The Journey To Become The Strongest
Chapter 45 — Third Round of Daffodil Conference (8)
After finishing a short meal together and recovering the energy in the cave, the group of four people and one magical beast began to try to gather the other remaining participants while searching for the jade pendant.
Of course, if Lian Haocun wanted to reunite with the silver-haired man, even though Lian Haocun knew the situation would become out of control and possibly dangerous, threatening Lian Haocun's own life. Lian Haocun is the type of person who likes to take risks.
In the end they started the quest while hunting down magical beasts. They are still in competition. One day went by so quickly, yet the five of them could not find a single other participant until the moon started to reappear not even a single jade pendant was found.
Tang Yelu sighed and started to remember the entire day which was arguably more like hunting than looking for people.
‘Truly a wasted search.’ Inner Tang Yelu.
They eventually chose to spend the night under a shady tree that was quite large in size.
“Live five days left. Let's share all the pentagon symbols we got.” Lian Haocun said in a cold tone normally.
Instantly the atmosphere became silent, if Lian Haocun's proposal was shared on the other team perhaps the end result would be a battle over the pentagon symbol. Of course Lian Haocun knew about it so he added,
“All symbols will be divided equally per person. For the next five days, you can determine whether you want to separate from the team and hunt alone or stay with the team and hunt together, on condition that the owner of the five-pointed symbol of the magical beast being killed is the last person to attack him.”
Tang Yelu and Wu Shilin knew that leaving Lian Haocun and Lian Huanran's group was tantamount to suicide, not only was the existence of the silver-haired male unknown to his identity but the danger in the Drego Forest could not be ignored either.
A deal was quickly reached, then, the pentagon symbol that if stacked can be a mountain is divided equally into four people with different magical beast level symbols that are divided equally also for each person.
As a result each person had one hundred and eighty-six pentagon symbols with varying levels of magical beasts.
After they finished handing out the pentagon symbol, they recovered their energy and reached an agreement to continue searching for other participants along with the jade pendant while hunting magical beasts until the last day for the third round.
So for the remaining five days in a row, they found one new jade pendant that had blood stains and obtained quite a number of new pentagon symbols, he said, but within five days there were no signs of the presence of other participants.
It makes a shadow that the five people are the last group in the Drego forest.
After reaching the deadline, Chao Bence pretended to part with Tang Yelu, Wu Shilin, Lian Haocun and Lian Huanran. After that he took the form of his magical beast, the beautiful blue-colored snake and reduced in size so that Chao Bence could quietly hitch a ride on Lian Haocun's body without Tang Yelu and Wu Shilin knowing.
With Chao Bence being Lian Haocun's ‘part’ body, automatically, Chao Bence could be teleported to the same place as Lian Haocun when Lian Haocun was teleported. Lian Haocun and Lian Huanran learn of Chao Bence's plan to hide himself and feel that it's not a bad thing.
The return point of teleportation was a teleportation array previously used to teleport towards the Drego Forest. The scorching sunlight entered the view of Lian Haocun, Lian Huanran and ten other participants with a sign that it was still daytime.
Then Lian Haocun, Lian Huanran, Tang Yelu, Wu Shilin and several other participants were asked to march and give the pentagon symbol they had gathered to the staff of the Daffodil Conference. One of the Daffodil Conference staff assigned to count the number of participants frowned and immediately reported the oddity he found to the chief of staff.
The facial expression of the chief of staff instantly changed on the spot hearing the reports of the staff in charge of counting the participants.
“What do you mean those participants disappeared!?” Said the chief of staff in a somewhat deafening whispering voice to the staff in charge of counting the participants.
The staff who reported nodded their heads and said somewhat frantically and anxiously, “There were eight out of twenty-six who disappeared.”
The chief of staff quickly caught a glimpse of the participants who were lining up to give the pentagon symbol to the staff in charge of collecting the symbol. Panic and anxiety arose from within the heart of the chief of staff,
‘Things like this have never happened before.’.
Then the chief of staff immediately went and reported to the higher-ups regarding the participants who disappeared to nowhere.
While Lian Haocun who was marching observed the expressions of the staff of the Daffodil Conference and made a conclusion regarding the current situation. Then Lian Haocun's turn immediately arrived, Lian Haocun took out the pentagon symbol that belonged to him and gave it to the staff of the Daffodil Conference, who were not there, the staff's expression did not change on the surface but his heart got a strong shock wave seeing the huge number of pentagon symbols Lian Haocun had that could make a small hill, which was a huge one, not even a few of them were symbols for a fourth level magical beast!
Quickly the staff accepted the pentagon symbol and let Lian Haocun go free. The next participant was Lian Haocun's twin brother, Lian Huanran, a pentagon symbol that had fewer than Lian Haocun but the staff already had their own conclusions in their hearts,
‘Participants of the year are very talented.’ Then continued with Wu Shilin, Tang Yelu, Guan Hong, Kong Jun, Du Dishi and other participants.
“The results will be announced in one hour, you must be tired right? Please rest for one hour while waiting for the result of the third round.” Speak to one of the staff in a loud voice with the help of Spiritual Qi.
Then the twelve participants who managed to survive in the Drego Forest for fourteen days were disbanded and immediately returned to their respective sect-appropriate places. Wu Shilin reluctantly parted ways with Lian Haocun, Lian Huanran and Tang Yelu.
Lian Haocun, Lian Huanran and Tang Yelu were greeted by the three elders waiting for them. While Chun Ming and Luo Bowen had already returned to the Blue Sky Sect as they survived in the Drego Forest.
Lian Haocun, Lian Huanran and Tang Yelu saluted the two elders and their respective teachers. Shen Wenhuan asked a few short questions about the ‘ survival stage in the Drego Forest for fourteen days’ and the rarely-spoken Lian Haocun was asked by Shen Wenhuan to tell briefly about how they were survival and others.
Lian Haocun recounted in an emotionless tone by omitting the details regarding the silver-haired man. Shen Wenhuan, Elder Hong and Elder Rong only listened and occasionally gave some pleasantries or advice.
Then after telling the story of survival in the Drego Forest in a monotonous tone, Lian Haocun began to tell about the silver-haired man, what the silver-haired man did and some things around him. Then Lian Haocun also took out the evidence of the jade pendant.