Meeting at the First Battlefield

None of the threats the others had hurled reached Shi Jue. He had already arrived before the barrier of the First Battlefield, preparing to break in and have some fun.

"Eh? Shi Jue, you're out too!"

Shi Hao's voice suddenly rang out, interrupting Shi Jue's actions.

Shi Jue turned around and saw a chubby little boy carrying a huge sack on his back, stuffed so full that it was obvious he had looted quite a bit from the battlefield.

"Shi Hao, don't tell me you dug up your entire battlefield three feet deep?" Shi Jue joked.

"More or less!"

Shi Hao replied without so much as a blush.

Some Treasure Bones had been buried rather deep, so he had no choice but to dig them up, causing the formation to fail as well.

"What about you? There should have been Treasure Medicine in every battlefield. Why didn't you take any?"

"I ate them all!"

Shi Jue rubbed his stomach. The Primordial True Scripture contained Taotie Bone Script. Although he did not possess its innate Precious Technique, the Bone Script itself had devouring abilities. Inscribing it into his stomach had greatly accelerated his digestion and absorption.

"With your personality, I don't believe you just came straight out without doing anything," Shi Hao asked.

"Of course not. I merely knocked out a few thousand people and helped Heaven Mending Pavilion ease the pressure of having too many disciples." Shi Jue wore a resolute expression, as if he had done his duty without hesitation.

Shi Hao's mouth immediately fell open. He had dug up Treasure Bones and damaged the rune formations, allowing nearly everyone in the Eighth Battlefield to pass. Shi Jue, meanwhile, had caused almost no one in the Seventh Battlefield to pass. The people of Heaven Mending Pavilion were probably feeling rather miserable right now.

"You're heading to the First Battlefield?"

"Yeah!" Shi Jue nodded. The difficulty of each battlefield should be different, and the First Battlefield ought to have plenty of good things.

"I'll come with you. We'll clean the place out when we get there!" Shi Hao had originally planned to visit the Second Battlefield, but after seeing Shi Jue, he changed his mind. Neither of them could stand being idle.

"There are still two days left. Those disciples from the great clans should be carrying plenty of valuables. I'll handle knocking them out, and you'll search them. How does that division of labor sound?" Shi Jue felt that he was a little poor and needed to make some money to reach a modest standard of living.

"No problem!"

Shi Hao knew Shi Jue's methods well. Perhaps he was somewhat stronger overall, but when it came to dirty tricks and sneak attacks, he even wanted to learn a move or two from Shi Jue.

"Buzz!"

Tadpole-like runes flowed across the shimmering barrier ahead, constantly changing as they sealed off the battlefield.

Shi Jue did not activate any Bone Script or Precious Technique to force his way through. He simply used the Movement Secret Technique and entered the First Battlefield without the slightest effort, leaving Shi Hao stunned. What kind of Precious Technique was that? He had never seen it before.

"Boom!"

After hesitating for a moment, Shi Hao clenched both fists and activated the Suanni Treasure Technique. Lightning formed armor around him and wrapped around his fists as he smashed straight through.

Void God Realm.

The uproar over Shi Hao destroying the formation and allowing nearly everyone in the Eighth Battlefield to pass had yet to die down when news of Shi Jue knocking out the disciples of an entire battlefield once again sent the Void God Realm into an uproar.

"Damn, worthy of the Big Black Hand! Several thousand people—he knocked them all out in a single day."

"I did the math. During that day, the Big Black Hand was either knocking people out or on his way to knock people out. He barely stopped at all."

"The Brats let several thousand people go, while the Big Black Hand knocked out several thousand people. Those two are brothers, right? Could they have planned this in advance?"

"Who knows? Neither of them is normal."

"I have a feeling those two will do even more outrageous things in the future."

The entire Void God Realm was discussing Shi Jue and Shi Hao.

"Did the Ancestor Spirit teach him those underhanded tactics?" Bird Lord asked in a strange tone.

Crystal Wall Grandfather was equally puzzled. He shook his head. "The Ancestor Spirit wouldn't do something like that. But it doesn't matter. As long as we know he is on our side, it will be enough. When the time comes, we'll let those fellows from the Other Domain who love gang-beating others have a taste of it."

"Indeed. Back then, we were defeated so badly not entirely because of the difference between regions. Those kings of the Other Domain also had no sense of honor—several Immortal Kings would gang up on a single Immortal King." Bird Lord smiled and nodded.

First Battlefield. The environment here was extremely primitive. Ancient trees grew in abundance, while vines twisted and coiled everywhere. Unlike the Seventh Battlefield, which was mostly mountainous terrain.

"Shi Jue, what Precious Technique was that? It can even break through formations?" Shi Hao asked curiously.

"The Movement Secret Technique." Shi Jue did not hide it and gave a simple explanation. "It is a Secret Art focused on speed. When cultivated to the extreme, it can touch upon the laws of time. It is not restricted by grand formations, and in terms of speed, it is no weaker than Kunpeng Extreme Speed."

"If you want to learn it, I'll teach you later when we have the time."

"Alright!" Shi Hao did not act bashful or embarrassed. Such a Secret Art was something one could only encounter by chance. Shi Jue might not care, but Shi Hao would remember it. Just as Shi Jue was generous with Secret Arts, if Shi Hao obtained any good Precious Techniques in the future, he would definitely share them with Shi Jue right away.

"Screech!"

A Fierce Bird cried out from the distant sky. A pale golden Peng Bird streaked through the air at extreme speed before diving down. Its sharp talons were many times larger than Shi Hao and Shi Jue themselves.

"Crack!"

Shi Jue and Shi Hao's hearts tightened. They hurriedly darted to the side as the rocky ground was instantly gouged into a massive pit nearly ten meters deep. The terrifying force of those talons made both of them grave.

"A Golden Winged Great Peng?" Shi Hao cried out, then immediately denied it. "No, its feathers are too pale. It is a Primordial Remnant Species with Golden Winged Great Peng bloodline. This is a Beast King, and it is extremely powerful."

"Who cares what it is? Run first!"

Shi Jue grabbed Shi Hao and bolted into the dense forest. This was not something they could deal with yet.

The reason Shi Yi could defeat so many Beast Kings in the Void God Realm's records was entirely due to the Void God Realm's special suppression. If they encountered that many outside, they would be beaten to a pulp.

Fuck, didn't they say there wouldn't be any fierce beasts here that could endanger the disciples' lives?

Heaven Mending Pavilion's credibility was a little low.

If we die here, we won't forgive them even as ghosts.

"This is bad. The disciples in the First Battlefield are in danger." Elder Xiong Fei and the others suddenly realized the severity of the problem.

There had never been a precedent like the Brats digging up bones, so the elders had overlooked the matter of the formations. The First Battlefield was special. It contained numerous powerful Beast Kings sealed within it, and the formations suppressing them were connected to the other seven battlefields. If one was destroyed, several Beast Kings could break free. Those were not opponents that anyone in the Cave Heaven Realm could handle.

Although more than half of the examinee disciples had come out by now, some still remained inside.

The senior elders of Heaven Mending Pavilion all sped toward the First Battlefield. The many clan elders also realized that something was wrong and hurried after them.