Chapter 1617 (1/2)

Chapter 1617: Giant Crowd

“Excuse me, can you let me through? I’m trying to join the Skywood Divine Palace’s Jade Lake Pageant, and I’ll be late if I’m held back.” Long Chen tried to gently push his way through the crowd, but there were truly too many people. There was no way for him to squeeze his way in. It wasn’t as if he could brute force his way through.

“Brother, you don’t have to push. Everyone’s the same as you. We’re all here for the Jade Lake Pageant. There’s an extraordinary amount of geniuses attending this time, but you don’t need to worry about being late. Because there are so many people, they’ve extended the registration period. The Skywood Divine Palace has already sent down word that they guarantee everyone will have a chance to register,” said a friendly Soul Transformation ahead of him.

“Ah, is that so? Then I’m at ease. If I had known, I wouldn’t have had to rush so quickly.” Long Chen wiped off some sweat.

When going from the Eastern Xuan Region to the Southern Xuan Region, few people would choose to cross the Ancient Battlefield. That was too dangerous. The majority of them went around through the Martial Heaven Sea-Ring. Although the Martial Heaven Sea-Ring was also dangerous, even when encountering the most terrifying sea demons, there was still some hope of escaping. In the Ancient Battlefield, the slightest slip up could cost you your life.

Long Chen looked around. There was a huge channel in front of the transportation formation. The entire path was packed full of people that stretched as far as he could see.

What shocked Long Chen was that all these disciples that had come to register were Soul Transformation experts. Furthermore, the majority were women. This was Long Chen’s first time seeing so many female cultivators gathered in one place.

“Aiya!”

Long Chen was looking around when someone suddenly crashed into him. A woman’s startled cry rang out.

The transportation formation behind him had activated again, and someone new had come. As a result, this jam-packed crowd became even tighter. A woman ended up cras.h.i.+ng into Long Chen out of control. Long Chen felt two soft feelings on his back.

Long Chen turned back to see that the woman appeared to be in her late twenties. Her looks weren’t bad. She hastily apologized, “Sorry! Aiya!”

The force behind her was too great, and she ended up pus.h.i.+ng up even tighter against Long Chen.

Long Chen held his hands high in the air to express his innocence. The woman tried to steady herself, but more and more people were appearing in the back, and she ended up tightly stuck to Long Chen.

“Hopefully, Wan-er isn’t anywhere near. Otherwise, I won’t be able to prove my innocence to her.”

Long Chen hastily looked in every direction. If Tang Wan-er’s jealous eyes saw his current state, he would be doomed.

However, he quickly realized that there were quite a few women crying out. Some of them were glaring furiously at the men beside them. Clearly, those men’s hands hadn’t been innocent.

Long Chen saw one man laugh awkwardly after being glared at by a woman. He waded through the crowd away from the woman. Long Chen saw that he had a new target now, a woman capable of causing huge waves.

“Did they come here just to take advantage?” Long Chen saw quite a few men with infatuated expressions. He became speechless.

“Hi, can you protect me a bit? I’m being squeezed…” The woman pressing tightly against Long Chen’s chest looked up at him helplessly.

Only then did Long Chen start fighting back against the crowd, making some s.p.a.ce for her. These people’s physical bodies couldn’t compare to his. If he wanted to, he could charge straight through the crowd. However, this was Chu Yao’s sect. He couldn’t cause trouble.

“Thank you. You really are a good person,” said the woman with a red face.

“I’ll have to thank you for saying that. Only a few people will call me a good person.” Long Chen bitterly smiled. At least, in the Eastern Xuan Region, there was no one who would do so.

“Oh, you look a bit familiar? Have we met before?” asked the woman.

“Haha, I’m just so ordinary that I look similar to a lot of people. Can you tell me what’s going on with this Jade Lake Pageant? Why are there so many people?”

“You don’t even know this? Are you not from the Southern Xuan Region?”

“That’s right. I came over for tempering and suddenly heard something about the Jade Lake Pageant, so I wanted to see what it was about.”

“Then you’ll probably be disappointed. There are two requirements to attend the Jade Lake Pageant. One is that you must be a soul cultivator whose Spiritual Strength reaches a certain standard. The other is the vouching of your sect to guarantee your ident.i.ty. There’s quite a fee for attending, and that fee is normally paid by the sect. Without it, they won’t let you in,” said the woman apologetically.

“It’s alright, I have my sect vouching for me, and I’m also a soul cultivator. Although I’m just a dabbler in that regard, it should be enough to pa.s.s.”

Since this was organized by the Skywood Divine Palace and it was Chu Yao who had invited him to come, he should definitely be able to attend. Otherwise, she wouldn’t have told him to come.

Long Chen was in the midst of speaking with her when he suddenly kicked someone away, shouting, “Are you blind? I’m a man, so what are you touching me for?!”

He had suddenly felt something strange and noticed an idiot behind him. He didn’t know if this idiot didn’t differentiate between men and women, or whether he had just made a mistake, but Long Chen directly kicked him away.