Chapter 532: 532: Hall of Water’s Trial (17)
The battle royale competition at the beginner level arena was no different than hell for the young monk, Hu Gu. Just the fact that the female mermaid all chased after them for hugs and kisses, Monk Hu Gu was almost powerful. After all, that was the first time he had been this close to females. In the temple there are mostly only men in it. All bald and all are monks like him.
Suddenly, not only was he surrounded by females, they all wanted to hug, cuddle him like a child and even give him a smooch all over his face. Facing this calamity that can destroy his buddha’s heart he can only run away, even carrying a young boy with him.
On the other hand, the sentient little blue lotus flower spirit, Yue Huashui, was calm as he was being carried around. He is used to being surrounded by aunts and big sisters who love to pinch his cheeks and give him kisses. At first he was excited to learn that the first round of the competition was battle royale. However, after seeing there are only females, he lost interest instantly. He was taught not to hit women unless it was a witch or a bitch.
However, this game will not end if nothing is done. His brother monk all did was to carry him away while running and screaming. In the end, he had enough and controlled the bubbles to slowly capture the big sisters and aunts one by one. What surprises the female mermaid warriors is that once they are captured by these bubbles, it is almost impossible for them to destroy them.
Once captured they can only float around with a bubble imprisoning them. They couldn’t understand why a boy like Yue Huashui possessed that much strength to overwhelm their racial physical ability and catch them this easily. Moreover, the water elements that compose the bubbles don’t even listen to them, leaving them dumbfounded inside the bubble when caught.
The ending was anti-climatic, with the young monk being kissed a few times and all other participants on the stage floating out of the stage inside a bubble that left everyone in the crowd speechless. In the end, this round ended up being a win for Monk Hu Gu and Yue Huashui.
An announcement was made when all the mermaids on the stage were caught in a bubble and floated out of the stage’s boundaries.
[Round 1, Team A winners: Yue Huashui and Monk Hu Gu!]
Upon hearing the announcement of them winning, Yue Huashui controlled t bubbles to return to the stage and pops gently one at a time freeing the young female mermaids inside. After the mermaid safely landed back on the stage, Yue Huashui apologized.
"Shuishui, apologizes to aunts and big sister for catching them into a bubble." The sentient blue flower spirit said.
After hearing the cute boy’s words, the female mermaids all move to give such a cuddly child a kiss all over his face. Even Monk Hu Gu who was just standing with Yue Huashui had also received the same ending.
After the first round for today’s game, Monk Hu Gu and Yue Huashui received points for completing the battle royale they had registered for and for winning this round.
Monk Hu Gu upon getting off the stage immediately ran and hid behind his senior brother, Monk Hu Ren. Upon hearing the long complaint from his junior brother, Monk Hu Ren decided to comfort his junior brother. After all, it would be bad if Monk Hu Gu was traumatized by such an event.
Off the stage, Yue Huashui runs to where the others are. They urgently left the stage as they were afraid of being captured by those young female mermaid warriors. They also immediately left the arena after learning that the next stage of this arena’s trial will continue for tomorrow’s event.
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Back to their rented Clam Manor
Everyone had returned after leaving the arena. After seeing the trial from the arena, they immediately understood some rules in that arena. Like how they weren’t allowed to kill anyone from the arena. How one couldn’t come out of the arena stage and only the few who stayed in the circle can be considered winners after the arena competition ended.
Gathering in the living room area, Xia Baiyu spoke. "We can all register for tomorrow’s Arena competition. If the first round is simply the same as what Yue Huashui and Monk Hu Gu had experienced, it means that tomorrow’s event will still be a battle royale."
"If it’s a battle royale it wouldn’t be easy to win. It’s not like they would be in the same situation which Monk Hu Gu and Yue Huashui had experienced today. The fact that the battle royale experienced by Yue Huashui had no bloodshed was only for the fact that Yue Huashui was on that stage and that the female mermaid warriors like him a lot."
"We can expect a harder and more dangerous battle royale together. The instances where their group would be split into other groups would definitely happen."
"Things would be a bit bloody for tomorrow’s event and we can only hope that they wouldn’t be dragged on the same arena stage as it would mean elimination to some of us," said Xing Suiri.
Tan Bingyu mumbles, "No wonder this intermediate trial had a trial and error type of point gathering. It would be better if we split into pairs and join different kinds of levels available in the area. Moreover, split further and do some scheduling."
"We can’t register all at the same time to avoid conflict within the group. Bing’er, I will pair up with you~" said Xue Renxue,
Tan Bingyu responded, "Do as you wish. In the end, the arena was an individual trial, the Major Trial was a group trial."
"That is also correct. We need to collect as many wins as possible," said Xia Baiyu.
This time everyone truly did a final preparation for the arena as it was decided that they would be registering tomorrow. It was also decided that those who had the highest cultivation would be registering at a harder level of arena competition and the rest would try the other levels. As for beginner levels, Yue Huashui and Monk Hu Gu were enough for it.
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Next Morning at the Arena
A lot of other trial takers had also come to register for the arena. Of course, the one who had a lot of eyes on them was none other than Xia Baiyu’s group who had arrived.
Xia Baiyu said, "We come to register. Please record our names please."
This time unlike yesterday where there is only one registrar recording the names, there are two tables today. Three levels and three tables. Simple but reasonable.
Xing Suiri, Xia Baiyu and Tan Shenyu register at the Mild level. On the other hand, Tan Bingyu, Xue Renxue, Tan Huangyu and Monk Hu Ren went to register for the hard level arena competition. As for Monk Hu Gu and Yue Huashui, their names had long been listed in the beginner level.
There are three different entrances for each kind of arena level. Monk Hu Gu and Yue Huashui already knew which entrance they would be entering as they had gone inside yesterday.
Xia Baiyu said, "I doubt that we would clash, especially with the different level of competition we are going to do. There is only one thing I wanted to warn you about. Be careful of factions and try not to join one."
"So even in this race, they are separated into factions," Tan Shenyu said.
Tan Bingyu said, "In the end, we need to defeat them all regardless of their factions."
"My wife is indeed right!" said Xue Renxue before receiving a pinch on his waist.
Their group had split and stood at their respective entrances. Only after they finished talking to one another did they enter the hallway connected to the part of the arena in which they were fighting.
The first round of battle is the same as before. Battle royale. However, unlike the battle they had witnessed yesterday, the scent of blood gets stronger the closer they are to the gathering point which is the stage. The Beginner Level Stage is the same as yesterday, only a ring of lava surrounding the stage is found. In the Mild Level arena stage, there isn’t only a river of lava but all of the flames which made it harder to move compared to the beginner stage one.
As for the hard level, the whole terrain of the stage had disappeared. The river of lava had changed to a whole pond of it, one stage doesn’t exist instead a platform with varying heights appears and it was even moving nonstop. These platforms would disappear in the lava which meant instant loss in this competition.
After everyone arrived at their prospective arenas the announcement was heard all over the building and is now explaining the rules.
[The rules of the competition are about to be mentioned. As for the trial run yesterday, that will be counted and those who are lucky enough to join it will receive one medal as proof that you had successfully won yesterday’s event. This medal had some buffs which is useful only during the competition.]
The whole announcement rang within the Arena building and they were all hearing the same voice. This is the first time an announcement was heard and all it was about was to tell everyone about the rules in this place.