Post-Mythical Era: I don't want to die in the third reincarnation

"You dare to impersonate a disciple of the Da Fan Immortal Sect?" A woman standing not far in front of Ding Huan shouted loudly at him.

Ding Huan's face was pale, looking like someone who had indulged excessively. Such a person, even if they were a disciple of the Da Fan Immortal Sect, couldn't possibly be brought to this place.

Only core disciples representing their Immortal Sects in competitions could come here.

Even the guard was startled by this accusation. Impersonating an Immortal Sect disciple was grounds for immediate execution.

The guard wanted to step forward to intercept Ding Huan but hesitated, knowing that a mistake on his part could spell doom for him.

Ding Huan glanced at the woman's attire, which belonged to the Small Kunlun Immortal Sect. He had always been curious if this sect had any relation to the Kunlun on Earth.

However, he ignored the woman and waved towards a middle-aged man who looked somewhat anxious in the distance, saying, "Elder Mu."

Elder Mu was truly anxious. With the grand competition of the Immortal Sects about to start, Lao Liu, whom he had invited, had yet to arrive.

Although Yan Sha and Lu Qiansi were decent enough, it was almost impossible for them to achieve a high ranking in the Immortal Sect competition.

They could at best survive a few rounds and score some elimination points.

Upon hearing Ding Huan's voice, Elder Mu suddenly turned around and saw Ding Huan standing outside the Protecting Array, holding an Outer Disciple Identity Plate in his hand.

"Haha," Elder Mu laughed heartily and quickly walked over to Ding Huan, "Lao Liu, I was wondering why you hadn't arrived yet. Come on, quickly get inside."

Externally he appeared nonchalant, but internally he was immensely shocked.

Even Lao Liu's Daoist Rhythm was completely changed after the transformation. If Lao Liu hadn't called out to him, he wouldn't have recognized this person before him as the same Lao Liu who had gone through the Heavenly Tribulation.

"Elder Mu, is he really your disciple from the Da Fan Immortal Sect? Here to participate in the Immortal Sect ranking competition?" the woman who had berated Ding Huan asked incredulously.

What, does the Immortal Sect have no one else to send? Sending a disciple who indulges excessively to participate in the grand competition?

Elder Mu, seasoned and astute, could tell from the woman's tone and expression that there must have been some conflict earlier.

He coldly said, "Do I need to report my Da Fan Immortal Sect disciples to you? Let's go, Lao Liu."

Without paying any more attention to the woman, he turned and led Ding Huan and Rong Xiyu into the Immortal Sect residence.

He wasn't just being dismissive; he also wanted Ding Huan to see his attitude now.

Seeing Elder Mu's demeanor, the woman felt even more aggrieved and snorted, saying to her companion,

"Da Fan Immortal Sect really is going downhill. Look at the kind of disciples they recruit now. Such trash dares to participate in the ranking competition, representing the Immortal Sect, haha..."

"Xi Jie, be careful with your words. After all, Da Fan Immortal Sect was once a Seven-star Immortal Sect in the Great Immortal Domain. Even though it has declined now, it is not much worse than our Small Kunlun Immortal Sect," one of her companions quickly interjected.

As the two walked away, the two guards at the entrance finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Thankfully, they had hesitated and were slow to act.

Had they rushed forward upon hearing that woman rebuke someone for impersonating an Immortal Sect disciple, they would have been doomed.

This incident further convinced them that even if there were impersonators, they needed to wait until everything was clear before speaking up.

"Sorry, Elder Mu, I was held up by some personal matters and hope it didn't cause any trouble for the Immortal Sect?" Ding Huan said apologetically.

He didn't introduce Rong Xiyu; after all, his visit here was just a deal.

There was no need to introduce Rong Xiyu to Elder Mu. For her, the fewer people who knew her, the better.

Elder Mu laughed heartily, "No trouble at all. The Immortal Sect ranking competition doesn't start until tomorrow. Let's go, I'll arrange your accommodation and then explain the competition rules to you."

Now, Elder Mu was even more convinced that Ding Huan could bring surprises for the Da Fan Immortal Sect.

Looking at Ding Huan's transformed appearance, even his Daoist Rhythm had changed, which was something he couldn't achieve himself. In fact, how many could achieve such a feat?

An hour later, Ding Huan finally settled down.

He and Rong Xiyu had a large suite with six rooms. Elder Mu, not knowing the relationship between Rong Xiyu and Ding Huan, simply arranged a large suite for them.

Ding Huan didn't set up any shielding prohibitions himself, as the place was an Immortal Sect residence, unlikely to be breached. Moreover, he had no plans to cultivate.

Elder Mu had explained the competition rules very clearly, yet Ding Huan still carefully reviewed them with the rules Jade Scroll.

The Grand Immortal Domain's Immortal Sect ranking competition consisted of five major categories: Fighting, Battle Array, Immortal Pill, Battle Artifact, and Combat Talisman.

Main skills that Immortal Sects rely on had virtually all become aspects of the competition.

Regarding cultivation and smelting, some mainly involved too much time and were not suitable for competition here.

According to the classification of the Immortal Court, there can be only ten Immortal Sects with Seven Stars or higher in the Great Immortal Domain.

There were three Eight-star Immortal Sects and seven Seven-star Immortal Sects.

The rest of the Immortal Sects were divided as follows: one hundred Six-star Immortal Sects, one thousand Five-star Immortal Sects, and three thousand Four-star Immortal Sects, with all others being below Four Stars.

The specific classification of an Immortal Sect depended on the scores in the Immortal Sect ranking competition.

If an Immortal Sect scored zero in the ranking competition, it would be immediately disbanded.

Any disbanded Immortal Sect wishing to re-establish would need to wait a hundred years before reapplying to the Immortal Court to establish an Immortal Sect.

Immortal Sects that had disbanded three times were not allowed to be reestablished.

There were over ten thousand Immortal Sects participating in the ranking competition.

The entire competition for the Immortal Sect rankings was divided into five contest areas: Fighting, Battle Array, Immortal Pill, Battle Artifact, and Combat Talisman.

In each contest area, the first nine rounds were elimination rounds, and every Immortal Sect could send three participants to each event.

Even if three participants were sent, these elimination rounds still relied somewhat on luck, and that luck was determined by drawing lots.

Drawing an unfavorable lot could mean elimination in the first round.

In the elimination rounds, both Seven-star and Eight-star Immortal Sects could choose two event categories to opt out of, and for each of those categories, two participants would directly advance to the platform contest.

Generally, by the time of the platform contest, only about a hundred participants remained.

Among these hundred were also seeded players from the Seven-star and Eight-star Immortal Sects.

Since every Immortal Sect of Seven-star and above were eligible to opt out of two categories in the elimination rounds.

The rest had to be eliminated from among the more than ten thousand Immortal Sects.

This illustrates how brutal the major competition of Immortal Sect rankings is.

In the elimination rounds, each round advanced added ten points to an Immortal Sect's total.

If an Immortal Sect's three participants all advanced past the first round in a category, that added up to thirty points.

This indicated that scoring in the major competition of the Immortal Sect rankings was quite simple—just advancing past the first round sufficed.

In regards to the Seven-star and Eight-star Immortal Sects, their advantage was significant.

Their Immortal Sects did not need to participate in two categories of elimination rounds, and two participants from each category would move directly to the platform contest, enjoying the maximum score from the elimination rounds.

For example, if a Seven-star Immortal Sect chose not to participate in the Fighting elimination rounds.

And Fighting had nine rounds of elimination, then their participating disciples would each carry ninety points into the platform contest.

It could be said, once an Immortal Sect was promoted to Seven-star, as long as they didn't mess up and weren't too weak, they wouldn't likely drop back to Six-star.

For the two categories they didn't participate in during the elimination rounds, they were assured of steady results. For the three categories they participated in, they could always get some points, right?

The platform contest featured disciples from Seven-star and Eight-star Immortal Sects as platform holders, or disciples who scored full points in the elimination rounds as platform holders.

Every victory in this round added another ten points, but each loss deducted ten points.

The platform contest was limited not by the number of matches or participants, but by time.

Put simply, the platform contest was a scoring competition.

If you were strong, you could stay on the platform continuously or challenge from the first to the tenth platform.

As long as you won a match, you earned ten points.

If you felt you were not strong, then you shouldn't compete in the platform contest, since the points you already had wouldn't be deducted unless you participated and lost.

Because the platform contests were not limited by the number of matches or participants, there was a time limit for this competition: twenty-four two-hour periods.

Once twenty-four two-hour periods had passed, the platform challenge would stop, and the scores would be calculated.

The first place in the scores would be the first-place winner in that category of the Immortal Sect ranking competition.

Ding Huan's gaze fell on the prize for first place in a single event, just as Elder Mu had described: a high-grade Immortal Spirit Vein, a top-grade Da Yi Immortal Pill, and an Array Token for entry to and from the Immortal Court.

As for the Immortal Crystal rewards and other Medicine Pills and Immortal Artifacts, Ding Huan did not even consider them…

However, what attracted Ding Huan was not these, but the reward for the first place in the overall score of the Immortal Sect rankings.

This reward, apart from three high-grade Immortal Spirit Veins, included a Spiritual Treasure, the Soul Devouring Ring.

Ding Huan read the description of the Soul Ring—this Soul Devouring Ring could devour any Divine Soul. However, it wasn't for actively devouring Divine Souls, but rather it devoured those who had lost the ability to resist under someone's control.

Generally speaking, this would be considered rather useless.

Yet Ding Huan's eyes lit up; this Soul Devouring Ring could find the weakest points in a Boundary.

For Ding Huan, this was exactly what he needed.

Back in the Billions of Void Swamps, if he had this Soul Devouring Ring and a bit more cultivation, he could have found the weakest spots in the boundary and then tried to break through.

Similarly, coming here was mostly based half on guesses and half on luck. If he had this Soul Devouring Ring, wouldn't he be able to easily move from one boundary to another?

He couldn't afford to lose this item.

Thinking this, Ding Huan immediately stood up and went to look for Elder Mu.

…

In Elder Mu's room, he was dealing with the Sect Master Ji Changsi.

"Sect Master, Lao Liu is indeed very strong. If you don't believe me, ask Yan Sha; he witnessed his Heavenly Tribulation with his own eyes.

Besides, he's only occupying one Fighting spot for our Immortal Sect. Apart from Yan Sha and Lu Qiansi, we really can't find anyone else who can participate in the Fighting event."