248: Chapter 248 The Spherical Shelter, the Golden-haired Beast King

Even without the protection of a shelter, he could face the surging beast tide much more calmly than the other Contestants.

Moreover, he even possessed the ability to transform into a 'Reaper' and knock on the doors of the other Contestants' shelters.

Of course.

This was only a preliminary judgment based on the strength of the Starry Sky Giant Beasts he currently observed.

As for whether there were even more terrifying clusters of giant beasts in other corners of the planet, he couldn't be sure and needed further observation.

So, for the time being, it would be safer for him to operate in small teams centered around a shelter during the initial stage.

Just as Li Fan was contemplating his next plan...

Peng Song, who was standing nearby, suddenly stood up and pointed toward the direction of the distant beast tide.

"That can't be a shelter, can it?!"

He looked up.

A giant white spherical structure was being tossed about by the surging beast tide. The intricate patterns on its surface clearly clashed sharply with the barren colors of the planet.

Therefore, it was actually easy to guess that this was the shelter mentioned in the New Student Competition rules!

This distant white shelter was clearly the lowest tier.

"The shelters are like this? They move with the beast tide?"

Duan Linger looked at the spherical structure, her eyes full of surprise.

Not just her, but actually all the Students had not anticipated the shelters existing in this form.

In everyone's original speculation, the image of a shelter should have been an iron tower standing in the center of the beast tide, or a steel base situated on strategic terrain to easily block the beast tide. In short, it should absolutely be stationary.

But now, seeing them, they turned out to be moving 'rubber balls'.

This meant that even if a Student managed to grab a decent shelter early on, they might encounter Students from other shelters during movement, leading to battles and potentially having their decent shelter snatched away.

This significantly weakened the first-mover advantage gained by rushing to seize a Golden Shelter at the start.

Because even if one secured a Golden Shelter at the beginning,

it wasn't guaranteed they could defend it in later encounters.

This could be said to have minimized the element of luck to the greatest extent.

It had to be said.

The designers of this New Student Competition had put in significant effort.

Turning back to Li Fan.

Just as everyone's gaze was fixed on that spherical shelter,

Li Fan's attention was suddenly drawn to a figure within the beast tide.

"That is?!"

At the center of the beast tide, a Golden-furred Giant Beast, whose physique was clearly more imposing and whose aura was distinctly nobler than the other giant beasts, was being surrounded by the other giant beasts as if they were orbiting stars.

The louder the Golden-furred Giant Beast roared, the more frenzied the beast tide became.

When the Golden-furred Giant Beast shifted its gaze, the direction of the beast tide followed.

This scene was incredibly reminiscent of the Beast Kings formed after the collapse of secret realms on Blue Star, which led to beast tides.

All movements of the beast tide were controlled by the Beast King within it.

And this Golden-furred Giant Beast before them should be the Beast King of this particular beast tide.

To confirm this idea.

Li Fan immediately looked towards the beast tides in several other directions.

As expected, he saw their exclusive Beast Kings: some were black-furred, some were scarlet, and some were earth-yellow like the ordinary giant beasts. Their forms varied, but every movement they made could control the direction of the beast tide around them.

"If I could control all the Beast Kings, the difficulty of this New Student Competition should decrease significantly, right?!"

Li Fan's eyes narrowed slightly, and an idea popped into his mind.

Controlling all the Beast Kings meant controlling the movement of the entire planet's beast tide.

If he could achieve that, why bother fighting for a shelter?!

He could just direct the massive beast tide army wherever he wanted!

If hundreds of billions of beasts focused their charge on one spot, forget one Golden Shelter; even a hundred Golden Shelters probably couldn't withstand it!

However, this thought was quickly dismissed by Li Fan.

There were countless beast tides, large and small, on this planet. Controlling all the Beast Kings was completely unrealistic.

Even if he had the ability, he didn't have that many hands; he was simply spread too thin.

Unless he could find a method to control these Beast Kings without expending too much effort, or even without needing to move much himself, a method that allowed for very easy control.

Just as Li Fan was pondering this, suddenly, a flash of inspiration struck him, and he actually thought of a method.

That's right.

It was to use Mental Energy to control the minds of these Beast Kings!

His current Mental Energy intensity was already comparable to Universe Level; the intensity was definitely sufficient.

If he could master the method of controlling Mental Energy to influence the minds of these Beast Kings, then it could really work!

But the new problem was...

He had never practiced cultivation techniques in this area.

No matter how strong his Mental Energy intensity was, he didn't know how to use or unleash it.

So, this method was temporarily unfeasible.

But then again, even though he hadn't practiced it, he could try to explore it himself.

Perhaps he might stumble upon it by sheer luck.

Li Fan turned his gaze back to the small team.

"Then should we immediately rush to seize a Golden Shelter first?"

Luo Ling frowned and spoke, looking at the others.

It now seemed that the choice of which shelter to grab at the start wasn't that important anymore.

As soon as his words fell, he received a reply from Peng Song.

"Of course we should!"

"Seize it earlier, enjoy it sooner! Once we grab one, we only need to defend later; we don't need to make things so complicated! The planet is so big; who knows how long it will take for us to encounter another Golden Shelter later?"

That's right.

Peng Song's thinking was straightforward.

He wanted to grab one first!

Li Fan's thinking was the same as Peng Song's: seize it early, enjoy it sooner!

"At this juncture, I suggest everyone stop deliberating. Listen to me. We will stick to the original plan and rush to seize a Golden Shelter first!"

Li Fan took charge of the overall situation, stating solemnly.

To this, the few members of the team had no objections and immediately nodded firmly.

Thus...

Next, under Li Fan's control,

the aircraft began to sweep across the planet's sky at high speed, searching for traces of a Golden Shelter.

And there were quite a few others who made the same choice as Li Fan and his group.

"Urgent reminder! Energy will be depleted in ten minutes!"

At this moment, a mechanical voice came from the aircraft.

Li Fan and the others were not surprised by this.

Before setting off, the instructors had mentioned it.

To prevent Students from taking shortcuts using the aircraft, the energy for each aircraft was fixed, usually only enough to support the Student for a few thousand kilometers, ensuring it would run out of power and crash just as they were likely to encounter a shelter.

"Ten minutes left. If we still can't find a Golden Shelter in ten minutes, I guess we'll have to settle for the next best, the Purple or White shelters."

Duan Linger sounded slightly anxious.

They had traveled for a long time but hadn't seen a single Golden Shelter; this was truly unexpected for them.

In fact, it was quite normal.

This planet was huge, the beast tide vast and boundless, and there were only twenty Golden Shelters.

Finding a Golden Shelter in a short time was indeed not a simple matter.

Just as Duan Linger was anxious,

Duan Ping, standing nearby, suddenly pointed into the distance and exclaimed: "Found it, look there!"

He looked up.

In the distance, a giant golden spherical structure was constantly rolling as it was pushed by a beast tide.

Not far above it, four or five aircraft were speeding toward it!

Before Peng Song and Luo Ling could react,

Li Fan had already piloted the aircraft toward that location at high speed.