Chapter 86
Preparing to Go to the First Secret Realm of the East Sea
Chapter 86 Preparing to Go to the First Secret Realm of the East Sea
The ant and bee swarms have finally passed.
Donghai City has achieved a great victory this time.
The queen bee was killed.
The queen ant was captured.
The leaderless ant and bee swarms were overwhelmed by the army of Donghai City. Some died, some scattered, and some fled into the wilderness.
The powerful figures from the "Nightmare Court," who were secretly orchestrating all of this, failed in their scheme and were instead outmaneuvered by Donghai City, losing three seventh-grade Grandmaster-level beings!
However, many of the experts from Donghai City were also injured.
The hospital was full.
The beast-taming hospital next to the Beast Tamer Association was also full of injured beasts.
Chen Fan did not go to the hospital, but went directly back to his home at the Animal Breeders Association.
His injuries were less severe than Ye Hao's. After taking Yun Canghai's "Wood Rejuvenation Pill," he would only need to rest for a little over a week to fully recover.
After returning to the Beast Tamer Association, Chen Fan told his master Zhang Hai in detail about rescuing Zhen Qing and Ye Hao.
Then he also handed over the smart watch he had obtained from the man in black robes to Zhang Hai.
After instructing Chen Fan to take good care of his injuries, Zhang Hai took the smartwatch and went to the City Lord's Mansion.
Chen Fan then contacted the Beast Breeders Association and made a special trip to Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain. They found the cave where the corpses of the Skyfire Ants were hidden, transported all the Skyfire Ant corpses back, and froze them in the Beast Breeders Association's ice storage.
The matter of killing the man in black and rescuing Zhen Qing was suppressed by the City Lord's Mansion.
Chen Fan did not become a hero.
The hero was Yun Canghai, the youngest grandmaster in the Tang Dynasty.
So the whole thing turned out to be... Zhen Qing and Ye Hao were being chased, and Yun Canghai arrived at the last minute, killing the enemy with a single sword strike.
Afterwards, Yun Canghai entrusted Chen Fan to bring Zhen Qing and Ye Hao back to Donghai City.
Chen Fan thought this was a very good solution.
Yun Canghai had dealt with the Nightmare Court long ago and had killed countless powerful members of the Nightmare Court, so killing one more or one less was of no consequence to him.
The city lord's mansion did this to protect him.
These past few days, under the pretext of healing his injuries at home, Chen Fan has been helping Old Ape and the others heal while studying the books Zhang Hai brought over, living a carefree life.
There was only one thing that was bothering him...
Bai Rugo did not obtain "Spirit Dragon Dew".
Due to the ant swarm, the major hospitals in Donghai City are overcrowded, and many injured beast tamers and star warriors have no beds available.
After being injured by Chu Xuan, Li Fengxing and his Cold Pool Golden Horned Dragon, who had been staying in the hospital, were kicked out together.
Bai Rugo was furious. She went to the Li family and, in front of everyone, called Li Fengxing out and beat him up.
Finally, she forced Li Fengxing to put the Golden Horned Dragon in the Cold Pool into a deep sleep again and prepare the Spirit Dragon Dew for her.
Just a moment ago, Li Fengxing was mocking Ye Hao for being crippled, but the next moment he himself was crippled, and he was so angry that he almost banged his head on the ground.
After learning all this from Bai Rugo, Chen Fan was both amused and exasperated.
Seven days later...
When Chen Fan and the old ape had almost recovered from their injuries.
Class teacher Li Sheng led the entire class into Chen Fan's training ground.
Seeing this large group of uninvited guests, Chen Fan, who was sitting at the stone table reading a book in the training ground, was also dumbfounded.
An hour ago, Li Sheng asked about his injury on WeChat.
He said it was almost done.
Unexpectedly, an hour later, Li Sheng led the entire class to the Beast Tamer Association in a grand procession!
This homeroom teacher's thought process is very peculiar; even Chen Fan couldn't guess what he would say or do.
At this moment, a group of students erupted in excitement...
"Holy crap, holy crap, this guy's a total tycoon! He lives in this huge mansion all by himself, and he even has this massive forest as his training ground!"
"Look, there's a huge group of tamed beasts over there in the training ground... Why does he have so many tamed beasts?"
"This is so unfair! I finally signed my first tamed beast yesterday and was so happy for one night, and then Teacher Li makes me suffer this kind of blow. I don't want to live anymore..."
"Wait a minute, look... Chu Xuan's Desert Wind Eagle, Qingqing's Frost White Python, Ruge's Black Iron Dragon Turtle, Ye Hao's Morning Glory, why are they all here?"
"Look in the distance, there's a huge bird with golden feathers! Could that be the legendary Golden-Winged Roc?!"
"Can you stop being so ignorant? That's a Golden Feathered Sea Falcon, it's level 16... Holy crap! Why is the beast of Zhen Qing, the vice leader of the War God Pioneer Group, here too?"
A group of students were chattering away.
Li Sheng waved his hand dismissively: "Shut up, all of you! What kind of talk is this?"
He glared at Chen Fan and sat down on the stool next to the stone table.
The two stared at each other, wide-eyed.
After a while, Li Sheng hesitated before saying, "Such a big thing has happened. The arena competition between the three major academies has been postponed by half a month and will be at the end of this month."
Chen Fan: "Oh!"
Li Sheng: "Although the arena competition has been postponed, our War God Academy will hold a trial tomorrow in the first secret realm of the East Sea."
He didn't ask about Chen Fan's mansion.
They didn't ask about the large group of tamed beasts here, or about the Golden Feathered Sea Falcon.
"A trial?"
Chen Fan was slightly taken aback: "Inside the secret realm?"
Even the arena competition between the three major academies was postponed due to the ant swarm, yet the War God Academy chose to conduct its trials in the secret realm at such a time.
Li Sheng nodded and said, "The so-called secret realms are actually areas that have been pioneered and explored."
"Secret realms are usually named after the main city. For example, there are seven rifts near our East Sea City, but we have explored five of them over the years."
"Therefore, these fissures were named the First Secret Realm of the East Sea, the Second Secret Realm of the East Sea, the Third Secret Realm of the East Sea..."
Unexplored fissures are collectively referred to as "forbidden zones".
"The first, second, and third points of the secret realm actually indicate the time when the secret realm was explored and its safety."
"The First Secret Realm of the East Sea is the first secret realm that East Sea City explored and developed many years ago."
"It is also the safest of the five secret realms."
"Donghai City has already explored five-sixths of this secret realm, with only the very center area remaining unexplored."
"As for the fifth secret realm, we have only just begun to explore it. We know nothing about the specific species, the kinds of monsters, or what the depths of the secret realm are like. It is the most complex and dangerous of the five secret realms."
Chen Fan remained silent.
He had already researched some information about secret realms and forbidden areas online.
Li Sheng continued, "Therefore, this number one secret realm in the East Sea can be considered the back garden of our East Sea City."
"Yesterday morning, a team from Donghai City drove over five thousand Skyfire Ants into the First Secret Realm..."
A female student next to her widened her eyes in surprise and exclaimed, "Teacher, isn't the crack in the sky? How could they drive the fire ants up there?"
Many of the "local" students around laughed.
Li Sheng laughed too: "Cracks aren't necessarily all in the sky; some are in the sky, and some might be on the ground."
"Of course, most of the cracks that have appeared so far are indeed in the sky, at different heights."
"The entrance to the first secret realm is also high in the sky."
"But for the sake of convenience in exploration and defense, our strongmen will use their supernatural powers to move the mountain to the foot of the secret realm, and then build steps on the mountain that lead directly to the entrance of the secret realm."
"Hiss!" Many students present gasped.
Moving mountains...
Before time travel, such things only existed in myths and legends.
Unexpectedly...
Li Sheng continued, "The first secret realm is a land of ice and snow."
"It is actually very difficult for fire ants to survive in icy and snowy conditions."
"It was because there were strong members of the War God Pioneer Group in yesterday's team that our War God Academy was able to get this advantage."
"After being frozen for two days in the first secret realm, the Skyfire Ants are basically no longer a big threat."
"That's why the War God Academy dared to send you newbies to the First Secret Realm for trials."
Many students around laughed and rubbed their hands together, eager to try.
Li Sheng then said, "Chen Fan, you and Chu Xuan will also participate in the trial."
"But the other students only hunted Skyfire Ants on the outskirts of the first secret realm."
"Your target is not the Skyfire Ants, your target is the Snow Demon in the First Secret Realm."
Chen Fan nodded slightly.
In fact, he had no idea what a snow ghost was.
Suddenly, Chen Fan looked up, scanned the crowd, and asked with some surprise, "Where's Chu Xuan?"
"I'm here," Chu Xuan's voice rang out from behind Chen Fan.
"..." Chen Fan's body stiffened slightly as he turned around.
Damn it, there were no red capes inside when a large group of people rushed in!
If he had a red cape, how could I not see it!
Chen Fan's face darkened: "Why do you always appear and disappear like this?"
Chu Xuan said indifferently, "I didn't appear out of nowhere. Qingqing and Teacher Li came in first, and I wandered around outside for a bit before coming in. You just didn't see me."
Chen Fan: "..."
At this moment, Chu Xuan's Desert Wind Eagle and Fang Qingqing's Frost White Python both rushed over.
The two tamed beasts walked over to their respective masters and affectionately nuzzled against them with their heads.
Chen Fan held out his hand to Chu Xuan: "Take the money."
Chu Xuan was taken aback: "What money?"
Chen Fan: "You desert wind eagle have stayed here for seven days, eating and drinking my food... What's most infuriating is that it only eats fire ants, not even a single one below level 4!"
"I finally managed to kill some level 4 and 5 Skyfire Ants, and now they've almost eaten them all!"
A group of freshmen around them all looked miserable... Desert Wind Eagles eat level 4 and 5 Skyfire Ants every day, but they haven't even eaten a level 2 Skyfire Ant yet.
Chu Xuan turned away: "I have no money."
Chen Fan was furious.
He made money off Fang Qingqing, Ye Hao, and Zhen Qing from the War God Pioneer Group.
But when it came to Chu Xuan, he was tricked badly!
How can we tolerate this?
Li Sheng hurriedly pulled Chen Fan back: "The depths of the First Secret Realm are very dangerous. We need to plan this carefully."
Chu Xuan and Fang Qingqing took the opportunity to walk to the side with their tamed beasts.
Both of them squatted down and communicated with their beast taming intentions.
Before long, their expressions turned somewhat serious.
Then, both of them silently looked at Chen Fan...
(End of this chapter)