"Boom!" The lightning ball exploded, and blood mist flew everywhere. A miserable scream came from the hook-nosed man as he failed to block Shi Jinwen's continuous waves of Yuan energy.

Shi Jinwen knew she was at her wit's end. Her final strike was merely an attempt to do her best, hoping to severely injure the hook-nosed man so that Yan'er and the others could escape quickly. She hadn't anticipated that the hook-nosed man would be suddenly ambushed by Mo Wuji during her final attack, leaving him unable to respond. After her Yuan energy, now completely depleted, struck the hook-nosed man, she was still astonished at how Mo Wuji had managed to launch a successful sneak attack.

Unable to withstand Shi Jinwen's attack, it inflicted not just serious injury but a fatal wound on the hook-nosed man. As Mo Wuji's lightning ball struck his waist, his internal organs were torn apart by Shi Jinwen's continuous waves of Yuan energy.

How could Mo Wuji miss such an opportunity? He swung his Tianji Stick down.

"Puff! Crack..."

A teeth-grinding sound rang out as Mo Wuji's strike directly smashed the hook-nosed man's head into pieces.

Mo Wuji slowly exhaled, dragging the Tianji Stick as he slowly turned around.

Not far away, Shi Jinwen, who was already seriously injured, stared blankly at the hook-nosed man's corpse falling to the ground, then at Mo Wuji slowly turning around while dragging his iron staff. She forgot to speak for a moment.

"Remember to cultivate diligently and strive to live," Mo Wuji said to Yan'er, who was also stunned, offering a word of encouragement before slowly walking away. His voice was dry and hoarse, like a lonely traveler in the desert who hadn't seen water for a long time.

After experiencing countless brushes with death, Mo Wuji truly understood how difficult it was to stay alive.

Let the hook-nosed man's storage bag be left to Yan'er.

"Who is he?" Only after Mo Wuji's figure disappeared into the distance did the green-clad woman beside Yan'er ask.

"I... I don't know him..." Yan'er said blankly. She still didn't understand why Mo Wuji would risk his life to save her. When he left, he even told her to cultivate diligently and strive to live. In her memory, she had never had a dark-faced Confucian scholar friend. Could it be that this person was also from her past memories? Didn't her Shifu say that her past memories were all from the mortal world? How could she possibly know such a powerful cultivator?

"If you didn't know him, would he risk his life to save you?" another woman in purple asked from the side.

"Yan'er..." Shi Jinwen called out after swallowing a few pills.

"Ah, Senior Sister, are you alright?" Yan'er finally came to her senses and rushed over to support Shi Jinwen.

Shi Jinwen looked in the direction Mo Wuji had disappeared, and asked doubtfully, "Yan'er, do you know him?"

Yan'er still shook her head. She really didn't know this dark-faced Confucian scholar with a scar on his face, covered in blood, and almost completely wounded.

"Heavens..." the green-clad woman suddenly exclaimed.

Shi Jinwen and the other three simultaneously turned their attention to her, wondering what she was shouting about.

The green-clad woman pointed to the swamp and the corpses scattered outside the swamp, her voice trembling as she said, "Could it be that all of these were killed by him alone?"

The four of them suddenly fell silent. After a long while, the purple-clad woman said, "He killed them. He's covered in blood, with no good skin anywhere. His head and body are covered in lightning strike marks, obviously he just came out of Thunder Mist Forest not long ago..."

"I know who he is! He's that rogue cultivator No. 2705. No wonder his ranking is so high, he's really strong..." the red-clad woman reacted, exclaiming loudly.

...

Perhaps the extraterritorial cultivators provoked the demonic beasts in the Thunder Mist Forest, or perhaps it was for some other reason. In this great battle in the Thunder Mist Forest battlefield, the extraterritorial cultivators suffered a major defeat. The extraterritorial cultivators in this area abandoned the Thunder Mist Forest as a base and began to retreat elsewhere.

...

Yindu Immortal Jade Pavilion. This is not only the premier restaurant in Yindu, it is also the premier restaurant in the entire Tianshang Empire.

Not only is the environment good here, but the spiritual energy is rich and the view is extremely open. At the Yindu Immortal Jade Pavilion, you can directly see the Hundred Sects Alliance Contribution Ranking on the Yindu Grand Plaza. In addition, the Yindu Immortal Jade Pavilion also has a dedicated trading hall.

The five great empires and extraterritorial cultivators were at war, so there were naturally a lot of spoils of war. Some cultivators would go to the trading markets, and others would come to the Yindu Immortal Jade Pavilion to trade.

Recently, the extraterritorial cultivators within the Star Han Empire retreated from the Thunder Mist Forest and joined forces with the extraterritorial cultivators within the Tianshang Empire, so the cultivators of the five great empires naturally rushed to the Yindu Hundred Sects Alliance resident. This made Yindu even more prosperous, and the Yindu Immortal Jade Pavilion even more lively.

To attract more people to come here, the Immortal Jade Pavilion simply converted the entire tenth floor into a tea hall. This is a place to drink tea, wine, and chat, and you don't have to go to the trading hall, you can directly conduct some item transactions here.

This made more and more cultivators like to come here. They talked and drank freely and unrestrainedly.

Besides the great battle with the extraterritorial cultivators, the most discussed topic here was the Hundred Sects Alliance Contribution Ranking in Yindu Square. And the most discussed person on the Hundred Sects Alliance Contribution Ranking was not Xi Yixuan, the younger generation powerhouse of the Great Evolution Sect who ranked first, nor Feng Luojian and Gou Zihan, the powerhouses of the Wentian Academy who ranked second and third. Instead, it was an unknown rogue cultivator, No. 2705.

Half a year ago, rogue cultivator No. 2705 rushed into the Hundred Sects Alliance Contribution Ranking as a powerful dark horse, and not only that, but directly rushed to tenth place. After that, rogue cultivator No. 2705 slowly disappeared, surpassed by one genius after another.

Many people began to suspect that No. 2705 was lucky enough to kill a Void God Realm Perfect cultivator, which increased his score by 9,000 points at once. Until more than two months ago, rogue cultivator No. 2705 went wild again, increasing his score by more than 3,000 at once, and directly rushed to the top six with a total score of 12,076.

The Hundred Sects Alliance contribution sub-rankings were refreshed. Looking at rogue cultivator No. 2705, who was ranked sixth with 12,076 points, the number of people who said he was lucky gradually decreased.

Luck can be good once, but it can't always be so good. Moreover, many people could see the rise in 2705's score this time. It was said that it was gradually increasing, not increasing all at once.

According to the Immortal Jade Pavilion's waiter, that day he was standing in Yindu Square staring at the Hundred Sects Alliance contribution list. He personally saw the contribution points of rogue cultivator No. 2705 slowly rise, changing hundreds of times in one hour.

At this moment, several cultivators near the window were also discussing rogue cultivator No. 2705. After one of the cultivators said what the Immortal Jade Pavilion waiter had said, another cultivator smiled and said, "That's unlikely. I believe the score changed hundreds of times, after all, killing extraterritorial cultivators relies on constant accumulation. But you said it changed hundreds of times in one hour, please forgive me for not believing you, that's really too outrageous."

"Why is it impossible?" The cultivator who relayed the waiter's words was a little unhappy, as if he was talking nonsense.

The cultivator who said it was impossible calmly said, "Think about it, if the score changed hundreds of times in one hour, what does that mean? It means that this cultivator No. 2705 was besieged by hundreds of cultivators. Facing the siege of hundreds of cultivators, he couldn't kill them all at once, he needed to kill them hundreds of times in a row, so what does that mean? It means that this rogue cultivator's strength is not high. A rogue cultivator with not high strength, besieged by hundreds of people, can still kill the extraterritorial cultivators who besieged him one by one, is that possible? Are his opponents all pigs, waiting for him to kill them?"

The cultivator who relayed the waiter's words was stunned by the question, and then muttered, "Listening to you, it seems unlikely."

"Why is it unlikely? I'm sure this is true. Not only is it true, but this rogue cultivator No. 2705 hasn't even entered the Earth Realm," a clear voice stood up with dissatisfaction.

This voice was too loud, and immediately attracted a lot of attention.

The speaker was a woman in a green dress. Seeing that everyone was looking at her, she simply said loudly, "I personally saw the battlefield where he fought, surrounded by the corpses of extraterritorial cultivators. He himself was also severely injured. Not only that, but he also helped my Wentian Academy's Dan Tower Senior Sister Jinwen kill a True Lake Realm Perfect powerhouse."

This green-clad woman was precisely the one who went to the Thunder Mist Forest with Yan'er. She had always believed that Mo Wuji was rogue cultivator No. 2705.

"Who knows if what you're saying is true or false? Many people say they know 2705, but in the end they don't know him," someone in the crowd said.

Not to mention that rogue cultivator No. 2705 had such a great reputation, as long as a cultivator could step onto the Hundred Sects Alliance Contribution Ranking Top 100, they were all prodigies. Every cultivator who entered the Hundred Sects Alliance Contribution Ranking Top 100 possessed immense popularity in Yindu. Even if they entered the Immortal Jade Pavilion, the Immortal Jade Pavilion would not charge any fees, and would even be proud of it.

Rogue cultivator No. 2705 was ranked sixth, naturally a leader among the five great empires. Even the sect masters of ordinary sects would stop and say hello when they saw him. If they could get to know this prodigy, they would have a glorious face wherever they went.

Therefore, many people wanted to meet the geniuses on the Hundred Sects Alliance Contribution Ranking, but most of the geniuses had names and surnames. Only rogue cultivator No. 2705 was nameless and no one knew who he was. Because of this, the most people said they knew rogue cultivator No. 2705.

"I am Xue Tongs, an inner disciple of the Wentian Academy's Dao Gate. When this happened, not only was I there, but Senior Sister Jinwen was also there. In addition, there was my Wentian Academy's number one genius Yan'er and Great Evolution Sect's Junior Sister Ling Yizhen. That rogue cultivator No. 2705 even risked his life to save Yan'er once, do I need to lie?" The green-clad woman's face turned a little ugly. It was really annoying to say that she was like those people who falsely claimed to know rogue cultivator No. 2705.

"This Senior Sister is indeed an inner disciple of the Wentian Academy and wouldn't lie," someone in the crowd recognized Xue Tongsi.

"Then please ask Senior Sister Xue, what does this rogue cultivator No. 2705 Senior Brother look like?" someone in the crowd asked again.