"From today onwards, our National Government team will truly receive attention from many countries, and the competitions to come will no longer be so easy."

Feng Li said with a serious expression, "This guy immediately hid his joy when he saw Bai Mo and the others come down."

"That's true, but Bai Mo only used his summoning abilities. He hasn't used his other abilities yet, and we still have Ai Jiangtu and Mu Ningxue hidden in the background," Song He said.

"The rewards for this year are already in the works. The first place team will receive the Divine Seal Praise, the second place team will receive the opportunity to train at the Void Altar of the Holy Kay Altar, and the third place team will receive a complete set of magical tools."

Pang Lai squinted and slowly said, "The first two items are both good things. Keep it up, the next round of the competition won't be easy."

Upon hearing this, everyone's faces lit up with excitement. The Divine Seal Praise could enhance the basic power of magic, and the Holy Altar of the Australian Magic Association was a sacred place for cultivation, capable of helping high-level peak mages break through to the super-level!

"That's right. The next round is a treasure hunt, which contains resources from the international resource pool. You might be targeted," Han Ji said.

His words were mainly a reminder to Bai Mo that now everyone knows this captain of the Kyushu team is troublesome, and it's inevitable that some people will try to unite during the treasure hunt to eliminate the hidden danger. This kind of thing has happened before in previous treasure hunts.

"The rules and environment are different each time the treasure hunt is held. What Han Ji said is all good. There have been deaths in the past, so I hope you will be more careful and put your lives first."

Feng Li constantly reminded everyone, firmly suppressing their restless hearts that might drift away at any moment.

"I know, I know, you're so long-winded." Bai Mo waved his hand. "Are you getting old?"

"Hmph! Go back and cultivate, all of you."

With two consecutive wins, the Kyushu team has secured its ticket to the next round. Although Feng Li was itching to fight because of Bai Mo's words, he ultimately maintained his composure and waved to dismiss the crowd.

The treasure hunt is a grand stage, big enough for all the National Academy students who have made it to the second round to dance.

Therefore, it is inevitable that everyone hopes to make their dance moves more dazzling in the upcoming competition.

Scavenging resources and engaging in secluded training became the choice for the vast majority of National Team players.

The members of the Kyushu team were no exception. Originally, there wasn't much time for everyone to improve or digest their strength, but the fact that the famous Dark Lord Eisendall was found guilty delayed the treasure hunt by two days.

This also gave everyone more time to prepare. Of course, you can't do much in two days; you can only train your contracted beasts.

Of course, most people were just watching the show and had no intention of making a quick decision.

Bai Mo wasn't involved in the gossip, nor did he have any. Mu Nujiao was diligently cultivating, and Jiang Shaoxu was also cultivating. In fact, only Mo Fan was busy advancing the Swift Star Wolf and wasn't cultivating.

So he was a bit bored. Unlike the others in the team who had reached a minor bottleneck, his cultivation of all three magic systems was currently in the accumulation phase.

In other words, the fact that Jiaoyue hadn't woken up yet wasted some of his research time. In the end, he concluded that Jiaoyue's cultivation level was not as high as Daju's and she needed more time to digest the information.

What do bored people do?

Bai Mo chose to surf the internet; he dared not go out.

After two battles, he became famous, and most people in Venice know him. Yesterday, he was almost overwhelmed by a huge number of girls on the street.

When they went out, their clothes were neat; when they came back, they were tattered.

Online, the doubts have largely disappeared, replaced by questions about the abilities of the other members of the Kyushu team, who are believed to be holding him back.

The numerous comments are diverse in nature and serve various purposes.

such as:

Mischievous Boy: My brother is amazing, it's a pity his teammates aren't very good. Rationally speaking, Bai Mo's strength doesn't actually require teammates; those people only limit his potential.

Below is a group of people who agree, offering rational analysis.

Ai Shangcenglou: To be honest, these two matches were really exciting to watch. Bai Mo should have just used one department to beat up these foreigners.

Xiao Doubi: I support this! This is how we truly showcase the might of Kyushu!

Chicken Wind and Rain: That's not enough. If you ask me, the best way is to just use a single spell to summon the beast tide and beat them all together!

"Tsk tsk, so you're already teaching me how to play?"

Bai Mo scrolled through his phone, looking at various comments online. To be honest, there were quite a few opinions like that.

With a little thought, one can guess what malicious intentions these "people" are hiding behind their statements.

"If you say you don't need it, then I'll lose face."

Bai Mo muttered something to himself, closed his eyes, and with a thought, severed the last connection between the spiritual imprint and the sea of ​​spirit.

The two years of nurturing had not been in vain; within the spiritual universe, the speed at which the spatial galaxy absorbed the spiritual seal was much faster than usual.

In the past few days, only a thin layer of his spiritual imprint has remained unabsorbed by the space system galaxy.

As most of the spiritual imprint was absorbed, he needed to cut himself less and less often.

At the current pace, Bai Mo estimates that he will be able to complete his spatial magic technique by tomorrow morning when the treasure hunt officially begins.

And the feeling of being restricted during this period will also be relieved.

The space system is unusable, but it's still a lot of trouble, and daily life has become much more inconvenient, so I'll just let it go.

Take the cataclysmic flood in the last match against Spain, for example. If his spatial abilities were available, he could have dodged it with just a teleport.

Who cares if it's super-level magic or not?

If you can't hit it, even a forbidden spell will be useless.

Therefore, there's no need for the Jade Dragonfish to get injured.

Moreover, it has been unsealed, and the sound system can be used again. The treasure hunt competition just needs this all-seeing and all-hearing device to help him search for treasures.

The gathering place for the treasure hunt is in the same venue as the opening ceremony. Unlike the previous venue setup, today's venue is filled with many magic stones that shimmer with a silver luster.

The silver magic stones were arranged in a long array, and Bai Mo could feel the spatial power surging actively throughout the entire array.

"A spatial magic array! It seems we're going to be teleported directly to the treasure hunting grounds!" Ai Jiangtu exclaimed.

"Such a huge spatial magic array, where are we going to be sent? Could it be the edge of some world?" Zhao Manyan stared wide-eyed.

This spatial magic array is indeed ridiculously large; heaven knows where it leads.

Unlike random teleportation scrolls, this kind of spatial magic array is usually a spatial portal that can instantly move a person to a pre-set location.

In this world of scarce resources and monsters vying for them, the resources spent on teleporting a passenger can be used to train an outstanding officer on the battlefield.

Therefore, only mega-events like the World Government Competition would use spatial magic arrays to send students to the real battlefield.

"Let me explain the rules," the head referee stepped forward and announced in standard international English, "The 160 trainees from your 16 countries will enter in a shuffled order..."

"...We've deployed eagle eyes to ensure your safety, but accidents can happen, so don't lose your life because of greed or momentary lapses in judgment."

"Next, this is a spatial scroll. If you find your lives in danger, immediately fill the entire scroll with magical energy. The scroll will activate in about 4 seconds, creating a spatial vortex to send you back here. Again, cherish your lives and don't act rashly!"

The treasure hunt competition was basically attended by all members of the National Government team, with ten people on each team, totaling one hundred and sixty people, representing sixteen countries.

After the rules were explained, the students began to enter the spatial magic array one after another.

The order of the players was shuffled. Bai Mo's draw was relatively late, and all the members of the Kyushu team were in front of him. Coincidentally, the person in front of him was Eileen.

The two chatted for a few minutes, and soon it was their turn.

"Bai Mo, see you inside. You'd better go easy on me."

"Okay." Bai Mo smiled and followed him inside.

His body trembled, and in the blink of an eye, he found himself in a strange place. Before him was no longer a crowded competition arena, but a distorted, hazy sky, as if it had been casually painted on with paint, extremely unreal.

He found himself on a desolate mountain, surrounded by rugged, undulating land, vast and boundless.

Far ahead, a forest stretches out, from which one can see a roaring river flowing upstream, cutting through the wasteland and crashing into a valley on the east. From the valley, mist rises and the roars of ferocious beasts echo.

This is a world pieced together haphazardly, filled with a sense of the bizarre.

This mountain is not the highest, and Bai Mo cannot see the end of this world through it.

"Eek!!"

Bai Mo glanced at the eagle in the sky, flicked his wrist, and a series of melodies flew out to probe the surrounding situation, while he walked down the mountain.

The entire mountain was barren, devoid of trees, with only tall and short, dense shrubs forming a small forest. The mountain was not high, only a hundred meters, resembling a convex, rounded cube.

"That's not a mountain, is it?" Han Ji asked, looking at the image transmitted back by the eagle.

Bai Mo couldn't see the whole picture from the ground, but Tong Ying reflected the entire scene from where he was.

If you look closely, you'll find that the hundred-meter-high barren mountain covered with grass and trees looks a lot like a mammoth. The two strangely protruding long cliffs at the front, although entangled by many vines and moss, look like ivory no matter how you look at them.

At first glance, it was a small, slightly steep, and oddly shaped hill, but Han Ji, a seasoned old mage, sensed something was amiss.

Many demons in nature possess various disguise abilities, and the more powerful they are, the stronger their disguise abilities tend to be.

"Oh, it's that thing! What bad luck!" In the Baoxiang team, everyone looked at the mountain with astonishment and schadenfreude.

"That's a rocky mammoth!"

A glint flashed in Pang Lai's eyes, and he said emphatically, "A hundred meters tall, and this is just a small commander-level rock mammoth!"

"Damn it, Bai Mo doesn't seem to have noticed yet," Feng Li said.

During the live stream, someone who knew Yanshan Mammoth revealed Bai Mo's current predicament, and the screen was immediately flooded with candle emojis.

"Thump!!!!"

A loud thud reached his ears, and Bai Mo paused in his steps as he walked towards the mountainside.

Heartbeat!

A heartbeat as loud as a drumbeat.

The clear sound immediately made him realize that there was something in the barren mountain beneath his feet. Without any hesitation, a whirlwind rose up, and six wind wings gathered behind him.

"Rustling sound~~~~~~~~~~~!!"

In an instant, the bushes beneath his feet began to sway, and swarms of mosquitoes emerged from the mud—whether it was soil or something else—and flew up to bite Bai Mo.

"Whew~~~~~~~~~~~!"

With a flap of its six wings, a violent surge of air rose up, and Bai Mo shot into the sky, his shockwave shattering the black mosquitoes that surrounded him.

Above the sky, the eagle accurately recorded the scene of Bai Mo spreading his six wings and soaring into the sky, and even gave a close-up of his cold and handsome profile.

Immediately, the live stream screens outside were filled with comments like "So handsome!" and "awsl!"

Then, the profile turned into a front view. Just as many people were amazed by Bai Mo's appearance, Bai Mo reached out and grabbed the head of the eagle next to him.

Then he threw it down into the barren mountain below.

He threw it down!

This scene stunned the tens of thousands of spectators in the stadium outside.

From the perspective of another eagle, they could see the mammoth that Bai Mo had thrown at the rocky mountain mammoth slammed into the mammoth below, and then being picked up by a long-nosed creature covered in vines and wild grass, and put into its mouth.

It was incredibly crunchy.

"Loo~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~!!"

A deafening roar echoed from the desolate mountains below. The mountains trembled, and a pair of dark, cave-like eyes appeared. Powerful air currents shot out from the giant elephant's raised trunk like anti-aircraft guns, shooting straight at the white ink above.

"We've seen that after some probing, Bai Mo has finally seen the demon's face. What will he do—run or fight? Let's wait and see!" the live commentator exclaimed excitedly.

Bai Mo flapped his wings, deftly dodging the air blasts that resembled anti-aircraft guns, and began to re-examine the creature below.

A massive mountain range, covered in moss and vines.

He was quite familiar with this demon. He remembered that when he first went to Hundred Flowers Academy to participate in the operation to eliminate mountain spirits, several teachers worked together to deal with a rocky mountain mammoth just like this.

I never imagined that I would be facing this alone, instead of having my mentors work together to help me.

Thinking about it this way, it's true that times have changed.

The Rocky Mountain Mammoth has top-tier defensive capabilities even among Commander-level creatures. It is active in Southeast Asia and is not commonly seen in Kyushu.

It was only because Bai Mo had seen it once that he could not have immediately and accurately identified that there were too many demons that could disguise themselves as mountains.

"Big Orange, chase it away!"

A glint of moonlight flashed in Bai Mo's eyes as he summoned the Divine Dust Tiger. The Divine Dust Tiger, which was over ten meters tall, looked like a cat in front of the hundred-meter-tall mammoth, but that didn't matter, since the big orange dog could wear rock armor.

In fact, the rock mammoth was not 100 meters long. Most of its body was protected by a layer of surface rock, which was like a layer of armor.

According to the tradition of the treasure hunt, treasures are hidden wherever demons exist, so Bai Mo did not choose to run away.

He didn't intend to kill the leader; as long as the Divine Dust Tiger kept the Rock Mountain Mammoth occupied, he could find the hidden treasure, take it, and leave.

The focus of the treasure hunt is the treasure itself.

He roughly knew where the battlefield treasure from thirty-two years ago was, and even if he didn't, he had ways to find it.

This year's Battlefield Treasures are like a beautiful and alluring young woman, who hasn't yet revealed her mysterious veil.

He hasn't even seen the veil yet, how can he unveil himself and let people go with him?

"roar!!!"

The tiger roared across the mountains and fields, and the rock veins around the divine dust tiger danced, transforming into a giant rock tiger more than fifty meters tall. With a single slap, it shattered the soil layer defense on the body of the rocky mammoth.

The bright yellow tiger claws pierced into the soil, tearing off the thick layer of soil clinging to the rock mammoth as if it were tearing open a package.

The heavy force traveled from the tiger's claws to the rocky mammoth, knocking it backward. The mountain collapsed, creating cracks several meters wide in the ground, and the entire earth cracked.

Bai Mo was not paying attention to Da Ju's sandbag battle; instead, the magical energy fluctuations emanating from a crack in the ground drew his attention.

With a flash of wind wings, the white ink that had been floating in the sky appeared precisely on the crack in the ground. Looking down, from the pitch-black crack, strands of yellowish-brown light shone out, faintly revealing a lustrous and crystalline luster.

"There really is a treasure."

Bai Mo's eyes lit up, and with a flick of his wrist, the ground beneath his feet rippled like water, even the cracks in the ground healed, and the extremely soft ground began to writhe, slowly releasing a sparkling crystal.

The crystal was the size of a pigeon egg, rhomboid in shape, and contained rich and pure earth elemental magic. If this elemental crystal were to explode, Bai Mo had no doubt that he could condense a thousand-foot-tall mountain on the spot.

"Elemental diamonds."

Elemental diamonds are extremely rare magical ores that can be used as a substitute for magical energy.

Simply put, even if an earth mage runs out of magic power, he can still cast spells while holding this earth elemental diamond.

Of course, doing so would be a waste of its resources. Its most common use is as the core of various intricate magic arrays, such as the forbidden spell guiding array that Mu Rong will set up in the Bohai Sea a few years later.

Overall, this elemental diamond is quite valuable, probably worth around 500 to 600 million.

It's not of much use to Bai Mo himself, but he can sell it.

Will he lack mana?

Is it an earth element?

"Big Orange, let's go."

Having obtained the treasure, Bai Mo naturally wouldn't waste any more time here. With a flash of moonlight, he recalled the Divine Dust Tiger and flew away.

In the distance, the rocky mammoth, stripped of its outer packaging, barely managed to stand up. Its empty eyes were filled with fear. It only breathed a sigh of relief when it saw Bai Mo fly away.

The sky was not a good place to search for treasure; after crossing the territory of the rocky mammoths, he landed.

Sound detection is not omnipotent, as seen with the rock mammoth that was initially completely still.

Finding treasure requires professional treasure hunters, and Bai Mo clearly lacks this skill.

But he had his own plans.

A sound-based detection system covering more than 12,000 meters may not be able to detect all the demons, let alone the treasures that are quietly staying in place.

However, all the sounds within the area, especially the movements and discussions of the various national server team members, can be accurately obtained; these are all intelligence.

Furthermore, identifying where powerful demons reside also reveals where the most precious treasures are found.

Just now, he heard news about a water-type soul seed. A group of people were planning to go there, and there were also people with ulterior motives who were secretly approaching.

Bai Mo turned and headed towards the valley and marshland he had seen earlier; the information he had just heard was from that area.

Taking advantage of the moment he turned around, he subtly glanced at the shadow in the corner of his eye at a bush about a meter tall.

The fight just now clearly attracted some hyenas.

Yes, that's also a source of income.

He's the captain, so he can't voluntarily become a robber, but things are different once he becomes a victim.

As long as he makes a big commotion every time he seizes a treasure, he won't have to worry about no one coming after him.

Just two words: "fishing," hehe~

Bai Mo didn't intend to go find the team members. He continued to explore as he walked eastward, gradually approaching the river flowing into the valley to the east.

The terrain gradually became flat and open, and the people who had been following them secretly called for help.

Making the first move would obviously be without a legitimate reason. The world is never short of sword immortals. Identity can be a convenience or a shackle. He needs to give the person in the shadows a chance.

There's nowhere to hide further ahead; this is our last chance to make a move.

Pretending to observe the river veins, Bai Mo looked up at the sky. No battle had taken place. Even though there were four people here, only Bai Mo's eagle was relatively conspicuous. The eagles representing the three people in the shadows were not visible. They were obviously hidden in the clouds or higher in the sky.

But after the magical light shone, they immediately appeared, and their height even decreased slightly.

The ground rippled, and Bai Mo dodged the invisible shadow spikes. He looked to the left and behind a slightly protruding mound. Ming Busong's shadow dissipated, turning into a dark wind that silently arrived in front of Bai Mo, with pitch-black shadow spikes swirling around his palms.

"drink!"

With a low shout, Ming Busong's pupils turned completely dark, fierce and ruthless. His movements were swift; he raised his arms and then swung them down, the two shadow thorns viciously stabbing towards Bai Mo's chest and head.

At the same time, Shao Hegu, holding an earth-yellow cane, rose from the ground directly behind Bai Mo.

"Hand over the elemental diamond, and we'll let you go!"

As Shao Hegu spoke, he raised his hand and waved it, and the bluish-brown starlight fell like shooting stars onto the ground beneath Bai Mo's feet.

In an instant, the ground seemed to come alive, sprouting bluish-brown vines made entirely of rock and soil, which coiled and bound upwards along Bai Mo's feet, just like plants growing.

"If you're so capable, come and take it yourself."

Bai Mo glanced at Shao Hegu, but his attention was drawn to Fran, who had appeared with him.

All that could be seen was a strange light and blue flames swirling around Fran, and the Brilliant Constellation materialized from the void. The magical pressure that exploded along with the flames allowed Bai Mo to instantly determine that this was a high-level, second-tier magic.

Is this a case of being inspired to act bravely after being ashamed? A hint of interest flashed in his eyes.

"You idiot, how dare you daydream!"

As an assassin, approaching a target silently is undoubtedly a very satisfying thing, but the target in front of him did not take his attack on him at all, which made Ming Busong extremely angry.

My Shadow Spikes are right above your head, my attack is about to pierce your skull, yet you're paying attention to someone else!

This is undoubtedly a humiliation, a silent humiliation!

A ferocious look flashed across Ming Busong's face. He instantly poured the three-tenths of his strength that he had been holding back into the twin daggers in his hands, determined to teach this arrogant guy a lesson he would never forget!

"What's all the noise about? Are you jealous?"

A flash of dark golden light appeared in Bai Mo's eyes. He activated the Emperor's Heart Domain, and a circle of dark golden light radiated outwards from him, causing earth elements within a radius of several kilometers to continuously converge towards him.

"Don't worry, I'm very caring. I'll make sure you're all taken care of." (End of Chapter)

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