Chapter 99 - A Major Even (1/2)

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Within the eighth region, the little guy was carrying a huge beast skin bag. Inside of it were eighteen sparkling and translucent symbol bones, and they were flashing with multicolored light as dense symbols covered the interior.

Although they weren’t the precious bones of descendants, such a large bag was still invaluable.

There were some genuine bones that used to belong to Archaic Descendants, and they were used to suppress and protect the land. Unfortunately, he couldn’t dig any of those out. Had he truly dug deeper, he might have suffered some severe injuries and created an extremely large scene.

The little guy was behaving like a thief as he observed the surrounding scene. He did not see anyone come to arrest him, and began to calm down.

“Since I already got these, I need to leave quickly!” He slipped away like smoke, and disappeared as soon as he uttered those words.

He was preparing to enter the second stage of the battlefield since he truly could not stay here any longer. Otherwise, he feared that someone would deal with him out of of extreme anger.

Everyone was extremely happy inside the eighth region. The more they charged inside, the more confident they were. They felt as if they had unlimited strength inside of them as they broke through the formations extremely easily.

Over ten thousand people were rapidly advancing. They were scattered within different forests as they charged to the finish line from every direction with complete confidence in victory.

“By heaven and earth, I’ve failed four times already! Today, I’ll certainly succeed, and my bitter cultivation will not be in vain!” A young man roughly twenty years old had tears flowing from his eyes.

“This isn’t that hard, and it’s my first time taking the trial. Why does it feel like I can pretty much pass this? Looks like I’m truly a genius.” A nasally kid said with extreme happiness.

A patch of symbols flashed at the exit, but the little guy ignored it without thinking too much. He charged towards another side, and ahead of him, multicolored light dazzled and glittered before transforming into a barrier to block him.

Hong!

The little guy extended his ten fingers to display his might. They lightly erupted as he utilized the Suan Ni’s precious technique to directly smash apart the barrier. Then, he quickly jumped over.

This was a battlefield that was even more ancient than the one before it, with ancient trees reaching the sky as apes cried and tigers whistled. As soon as he entered, he felt a bleak and ancient atmosphere assaulting his face.

With a wenglong sound, a mountain peak in the distance collapsed as a huge black tiger roared into the sky. With a single press of its claws, it immediately collapsed that mountain peak. It was so terrifying that it made people tremble.

“So scary. That figure is so big!” Even the little guy was a bit shocked. Although that pitch-black tiger wasn’t an Archaic Descendant, it absolutely was not a creature that should be provoked, and was a terrifying beast king.

“This is worthy of being the second stage of the battlefield. It is indeed a battle of life and death here, and it’s completely up to one’s own choice!” People from another direction entered the second level of the battlefield as well.

Anyone capable of entering this place was naturally a genius. They all immediately concealed and hid themselves; otherwise, they might be suddenly hunted down by a vicious beasts that scuttled out.

The second level of the battlefield was interconnected. People from all eight regions ended up meeting here, since there was no distinction in this stage.

The little guy was not nervous at all after entering. After all, he had already crashed through almost a million li of the great wasteland while sometimes protecting Qingfeng as well. He could not be any more familiar with ancient forests like these.

After observing for a while, he quickly traversed through the thick forest like a nimble ancient divine leopard, and startled a group of wild beasts. However, he did not provoke any of those terrifying creatures.

Finally, he understood the circumstances surrounding him, and he once again carefully thought for a while. Following that, like a thief, he began to sort out his stolen goods.

He was very cautious and prudent. He separated the eighteen precious bones into six piles of threes and buried them into different places. Some were buried in swamps, some in streams and some were even placed in abandoned bird nests.

After he thought for a bit, this so called second battlefield was a lot like the great wasteland since no one protected him. He thought that there should be a way for him to detour around here in the future to retrieve his hidden stuff.

Everything had been taken care of, and his heart was at peace again. He straightened his back and raised his head with a just and honorable look on his face. With a magnanimous appearance, he started to stroll through the forest.

According to the requirements, he had to find a tablet within the second battlefield, and upon it would be recorded the missions they had to carry out.

Obviously, they did not point out the exact direction to the tablet. They wanted these youth to get out of their comfort zones by challenging these fierce beasts and vicious birds, testing these geniuses.

The little guy was fully content with his own achievements, and he became calm and tranquil. However, he did not know that the people outside were about to suffer through torment.

The elders of Heaven Mending Pavilion brought a squadron towards each of the eight regions. They arrived quickly in order to wait for all the successful children that passed the trial.

“The first region is truly a bit pitiful. How come there’s only nine children who succeeded up until now? Looks like the hurdle this time is too large.”

As soon as they arrived, the faces of clan elders from all types of clans darkened. This test was simply too difficult. How could there be so few who made it out of over tens of thousands?

One must know that the people who came here were already carefully selected by their clans, and were extremely outstanding. Why couldn’t they accomplish anything here at the Heaven Mending Pavilion?

Even though everyone was dissatisfied, they knew what was going on within their hearts. There were children from nobility, and there were even Archaic Descendants who wished to enter the Heaven Mending Pavilion. These geniuses occupied the majority of the slots available.

Therefore, the Heaven Mending Pavilion greatly raised the difficulty of selecting disciples this time. This caused many of the promising children to return back, defeated and in low spirits.

“There’s no other way. Too many experts showed up this time,” said Heaven Mending Pavilion’s elder Xiong Fei. Although he was regretful, there really was no way to satisfy everyone.

“There aren’t many people at the second region either. There’s only sixteen people. Ai!” Everyone sighed.

The third region was even more ridiculous, as only eight people came. Furthermore, they were all extremely exhausted and sweaty all over.

“This is too hard!” Everyone was complaining as their faces darkened.

“Don’t worry. There is still three days of time left. The people who pass the trial now are all outstanding people. There has to be more people behind them,” Heaven Mending Pavilion’s elder Zhuo Yun said.

“It’s certain that there will be some, but there won’t be too many. The longer that time passes by, the more weary and exhausted people will be, so where will they get the strength to break the formation?” An elder from a huge clan retorted.

“That might not necessarily be so. There are still some geniuses who are in the second battlefield right now. I believe there will be quite a bit of people.” The few elders of Heaven Mending Pavilion consoled everyone.

Be that as it may, the following few regions were similarly bleak, and everyone’s hearts immediately sank as their faces became uglier.

Although the elders of Heaven Mending Pavilion were apologetic, their hearts were incredibly excited because all the disciples this time were extremely talented, and would inevitably surpass the past ones.

When they finally arrived at the eighth region, the situation changed. This made some of the elders of large clans hopeful, because there were actually almost a hundred people here.

“My god! The geniuses were all concentrated in the eighth region. It’s unprecedented that there are actually so many people here. The number here actually surpassed the seven previous regions combined.” Heaven Mending Pavilion’s elder Xiong Fei nodded his head with a full smile on his face.

“That’s right. The eighth region is pretty good.” Zhuo Yun approved.

All the clan elders of large clans began to ease up a bit since it was not as ugly as they thought.

“Yi, that’s my clan’s Da Meng. He was defeated four times in a row, so I did not believe that he would actually succeed this year, haha…” A clan elder carefreely laughed.

“Hey, My clan’s Qing Hu also succeeded. Look at his exuberant energy. It seems like he didn’t waste that much strength. He’s truly a heroic youngster and not so simple!”

All of these clan elders revealed their happiness one after the other with great excitement, because there was a steady flow of one young person after another walking out. Sometimes, they discovered that even their own clan’s children were within the group.

At first, elder Xiong Fei hung a smile on his face and repeatedly nodded his head. So many geniuses had walked out from the eighth region, and he felt that they were actually quite formidable. However, he slowly began to feel as if something was off. Why were there still people coming out? So many people had walked out, and it seemed as if this line was never ending.