Chapter 49: Chapter 49: Ten-Person Melee Competition
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The old vendor was very efficient. After Chu Mu handed over five gold coins, he lifted a Soul Technique Book from a pile of assorted stuff.
Soul Disciple’s Soul Technique Books were thin, like special scroll paper. All Soul Technique Books could be said to be consumables. Once a Soul Probe is performed on a Soul Technique Book, the way for applying the documented soul technique would be etched into the memory of the Soul Pet Master, and the Soul Technique Book would naturally lose its effectiveness.
Opening a Soul Technique Book required the expenditure of Soul Power. Chu Mu would have to wait until he’d fed the White Nightmare Demon before he could open this Soul Technique Book.
Then, Chu Mu bought a dual attribute soul nucleus of beast attribute and fire attribute from the old vendor, ensuring food for MO Ye’s training in the next ten days.
The last gold coin was used to buy two bottles of Level 2 Low-Efficiency Healing Elixir from a pharmacist and used for healing MO Ye.
After finishing all these, Chu Mu returned to his place.
By the time he returned, it was already late at night. As soon as Chu Mu stepped into the yard, he smelled a strong odor of blood. He then saw other Soul Pet Masters gathered in the yard, grumbling angrily about something. Ting Yu was there too, and as soon as she saw Chu Mu, she rushed up to him.
“What happened?” Chu Mu asked.
“Yesterday some Executors came. They distributed to us some good quality soul nuclei in preparation for competition after tomorrow. Today, many outsiders from other islands mingled around, exchanging Soul Nuclei based on attributes of different Soul Pets. A group of people from one island was extremely excessive. When we refused to exchange with them, they attacked us…” Ting Yu anxiously explained.
Chu Mu glanced at the crowd and noticed visible blood stains on everyone except the two girls. Even Wind Valley, the strongest among them, was covered in dirt and blood.
All nine who survived on the Green Nightmare Demon Island were very aware of self-protection. If they got injured, it undoubtedly suggested that their Soul Pets had been defeated.
“Chu Mu, where have you been these days? Don’t you know that the competition after tomorrow will be a team event? We were dealt with badly today, and our soul pets were injured. How are we going to compete with people from other islands for rankings?!” Chen Zhuo, whose face was all
Injured, complamecl angrily.
The opposing team was composed of ten people, who were all extremely powerful. However, Chu Mu had been acting alone and was hardly seen by others in recent days. The gap in strength and the difference in numbers inevitably led to their loss.
“Team event?” Chu Mu furrowed his brow.
Seeing Chu Mu’s confusion, Ting Yu quickly explained, “The battle is in the form of teams based on islands. The strength order of some standout performers is then determined from the team battle.”
“Is it a battle of ten people taking turns or a group fight of ten against ten?” Chu Mu asked.
“To be precise, it’s a fight between ten soul pets and ten soul pets. The master does not participate.” Wind Valley answered with a relatively calm voice.
When they came to the Main Island of the Green Nightmare Demon, Wind Valley was appointed as the leader of the ten people. This team battle was also led and orchestrated by him. In the past few days, while he had barely seen Chu Mu, Wind Valley could only organize the other nine people to practice cooperative battles between Soul Pets.
“If the team wins, each of us can choose a Soul Technique from the Soul Technique Pavilion. The strength of individuals is determined by Executors, who then distribute rewards and positions,” Ting Yu added.
Chu Mu nodded, did not care about the complaints of others, and directly returned to his residence to start learning his new Soul Technique – Rapid
Freeze.
“That guy is too conceited, completely ignoring us!” Chen Zhuo cursed angrily as he saw Chu Mu leaving.
“Forget it, leave him be. You better not provoke him either. Don’t forget those five people he killed overnight,” Li Zhi reminded.
Chen Zhuo clenched his teeth but dared not really do anything to Chu Mu.
Although Wind Valley was the leader among the ten people, they all knew that the most powerful one was actually Chu Mu, who they hardly ever saw.
After returning to his residence, Chu Mu fed eight-tenths of his Soul Power to White Nightmare Demon and then started using the remaining two-tenths to activate the Soul Technique – Rapid Freeze.
Chu Mu, now being a Three Thoughts Soul Master, didn’t find it too difficult to learn Soul Disciple’s skill. He stayed up all night, his mind repeatedly practicing Soul Technique Rapid Freeze.
Deep into the night, Ting Yu tossed and turned, finding it hard to fall asleep. She always felt the room temperature had inexplicably dropped a lot. No matter how she wrapped herself in the quilt, the chill still seeped into her body.
The one making Ting Yu, who lived next door, shiver and unable to sleep was naturally Chu Mu’s doing. After a whole night’s practice, Chu Mu finally mastered the spell of the Rapid Freeze Technique and could fully unleash this skill.
Of course, having mastery was one thing. At this point, if Chu Mu released it twice, only one would likely be successful. If the release failed, it would also consume about one-tenth of Chu Mu’s Soul Power. To master it skillfully, ensuring a 100% successful release of the Rapid Freeze Technique still required some time to practice and use it normally.
MO Ye needed to recuperate for a whole day to fully restore its combat power. The next day, Chu Mu kept practicing the spell, reciting the awkward and stiff spell more fluently so as not to cause any problems during the release process.
“Chu Mu, are you in there?” A low voice of a teenager came from outside the door.
“Yeah, what is it?” Chu Mu asked. He recognized the voice as Wind Valley’s.
“All the island owners of Green Nightmare Demon Island will compare with each other. If we lose in this team battle, Cao Yi will vent his anger on us. Even if vou don’t Dlan to claim that right to choose a Soul Techniaue. vou’d better participate in the battle,” Wind Valley said.
“I will participate,” Chu Mu said. Achieving victory would mean getting the right to choose a Soul Technique, and the Soul Technique Pavilion of the Green Nightmare Demon Palace surely held many more Soul Technique Books than the old vendor did. Chu Mu would not forgo this opportunity for nothing.
“That’s good. Do you want to join our tactical discussion now?” Wind Valley asked.
“You guys go ahead, I’m feeding the Nightmare Demon.” Chu Mu made up an excuse to decline.
“Alright, I hope you can do your best tomorrow. Our opponents have two Soul Pets of second rank one stage. They are very strong. If you can control one of them, we still have hope for victory,” Wind Valley said.
Chu Mu just casually replied and continued to practice the spell, ignoring the other people practicing tactical cooperation in the yard.
In Chu Mu’s view, MO Ye’s current strength was already much higher than the others. Joining the tactical training would not make much sense. As for the two second-rank, first-stage Soul pets that Wind Valley mentioned, Chu Mu didn’t feel the need to worry about them either. MO Ye had killed quite a few second-rank Soul Pets in the past two days..