Chapter 586: Second round: Quarterfinals
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All at once, Ling Hong's gaze as he looked at Ling Hong was glowing, he kept feeling that Lonemoon could always, from time to time, reveal some unbelievable ability.
On the other hand, Lonemoon looked slightly upset, he had specially circled the entire academy, wanting to find the location of that spirit seed, unfortunately he still came back empty-handed. He could not help but suspect the authenticity of the prize, was the spirit seed really in the academy?
"Ling Hong!" He spoke up for confirmation, no longer able to hold back.
"Ah! Ah?" Ling Hong faltered for a moment before reacting. "Please speak."
"I heard that the prize for this competition is a rainbow-colored egg?"
"Mm." He recalled for a moment then nodded and said. "Seems so. It is said that this egg is full of Immortal Qi, if one can get it, it might boost one's cultivation greatly."
"Oh, such a magical egg exists? Have you seen it before?"
"I haven't." He shook his head honestly. "But this egg was something that Teacher got by chance when he went to the Flame Mountain in the North on a mission." His expression darkened at the thought of something. "My big brother, also injured his legs then."
"I see. Sorry that I brought it up."
"No no no." He shook his head, not minding at all. "Thanks to you, my brother has already drank the medication and will recover soon, we no longer have to worry. By the way, if you are curious about that rainbow colored egg, three days later, during the second round of the competition, the teachers will officially announce the prize, by then you will be able to get a look at it."
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"Oh." Lonemoon paused for a moment, concealing the brightness in his eyes, he nodded. Feeling assured, he immediately changed the topic of conversation, bringing up something else. As long as they would get to see the spirit seed, seems they would be able to confirm three days later, whether that was what they were searching for.
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Three days later.
The second round of the league.
Early morning, all the participants who passed the first round were already at Immortal Spirit Academy, compared to the huge crowds the previous time, the amount of people here were more than 10 times less. In total, there were only 75 participants who had passed the first round, together with the teachers from the various academies, there were still less than 200 people present, it seemed slightly desolate.
This time, the arena was no longer outdoors but inside the Immortal Spirit Academy. Lonemoon and gang went with Ling Hong and the others, compared to being ignored previous time, once they stepped in this time, a good number of people enthusiastically came over to greet them, they were obviously the customers from the previous time. Lonemoon responded to everyone with a smile, with occasional short conversations, in a short while, the voice that announced the rules of the competition sounded from above.
The few teachers from Immortal Spirit Academy appeared on the podium, Lonemoon swept his gaze across, he did not see the Teacher Yan from the previously time. Ling Hong was right, they were indeed starting to announce the prize of the competition. For the top three places, the prizes for the second and third place was a superior-grade artifact, and first place indeed gets the rainbow colored egg. Almost in the same moment when the colored egg was revealed, Ling Hong sensed a faintly discernible trace of the aura of the original source on it.
"Shen Ying." Lonemoon nudged the person beside him. "Is this it?"
"Mm, yes... I guess?" Shen Ying lifted her head for a glance and cocked her head to a side.
"Do we act now?" Yi Qing spoke through the voice transmission.
Light frowned, turning to look at Ling Hong and the others beside them, he shook his head after a second. "Forget it, since we've confirmed that it's the spirit seed and we've also made it into the second round, why don't we win this prize fairly and squarely, it's just having to waste some time, no need to implicate other people."
The master and disciple also exchanged a look, then glanced at Ling Hong and the rest and nodded. Indeed, if her were to act now, Ling Hong and gang would definitely be taken to be their accomplices, it'd be better to win the competition and obtain the prize openly.
The start was announced after a short briefing of rules, the second round was very simple. Everyone will enter the maze before them, those who were able to find the exit in six hours will advance.
Lonemoon used his divine perception to examine the maze and realized that it was a maze formed up of various array formations, the deeper inside, the more complicated it was. He brought out several communication talismans after some thought and handed it out. "The moment we step in, we will definitely be transported to different locations on the edges. Use this to communicate then, we will gather before anything else, don't act rashly." With that said, he turned back and emphasized while looking at Shen Ying, "Especially you!"
"Huh?" Shen Ying looked very innocent.
"Huh what huh!" Do you have no f*cking idea how much dark history you have?" The eye of this maze array formation should be right in the middle. After we enter, don't move blindly, just stay in your spot and wait, after we have gathered, we will then move to the eye of the array formation together, never ever act rashly!"
"Okay." Alright, you're the daddy, we'll listen to you, she then took the talisman.
At this time, the gates of the maze were already open, the four of them inhaled deeply and walked in. Almost in an instant, they saw a white light flash before their eyes and in the next moment, they'd arrived in a completely different scenery.
Lonemoon looked around, both Chef and Shen Ying had disappeared, they'd indeed been transported to different locations. After checking his surroundings with his divine perception, he then activated the communication talisman in his hand.
"I'm on the border of the entrance on the west side, where are all of you, state your locations."
"I'm on the border on the east side." Chef's voice came through.
"I... I should be on the southern side." Buggy also replied.
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"How about Shen Ying?" Not hearing her reply for a long time, Lonemoon called out directly, "Where are you?"
A voice came through the communication talisman moments later. "I..." Shen Ying looked around, totally don't know, hence she turned towards the person beside her. "Big brother, where is this?"
The man opposite her replied with slightly complicated feelings. "The eye of the array."
"Oh, thank you!" Shen Ying nodded before answering, "Father Niu, I'm at the eye of the array."
Lonemoon: "..."
Yi Qing: "..."
Buggy: "..."
How exactly did she do it, get transported to the end point right away!
"Wait there, don't go anywhere!" Father Niu instructed before ending the communication.
"Okay." Shen Ying then calmly put away the talisman and calmly found a rock to sit down, calmly brought out her melon seeds and started nibbling on them, then even handed some to the person beside her. "Want some?"
Yan Luo who was guarding the array: "..."
With Yan Luo's cultivation, he actually need not come personally to guard the array. But the incident from the qualifiers a few days ago still left him a little confused. Though Ren Qing's words should be taken with a grain of salt, but deep down, he'd still had some doubts with regards to that Invincible Academy. So with the thought of investigating thorough, he swapped with the teacher who was supposed to guard the array at the very last minute to come in.
He'd come in with the thought of wanting to test the capabilities of Lonemoon and the others and even specially chose the eye of the array. His thinking was that if they were truly capable, they would definitely charged through and make their way here, by then he will act and change up the array formations, then whether they had cheated in the previous round, he would be able to know once he tested their capabilities. Of course, if they didn't even have the ability to make it to the center of the array, then all the more nothing else needs to be said
Chapter 587: Capability in Breaking The Array
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Yan Luo had been waiting in the center of the array formation from the start, thinking that the earliest he would see anyone come in would be at least two hours later. He did not expect to see another person appear instantly beside him when he was transported to the center of the array. And she looked slightly familiar, a vague recollection told him that she looked like one of the four from the Invincible Academy, seems like she'd been sent here by the transportation array at the entrance.
The target location at the entrance was random, he knew that too. But the locations were mostly out the borders of the maze, the luckier ones will be in the middle, there has never been anyone directly transported to the end point! If everyone could arrive at the end point the moment they step in, then what was the competition for.
Yan Luo must admit that he was dumbfounded, what was even more surprising was that she could have left the array if she just turned and walked, then she would become the first person to pass the second round of the competition. Though he was the teacher guarding the array formation, but according to the rules, he could only adjust the array formations around him and cannot strike directly. And she was standing right in the center of the array formation, which means he wasn't able to stop her at all.
But the odd thing was that, not only did she not leave, she even very calmly sat down... down...! And looked like she was intending to stay here for a long time, not in the least anxious. By the time he came back to his senses, he was already seated on the Heart Array Stone and chewing on melon seeds with her.
He'd even unconsciously brought out some treasured, good tea that he had kept in his storage for many years and some snacks. "This is superior good tea, want a cup?"
"Sure!" Shen Ying calmly took a cup and also pulled out a few plates of pastries at the same time. "Want some pastries? My chef made them, they're very delicious."
"Mm, smells sweet and fragrance, not bad indeed."
"You can have some."
"Thank you."
"You're welcome."
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Wait a moment!
What was he doing? Why was he eating without knowing it! Should he take this chance to sound out the exact details about this Invincible Academy? But... this pastry tastes really good! He totally couldn't hold back, what to do?
Yan Luo inhaled deeply several times, before he found his willpower that had almost left home. He could not help but ask, "Miss, why aren't you leaving the array?" Get out and you win! Getting the first place kind of winning.
"Waiting for Father Niu and Chef to come pick me up." Shen Ying replied like it was only natural and right.
"What?" He was confused for a moment, who was Father Niu? Wasn't she in a team with the person known as Lonemoon?
Just as he was about to question further, she suddenly stopped moving and put down the teacup in her hand. "Here."
What? What was here?
Yan Luo was stupefied, before he could react, the array formation before him shook and multiple array formations lit up all around. In the next second several figures were before him, it was Lonemoon whom he had seem a few days before, and another man, he remembered that he seemed to be called Yi Qing, he was even carrying an insect in his hand.
This... this speed in breaking the array was way too fast! He hadn't even finished his two pieces of pastries!
Hold on, it's not the time to think about the pastries now.
"Master..." Yi Qing caught sight of the person on the Heart Array Stone at once, feeling instantly relieved.
"Hey, Chef!" Shen Ying chewed on the pastry while greeting him with a wave.
"Teacher Yan..." Lonemoon instantly recognized the person beside Shen Ying, no wonder he didn't see him outside earlier, turns out he was the one guarding the array.
"Lonemoon, we meet again." Yan Luo had finally came back to his sense, putting the pastry in his hand away, he barely managed to resume his grace as a teacher with a cough. "Seems like you both are indeed advanced in Dharmic Dao that you managed to find the center of the array formation so quickly, but it's not that easy to pass this point." With that said, he conjured seals with both ends and activated the multiple levels of array formations in the middle of the big array. All at once the surrounding array formations lit up brightly as layers upon layers of array formations appeared around them.
Lonemoon did not say anything, directly summoning a spirit sword, he turned and instructed, "Chef you're responsible for the array formations on the left side, I'll go for the right, Buggy... you squat down where you are and don't move."
"Alright." Buggy squatted down obediently.
In the next moment, the two people flew out at the same time and began to break through the surrounding layers of array formations with the fastest speed. The middle of the array formation was the area with the most array formations in the maze, adding to that the few more that Yan Luo had specially set up earlier, there were a few dozen tiers of array formations around them right not, the effect and attributes of every one was different.
Yet for the two, it was as if they had entered an with no resistance, with just one look, they could spot the weakness of the array formation, then stuck right away to break it. Taking less than a breath's time to do so, their speed so fast that even Yan Luo was dazed. Only with absolute understanding of the array formation, would one be able to break through it so easily. On top of that, not one of those attacks from the array formations hit them, their figures moved fast like shadows.
Even Yan Luo could not help but want to let a praise, nice! All at once, his suspicions towards them were completely washed away, he even felt slightly regretful, such great talents, why weren't they disciples of their Immortal Spirit Academy? He was an array cultivator himself, seeing them break through the arrays so skilfully, the thought of wanting to spar with them and test their limits bubbled up.
Watching as the two were about to break in, Yan Luo was no longer able to hold back and activated the array-guarding beasts, at once, fire walls more than ten feet tall lit up and turned the surroundings into a blazing sea of red alongside scorching temperatures.
Shen Ying who was seated suddenly felt the stone beneath her move and she started to float upwards. Whereas everything under her feet began to collapse in inch by inch, revealing a huge hole, the raging flames inside was even more fiery, following that a long caw sounded.
A three-legged fire bird flew up from the hole, its entire body alight with flames. It rushed up and circled the air, creating a visual that seemed like the entire sky was burning at once. That giant bird made a circle, then went in Yan Luo and Shen Ying's direction and the Heart Array Stone under their feet also landed lightly on the back of the bird.
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That three-legged bird let out another call, for a moment the fire raged even higher, as if it was going to swallow up everything.
Both Lonemoon and Yi Qing were stunned for a moment, they did not expect there to be such a array-guarding beast in here. Their expressions darkened as they unlocked the very last array formation. At this point, the surrounding array formations had all disappeared, leaving the few beside Yan Luo.
"Master..." Yi Qing looked towards the person on the Heart Array Stone with slight worry.
Shen Ying had yet to reply, instead Yan Luo was surprised, looking down at the girl who still had a pile of food beside her, Master? This girl was actually the Master of that person, why did this academy even send their teachers in to compete?
He could naturally tell that these two people below had still held back with regards to their speed in breaking the array, even he had been stirred to spar with them, that's why he summoned the array-guarding beasts that weren't part of the competition at first. Initially, he was worried that wouldn't give their all, now...
His eyes narrowed, an idea instantly popped up in his mind. He spoke up directly, "Both of you are indeed extraordinary talents and are well-versed in array formations. But to pass my stage, you still have to bring out your true capabilities, otherwise..." He intentionally glanced at Shen Ying. "I won't guarantee that nothing will happen to this lady?" The threat in his words was evident.
Chapter 588: Do Not Provoke Chef
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"What did you say!" Chef's face darkened at once, his entire being seeming like something was about to explode out of it.
Yet Yan Luo did not notice that and instead turned back and sent a voice transmission to Shen Ying beside him. "Little girl, cooperate with me for a while."
"Hmm?" Shen Ying was baffled and suddenly lifted her head to give him an unusual look. "Big brother, you are playing with fire, do you know that?"
"..." What the heck is with this tone and lines specially meant for a tyrant CEO?
Yan Luo faltered for a moment but still reached out and pulled Shen Ying up then turned around and continued saying with some excitement, "If you both want to save this girl then do your best, otherwise... huh? Huh!"
Before he could finish, he suddenly felt a massive Sword Qi come weighing from above him. A great golden sword instantly appeared above his heard and was about to strike down. For a moment, he felt his Qi surging within, the array formations beside him were in instant pieces, a sky full of killing intent rushed over, even the three-legged below could not bear it and fell out of the air.
Yan Luo's entire being was appalled. Don't mention resisting this sudden Sword Qi and killing intent, he couldn't even open his eyes, boundless fear spread throughout his body and only one word filled his mind: death. He could only open his eyes wide and watch as the huge sword above his head come swinging right towards himself, it was about to strike him.
"Chef!" A voice suddenly sounded beside him.
The blade paused instantly and stopped at a position less than half an inch above his head and slowly dissolved into lighted dots before disappearing. In the next second, the other party's icy cold voice appeared beside him.
"Do not touch my Master!" Yi Qing had unsure when, appeared on the array stone and turned to put an arm around the person beside him while staring murderously at him.
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Shen Ying also reached out and patted his shoulder. "That's why I told you to not play with fire!"
Yan Luo: "..."
His legs turned to jelly in the next second and he slumped onto the ground, cold sweat flowed down from his forehead as he belatedly understood something.
"Foodie, are you okay?" Lonemoon had also flown over.
"Mm." Shen Ying nodded and turned to look at the three-legged bird under her feet. "Do you think, this can... be eaten?"
The corner of Lonemoon's mouth twitched, indeed, it'd been unnecessary to worry about her, she was still thinking about eating at this time.
Beside her, Chef habitually pulled out a dagger. "Try and we'll know."
With that said, a dagger in one hand and his other wrapped around Shen Ying, he jumped down, heading towards the guard beasts array. As if sensing its own fate, the bird started to caw madly, yet it was suppressed by a Sword Qi and could not move at all, it was about to give its life to the dagger.
"Wait!"
Two voices sounded at the same time!
"Spare the bird!" Yan Luo reacted belatedly.
Below, Buggy also grabbed onto Yi Qing's leg. "Great Immortal, you can't kill this!"
"Why?" Master and disciple questioned in unison.
"Ah?" Yan Luo paused. "Because... because this is the array guarding beast!"
Shen Ying frowned. "Is it poisonous?"
"..." It's not, but you guys are! Who would want to kill an array guarding beast?
Whereas Buggy was hit with an idea and quickly spoke up, "Great Immortal, the three-legged fire bird is a protector beast of Yang City, there's only this one, it cannot be killed!"
"Oh." Shen Ying then called Chef back, turns out it's to protect animals, nothing could be done then. She turned and looked a the bird on the ground in disappointment.
The entire fire bird immediately quivered under her gaze. When the Sword Qi on it was lifted, it squawked at once and turned to crawl back into the fire hole on the ground, trembling. Before it entered, one of it's claw even grabbed onto the Heart Array Stone and placed it firmly back in it's original spot, pretending like it had never came out.
Yan Luo: "..."
Lonemoon: "..."
Buggy: "..."
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Even the birds will probably become scheming now.
"All of you..." Yan Luo then swept his gaze across the few people present, recalling that terrifying Sword Qi earlier, his body shivered. He suddenly understood why they wanted to hide their capabilities when breaking through the arrays earlier. With such strength, don't mention him, it would be difficult to find a match in the entire end of the void. For a moment, he became even more confused. "Seniors, all of you are this capable... why do you still choose to participate in the league?"
"Why, are we not allowed to participate?" Lonemoon questioned back.
Yan Luo froze. "Well, it's not that you can't, just... this competition is meant for disciples from the various academies."
"We're disciples too?"
"..." Who are you lying to? Did there exist disciples with cultivation at your levels?
"Teacher Yan, who stipulated that disciples cannot have high cultivation levels?" You and your organizing team did not restrict the cultivation levels of participation, is it my fault?
"..." Sounds very reasonable. Yan Luo frowned, so there still existed such taunting manipulations. Though it was stated at the start that this was a competition between academies, they indeed did not restrict cultivation levels, the more they didn't mention whether it was for disciples or teachers, everyone simply took it that it was meant for disciples only.
Lonemoon decided to admit it, seeing that he'd been exposed. "We were passing by this place and found that this competition was rather interesting, so we signed up to have some fun."
"..." Is bullying a bunch of kids really so interesting? He really wanted to say, so shameless! But he wasn't their match so he really didn't dare to!
Now that he thought back, everything that Ren Qing said previously could all be true. These people entered their mystic realm, captured the monsters kept by them and even sold them away to their disciples participating in the competition... earlier, they even almost captured their array guarding beast.
Don't all of your consciences hurt?
Yan Luo's heart ached.
When they hold such competitions in the future, they absolutely must restrict the cultivation of participants.
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Shen Ying and gang became the first people to pass the second round of the competition. On top of that, all four came out at once. Since the time they entered the maze, it took less than an hour, there'd never been a faster record than this. Yet what was even more shocking than this was that, following them, more and more people began to walk out of the maze and everyone was unscathed, as if they'd never encountered any array formations.
The originally estimated competing duration was six hours, yet in less than four hours, almost everyone was out. By the time the competition ended, of the 75 participants who entered, 70 had passed, leaving a mere five who did not make it or had already been transported out earlier due to injuries.
Everyone from Immortal Spirit Academy was dumbfounded, this seemed to be different from what they had imagined. At any rate it was a quarterfinals and should naturally be more difficult than the qualifiers. According to the original plan, it would be great if 15 people managed to passed, but it ended up that 90% of the participants all made it to the semifinals, what kind of situation was this.
Only the crowd in the know, Yan Luo knew about the situation. It was all because of those two people who pretended to be disciple with low levels of cultivation, even the array guarding beasts was terrified and was left with severe post trauma. It downright refused to come out even after they'd left, causing the array formations in the maze to become ineffective, so the subsequent so-called maze was really left with the maze, would anyone not be able to walk out of it?
Yan Luo's heart ached but Yan Luo couldn't vocalize it.
Chapter 589: The Contest of Admitting Defeat
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It was a fact that 70 disciples walked out of the array formation, no matter how much suspicion Immortal Spirit Academy had, they could only grit their teeth and let the competition go on. Everyone somehow felt that this league was rather odd, too little people passed the qualifiers and too many passed the quarterfinals, anyway everything ended in a inexplicable manner.
The mechanism of the semifinal was very simple, it was nothing but battling in pairs, the winner advances, until the top three participants emerge. On top of that, the competition was to be conducted before an entire crowd, if anything happens, anyone would be able to spot it at once, there will be absolutely no more problem. Everyone thought so, at the start, the competition was indeed very normal too, until the one called Lonemoon went up...
Opponent one.
"Aiya! Elder brother has great cultivation, I am crude and untalented, indeed not your opponent, I admit defeat!"
Everyone: "..."
They had barely exchanged any blows? You admitted defeat way too quickly!
Opponent two.
"Aiya! Elder brother has superb sword techniques, I'm so ashamed that I am inferior, I have lost."
Everyone: "..."
Hold on, he didn't even used a sword? Where exactly did you make out that his sword techniques were superb?
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Opponent three.
"Aiya! Elder brother's Spirit Qi is so powerful, I can barely hold on, ah! I've lost!"
Everyone: "..."
Spirit Qi your ass, there was nothing on him at all alright?
Opponent four.
"Aiya! I see that elder brother has an imposing appearance, with advanced cultivation. You're an exceptional man, rarely seen in this world, I am no match for you, I forfeit!"
Everyone: "..."
Did you come to compete or get your fortune told?
Opponent five said, "Aiya! My stomach suddenly hurts, I can't compete anymore, just take it that I lost."
Opponent six said, "Aiya, my chest suddenly hurts..."
Opponent seven: "Aiya, my head suddenly hurts..."
There was no exception, as long as they met the man called Lonemoon, his opponent will hurt somewhere for no rhyme or reason and automatically admitted defeat. Hence everyone could only watch on, dumbfounded as he advanced all the way and topped the league. An originally estimated three days of competition duration ended in a day with everyone continuously surrendering without battling. Lonemoon also became the first person to win the champion title without striking at all.
Immortal Spirit Academy: "..."
All the teachers: "..."
What the heck? This was way too casual! What kind of league was this, might as well call it the contest of admitting defeat!
"There is definitely something fishy about this!" A teacher really could not hold back anymore. "I absolutely will not acknowledge this champion, his sword did not even leave his sheath at all. It is virtually absurd that this person become the champion."
"That's right!" Another person also added. "What's with all the disciples from these academies? Are they taking this league as child's play? It must be redone! Otherwise, how could such a champion convince the public."
"I also think so too, and we ought to investigate this matter thoroughly too. I don;t believe this person could become first place just based on luck." Another teacher also said and even turned to look towards the person beside him. "Teacher Yan, you are the Head of Discipline, what do think should be done about this?"
The corner of Yan Luo's mouth twitched before he stood up, inhaled deeply and said, "There's no need, let's directly announce the outcome of the competition."
"What?!" Three people were stupefied at once, wearing faces of disbelief, such words actually came from him.
"But... but this person was obviously problematic, if we really let him become the champion, I'm afraid majority will not be convinced."
Yan Luo glanced at him from the corner of his eyes. "Take a look around, can you find anymore who's not convinced?"
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The other party faltered and turned his head to survey the disciples around and realized... it seems there was really none! Not only that, without even waiting for his announcement of the end of the competition, those participants were already crowding around to congratulate him, no signs of unhappiness on their faces at all, even some teachers had made their way there.
What was going on?
"This... how?" He was dumbfounded but still said rather indignantly, "But this is too exaggerated, no matter what... we ought to test his capability before..."
"Junior Brother!" Yan Luo suddenly stepped forward, patted his shoulder with a solemn expression and said slowly, emphasizing each word, "Trust me, you definitely will not wish to witness his capability!"
Even I was crushed, what do you all, who are even weaker than me, expect?
"Quickly, announce it!" He waved his hand, feeling mentally tired.
Everyone was still slightly lost. yet seeing that even Yan Luo, who had the highest cultivation had acknowledge it, they couldn't say anything more and directly announced the outcome of the competition. Hence Lonemoon gloriously became the champion of the first academy league.
"Exalted... Exalted Immortal?" Buggy who was watching on the whole time could not help but ask, "Why were they all so willing to admit defeat?" Buggy looked to him blankly, though there was the relation from the sale of monsters, but this was a competition between the academies, regardless of he thought, it was impossible for so many people to admit defeat on their own accord.
Lonemoon turned back and glanced at him before replying, "Oh, because I sent a message to them last night, all those who loses to me in the competition today gets a 50% discount on their debt incurred in the mystic realm!"
Buggy: "..."
Yi Qing: "..."
Shen Ying: "..."
So this was the reason why he said they didn't need to participate in the semifinals? He could really do business everywhere, why was he suddenly feeling pity for those who owed him money?
Due to the accelerated progress of the competition, second and third places emerged very quickly too. It was finally time for the rousing presentation ceremony, Lonemoon could not help but sigh in relief deep down, they would be able to get the spirit seed and go home soon Even those teachers who'd been staring at him complexly became eager about it all. Until the other party placed two bags into his hands.
His expression darkened instantly. "What is this?"
"The prize for your championship!" The teacher presenting the prizes answered crankily.
"This is the prize!" Lonemoon looked even more upset as he lifted up the two bags and questioned once more.
"These are immortal stones!" The teacher thought that he'd never seen immortal stones and explained directly. "Immortal stones are rarer than spirit stones."
"I naturally know these are immortal stones!" What the hell, did they think he'd never seen immortal stones? There were a few millions of them lying in his storage bag. Lonemoon's expression turned cold as he inhaled deeply and said, "If I remember correctly, the prize for the champion that you all displayed the other time wasn't this right?"
"You... don't be a fool that doesn't know what's good for you!" Figuring the displeasure in his tone, the teacher glared at him. "There are two thousand immortal stones here, the concentration of it can only be thicker than that in the colored egg, after getting this..."
"I don't need immortal stones!" Lonemoon cut him off directly. "Where is the rainbow colored egg?"
"You..." The teacher was also slightly enraged now and retorted, "There are no whatsoever rainbow colored egg, these immortal stones are your prize!"
Chapter 590: Queen of Nesting
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Lonemoon's face fell at once, even Yi Qing's followed, a smile appeared on his lips as he said, word by word, "This teacher means to say that you're intending on going back on your word at the last minute?"
Damn it! I busied myself for a good half of the day and you actually dared to swap out my prize at the end! F*ck the damn competition, he ought to have struck right at the start! In that moment, he released all the Sword Qi in his body at once, a boundless suppression was about to sweep across the entire area.
The teacher who was still angry that he was unappreciative earlier paled instantly, his legs trembled as he was about to drop to his knees. At the side, Yan Luo felt his heart sank before he hurriedly rushed over.
"Fellow Daoist, fellow daoist don't be rash! Let's talk things out amicably." Yan Luo quickly pulled the prize presenter behind him. Judging by this person's reaction, he suddenly understood that his motive in participating in the competition these past few days was probably to get that egg. But he wasn't very clear about why the prize was suddenly changed. Hence he hastily turned around and questioned, "Junior Brother, where's the rainbow colored egg? Why was the prize suddenly changed?"
"Senior Brother Yan..." That person fell into a momentary daze, recalling the massive aura from earlier he trembled involuntarily before he replied, still in shock, "That egg is... with the insect race. Yesterday they sent us a message asking for that rainbow colored egg. Their queen has always like such eggs and whatnots... so we just..."
They had thought that the egg just had a slightly more concentrated Spirit Qi, nothing rare about it. That's why the changed the prize to immortal stones, as compensation, they'd even doubled the amount. Regardless of any cultivator, whoever meets such a situation will not have any objections, yet who would've known that the one that came totally didn't have a lack of immortal stones.
"Insect race?" Lonemoon frowned and turned his head to look towards a certain insect beside him.
Buggy shivered instantly, fervently shaking his head. "I... I don't know anything!" He hurriedly pointed to the butterfly knot on top of his head. "All of you know it, Great Immortal had already tied up my feelers the previous time, till now I still have no way of contacting the bugs of my race!"
Lonemoon and Yi Qing exchanged a look, their expressions becoming even graver.
Instead, it was Shen Ying who suddenly spoke up, "Where is the nest of your race?"
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"At... at Buggy Hill in the wilderness of the north." Buggy replied honestly.
Their faces fell, without any delay, they picked up Buggy and flew into the air on the swords. "Show the way!" Once the words fell, three humans and a bug vanished.
The Sword Qi then dissipated.
The few teachers fell their legs turn to jelly and sat onto the ground.
"Teacher Yan, who... who exactly were those few people?"
"Don't ask me!" Yan Luo looked miserable. "I don't know either." Anyhow they're just not to be trifled with.
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The few of them flew very quickly, in a short while, they'd arrived above a land of wilderness. From far, they saw tall, black mountains appear before them. The one right in the middle had its peak in the clouds, the mountains seemed to be a special type of rock,its surfaces were empty, without any kind of vegetation, making it look like several tall and black towers.
And the surfaces of the towers were covered with all sorts of insects, some kept their human form while others appeared as beetles. What was more unique was there were various species on their mountain, they looked similar to those in the mystic realm, these were... monsters?
When did the insect race cohabit with demons and monsters and most of them were the feather tribes.
"All of us bugs are birthed by the queen, but ever since we came to this furthest end of the void, her delivery speed dropped steeply, so the queen is often idle, recently she has a new special hobby..." Buggy pointed to all the demons and monsters below and explained, "Not only does she like laying eggs, she even prefers... nesting eggs!" And it's the kind where she doesn't restrict the types of eggs.
Yi Qing: "..."
Lonemon: "..."
Shen Ying: "..."
Was this why she suddenly asked for the colored egg? Because she laid less so she wanted to hatch others' for fun?
The trio was speechless. Buggy could not help but begged weakly, "Great Immortal, our queen is actually a very wonderful insect, she definitely did not ask for the egg because she knew it belonged to you. How about... can you give Buggy a chance to go explain the situation to her, can we... not fight?"
The few of them exchanged looks before nodding. Alright, on the account that you've been rather diligent in your work these few days.
Buggy then heaved a sigh of relief and hurriedly led the three of them into the main nest, showing them all the way in.
Inside the nests, there were no longer any demon monsters to be seen, it was densely filled with all sorts of insects, most stayed in their original form, looking extremely scary. Perhaps because there was Buggy leading the way, they did not attack the three.
Buggy brought them around and around and finally arrived in the innermost area of the nest, stopping in a circular passageway. A huge space could vaguely bee seen at the end of it and there were even several tall and big insects standing guard along the two sides of the passageway. Buggy went forward and touched feelers with the one right in front, no one knew what was communicated but Buggy turned back after a moment and said, "Please wait here for a moment Great Immortals, the queen will summon me immediately."
With that said, he respectfully knelt down inside the passageway, seeming to be waiting for something, and the insect that had communicated with him was already crawling into the room in front to inform of his coming.
The few of them waited for about 15 minutes before that insect came back out and nodded towards Buggy. Instantly, the tall and big insects in the passageway stepped to the sides and showed a route.
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"Great Immortal, the queen wants to see me and you." Buggy turned towards Lonemoon and explained.
"Sure." Lonemoon nodded, then turned back towards Shen Ying and Chef, saying, "Wait here for a moment."
With that said, he followed behind Buggy, a few steps out, a screen appeared before them, they walked right through and the scenery before their eyes changed at once, they arrived in a huge circular cave. It was different from what was imagined, flowers covered the entire floor of the cave, looking like a sea of flowers. And in the middle of that, a large, moth-like insect settled.
Its body was extremely massive, almost occupying half of the space in the cave. A pair of compound eyes was staring at the two people who walked in, eight steel like legs curled under it's body while a huge abdomen laid flat on the ground. Occasionally flashes of light flew across its belly and a white egg would bounce out.
Some insects half the height of average humans also surrounded it, it seems like they were insects specializing in transporting the queen's eggs, they were lined up and fetching the eggs laid one by one before carrying them out.
Underneath the queen's belly, there was a circle of different species of eggs with various auras, they looked to be the demon and monsters'. Buggy was right, this queen indeed liked to nest eggs.
"You're the human who won that rainbow colored egg?" The queen suddenly spoke. Her mouth did not move but a sharp female voice sounded in the entire room.