Chapter 437 Another Competition
The moment Mu Xing bent his knees and pressed forward, water drops rolled down his pale skin. His naked body shone like pearls in the midday sun, and his tiny dragon scales were faintly visible with his breathing. His long white hair fell like a waterfall, and the ends of his hair were stained with the night, just covering his smooth back, but not the dragon tail extending from the tail vertebrae - the slender limbs covered with fine scales were still tightly wrapped around Wang Dong's neck.
The hand with the remaining dragon claw features was pressing on Wang Dong's shoulder. The folded dragon wings turned into a black gauze like a cloak, wetly clinging to the curve of her back. The pair of black dragon horns snaked out from her forehead, like two scimitars soaked in the night, shining with a cold metallic luster in the midday sun. In Wang Dong's eyes, this half-dragon, half-human appearance was even more oppressive than the dragon form.
"Look straight at me." Mu Xing's pupils shrank into a thin line. "Think carefully, does your life still belong to you? You are using my things to negotiate with me?"
The rebellion of his heartbeat came unexpectedly. Wang Dong's heart, which had previously been beating wildly due to fear, was now beating against his chest with an even more violent amplitude.
"You, you, you... put on your clothes first!!! What if someone sees you... No, get off me!" I can't stand straight when I'm staring at you! Wang Dong looked at her raised hand in despair. Her original intention was to push the other person away, but at this moment it was hovering on the scales behind Mu Xing's ear.
This is a public area. What if someone comes over? Her teammates will be back soon, right? What if...
"Don't talk to me like that." The dragon's tail suddenly tightened, crushing Wang Dong's protest in his throat. The dark dragon scales glowed with metallic luster as Mu Xing's tone changed, like countless mirrors reflecting Wang Dong's embarrassed reflection.
"Although your face is pretty, it's not irreplaceable. The only thing that makes you interesting is me."
With a "splash", Mu Xing rolled up Wang Dong with his tail and threw her into the swimming pool. As she struggled to float out of the water, he left her a word as if to give her alms.
"You can also die together. I allow you to do so."
The first round of eliminations ended two days later. Nearly half of the two hundred participating teams were eliminated, and the Mingyue Hotel immediately seemed much emptier.
Just as the Continental Youth Advanced Soul Master Elite Competition was in full swing, another competition also began in secret.
The Sun-Moon Empire officially issued a strict order that no gambling was allowed during this competition, either openly or in the underground black market. Otherwise, once discovered, all bets would be cleared.
The reason is that Xu Gongran, the regent of Gou Cao, hates gambling.
Therefore, the three largest underground forces in the Sun-Moon Empire had to take advantage of the opportunity of the Continental Youth Advanced Soul Master Elite Competition to jointly organize a soul guide competition, under the pretext of promoting the development of soul guides in the Sun-Moon Empire.
The qualifying round is open to soul masters under the age of 30. They are required to produce a level 4 soul guide within three days to advance, and then the elimination system will be adopted. The competition has various gambling mechanisms. A referee committee is composed of a level 9 soul master from the royal family of the Sun and Moon Empire and twelve level 7 and above soul masters to ensure the fairness of the competition and gambling. The three major black markets use this event to attract more than 100,000 civilians and nobles to participate in betting, and make huge profits through high-popularity gambling. The scale of betting is extremely large.
In order to attract enough outstanding soul masters to participate, the rewards for the competition are all rare metals. Starting from the first round, as long as you pass a round, you can get a reward. And every time you pass a round, the reward will increase significantly.
Soul engineers may not care about money, but they will never care about rare metals. They can earn money by making soul guides, but rare metals are not something that can be bought with money, especially in this competition, there are some extremely rare metals given out as rewards.
The three major underground forces named this competition: Mingdu Soul Instructor Elite Competition, which complements the Continental Youth Advanced Soul Master Elite Competition.
As the Black Kite Saint who successfully infiltrated the Holy Spirit Church, Mu Xing could only fight on behalf of the Xishui League, which had the strongest overall strength among the three major underground forces but was secretly controlled by the other two major forces.
The Xishui League's preliminary competition venue is a high-end hotel with a distinctive name in the city center, which is in an absolutely prime location. On the surface, the hotel does not look as big as the Mingyue Hotel, with only five floors, but those who are familiar with it know that there are mysteries hidden underground.
The interior of the hotel is very simply decorated. There is no sign that this is the number one place for underground forces in Mingdu, nor does it look like a very important stronghold of the Xishui League.
"Saintess, my two disciples are at your disposal." The third elder of the Holy Spirit Church, Minglei Douluo, showed Mu Xing a kind smile, "After this period of emergency training, they will definitely not embarrass you."
Huang Zheng and Merck were indeed as Minglei Douluo had said, being extremely respectful to the Black Kite Saint. Without their master's permission, they didn't even dare to talk to Mu Xing.
"Saintess, please come this way." Minglei Douluo led Mu Xing and his two disciples into a soul-guided elevator inside the hotel lobby. They stopped after about ten seconds. When the door opened again, noisy sounds mixed with an atmosphere of decadence and debauchery hit them in the face.
The underground space of the hotel is in sharp contrast with the simple lobby. The magnificent mirrors and golden decorations create a golden underground palace. Under the soft light, the dome lobby is outlined by regular golden lines. The stepped seats surround 18 inclined escalators, each leading to the VIP room suspended in the air.
In the middle of the hall, there was a circular platform with a diameter of 30 meters. There were dozens of metal tables, and from time to time, the light of soul guides flashed. There were also some metal tables around the circular platform, with a total of more than 100. Some of the metal tables were already empty.
"Please go up to the stage, Saint." Minglei Douluo respectfully led Mu Xing to the center of the competition stage, but his two disciples did not receive such treatment.
"Since we organized the competition ourselves, why can't we just send you in directly? Why do we have to waste my time here?" Mu Xing looked impatient.
"It's because the other two underground forces are watching too closely. If you send us directly through, it will inevitably give people a reason to criticize you. After the competition is over, we will settle accounts with them!" A trace of murderous intent flashed in Minglei Douluo's eyes. "If you don't want to spend too much time on the competition, why don't you just make a more advanced soul guide and exceed the competition requirements, so that you can skip a few rounds. What do you think of this?"
There was no other way. The leader had said that this ancestor could only be worshipped. Of course, Minglei Douluo was willing to lower his status to coax a genius soul guide. He even asserted that with the Black Kite Saint, the champion of this underground competition would definitely belong to Xishui League.