126: The place for competition, the maze runner!
“We’ve arrived.”
“He Qiang, you announce the details of the upcoming competition to these youngsters.”
On the Void Shuttle Warship, Gu Yufeng looked at the swirling vortex in the sky and spoke to a middle-aged man beside him.
The middle-aged man was He Qiang, the Dean of the Water Type Beast Taming Institute at Nine Provinces Academy.
He was also an Expert whose strength was second only to Gu Yufeng in Nine Provinces Academy, a Emperor-Tier Peak Beast Tamer.
Hearing Gu Yufeng’s words, He Qiang nodded, stepped forward, and looked at the crowd on the deck below.
Under everyone's gaze, he began:
“The 568th Freshman Competition of Nine Provinces Academy will now commence. Your competition location this time is in the Secret Realm behind you.”
“That is a maze Secret Realm, with a mobile maze spanning a radius of three thousand li!”
“After you enter the Secret Realm, you will be teleported to various corners of the maze’s periphery. The mobile maze will contain various traps and mechanisms, as well as Vicious Beasts arranged by the Academy to obstruct you.”
“Over the next week, you need to navigate the three thousand li mobile maze on the periphery and enter the central Illusory Moon City. Your competition results will be based on the order in which you reach Illusory Moon City!”
“Keep these teleportation tokens with you. They have a Restriction left by the Academy Head. If you encounter fatal danger, they will teleport you to Illusory Moon City in the center of the Secret Realm.”
“However, once you are teleported into Illusory Moon City, it means you have been eliminated, and all your competition scores will be reset to zero!”
“Of course, there are many Vicious Beasts of quite good quality released by the Academy into this mobile maze. If you have the ability, feel free to Seal these high-quality Vicious Beasts.”
“Alright, take your teleportation tokens and enter the Secret Realm. We and the Academy Head will be waiting for you in Illusory Moon City at the center of the Secret Realm.”
As he spoke, He Qiang waved his hand, and one thousand and twenty-seven white jade tokens, like scattered flowers, accurately projected in front of each student.
Su Yuan looked at the white jade token in front of him, and the moment he reached out to take it, his figure was enveloped in a ball of white light.
The surroundings shifted, and when Su Yuan looked around again, he found that he had already entered the Secret Realm.
Looking up, all around him were thick black steel walls, thousands of meters high. These thick steel walls were either closely connected or separated by a hundred meters, revealing an opening.
In front of Su Yuan, there were three forks in the road, each over a hundred meters wide, leaving ample space for Beast Tamers to pass through.
The sky above the thousand-meter mark was a dome also sealed by steel, embedded with unknown glowing pearls that illuminated the space below.
Su Yuan’s location felt like he was trapped in an iron box, sealed from top and bottom.
It was just that this iron box was excessively large.
After surveying his surroundings, Su Yuan waved his hand and summoned Little Flame from his beast taming bracelet.
“Little Flame, try attacking these steel walls and see if you can smash them!”
After summoning Little Flame, Su Yuan said to it.
“Roar!!!”
Hearing this, Little Flame nodded, and with a sharp roar, the Flame Demon Sky Burning Sword was unleashed once more.
The forty-meter flame greatsword, almost tangible, slashed towards a steel wall in front with a sweep of Little Flame’s wings.
Boom!!!
A violent roar suddenly erupted, and the flame greatsword left a scorching red sword mark on the steel wall.
But that was all.
“With Little Flame’s current strength, the Flame Demon Sky Burning Sword, when fully unleashed, would make even a newly advanced Lord-level Vicious Beast retreat, yet it can only scorch a part of these steel walls.”
“It seems that trying to smash through these walls directly is not feasible.”
“And there’s a dome at the top, so we can’t use flying Beast Tamers to directly cross these mazes and rush to Illusory Moon City in the center of the maze.”
After the attack proved ineffective, Su Yuan abandoned the idea of a head-on assault and prepared to honestly navigate the challenge.
However, choosing which of the three forks in the road to take posed a difficulty for Su Yuan.
Although his Heavenly Revelation Divine Eye could see through illusions,
this maze was real, and the Heavenly Revelation Divine Eye could not find him a clear path that would lead directly to Illusory Moon City in the center of the maze world.
“Never mind, I’ll take it one step at a time.”
“Besides, Dean He Qiang said earlier that this is a mobile maze, so the maze paths should change.”
“Perhaps any fork can lead to the final destination, it’s just that the obstacles encountered along the way are different!”
After a moment of hesitation, Su Yuan no longer dwelled on it.
He waved his hand, put Little Flame away, and then summoned Little Nether.
Little Flame’s wingspan was a hundred meters, making it inconvenient to fly in this maze world of towering walls.
Among Su Yuan’s Beast Tamers, Little Nether was the smallest in size.
Although Little Xuan could also freely change its size, its speed was obviously not as fast as the wind-attributed Little Nether.
After summoning Little Nether, Su Yuan pushed off with his legs, leaped up, and mounted Little Nether’s back.
“Little Nether, let’s go!”
Arbitrarily choosing a fork in the road, Su Yuan had Little Nether run towards the middle fork ahead.
After a loud tiger roar, Little Nether stretched its four limbs and instantly rushed towards the middle fork, moving like the wind, incredibly swift.
Rumble!!!
Half an hour after Little Nether carried Su Yuan into the middle fork, countless thousand-meter walls of the entire maze began to move.
The three forks at Su Yuan’s starting point quickly became two in just a few breaths.
The routes behind them also changed accordingly.
At this moment, the walls around Su Yuan, who was being carried by Little Nether, were also changing.
The surrounding ground began to shake violently, as if an earthquake had struck.
“Little Nether, stop!”
Hearing the booming sound that echoed throughout the entire space, Su Yuan immediately became alert and patted Little Nether’s head.
Then, he scanned the constantly shifting giant steel walls around them with wary eyes.
Little Nether also tensed its body, scanning everything around with a vigilant gaze.
Rumble!!!
Just then, a steel wall, a hundred meters long and over ten meters wide, suddenly rose from beneath the ground where Little Nether was standing.
Su Yuan felt his body jolt violently, and he was quickly carried towards the iron dome above his head.
If they were truly pushed against the iron dome above, he and Little Nether would probably be crushed into meat paste.
“Roar!!!”
Without Su Yuan needing to remind it, Little Nether moved the moment it felt the movement beneath its feet.
With a roar of surprise and anger, Little Nether’s body instantly shot out.
It leaped down from the top of the rapidly rising steel wall, landing steadily.
However, the moment Little Nether landed, the area beneath its feet suddenly shot upwards again.
It could only continue to jump to the empty ground below.
And there were countless other steel walls rising upwards all around.
Thump!!!
Thump!!!
Thump!!!
...
These suddenly rising steel walls continuously hit the dome a thousand meters above, erupting in dull, stifling roars.
As for some of the steel walls that were already standing, they also continuously retracted into the ground during the movement.
Under such changes, Little Nether could only take Su Yuan to dodge everywhere, constantly jumping back and forth between the rising and falling columnar steel walls, dodging flexibly.
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