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Chapter 166: Facing Tianshu, the Four Seasons Rotate (Day 12, )

"There are indeed more people outside the safe zone."

Walking through the wilderness, Chu Mu spoke slowly.

Along the way, the number of martial arts students they encountered was obviously more than before. Because the four of them seemed to be quite strong, no one was so blind as to step forward and rob others. Chu Mu and his companions were not interested in robbing others.

The rule that the previously exposed zodiac signs left the scene one after another was like throwing a catfish into a school of fish, causing those martial arts students who had originally planned to slowly mix in the tokens in the safe zone to feel a sense of crisis.

If you want to stay in a safe zone from beginning to end, only a Tianshu-level safe zone can do it.

However, the Tianshu-level zodiac challenge is also the most difficult. Ordinary martial artists simply do not have the ability to earn tokens through the Tianshu zodiac challenge, and keeping their own tokens is already the limit.

In this way, they are like being imprisoned in a small area during the re-screening, with no possibility of passing the re-screening.

Instead of doing this, it is better to go to more zodiac challenge points.

"This is a good thing." Lin Changfeng said expressionlessly, "If everyone shrinks back, this re-screening will be too boring."

Chu Mu glanced at Lin Changfeng and couldn't help but become curious, "Brother Lin, what level of Tengkong Realm are you in?"

When he attacked before, the strength displayed by Lin Changfeng was almost the same as that of Song Yan, but Chu Mu felt that the degree of concentration of Lin Changfeng's source power was higher than that of Song Yan, a bit like the third level of the Void Realm.

"Third turn." Lin Changfeng replied calmly.

"Third turn?" Song Yan scratched his head and looked at Lin Changfeng in confusion. "I feel like your strength is about the same as mine?"

Lin Changfeng's face turned dark, and he put one hand on the hilt of the knife, feeling an urge to chop someone. After a moment, he put his hand down and spoke in a muffled voice.

"I don't have money to buy good source blood, so this is it."

"This... I'm sorry." Song Yan scratched his head. He was a bit straightforward and his words just now didn't have any other meaning. He felt quite guilty at the moment.

Seeing that the atmosphere in the field was a bit strange, Chu Mu hurriedly tried to smooth things over, "It's okay, I'm poor too, and I only absorbed the eighth level of source blood at the beginning."

"Eighth rank?!" Lin Changfeng looked at Chu Mu strangely, and then suddenly became optimistic, "Then I am better than you, I am seventh rank!"

"Great." Chu Mu smiled and gave Lin Changfeng a thumbs up, not caring at all.

Tu Shanming looked at the other three people, and seemed to want to comfort Lin Changfeng. After thinking for a moment, he patted Lin Changfeng on the shoulder.

"I'm third class, and your number is bigger than mine."

Lin Changfeng's steps became unsteady, his breathing suddenly quickened, and he stared at Tu Shanming with wide eyes. His good mood just now disappeared in an instant.

He reached for the hilt of the knife with a trembling hand, and then suddenly remembered that the person in front of him was his boss.

Oh my, so angry!
Chu Mu and Song Yan silently turned their gazes away.

It’s really hard to hold back laughter.

Feeling Lin Changfeng's murderous intent, Tu Shanming shrank his head, and when he looked forward, his eyes lit up, "Hey, I saw the lamppost!"

What a blunt way to change the subject...

The other three people complained silently in their hearts, but they couldn't help but look over there.

Not far ahead, a clear red light appeared. Although it was not directly in front of them, they could reach it by slightly adjusting the direction.

"We're almost there." Chu Mu smiled. "According to my previous experience, the fact that we can see the lamppost means that we are only about 50 kilometers away from the Zodiac Challenge Point."

The explosive power of a warrior in the Soaring Realm is in the order of tens or even millions of kilograms. Even if they are traveling at a speed that does not consume much physical energy, their speed is comparable to that of a car on the highway. This distance can be reached in less than half an hour.

"Charge!" Song Yan shouted in a low voice with some excitement in his eyes.

The four of them quickened their pace tacitly, and after a moment, a clear red marking line appeared on the ground ahead.

With the lesson from the Tianxuan Monkey Safe Zone, Chu Mu relaxed this time when he didn’t see the marking line.

With one foot on the marking line, Chu Mu activated the first level of transparent vision and carefully observed whether there were any signs of tampering on the marking line. Then he locked his eyes on the direction of the lamp post from a distance and compared it with other lamp posts in his memory to confirm that there was no difference in distance.

Then he breathed a sigh of relief.

"The marking line is fine." Chu Mu nodded to his three teammates and then frowned slightly, "But, it's a bit unexpected."

"There is no ambush on the border of the safe zone."

"Maybe we are lucky and we are not in their ambush area." Tu Shanming didn't care. "When my brother Biao and I entered the Tianxuan Monkey Safety Zone, we didn't encounter any encirclement or attack."

"That should be the case." Chu Mu nodded slightly.

The boundary of the safe zone is a circle with a radius of ten kilometers. It is a very large area. It is not realistic to keep an eye on all the martial artists who enter the safe zone. The martial artists in ambush can only keep an eye on a part of the area.

but…

"Who is Brother Dart?"

"I." Lin Changfeng said sullenly.

It turned out to be the bodyguard’s escort.

Chu Mu nodded, "Okay, Brother Dart."

"Hello, Brother Biao." Song Yan also followed with a smile.

Lin Changfeng's face darkened and he stopped talking.

After successfully entering the safe zone, the few of them continued walking and quickened their pace towards the challenge point. However, before they reached the challenge point, they were stopped halfway.

"Brothers, please stay!" A boy in a black robe walked towards the four people with a smile on his face.

Chu Mu paused and immediately looked at the lamppost not far away to confirm that he was indeed in the safe zone. Then he looked at the boy in front of him, "What's the matter?"

"I see that you are in a hurry. You must have come from other places to participate in the zodiac challenge here, right?" The man looked quite confident. Although he was asking, he was almost certain of this.

"Indeed." Chu Mu did not deny it. "So, you have something to talk to us about?"

"Of course I have something to do. If it wasn't for me, I wouldn't have to make this trip." The man smiled, noticing the vigilance of Chu Mu and the others, "You don't have to be wary of me. I'm alone, and this is a safe area."

"I'm here to discuss cooperation with you."

"Let me introduce myself first. My name is Zhou Peihua."

Chu Mu looked at his three teammates with questioning eyes.

The three of them shook their heads, indicating that they did not know this person. So Chu Mu looked at Zhou Peihua in front of him again in confusion, "We don't even know you, what cooperation?"

"Of course we will cooperate in the challenge here." Zhou Peihua glanced at the four people in front of him, saw the confusion in their eyes, and then suddenly realized, "I see, you don't know what the challenge here is yet."

"In that case, let me briefly tell you about it."

Chu Mu and the other three immediately pricked up their ears.

Although they still didn't know the specific intentions of the guy in front of them, they naturally didn't mind if someone was willing to tell them about the challenge.

Zhou Peihua's first words shocked Chu Mu and the other three.

"The zodiac sign here is Tianshu Dog."

The four of them looked at each other.

None of them had any experience in participating in Tianshu-level challenges. They didn't expect that by randomly choosing a place, they would accidentally stumble upon a Tianshu-level zodiac sign.

Moreover, it was a dog that none of the four had ever encountered before.

"The dog challenge requires teamwork." Zhou Peihua said slowly, "There are four ways to participate in the Tianshu Dog Challenge: two, three, four, and five people."

“The gameplay is completely different depending on the number of team members.”

“So, there are really four challenges here.”

"There are four of you. If nothing unexpected happens, you should choose to participate in a four-person challenge, right?" Zhou Peihua glanced at Chu Mu and the other three.

The four of them nodded at the same time.

"That's right." Zhou Peihua smiled, "My three friends and I are also planning to participate in the four-person challenge."

“That’s why I’m looking for you to cooperate with me.”

"Let me first introduce you to the challenge of the four of us." Zhou Peihua paused for a moment, "This challenge is called the Four Seasons Reversal."

"We gather six teams each time, a total of twenty-four people to start."

“The challenge takes place in four different rooms, with four people from each team entering one room, and each room has one person from each of the six teams.”

"There are four rooms, corresponding to the four seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter. The walls of the rooms are transparent, so people can see each other but cannot hear each other. The rooms rotate in the order of the four seasons. When it is your room's turn, the six people in the room can act once."

"Everyone has two cards in their hands at the beginning. At the beginning of each round, they can draw a new card. There are two types of actions: [play a card] and [move a card]."

"I have a question." Chu Mu looked thoughtful, "What is the content of the card?"

"The content of the cards is not complicated, there are only three types in total." Zhou Peihua smiled, "They are [Kill], [Flash], and [Peach]."

"Play the [Kill] card, select a target in the same room and fight for 30 seconds. After the time is up, neither side can continue to fight."

"Play a [Flash] card. If someone chooses you as the target of a [Kill] card, you can be exempted from this battle."

"It's important to note that the cards played by the six people in the same room are announced at the same time, so you can't tell in advance whether the others are going to attack you. If you play a [Flash] card but no one plays a [Kill] card against you, your [Flash] card will be wasted."

"Play the [Peach] card and you will get a recovery pill that can restore certain injuries and energy."

"Except for the Peach card, using other external objects to restore injuries and source power is considered a foul and will result in immediate elimination."

"If you choose not to play a card this round, you can transfer a card to the next member of your group who plays a card, but you cannot transfer it by jumping."

"Members who lose their ability to fight will be considered eliminated."

"It is not possible to skip the card transfer of eliminated members. For example, if a summer member is eliminated, the card transfer of the spring member will be considered as discarded and will not be transferred to the autumn member."

"If all members are eliminated, the team will be eliminated."

"The last team left is the winner."

The expressions of Chu Mu and the other three people became solemn.

Such a challenge not only involves teamwork, but also involves a competition of individual strength. With 24 people participating, it is quite difficult.

And this is just one of the four challenges here.

It is worthy of being a Tianshu-level zodiac challenge, and it is completely on a different level from the challenges they have taken on before.

but…

The four of them looked at each other, and saw eagerness in the eyes of the other three.

Now that they have come here, there is no way they can retreat.

"So the cooperation you want to carry out with us is to join forces to fight against the other four teams?" Chu Mu looked at Zhou Peihua, his eyes flashing slightly.

"That's right." Zhou Peihua nodded, "It should be said that we temporarily joined forces in the early stage, and then each of us relied on our own abilities in the later stage."

"After all, only one team can be the winner of Tianshu Dog's challenge."

"If you agree to cooperate, before the remaining three teams, our two teams will not choose to play the [Kill] card against each other."

"That sounds like a good suggestion." Chu Mu touched his chin, "Can you represent the other three members of your team?"

"Okay." Zhou Peihua nodded. "The other three members of our team have already registered at the challenge point. In addition to our team, three other teams have already registered."

"If you join, you will be the fifth team."

"Just wait for one more team, and then we can start."

"Then why don't you find someone to join forces at the challenge point, but instead leave the challenge point to stop us?" Lin Changfeng couldn't help but ask, "There should be a lot of people at the Tianshu level challenge point, right?"

Zhou Peihua's mouth twitched and she looked at Chu Mu.

"Because we can't let the other three groups that have already registered know about the alliance." Chu Mu smiled and gave the answer.

"Yes, so you guys go sign up first later, I'll take a detour and return to my team from the other side." Zhou Peihua nodded and looked at Chu Mu, "So, do you want to join forces?"

Chu Mu looked at the other three people, and nodded slightly after reaching a consensus.

"If the rules you mentioned are okay, then yes."
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Chapter 2 is being written!

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