure, 100 points of clan luck, and one random attribute level 60 epic equipment.

As the rewards were announced, everyone was stunned.

"The rewards for the top three... are just too good!!"

"500 points of bone structure! That's the level of a holy son or holy daughter from an ordinary High Martial Race Group..."

"God Huang is getting further and further away from us."

"Also, what is clan luck? I've never even heard of it!!"

Meanwhile, Huang Chen also stared wide-eyed at the system rewards; he hadn't expected them to be this good.

500 points of bone structure! While this 500 points of bone structure only provided a moderate boost to him, his Harem would directly take off. If he had had this 500 points of bone structure before the competition, the Harem Legion probably could have all entered the top one hundred.

Then there were the two level 80 sect-suppressing skill books.

For level 80 sect-suppressing skills, he already possessed the Earth Element Users' "Sitting in Forgetfulness and Selflessness," the Wood Elementals' "Mind's Eye," and the Water Element users' "Ice Bone Snow Heart." With this reward, he could complete his collection of sect-suppressing skills for all five elements.

He immediately chose the Metal Element Users and Fire Element skill books.

Subsequently, two ancient-looking skill books appeared in his hands.

"Heavenly Demon Disintegration": Fire Element sect-suppressing skill. It significantly increases attack power while simultaneously reducing one's own defense and health.

Learning requirement: Level 80 or above Fire Element Trial Taker.

Before learning the sect-suppressing skill, the Fire Element's AOE was at best on par with the Earth Element Users. The Earth Element Users' sect-suppressing skill belongs to the defensive type, whereas the Fire Element's sect-suppressing skill is about discarding all defense and pushing output to the limit.

With the level 80 sect-suppressing skill, the Fire Element can truly be called AOE, a veritable mobile artillery platform.

When two armies are facing each other, having a Fire Element user with a sect-suppressing skill is like possessing a nuclear weapon in modern times.

Of course, a Fire Element user with a sect-suppressing skill will also become the opponent's primary target. Due to the reduction in health and defense, they can often be instantly killed by a single Wood Elementals user. This resulted in all those Fire Element users with sect-suppressing skills in his previous life being kept hidden by major powers, treated as a final trump card.

However, this problem did not exist at all for Huang Chen.

He possessed the Earth Element Users' "Sitting in Forgetfulness and Selflessness," which meant he possessed the strongest shield and the most powerful spear... just thinking about it made one's feet tingle.

Putting away "Heavenly Demon Disintegration," Huang Chen then cast his gaze toward the Metal Element Users' sect-suppressing skill.

"Battle Intent": Metal Element Users' sect-suppressing skill. At the cost of losing a certain amount of health per second, it significantly increases maximum health; furthermore, it comprehensively improves the Trial Taker's resistance, movement speed, attack speed, attack power, and reduces the duration of being affected by skill status effects. The magnitude of the increase rises progressively with the percentage of health lost.

Learning requirement: Level 80 or above Metal Element Users Trial Taker.

Just like the Fire Element, a Metal Element user with a sect-suppressing skill can truly be considered a real warrior, capable of charging into battle and being invincible; the lower their health, the stronger their combat power.

Of course, regardless of the element, sect-suppressing skills are things that can elevate one by several levels. Unfortunately, the drop rate is extremely low, and they mostly appear in the form of rewards.

Just as Huang Chen put away the "Battle Intent" skill book, the biggest surprise of this challenge tournament appeared.

With the settlement of the luck value, the Huaxia Clan's luck value directly broke through from 8.3 million to over 23.41 million.

The giant light screen in the sky of the Star Abyss appeared.

"Congratulations to the Huaxia Clan for its luck value breaking through 10 million, reaching the minimum standard for a Middle Martial Race Group in This Universe. The entire Huaxia Clan has been promoted to a Middle Martial Race Group, and the base bone structure has been increased from 5 points to 100 points."

One stone stirred up a thousand waves; this announcement was like a nuclear explosion, causing all the Trial Takers throughout the entire Star Abyss to go into an uproar.