Chapter 572 - Devil Shen Ying (1/2)

Translator: Atlas Studios  Editor: Atlas Studios

Lonemoon took that name card. So this fellow was here to advertise, no wonder he was so enthusiastic. It seemed that this job of insect race was similar to a professional paparazzi, specializing in getting information. No wonder he would approach them.

“Thanks a lot, then.” Lonemoon replied anyway. Maybe they could really use it someday.

“You’re welcome, you’re welcome!” As though he had never seen such an easy potential customer, the young man grew even more passionate. Suddenly, he remembered something, and he directly said, “Oh yeah, have you heard of the United Tournament that Immortal Academy is holding recently?”

“United Tournament?” Lonemoon was stunned.

“So you haven’t!” He gave the two a surprised look. “But this isn’t any big news. On the good luck we have of meeting each other, I’ll tell you about it. Rest assured, this piece of news is free.”

He chuckled and started telling the two information with a good marketing spirit. “This United Tournament is the first time that Immortal Academy joins other academies to hold a large-scale competition. All the academies send their representatives to take part. I heard that the prizes are quite big!”

“Oh?” Lonemoon’s looked completely surprised, but inside he was thinking about how to use this chance to blend in the crowd and get inside to find the spirit seed.

“Don’t disbelieve me, Immortal Academy has spared great cost on the prize of this tournament. The champion can get a treasure with very high energy purity. Oh yeah, I even have a picture of that treasure!” He remembered something, suddenly turned and took out a scroll. He said secretively, “It was not easy for me to get this. Here, I’ll let you take a look.”

He directly unrolled the scroll, showing a colored egg-shaped pattern.

The spirit seed!

Lonemoon was shocked, and he exchanged a look with Chef sitting opposite him. They didn’t expect the spirit seed to actually be the prize of Immortal Academy’s United Tournament! It was easy to come by indeed.

“You do have a broad knowledge, sir.” Lonemoon smiled even more passionately and said, “We are new at this place and still don’t know it well enough. Could you maybe tell us a bit more about this United Tournament?”

“I heard that there are three rounds, with preliminaries before that.” He thought about it, then lowered his voice to add, “But I heard that, though on the surface, only the big academies can participate, you know that our Central District is full of many powers who wouldn’t bow to one another, so many powers directly used the names of all kinds of academies just in hope of competing against one another under the name of this competition. But only Immortal Academy has such power of command, it won’t work in other places.”

“But I feel that, all those participating may never fulfill their hopes. How strong is Immortal Academy? How can other powers surpass them? The eventual champion would probably still be from Immortal Academy.” He shook his head, then suddenly remembering something, he said with some price. “In the whole Central District, our insect race is probably the only one whose power can compete with Immortal Academy. But us Buggies have always had a good relationship with the Academy, and we don’t need to take part in such competitions.”

“You also have a prominent heritage then!” Lonemoon complimented him casually.

“What is this to us?” The other party looked completely unconcerned. “Our insect race was also a prominent existence across the whole plane in the past. It was a pity that we met a big devil afterwards, who almost completely destroyed our kind. Fortunately, our queen had foresight and hid into this end of the void, so that we had a chance to rest and recover. Our strength can no longer compare to the past right now.” His body shook, as though he remembered something horrifying.

Lonemoon was stunned for a moment. He asked subconsciously, “What big devil?”

The young man’s face greened slightly, as though speaking about something taboo. Even his voice dropped much lower. “Actually, I also heard this from those of the same race. Our insect race used to be very prosperous, that half of the plane was ruled by us. Suddenly, one day, a human came who started killing without saying a single word. Many of our kind died in her hand. Even our queen was shocked, and she had to run all the way to the end of void before she got rid of her. Right now, even the speed of production was affected by that. The population of our race can’t be raised for a long time. We have lost many brothers and sisters.

“…” So all of their people were born by the queen?