Chapter 96 - Feeling Like Leftovers (1/2)

As mentioned before, when a cultivator is entering the Core Formation Realm, they need to feed their core part of their own soul, and it will leave a severe injury right after the process that can't be healed without a lot of time, but the Soul Healing Pill can heal the soul instantly!

It is different from the Stabilizing Soul Technique, the technique simply repress the injury in the soul temporarily while the cultivator deals with the Heavenly Tribulation, but the cultivator still needs to take his time to slowly heal it after, if the cultivator gets the soul restored right after the core is fed, their chances of succeeding against the Heavenly Tribulation is increased several times, the Soul Stabilizing Technique is very good, but it can't compare with the Soul Healing Pill.

Ao heard what Krune said and asked what was it, as soon as he heard the explanation, his eyes lit up as well, he was the same as Krune now, determined to get those six drops of Dragon Essence Liquid at all costs!

Elder Loni looked at everyone and then started to explain the rules.

”As mentioned, this is a team contest, every team can have between three and five members, you can't leave the city until 10 o'clock in the morning two days from now, the same is valid for the team members of the Ragne Planet, at moment we are on the border of this continent, your objective is to reach the Ravil City which is in the center, and the time limit is one month, each team will have one black token, any team who wishes to pass this test has to have at least three black tokens by the time they reach the Ravil City, and that is also counting your own token.”

Loni then continued.

”Each team will receive another blue token meant to be a lifesaving method, every member of that group must use a drop of blood on this blue token, once this token is crushed, it will create a barrier around you and your team members which only a Divine Soul Realm Cultivator or higher can break, but remember that after activating this token, you will be officially out of this gathering, obviously, your black token will be automatically released outside of this barrier, a member of the Divine Path Sect will come out and them bring you back to the city after that, remember that this is your last resort, and only your team leader can activate your token.”

”There will be no one here to protect you, this is the territory of the Divine Path Sect, so no one will dare to break the rules to save your lives, there is no doubt that it is very dangerous, not only you will have to be careful against other teams, but there are several demon beasts and bandits who are not going to show any mercy to you all, they have all signed a blood contract with the Divine Path Sect, and the contract states that they must attack any enemy that might enter their territory, but there is one thing you don't need to worry, there is no Divine Soul Demon Beast or Cultivators here, the highest cultivation you can find is the 5th stage Core Formation Realm.”

No one expected for the gathering to get this dangerous, but by now, everyone had already checked what the Dragon Essence Liquid was through their communicators, not to mention that they were all proud sons and daughters of heavens, they all went through their own powers tests to get their Martial Gathering slots, so there wasn't a single one here who wasn't confident in their strength.

”To guarantee that a team of five won't have three members betraying the other two so that they can get more Dragon Essence Liquid, the contract will also estates that until the end of the first phase, loyalty between members must be kept, if the above condition is broken, you will die, the Divine Path Sec doesn't need disloyal members that can betray their own friends because of benefits.”

It was then that someone made a question

”Then what if two teams are battling and another team decides to attack?”

That was the doubt in most of the people's minds, with the sheer amount of contestants this time around; that will happen for sure.

Loni just smiled and replied.

”Teams joining forces, gang up, ambushes, so on and so forth, this is all part of the cultivation world, your only guarantee is the blue token, think well how to use it.”

Some of the contestants nodded their heads, what Loni said is the truth, the only thing that they won't bare is team members betraying each other, that is also a way to show that you can do almost anything, except betray your Divine Path Sect members.

Loni then laughed and said.

”You also have the option to give up your black token to your enemy and then work to get another three tokens, simple as that.”

Some contestants' eyes immediately lit up, which is indeed a good way of avoiding a lost battle and still has a chance of passing the test.

Another cultivator made one more question.

”Is there a way of knowing if a team still has a black token or not and if they have, can we find out if they have more than one token?”

”You can use your own black tokens to feel the presence of nearby black tokens, but you can't tell how many that team has, just that they do have a black token, of course, if your team loses all your black tokens, you can only count on your own luck to find a team with one or more, and you can use the other teams tokens to feel other tokens again”

With that, the discussion was over, everyone immediately tagged together with their own forces, of course, there was difference between the slots that each power of the Makui Planet received for this Martial Gathering, the stronger the power the more slots they had, some had only one slot, while others even had up to ten, so there was a lot of people who joined other groups as the same as there were forces that had more than five people and had to decide which one of them would join someone else's group.

Krune and Ao immediately smiled at each other, there wasn't any need for words between the two of them, but they also got a problem, they need someone else to have at least three members, they couldn't help but remember how Yusa sold her chance to get a slot, if they knew that it would happen, they would have dragged her by force from that room and not let her conclude that trade.

Yusa and Shinja were also there to watch the gathering when the three of them looked at Yusa, she pretended to not know anything.

”Cough, cough, so, who are you taking together with you?”

Ao and Krune sighed and started to think, at first, they thought that Arlan would be a very good choice, but Arlan not only is a member of the Mercenary Guild, he is also a member of the Divine Swords Sect back in the Makui Continent, he had told them that he entered the Mercenary Competition because he had first joined the mercenary guild, and only after did he join the Divine Swords Sect, Krune and Ao are guessing that he would probably join his sect members which are all sword users.