Chapter 588 - Do Not Provoke Chef (2/2)

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: “…”

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.