Beginning with the Ubume Bird-Chapter 362 - 9 Unexpected Complications
Chapter 362: Chapter 9: Unexpected Complications
Chapter 362: Chapter 9: Unexpected Complications
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Cha Xiaodao saw the description of the event mention “green mountain fire” and his heart skipped a beat. He glanced at Li Yan, who indeed immediately chose the summoning event at Dragon Tiger Mountain.
However, just as Li Yan was about to initiate the event, a red numeral abruptly jumped out, adding a “1000” suffix to the summoning event as well as an icon of a simple sketch of a monkey with four ears.
Directly beneath it, there was a flowing hourglass.
“Another Yan Fu traveler has bid 1000 points to compete for the right to initiate this event. When the hourglass stops, the right to initiate goes to the highest bidder.”
Li Yan’s face sank like it was submerged in water, and with a thought, the numeral aggressively jumped to 1500.
Then, the monkey head with four ears was replaced by a blood-red Nine-Headed Bird.
Li Yan didn’t recognize the four-eared monkey, but the red Nine-Headed Bird was the emblem of his own Gu Huo Bird.
2000!
The four-eared monkey icon reappeared.
Without even blinking, Li Yan made the projected numeral shoot up like a rocket to three thousand.
“Eh!”
Cha Xiaodao couldn’t help but exclaim.
Three thousand Yan Fu points is already the normal income for a Yan Fu traveler from a single event. To use it to bid for the right to initiate an event is no different from throwing money away.
“Three thousand points to get rid of one Eight Extremes Walker interfering is worth it.”
Cha Xiaodao didn’t speak again. Li Yan’s reasoning also had no issues. A simple failure in this bid wouldn’t just mean inconvenience; the involvement of a strange Eight Extremes Walker added an element of unpredictability.
The number paused at three thousand for a while, and as the time limit for bidding was about to end, it jumped once more, this time to thirty-five hundred.
“Four thousand.”
Li Yan did not hesitate.
Cha Xiaodao’s heart ached so much that he grimaced.
Li Yan’s increase wasn’t large, but his decisive bidding clearly intimidated the other party.
As time passed by the second, a “ding-dong” sounded, and the points jumped to four thousand five.
“Five thousand.”
This time, the other side went quiet.
Only Cha Xiaodao’s knuckles were scratching his scalp, making a “kacha kacha” sound.
Just as Li Yan thought it was over, a pleasant female voice rang in his ear.
“You have received a conversation, originating from the ‘Chang Right’ emblem of this bidding summon event.”
Chang Right has four ears, and its appearance is like a monkey. In reality, it signifies good omen, and seeing it means water will flow horizontally.
——Guo Pu “Classic of Mountains and Seas Diagram Praise·Chang Right Mo”
With an Awakening Degree of 99%, all information exchanged externally will display the emblem of its heritage, and if there are multiple heritages that reached 99%, one can switch the displayed emblem at will.
Li Yan shows the Gu Huo Bird to the outside, and the other party is the aquatic monkey Chang Right. Hmm, Chang Right’s strength is roughly equal to Gu Huo Bird, and it also has the potential to evolve. That’s right, the evolutionary form of Chang Right’s legacy is Wu Zhiqi.
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Li Yan chose to connect.
The other party was aggressive: “You’re new here, right? I’m Zhang Cai from Five Dragon Dandong. I’ll just say it, I’m determined to get this summoning no matter what. There are only you and me bidding.”
He purposely paused for a moment waiting for Li Yan to speak.
“Hmm.”
Zhang Cai didn’t expect the other party to be so indifferent and continued: “Let me teach you the rules here. We find a higher-ranking Proxy Traveler to arbitrate a fight between us, winner initiates the event. Of course, you can refuse. Heh, if my preparation fails this time, taking another event can still get me in, and I can give you a hand~”
He emphasized the last sentence.
“Idiot.”
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Cha Xiaodao muttered a curse under his breath.
“Fine, let’s duel.”
Li Yan was brief and to the point.
“Hey! If you agree, I’ll set up the contract, and we can set up a ring right here and now.”
“Okay.”
Li Yan was economical with his words.
The previously fluctuating red numbers reluctantly reset to zero.
Li Yan touched the nearest black pillar in the hall; his whole hand disappeared into it.
After the contract was mutually verified, he could reach the duel arena through this pillar in front of him.
Li Yan lifted his foot to go when Cha Xiaodao added from behind him, “I’ve heard of Five Dragon Dandong. It’s backed by several Proxy Travelers, and the boss is a woman, a Proxy for the Nine-tailed Fox. Her name is Si Wenji.”
Although Cha Xiaodao only had the Nine Luminaries, he had seen the lofty Ten Masters who dominated territories; compared to those warlords, these faction-forming walkers naturally fell short. Having been trashed by Li Yan for a month, he wasn’t at all worried that the rookie to the Eight Extremes, Li Yan, would suffer a setback.
“Hmm.”
Li Yan scowled as he walked into the pillar.
Stepping out of the black pillar, nothing had changed; it was still the dimly lit hall, endless rows of black pillars. But Cha Xiaodao was nowhere to be seen.
A man emerged from the black pillar ahead, nearly one meter ninety, half a head taller than Li Yan, clad in a black jacket spiked with iron and ripped jeans, his expression unfriendly.
These endless black pillar spaces, created and collapsed at will by Yan Fu, were eternal. Drawing the analogy to the Mo Yanfu Fruit Tree, the endless hall of black pillars would be the tree’s stem and leaves.
“Kid, don’t be disgruntled. You’ve got a lot more hardships to endure in the future,” said the jacketed man, arms folded.
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In front of Li Yan, strange characters flashed by, with a content that echoed the man’s words, only when referring to each other’s titles, they were replaced with their respective symbols, the Four-eared Monkey and the Nine-Headed Bird.
This was the contents of a contract document.
Li Yan’s gaze lingered on the line of the document that read, “No intentional killing,” his brows furrowed tightly.
At the document’s end, the space for the notary was blank, but as Li Yan watched, a golden bear head emerged.
As symbols of inherited Exotic Beasts, the styles of Chang right and the Gu Huo Bird were like childish scribbles, whereas this golden bear head was lifelike, its nostrils moving as though breathing, as if it were alive.
Between the two of them, a portly man with his hands in his pockets walked out.
He wore a yellow hooded sweatshirt, his gait arrogant, his face shiny with oil.
Mo.
The portly man glanced at the man in the studded jacket and then at Li Yan, coughed and said, “Cough cough, I’m in a hurry. Let’s get started.”
His plump five fingers sliced downward.
Two silhouettes rose from the ground.
The momentum of their legacies was evenly matched.
The jacketed man, Zhang Cai, a descendant of the Long Right, took a breath and looked up to meet Li Yan’s eyes.
He watched as the black of the other’s pupils was slowly filled with golden particles, like a torn paper window revealing a gold slit.
Despite their evenly matched legacy strengths, facing those golden eyes, Zhang Cai was instantly plunged into an abyss of endless powerlessness and fear, as if standing naked before a prehistoric Exotic Beast or a natural predator far superior in the food chain.
His mouth agape, his throat felt as if blocked by his tongue, rendering him speechless.
Destiny Yak.
Previously effective only against cannon fodder, the “Aura of Killing Intent” that felt like a breeze to any slightly significant enemy, now amplified by Destiny Yak, even worked on Zhang Cai, a fellow Eight Extremes Walker!
In a mere tenth of a breath, Zhang Cai’s mind cleared!
When he opened his eyes again, that furious and defiant face was nearly crashing into his own!
