Wu Di's Ruins.

One of the nine major training facilities, the Might Ascending Platform.

Currently, a group of people are studying the rock pillar.

Besides Shi Yu and the others, even Principal Feng has come here.

Originally, he wanted to come over to handle some matters, but after arriving and listening to Shi Yu's explanation, he was silent.

"Research, we must research."

This could be a major archaeological discovery.

"Then let's research, what can I do? I'm also very desperate," Bai Xi's great-grandfather said helplessly.

Now the rock pillar is broken, if there can be other archaeological discoveries, it's still worth it.

If it's as Shi Yu said, and the Wu Di Ruins might be a training ground for the Iron-eating Beast Legion, and the nine pillars training facilities might represent nine opportunities for the Iron-eating Beasts to advance to overlord races, then this is a stable channel for cultivating overlord races!

Its value would exceed even the discovery of the Silkworm Cocoon.

It would far exceed the current value of the Wu Di Ruins!

With the thought that things couldn't possibly get any worse, Shi Yu successfully obtained the research and investigation rights to the rock pillar.

As for the other eight training facilities, Grandpa Bai Ming didn't dare let Shi Yu try them easily. At least before the Martial Arts Tournament ended, he couldn't let Shi Yu cause any more trouble.

Wuling City had prepared a lot for the Martial Arts Tournament, and now they just wanted the tournament to end normally. That wasn't too much to ask, was it?

For the sake of efficiency, allowing Shi Yu to contact the rock pillar again was already the limit.

...

"What to do exactly?"

Next to the rock pillar, Shi Yu and Eleven sat on the ground, looking troubled.

They couldn't successfully inscribe the inscription here either.

Could it be that they were overthinking things?

For the sake of some strange sense of ritual, Shi Yu even flew up and embedded Eleven into the large hole in the broken rock pillar to let it inscribe the inscription, but it still didn't work.

Even Principal Feng and Bai Ming, two former legends, followed along and studied the rock pillar, but didn't find anything either.

For several days in a row, Shi Yu had been researching here, using various methods to try and inscribe the inscription, but it just wouldn't work.

With continuous failures, he even had a bold idea.

"This is just a special earth-type energy crystal, not any kind of metal resource. Are you sure Iron-eating Beasts can eat it?"

Lu Qingyi and Bai Xi acted as Shi Yu's assistants these past two days, asking.

"Yiyiyiyi." Eleven cried, it didn't want to eat earth.

The rock pillar debris didn't look like something delicious at all, it wasn't a ginseng baby.

"Just kidding, just kidding," Shi Yu said with a headache.

"Could it be that the deduction was wrong?"

He couldn't inscribe the inscription, and he couldn't communicate with the spirit of the ruins, it was very uncomfortable.

"Do you guys think it's possible that a total of nine cracks are needed to trigger the reward mechanism? The current progress is only one-ninth, and we need to achieve the same conditions in the other eight training facilities..."

Shi Yu secretly guessed.

Just like a Dragon Ball is useless with only one, you need to collect all seven!

Maybe breaking nine rock pillars would summon a reward!

Bai Xi: ???

Lu Qingyi said with a headache: "The key is that some of the training facilities aren't even for advanced Beast Tamers, you need master-level Beast Tamers to activate them. And, and are you sure?"

"What if all nine training facilities are damaged by then, and we get nothing..."

Shi Yu smiled sheepishly, it was just a guess.

"I don't think we can figure anything out just by studying here. Why don't we go to other usable training facilities after the Martial Arts Tournament?" Bai Xi suggested, "The preliminary rounds are almost over, let's finish the main rounds first."

"Uh, the Martial Arts Tournament."

Shi Yu was stunned, there seemed to be such a thing.

"The preliminary rounds are already almost over? Aren't there a lot of people? I thought it would take a few more days."

While researching the rock pillar these past few days, the preliminary rounds of the Martial Arts Tournament had already begun. As for Shi Yu, Lu Qingyi, and Bai Xi, they automatically received the opportunity to advance to the main rounds because they had passed the strength certification.

"Of course it's almost over," Bai Xi said, "It can be finished today."

"That's good. How about we go get some food first?" Shi Yu suggested.

The two of them nodded.

Next, the three of them began to leave. After leaving the rock pillar, Shi Yu was actually a little guilty.

He suddenly felt that his deduction was a bit unreliable again.

Because part of the Wu Di Ruins facilities were built with this special rock pillar mineral. Before, these buildings were intact and it was impossible to test its composition. But this time, after Lu Qingyi helped Shi Yu take the broken rock pillar fragments to check the composition, she found that it was just a special earth-type energy crystal.

It didn't even contain a trace of metal elements.

This was a bit far from the theory, because if it was a training ground built for the Iron-eating Beast Legion, wouldn't it be better to use metal materials? Were they afraid that the Iron-eating Beasts would eat the training ground during training?

The composition of this rock pillar gave Shi Yu the feeling that this was a training ground for a certain earth-type pet beast legion, rather than an Iron-eating Beast training ground.

In short, it was too difficult, he was going to get some food and participate in the Martial Arts Tournament to relieve the pressure.

...

After Shi Yu and the others left, deep in the ruins space, the awakened divine turtle Chong Xuan slowly opened its red eyes again.

In the past few days, everything that had happened in the Wu Di Ruins had fallen into its eyes.

It sighed in its heart, never imagining that it would take two thousand years just to recover from its injuries after the great battle. After awakening again, everything had changed.

Its former comrades had probably already passed away. In the tragic battle, it was one of the few who managed to survive by relying on its racial advantages.

It had survived until today and awakened, not because its injuries had healed. It had been preventing its injuries from worsening by sleeping. This awakening was because its injuries had worsened to the extreme. It estimated that this was its last flash of life, and it wasn't far from its lifespan limit, even within these few days.

"But I didn't expect that someone could break the record here."

Chong Xuan lightly said, looking at Shi Yu and his group leaving the ruins from a sky perspective, then its gaze fell on the nine pillars of the ruins, and it began to think about a very important matter.

Time passed quickly, and it was the next day in the blink of an eye.

In order to participate in the Martial Arts Tournament, Shi Yu temporarily gave up researching the rock pillar and rested for a whole day to adjust his mood.

This allowed Shi Yu to come to the Martial Arts Tournament venue of the Wu Di Ruins on the second day with a relatively good mood.

Over the decades, the Wu Di Ruins had long been developed by Wuling City into a large architectural park integrating tourism, sightseeing, training, and competitions. The competition venue for this Martial Arts Tournament was a venue inside the Wu Di Ruins.

"Eh, I can finally move around a bit."

"I just don't know who I'll be drawn against. Please don't let it be Senior Lu."

At the draw site for the main rounds.

Among Shi Yu's group, Bai Xi was nervously waiting.

If she was unlucky enough to draw Lu Qingyi in the first match, instead of those advanced Beast Tamers, her luck would be too bad.

During the draw, a total of 64 contestants, including those who passed the strength certification and those who passed the preliminary rounds, were waiting to draw lots.

Seeing the combination of Bai Xi, Lu Qingyi, and Shi Yu, other contestants, whether they were masters or advanced Beast Tamers, all cast different gazes.

However, most people's gazes fell on Shi Yu, making Shi Yu feel uncomfortable all over.

"Is he the Shi Yu who broke the strength certification rock pillar?"

"Goodness gracious, I can't believe it."

Shi Yu's arrival attracted the attention of many people in the audience.

Now that a few days had passed, the rock pillar was still sealed off and hadn't been repaired. The information that the rock pillar broke when Shi Yu went up to receive certification had spread everywhere.

At the same time, Shi Yu's record at the time had also spread everywhere.

33 seconds, even for master-level Beast Tamers, it wasn't so easy to last.

Even a master-level Beast Tamer with a Fusion talent, contracting a monarch-level pet beast of a monarch race, might not be able to last 33 seconds.

But Shi Yu did it.

Although it was still unknown what caused the rock pillar to break, it was hard not to pay attention to him.

"The people from the Bureau Eleven are really troublesome."

At the same time, on the rostrum, Grandpa Bai Ming, who was serving as a special guest for the main rounds, still looked at Shi Yu with a headache.

Next to him, two middle-aged men, who were also members of the Bai family, were smiling bitterly.

One of these two was the president of the Wuling City Beast Tamer Association, and the other was the head of the Wuling City Beast Taming Corps, Bai Xi's uncle. Both of them were also special invited guests for this Martial Arts Tournament. They had both won first place in the Martial Arts Tournament in the past, and were now top masters. But even with such high status, could they be happy?

If you were to ask who was the most heartbroken by the rock pillar breaking, it would definitely be them.

The breaking of this rock pillar would lead to serious training problems in the future. Then, if they wanted to maintain the previous training efficiency of the corps, they would have to invest other resources, which would then turn into an economic problem for Wuling City...

"It's still easier to organize competitions and training. Developing ruins is a thankless task."

"Fortunately, no new abnormalities have occurred these past few days..."

President Bai was still smiling bitterly.

Soon, it was time for the draw. All 64 contestants stepped forward to draw lots, and the tens of thousands of spectators who had arrived at the scene watched intently.

This time, Wuling City had sold hundreds of millions of yuan in tickets alone. This was why the Martial Arts Tournament had to be held normally no matter what. So it was good that only the rock pillar was broken, and the Wu Di Ruins didn't have any problems. Otherwise, they would have to pay a lot of money just for the tickets.

"I'm number 1???"

At this moment, Shi Yu looked at his number with surprise.

This luck...

"Wow, number one."

Bai Xi was very envious when she saw Shi Yu's number.

It was the easiest to finish the first match, and then you could watch the others compete in peace.

"I'm number 29, it's very late," Lu Qingyi said.

Swish.

While the three of them were discussing, Shi Yu suddenly felt a hostile gaze coming from a distance.

He pinched his number and looked over, only to see a middle-aged man, nearly two meters tall, looking at him unhappily.

Shi Yu: "..."

As everyone finished drawing lots, Bai Feng, the Bai family member in charge of hosting the Martial Arts Tournament, walked onto the stage and said: "The draw is over. According to statistics, the first match will be between Shi Yu and Chen Yu."

"The other contestants please go to the contestant seats to watch and wait."

Compared to the battle hall of Imperial Capital University, the facilities here were relatively simple. Even the list of matches was written on a huge blackboard by pet beasts for people to watch.

Among them, the first match was Shi Yu vs Chen Yu.

Seeing these two names, many people were stunned.

Because Chen Yu's name wasn't unfamiliar to most people. He had participated in the Martial Arts Tournament last year and achieved a good result of being in the top 32. He was a master-level Beast Tamer.

Shi Yu... had encountered a master-level.

Although Shi Yu had displayed monarch-level power during the test, according to what everyone knew, those conditions should be difficult to achieve here.

In the fast-paced Martial Arts Tournament, the opponent wouldn't easily let Shi Yu's Iron-eating Beast become so big to power up Shi Yu.

At that time, in order to resist the pressure, Eleven had used a dual burst of max-level Giantization and Contained Sharpness to give Shi Yu such a huge power.

But in this environment, it was almost impossible for the Iron-eating Beast to grow to 50 or 60 meters. The venue wasn't even that big.

On the rostrum, Bai Legendary stroked his goatee and said, "Who was that person again?"

"Chen Yu, 37 years old, from the suburbs of Wuling City, a master-level Beast Tamer, Fusion talent. He has a monarch-level pet beast, a Dragon Blood Turtle. His own defense is amazing after fusion. He mainly cultivates defense-type skills. He is known as the ceiling of pure defense in the preliminary rounds. No one has been able to break his defense."

"However, it is said that his personality isn't very good due to the influence of his pet beast. His family runs a bar. He was a troublemaker when he was a student. He has a bad temper and likes to fight. If it weren't for his family's strong connections, he might not have been able to become a Beast Tamer."

"He directly entered the main rounds last year... but this year, due to late registration, he got stuck on the last day. Because the rock pillar broke, the remaining people, including him, could only start fighting from the preliminary rounds," President Bai explained from the side.

"Oh, oh." Grandpa Bai immediately laughed. In other words, this person was scammed by Shi Yu?

He could have directly entered the main rounds through certification, but because the rock pillar broke, he had to participate in the preliminary rounds and wasted a few days?

Nice.

On the field, only Shi Yu and Chen Yu were left. Shi Yu found that this person was the big man who had been looking at him with a hostile gaze just now. He couldn't help but wonder, competition is second, friendship is first, why such deep hatred?

"The atmosphere seems very heavy."

"By the way, why did Master Chen Yu start fighting from the preliminary rounds this year? Wasn't he directly recommended to the main rounds last year?"

"I know. Because the rock pillar broke after Shi Yu, the people behind him couldn't get certified. It's so funny."

"Pfft, that's really a sad thing."

"..."

Before the battle even started, many people discovered that Master Chen Yu had been scammed by Shi Yu in the shadows. They couldn't help but look forward to what kind of battle they would have.

Chen Yu still had strength. Although he was a newly promoted master in Wuling in the past two years, after the dragon turtle fusion, the amazing defense and vitality of the medium monarch race Dragon Blood Turtle gave him strong self-combat ability.

The flexibility and mobility of the human body combined with the defense of the dragon turtle could be considered taking the best of both worlds.

On the field, Master Chen Yu stared at Shi Yu, his muscles bulging, and said to Shi Yu, "Shi Yu, right? I don't care how talented you are, I won't show mercy. If you feel like you can't hold on, admit defeat quickly."

If it were anyone else, Chen Yu would have already cursed. Considering Shi Yu's special identity, he was still rational now. However, he was really unhappy that Shi Yu had made him fight three more days of preliminary rounds.

Generally, he wouldn't give a good look to people who made him unhappy. As for whether he would be squeezed out of the system for offending people, he said that he had never entered the system. Anyway, he was the only one in his family, and he didn't have to worry about eating and drinking, so he could do whatever made him happy.

"Uh..." Facing Chen Yu's words, Shi Yu said, "I will. But I still hope that you will show mercy, big brother. I'm only an advanced Beast Tamer."

"Or, you can send a commander-level pet to possess me and fight with me."

Chen Yu: ???

"Dream on!!!" Chen Yu roared. Why did he feel like he had punched cotton after retorting to Shi Yu? It was like making himself even angrier.

How hateful.

In the contestant seats, many contestants showed happy expressions when they saw that Chen Yu and Shi Yu were full of gunpowder. Lu Qingyi and Bai Xi were no exception. There weren't many masters with such explosive tempers. It was much more interesting than a harmonious battle.

"Can we start?" Chen Yu looked at Bai Feng, the host referee next to him.

Immediately, the referee Bai Feng issued the start command.

"Roar!!!"

Without any nonsense, Chen Yu was instantly covered in red turtle armor. At the same time, on the opposite side, Shi Yu's possession speed was faster because Chi Tong's possession level was higher.

In an instant, Shi Yu transformed into a red-haired, red-eyed form, with sun-like fire spiritual energy erupting from his body. A fire longsword also appeared in Shi Yu's hand.

Seeing this scene, many people were stunned. After all, only a few people had seen Shi Yu challenge the rock pillar pressure at the time. Now, most people were seeing Shi Yu in the Sword Spirit Possession state for the first time.

"It is said to be a Sword Spirit, a fire-type Sword Spirit."

In the audience, many people murmured.

The Dragon Blood Turtle was a dragon-type subspecies, and the two sides didn't have any attribute restraint relationship. No one knew what the outcome of this battle would be.

However, from Chen Yu's point of view, he didn't think that he, a master-level Beast Tamer, would be challenged by an advanced Beast Tamer.

But one thing was said, Chen Yu found that the opponent's attack speed was really fast.

Boom!!!

The moment the two sides transformed, Chen Yu only felt that the light in front of him was taken away in an instant, and the world seemed to fall into darkness.

At this moment, Chen Yu felt a heat wave coming towards him.

Suddenly, a huge red sword light cut through the darkness, turning into a terrifying fire sword energy, tearing the air and landing in front of Chen Yu.

"Light Flame Sword."

On the opposite side, Shi Yu's Fire Demon Cloak and red cloak fluttered, and he slashed down with a single sword. Because it was a cross-level battle, he didn't dare to be careless. He directly concentrated on seizing every opportunity to deal with it.

However.

The Yang Flame Sword, which integrated the super-level sun fire power, made Chen Yu despise it very much. He directly grabbed into the air, and with a "boom", his fist seemed to turn into a giant dragon's claw, instantly rolling up terrifying blood-colored energy and scattering the sword energy.

High-level skill, Dragon Blood Claw!

On the opposite side, Chen Yu smiled at the scattered flames and said, "I said, although your strength is good, is this attack just tickling me?"

"I'll give you a chance, ride your Iron-eating Beast and do it again."

"Don't blame me for not giving you a chance."

"But just an Iron-eating Beast... haha."

The corner of Shi Yu's mouth twitched.

You're getting ahead of yourself.

Did you really think I wanted you to let me?

"Uncle, you're very swollen."

He didn't want to use that so early, but... forget it, let's end it as soon as possible, he really didn't have the mind to hone himself now.

The next moment, Shi Yu walked forward, step by step, making Chen Yu on the opposite side stunned.

"Have you heard of, Ice Flame Dragon?"

Shi Yu spoke directly.

Immediately afterwards, a sparkling space ripple appeared in front of Shi Yu's chest.

Shi Yu stretched out his hand, directly reaching into the ruins space, slowly pulling up in the air. Immediately, amazing cold air gushed out, and a blue divine sword was slowly pulled out of the different space and appeared in Shi Yu's hand.

During this process, the flames and cold air around Shi Yu's body swirled, turning into a sky full of ice and flame power.

At the same time, a terrifying dragon roar emanated from the sword.

"Roar!!!!!"

The terrifying dragon roar instantly shocked the minds of everyone present, causing them to be temporarily absent-minded. Chen Yu, who was opposite Shi Yu, was even more dazed. He was directly shocked by the dragon's might and was suppressed by his bloodline.

At the same time, Shi Yu slowly ascended into the air.

Soon, when Chen Yu came back to his senses, his pupils suddenly shrank, and he found that Shi Yu's posture had completely changed. At this moment, a terrifying ice dragon phantom was born under Shi Yu, becoming his mount.

The huge frost dragon, whose body seemed to be made of ice stone, was colored with a mix of ice blue and deep purple, representing extreme cold.

Not only its body, but its neck, head, long tail, claws, fangs, four strong feet, and a pair of wings were all made of ice stone. The scales revealed coldness, with wind and snow swirling around, forming a sharp contrast with Shi Yu's flame form.

"Roar!!!!!!"

The ice dragon roared and flapped its wings.

At this moment, Little Chi Tong was also cheering, inexplicably liking to cooperate with the ice dragon phantom.

With everything ready, Shi Yu raised the Ice Dragon Blade high.

Swish!!!

A dazzling sword energy, about ten meters high, interwoven with blue and red, was like a rolling blizzard and a gushing volcano. It directly swept the dragon's might and crushed towards Chen Yu, with a suffocating deterrent. In terms of power, it was no less than the Thunder Flame Sword Pressure that Shi Yu had slashed out on the arena!

Boom!!!

The Ice Flame Dragon Sword crushed the arena, directly making Chen Yu's pupils shrink. He felt a threat far beyond the previous Light Flame Sword, but he was already suppressed by the dragon's might and had nowhere to escape.

The sword light of ice and fire swept over, directly engulfing Chen Yu in a huge cloud of dust. The amazing aftershock instantly turned into a gale, blowing Shi Yu's red hair.

On top of the ice dragon, Shi Yu, with red hair and red eyes, held the Ice Dragon Blade, his expression calm.

"Sorry, breaking the defense of a little turtle doesn't require an Iron-eating Beast."

"The Iron-eating Beast is too strong, I'm afraid to use it myself."

"Just a turtle."

Shi Yu said calmly.

At this moment, all the contestants and spectators were shocked and horrified.

Damn it.

What happened.

On the rostrum, Bai Legendary and the other two were all stunned.

"Level seven weapon, level seven weapon containing a dragon soul?"

At this moment, the smoke dissipated, and Chen Yu, who was standing on the field with a tattered body eroded by ice and fire, was covered in injuries. His expression was dull, and he was as frightened as those spectators. No one had expected that Shi Yu would pull out a weapon with an outrageously high level.

This was like two people fighting barehanded, and one party suddenly pulled out a rocket launcher.

Outside the arena, Bai Xi opened her mouth wide, remembering her reminder to Shi Yu to prepare equipment, but...

Where did Shi Yu get this sword???

Just as everyone was shocked by this battle, and Shi Yu raised the Ice Dragon Blade again, intending to finish off his opponent and take the victory, an abnormality suddenly occurred!!

[Bullshit!!!]

[It's just an Iron-eating Beast. Turtles are definitely stronger than Iron-eating Beasts. It's just that this guy is weak!]

A huge roar suddenly spread throughout the sky above the Wu Di Ruins, causing everyone to be stunned.

Shi Yu's movements also froze immediately, his face blank.

At this moment, the sudden change caused Bai Legendary to suddenly stand up, instantly looking around in shock, not understanding what had happened.

Next, an even stranger scene appeared. In the sky, a pair of huge red pupils appeared.

Under the gaze of the pupils.

Throughout the Wu Di Ruins, except for Shi Yu, everyone began to be enveloped in white light and was transmitted out of the Wu Di Ruins one by one, leaving only Shi Yu alone in the empty Wu Di Ruins facing this incredible scene.

"Damn it." Having just finished bragging, Shi Yu couldn't hold back and revealed a crying expression.

Damn, damn, damn it, what the hell is happening again!!!!!!

Senior Lu, Senior Bai, Grandpa Bai, Grandpa Feng, save me————!

...

At the same time, outside the Wu Di Ruins, tens of thousands of people almost instantly appeared in Wuling City, looking around in confusion.

Bai Legendary stood somewhere, stunned. Then, under their gaze, the nine outer rock pillars in Wuling City all made a "crack" sound.

They all cracked.

Seeing this scene, Lu Qingyi, Bai Xi, Bai Legendary, and the tens of thousands of spectators who had been teleported out were all dumbfounded. Huh?