As an ancient martial art practitioner, Mo Wen knew that if an ancient martial art practitioner exposed all his trump cards in front of others, he would not be far from danger.
Mo Wen's spiritual pills were selling like wildfire, and his reputation grew. At the same time, he attracted some envious people. Many people were already paying attention to Mo Wen's shop. However, many people were currently observing. After all, this was Dragon City. No one dared to act rashly.
In the blink of an eye, three days passed. Mo Wen had concocted nearly 300 spiritual pills. However, most of them were third and fourth rank spiritual pills. The difficulty of concocting high-level spiritual pills was too high, and the success rate was too low. They could not be mass-produced. These days, Mo Wen had only concocted a cauldron of sixth rank medicinal pills. There were only seven pills in one cauldron. This was the highest rank medicinal pill he had ever concocted. It was the level he had reached after mastering the Spiritless Clean Fire.
After passing the preliminary selection for the Three List Tournament, the next step was the selection. The selection process was different for different lists. Hence, in the Three List Tournament, each list was held independently. There was no connection between them.
Mo Wen had already received the name list for the Heaven List preliminary selection. What surprised him was that more than a thousand people had successfully registered. Hua Xia was indeed full of talents and strong practitioners. There were actually so many Golden Elixir Realm ancient martial art practitioners below the age of 50. Moreover, this was not all of them. This was just the competition for the Heaven List.
The selection was outside Dragon City, in the Desolate Dragon World. The Huatian Palace had sealed off a piece of land to provide the Heaven List selection.
The so-called selection was to select three hundred people from over a thousand people. These three hundred people would then participate in the next round of competition.
There were teleporting stratagems outside each of the eight city gates of Dragon City that could directly teleport to the Desolate Dragon World.
Dragon City was on the Goddess Scepter, but the Desolate Dragon World was on the ground. If one did not use the teleporting stratagem, it was impossible to reach the ground. Even a Martial Arts Grandmaster strong practitioner would fall to his death if he fell from too high a place. After all, falling from such a high altitude would cause one to fall faster and faster. The friction between one's body and the air could most likely burn a person to ashes.
Through the Huatian Palace's special passageway, Mo Wen successfully entered the Desolate Dragon World. The area he was in was an area called the Red Stone Forest. This area was completely sealed off by the Huatian Palace. During the Heaven List Selection period, unrelated people could not enter this area.
The light in front of him blurred for a moment before becoming clear again. Mo Wen looked at his surroundings. Not a single blade of grass grew here. It was a wasteland with only red rocks, like a sea of rocks.
The red stones here were of all shapes and sizes. Some looked like trees, some looked like houses, and some looked like giants … There were all kinds of them.
Mo Wen found it strange that this place looked barren on the surface, without any signs of life. However, he also vaguely discovered that there seemed to be the aura of a living being lingering in the surroundings. However, even with his acute senses, he couldn't capture it clearly.
"There's something strange about this place."
Mo Wen muttered to himself. This was the Red Stone Forest. A thousand participants of the Heaven List Tournament would be teleported here. The rules were very simple. They would kill the fugitives in the Red Stone Forest. Whoever killed more people would get more points.
Finally, the total score was calculated. Those who were ranked in the top ten would be the top ten of this year's Heaven Roll. After the selection, it was time for the Heaven List Ranking Battle. Ten people would compete for their own ranking on the Heaven List.
Out of more than a thousand people, only ten could pass in the end. It could be said that ten million people were crossing a single-log bridge. It was a situation where only one of them survived.
The people here were not just those who had participated in the Heaven List Tournament. Most of them were criminals that the Huatian Palace had controlled over the years. These criminals had been arrested by the Huatian Palace because they had committed various crimes.
The criminals that were able to appear here weren't ordinary, and the lowest cultivation was at the Golden Core Realm. Moreover, all of them were incomparably cunning, sinister, ruthless, brave, and skilled in battle. Under the circumstances that an ordinary young man didn't have sufficient battle experience, if they encountered such a person, then even if their cultivation was slightly higher, it was very likely that the young man would be killed.
The Red Stone Forest was also known as the Land of Exile. It was a prison where the Huatian Palace locked up serious criminals. Many of the people who could be locked up here had been on the Savages List. All of them were extremely vicious and difficult to deal with.
Back then, Gong Biluo had been on the Savages List with pinnacle of the Embryonic Breathing Realm cultivation. She was an exception. Under normal circumstances, those who could be on the Savages List had at least Golden Elixir Realm cultivation. Because Gong Biluo had committed too many murders and had destroyed many sects in a short period of time, the Huatian Palace had made an exception to put her on the Savages List. However, she had only been on the list for a week before falling off.
Mo Wen also had some understanding of the Savages List. The higher one's rank was, the scarier they were. It was said that even the veterans of the Huatian Palace would find it difficult to capture those who were in the top ten. Many of the people in the top ten of the Savages List had been on it for a few years. There were even some who had been there for more than ten years.
However, the Savages List only recorded immortal cultivators or ancient martial art practitioners below the Primordial Soul Realm. Those who exceeded this level would not be listed on the list. For example, immortal cultivators in the Primordial Soul Realm and ancient martial art practitioners who had become immortal were of a different world compared to those in the secular world. The Huatian Palace would usually not make their names public when dealing with such people.
The Red Stone Forest was very big. It was equivalent to the area of a province in the Hua Xia Country. When a thousand people entered the forest, it was like water vapor entering the air. Mo Wen's deified soul scanned the area. There was no one within a radius of at least a kilometer.
Mo Wen flipped his wrist and a jade pendant appeared in his hand. Light flowed on it. It was beautiful and warm. It was a fine jade. There was a rune on the jade pendant. It was the ancient character '10'.
The jade pendant was a simple magical weapon issued by the Huatian Palace. Even his identity insignia recorded his identity information. At the same time, it was also a scoring insignia. The '10' on it was his starting score. Everyone started with ten points. Then, killing criminals of different levels of cultivation would result in different scores. The stronger the criminal, the more points they would receive.
Mo Wen was not in a hurry. He found a place to sit cross-legged and focused on his cultivation.
He faintly felt that he was about to break through the shackles of the Martial Arts Grandmaster Realm. This feeling had been getting stronger and stronger recently. However, for some reason, there seemed to be something blocking his feet, preventing him from taking that step.
He knew that the appearance of this feeling was an opportunity for any ancient martial art practitioner. If he grasped the opportunity, he would be able to take that step. However, if he did not grasp it, then this feeling would disappear. He did not know when it would appear again. It might even not appear again in his lifetime.
Mo Wen really wanted to use this opportunity to break through to the Martial Arts Grandmaster Realm. However, this step was indeed not easy to take.
Many ancient martial art practitioners at the pinnacle of the Golden Elixir Realm were unable to step into the Martial Arts Grandmaster Realm their entire lives. Most likely, many ancient martial art practitioners at the pinnacle of the Golden Elixir Realm had experienced this feeling before. However, not everyone could grasp it.
The selection period was ten days. Mo Wen had enough time. He was not in a hurry.
It was because he knew that the Red Stone Forest was so big. Rather than being busy looking for others, he might as well wait for others to find him. As a huge prison, there were far more criminals in the Red Stone Forest than there were competitors. They lived here all year round and were very familiar with the terrain, climate, and environment. If they wanted to find someone, it would be far easier for them than for outsiders like them.
Also, the Huatian Palace had a rule that any criminal in the Red Stone Forest could kill Red Stone Forest competitors. Once they succeeded in killing them, they could obtain their identity insignia. If they gathered five identity insignia, they would be rewarded with an acquittal.
Therefore, the serious criminals in the Red Stone Forest were far more anxious than the competitors. As long as they could kill five people and obtain five identity insignia, they would be free.
In every Heaven List Tournament, a large number of competitors would bleed. The chances of them dying were rather high. After all, the Red Stone Forest was the territory of the criminals. It was very difficult for the competitors to win.
Before everyone participated in the tournament, they had to sign a life-and-death agreement. The Huatian Palace was prepared to use iron and blood to train them.
Of course, it was not impossible for some of the weaker participants to survive after being thrown into such a dangerous place. If they took the initiative to admit defeat and crush their identity token, they could be transported away by the guiding force and leave the dangerous Red Stone Forest.
However, the Heaven List Tournament did not only benefit the top ten. The top five hundred would also receive corresponding rewards. After all, the Huatian Palace's goal was to nurture the young geniuses of Hua Xia Country and not simply let them die in the Red Stone Forest.
Therefore, until the very end, many people wanted to hold on. They would not surrender so easily.
Mo Wen sat on a high rock. His goal was to attract the criminals here.
Time passed slowly. Mo Wen did not know whether his luck was too good or too bad. Two hours had passed and no one had discovered him.
There were at least five thousand criminals in the Red Stone Forest. Also, after knowing that the competitors had entered, everyone would most likely take action. Logically speaking, after waiting for so long, there should be a few people who would discover him.
Huh?
Mo Wen raised his eyebrows. He suddenly sensed that there was a battle coming from ten kilometers away. If he did not have deified soul power, he most likely would not have sensed it.
"Let's go over and take a look."
With a flash of golden light, Mo Wen disappeared from his original spot in the blink of an eye.
Ten kilometers away, there were two people engaged in an intense battle. A terrifying aura swept in all directions, sending sand and stones flying. The surroundings were a mess.
The two of them were not very old and could be considered youths. However, their cultivation levels were very high. They were both intermediate stage Golden Elixir Realm experts.
"They are actually competitors. Is it internal strife?"
Two hundred meters away, under a strangely shaped rock, a dark shadow slowly appeared. It was Mo Wen.
He had originally thought that it would be a battle between competitors and criminals, but he was wrong.
Every competitor had an initial ten points. Other than snatching points from criminals, they could also snatch points from other competitors. This kind of internal strife was very common in the Red Stone Forest because the Huatian Palace had tacitly approved of this situation. Especially in the later stages, when the competitors had more and more points, the internal strife became more intense.
The corner of Mo Wen's mouth curled into a playful smile. He walked out from the darkness and pretended to be surprised as he said, "What are the two of you doing?"
Another person had come?
The two of them were shocked and looked at Mo Wen at the same time.
"Humph, I have been fighting with you for so long and have yet to determine who is stronger. It will most likely be difficult to determine the outcome in a short period of time. This brat is muddle-headed and looks like a fool. Why don't we join forces and finish him off first? How about we split the points we get? "one of them suddenly suggested.
"That's exactly what I was thinking."
The two of them stared at Mo Wen at almost the same time. Their gazes were somewhat sinister. Their abilities were similar. It was rather difficult to snatch points from each other. However, if the two of them joined forces to deal with Mo Wen, it would most likely be a different situation. (To be continued.)
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