C152 (1/2)
Both were members of the lower families of the fire Temple, and Fedka and the Feulrose family were neighbors as well. At the critical point between the two families, there was a branch of a medium-sized mountain range.
Dozens of years ago, a axman found a piece of what looked like a magic core while chopping wood, which was later identified as a high quality magicite ore.
When the news spread, the two families quickly sent people to investigate and found the magicite crystal lode easily. They were right at the border between the two families, in a zone where both families could easily manage the lode.
Furthermore, after careful investigation, the magicite crystal's reserves were plentiful, thus, a fight over the ownership of the magicite crystal mine began.
Initially, the vein was only discovered by a little, and it was easy to discover new mining sites, with always a bit of a harvest before another one was discovered.
However, as time passed, the two families' control over the mines became more and more detailed. The undiscovered mining areas became smaller and smaller, the harvest between the two families also became less and less.
Finally, a year ago, the mining site went extinct.
Just like that, seeing the large amount of magicite crystal lode laid out there, easily obtainable, and yet unable to be excavated, the people from both families were anxious!
In a moment of impatience, armed conflicts began to break out and quickly escalated, resulting in casualties.
Finally, the upper echelons of the two families could not take it anymore and decided to negotiate!
After months of negotiations and bargaining, it was finally decided that the winner would have the right to mine the vein. However, he would have to deliver 40% of the loot to the other party, and the other party would also have to send someone to supervise him to ensure that he would receive 40% of the loot.
However, everyone knew that there were many opportunities for winners to cheat. It might not be a low-grade ore, but no one would be able to find a small part of the top-grade ore hidden away.
Therefore, both families were determined to get their hands on the rights to mine, and they began to prepare.
Agreement: Fight for three to seven points. Once the young generation of the family takes action, they will have five victories. At most, they can only have one Guest Warrior.
The winners of the mining operation and the losers' supervision.
You can ask for outside help, but you have to have at least three disciples of your own family participating in the battle, and each of them is a candidate from the younger generation, one under the age of thirty.
The Feulrose family was led by A Lamuli Fierros, and the Third Elder was in charge of the Feudika family.
The time of the competition was approaching, but the Third Elder had yet to determine who would come to the rescue.
It was not that there were no candidates, but there was a problem with the Feulrose family's external aid, which immediately made it difficult to determine who the Feudika family's external help candidate was.
There was a foreign aid to Ke Mailong, the grandson of Sword God.
External help would definitely come to face external help, but not everyone would be willing to face Sword God's grandson. Losing would definitely not look good for them, winning would definitely not be a good thing for Sword God!
In the end, the Third Elder decided to recruit Fei Yu as his external help and took this opportunity to probe Fei Yu.
Offending a Celestial domain Ranker was not a good thing. If it was not because he had other intentions, it was a good opportunity to tie him up with his family into the same chariot.
”Sir Fei Yu, are you used to living here for the past few days?” The visiting Third Elder laughed.
”Very well, thank you elder for your hospitality.” Fei Yu said.
”No, no, thank you, I should be the one who should be thanking you. If it wasn't for you, Tissy and E Gang might not be able to return.”
”I wonder why Clan Elder is looking for Fei Yu today, is there something you need?”
”Well, the family once discovered a mine, but unfortunately, another family found it at the same time, so we decided to use the martial arts competition to determine the ownership of the mine.” The Third Elder went straight to the point. After observing Fei Yu for a few days, he realised that Fei Yu did not like to beat around the bush.
”This should be an internal matter of the clan. I am an outsider.” The meaning behind his words was that this was your problem, and I was powerless.
”Hehe, please wait a moment. This is the case, the competition is not only a matter of the family's internal affairs. External aid is allowed.” The third elder said.
”And then?” Fei Yu laughed and asked, thinking, could it be that the Third Elder is looking for me to be a free fighter?
”As long as you are willing to help, then you can have ten percent of the clan's profits from this mine.” If you, Fei Yu, really become a guest official of the family, then even if I give you 10%, it will still be worth it. But if you can't be a guest official, hmph …
Of course, this was only a stopgap measure. The key lay in Fei Yu's background, which he could not pinpoint and could not pinpoint.
No matter how outstanding his qualifications were, the clan would not dare to rashly recruit Fei Yu as a guest elder. After all, guest elders had many opportunities to interact with the clan's top secret.
Right now, the clan's intelligence department was doing their best to investigate Fei Yu's background. Until their background was investigated thoroughly, they could only try to rope Fei Yu in.
In the end, with such conditions, Fei Yu decided to participate in the competition as the Feudika family's external help.
At the southern end of the two territories of the two Fierros s, there was a huge lake, which covered an area of one hundred miles. The lake was surrounded on three sides by the mountain, and the bottom of the lake was so deep that one could not see its depths.
According to legends, this lake was connected to the sea, but no one had ever verified it.
This was a special kind of blood clam in the lake. The clam shell was blood-red, and the smallest one was as big as a washbasin. It was hard to describe its size, but it was said that someone had seen one that was dozens of meters long.
As the saying goes, old clams give birth to pearls. This kind of blood clam could also produce pearls, producing a type of blood-red pearl. It was crystal clear and very beautiful.
This kind of blood-red pearl was called the blood jade pearl. It was not only an ornament, but also had miraculous effects.
It was said that wearing this pearl could improve his body and strengthen his physique, especially in a profession like the Magician which had a weak physique. The long-term effects of wearing this pearl were even more obvious.
At this point, the topic of the first round was revealed.
This competition was to collect blood jade pearl. It was not heavy in quantity, but it was heavy in quality. The team that obtained the best blood jade pearl would be the champion.
Two days ago, the men of the two clans had arrived at the lakeside. They had set up two temporary camps and made all the necessary preparations.
Early in the morning, most of the people had just woken up. However, the lakeside was already packed with people, but it was orderly and clearly divided into two camps.
”Now, I announce that the topic of the competition is: Collecting blood jade pearl. Rule: Must be complete, decide victory or defeat by quality, regardless of quantity or size, time limit of three days. If the two squads are unable to complete their mission within three days, based on a draw, do you have any questions? ” A Lamuli took out a piece of paper and announced after reading it.
In order to prevent cheating, the competition's questions were written down in a lot of detail, and the difficulty level was about the same. Afterwards, the questions would be gathered in an opaque box and selected the moment before the competition started.
The reason why they had gathered at the lakeside in advance wasn't because the competition's topic had been leaked, but because the first mission was set around this region. There were a dozen of them, so it all depended on luck to get one.
”I do. I want to know how you know who did it.” The representative of the Fierros asked a swordsman in the middle.
”Whoever hands over the mission supplies to the referee will be the one to complete the mission, understand?” The Third Elder answered.
”Understood.”
”Alright, we will set off without any questions. You all have understood the other detailed rules before the competition, so I won't nag any more. There are six necklaces here for you all to breathe in the water. Take them.” A Lamuli said, and took out six necklaces at the same time. There was no big difference in their attributes or quality, let each person choose one.
Fei Yu did not know the three people from the Fierros family, nor did he want to know them. He only knew that they were a water attribute Magician and two swordsman, and in this aspect, the three people from the Fei Yu family were: Fei Yu, Tissy, E Gang, and the others were all from the swordsman.
E Gang also came?
Yes, E Gang neglected his duties, thus causing him to miss out on a good opportunity, and was exiled to a small town controlled by the family for three years, but when it came time to hire him, after a few elders discussed and decided to delay the date of exile until after the competition, E Gang would participate in a competition to gain merits.
Each picked a necklace, put it around his neck, and jumped into the water.
After diving into the water, a layer of skin film was formed on the surface of the body. The interior of the film was no different from the environment on the shore, and although it required the support of magic power or battle qi, the consumption was very small, far inferior to the water pressure.
No one had the heart to look at it, so they anxiously sank into the bottom of the lake. It was said that the blood clam only existed in the depths of the lake, in the crevices of the rocks at the bottom of the lake.
Under a hundred meters, the light was dim, almost non-existent. The water pressure had also increased to the point that it could crush an ordinary person. Everyone was slowing down at the same time.
blood clam?
On the side close to the lake shore, there was a blood-red river clam the size of a washbasin. It was the target blood clam s.
But no one moved!
This time, he won in terms of quality. This blood clam was only the smallest, and even if there was a blood jade pearl, it was of the very low quality. There was no need to waste energy.
Afterwards, in order to search for blood jade pearl and avoid conflict, the two groups of people split up to search for each other.
Soon after, intense energy fluctuations could be heard from afar, indicating that they were fighting.
Hm?
Fei Yu quickly found the source of the energy undulations. It turned out that the three people on the other side had pretty good luck and found a blood clam that was about half the height of a human.
But luck and misfortune often come together.
Just when the three of them were anxious to capture and confirm that the blood clam had given birth to a blood jade pearl, an octopus was attracted by the light.
Seeing three fresh and delicious dishes, the octopus was overjoyed. This was a delicacy that was brought to its mouth. It waved its eight tentacles and rushed forward.
The three of them were all elites of the family, and there was no doubt about it. That water attribute Magician had created a whirlpool to temporarily slow down the octopus's movements.
and also added a blessing for the swordsman's Water Element. In water, Water Element Enhancement has a special effect, which can greatly reduce the resistance of water.
Just like that, the three of them started fighting with the octopus. In conclusion, the three of them had the absolute advantage in terms of strength, but the octopus was a 'native' Magical Beast. It had the advantage in terms of location.
Seeing this, Fei Yu also kept his spiritual consciousness, and the three of them continued to search forward.
The first day passed without any results. This blood clam was very rare, even after searching all day, they had only met one, and it was not producing any blood jade pearl.
The second day, he was lucky enough to get two blood jade pearl s, but they were not even the size of his pinky finger. It seemed like taking these two blood jade pearl s would give him a chance to win the championship, what a … Difficult!
On the third day, noon had already passed, yet he still hadn't found anything.
Phew...
When the three of them arrived in front of a huge crevice, a huge stream of water suddenly gushed out, sending the three of them far away.
What was going on?
If it's an undercurrent, it shouldn't be so sudden, right?
But if it wasn't Undercurrent, could it be... Magical Beast?
Fortunately, the three of them all had a set of Cultivation Level s on them, and they quickly stopped and returned the same way they came.
Phew...
This time, the three of them were already prepared. Fei Yu did not move the slightest bit, while Tissy and E Gang were quite a distance away from each other. Although they were already prepared, they were still knocked quite a distance away.
Seeing that the two of them did not receive any damage, Fei Yu charged through the strong water flow.
He saw it!
It turned out that there was a small red mountain inside the huge crevice. Its tyrannical life force indicated that it was a powerful Magical Beast.
According to the shape, Fei Yu determined that it was a blood clam.
It was him!
Presumably, the blood jade pearl that was born with such a huge body couldn't be wrong as well!