Light Cultivation
Eps. 30 — Competition
For the next two weeks until the day the competition began, Jian Chen spent his time cultivating his room. The stealth gem that he got a few days ago was spent so his inner energy increased tremendously.
Around the 120 circles formed in Jian Chen's dantian, he had indeed focused on absorbing the stealth gems because he thought he needed it when the competition arrived.
The competition did not last for one day but instead 7 days in a row, Academy students would sleep in the sky in the middle of the forest, guarding each other from the attacks of wild animals and looking for food to survive.
The demon hunting competition was indeed dangerous, the lives of the academy students were the stakes but the rewards were also not playful.
Jian Chen had already heard of the gift from Miou Yue about the resources to be given as the grand champion prize. Water drops sky enough to make the heard will be tempted to have it.
Jian Chen stood on the back of the Two Swords faction when it arrived at the Academy grounds. The day of the competition had arrived, the Academy Elders would begin the opening ceremony as well as the announcement regarding the competition.
‘It turns out more I expected..’ Seeing the entire field was almost fulfilled by the disciples made Jian Chen unceasingly to be surprised.
The great reward certainly attracted many people, Jian Chen sighed for a moment, he realized winning this competition was not as easy as he thought.
“Brother Jian, I have not thanked you for bringing a new member to the faction.” Miou Yue came over to Jian Chen, expressing her gratitude.
“No need to hesitate Miss Yue, they are the ones who asked to join the Two Swords faction, I am only an intermediary.”
There were about 5 people from the Jian clan who entered the Two Swords faction including Jian Luan among them. Jian Chen as an intermediary informed Miou Yue that if anyone joined the faction, the girl was immediately delighted and greeted the new member with joy.
While the two were conversing, from the front of the crowd there were two troupes of factions passing by. All of the disciples were immediately fixed on the group especially to the two girls who were walking at the very front.
“Ah, why are there factions of the Snow Lotus and the Fire Lantern? Will they participate in this competition?”
“Sial! If true, those top 2 factions would definitely win. Their leader is too strong for us to face.”
Not yet had the shock of the disciples finished, the other group came. This time the group was more not to mention the leader in front of him was a famous person.
“Cannot-! Why did the Golden Dragon faction follow along as well. Didn't they decide not to be involved this year.”
“Of course because of the gift,” reply to another, clucked in annoyance. “The sky droplet water is too precious to be ignored even the top factions though.”
“But strangely why did Liu Yanyi not come?”
“Do not underestimate the power of the Golden Dragon faction. Although it was only Liu Zhan, he was still Liu Yanyi's right hand, his strength was at Stage 4 Soul realm. Not to mention the members of the faction are strong and very much.”
Rumors like bees were creeping through the field especially seeing the 10 strongest factions also enter the competition.
At first everyone thought such ordinary competition did not make the top factions uninterested but ever since the notification of the prize of this competition made their decision change.
Jian Chen who watched it become tangled, he was the same as most people, not expecting the 10 strongest factions to enter this competition.
“It's far more troublesome than I thought..” Jian Chen scratched his head.
“Nona Meily is amazing, being able to break through to the 4th Stage Soul realm at such a young age.”.
Some of the students who were watching Meily started to come to a realization with her strength, Two months ago the girl was at stage 3 but did not expect to barge back this fast.
Followed by the speech, boisterous sounds and whispers began to spread discussing the increase of Meily, he said, most were amazed while some more fell in love with the girl because in addition to her beautiful beauty she was also very talented.
Jian Chen who heard that immediately turned to Meily, although it was a bit far away Jian Chen could still see the cultivation of the girl.
Jian Chen thought Meily's rapid increase was due to the incident while fighting the wolves in the forest. Previously the girl had increased her 8 meridians just that she had not been able to break through because she had yet to gain martial comprehension.
The understanding gained now is likely to be achieved during the life and death battle with him. Indeed, sometimes those who fight a lot will be faster to get martial comprehension and faster to break through than just using resources.
‘His talent is truly terrible.’ Jian Chen watched Meily for a moment and clucked in awe at the girl's development.
Jian Chen's attention then turned towards the front of the stage, it looked as if the Academy Elder had already gone up and was about to start his speech.
The rules and explanations of the competition began to be discussed, all the students who were beginning to grow quiet, listening to the speech from the front.
The explanation starts from the stealth hunting competition held in the Lonely Forest, located north of Qianshan City. The Silent Forest was larger than the Mist Forest, in the middle of the Silent Forest there was a towering hill, the closer to the hill the more demons there were.
This competition was held to eradicate the increasing number of demons as well as learning for academy students as a swordsman.
The Academy Elders then began to explain the rules, the rewards as well as the consequences for participating in this competition.
The Academy is not responsible for anything to the participants even if they lose their lives. Therefore before the competition began, the Academy Elders invited those who wanted to resign before going into the forest.
For the matter of rewards, stealth gems obtained will be points that can be exchanged for resources, weapons, armor or others.
One year of a stealth gem is worth 1 point so if anyone gets a 50y year old stealth gem then he gets 50 points.
The main prize that most stealth gems get is given a most valuable resource, the sky droplet water. The second champion of high-class heirloom weapons and the third champion are resources.
And as for the actual rules were quite simple, if the academy disciple was not strong in the forest before his time was over he could leave the forest.
The elders of the academy divided the thousands of disciples into 30 sections that were placed around the Lonely Forest, where each section had a different path to enter the forest.
The Two Swords faction was at the eastern point. As the sun began to lean west, the Academy Elders started the competition so that the students in the field scattered in different directions.
“Brothers and sisters, I beg for cooperation for the next week. Let's face the competition safely.” Miou Yue leads the Two Swords faction.
Lu Xuan, Shen Ling, and the others nodded. They would attempt to use their best abilities to increase the strength of the faction. Although it is impossible to win at least they have tried.
Perhaps only Jian Chen had a different mindset back then, with his abilities, he was confident enough to make his faction famous that everyone would be aware of the original strength of the Two Swords faction