NABC Chapter 041: The Low-Key Lu Qingshan
Chapter 041: The Low-Key Lu Qingshan
In Wang Chen's manor, a gathering place for top elites in Tianzhu Mountain.
At this moment, a banquet was being held to welcome Lu Qingshan and Terence. When Lu Qingshan arrived, hundreds of first-level elites from Tianzhu Mountain had already gathered here.
As one of the main guests at the banquet, Lu Qingshan was warmly greeted by everyone as soon as he appeared.
Finally, Wang Chen, the host of the banquet, came over and successfully helped Lu Qingshan out of the predicament.
"Brother Aoyama!"
Wang Chen raised a glass of wine to invite Lu Qingshan to drink with him, then smiled and said, "How's the atmosphere here?"
"The atmosphere is great!"
Lu Qingshan also raised his glass and drank the wine in one gulp, then replied with a smile, "Thank you for your hospitality, Brother Wang. The atmosphere here is wonderful, and the food is delicious. I've never encountered anything like this before, back in the Scorpio Galaxy!"
"Hahaha!"
Upon hearing Lu Qingshan's words, Wang Chen quickly smiled and said, "The Scorpio Galaxy is such a small place, it doesn't even have many cosmic-level systems, so naturally it can't compare to this place!"
"Brother Qingshan, I know your teacher is a cosmic-level martial artist from the Zichuan Empire, but with your talent, there's absolutely no need for you to return to a small place like the Zichuan Empire in the future!"
"Our Wang family is very interested in you. Would you be interested in joining our family?"
"Join the royal family?"
Lu Qingshan was not surprised at all by Wang Chen's words.
After all, Wang Chen had his own purpose in hosting such a welcome banquet, which was to win over these newly joined elites of Tianzhu Mountain.
In fact, many forces within Tianzhu Mountain try to win over newly joined first-level elites like Lu Qingshan. The Wang family, to which Wang Chen belongs, only got a head start because Wang Chen is a first-level elite.
"That's right!"
Wang Chen waved and poured Lu Qingshan a full glass of fine wine, then continued with a smile, "Brother Qingshan, rest assured, my Wang family is completely different from those so-called eight great families of the Golden Lion Star Region. We are never stingy when it comes to true geniuses!"
"The treatment you receive in the Wang family in the future will be entirely determined by your own strength. The stronger you are, the better the treatment you will receive! As for now, as long as you are willing to join the Wang family, you will immediately be granted a life-bearing planet!"
"A planet with life?"
Lu Qingshan was quite surprised after hearing Wang Chen's words.
It's important to know that a life-bearing planet is extremely precious. Even the top elites in Tianzhu Mountain need to rank first in the overall rankings for twenty consecutive years to receive a life-bearing planet as a reward.
Now, simply joining the Wang family grants one access to a life-bearing planet as their territory, which is an exceptionally generous offer for a typical star-level genius.
However, Lu Qingshan also understood that if he accepted the Wang family's life planet, he would be deeply bound to the Wang family in the future.
At that time, we will not only have to complete various tasks within Tianzhu Mountain, but also safeguard the interests of the Wang family!
And if he were to perish in the future, the Wang family would have various means to reclaim the life-bearing planet that had been given to him.
Now that he has joined Tianzhu Mountain, he can enjoy the many resources it provides. All he needs to do is cultivate diligently. There is no need for him to participate in the competition between the various factions within Tianzhu Mountain.
Thinking of this, Lu Qingshan quickly said, "Brother Wang, I've just joined Tianzhu Mountain and only want to cultivate quietly for now. Let's talk about these things later!"
"Alright!"
After being rejected by Lu Qingshan, Wang Chen showed no dissatisfaction. Instead, he continued with a smile, "Junior Brother Qingshan, you've just joined my Tianzhu Mountain, so your strength will definitely see a rapid improvement. However, if you change your mind later, you must consider my Wang family first!"
"No problem!" Lu Qingshan quickly nodded and said.
After chatting with Lu Qingshan for a few more minutes, Wang Chen went off to talk to the other people.
During his conversation with the other geniuses, Lu Qingshan learned that Wang Chen had already approached Terence before coming to him, but like him, Terence had not chosen to join the Wang family.
The most important thing for a first-level elite is still cultivation, so the banquet did not last long. Lu Qingshan simply got acquainted with the other geniuses, and then the banquet ended.
In the following period, Lu Qingshan once again received offers of allegiance from many forces within Tianzhu Mountain. These included families with Realm Lord-level experts and small factions formed by several Domain Lord-level experts...
However, the conditions offered by these forces were almost identical to those of Wang Chen's family, and some were even more demanding, so Lu Qingshan naturally wouldn't be willing to join them.
In fact, if a Realm Lord-level expert were willing to take Lu Qingshan as a disciple, he certainly wouldn't hesitate at all.
Unfortunately, with the talent he has shown so far, he is unlikely to attract a world lord-level expert to show up and take him as a disciple.
So after rejecting the offers from these forces, Lu Qingshan quickly devoted himself to cultivation.
During this cultivation, he devoted almost all his time to cultivating the Earth Domain, completely ignoring the accumulation of energy, and only completing the most basic adventure missions.
A year later, the top-tier elites in Tianzhu Mountain began to redefine their rankings.
Because Lu Qingshan only completed the most basic cultivation tasks, he ultimately ranked 131st out of 138 elites, which can be described as an ordinary performance.
On the contrary, Terence, who became a first-class elite of Tianzhu Mountain at the same time as him, directly jumped to 88th place!
But that's normal!
Terence is, after all, a mentalist, and he has a significant advantage whether he is venturing into the Trial Tower or completing those adventure missions.
If he weren't only at the sixth level of the Hengxing realm, his ranking might be even higher!
After this ranking was finalized, Lu Qingshan and Terence's status among the top-tier elites became drastically different.
Normally, other first-level elites wouldn't pay much attention to Lu Qingshan, but they would be extremely enthusiastic when they met Terence.
Because everyone knows that with Terrence's potential, he will definitely be able to break into the top ten in the overall rankings in the future.
And indeed, Terrence's performance in the following period was quite impressive. Every year when the rankings were revised, Terrence's ranking would improve, which was quite remarkable.
On the contrary, Lu Qingshan's ranking has been hovering around 130th place, with almost no improvement.
In fact, after raising his Trial Tower score to 8.3, Lu Qingshan's Trial Tower score is not too low among the first-level elites. If he can complete more adventure missions, his overall ranking should be able to rise to around 110th.
However, for Lu Qingshan, there is not much difference in the points gained from ranking 110th and 130th overall. On the contrary, completing those adventure missions would waste more time, making it a completely unprofitable trade-off. Therefore, it would be better to focus on improving his Earth Domain.
It's important to know that when ranking players, the Trial Tower score carries far more weight than the Adventure Quest score.
Among the many first-level elites, no more than thirty people can actually enter the second level of the Earth Domain. Once he enters the second level of the Earth Domain, his ranking will quickly soar to the top fifty in the overall rankings.
However, the others were unaware of Lu Qingshan's thoughts, and seeing that Lu Qingshan's ranking had stagnated, naturally not many people paid him much attention anymore.
It's worth mentioning that Wang Chen from the Wang family truly deserves to be called an elite of a large family. Even though Lu Qingshan's ranking has always been around 130th, his attitude towards Lu Qingshan has not changed at all, which is quite remarkable.
Wang Chen even promised Lu Qingshan that if Lu Qingshan was willing to join the Wang family, the previous conditions would still stand.
If Lu Qingshan really doesn't have much of a plan for his future, he might actually join the Wang family because of this.
Fortunately, he still had a plan in mind, so he politely declined Wang Chen's offer.
And so time continued to flow by, and in the blink of an eye, another thirty years had passed.