Zhang San was hiding.
This Innate Realm martial artist had clearly planned to stay hidden until the very end, then emerge after the three Innate Realm fighters and more than twenty martial artists had fought each other to exhaustion.
He carefully concealed his aura and buried himself beneath a layer of turf, utterly disregarding the dignity and bearing expected of an Innate Realm martial artist.
In these circumstances, forget the other martial artists—even Li ChunJun, with his keen senses, couldn't find him after circling Snow Forest for most of the day.
With no other choice, Li ChunJun turned his attention to the other martial artists.
After taking down two more top martial artists and three high-ranking ones, the rest...
had all gone into hiding.
The sight left Li ChunJun speechless.
So this was supposed to be Heroes Chase the Deer?
They might as well call it a hide-and-seek tournament.
He hadn't learned any scouting skills, so he couldn't hunt down Zhang San, the two remaining top martial artists, and the four ordinary martial artists one by one.
So he went to the Golden Cauldron at the center of the arena.
The Golden Cauldron wasn't a cauldron made of gold.
Rather than a giant cauldron, it was more like a cluster of lamps.
Whoever claimed the Golden Cauldron could activate it, and then every half hour it would flash with dazzling golden light.
If the light flashed ten times in a row—that is, if it went uninterrupted for five hours—the Heroes Chase the Deer Battle would be considered decided.
Likewise, if the Golden Cauldron remained active for two hours without being interrupted, ferocious beasts would be released into the Snow Forest arena.
The hiding methods that could evade the notice of other martial artists might not work so well against ferocious