Chapter 174 Start of the next round (2/2)

Light beams fell from the sky and covered each of their bodies. In the next instant, their surroundings became blurry and as the sky spun, everyone felt like they had lost themselves.

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Fresh crisp air blew against their faces, and the blurry surroundings became clear. Lan Xuanyu squatted instinctively and was on his guard.

Qian Lei and Liu Feng were next to him; Qian Lei appeared confused, while Liu Feng was also observing his surroundings with sharp eyes.

At this moment, they were in a huge forest. Lan Xuanyu had never seen a forest like that, and they were surrounded by towering trees. The huge canopy even blocked their view of how tall these trees were. There were thick vines everywhere and all sorts of vegetation. There was no path at all, and it felt as if they were surrounded by plants.

Lan Xuanyu stood up and pulled Qian Lei to be between him and Liu Feng.

Qian Lei whispered, “Which direction should we go?”

Lan Xuanyu shook his head and said, “Don’t be anxious, let’s analyze the situation first.”

“Alright.”

Lan Xuanyu looked around and pulled both of them to a large tree that required several people in order to hug it. He and Liu Feng were at the sides as they protected Qian Lei in the middle.

“From the previous tips, the qualifier was still a test of comprehensive qualities. But the duration has lengthened and would take an entire seven days. This means that we must first be able to live here for seven days. This is a simulation of Mother Planet’s original Star Dou Forest. At the same time, that announcement mentioned going deep into the Star Dou Forest. It seems like the deeper you go, the higher the score because the announcement is never meaningless. So to sum it all up, we have to go deep, hunt soul beasts, kill other teams and persist till the end in this Star Dou Forest. These four aspects are the most important because if we’re killed by the other teams, then the effort that we had put in before that would be halved. Also, the announcement didn’t mention scores being reduced if we were killed by soul beasts. This means that being killed by soul beasts was better than being killed by other teams. Or rather, even if we have to commit suicide, we cannot let others kill us.”

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Qian Lei and Liu Feng nodded simultaneously. It was necessary to analyze the situation first. By doing so, they could get the general idea of this qualifier.

Relatively speaking, Qian Lei and Liu Feng were more relaxed this time because they knew that Lan Xuanyu would be even more useful in a comprehensive assessment like this. His ability to analyze judgment skills and ability to enhance — both of them would be maximized; unlike the arena where it wasn’t very advantageous for him because only battle power was needed in the arena, the use of wits would be reduced.

“What should we do now, then?” Liu Feng asked.

Lan Xuanyu said, “We must first get to know this place. According to Teacher Ji’s class, the Star Dou Forest of ancient times was the largest soul beast forest in the Mother Planet and is home to all sorts of soul beasts. But overall, there were several regions — the Peripheral Region, Hybrid Region, Core Region, and the very center was the Territory of Great Beasts. With our strength, it’s quite impossible to be tossed into the Core Region the moment we enter so we are most like in the Peripheral Region or Hybrid Region at most. Let’s try exploring the area first, and have a sense of the situation in this forest and the strength of these soul beasts. Then, we can go deeper. Once we meet a hazard we cannot contend against, it would be the end of the qualifiers for us — there is no second chance. So, at least for the next few days, we must be particularly careful.”

“Let’s do that, then. I shall go look around?” Liu Feng asked Lan Xuanyu. He was an agility-type Soul Master, so he was naturally an expert in scouting around.

Lan Xuanyu nodded, “Scout within a radius of 300 meters first while we wait here for you. Qian Lei, prepare the Coin of Summoning. If Liu Feng encounters a soul beast, we must be prepared to fight.”

Now that Liu Feng possessed the Silver Moon Wolf Right Arm Bone, his battle power improved greatly, and they felt more at ease letting him go out there to explore.