Chapter 99: The Qualifiers Starts
The Coliseum was at the edge of the Green Silk Town so the distance between it and the Tando Woodlands wasn't much. Ning Xi would have reached there quickly but she was carrying 49 people with her so her speed was slow.
Nevertheless, it didn't take long for her to see the periphery of the Tando Woodlands and the giant Rune Formation that made the designated Zone for the battle royal. It was vast, covering an area more than even the Green Silk Town.
Blue pillars rose from different parts of the forest and were connected with each other through a semi-transparent blue screen like barrier. The barrier was circle shaped and looked very sturdy as if nothing could pass through it.
It was a Tier 4 Rune Formation that many Runemasters had made spending many days. It was to ensure that nothing and noone could travel through the barrier. In a way, it was to safeguard the disciples from the unknown Spiritual Creatures that might wander inside the designated zone.
Of course, Ning Xi made sure that the designated zone was far away from the Divine Harem Sect. The Tando Woodlands were vast and covered three sides of the Green Silk Town so it wasn't hard for her to shift the designated zone.
Ning Xi stopped, coming close to the blue barrier as the disciples stopped alongside her. They were bound by her Qi so they couldn't even move properly.
Ning Xi spread her Spirit Sense across the designated zone and nodded in satisfaction. She then looked at everyone and said.
"Take out your storage devices. I need to check them."
The disciples did as they were told and Ning Xi checked them one by one by invading their storage devices with her spirit sense. Although she said everything was allowed, she couldn't allow them to have the Spirit Cores already in their storage devices.
After seeing nobody brought Spirit Cores, she nodded and waved her hand, saying.
"Alright, you can now go. Your time starts now. I'll be here to watch over all of you."
She didn't give them any time to say anything and sent them flying in the designated zone. A small window opened in the blue barrier making the disciples enter it and then closed itself.
Ning Xi took out her wine gourd and mumbled.
"Let's see what you got!"
Ying Yue's hair fluttered in the air as she dropped to the ground at the high speed. She wasn't a Core Formation Realm Cultivator and although she had a flying treasure, she didn't think it was needed.
She held her daggers in her hand and did a backflip in the air, landing perfectly on top of a tree with thick branches. She looked around calmly and first observed everything.
She didn't know how many points she would need to reach the top spot so she was planning to just hunt Tier 3 and Tier 4 Spiritual Creatures that would give her many points.
As for the weak Spiritual Creatures, she would kill them if they were in her way but she wouldn't seek them out. It was a waste of time anyway.
However, her main target were still the Tier 4 Spiritual Creatures that Ning Xi mentioned. She was very interested in them and wanted to kill them.
She closed her eyes as she let her Spirit Sense spread. She was still weaker than Ning Xi and her Spirit Sense couldn't cover as much as area as she did but it was still good.
After some time, she opened her eyes and muttered in disappointment.
"Only two Tier 3 Spiritual Creature and ten Tier 2. Tsk! That's too low. I won't get the top spot like this, guess I'll just need to actively hunt and steal from others."
She had plans of just stealing others points but if she could do it by herself, then she wouldn't bother going that way.
Sighing, she stood up and looked at a particular direction before her figure disappeared in her shadows, leaving a complete silence behind.
....
A young man with deep black hair was running through the rugged terrain rapidly as his eyes searched around for any Spiritual Creatures.
He was Bai Li, the disciple sent by Seven Stars Sect and also one of their strongest. He was just 23 years old and already Late-Stage Foundation Realm.
"Tsk! Just why am I only getting these weakling?"
He had already encountered three Tier 1 Spiritual Creatures and easily swatted them aside. Extracting Spirit Cores from Spiritual Creatures took time and he didn't think those Tier 1 weak Spiritual Creature were worthy of his time.
He was looking for Tier 3 Spiritual Creatures who would give him the mist points.
'Calm down, man. You have a whole day. I need to worry about my stamina too. If I run around too much and even managed to kill some Tier 3 Spiritual Creatures, i would be too exhausted to hunt more.'
Bai Li slowed down a little and began to search around while ignoring the Tier 1 Spiritual Creatures. They would certainly pose problems to mortals and Body Strengthening Realm Cultivators but for someone like him, they were nothing but a waste of time.
As he was jumping between the tree branches, his eyes widened as a smile crept on his face. He was in a mid-air and couldn't change his direction so he put both of his hands in a cross shape before his chest.
Right then, something heavy slammed on him, sending him flying back at a stunning speed. However, the blow didn't do much damage to Bai Li, as he just did a back flip and planted his feets on the ground, stopping after getting dragged for some distance.
He grinned and cracked his neck, looking at the Spiritual which had attacked him. It was a Serpentine Spiritual Creatures with scales dark as a stormy night and having razor sharp fangs.
It was huge and coiled around a thick tree. It had slammed its big body on Bai Li, expecting a clear win but it seemed it was wrong.
"Now now, this is interesting. A Mid-Stage Tier 3."