"What the fuck?!" Bai Yun screamed, completely dropping his sword onto the stone floor, "She... she broke through her stagnation?!"

"She’s at the 9th Stage too?!"

The arrogant smile on Gu Chen’s face shattered. He stared at Bai Bing in pure disbelief. He had worked his ass off, nearly dying several times to trigger his second awakening and break through.

Yet here she was, looking like she had just returned from a relaxing spa day, matching his cultivation perfectly.

On the other hand, Bai Bing didn’t even glance at Gu Chen. She completely ignored the Golden Boy.

She walked towards the counters swaying her hips. Her inner thighs were slightly sore, and her pussy was still swollen and sensitive from Gu Fan’s relentless, brutal pounding. Every step she took quietly reminded her who she belonged to.

As she reached the central counting table, the elders were staring at her with their mouths hanging open.

Bai Bing casually unhooked a massive, heavy spatial pouch from her waist and threw it in front of them.

She had stuffed it with a fraction of the high-tier loot Gu Fan had told her to take from obviously his massive 50x multiplied haul.

"Count them," she ordered coldly, and her voice snapped the two elders out of their daze. They quickly scrambled to empty the pouch.

When the loot hit the table, the Gu Clan disciples collectively choked on their own spit.

There were three intact 6th Stage Spirit Realm Venomhide Bear cores. There were dozens of high-grade herbs, a few dozen or so beast cores ranging from 1st stage of Body Tempering to the 5th Stage of Spirit realm that Gu Fan had casually thrown into her pouch.

The counting process took twice as long because the elders’ hands were shaking so violently.

"Bai... Bai Bing!" the Bai Clan elder finally screamed, his voice cracking with absolute hysteria. "Total score... 5,150 points!"

The giant Qi screen flashed a blinding green light.

Bai Bing’s name completely bypassed everyone, violently shoving Gu Chen down to 2nd place and claiming the absolute top spot.

The plaza went dead silent for one full second.

Every single pair of eyes in the plaza turned towards the screen. Even madam Li was distracted for a second as she turned to looks at the final scorecard.

The Bai clan was winning it with 6 of their younger generations in the top 10 and clear lead of 4,450 points.

And this was it. No more see-saws. No more surprises, no more last minute shockers, no more clan geniuses left to play the hero at the last second and turn it around.

It was all finally over.

And with that, the Bai Clan side absolutely exploded in a deafening, chaotic roar of pure, ecstatic triumph. Disciples were jumping on each other’s backs, screaming at the top of their lungs.

They had thought they had lost everything, Bai Haoran was about to let go of the most enriched Spirit mine in all of the Poisan Valley town that thy have been controlling for the just over a century after the Gu Clan’s previous Patriarch lost it in wager to the then Bai Clan Patriarch.

But then came Bai Bing and snatched the victory from the Gu Clan’s jaws.

And above all, she stole the limelight Gu Chen had just managed to bask in with his heroic, last minute entrance.

"WE WIN!" One of the bai Clan disciple beside Gu Chen said laughing hysterically at Gu Chen. "Look at the board, Golden Boy! You are nothing but second place!"

"Get LOST!" Gu Chen slapped the boy with a swing of his arm. He was already seething with anger and the taunts of these Bai Clan nobody’s only pricked his heart deeper.

Up on the viewing platform, the dynamic violently flipped again.

Patriarch Gu Yangtian looked like he someone has just plunged a hammer up his ass and left it there. He collapsed backward into his heavy wooden chair, his face turning a sickly shade of pale grey. It was as if he had aged fifty years in a single, devastating second.

"It seems," Bai Haoran sneered, leaning forward in his chair, completely relishing the absolute despair on his rival’s face, "That your Golden Boy isn’t quite golden enough, Gu Yangtian. My Bai Clan claims the ultimate victory."

"I know there is nothing much left in them. But prepare the deeds for those Spirit Mines."

"You..." Gu Yangtian almost vomited blood out of agony, but at the last minute, Madam Li placed her hand over his shoulder and he calmed down.

"You are spirited... Gu Yangtian," Bai Haoran clicked his tongue as he looked at Gu Yangtian in amusement, "And you have some fine taste."

Bai Haoran’s gaze shifted from Gu Yangtian to Madam Li.

"I am sure I can let you keep a mine or two if we can come up to an agreement," Bai Haoran’s gaze trailed from Madam Li’s face down her neck to her breasts, "You only have to say yes!"

"Do you think you can even if he said yes?" Madam Li smirked rolling her eyes at the Ba Clan Patriarch, "There is only one man in this world who can even dare to touch me."

"And not even in death you are that man, Bai Haoran. So just piss off before I chop that useless thing down there."

"Hehehehe..." Bai Haoran, on the other hand, did not get angry as he heard Madam Li. Instead something else ignited inside him even brighter, "I have always liked you... And now I want you even more."

Down in the plaza, Gu Chen stood completely frozen. His fists were clenched so tightly his nails drew blood from his palms. His face was twisted into a mask of pure, humiliated rage.

He stared at Bai Bing, who was standing calmly by the counter.

"How?" Gu Chen growled, his voice trembling with fury, "How did you get all of that without a single scratch on you?!"

Bai Bing finally turned her dark eyes toward him. A very faint, highly arrogant smirk crossed her beautiful face. She thought about her husband. She thought about his thick cock, his rough hands, and the incredible, mind-shattering pleasure he had given her in the dirt.

"I had a very deep and thorough awakening," Bai Bing replied smoothly, "But I don’t think you will get that awakening. It is very peculiar in that way."

"Huh...?!"

Meanwhile, the Bai Clan elders immediately moved forward, raising their hands to formally announce the end of the competition and claim the prize.

"The Joint Hunting Competition is now concluded!" the lead Bai elder shouted over the cheering crowd. "The Bai Clan claims first place, and—"

"Stop it... It’s not over yet..."