Ugly Cultivation Notes

Chapter 391 Hunting Contest
Cheng Shangling saw that she didn't refuse straight away, and the smile on his face deepened.

"There are still a few months before the hunting contest, so you don't have to rush to give me an answer. I'll tell you the rules first."

When the other party came to this point, Xu Chunniang naturally had no reason to refuse, so she patiently listened to him.

Hundreds of years ago, there was no such grand event as a hunting contest.

It can be as short as three to 40 years, and as long as seven to 80 years. Every once in a while, the five islands on the southern route will still encounter the disaster of beast hordes.

Although the frequency of beast tides encountered by the five islands on the southern route is not as frequent as that of medium and large islands.

But every time the beast tide hits, it is an extremely serious crisis for the five islands on the southern route.

In the past, there were nine small islands on the southern route, four of which had been annihilated in the tide of beasts and sank into the sea forever.

In order to reduce the strength of these sea monsters, the surviving five islands on the southern line, led by Coral Island, organized monks from the five islands to hold a hunting competition.

Gathering the power of monks from the five islands, they go deep into the sea every ten years to kill sea monsters.

The ranking is based on the number of monsters killed, and generous rewards are issued.

This measure has greatly reduced the pressure brought by the beast swarms. Since the hunting competition was launched, in the past 600 years, the five islands of Nansha have only experienced three times of beast swarms.

Moreover, these three animal hordes were easier to resist than before.

This also caused the Zhan family headed by Coral Island to pay more and more attention to the hunting competition.

As Cheng Shangling spoke, a wry smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

"The ranking in this hunting competition is related to the allocation of sea areas among our cultivation families. If you rank high, you have the right to choose sea areas first.

The waters rich in resources like the coral islands are not our Cheng family's turn at all. "

Xu Chunniang was thoughtful. On Nansha Island, the Cheng family could still be among the top three families.

However, Nansha Island was not prominent among the five islands. Looking at the five islands on the southern route, there were more than a dozen cultivation families, large and small, and a few non-weak casual cultivation forces, and the Cheng family became commonplace.

Therefore, it is not an easy task to win a good ranking in this hunting contest.

Ten foundation-building monks form a group, and the Cheng family can only send out two teams to participate in the hunting competition, and they have already lost half of them.

Cheng Shangling saw the hesitation on the other party's face and eased his tone.

"Don't worry, little friend, I will naturally not force others to do anything against me. As long as you agree to participate in the competition, regardless of ranking, I, the third floor of the Cheng Family Library, will be permanently open to you from now on."

There was nothing Cheng Shangling could do about it.

Excluding the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled, all the Cheng family's Foundation Establishment monks and Ke Qing could barely make up two teams.

However, most of these monks are at the early and middle stages of foundation establishment, and there are only two of them who have completed the foundation establishment like Xu Chunniang.

This is also the reason why he values ​​each other so much.

Xu Chunniang agreed, and she had no reason not to agree to such a generous condition.

"Hahaha, I knew Xu Xiaoyou would definitely agree to help me with this."

Cheng Shangling laughed heartily, "Is this little friend used to eating spirit tea? I still have some here, so I gave it to my little friend."

As he spoke, he took out a pack of spiritual tea and handed it over without hesitation.

Xu Chunniang couldn't resist and had to accept it, "Then from today, can I go to the third floor of Zangshu Pavilion?"

Cheng Shangling nodded with a smile, immediately took out the token, and greeted the guards of Zangshu Pavilion.

Both parties were quite satisfied with the result. Xu Chunniang put away the spirit tea, bid farewell to Cheng Shangling and left the hall.

After she left, a handsome young man stepped into the hall at some point. He looked at his grandfather with a worried expression on his face.

"Grandpa, you make an exception and let an outsider enter the third floor of the Library Pavilion. What if she refuses to contribute in the hunting contest?"

Cheng Shangling took a sip of the cold spirit tea with a smile, "I'm just taking a gamble."

"bet?"

The young man was stunned, he didn't expect to hear such an answer.

"Rules are dead, but people are alive. Qing Jia, my Cheng family used to be famous in the Nine Islands on the southern route.

But now my Cheng family is going from bad to worse. If we still stick to those old rules and don't make any changes, I'm afraid the five southern islands will not be able to accommodate my Cheng family in the future. "

The smile on Cheng Shangling's face had disappeared at some point, and his tone was heavy.

Cheng Qingjia was silent, and suddenly understood the reason why grandpa did this.

"It's the grandson who is incompetent."

Cheng Shangling shook his head with deep eyes.

"Frozen three feet is not a day's cold. The Cheng family has been passed down for too long, and it has been at ease for too long. If it wasn't for the incident of that girl Su Rong who came to me, I still don't know that there is such a vicious infighting in the family." Dou... In short, a change must be made."

Cheng Qingjia was speechless, feeling the burden on her body.

Outsiders looked at the Cheng family as glamorous, but in fact the situation was not easy.

In the previous hunting competitions, the Cheng family's ranking was not good, and the sea area resources they got were also the worst.

I only hope that this time, grandpa can bet, right?

Xu Chunniang didn't know about the conversation that happened after she left.After returning to Zangshu Pavilion, she went straight to the third floor, and it was unimpeded.

After roughly scanning the collection of books on the third floor, she sighed in her heart, compared with the collection of books on the two floors below, the gold content here is obviously higher.

She found the bookshelf that recorded strange stories and strange events in the cultivation world, and looked them up one by one.

Half a month later, Xu Chunniang searched through the bone books on the entire bookshelf, but did not find a single word about the Dead Sea and the Northwest Five Schools.

However, there is a black and white giant wheel that can eat people mentioned in a book, which looks a bit like the eyes of evil-eyed beasts.

Xu Chunniang put down the bone book with some regret, and turned to the bookshelf that recorded the formation.

The Cheng family has a rich collection of books, and there are also a lot of bone books related to formations. There are even dozens of bone books related to teleportation formations.

Xu Chunniang's heart moved, she took one of them and looked it over.

However, after reading the bone book from beginning to end, she discovered that although the content recorded in it was related to the teleportation array, most of it was teaching people how to maintain the daily operation of the teleportation array.

She put the bone book in her hand back to its original place, and took a closer look at the next one, only to find that it was all about the repair method of the teleportation array.

Xu Chunniang took a few more and found that the contents were similar.

Or tell the precautions for using the teleportation array, or introduce the influence of various spirit stones on the teleportation array.

In short, there is not a single bone book mentioning the operation principle and key materials of the teleportation array.

Xu Chunniang frowned slightly. Did the Cheng family have no books on this subject, or did they hide such books?

She is more inclined to the first possibility.

The third floor of the book collection pavilion was originally only open to monks above the Cheng family's foundation period. These people are the backbone of the Cheng family, and the Cheng family has no reason to hide the bone books.

If this is the case, then who set up the teleportation array currently owned by the Cheng family?
(End of this chapter)