#1186 - Chapter 1186 What is Dengming

Very quickly, the Tai Chu Institute selected suitable candidates through sparring and competition, and Ye Kong was among them.

This outcome was also within expectations.

The cheers of the disciples below grew louder and louder.

"Ye Kong, Ye Kong, you're the best! Ye Kong, Ye Kong, you're the strongest!"

"You're the best! You're the strongest!"

Ye Kong looked at the people remaining on the stage; familiar faces were still there.

However, what Ye Kong didn't expect was that the next day, not a single person was willing to talk to him.

Hey, don't be so petty.

The third day, it was still the same. It was even difficult to see them in the Tai Chu Institute.

On the fourth day, someone finally spoke to him. It was Zhang Tie, asking Ye Kong for a Major Replenishment Pill.

So, the reason those people hadn't spoken to him was because Ye Kong had been too heavy-handed, causing everyone to be bedridden.

Ye Kong also felt guilty, so he distributed all the good medicine he had stored to everyone, especially Zhang Tie and Gongsun Qing, who received even more spiritual energy pills.

The selected people also needed designated elders to provide one-on-one guidance in cultivation. Generally speaking, their masters were the most suitable.

Of course, for the sake of the Tai Chu Institute's overall ranking, the institute specially assigned the highest-level elders to personally teach them.

Elder Wang was only among the levels, but above him, there were even higher-level elders. After watching the arena competition, they all wanted to train Ye Kong.

Sima Shizun was also among them.

Firstly, he didn't want to waste this good seedling and wanted to impart some of his unique mental cultivation methods.

Secondly, it was also a matter of face. If the disciple he trained won first place, everyone in the entire Tai Chu Institute would give him face.

Most importantly, the first official competition disciple from the Tai Chu Institute this time could not still be from Elder Wang's hands, which would simply be a slap in his own face.

Therefore, a group of high-ranking and powerful elders, full of spiritual energy, gathered around Ye Kong, wanting to train him.

Elder Wang stood aside, watching to see what tricks they could come up with. Most importantly, he knew that Ye Kong would definitely choose him.

As expected, after listening to the recommendations and ideas of these elders, Ye Kong took a step back and said with a slightly apologetic expression, "I'm really sorry, elders, but I, Ye Kong, already have a master, and that is Elder Wang. Therefore, I should continue to cultivate with him."

His words were sincere and irresistible.

The elders could only return in disappointment, choosing their own disciples or disciples who performed well.

With each passing day of cultivation, Ye Kong's strength gradually increased.

However, Elder Wang could only teach so much after all, and besides, he himself had been indifferent to worldly affairs for many years. If he wanted to achieve good results in the fixed competition and meet the system's reward requirements, Ye Kong still needed to work hard on his own.

"If you want to enter the official competition purely through daily cultivation, it will still be difficult. I can help you cultivate and help you improve your cultivation level, but you need to complete a task first," the system's cold, mechanical voice echoed in the darkness.

Ye Kong suddenly got up, "Really? What task?"

The system displayed a map in front of Ye Kong, with a place called Zhuozhang West Source marked on the map.

"You only need to take the thing on the table to this place and give it to Chen Dengming."

It was concise and sounded very simple.

But first of all, where is this place? Secondly, is this Chen Dengming person still alive?

The system did not reply.

This task, simple as it may seem, could also be difficult, and he might be stuck in that ghostly place for ten days or half a month, by which time the class-fixed competition would be over.

It would be a waste of effort.

Ye Kong looked at the table, where a box had appeared out of nowhere.

It seemed that this was the thing to be sent to Zhuozhang West Source.

Should I take a look at what it is? Just as Ye Kong was about to open it, the system's warning sounded in his ear, "Only Chen Dengming is allowed to open it. If anyone else opens it, the task will be voided."

Alright, I won't touch it.

Ye Kong put the box into his sleeve, got up immediately, and was about to head to Zhuozhang West Source.

Although he had only glanced at it just now, Ye Kong already knew the specific location. Immediately, he teleported over, and in the blink of an eye, Ye Kong arrived at the Zhuozhang West Source marked on the map.

The gently flowing stream, the lush trees, and the sun-shading canopy of leaves, the untouched pure ecological natural scenery was pleasing to the eye.

That's right, there's no one here.

Not to mention people, there wasn't even a shadow of activity here. Occasionally, wild monkeys would come down the mountain, but when they saw a living person, they would immediately jump onto the trees and flee far away from this place.

Only the sounds of birds echoed in the valley.

Ye Kong immediately used his divine sense to check the scenery within a hundred miles of this place. He didn't know until he looked, but he was shocked to see that there was nothing within a hundred miles.

Thinking that the system might just be playing a joke or that this person simply didn't exist, Ye Kong found a stone to sit on.

Suddenly, a strange thought popped into his head. Could this Chen Dengming not be a person?

Or could he be a flower, a tree, a spirit monkey, or could he be the stone under his butt?

Ye Kong stood up and started shouting at these things, "Chen Dengming."

"Chen Dengming..."

No one responded to him.

It seemed that none of them were him.

"System, give me a hint, what exactly is this Chen Dengming?"

The system ignored him, focusing on making him figure it out himself.

Alright then.

Ye Kong began to wander around in the forest, thinking for a long time without any clue.

Until the night faded away, and the rising sun gradually revealed its true color on the high mountains.

Could it be, the rising sun?

Dengming, Dengming, isn't that a bright lamp? Is there any lamp in the world brighter than the sun?

Just as Ye Kong was about to go over, at this moment, the sound of camel bells rang from the foot of the mountain.

Ye Kong heard the voices of a group of people talking.

They seemed to be transporting something to a certain place, and they seemed to have encountered a strange person who was always holding a lamp in his hand.

Ye Kong had already jumped down the mountain as soon as he heard the word 'lamp' and appeared in front of the camel bell caravan.

"Where is the person you were just talking about, the one who's always holding a lamp?"

Ye Kong was lying in the cultivation cave, and Elder Wang was already knocking on the door again outside the cave.

"Ye Kong, why did you come out so late today?"

Elder Wang reproached him.

"I went to sleep a little late last night and didn't get up this morning," Ye Kong brushed it off.

But Elder Wang clearly felt that Ye Kong's cultivation had doubled.