Chương 83: The Ultimate Jade Beauty VS Aphrodisiac Trope

After his announcement, Venerable Zhong Leisheng waved his hand, and fifty arenas appeared on the ground. There are 10 fifty-by-fifty-meter arenas, 20 hundred-by-hundred-meter arenas, and 20 two-hundred-by-two-hundred-meter arenas. There's some distance between arenas of different sizes to ensure that a stray offensive technique from a golden core battle won't hit a pitiful Qi Refining cultivator.

After creating the fifty arenas, Venerable Zhong Leisheng also created a giant circle around them, then formed a simple formation with another wave of his hand. After creating the arenas in less than a minute, he announced the rules while using a cultivation technique to make his voice reverberate throughout the area, "I have created fifty arenas; ten for qi refining, twenty for foundation building, and twenty for golden core realms, respectively.

The last one standing in the arena after two hours will be the winner. Each arena can have only one person standing at the end of the two-hour count. Each fight can last no more than a minute; otherwise, both sides will be counted as eliminated. Only one person may challenge the arena at a time; challengers are selected on a first-come, first-served basis. Those interested in joining the competition may enter the circle where combats is allowed.

Death during the competition is outside East Fortune City's responsibility." After rapidly spewing the rules, he said, "The two hour time shall begin from now!" At first, everyone fell silent until a few people jumped into the arena. When more than two people jumped into the same arena, everyone except those two was knocked back by the formation that suddenly lit up within the arena. At first, everyone outside the arena only watched the battle in silence.

That was until someone attacked a person to block them from entering the arena, and everyone vaguely realized the true rule. Inside the arena, there were only continuous duels. But outside the arena, a brawl broke out. After some people continued their brawl outside the circle Venerable Zhong Leisheng drew, they were restrained by a technique, and everyone finally realized the real rule of the competition. The battle in the arena was indeed a continuous one-on-one fight.

But they could also start a fight within the circle Venerable Zhong Leisheng drew to decide who could enter the arena. This caused cultivation techniques to fly all over the place within the circle, and those in the Qi Refining realm found it difficult to even reach the arena. While watching the brawl in the arena, Venerable Zhong Leisheng looked at the surrounding cultivators at the Nascent Soul realm and above.

"All of you who represent your sects and forces may discuss the slot among yourselves, but if the one hundred slots aren't finalized and the people aren't ready by two hours, please don't mind if the people from my East Fortune City enter first."

"Whicever forces that joined the competition for the 50 spot mean forfeiting their right to obtain part of the 100 spot." Venerable Zhong Leisheng added before using a technique to create several clones that flew to East Fortune City. Through Miscellaneous Hall Master's [Scan], I saw the surrounding experts wear serious expressions as they discussed spot allocation. The allocation not only considers the strength of those present but also the forces behind them, which complicates matters.

While people outside are still fighting for a spot to enter the inheritance ground, I told Ren Qingquan about the secret realm's appearance in the real world and the fight to enter it. After hearing my news, I could hear him think, 'Is that my fault? It's definitely because I triggered that formation, right?' Ren Qingquan opened the observation function and checked the situation through the Miscellaneous Hall Master and the others' [Scan].

When he saw old men and old aunties flying, arguing with red faces, and the bloody meat-shredder of a competition below them, he fell silent.

'Well... That... That's definitely not my fault, right? It's their fault for being greedy! They can just leave, and they won't need to enter that bloody mess. Actually, they should be grateful to me for triggering the formation and letting them enter this secret realm. After all, there are many useful treasures here.' Ren Qingquan's mental gymnastics have somehow turned his thinking 180 degrees.

From initially feeling a bit guilty for indirectly causing that massacre, Ren Qingquan now feels they should be grateful to him instead. After he found a suitable justification for standing on the morally superior side, Ren Qingquan continued to traverse the ocean and follow Ren Xuan. Thankfully, after a few dozen minutes, the ocean's giant waves that were caused by the secret realm's collision with the real world had slowly subsided. So Ren Qingquan no longer needed to be wary of giant waves that might hit him.

Ren Xuan also stopped traveling by jumping and gliding and returned to surfing above the ocean. Occasionally, Ren Xuan still visits an island, breaks the formation guarding it, and takes the most precious item on the island. Because Ren Xuan's storage is limited, Ren Qingquan makes a bargain and stores the remaining precious items in his portable space.

By the time the competition outside has ended and the 250 selected people enter the secret realm through the entrance, Ren Qingquan and Ren Xuan have already breached six islands. Love this novel? Read it on Royal Road to ensure the author gets credit. Well, Ren Xuan breaches the island's formation, while Ren Qingquan takes advantage of the situation to scavenge whatever remained on the island.

While following Ren Xuan, Ren Qingquan also killed a few aquatic demonic beasts and either swallowed their souls or converted them into points. Meanwhile, the 250 people who just entered are warily looking at each other. They are all cultivators of varying realms, mostly in the Golden Core Realm, with only a tenth in the Qi Refining Realm. Among those people, every child of destiny I have anchored with a Level 1 subsystem has also joined.

Except for Bai Yuelan, who entered through his sect elder's bargaining war against other Nascent Soul realm and above cultivators, the other children of destiny have made a name for themselves during the competition by winning consecutive challenges against people at the peak of their respective cultivation realms.

Whether it's Su Ping, who easily defeated a peak Foundation Building realm cultivator after cultivating the cultivation method and technique taught by the grandma in his necklace; the child of destiny with dual pupils, who seemingly has an endless amount of precious offensive tools; the child of destiny with the bottle cheat, who seemingly has an endless amount of spirit qi to spend; or the others, they have all caught everyone's wariness.

By the time those 250 people entered, they immediately split in every direction, except for that child of destiny who can increase his strength by collecting others' hatred. That child of destiny is followed by a few crowds he has angered during the tournament. As they dispersed, those in the Qi Refining realm swam away to seek their fortuitous encounter.

Most of the Foundation Building realm and some Golden Core realm cultivators used their body-lightening technique and began hopping across the water's surface, while the rest flew off into the distance using their spirit tools or cultivation techniques. Most of them took different directions from Ren Qingquan and Ren Xuan, but the children of destiny all headed in directions similar to Ren Qingquan and Ren Xuan's. Soon, people began to find small islands and tried to break through the formations on them.

Some used sheer power to break the formations, while others, like Su Ping and the child of destiny with dual pupils, broke those formations through sheer skill. Although not as smoothly and quickly as Ren Xuan, both of them still broke through the formations on the islands they found without much trouble. I silently watched as those children of destiny wreaked havoc and broke more and more formations.

There's also a robbery plot where some cannon-fodder cultivators tried to rob a child of destiny, but they were easily killed. Watching the treasure-hunting event is honestly pretty damn entertaining. Whenever a child of destiny broke a formation, I somehow felt like playing a gacha game and even rooted for them to get some good items. While watching Su Ping try to break a Tier 3 formation with the guidance of the grandma in his ring, I saw Bai Yuelan approaching the island where Su Ping was.

I started focusing on both of their [Scan] to watch for any possible drama. After all, seeing two people I often watched meet each other is pretty exciting. It's like watching a crossover between two series that I liked. Soon, Bai Yuelan approached the island, flying above a cloud-shaped spirit tool that constantly released cold air. As she drew closer, Su Ping sensed her and tensed while looking in her direction. But the instant he saw Bai Yuelan, Su Ping fell into a trance.

Because of that brief trance, he made a mistake during the formation-breaking process and triggered it. Instantly, the formation brightened and shot a beam of light that condensed into a smaller barrier, imprisoning Su Ping and Bai Yuelan. After imprisoning them, the small barrier released an unknown miasma that seeped into their skin. Bai Yuelan checked the barrier and apologized.

"I am sorry. It seems my arrival has broken your focus and made you trigger the formation. I'll make it up later, but for now let's focus on surviving and finding a way out." Su Ping nodded in approval.

"Alright. I'll take a look at the formation first and try to find its weak point."

"You can break a Tier 3 formation?" Bai Yuelan asked in admiration. Su Ping answered, "Not sure. This is the first time I've tried to do it, and your arrival accidentally triggered it instead." This made Bai Yuelan feel embarrassed. She fell silent for a moment before saying, "Then I'll give you some space to focus on breaking this formation. Please tell me if there's anything I can help with."

Before Su Ping started breaking the formation, the effects of the unknown miasma began to show as Bai Yuelan and Su Ping's faces grew flushed. I heard the grandma in Su Ping's necklace send a secret voice transmission, "Child, the poison in your body should be the kind that causes an energy imbalance by expanding the yang qi in males, or yin qi in females. To recover, you'll need to find a balance by releasing the excess yang energy and absorbing extra yin energy from an external source."

After she explained, the grandma in Su Ping's necklace seemed to see Su Ping's confusion and explained it bluntly, "You need to have some snu snu with a woman ASAP, or your little Su Ping will explode!" Su Ping's face changed colors several times from pale white, flushed red, and purplish blue at the thought of asking the only woman nearby to do it together or risk losing his peepee. On the other hand, after sitting cross-legged and closing her eyes, Bai Yuelan's flushed complexion slowly returned to normal.

Su Ping looked at Bai Yuelan in surprise.

"You aren't poisoned?" Bai Yuelan smiled.

"I was also poisoned like you. But the poison should be some kind of aphrodisiac, and after being forced into several situations where I accidentally ingested an aphrodisiac together with a male cultivator, I've developed some immunity to this kind of thing." When I hear their conversation, my mind is full of retorts to the point I don't even know where to start.

I know there's something like a child of destiny who seems like the protagonist of cultivation novels in this world, complete with the usual tropes found in cultivation novels. I also know that some cultivation novels often use an aphrodisiac trope to advance the 'romance' between the protagonist and the jade beauty-esque love interest. But in those stories, the aphrodisiac plot usually comes up only once.

Just how many aphrodisiac plots has Bai Yuelan encountered to the point that she developed an immunity to aphrodisiacs? Did this world lack a jade beauty-type love interest and place all the jade beauty-esque plots on Bai Yuelan? Isn't she kinda pitiful? Somehow, I started to pity her. The grandma in Su Ping's necklace also sent a secret voice transmission to Su Ping in surprise: "What? Is it even possible to develop immunity to aphrodisiac poisons? Just how many aphrodisiacs has that girl ingested?"