190: Chapter 189 The First Eliminated Contestant

Chapter 189: The First Eliminated Contestant

Sun Po said to [ Wuzhiqi ]: "Since you have such a method, you might as well directly have the [ Tianhe Naval Forces ] control these skeletal [ Armored Rock Boar ]s below to advance forward. Although these skeletal [ Armored Rock Boar ]s currently only know how to charge, they are excellent trailblazers. Presumably, ordinary orange-grade monsters would also find it a headache to be entangled by these immortal and indestructible things.

In this way, I save on spirituality, and you also save on [ Divine Power ]."

[ Wuzhiqi ] said: "Precisely so."

As he spoke, the [ Tianhe Naval Forces ] acted like a character playing a mowing minigame, surrounded by a pile of huge skeletal [ Armored Rock Boar ]s as it continued to walk deeper into the dense forest.

These skeletal [ Armored Rock Boar ]s charged left and right with astonishing destructive power. Except for the giant trees that could not be knocked down, the shrubs and soil on the ground all looked as if they had been bombed.

This made the [ Tianhe Naval Forces ] feel like a walking storm. It was the eye of the storm, and wherever it passed, it was like a typhoon sweeping through, leaving only a mess beneath the giant trees.

Yet the [ Tianhe Naval Forces ] strolled leisurely, holding a silver spear in one hand and casually flicking from time to time with the other hand to make one or several skeletal [ Armored Rock Boar ]s change direction. The whole process was indescribably relaxed and picturesque.

At this point, [ Wuzhiqi ] only needed to maintain a tiny bit of [ Divine Power ] expenditure to control several extremely strong orange-grade combat powers, which could be considered a huge profit.

Meanwhile, those [ Wind-Roaring Giant Ape ]s were still swinging on tree vines through the forest, advancing deeper into the dense forest, but their speed was much faster than the [ Tianhe Naval Forces ], and in a few swings they vanished without a trace.

[ Wuzhiqi ] said: "Master, these [ Wind-Roaring Giant Ape ]s are very shrewed. They will not easily risk their lives, and with their agile figures in this forest, they are just right to be the trailblazers."

Sun Po asked: "The visibility in this dense forest is extremely poor; won't they get lost?"

[ Wuzhiqi ] said instead: "No worries. They also know the task assigned by the wisp of remnant soul of the [ Ventilating Great Sage ], so they won't swing too far away."

Sun Po couldn't help sighing once more that the intelligence of these [ Wind-Roaring Giant Ape ]s was truly not low. If the few [ Armored Rock Boar ]s below that had turned into withered bones and were still continuously charging had even half of their intelligence, they wouldn't have been so easily slain.

Thus, Sun Po and [ Wuzhiqi ] quietly stood on the clouds, hanging above the [ Tianhe Naval Forces ] below, and continued to go deeper into the dense forest.

Suddenly, a roar from the [ Wind-Roaring Giant Ape ]s came from deep within the nearby dense forest. Sun Po heard it clearly; this was clearly the previous [ Howling Wind ] skill being activated once again.

Sure enough, Sun Po only felt the wind around him surging, as the wind elements were ruthlessly extracted and rushed toward the direction of the shouting ahead.

At the same time, the audience outside the arena looked at Sun Po's operations, having no more thoughts that Sun Po had fallen into a disadvantageous position.

This big wild boar was simply a "wealth-delivering boy", delivering points, delivering its life, and even leaving behind a skeleton to be manipulated as a road-clearing machine.

However, the audience did not pay too much attention to Sun Po's side this time, because in the screens of other contestants, there was finally some progress.

The first to find other monsters was [ Qin Wudao ]. The secret realm he was in was a boundless, gloomy sea area, with a few isolated islands scattered sparsely across the sea surface.

[ Qin Wudao ] had searched the sea surface for a long time previously without finding any monsters; before his eyes seemed to be only the endless sea.

[ Qin Wudao ]'s [ Black Dragon ] was inherently good at fighting in the water. For it, the sea environment could be said to be like adding wings to a tiger. If there were enough monsters, its slaughter speed would definitely be extremely astonishing, but at this moment he felt as uncomfortable as having strength nowhere to exert.

Suddenly, the sea surface in the distance rose by a large margin, as if the seawater was going to pour backward into the firmament.

The high seawater was like a tall wall blocking the sky and sun, collapsing down toward [ Qin Wudao ].

Beneath the seawater was an incomparably thick tentacle. Yet behind this tentacle was a terror where one wave was higher than the previous.

Stepping on a large bronze bird, [ Qin Wudao ] and the hundred-meter-long [ Black Dragon ] beneath him seemed as helpless as a little snake in the face of this terrifying attack resembling a natural disaster.

The huge seawater blocked the sky and the sun, making it impossible for all the audience outside the arena to see the full picture of the monster through the camera, let alone see the gleam in [ Qin Wudao ]'s eyes. [ Li Tiance ] was currently in a complex volcanic environment, holding a longbow transformed by the [ Golden Phoenix ], covered by a layer of fiery red light shield on his body.

Not only could the magma fail to harm [ Li Tiance ] in the slightest, but it also seemed to continuously replenish energy for the fiery red light shield around [ Li Tiance ]'s body, making it brighter and brighter.

Suddenly, [ Li Tiance ] stopped his footsteps, gazing intently ahead.

As the camera zoomed out, what the audience outside saw was a magma abyss hanging in front of [ Li Tiance ] like a natural chasm.

And in that abyss were densely packed huge monsters with dark red bat wings and curved goat horns. "It seems [ Yuan Zongli ] has arrived in a mechanical maze!! The mechanical monsters here are much bigger than the ones he encountered earlier!!"

"The [ Donkey Cart Brothers ]'s donkey seems to have broken into the underground world!! What is that? Tree roots?"

"What [ Black Pharaoh ] found here is a palace?! This architectural style is so bizarre!"

The audience outside the arena widened their eyes. In the screens of each contestant, new monsters and scenes appeared almost simultaneously, yet each was different.

It was as if the audience were simultaneously watching grand adventures unfolding across hundreds of different worlds—novel, thrilling, fraught with danger, yet making people unable to stop.

However, right at this moment, a spectator suddenly shouted: "Not good!! Is something wrong with someone?!"

But that person immediately changed their tune and shouted: "Huh? No, great!! The one in trouble is a contestant from the Sakura Island Company Alliance!!"

In the previous hundreds of screens, most people were paying attention to their own country's contestants, so much so that even if contestants from other countries got into trouble, very few people noticed.

Following this spectator's shout, people indeed saw one of the hundreds of screens gradually turn from color to blood-red. Reflected in that blood-red was a tall woman dressed in a white skirt with loose, long hair. In the woman's arms was a samurai with a bizarre smile at the corners of his mouth.

He seemed as if he had fallen asleep, his expression brimming with a look of happiness, yet he had forever lost his breath.

The blood-red screen vividly projected a striking line of black-and-red text: "Contestant [ Miyamoto Jinkuang ] has been eliminated!!"

The most explosive place was the [ Sakura Island Company Divine Kingdom ]. Miyamoto Jinkuang was a talented scion of the prestigious Miyamoto clan, having gained recognition from the great armor left behind by his ancestor [ Miyamoto Musashi ], and based on this, he created a purple-quality [ Terracotta Warrior ] card. With the family's help, he advanced to an intermediate Card Maker and successfully advanced the purple-quality [ Terracotta Warrior ] to orange. Because of this, he believed he had the strength for a battle in this competition. Unexpectedly, the orange-quality [ Terracotta Warrior ] did help him withstand the first wave of purple monsters, and relying on his family's respectable swordsmanship, he even harvested quite a few points.

Yet during this exploration process, a large number of orange-grade monsters suddenly emerged. Miyamoto Jinkuang fought desperately to resist, but ultimately was no match and died at the hands of the monsters.

[ Sakura Island Company Divine Kingdom ], the Miyamoto family.

[ Miyamoto Chouzou ], who had once participated in the Li family's auction, knelt sitting down, watching the tragic death of his own nephew on the screen. The desolation in his heart was secondary; much more was the annoyance of a failed investment.

Beside him was a youth holding a bamboo sword, who had a face similar to the deceased Miyamoto Jinkuang, yet appeared even more tender and youthful.

Miyamoto Jinkuang was one of the most outstanding juniors of this generation in the Miyamoto family, considered a top-two figure among the younger generation in the family. The number-one ranked person was the young man before him, Miyamoto Jinkai, the uterine younger brother of Miyamoto Jinkuang.

The young man watched with his own eyes as the screen of his older brother summoned that orange-quality [ Terracotta Warrior ] card, which was subsequently engulfed by various bizarre monsters, falling into a bitter battle and ultimately dying.

He raised his head, his blood-red eyes staring with tears, and questioned the aged [ Miyamoto Chouzou ]: "Why? Why am I stronger than my older brother, yet you wouldn't let me participate?"

[ Miyamoto Chouzou ]'s face was gloomy as he said: "Lord Ancestor's sutra is uninherited, and Lord Ancestor's armor has fallen. But Lord Ancestor is a Sword Saint; as long as the person who inherits his sword is still around, the Miyamoto family will not decline. You have inherited the ancestor's sword, so your life is no longer just your own. Everyone in this room can go on adventures, but only you cannot."

Miyamoto Jinkai lowered his head and sobbed, his shoulders shaking as he said: "But the Sword Saint's sword of the ancestor was also tempered through war. Can a rusted sword still be considered a sword?"

Only the youth's sobbing and the old man's sighs remained in the room. Meanwhile, [ Sakura Island Company Divine Kingdom ], the peak of Mount Fuji.

In a dark room, in front of a map, numerous wooden plaques were hung.

Each wooden plaque was inscribed with different words, such as "Ushio", "Hattori", "Toyotomi", altogether numbering dozens. At this moment, with a creak, sunlight pierced in, illuminating a wooden plaque inscribed with the two characters "Miyamoto".

A hand quietly took down that wooden plaque inscribed with "Miyamoto". In the [ Fenglei Mountain Range ] secret realm, Sun Po's wristwatch suddenly lit up, flashing with red light, and an image was projected into the air by the wristwatch.

In that image was precisely [ Miyamoto Jinkuang ], who seemed to have fallen asleep in the arms of a huge woman in white. The image was scarlet, and a line of black-and-red text tore the image apart.

"Contestant [ Miyamoto Jinkuang ] has been eliminated!!"

Sun Po's heart skipped a beat, and a sense of vigilance instantly surged up.

Previously upon entering, the [ Coachman ] [ Ranger Xuanyuan ] had emphasized that they must survive, and even the baseline quality of the purple monsters had scared away many participating contestants.

It could be said that the contestants who dared to continue entering this secret realm were at least capable of easily dealing with purple-tier monsters; otherwise, they presumably wouldn't come in to seek death.

After all, this secret realm exploration had no rescue, and the people who came in should have also prepared themselves mentally.

The appearance of an eliminated contestant only now was within Sun Po's expectations, but he hadn't expected that this wristwatch would actually notify participating contestants of which contestants had been eliminated, and even thoughtfully display the scene at the time of elimination. Sun Po carefully observed the elimination image projected by the wristwatch.

The background of the image was a dark red, seemingly as if situated in a flesh-and-blood tissue environment, and various bizarre monsters could be faintly seen.

What was seen most clearly was the happy smile on the face of this contestant named [ Miyamoto Jinkuang ], as well as that bizarre black-haired, white-skirted woman holding him in her arms.

Sun Po did not recognize this kind of monster, but could recognize that quite a few of them were very similar to the urban legend images of a certain island nation in his past life—for instance, this bizarre woman in a white skirt with black hair looked very much like the [ Hachishaku Lady ] Sun Po had heard of.

It's just that could [ Hachishaku Lady ] have such a strong mental control-type skill? Sun Po expressed doubt about this.

However, the monsters encountered by this [ Miyamoto Jinkuang ] and his surrounding environment were completely different from the [ Fenglei Mountain Range ] where Sun Po was. Knowing [ Li Tiance ], plus this eliminated contestant, and Sun Po, the three of them were in three completely different secret realm environments. This also made Sun Po even more certain of his previous guess: I'm afraid every contestant really enters a different small secret realm.

Moreover, what [ Li Tiance ] encountered were monster-like creatures resembling demons; what he himself encountered were [ Wind-Roaring Giant Ape ]s and [ Armored Rock Boar ]s whose prototypes could not be discerned; what [ Miyamoto Jinkuang ] encountered were urban legend-type monsters; and through [ Wuzhiqi ], he even knew that there were so-called remnant souls of the [ Ventilating Great Sage ] existing in the secret realm. Demons, beasts, urban legends, demon kings—this was truly a chaotic mess, leaving people completely clueless.

Sun Po had no time to think more, and quickly headed first toward the place in the distance where the [ Wind-Roaring Giant Ape ]s were roaring.

Before even arriving there, Sun Po had already seen an exceptionally huge black shadow.

That giant shadow was already close to the width of these big trees, and the red light flashing in its dual eyes condensed into substance.

Sun Po saw it clearly; that was an [ Armored Rock Boar King ] whose height could reach a hundred meters.

This fellow could already shake these giant trees a hundred meters wide, startling the [ Wind-Roaring Giant Ape ]s on the trees into emitting bizarre roars.

Sun Po sighed: "Good fellow, this must be considered a Boar King, right?"

[ Wuzhiqi ] said: "It counts as a Boar King, but by the look of it, it's just a bit larger in bulk and still only knows straight-line charging, which is no different from those other few [ Armored Rock Boar ]s."

Seeing those big trees being shaken to the verge of collapse by the crashes, Sun Po felt that he and [ Wuzhiqi ] could finally have something to do.

Unexpectedly, [ Wuzhiqi ] suddenly said to Sun Po: "Master, is your [ tianhe exclusive spirit-replenishing pill ] still around?"

Sun Po said: "Naturally it's still here. Does the [ Water Element Summoning Technique ] consume a lot of [ Divine Power ]?"

[ Wuzhiqi ] shook its head and said: "That's not it. It's to be saved for the [ Tianhe Naval Forces ] behind. Its [ Qiankun Great Shift ] was learned not long ago. Although improved by me and the effect is quite good, it still doesn't know how to save [ Divine Power ]. I'm afraid it will fall short when fighting this [ Armored Rock Boar King ] later."

Sun Po curiously asked: "While the [ Tianhe Naval Forces ] is certainly strong, the strength of this [ Armored Rock Boar King ] has clearly reached the limit of the orange grade. I'm afraid the [ Tianhe Naval Forces ] lacks the strength to participate in battles against this kind of monster, right? Why don't we go down and clean up this [ Armored Rock Boar King ], taking advantage of when its consciousness weakens further after death to throw it to the [ Tianhe Naval Forces ] to control using the [ Qiankun Great Shift ]."