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Chapter 198 - 184: The Ninth Team for the Martial Arts Performance
Chapter 198 - 184: The Ninth Team for the Martial Arts Performance
Chapter 198: Chapter 184: The Ninth Team for the Martial Arts Performance
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Merit-based missions triggered by random events like this always had cultivators paying attention to them.
Li Fan immediately accepted the mission to prevent anyone from snatching it away.
Shortly after, he received friend requests from others through the ten thousand character communication talisman.
Martial Arts Battle Hall, Jiang Zhengji.
Li Fan accepted the request, and a message from Jiang Zhengji flitted in: “Sect member Li Fan, I’ve reviewed your basic information.”
“Your cultivation is at the Final Stage Foundation Establishment, and with the
addition of your Array Technique, you should be able to complete this mission without any risks while following behind our squad.”
“Soon, I will send you information about our trip to the Wanlai Island. It’ll allow you to prepare in advance.”
“We’ll depart tomorrow morning. Let’s meet at the Law Transmission Square.”
Li Fan chose not to rush through the mission information Jiang Zhengji sent him. Instead, he viewed some of Jiang Zhengji’s personal information first.
As his spirit consciousness touched the star in the Star Sea representing Jiang Zhengji, a brief message appeared in Li Fan’s spirit consciousness.
Jiang Zhengji, a member of the Martial Arts Battle Hall’s Heavenly Transformation Squad of Ten Thousand Immortal Island.
Cultivation in the Mid-Stage Golden Core.
Li Fan already knew a thing or two about this Heavenly Transformation Squad.
This squad is one of the nine martial arts squads in the Martial Arts Battle Hall.
Within the Alliance of Thousands of Immortals, only when the matter involves Techniques, the Law Enforcement hall will intervene.
In other cases, wherever the operation of martial power was needed, it was the responsibility of the Martial Arts Battle Hall.
The nine martial squads are Heavenly Law, Heavenly Cang, Heavenly Transformation, Heavenly Xuan, Heavenly Ghosts, Heavenly Hao, Heavenly Zhu, Heavenly Flame, and Heavenly Yang.
Except for Heavenly Law, which is responsible for coordination and is slightly superior in status.
The other squads are all on the same level.
“I wonder how many people from the Heavenly Transformation squad will be dispatched for this mission.” Li Fan thought, as he opened the information about the task to eliminate the exotic beasts on Wanlai Island. Wanlai Island, located in the southwestern sea area of Misthaven Ocean.
A type of headless abnormal beast lives on the island.
Short lower limbs, stout upper limbs.
Despite crawling on the ground, it moves at an extremely fast speed.
The abnormal beast has no head but a huge gaping mouth on the chest.
They feed on sound, as long as they are hungry, making a little noise can fill their stomachs.
With thick skin and thick flesh, they can recover quickly from injuries by absorbing sound.
Their fighting power is formidable, and they can also use sound to harm their enemies.
Combined with their rapid reproduction and large numbers, there are no opponents on the island.
Therefore, they easily occupied the entire Wanlai Island.
“Feeding on sound, interesting.”
After roughly understanding the task content, Li Fan bought some array setup materials from Tianxuan Mirror.
This time, if they could complete the task without revealing their true strength and just using arrays to scrape by, that would be the best.
Some preparations do not require much elaboration.
Early the next morning, Li Fan arrived at the Law Transmission Square early to wait.
It wasn’t a long wait until he saw Jiang Zhengji leading six people coming over slowly.
“I’ve seen Sect member Jiang!” Li Fan greeted with a bow and salutation.
“Sect member Li has been waiting for a long time.” Jiang Zhengji kindly replied, then introduced the six people behind him to Li Fan.
Among these six, one was also in the Mid-stage Golden Core, the others were at the same Final Stage Foundation Establishment like Li Fan.
After the polite hellos, everyone teleported to Guishou Island, the island
closest to Wanlai Island.
Afterward, they traveled by flight for half a day until a lush green island was in sight.
“Those beasts are extremely sensitive to sound. To avoid alarming them, don’t speak after entering the area ahead.”
“Conceal your aura, communicate with divine sense.” The leading Jiang Zhengji advised.
Everyone understood and complied.
Upon entering Wanlai Island’s range, the surroundings became eerily quiet.
The sound of waves and wind disappeared.
Quietly flying over Wanlai Island, Li Fan saw the scene below and couldn’t help but feel a chill.
He saw headless abnormal beasts squeezed together on every part of the huge island.
Most of them were lazily lying on the ground, not doing anything.
In places where space was insufficient, they did not fight. They just piled up on top of each other, forming many little mounds.
The fur of the abnormal beasts was red, and at a glance, the entire Wanlai Island seemed to be overgrown with active red fur.
A mere look was enough to make one’s skin crawl.
Occasionally, one or two of the headless abnormal beasts felt hungry. They were too lazy to even move.
Simply slapping their belly, the sound it made hadn’t travelled far when they were immediately swallowed up by the mouth opening and closing on their torso.
A few other abnormal beasts would also come over, open their mouths wide, and share the food.
Other than eating, they would also reproduce.
The intense exercise often attracted many of the same kind to come and watch. They would form a circle, surrounding the main individual. Each of them had their mouths wide open, drooling heavily.
The somewhat bizarre scene on Wanlai Island was not only uncomfortable for Li Fan.
The five Foundation Establishment Cultivators in the Heavenly
Transformation Squad also seemed to be undertaking this mission for the first time. Their faces were slightly unsightly.
Only Jiang Zhengji and another Gold Core Cultivator named Du Xingchang had unchanged expressions, apparently used to this.
“Get ready to act!”
Jiang Zhengji threw a violet array map which grew in the wind, quickly spreading out and covering the entire Wanlai Island.
And the headless abnormal beasts below had no awareness of it at all.
Jiang Zhengji was enveloped in a bright light, as if covered in snow.
Then, the snow and wind spread out, covering the entire island in no time.
“Gold Core Dharma Form…” Li Fan watched this scene, his gaze faintly flickering.
Having already exchanged knowledge related to the Golden Core Stage, Li Fan naturally recognized it.
After reaching the Golden Core Realm, cultivators could condense a Dharma Form with the help of laws within the Gold Core.
When the body and form combine, the cultivator would be able to affect and manipulate a large surrounding area through the law.
At this time, snow and wind were swirling.
The temperature on Wanlai Island rapidly dropped.
Some of the headless abnormal beasts slowly noticed that something was wrong and started looking around.
However, without a single sound coming from Li Fan and others high above,
they couldn’t detect a trace of them.
At the same time, Du Xingchang also made his move.
Throughout the snow-filled sky, clusters of red plums started blooming one after another, proudly displaying themselves.
In a blink of an eye, all of Wanlai Island was covered in white snow and red plums.
“Xingchang and I will watch from above, the rest of you act!” Jiang Zhengji said.
The five Foundation Establishment Cultivators in the Martial Arts Battle Hall’s Heavenly Transformation Squad nodded in unison.
Without a hint of hesitation, they flew down to deal with the headless abnormal beasts.
“Looks like it’s a mix of veterans and newbies. They are doing some sort of training.” Li Fan thought, seeing the situation unfold, he also couldn’t just watch idly.
So, he quickly followed and casually set up a [Spirit Sensing Life and Death
Array] around the five Foundation Establishment Cultivators in front of him.
This [Spirit Sensing Life and Death Array] was one of the arrays used by Zhang Zhiliang to kill the Crimson Flame in the previous life.
It has the effects of increasing the attack power, and strengthening the cooperation of each other.
However, the power of the array Li Fan had setup now was dozens of times weaker than its original version.
But for the five Foundation Establishment cultivators, it’s more than enough to show immediate effect.
Then, Li Fan consecutively set up several other Arays such as the [Five Direction Spirit Gathering Array] and [Slow-motion Array], and [Celestial Spirit Flame Dragon Array]..