Rebirth of a Quasi-Immortal Spirit

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On the first day of the first year of the Jinxin era, a new era began on the Immortal Spirit Continent, and the Gao family's grand competition officially commenced.

The family competition, held every ten years, has come to an end in the first year of the new millennium, and its competition format is naturally entirely new.

This year's competition format is different from previous years, which only involved one-on-one duels. The champion selected in this new era must be a leading figure among the new generation of cultivators, and his leadership ability is an important factor that cannot be ignored.

Therefore, the elders of the Gao family took advantage of the situation and brought out the competition system of the Dragon and Phoenix Tournament from the previous millennium, which can be regarded as allowing the Gao family members to familiarize themselves with the competitive atmosphere of the Dragon and Phoenix Tournament in advance.

The Dragon and Phoenix Tournament a thousand years ago consisted of three rounds. The first round was a team elimination system, where all participants were numbered from one to ten. Cultivators with the same number belonged to the same team. The first round eliminated seven teams, and only the top three teams from each team advanced to the second round.

The first round is a competition of who can obtain the most number plates from other teams within a specified seven-day period. The top three teams with the most number plates each member holds advance to the next round. During the competition, any cultivator who goes without a number plate for more than twelve hours will be teleported out of the competition area. Even if their team advances to the second round, the cultivator will be disqualified from advancing and eliminated.

The elimination rate is 70%, and it depends on the teamwork ability among cultivators. After all, no matter how strong an individual is, they cannot face hundreds or thousands of cultivators of the same cultivation level alone.

Upon seeing this competition format, everyone's expression turned grim, especially those in the Nascent Soul stage. The minimum requirement for participating in the Clan Competition is the Nascent Soul stage, and the Nascent Soul stage undoubtedly has the largest number of participants. This time, there are a total of 100,000 participants. After being numbered and divided into teams, each team has 10,000 people. Even someone as strong as Gao Zhun wouldn't dare say that he could face 10,000 Nascent Soul cultivators alone without being defeated.

However, there was still a chance to win. Gao Zhun looked at the number plate in her hand, with a large red "7" prominently displayed. Given her activity level in the Gao family in recent years, becoming the captain of the seventh squad was beyond doubt.

Will all three teams win?

Because he had helped Gao Qi and Gao Yaobing many times, Gao Zhun sidled up to them after receiving his number plate. Upon looking at their number plates, he realized that the three of them belonged to different teams. Gao Qi was in the third team, Gao Yaobing was in the ninth team, and Gao Zhun was in the seventh team. That made three teams in total.

Gao Zhun can guarantee that she is the captain of the seventh squad, but Gao Qi and Gao Yaobing do not have her level of prestige and power. Even so, their strength is undeniable, and their influence within the squad is certainly not low. In this case, these two can serve as a link between her and the third and ninth squads.

A plan gradually took shape in Gao Zhun's mind, but she couldn't say it out loud now. If it were stolen before the competition even started, the outcome would be uncertain.

Therefore, Gao Zhun did not offer any suggestions, but secretly gave one communication jade slip to each of Gao Qi and Gao Yaobing, saying only that they would contact each other at the competition venue.

Gao Qi and Gao Yaobing were, after all, the first and second place winners of the previous competition at Fengming Courtyard. They were the people in charge of Fengming Courtyard before Gao Zhun. In addition to their considerable strength, they were also quite intelligent to achieve such a ranking. Almost the instant they received the communication jade slip, they understood Gao Zhun's underlying meaning and nodded solemnly.

At the same time, Gao Qi couldn't help but secretly admire Gao Zhun's quick wit. The first round of the competition was about teamwork. Everyone thought that a team of 10,000 people was already a team, and everyone was acting independently, with each other being competitors.

However, it's important to understand that with each team having 10,000 people, when the two teams meet head-on, what really matters is the overall combined strength of the cultivators. If one team is significantly stronger than the other, some gaps cannot be bridged by tactics.

Gao Zhun saw the true intention of teamwork as soon as the competition rules were announced. After all, this competition was an elimination system, not a points system. As long as the top three teams were ranked, they would start from the same point in the second round. So why couldn't the three teams team up to get number plates?

A team of 30,000 people facing a strong team of 10,000 people can make up for the lack of strength by the difference in numbers. As long as the spoils are divided at the end, how can such a combined team not advance together?

Thinking of this, Gao Qi began to secretly observe the Nascent Soul stage cultivators of the Gao family around him. He saw that they were either looking at their number tags with a frown or contacting allies with the same number. There wasn't a single one of them looking for 'enemies' from other teams like Gao Zhun!

It's not that the other cultivators aren't as quick-witted as Gao Zhun, or that they lack intelligence and therefore couldn't possibly raise their cultivation to the Nascent Soul stage. It's just that this competition format has too many traps. After all, cultivators are used to cultivating alone, and the cooperation of a team of 10,000 people is enough to give them a headache for a long time. No one could immediately think that they not only need to integrate their own team, but also bring in one or two allies to fight together.

Ultimately, it was Gao Zhun's mindset as the heir to the Gao Group in her previous life that made her think of cooperation first. On Earth, if a group wants to develop, it must first go public. Going public disperses shares to the market, which is to raise funds by using the power of shareholders. At the same time, each project of the company also requires cooperation from multiple groups to leverage their respective strengths in order to complete it perfectly.

She applied this modern business philosophy completely to the first round of the family competition.

When it comes to negotiating cooperation and profits with businessmen, wouldn't an outsider be completely devoured?!

However, before Gao Zhun could put his plan into action, the other teams were completely unaware of what was about to happen on the field. By the time they realized what was going on, many of the teams on the field had probably already been eliminated by the combined forces of teams three, seven, and nine with swift and decisive action.

An hour later, all the number plates outside the Nascent Soul stage arena had been distributed, and all the teams had assembled. Gao Zhun was not surprised at all to become the leader of the seventh team. She looked around and saw that Gao Qi and Gao Yaobing were not captains. The captains of the third and seventh teams were both men who looked somewhat familiar. They seemed to be the people who had won the top five in the previous Gao family competition.

Gao Zhun didn't know many people in the Gao family. The reason these two people knew each other was because they had some impression of each other after reading the information about the Gao family's Nascent Soul stage rivals that Ah Zhong had collected from various channels.

Fortunately, the information describes these two individuals as gentle, having a broad perspective, and being magnanimous, suggesting they are easy to get along with. With Gao Qi and Gao Yaobing's mediation, the subsequent cooperation should proceed smoothly.

Another half hour passed, and the competition officially began, with all ten teams stepping onto the field at the same time.

The familiar dizziness returned, and it was another random teleportation array. The competition venue also used spatial layering techniques. Unlike the spatial teleportation in the secret realm, the random teleportation in this competition venue could teleport cultivators with the same number plate to one place, saving them the trouble of finding their teammates.

Upon arriving at the competition venue, Gao Zhun took out his communication jade tablet, which had a red dot symbolizing himself, two green dots symbolizing Gao Qi and Gao Yaobing, and seven gray dots.

That was all thanks to Ah Zhong, who was far away on the field. After the team assembled, Ah Zhong randomly found the signals of seven network terminals in the other seven teams. Then, he used his hacking skills to implant a positioning system in the other team's network terminals. Those people never expected that the network terminals they used for leisure and relaxation would betray their location.

With this communication jade token, Gao Zhun led the remaining nine thousand-plus cultivators around the other teams and successfully reunited with the third squad where Gao Qi was and the ninth squad where Gao Yaobing was.

"Gao Chengyuan."

"Gao Jieming".

The three teams successfully joined forces. The captains of the third and ninth teams had already learned of Gao Zhun's intentions through Gao Qi and Gao Yaobing's explanations. Upon seeing this cousin who had already overshadowed them, the two took the initiative to say their names.

"Brother Chengyuan, Brother Jieming, and I am Gao Zhun. You can call me Xiao Zhun, just like Xiao Qi and Yao Bing." Since they were so friendly, Gao Zhun, who wasn't arrogant, naturally greeted them with a smile.

After the three key personnel got to know each other, Gao Zhun explained her plan for the next seven days.

After hearing Gao Zhun's plan, Gao Chengyuan looked at him with amazement and exclaimed, "Xiao Zhun is truly a genius!"

"Just say I'm being sarcastic if you want to." After getting to know these people, Gao Zhun was no longer so reserved in her speech. At this moment, she even rolled her eyes in a rather unladylike manner. To be honest, her plan was indeed a bit sarcastic, but wasn't that the most advantageous thing to do?

Suddenly, the communication jade disc that Gao Zhun had clipped to her waist sounded an alarm. She looked down and saw that a gray dot had entered the encirclement of their three teams.

"You've got the path to heaven but choose the path to hell," Gao Zhun sighed dramatically, then ordered the newly formed fourth squad to cut off the enemy's escape route without hesitation. Gao Chengyuan and the others were speechless, but also relieved that Gao Qi and Gao Yaobing, who had some connection with Gao Zhun, were on their team. Otherwise, the frustration of being eliminated by Gao Zhun like that might have become a source of inner demons for them!

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The following is the content of Chapter 114.

Upon receiving the script, a group of staff members, including a number of familiar and unfamiliar faces, immediately approached Gao Zhun. After verifying the information in the script in her hand, a female staff member looked her up and down until she felt a chill run down her spine and then she calmed down.

"It's a bit difficult to disguise this person as a man, but their physique is fine."

Gao Zhunmo, so what kind of grudge is this?!

Ah Zhong, who had been watching the live stream from the sidelines, instantly spat out his tea. However, with his mother, the person being criticized, nearby, he couldn't show any abnormality. So he could only sit up straight again and suppress the laughter that was about to burst out.

Therefore, Ah Zhong couldn't help but boast to himself that his decades of facial paralysis hadn't been for nothing.

Gao Zhun, who was inside the arena, was naturally unaware of the reactions of those outside. Even if she did know, it was another matter whether she still remembered the existence of Ah Zhong.

However, a woman who came with the staff made her a little curious. Her beautiful face was like the cool moonlight. At first glance, she was an ice beauty. However, when you looked at her, she could reveal a gentle smile that melted away the ice and snow the moment you noticed. She was very likable, but she felt a little strange.

The woman's smile was so radiant, it was almost blinding, that she could hardly bear to look directly at it.

However, aside from this oddity, there was also the fact that although she couldn't recall the other person's name or even remembered seeing them before, she inexplicably felt a sense of familiarity with them.

The strange sense of familiarity made Gao Zhun feel dazed for a moment, and at the same time, a trace of panic rose in her heart, as if she had been connected with something invisibly.

Offstage, Gao Ling, who had been nestled obediently in Madam Zhu's arms, was initially happy and excited to see her favorite older sister in this novel way. However, all of that vanished the moment this woman appeared.

At that moment, Gao Ling stopped her coquettish behavior towards Madam Zhu. Her once innocent face was now tightly clenched, and her eyes were terrifyingly deep, so deep that they seemed to suck one's soul in. This expression was directed at the woman in the scene who had aroused Gao Zhun's curiosity and fascination.