Temples’ Great Gathering

The Great Gathering of the Temple Alliance is one of the most important event of the Temple Alliance that took place once every 10 years.

## Description

The Temples’ Great Gathering’s start was an event occurring once every ten years. The Six Great Temples’ greatest powerhouses would assemble on this grand occasion to exchange blows, while establishing new rankings.

It is the greatest grand occasion for the Six Great Temples, a great contest in all kinds of aspects, to finally establish a final ranking of the Great Temples.

In these past months, Holy City was especially lively, because the Great Alliance’s Gathering which took place once every ten years was beginning soon.

If the Demon Hunt Competition was the grand occasion for the younger generation, the Temples’ Great Gathering was the most important occasion for the whole Alliance.

Although just a small count was really able to watch the Alliance’s Great Stadium, a lot of people were willing to head to Holy City at this time because of the ardent atmosphere. Some seniors would even bring their children to Holy City to try out seeking an opportunity to find a powerhouse for their children to acknowledge as master.

The dark era was already some six thousand years ago. The two years of Holy War having finally ended up in a demon retreat, gave a lot of insightful people a hope to see dawn come in this dark era. Almost all humans were hopeful to see the day that the human army would be the ones to lead the offense against demonkind.

The Temples’ Great Gathering differed from the Demon Hunt Selection in their degree of importance, and the people who were rushing to buy tickets for the very goal of watching clashes between the Six Great Temples’ powerhouses affirmed the confidence of the masses in the Alliance. Almost every Temples’ Great Gathering caused great surges of emotions in the whole Alliance, and drastically increased their amount of recruits in the following period.

For the sake of this gathering, the Six Great Temples had gathered the great majority of their powerhouses there, for the sake of having manpower ready for this Temples’ Great Gathering. A lot of ordinarily secluded elder had come to Holy City one after another, and although there were still a few days left before the event, the Temple Alliance had meetings underway every day. The higher-ups of the Six Great Temples unceasingly consulted each other, though the content of the discussion was a top secret, only known to the top of the higher-ups.

The matches in the Temples’ Great Gathering did not last for long; these were definitely not matches of long time endurance, the main reason for that being the demon threat: what if demonkind took advantage of the return of a great amount of powerhouses from the Six Great Temples to the Holy City to launch a large scale raid. As a result, although the Temples’ Great Gathering was taking place once every ten years, the specific starting time would be fixed at the last moment to prevent the demon side from grasping their rhythm. So the time of the gathering was compressed as far as possible, to enable to powerhouses from all Temples to return as soon as possible when it’s all done.

## Significance of the Great Gathering Which Was Held After Holy War

The significance of the Temple's Great Gathering which was held after the Holy War is very great, even more than normally it would be.

Almost all the higher-ups from the Six Great Temples knew that this one Great Temples’ Gathering was really out of the ordinary. Being the first Great Temples’ Gathering since the end of the Holy War, it would not only create a brand new ranking, but moreover determine a lot of strategic policies.

Any sharp person would realize that this gathering was different from all previous sessions. The atmosphere was also a lot more tense, as if something big was about to take place.

Before this session had started, the Six Great Temples had priorly consulted, determining that the changes to the new Alliance would demand immediate action.

After six thousand years of settlement, the gap between the Temple Alliance and demonkind was no longer as large. But they still took a passive beating in this Holy War. The most important reason that they remained so passive lied in their mutual policies.

Demon Hunt Squads proved at repeated times the uses of joining several vocations together. But even now, vocation combination had never happened from the Start of the war to its end. The key point of this lied in the estrangement of the Six Great Temples.

To resolve this matter was not achievable in a matter of words, but needed deep rooted changes of the Alliance. As a matter of facts, no one was willing to see themselves supervised by another one.

But an important factor finally brought this compromise between everyone, and that was the immense threat of demonkind.

Four years ago, the Holy War gave the Temple Alliance the greatest comprehension of demonkind’s strength they ever had. Before that, the Six Great Temples all acknowledge that even if the Alliance’s attack was insufficient, their defenses were ample. But in reality, even if demonkind had not deployed their full force, and their strongest races had yet to take part from beginning to end, they found it still very difficult to repel the demon offenses. Not only they suffered disastrous losses, but they even narrowly lost some of their forts.

The ones that experienced this the deepest were the Assassin Temple, Warrior Temple and Priest Temple. Their three Temples were nearly lost in the assaults of the enemies.

Thus, after the Holy War ended, the Six Great Temple convened several meetings, gradually consenting to the foundation of a new Alliance. For the sake of resisting the demon threat, and for humankind to go on, they couldn’t keep moving out of selfishness. No matter how humankind’s future balance of power would turn out, their first priority was to maintain the human race, or that talk would not even exist.

However, the matter on who should lead this new Alliance was discussed for very long. In the end, this session of Temples’ Great Gathering was supposed to determined that the most greatly: let your strength talk for you.

## Previous Gathering's Ranking

The final ranking of the previous Temples’ Great Gathering had the Knight Temple in first place, followed by the Mage Temple, Spiritual Temple, Assassin Temple, Priest Temple, and Warrior Temple.

The Priest Temple, having been given some preferential treatment, ended up surpassing the Warrior Temple and gaining the fifth rank. The Warrior Temple would frequently be ranked among the last ones.

## Rules

When the time comes, the higher-ups from the Six Great Temples would all gather into the Alliance’s Great Stadium, each of the Temples dispatching a team of thirty-six people to participate, making up a total of two hundred sixteen contestants from the Six Great Temples.

According to the rules of the Temples’ Great Gathering, Titled Demon Hunt Squads, being groups that made extraordinary contributions, are qualified to participate independently in the Temples’ Great Gathering and gain full credits. If they can finish with a rank in the top three, they will be qualified to make the Alliance accept one of their terms.

### First Round : One vs One Knockout Matches

The Temples’ Great Gathering was determined first of all by drawing ballots. In the first three days one versus one battles would be ongoing, a three-day knockout competition. Each knockout battle would follow right after a previous one ends, with no time allocated for rest. Those from the Priest Temple won’t be included in the individual knockout battles, they would be evaluated with another method in these individual stages: spiritual energy measuring. Generally, the Priest Temple’s points would be around the middle ranks by the end of this stage.

In this stage, a point would be awarded to every one of the other five Temples’ candidates for a victory, two points for two victories, with a doubled amount of points for every additional individual victory.

On the second day, forty-eight contestants would pass through the third stage, resulting in a continuation of the knock-out competition, until a top three was established.

The top three will be offered two choices: either to end normally and just keep all their previous total points, or to keep undergoing battles, where the final winners would get rewarded with an extra ten total points. Out of a total of three battles, if someone manages to win against the other two and end up number one, this one would get an extra twenty points.

Great restrictive clauses regulated this individual stage. First, no equipment or pill are to be allowed, and only the use of one’s individual strength is allowed. Second, no situation of wounding the opponent allowed, and is penalized with a direct elimination. This Temples’ Great Gathering being no struggle of life and death, these two rules looked simple, but were greatly restrictive.

The individual competition would terminate within three days, followed by sorting the points to conclude the primary stage of the Temples’ Great Gathering.

The reason why this involved so many contestants was to assess the strength of every Temple as a whole, as a single person’s strength was not enough to stand for his or her whole Temple.

### Second Round : Spiritual Energy Measuring

After the individual battles, would begin the contests for the highest spiritual energies. The Six Great Temples would all dispatch three candidates of age below a hundred years old to undergo spiritual energy assessment. Every year below a hundred would give an additional thousand points of score.

The addition of these three candidates’ spiritual energies will make up their ranking, and the first place Temple will be awarded with two hundred points, the second would receive one hundred fifty, third place, one hundred twenty, fourth place, ninety, fifth place, sixty, but none for the last one.

### Round Three : Domain Contest

After the end of the spiritual energy competition follows the Domain Competition, with each of the Six Great Temples sending three contestants.

Then a domain confrontation, with eighteen domain wielding powerhouses fighting together. Whichever side cannot maintain his domain anymore will be excluded, until only three contestants from one Temple are left. This one is really important, as the first place will be awarded five hundred total points, with every next one being awarded a hundred less, with the last one getting no reward.

This kind of team competition does not emphasize on domain power, but should best implicate three complementary domains. That’s because the winner won’t necessarily be the side with the greatest powerhouse, but the side of the best coordination.

In the previous gathering, the Knight Temple had managed to win with the combinations of the domains of the Knight Temple’s Divine Knight of Defense and Planning Yang Haohan, the Divine Knight of Control and Constraint Long Tianying, and the Divine Knight of Adjudication and Trial Long Xingyu, achieving victory in this most important stage, thus fundamentally settling the Knight Temple as number one.

### Fourth and Final Round : Team Battle ( Round Robin Format )

The Temples’ Great Gathering’s last trial would be the most significant team battle. Each Temple would send ten contestants to undergo a round-robin tournament, with each victory awarding a hundred total points. Among teams, the Priest Temple would not be participating, giving them a direct three hundred total.

All four stages would be confrontation between the top of the Temple Alliance’s higher-ups. Generally, the least performing in the Temples’ Great Gathering would be the Priest Temple, but its importance still had no needs to be proved anymore. Anyway, a priest would visibly not be fitting as a ruler for the Temple Alliance. Aside from them, the others would all attach great importance to this ranking contest.

## Results

### **First Day**

**1st Round**

**1st Match**

An Unknown Knight (8th Step) vs An Unknown Fire Mage (8th Step)

Victory : Knight

**8th Match**

Yang Wenzhao (Peak 8th Step) vs An Unknown Assassin (Peak 8th Step)

Victory : Yang Wenzhao

**24th Match**

Sima Xian (9th Step) vs A Dark Summoner (Peak 8th Step)

Victory : Sima Xian

**Unknown Match No.**

Li Zhengzhi (9th Step) vs An Unknown Warrior (8th Step)

Victory : Li Zhengzhi

**35th Match**

Lin Xin (9th Step) vs A Guardian Knight (Peak 8th Step)

Victory : Lin Xin

**36th Match**

Chen Ying’er (9th Step) vs Sanshui Popo (9th Step)

Victory : Chen Ying’er (By Forfeit)

**Unknown Match No.**

Duan Yi (Peak 8th Step) vs An Unknown Mage (8th Step)

Victory : Duan Yi

**48th Match**

Long Haochen (9th Step) vs Qiu Yonghao (9th Step)

Victory : Long Haochen

**Unknown Match No.**

Tan Wan (8th Step) vs Unknown Competitor

Victory : Tan Wan

**Unknown Match No.**

Wang Yuanyuan (9th Step) vs An Unknown Knight

Victory : Wang Yuanyuan

**End of the First Day - Final Result** : For the first day of the Temples’ Great Gathering, over ninety matches have concluded. In result, the Knight Temple has 24 remaining people. Mage Temple, 21. Spiritual Temple, 16. Assassin Temple, 14. Bright Glimmer of Hope, 10. Warrior Temple, 10. Now that the first rounds are over, total points will start to be counted from this point onwards.

### **Second Day**

**2nd Round**

**1st Match**

Cai'er (9th Step) vs Xue Zichen (9th Step)

Victory : Cai'er (By Forfeit)

**2nd Match**

Wang Yuanyuan (9th Step) vs Tan Wan (8th Step)

Victory : Wang Yuanyuan

**Unknown Match No.**

Duan Yi (8th Step) vs Sheng Yue (9th Step)

Victory : Sheng Yue

**Unknown Match No.**

Yang Wenzhao (Peak 8th Step) vs An Unknown Warrior (9th Step)

Victory : Yang Wenzhao

**End of the 2nd Round :** The Knight Temple had only 11 people left by the third round, having gotten 13 of their members eliminated. The Mage Temple had 10, Bright Glimmer of Hope had 9, the Spiritual Temple had 7, the Assassin Temple had 6, and the Warrior Temple only had 5 left.

After the victors of the second round all gained two points, added up to the first round’s total points, the Knight Temple was still number one with 46 points, the Mage Temple being second with 41 points, the Spiritual Temple was third with 30 points, Bright Glimmer of Hope fourth with 28 points, the Assassin Temple fifth with 26 and finally came the Warrior Temple with 20 points.

The previous two rounds of individual battle were mostly competing for the Temples’ strength as a whole, but from the third round onwards, the individual capabilities of their powerhouses would be accounted.

Upon victory, everyone would get at least 4 points in total.

**3rd Round**

The second rounds were over by noon, but the third rounds would start immediately, without the slightest time allocated for rest.

A total of twenty-four battles would be undergone in the third round, involving forty-eight people, and resulting in earth-shattering battles.

**1st Match**

Li Zhengzhi (9th Step) vs Long Tianying (9th Step)

Victory : Li Zhengzhi

**Unknown Match No.**

Yang Wenzhao (Peak 8th Step) vs An Unknown Competitor (9th Step)

Victory : Unknown Competitor

**5th Match**

Chen Ying’er (9th Step) vs Lin Chen (9th Step)

Victory : Chen Ying’er

**Unknown Match No.**

Han Yu (9th Step) vs Chen Hongyu (9th Step)

Victory : Chen Hongyu

**20th Match**

Cai'er (9th Step) vs Sheng Yue (9th Step)

Victory : Cai'er (By Forfeit)

**21st Match**

Long Haochen (9th Step) vs Yang Haoyu (9th Step)

Victory : Long Haochen

Since the stadium has sustained a massive destruction due to the battle between Long Haochen and Yang Haoyu, today’s matches are to be paused for the field to immediately be restored, and the competition will resume tomorrow in the morning.

### Third Day

The last three matches were rapidly undertaken, and twenty-four contestants came out of the lot.

**End of the 3rd Round :** After the termination of the third round, every winning contestant had gained 4 total points. After these matches went on, the Knight Temple only had 5 contestants left, with 6 for the Mage Temple, 3 for the Spiritual Temple, 2 for the Assassin Temple, and only 1 left for the Warrior Temple. Bright Glimmer of Hope was the greatest black horse, with a total of 7 people left.

After three rounds, some variations were seen in the total scores. The Knight Temple had 66 points, the Mage Temple 65, Bright Glimmer of Hope, 56, the Spiritual Temple, 42, the Assassin Temple, 34, and the Warrior Temple had 24.

With only ten contestants, Bright Glimmer of Hope had actually risen to the third place after three rounds, and, although a gap still separated them from the top two, catching up wasn’t feasible. Only a gap of one point remained between the Mage Temple and the Knight Temple as well.

The individual competition was already at its final climax. The fourth round was bound to change the final rankings the most greatly: these matches would enable every contestant to gain a worth of over 8 points.

**Fourth Round**

**1st Match**

An Unknown Knight vs An Unknown Mage

Victory : Not Known

**Unknown Match No.**

Li Zhengzhi (9th Step) vs Zhang Fangfang (9th Step)

Victory : Li Zhengzhi

**5th Match**

Long Haochen (9th Step) vs Chen Hongyu (9th Step)

Victory : Long Haochen

**6th Match**

Sima Xian (9th Step) vs One of The Auxiliary Head of Mage Temple (9th Step)

Victory : Auxiliary Head Mage

**8th Match**

**Cai'er** (9th Step) vs Mo Wu (9th Step)

Victory : Cai'er

**Unknown Match No.**

Chen Ying’er (9th Step) vs An Unknown Assassin (9th Step)

Victory : Chen Ying’er

**End of the 4th Round** : The individual competition having reached this point, Bright Glimmer of Hope’s advance was already unstoppable. A group of ten, formed with two powerhouses reaching the peak of the eighth step and eight reaching the ninth step, with four domain wielding powerhouses among the lot. Their captain Long Haochen had displayed the use of the two ultimate weapons known as domain technique and domain evolution, managing to defeat two Temple Heads and the number one powerhouse of the Knight Temple. A lot of people sensed that this Temple’s Great Gathering would inevitably get recorded in the annals. And they were still so young; if they were given enough time to keep growing, destroying demonkind wouldn’t be impossible.

Each victor of the fourth round could gain 8 points, and after passing through this hurdle, the Knight Temple had only 2 people left, the Mage Temple had 3, the Spiritual Temple had 2, and Bright Glimmer of Hope had 5! The Assassin Temple and Warrior Temple were already eliminated.

Thanks to this fourth round, five of them had already earned 40 more points, giving them a proud lead score of 96 points after getting added to their previous 56 points. The Mage Temple was second with 89 points, the Knight Temple, third with 82 points, the Spiritual Temple fourth with 58 points, the Assassin Temple still had 34 points and the Warrior Temple remained at 24 points.

**Fifth Round**

The fourth match having ended, time had come for the fifth and more terrifying leader match.

As it was already noon, if the Temple’s Great Gathering proceeded normally, the winner will come out today. Although the schedule was delayed with yesterday’s incident, the matches still had to go on. The Five Temples and Bright Glimmer of Hope had already gotten the news that no matter how late it ends, the individual matches need to be done with today.

In the fifth round, every winner could gain 16 points, thus causing great variations in the total points.

**1st Match**

Chen Ying’er (9th Step) vs Li Zhengzhi (9th Step)

Victory : Li Zhengzhi

**2nd Match**

Lin Xin (9th Step) vs Senior Ultimate Shield (9th Step)

Victory : Lin Xin

**3rd Match**

Wang Yuanyuan (9th Step) vs Old Yu (9th Step)

Victory : Wang Yuanyuan

**4th Match**

Cai'er (9th Step) vs Dragon Summoner (9th Step)

Victory : Cai'er

**5th Match**

An Unknown Knight (9th Step) vs An Unknown Summoner (9th Step)

Victory : Knight

**6th Match**

Long Haochen (9th Step) vs Senior Earth Mage (9th Step)

Victory : Long Haochen

**End of the 5th Round :** At this point, Bright Glimmer of Hope had the complete upper hand in this individual competition. They basically only had one round left: although another knight had made it to the top six, he did not have much strength left, and so the final matter was to see whether Li Zhengzhi would make it to the top three.

Bright Glimmer of Hope had four members qualified from the fifth round, bringing them 64 points in total. Adding that to their previous 96 points, they had in total 160 points. The Mage Temple and Knight Temple’s qualified member brought them respectively to 105 and 98 total points, ranked second and third. The other three Temples’ total points remained the same, 58 for the Spiritual Temple, 34 for the Assassin Temple and 24 for the Warrior Temple.

At this point, Bright Glimmer of Hope already led by a wide margin, leaving no suspense for who would become champion of the individual competition.

**6th Round**

**1st Match**

Long Haochen (9th Step) vs Li Zhengzhi (9th Step)

Victory : Long Haochen

**2nd Match**

Cai'er (9th Step) vs Knight from the 5th Round

Victory : Cai'er (Forfeit Due to Injury)

**3rd Match**

Wang Yuanyuan (9th Step) vs Lin Xin (9th Step)

Victory : Wang Yuanyuan (By Forfeit)

**End of the 6th Round :** Now that the matches were all over for the sixth round of individual competition, and Bright Glimmer of Hope had terrifyingly managed to grab the whole top three for themselves.

Every winner of the sixth round earned thirty-two points.

So far the ranking for the individual competition was as follows: Bright Glimmer of Hope 256 points, Mage Temple 105 points, Knight Temple 98 points, Spiritual Temple 58 points, Assassin Temple 38 points, Warrior Temple 24 points.

**7th Round**

Two choices were possible at this point. One was to terminate the tournament, while the other was to keep going on. Every winning match would then reward an extra ten points, for a total of three matches. Should someone defeat the other two, that would rank him or her number one, thus earning yet another twenty points.

These extra rounds were still part of the seventh round of the tournament. In other words, the final champion could almost double his sixty-four total earned points.

In this round Long Haochen and Wang Yuanyuan conceded and Cai'er became the final victor.

No one objected to Long Haochen and Wang Yuanyuan’s surrenders. This was within the rules, and was something that could only happen in the case of the three top seats being taken by a single Temple. But actually, even the strongest Knight Temple had never achieved that in the past five hundred years.

**End of the 7th And Final Round - End of the Knockout Stage :** Having won these two matches, Cai’er earned an extra 20 points and became champion, thus bringing in another 20 points in addition to the 64 total points for the seventh round. That way, another 96 points was added to Bright Glimmer of Hope’s point total. And now, after this first stage terminated, Bright Glimmer of Hope had an astonishing 352 total points.

So far the ranking for the individual competition was as follows: Bright Glimmer of Hope 352 points, Mage Temple 105 points, Knight Temple 98 points, Spiritual Temple 58 points, Assassin Temple 38 points, Warrior Temple 24 points. And Priest Temple was also awarded with 60 points.

Thus the first out of the four stages of the Temples’ Great Gathering, the individual stage, came to an end. The final winner was the Demon Hunt Squad Bright Glimmer of Hope. And Cai'er became the **Champion** **of** **the Individual 1vs1 Knockout Stage**.

### Round 2 - Spiritual Energy Measurement

Today, every Temple would send their strongest three people for spiritual energy assessment.

The competition kept going, and today the Priest Temple was also part of the festivities.

A huge crystal pillar was erected on the center of the field on the previous evening, specialized for spiritual energy measuring.

Right now, the Six Great Temples had all already dispatched three of their people, and Bright Glimmer of Hope was no exception.

From the distinction of colors, red corresponded to a hundred thousand spiritual energy, orange to another hundred thousand spiritual energy.

**Warrior Temple**

The fact that he had reached the yellow area signified that Qiu Yonghao’s spiritual energy had already surpassed 200,000. His age having already crossed a hundred years old, he could only rely on his own strength for this trial.

**271,364** - This was Qiu Yonghao's total spiritual energy.

The other two powerhouses of the Warrior Temple came next. Their cultivation levels were still quite a bit behind Qiu Yonghao, and they were not yet domain wielding powerhouses. The two of them were about the two hundred thousand mark.

Finally, with the addition of the age bonuses, the Warrior Temple reached a total of **694,160** points.

**Assassin Temple**

After the Warrior Temple came the Assassin Temple. Their situation being a bit better off, their spiritual energy totals reached **783,200**, which could be considered not bad.

**Spiritual Temple**

The Spiritual Temple having obtained a total of fifty-eight points was a bit below the sixty or so of the Priest Temple, making them the third party to go.

Thanks to the strong display of their head Chen Hongyu, they had a final spiritual energy total reaching **832,241**, far above the previous two Temples.

**Priest Temple**

The Priest Temple was truly a bit lucky in their first stage of the trials, and did not hold much of a dominance in this second stage. In the end, their spiritual energy total barely reached above **800,000**, but was quite below the Spiritual Temple.

**Mage Temple**

The Mage Temple had Li Zhengzhi, Mo Wu, and that mage with the greatest defense who controlled an earth elemental domain.

The darkness mage, Mo Wu, and the earth mage were both close to **300,000**. Add to this that they were below a hundred years old of age, and they gained some bonuses, the Mage Temple already reached close to **610,000** after the two of them passed.

Li Zhengzhi was the last one to set out. Within the crystal pillar rose several colors. Red, orange, yellow, green, and it finally entered a blue area. Although a lot of people had guesses about Li Zhengzhi’s cultivation level, they still could not help but cry out in alarm. This meant that his internal spiritual energy was already above 400,000.

Finally, the pillar stopped in the blue area. Li Zhengzhi’s spiritual energy was over **420,000**, and adding to that the scores of the other two mages, the Mage Temple had surpassed a million, reaching **1,007,423**.

**Knight Temple**

The Knight Temple’s three did not include the Divine Knight, Long Tianying, but were under Yang Haoyu'slead, with that Ultimate Shield of the Knight Temple, and the one who made it to the top six.

The Ultimate Shield was the first to go up, his spiritual energy set just above **320,600**.

The knight who made it to the top six was the second one to go, his spiritual energy fixed beyond **332,800**.

Finally came Yang Haoyu’s turn. A shocking scene surfaced. The pillar’s colors surged out at once: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, then finally entered a turquoise area.

Number one of the Temple Alliance. That was absolutely not just a simple name. Yang Haoyu protected the Knight Temple’s honor with his strength, his internal spiritual energy reaching past **568,000** to exceed Li Zhengzhi’s **420,000** by a large margin.

In the end, the Knight Temple surpassed the Mage Temple’s total points by **120,000**. After this stage, the two Temples’ rankings was bound to change.

**Bright Glimmer of Hope**

Bright Glimmer of Hope was the last one to go. Chen Ying’er whose internal spiritual energy reached **170,000** was the first one to go.

Cai'er, whose internal spiritual energy reached **190,000** was the next one to go.

Finally came Long Haochen’s turn. He was the only bright spot Bright Glimmer of Hope had, thanks to the Heart of Eternity. His internal spiritual energy broke through 300,000, before finishing above **310,000**.

Thanks to these few days’ matches and comprehensions, Long Haochen’s cultivation had progressed to some extent. If the Heart of Eternity’s extra 90,000 was not counted, his internal spiritual energy would be reaching about **220,000**.

In the end, the results of the three totalled over **570,000**.

This time, the superiority of the age bonus became the spotlight. Long Haochen was twenty five years old, Cai’er twenty four and Chen Ying’er twenty eight. This added over **233,000** to their spiritual energy total. This gave them a final amount of over **800,000**.

**Final Result**

On the basis of the rules, the number one gained two hundred points, the number two gained a hundred and fifty, the number three gained a hundred and twenty, the number four gained ninety, the number five gained sixty, and the last one had none. Because of the addition of Bright Glimmer of Hope, the six sides became seven, and thus the number six would gain thirty points, and the last one none.

Finally, the Knight Temple was the uncontroversial number one in the contest of the highest spiritual energy, followed by the Mage Temple, the Spiritual Temple, Bright Glimmer of Hope, the Priest Temple, Assassin Temple, and Warrior Temple.

So, the ranking was as follows: Bright Glimmer of Hope 442, Knight Temple 280, Mage Temple 255, Spiritual Temple 178, Priest Temple 120, Assassin Temple 64, Warrior Temple 24.

Although Bright Glimmer of Hope was only number four of this stage, because of their overwhelming advantage from the first stage, they still had a large lead. While the Knight Temple overtook the Mage Temple, the Warrior Temple remained the most miserable.

### Third Round - Domain Contest

The third round of competition, domain contest, was the most valuable one in terms of points. Based on the rules, the number one would earn over five hundred points. And furthermore, now that this was not a six-sided contest due to the addition of the seventh party Bright Glimmer of Hope, those numbers would very possibly end up higher to some extent.

**Start of the Domain Contest**

That long crystal pillar from yesterday was not there anymore, replaced by a huge crystal ball. It was Saint Bead.

Saint Bead was used in the domain battle. That’s because if one was to not utilize a domain, the spiritual energy into one’s body would get swallowed by this Saint Bead.

The Warrior Temple was the first to be eliminated from this contest.

When it seems that Priest Temple was about to be eliminated then Long Haochen joined his domain with the Priest Temple Domain's and this saved the Priest Temple as well make their Domain more powerful than anybody.

After that Assassin Temple and Spiritual Temple gets eliminated. Then it was the Mage Temple who got eliminated first and after that the Knight Temple voluntarily withdrew.

After that the Priest Temple and Long Haochen's group got separated and Priest Temple voluntarily withdrew themselves from this round as they were no match for Long Haochen's group anyway but also due to gratitude.

And then lastly Long Haochen's group also withdrew themselves from the Saint Bead and ended this round.

**End of the Domain Contest - Results:**

The domain battle of the Temples’ Great Gathering has ended. Number one is Bright Glimmer of Hope, number two, Priest Temple, number three, Knight Temple, number four, Mage Temple, number five, Spiritual Temple, number six, Assassin Temple, and number seven, the Warrior Temple.

In view of this year’s addition of Bright Glimmer of Hope, and after consultation with the elected staff, the number one’s reward has been increased to six hundred, and the last five’s gradually falling down to hundred, with the last position receiving none.

The point counts are as follows: Bright Glimmer of Hope, 1042, Knight Temple, 698, Priest Temple, 620, Mage Temple, 555, Spiritual Temple, 378, Assassin Temple, 164, Warrior Temple, 24.

### Fourth Round: Team Battle

This round was terminated on the suggestion of the Head of the Mage Temple Li Zhengzhi and everyone agreed to that. So the Temple's Great Gathering was cut short of one round this time and the Gathering was finished in the third round itself.

Li Zhengzhi’s renouncement was not only due to Bright Glimmer of Hope’s performance, but also because of the Knight Temple’s power. He originally believed that the Mage Temple would completely be able to suppress the Knight Temple, but when things started for real, the Knight Temple managed to stand above the Mage Temple without even their two Divine Knights taking part. This was a massive blow to Li Zhengzhi, who did not expect this situation. Now without a doubt, it would be meaningless to keep struggling. There’s no way the Knight Temple would leave the commanding position to the Mage Temple.

Although the Demon Hunt Squad Bright Glimmer of Hope was led by Long Haochen, that was after all a Demon Hunt Squad, and was thus formed with six powerhouses from different parties. These youngsters would be the future leading pillars of the Alliance. So at least each of the Temples would have a leading figure amongst their ranks.

This was the major reason why Chen Zidian wanted Long Haochen’s group to return and participate in this struggle for power. Bright Glimmer of Hope’s appearance was sudden, but after deep considerations, all parties gave them their support, which was the hardest outcome which could be considered.

## Final Results

The Temples’ Great Gathering was terminated early after three stages. One could say that this was a really unexpected thing. In the eyes of the later generation, this instance of the gathering was really drawing the start of an unmatched era in History.

The rankings are such, number one Bright Glimmer of Hope, number two, Knight Temple, number three, Priest Temple, number four, Mage Temple, number five, Spiritual Temple, number six, Assassin Temple, and number seven, Warrior Temple.

One could say that this Temples’ Great Gathering’s greatest winner was the Knight Temple. Although Haochen had become the union’s chairman in his status as captain of Bright Glimmer of Hope, in the end he was also a knight! His grandfather and father were all leading figures of the Knight Temple, Divine Knights. With that, his relationship with the Knight Temple couldn’t possibly diminish with time.

Also, Long Haochen aside, his team’s Han Yu, Zhang Fangfang, Yang Wenzhao and Duan Yi were all extraordinary powerhouses of the younger generation, Han Yu and Zhang Fangfang having both broken through to the ninth step of cultivation, and Yang Wenzhao and Duan Yi, the peak of the eighth step. Even by their strength alone, they were qualified to be designated council members from the Knight Temple. After all, they were still so young.

Originally, the Mage Temple’s greatest advantage over the Knight Temple was the latter’s didn’t have enough up-and-coming talent to replace the older generation, but this session proved that this point of view was to be entirely reviewed. The appearance of five great younger knights to smoothly take over from the older generation, raised expectations for their future. Long Tianying and Yang Haohan were rather low-key in the conference, in which the Knight Temple was once again the greatest winner. The new union could really be said to have prepared a perfect layout to convince the other Temples.

### **Final Rankings:**

1. Bright Glimmer of Hope
2. Knight Temple
3. Priest Temple
4. Mage Temple
5. Spiritual Temple
6. Assassin Temple
7. Warrior Temple