Chapter 581 - Making Through The Competition (2/2)

There was nothing else Lonemoon could do to prepare for it. He was planning on bringing Shen Ying, Yi Qing and Buggy somewhere nice to have a good meal. He had not expected to bump into the first person they met in the void – a familiar face.

“It’s been a long time, Fellow Daoists!” The man walked over briskly toward them. “Do the three of you still want to go out?”

“Ling Hong, what are you doing here?” Lonemoon scanned the person in front of him from head to toe. In those ten days, Ling Hong was the best salesman among his peers. “What’s the matter?”

“I came especially to thank you.” Once he finished speaking, he bowed respectfully toward the group of them. When he stood back upright, he said in a low voice, “I have to thank you for dealing with that problem involving the Red Scented Fish Monster earlier.”

“Don’t stand on ceremony!” Lonemoon smiled. “I said before, you spent good money to buy that before. It has nothing to do with us.”

“That might be the case, but if not for your good heart, we would not have been able to buy that.” Ling Hong still looked at them gratefully. After pondering for a moment, he said, “Oh right, I came this time to give you news about the next round.”

“Oh? Are the instructions out already?” Lonemoon paused. He stepped aside. “Come in and we’ll talk!”

He started to lead Ling Hong into the house, but Chef and Shen Ying remained at the doorstep. They both turned to Father Niu with grievance in their eyes.

Shen Ying: Didn’t we say we’re going to eat?

Yi QIng: Didn’t we say we’re going for a huge meal?

Lonemoon: “…” Don’t forget what we’re here for!

Only Buggy looked confused at the way the three of them were behaving. What was going on? Why was nobody moving? He was hungry! He had only eaten white rice for ten whole days.

“Alright!” Lonemoon glared at the two wastrels. “You can go out and eat. Come back and report the amount you spent, alright?”

“Yes, Father Niu! No problem, Father Niu!” The two of them replied obediently.

They cheered and walked out of the room joyfully, pulling Buggy along with them.

Ling Hong: “…” Why did he feel like Lonemoon was the parent in a family?

“Fellow Daoist Ling, please come in!” Lonemoon led Ling Hong into the house. “Thank you for making the trip down here.”

“Fellow Daoist Lonemoon, don’t stand on ceremony. They’re going to announce this tomorrow. I’m just giving the news to you several hours earlier,” Ling Hong said.

“May I know how we’re going to be competing in the next round then?”

Ling Hong frowned and said in a low voice, “This round is going to be much tougher than the previous mystic realm. We have to break through the academy’s Thousand-Image Array.”

“Thousand-Image Array?” Lonemoon paused. “Is that an array?”

“Fellow Daoist, you do know your stuff. The Thousand-Image Array is an array set up by an exalted immortal from the Immortal Academy many years ago.” Ling Hong frowned. “Over tens of thousands of years, the array has gone through many changes. It is said that there are over ten thousand more arrays inside that one array. It won’t be easy to escape it.”

“Oh.” If it really was an array, things would be much simpler. Both Lonemoon and Yi Qing were experts at arrays.