Chapter 261: Chapter 223 Muddy Monster Catfish Head
"Life is a marathon, and the person leading at the start doesn't necessarily win the championship, staying in the lead is what matters the most."
Seeing his granddaughter in such a deeply affected state, Chi De couldn't help but comfort her.
"Old ancestor, you don't have to comfort me," Chi Ziyao sighed, "I understand the principle."
Chi Ziyao perked up, "By the way, old ancestor, when I registered today, I heard many people discussing the Resource Point struggle. Does our family also compete for Resource Points?"
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"Of course," Chi De stroked his beard, "Your father, and also your second uncle, third uncle, at the beginning of the month, had already seized the Resource Points."
"Why didn't you send Beast Tamers to compete for them? Or did you go secretly behind my back?" Chi Ziyao arrived in the Exotic Region in mid-August, with the old ancestor accompanying her.
"Me? I don't need to compete. They give me face and left me two Resource Points," Chi De said, looking like a wily old man with his hands clasped behind his back.
"You're so powerful," Chi Ziyao exclaimed in surprise.
"It's probably because they respect this old man's seniority. Not many old immortals of my age are left in the country. Bickering over it could easily sour relations, so they simply allotted two Resource Points each and avoided the fight," he explained.
Chi Ziyao's eyes lit up, "Then shall we go to watch the Resource Point struggle tomorrow? I haven't seen it before."
"That would be good," Chi De thought it would be good to broaden her horizons, and it might help her set long-term goals.
"Basically, those who go to compete in the arena are of ninety Energy Levels or above, and even many are gathering their strength to attempt Fleshly Transcendence at a hundred Energy Levels; that's the real battlefield."
In this world, her competition was not only with her peers but also with older, seasoned Beast Tamers.
The society is not a school, where you compete only with your peers. Even if it's between a freshman and a senior, the gap is only four years at most.
But in the societal struggle for resources, your competitor's age might be several decades or even hundreds of years greater than yours.
The next day, Chi Ziyao followed her old ancestor to the arena competition venue.
The venue for the Resource Point arena competition was a large area specially demarcated on a wilderness plain.
This vast plain was divided into sections for Beast Tamers to battle.
Meanwhile, near the crowded arenas, a large settlement had emerged, built around the central administrative building of the Resource Points.
Every year in August, this place became the most bustling.
Chi Ziyao curiously looked around at her surroundings.
Everything was so fresh for someone who was visiting for the first time.
Suddenly, Chi Ziyao's gaze became focused, and in the crowd, she saw a familiar figure.
Compelled as if by some unseen force, she followed it.
...
"Eastern Area No. 278 arena."
Chen Xing, holding a token and after paying a deposit, received a challenge token.
Generally, before the challenge, competitors typically undergo a preliminary contest, and only the champion gets to challenge for the title.
After all, some Resource Points are so coveted that the challengers are endless. It's not just a matter of not having enough time for one-by-one challenges.
It's also about the arena master not having the energy to deal with challenger after challenger.
Therefore, a process of elimination is necessary among the challengers.
However, there were no challengers at the moment for the arena that Chen Xing wanted to challenge.
Generally, this only happens when the arena master is so strong that it discourages those interested in challenging for the Resource Point, forcing them to reconsider and seek other targets.
After all, the arena competition actually requires signing a life-and-death contract because Beast Taming battles are fought for real. If they are real fights, then there's the possibility of being killed.
Upon arriving at Eastern Area No. 278 arena, the master, having been informed, had long been waiting.
Chen Xing noticed that this Eastern Area No. 278 arena was a vast pit.
The pit was nearly thirty meters deep and looked like a dried-up lakebed from afar.
Not a blade of grass grew near the massive pit, and the ground's sand and stone were churned into a mess.
"Are you the kid challenging me?"
Seeing Chen Xing's youthful face, the bushy-bearded Sun Xing flashed an impatient look in his eyes.
Sun Xing, at forty-eight years old, came from a family involved in real estate, though not on a large scale, just a small property developer.
Nurturing his Beast Taming to a hundred Energy Levels was his limit; going any further would have to come from his own efforts.
So he formed a team of explorers, not large, all kin from his clan.
After toiling for years, he was still a bit short of achieving Fleshly Transcendence.
He sought the path to Fleshly Transcendence, and for someone of his commoner status, there were generally two approaches.
One was to find an outstanding evolutionary path, allowing the Beast to evolve and, provided its natural talents sufficed, accumulate a foundation after reaching a hundred Energy Levels, and then try to break through in a ceremony.
Another method was that without an excellent evolutionary path, one had to endure.
Whether it was Magic Transcendence or Fleshly Transcendence, one could only use large amounts of resources to pile up!
Consume treasures that could temper the body, or the flesh of monsters that had achieved Fleshly Transcendence, eat a lot of anything that was helpful!
Eat enough, and you would always reach the minimum standard for Fleshly Transcendence.
So, he needed to compete for Resource Points, using the resources fed back from the Resource Points to nourish the growth of his Beast Taming.
"Kid, I advise you to just give up voluntarily, or else it won't be good if uncle's Beast Taming hits too hard by accident and your Beast Taming dies," Sun Xing said coldly, staring at Chen Xing.
After speaking, Sun Xing waved his hand, summoning an Array of Light that lit up in front of him.
A giant ball of light swiftly expanded.
"Goo goo~"
It was like the low croak of a toad and sounded like the churning of muddy bubbles.
This ball of light continued to expand until it neared eighty meters in length before stopping.
The giant light faded, revealing a deep brown, sleek-skinned Mudfish Monster with six long tentacles, sprawling on the ground.
Without a doubt, among the beasts Below Transcendence, this Mudfish Monster was also of a large size.
From its body surface, a large amount of gray-brown mud oozed out slowly, this was an Earth Element field skill—Quagmire.
It released a large amount of mud, altering the terrain around it.
Chen Xing waved his hand, and a rapidly expanding ball of light spread out towards all sides.
Boom~
The earth shook thunderously.
Large swathes of mud splattered as if a minor Earthquake had occurred, causing the ground to tremble violently.
Sun Xing's original malevolent gaze quickly solidified.
The fatty-headed Mudfish Monster lying in the quagmire lifted its fat head, its bean-sized eyes staring blankly at the huge figure towered over it.
Not good!
Sun Xing immediately felt something was amiss.
His ace Beast Taming followed the path of Fleshly Transcendence.
Of course, it was still striving towards Transcendence.
But its fighting style was close combat, using its massive size aided by Earth Element Skills to create a large quagmire and defeat the opponent.
But this time, it seemed to have met an opponent of the same style.
And the opponent's size appeared to be even larger than his own Beast Taming.
If you have the same fighting style and the other side's size exceeds your own by so much,
That's embarrassing.
But Sun Xing quickly adjusted his mentality, "What does it matter if it's bigger..."
He felt somewhat bitter saying this sentence, as it used to be what others said to him.
Receiving their master's command, the two massive Beast Tamings nearly simultaneously launched an unstoppable charge.
One of the behemoths, like a towering mountain, shook the ground with every step; the other, slightly smaller but agile and sturdy, with a belly round and plump, resembling a nimble ball.
Boom——!
In the blink of an eye, with a thunderous roar that deafened the ears, the entire ground violently trembled at that moment, and the Mudfish Monster lying in the mud lost balance instantly. Its massive body traced a clumsy arc in the air before crashing heavily onto the ground, splashing mud and dust.
Taotie opportunely opened its massive mouth and bit into the Mudfish Monster's plump belly.
Death Roll!
The battle ended in less than a minute.
Many in the crowd cheered.
"Good!"
"Awesome."
Compared to displaying Skills and bombing away, this kind of close combat between behemoths was even more blood-pumping for the audience.
In the crowd, Chi Ziyao's confidence, which had just started to recover under the encouragement of the elder the day before, suffered another devastating blow at this moment.
Ci De, standing beside her, fell silent for a moment before saying with gravity, "Life is a marathon, some people may always run faster; we don't need to compare with them."