Chapter 632: Tournament 7
Eighty-seven formation masters participated in the tournament.
Of the eighty-seven, forty were disqualified for entering the wrong tunnel.
As it turned out, the formation entrance with thirteen nodes led to a level five instance.
Because the formation masters could not handle the level five arrays, they were directly ejected from the maze.
Following that, some of the remaining forty-seven could not break the ensuing formations and were also disqualified.
In the end, only thirty-six formation masters qualified for the second stage of the formation tournament.
Seeing this, Jiang Yue smiled.
"Not bad." He said but Ao Tian rolled his eyes.
"How can it not be bad? More than half the participants didn’t make it to the second stage." The dragon argued.
"Those who made it are the cream of the crop." Jiang Yue said, turning to Yu Nianzhen.
"Azhen, I didn’t expect your Yu family had a dark horse in formations."
When he heard this, Yu Nianzhen nodded with a thoughtful expression.
"Yu Jing is a surprise." He said.
"Yu Jing is only a little inferior to Jiang Han and Ying Si. He is a remarkable talent."
As the three were talking, Xiaolan flew up.
"The second stage is about to begin." She announced and everyone turned to look at her.
"In the first stage, all the successful participants learned how to arrange an ordinary level one fire rain formation." Xiaolan stated.
Hearing this, all the participants squirmed in discomfort.
At first, all were relieved when they encountered the fire rain formation.
After all, its power was greatly reduced. Even if they didn’t block the fire rain, the resulting injuries were almost negligible.
However, their relief was short-lived.
Before they could truly enjoy the reprieve, an illusion appeared.
However, the illusion was different from the kind used to disturb a person’s mind.
Instead, this illusion was a video of Jiang Yue instructing how to arrange a fire rain formation.
After instructing twice, the illusion disappeared and the true power of the fire rain formation awakened.
Unfortunately, the formation couldn’t be conventionally broken.
The only way to break it was by mastering how to arrange a standard level one fire rain formation.
Recalling the feeling of fiery rain falling on their body, the formation masters shuddered in discomfort.
"The second stage is to arrange a fire rain formation. However, the standard map is not acceptable. You have three days and two chances to arrange an enhanced fire rain formation." Xiaolan informed.
At the same time, he pointed to a row of materials.
"Each of you can choose two sets of formation materials."
Hearing this, the formation masters couldn’t help but be shocked.
"This..." One stuttered and subconsciously looked at his neighbour.
"Is it possible to improve the map in three days?" Another asked.
"I suddenly wish I was a talisman master. The talisman tournament was easy and straightforward."
"Master Jiang is a formation master. It can’t be helped that our tournament is in hell mode."
"Although the tournament has been difficult, it has not been impossible. Maybe it won’t be too difficult to arrange a modified fire rain formation."
On the stands, Ao Tian looked at Jiang Yue with a puzzled expression.
"How is it possible to modify a formation map in three days?" He asked.
"It’s possible." Jiang Yue smiled.
"If they properly listened to my instruction illusion, they should be able to easily do it."
"Is that so?" Ao Tian muttered while looking at the formation masters.
At this time, he noticed some formation masters had begun to meditate.
"Some of them seem to have figured it out." He said and Jiang Yue nodded.
Two days passed in the blink of an eye.
By this time, twenty formation masters had already used up their two chances.
Of the twenty, fourteen had failed and six had succeeded.
However, the six had only succeeded in arranging level one formations.
"Yue’er, why did you make the tournament so complicated?" Ao Tian complained for the umpteenth time.
"I have a special reward for the top three."
"Special reward?"
"Mmmh." Jiang Yue nodded and soon explained.
"The top three will each receive a ten-year pass to the formation forest."
When he heard this, Ao Tian rolled his eyes and unconcealed mockery appeared on his face.
"The formation forest you have yet to build?"
"It’s only a matter of time." Jiang Yue defended himself and Yu Nianzhen nodded in support.
"It’s only a matter of time before XiaoYue builds the formation forest." He said but Ao Tian was not convinced.
"This coming from the people who shirked their responsibilities for three years?" He snorted and looked away.
Hearing this, Jiang Yue and Yu Nianzhen couldn’t help but feel a little ashamed.
’Damned dragon.’ Jiang Yue secretly cursed.
One day later, the formation tournament finally ended.
Unexpectedly, Jiang Han, Ying Si, Yu Jing, and Tang Feng managed to arrange level three fire rain formations.
"They each have their strengths." Jiang Yue said and Yu Nianzhen nodded.
After that, Xiaolan issued the rewards, dismantled the formations, and flew to the middle of the competition stage.
"Due to recent circumstances, the rest of the tournaments will be cancelled." Xiaolan announced, causing unrest among the spectators.
"How unfair." Someone grumbled.
"The swordsmen have yet to compete."
"The martial artists too."
"I am a puppet master and I still wanted to compete."
When she heard the complaints, Xiaolan flapped her wings and the spectators quieted down.
"Although the tournaments are cancelled, the competition is not over." She said and began to explain.
"Every few decades, the sea beasts riot and a beast tide arises. The beast tide compromises of hundreds of thousands if not millions of sea beasts. Depending on the scale, the leader may be a level four or level five sea beast."
"That said, we have detected that a large-scale sea beast tide is about to happen. The tide will involve millions of sea beasts and may last several years."
"This time, our Zhenyue archipelago will participate in dealing with the sea beasts."
After saying that, Xiaolan waved her hand and five large screens appeared in the middle of the arena.
