Listening to everyone's discussion, Jian Chen also stared at the huge statue in front of him curiously.
Suddenly, an old man wearing a cyan robe descended from the sky. The old man was very ordinary, and there was nothing unique that could attract people. When the old man first appeared, the aura of heaven and earth that was constantly flowing between heaven and earth suddenly fell into the air. In a static state, an indescribable pressure permeated the world, causing everyone in the field to feel a dull feeling stuck in their hearts.
As soon as the old man appeared, the people around him who were talking about it also quieted down at the same time.
The old man was suspended between heaven and earth, standing proudly above the heads of the many heavenly masters below, looking down at everyone, and said in an old and plain voice: "Now I announce that the mercenary competition once every fifty years is officially opened, and the participants Stay where you are, and the rest will back away immediately."
As soon as the old man's voice fell, the crowd below suddenly became agitated, and those elderly people and those who did not plan to participate in the competition retreated to the back.
"Jian Chen, take care of yourself!" Ming Dong said to Jian Chen with a solemn face, and then he retreated with the crowd.
As soon as they left, the number of people who stayed there was greatly reduced. Even so, there were still tens of thousands of people.
Seeing that the crowd below has gradually stabilized, the old man suspended in the air continued to speak: "The mercenary competition only allows people under the age of 50 to participate. The ruthless bombardment of the power of the world will be wiped out in an instant, and those who are more than fifty years younger will quit now, this is your last chance."
Afterwards, several hundred people among the tens of thousands of people dawdled and withdrew, their faces full of unwillingness.
After seeing that no one had retreated, the old man waved his sleeve robe, and a dense number of dark tokens rushed out from the sleeve robe, and were wrapped by an invisible force and fell accurately in front of the tens of thousands of contestants below.
Jian Chen stretched out his hand to take the black token floating in front of him. The token was the size of a palm and was made of an unknown material. It was very hard and difficult to be damaged by external force, and there was a mysterious force flowing inside.
The old man looked down at the people below, and said in a flat tone: "This is the competition arrow, the first knockout round will be held in a separate world, after entering the gate, you will be immediately teleported to any place, and the period of the knockout round is one year. , During this year, the top 500 people who collected the arrows were shortlisted, and the rest were eliminated." Said, the old man cupped his hands towards the sky, and said respectfully: "Please open the gate of the world."
The world suddenly fell into a strange silence. More than 100,000 people gathered together, and surprisingly no one made a sound, only the faint sound of breathing.
Suddenly, there was a strong energy fluctuation in the sky, which attracted everyone for the first time. Everyone looked up and saw that the energy in the sky was fluctuating extremely erratically, and the entire space was violently distorted. The scene lasted for about two breaths. A little colorful light suddenly appeared, and it spread rapidly around it. It soon expanded into a colorful giant hole with a diameter of 100 meters, and there was chaos inside. , can't see anything.
The pitch-black token held by everyone suddenly emitted a faint black light, and then everyone was wrapped in an invisible energy and slowly ascended into the sky, flying towards the colorful giant cave.
"what!"
Suddenly, a bleak scream came, and I saw the entire body of a middle-aged man who had just approached the edge of the giant cave melted rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye, and disappeared completely between heaven and earth in just one breath. leave anything.
"Once people over fifty years old pass through the gate of enchantment, they will be ruthlessly strangled by the power of enchantment and completely dissipated between heaven and earth. You don't have to panic, as long as you are under fifty years old, you can safely pass through this gate. ." The old man suspended in the sky said expressionlessly.
These words suddenly made many people look panicked, and some people immediately struggled in the air, shouting: "I want to go out, I want to go out, I give up participating in the competition..." Unfortunately, they were hit by an invisible force. They were wrapped up and slowly lifted into the sky, no matter how hard they struggled, they couldn't break free from the shackles of this power.
"I gave you a chance before, but now it's too late." The old man stared at those people indifferently and said coldly.
"what!"
Another bleak scream came, and the voice was full of endless pain. A middle-aged man was refined alive by the power of the enchantment in front of everyone's eyes. There was no slag left, and it completely dissipated. Between heaven and earth.
"Please, let us out..."
"Let's get out, we give up the game..."
Some people over 50 years old who were planning to fish in troubled waters started begging for mercy.
The old man suspended in mid-air frowned slightly, and his face showed a hint of impatience. With a wave of his hand, an invisible force emerged, and he actually supported those people to speed up and fly towards the colorful giant hole.
"what…."
With the sound of desolate screams, dozens of people over fifty years old were directly destroyed by the power of the enchantment. The hearts of everyone watching this scene were terrified, while those who had withdrawn earlier were Secretly rejoiced.
Subsequently, tens of thousands of contestants were also carried by invisible forces into the colorful giant cave and disappeared.
"Let me in, let me in, I'm also going to participate in the competition." A voice suddenly came, and I saw Ming rushing out of the crowd and quickly running under the colorful giant cave, facing the suspended in a pleading face. The old man in the air said loudly.
The eyes of everyone in the field immediately focused on Ming Dong. Everyone looked at Ming Dong like an idiot. The time for issuing the arrows for the competition has ended. Now all the participating people are ready to enter an independent space for the knockout round. How could the strong man suspended in the air issue the arrow again just because of him alone.
Jian Chen, who had not yet entered the colorful giant cave, also discovered Mingdong's abnormality. He stared at Mingdong with a strange expression, and his face was full of puzzlement. He couldn't understand why Mingdong suddenly wanted to Participated in this competition.
The old man who was floating in the air frowned slightly, and looked at Ming Dong who was yelling at the bottom impatiently. Just when he was about to wave his hand to drive him away, suddenly his expression changed, and then he waved and shot a black arrow that fell into Ming Dong. In his hands, he said softly, "Go in."
In a short moment, the old man's attitude towards Ming Dong immediately became friendly, and the tone of his speech was not as cold as before, but very soft.
The old man's attitude towards Ming Dong made the surrounding powerhouses who were familiar with the old man's details open their mouths wide, with expressions of disbelief all over their faces.
"It seems that this young man's background is not simple." Someone whispered to himself.
Jian Chen also looked at Ming Dong, who was slowly rising up from below, wrapped in a mysterious force. He was full of doubts and couldn't understand what Ming Dong was doing. There was also a hint of worry on his face. The old man said clearly before that he would be randomly sent to any place after entering the gate. Mingdong stayed alone with the strength of a junior great sage. It is indeed very special. The danger was, but under the current situation, Jian Chen was powerless to stop it.
After Jian Chen was sent into the colorful giant hole by the black arrow in his hand, he was randomly transported to a jungle. The surroundings were very quiet, and there were dense trees everywhere.
Suddenly, the space around Jian Chen fluctuated slightly, and a figure suddenly appeared beside him.
When he saw the figure clearly, Jian Chen suddenly showed a happy expression and said in surprise: "Ming Dong, it's actually you, great, you have been teleported to me." This was suddenly teleported to Jian Chen's side. The figure is relieved to be Ming Dong.
Mingdong was startled by the sudden sound and shadow, and conditioned reflexively to sacrifice his holy soldier, but when he heard the familiar voice, his face was full of excitement, he immediately retracted the holy soldier, and said happily: "Jian Chen , I actually teleported here with you, it's really great, the two of us together, we will definitely be able to stabilize our pace here."
"By the way, Mingdong, didn't you not participate in the competition? Why did you suddenly change your mind at the last moment, and that mysterious and powerful old man made an exception to allow you to join in midway." Jian Chen looked puzzled.
Hearing this, Ming Dong's face showed a daze, and said: "I don't know why I suddenly changed my attention to participating in the knockout round, I just felt that something was calling me here, and the feeling of calling was getting stronger and stronger, and finally it seemed to be able to Controlling my will, I couldn't control myself, and then came in in a daze."
"What, you said that something is calling you here? Can you still feel it now?" Jian Chen was surprised, what Ming Dong encountered was quite strange.
Mingdong closed his eyes and felt it carefully, then nodded and said, "I can still feel it, but the power of summoning is much weaker."
Jian Chen frowned and thought for a while, then said, "Then can you feel where the summons came from?"
"In the east!" Ming Dong stretched out his hand and pointed to the front.
Jian Chen glanced at the direction Mingdong pointed, pondered for a while, and said, "Come on, let's go over and see what is calling you." Immediately, Jian Chen and Mingdong moved towards the east together.
This is an independent world, and Jian Chen and Ming Dong are located in a primitive mountain range. The environment here is very harsh, and there are poisonous mosquitoes and insects everywhere.
Suddenly, Ming Dong, who was walking behind Jian Chen, became short and quickly sank to the ground. He actually stepped on a swamp that was hard to see with the naked eye.
Mingdong slapped the swamp with both hands and tried to fly out with his own strength. However, the next moment, Mingdong's face suddenly changed and he shouted, "My legs were bitten by something, Jianchen help me."
Jian Chen was startled, he immediately turned around and grabbed Ming Dong's shoulder, his arm suddenly exerted force, and directly threw Ming Dong from the swamp into the air, and at the same time, a poisonous snake the size of a bucket was thrown out, covered in mud. A pair of giant mouths were tightly biting Ming Dong's legs.
A sharp light flashed in Jian Chen's eyes, and the light wind sword appeared instantly. With the flickering of a sword shadow, the poisonous snake with the thickness of a bucket was directly chopped into countless pieces, and the bright red blood mixed with the foul-smelling sludge splashed around in the air.
Jian Chen used gentle force to catch Ming Dong who fell from the air. Although the body of the poisonous snake was cut off by him, the snake's head still tightly gripped Ming Dong's legs, causing Ming Dong to crack his teeth in pain.
Jian Chen waved his arms, and saw a silvery white light flashing away, the snake head that bit Mingdong suddenly split in half from the middle, and Mingdong's legs had been bitten, blood dripping, and toxins entered the body. The skin around his wound was black and blue, and it was still rapidly expanding around him.
Ming Dong immediately took out a small white bottle from the space belt, poured out some white powder and sprinkled it on the wound, muttering: "Fortunately, I have an antidote in Valorance City, this antidote. Medicine is very famous on Tianyuan Continent, it can detoxify hundreds of poisons, the only drawback is that the price is too high."
Jian Chen looked at the wound on Ming Dong's leg and said, "Can you continue to walk?"
After the antidote was applied, Ming Dong stood up and moved his legs and said with a smile: "Fortunately, the wound is not deep, the problem is not big, and we can move on."
"Be careful, let's move on. I don't know how big this world is. So many people were teleported in and they didn't even see a single one." Jian Chen said.
"Wait a minute!" Ming Dong came to the broken body of the poisonous snake, took out and unfolded a piece of the body, took out a magic core from it, and said with a smile: "This thing can't be thrown away like this, what a waste. ."
Jian Chen smiled helplessly, this poisonous snake has the strength of Tier 3, and now a Tier 3 magic core really can't get into his magic eye.
After this incident, the two of them became more cautious on the next journey. Even so, the undetectable provocation hidden on the ground still caused the two of them to suffer, and some of the ground seemed to be inductive soil. , but when you step on it, it suddenly turns into a swamp, or like quicksand in the desert, dragging a person's body to sink below, even Jian Chen suffered a few losses, but all of them have Passed by without incident.
In this primitive mountain range, there are also monsters from time to time, all of which are third-order and fourth-order monsters, almost all of which are highly poisonous.
After Jian Chen and the two walked cautiously in the forest for a long time, Jian Chen suddenly stopped, his ears quivering slightly, catching the movement around him.
After a while, a smile appeared on Jian Chen's face and said: "After walking for a long time, I finally met a living person, this world is really big enough, tens of thousands of people were sent in, it took so long to meet one ."
"Jian Chen, is there anyone around here?" Ming Dong heard what Jian Chen meant and asked, not sure if it was joy or sorrow.
Jian Chen nodded and said: "Yes, there is one, not far ahead, and the sound seems to be walking towards us."
"I just don't know what his strength is. If it's the earth sage, then we'll be in trouble." Ming Dong's face became a little dignified.
Jian Chen patted Ming Dong's shoulder and said indifferently, "Let's go, there are not many people who can reach the Earth Master before the age of fifty, how could it be so easy to meet, let's go, let's see Looking at who the person in front of us is, maybe we can still harvest a competition arrow."