After 800 Years, I’ve Become The Taboo Lifeform - Chapter 26
Chapter 26 The Old Man Who Sells Tea
[ Prodigy’s Arena has been opened! The rules for the first round are as follows.
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All cultivators who meet the conditions can enter Prodigy’s Arena and challenge the prodigies with dragon energy!
If the challenge is successful, the challenger will obtain the opponent’s dragon energy and be ranked on Prodigy Ranking.
The one being challenged will lose the dragon energy and the title of a prodigy!
In addition, Prodigy Ranking could be checked on the roll near Prodigy’s Arena and on any building within the Jade Dragon Kingdom that had been enchanted with dragon energy.
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Challenge details
- With each wisp of dragon energy, the prodigy would have to face at least ten challengers.
- The prodigy can 100% imitate the dragon energy holder’s strength, spell, and magical power, but it does not include external objects such as magic weapons and magical treasures. The challenger is also forbidden from using any external objects in the arena!
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- The dragon energy will not be transferred when both sides are injured.
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- For every victory the dragon energy holder wins, he or she will receive a drop of Dragon’s Spine Fluid!
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- The first round of challenges will be a battle between the challenger and the dragon energy holder. Dragon energy holders can not challenge each other!
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- The first round of challenges will last for three days … ]
The long list of challenge rules appeared before
Wei Bujuan’s eyes.
After reading them roughly, he frowned.
“The holder of dragon energy has to be challenged by others? What era is this? What the hell is this rule?”
It might not be that difficult for other dragon energy holders.
Even Li Yinghua, who was in second place, only had three flashes of dragon energy!
However, Wei Bujuan had twenty-one wisps of dragon energy, so he had to deal with at least two hundred and ten challengers.
How long would this battle take?
He didn’t want to fight.
Most importantly, this was not up to him!
If they refused to fight, others would take their
dragon energy away.
Wei Bujuan had gotten used to their existence these days, so he naturally wasn’t willing to let
go.
“I can only go all out and fight!”
Wei Bujuan thought, “That’s good. Let them
see who is the top prodigy!”
He looked and found that the arena was formed
by the laws of the heavenly dao.
The Jade Dragon Kingdom had four, and the
one in Yongzhou was near Wind Thunder
Gorge!
Those young cultivators who didn’t get the dragon energy had to rush to Prodigy’s Arena
to challenge.
However, it was different for dragon energy holders.
No matter where they were, they could use
their dragon energy to form their prodigy incarnation to fight when they were challenged!
Furthermore, the main body’s condition
wouldn’t be affected even if the prodigy incarnation was defeated or injured in the
arena.
However, his dragon energy would be taken
away.
This could be considered the heavenly dao’s preferential treatment for the junior prodigies. Wei Bujuan was ready to fight.
Suddenly, a notification came.
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[ Jade Dragon Kingdom’s rogue cultivator, Mi
Fu, has attempted to challenge the number one
on Prodigy Ranking, Han Li (you). Do you
accept the challenge? ]
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- Fight by myself and beat him up!
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- What’s the point of fighting against a nobody? (Let the system fight for me) ]
Wei Bujuan was overjoyed. “Can the system fight for me? Then there’s no need for me to waste my energy!”
He thought except for Li Yinghua, dealing with other challengers with the twenty-one flashes of dragon energy should be like a walk in the
park.
“The system wouldn’t lose, right?” He thought about it and happily chose 2.
After that, he continued to work hard on his cultivation.
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On the east bank of Wind Thunder Gorge. There was an abandoned fishing village on a shallow beach. With the tide of the East Sea all
year round, this place was always foggy. Water demons would occasionally appear, so it was a dangerous place for mortals.
However, it was effortless for the cultivators to deal with these water demons.
After the invitations for the sword battle between the r and the righteous and demonic
paths were sent out, most of the spectators came here.
One night, the fishing village was brightly lit and lively.
An old man with a beard set up a tea stall in a decent-looking house at the village entrance. He set up a large pot outside the stall. There
was a lot of boiling water but a few tea leaves in his pot, but the scent still attracted most of the cultivators in the fishing village here. Some people were curious and wanted to ask
for a cup of tea.
However, the old tea-selling man had a different business plan.
“I am not selling tea but my talent. Ten spirit
stones for one tune, coming with a free cup of tea!” he said and pouted at a drowsy little girl in the room. Everyone was even more curious.
The girl was about seven or eight years old. Her
fair skin and long eyelashes showed that she
would be a beautiful woman after growing up, but her sleeping posture while leaning against the railing was not very elegant. What was even more surprising was… The instrument in the girl’s arms was a sorna!
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“If she is performing, she should play something like lute!”
A middle-aged cultivator dressed like a scholar shook his head and said, “Drinking tea and
listening to sorna is inappropriate. Are we in a funeral?”
The old tea-selling man said leisurely, “There will be countless casualties in tomorrow’s sword battle, and you bystanders may not be
able to come back home alive anyway. Maybe listening to a sorna in advance is a good idea?” The surrounding crowd’s faces changed as soon as these words came out. This old man’s words were offensive. However, the crowd couldn’t tell how powerful
he was, so no one dared to act rashly but only
looked at the tea stall with either a sneer or a frown. After a while, a young cultivator finally couldn’t resist from the tea scent and generously took out ten spirit stones to the old tea seller.
As he paid, he said, “I just want a cup of tea
but not listen to the suona. I don’t want bad
luck!”
The old tea-selling man glared at him and said,
“The music comes with the tea! Girl, time for music!”
The little girl holding the sorna rubbed her sleepy eyes and then silently put the instrument between her lips. The next second, a mournful yet heroic voice
immediately rang out from the village entrance, giving the cultivators goosebumps! This song was more than just irritating. Everyone felt a chill down their spine when they heard the music!
After a long while, the girl finally finished the song, yawned, and went back to sleep. The young man impatiently took the big cup
from the tea seller’s hand and gulped it down!
In an instant, his face became rosy. Then, he exclaimed loudly, “My strength seems to have increased a lot! The Qi in my body is smoother!”
The rest of the people disdained him and
thought he was working for the old tea seller. Fortunately, this young man didn’t come alone. He had a few itinerant cultivator friends with
him.
They came forward and asked with concern,
“Mi Fu, how do you feel? This tea is really
working?”
Mi Fu thumped his chest. “This tea seems to be able to increase strength. I think the effect is extraordinary. It’s a pity that it’s too expensive, or I would have more!” he said.
As if trying to verify his words, he invited his itinerant cultivator friends to have a match. These people knew each other’s backgrounds, and their cultivation levels were similar. Much to their surprise, Mi Fu defeated them within a
few minutes!
At this moment, only then would some people
believe that the old man’s tea was really
effective!
Someone went to buy tea, but the old tea-selling man told them stubbornly, “You have to listen to the song before drinking the
tea! One person at a time, first come,
served. Line up!”
Mi Fu’s friends looked at each other.
first
As they were still hesitating, the sky in the
distance suddenly lit up with a fiery red! Immediately after, Prodigy’s Arenas appeared!
One of them landed near the fishing village! The old tea-selling man looked in surprise at the golden Arena not far away. A page of the golden roll appeared in the air
next to the arena.
The names of all the prodigies were on it!
The old man looked and said in shock, “How could someone obtain twenty-one flashes of dragon energy? That’s one more than the one
back then?”
After Prodigy’s Arena appeared, the world turned bright. Everyone was busy checking the list of rules
next to the arena.
Suddenly, the itinerant cultivator Mi Fu said
confidently, “I drank this tea today, and this must be a sign from the niverse. I can definitely win every battle with the power in me now!” he said.
He flew towards the arena as fast as he could and shouted, “I am the itinerant cultivator Mi Fu, and I want to challenge Han Li, the first on
Prodigy Ranking!”
His words immediately startled people at the
two banks of Wind Thunder Gorge. Not only the itinerant cultivators in the fishing
village but the righteous and demonic paths’ cultivators preparing for tomorrow’s sword
battle came over.
Everyone looked at Mi Fu in surprise.
The young man in the late stage of the Foundation Establishment couldn’t look more confident.
After a while, a prodigy’s incarnation slowly
landed on the other side of the arena! Everyone raised their heads, for they all wanted to see what Han Li looked like!
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