Chapter 268 Burning Chains
Le Renkuang and Zhang Xuanyu were both embarrassed, but they showed no intention of giving the Blue Sea Wandering Dragon Daggers back to Han Fei . They simply put the daggers on their back, and they almost moaned in comfort .
Zhang Xuanyu said, “Han Fei, find out how many Fiery Mountain Tokens it takes for one to walk on the chain . The guy who just fell definitely had the Fiery Mountain Tokens too, but maybe not enough . ” Luo Xiaobai said, “That’s right . You can test it out . ”
Han Fei immediately recalled half of the Fiery Mountain Tokens and took a few steps . Sensing nothing wrong, he canceled another handful, but then his feet started to be scorched . He hurried to take a few tokens out . When the number of the Fiery Mountain Tokens was kept at ten, he felt that it was perfect . It was like walking on an asphalt road on a summer day, hot but not insufferable .
Eventually, Han Fei added the number to fifteen . At this point, he felt that he was walking on regular ground barefooted . It was neither too hot nor too cold .
Han Fei remarked, “Ten makes it only slightly hot, and fifteen won’t make you feel anything . ” Le Renkuang said gloomily, “I need to borrow seven from you . ”
Zhang Xuanyu said, “Six for me . ”
Xia Xiaochan asked, “Xiaobai, how many do you have?”
Luo Xiaobai said, “I came to the mountain right away and only met one person, so I only have two tokens . ”
Xia Xiaochan waved her hands casually, and thirteen Fiery Mountain Tokens were thrown to Luo Xiaobai . “These should be enough . ”
Zhang Xuanyu immediately gasped . “Xia Xiaochan, how many Fiery Mountain Tokens do you have?”
Xia Xiaochan replied, “Thirty-seven!”
Everyone: “…”
Luo Xiaobai asked in surprise, “So many?”
Xia Xiaochan smiled . “Those I ran into had a lot of tokens, so I simply robbed them . ”
Han Fei was rather delighted . “That’s great . The five of us have 84 Fiery Mountain Tokens in total, which is almost one third of the total . It means that the other 19 people have only eleven on average, but that’s unlikely, because Li Hanyi’s team must have plenty of Fiery Mountain Tokens too . ”
Xia Xiaochan said unconcernedly, “That’s not our problem . I’m going to rob them one way or another . ”
Luo Xiaobai considered for a moment and said, “If my guess is correct, only a handful of Fiery Mountain Tokens are required for someone to pass, especially for those who are intimate with fire like you, Xiaochan . So, most of the students can make it through, and we will have a lot of opponents later . ”
“Ahhhh!”
While they were talking to each other, another one fell from the long chains, and the same scene happened again .
Le Renkuang trembled . “Forget it . Fifteen are perfect . What if it’s extra hot at the center? What if something goes wrong halfway? Don’t bother others . It’s fine as long as ours are enough . ”
So, they divided their Fiery Mountain Tokens evenly and jumped on the chains .
But after only walking thirty meters, they sensed something wrong . The problem was not the chains below their feet, but their own weight .
Le Renkuang shouted first . “Something is wrong! I’m feeling more and more pressure . My body is getting heavier . ”
Han Fei said, “Me too . No wonder they’re all walking step by step . This is meant to prevent us from playing any tricks . ”
Luo Xiaobai said, “Be careful . Something else might happen when we reach the palace… I don’t think the chains will be the only test . ”
Gritting their teeth, they moved forward step by step . Like Le Renkuang had foreseen, they sensed nothing in the first hundred meters, but their feet were hot when they were five hundred meters away .
After they walked a thousand meters, their feet were slightly burnt, even though all of them had more than fifteen Fiery Mountain Tokens .
“Ahhhh!”
Another exclamation burst out . Someone fell with fire all over his body . Unwilling to give up, he cast his fishing pole at the chain, hoping to land on it again .
However, his fishing line caught fire and was burnt apart one second later .
Le Renkuang swallowed hard . “Han Fei, do you have extra Fiery Mountain Tokens? Can I borrow two?”
Han Fei rolled his eyes . “Ask Xia Xiaochan . ”
Xia Xiaochan didn’t really care . She threw two Fiery Mountain Tokens at Le Renkuang and said, “Fatty, you’re the weakest . It’s time for you to work out after we return . ”
Le Renkuang said regretfully, “My body is actually very sturdy . However, fat people are scared of hotness, you know…”
Zhang Xuanyu snorted . “Enough . Just appreciate what you have . I don’t think everybody on the chains has fifteen Fiery Mountain Tokens, considering that there are only 305 Fiery Mountain Tokens in total and 24 candidates in this place . ” Le Renkuang patted his chest and said, “Thank god we have Han Fei and Xia Xiaochan, or it would’ve been hard for us to pass the chains . ”
They chit-chatted with each other, and the chains grew hotter still when they walked another thousand meters . The pressure had increased too, forcing them to step on the chain heavily . They couldn’t run at all .
A couple of chains away, two people were set on fire, but they were ruthless enough to turn on their spiritual energy protective covers . In the meantime, they fused themselves with their spiritual beasts, hoping to weather through it .
After another five hundred meters, those two people finally fell from the chain, unable to make it .
Han Fei had a lot of complicated feelings . Every opportunity for a cultivator to be stronger came with a price . Five of the 24 candidates had died on the chain, and they were almost the best students of the three academies .
Very soon, after they walked two thousand meters, they seemed to have reached the center . The chains here were burning their feet, and their Fiery Mountain Tokens were so red as if they were just fetched from the furnace .
Luo Xiaobai said, “Let’s continue . This must be the hottest part . Everything will be fine if we pass it . ”
Han Fei felt that he could still persist . He looked back at Zhang Xuanyu and Le Renkuang, only to see that they had stuck his Blue Sea Wandering Dragon Daggers to their feet and showed great comfort .
“Look . ”
Xia Xiaochan suddenly pointed at someone on a chain not far away . He was ablaze, but he was walking faster and faster .
In another direction, several people were doing the same thing .
The chains were gathering as they approached the palace, and Han Fei saw that Li Hanyi’s team were five hundred meters ahead of them .
The man wearing the mask was even faster than Li Hanyi’s team .
His face slightly changed, Han Fei whispered to his team, “Let’s accelerate, in case they ambush us after they arrive first . ”
Luo Xiaobai was surprised . “You can still accelerate?”
Han Fei said, “I think I can deal with the pressure . ”
Xia Xiaochan said, “I’m fine too . ”
Zhang Xuanyu said, “I can’t catch up to them even if I accelerate!”
Le Renkuang, on the other hand, simply turned a deaf ear to Han Fei, as it was impossible for him to accelerate at all .
Luo Xiaobai said, “You and Xiaochan can go first . We’re too weak to go any faster for now . ”
Han Fei nodded and unleashed his spiritual energy, allowing him to run on the chain .
Xia Xiaochan was even more unbelievable . She was a hundred meters away after one flash .
The three people behind were dumbfounded, and Zhang Xuanyu seemed fascinated . “Is there any battle technique about the flash ability? I really want to learn it!”
Le Renkuang remarked, “Han Fei’s body is truly extraordinary . He can still run under such pressure?”
On the other hand, Li Hanyi’s team noticed Han Fei too . They were all shocked to see that Han Fei was running .
Li Hanyi roared, “Accelerate . We have to arrive earlier than they do . ”
The last two thousand meters seemed to have turned into a death race, and the rest of the walkers on the chains were lost for words, wondering why they were competing for the treasures with those freaks .
Han Fei was running like an ordinary person, but Xia Xiaochan was like a special athlete . She swooshed forward by a hundred meters much faster than Han Fei did .
Three minutes later, Xia Xiaochan reached the end of the chains first, and Han Fei had just finished half of the race .
Xia Xiaochan, on the other hand, ran to Li Hanyi’s team . She saw that Su Yebai in Li Hanyi’s team had darted dozens of spider threads to the stairs at the end of the chains . The man was rushing with the support of the spider threads and legs .
Seeing that Su Yebai was the first to arrive, Xia Xiaochan snorted . “You got me last time . Let’s see if you can poison me again . ”
Xia Xiaochan disappeared, and in the next moment, a dagger suddenly appeared before Su Yebai .
Chapter 268 Burning Chains
Le Renkuang and Zhang Xuanyu were both embarrassed, but they showed no intention of giving the Blue Sea Wandering Dragon Daggers back to Han Fei . They simply put the daggers on their back, and they almost moaned in comfort .
Zhang Xuanyu said, “Han Fei, find out how many Fiery Mountain Tokens it takes for one to walk on the chain . The guy who just fell definitely had the Fiery Mountain Tokens too, but maybe not enough . ” Luo Xiaobai said, “That’s right . You can test it out . ”
Han Fei immediately recalled half of the Fiery Mountain Tokens and took a few steps . Sensing nothing wrong, he canceled another handful, but then his feet started to be scorched . He hurried to take a few tokens out . When the number of the Fiery Mountain Tokens was kept at ten, he felt that it was perfect . It was like walking on an asphalt road on a summer day, hot but not insufferable .
Eventually, Han Fei added the number to fifteen . At this point, he felt that he was walking on regular ground barefooted . It was neither too hot nor too cold .
Han Fei remarked, “Ten makes it only slightly hot, and fifteen won’t make you feel anything . ” Le Renkuang said gloomily, “I need to borrow seven from you . ”
Zhang Xuanyu said, “Six for me . ”
Xia Xiaochan asked, “Xiaobai, how many do you have?”
Luo Xiaobai said, “I came to the mountain right away and only met one person, so I only have two tokens . ”
Xia Xiaochan waved her hands casually, and thirteen Fiery Mountain Tokens were thrown to Luo Xiaobai . “These should be enough . ”
Zhang Xuanyu immediately gasped . “Xia Xiaochan, how many Fiery Mountain Tokens do you have?”
Xia Xiaochan replied, “Thirty-seven!”
Everyone: “…”
Luo Xiaobai asked in surprise, “So many?”
Xia Xiaochan smiled . “Those I ran into had a lot of tokens, so I simply robbed them . ”
Han Fei was rather delighted . “That’s great . The five of us have 84 Fiery Mountain Tokens in total, which is almost one third of the total . It means that the other 19 people have only eleven on average, but that’s unlikely, because Li Hanyi’s team must have plenty of Fiery Mountain Tokens too . ”
Xia Xiaochan said unconcernedly, “That’s not our problem . I’m going to rob them one way or another . ”
Luo Xiaobai considered for a moment and said, “If my guess is correct, only a handful of Fiery Mountain Tokens are required for someone to pass, especially for those who are intimate with fire like you, Xiaochan . So, most of the students can make it through, and we will have a lot of opponents later . ”
“Ahhhh!”
While they were talking to each other, another one fell from the long chains, and the same scene happened again .
Le Renkuang trembled . “Forget it . Fifteen are perfect . What if it’s extra hot at the center? What if something goes wrong halfway? Don’t bother others . It’s fine as long as ours are enough . ”
So, they divided their Fiery Mountain Tokens evenly and jumped on the chains .
But after only walking thirty meters, they sensed something wrong . The problem was not the chains below their feet, but their own weight .
Le Renkuang shouted first . “Something is wrong! I’m feeling more and more pressure . My body is getting heavier . ”
Han Fei said, “Me too . No wonder they’re all walking step by step . This is meant to prevent us from playing any tricks . ”
Luo Xiaobai said, “Be careful . Something else might happen when we reach the palace… I don’t think the chains will be the only test . ”
Gritting their teeth, they moved forward step by step . Like Le Renkuang had foreseen, they sensed nothing in the first hundred meters, but their feet were hot when they were five hundred meters away .
After they walked a thousand meters, their feet were slightly burnt, even though all of them had more than fifteen Fiery Mountain Tokens .
“Ahhhh!”
Another exclamation burst out . Someone fell with fire all over his body . Unwilling to give up, he cast his fishing pole at the chain, hoping to land on it again .
However, his fishing line caught fire and was burnt apart one second later .
Le Renkuang swallowed hard . “Han Fei, do you have extra Fiery Mountain Tokens? Can I borrow two?”
Han Fei rolled his eyes . “Ask Xia Xiaochan . ”
Xia Xiaochan didn’t really care . She threw two Fiery Mountain Tokens at Le Renkuang and said, “Fatty, you’re the weakest . It’s time for you to work out after we return . ”
Le Renkuang said regretfully, “My body is actually very sturdy . However, fat people are scared of hotness, you know…”
Zhang Xuanyu snorted . “Enough . Just appreciate what you have . I don’t think everybody on the chains has fifteen Fiery Mountain Tokens, considering that there are only 305 Fiery Mountain Tokens in total and 24 candidates in this place . ” Le Renkuang patted his chest and said, “Thank god we have Han Fei and Xia Xiaochan, or it would’ve been hard for us to pass the chains . ”
They chit-chatted with each other, and the chains grew hotter still when they walked another thousand meters . The pressure had increased too, forcing them to step on the chain heavily . They couldn’t run at all .
A couple of chains away, two people were set on fire, but they were ruthless enough to turn on their spiritual energy protective covers . In the meantime, they fused themselves with their spiritual beasts, hoping to weather through it .
After another five hundred meters, those two people finally fell from the chain, unable to make it .
Han Fei had a lot of complicated feelings . Every opportunity for a cultivator to be stronger came with a price . Five of the 24 candidates had died on the chain, and they were almost the best students of the three academies .
Very soon, after they walked two thousand meters, they seemed to have reached the center . The chains here were burning their feet, and their Fiery Mountain Tokens were so red as if they were just fetched from the furnace .
Luo Xiaobai said, “Let’s continue . This must be the hottest part . Everything will be fine if we pass it . ”
Han Fei felt that he could still persist . He looked back at Zhang Xuanyu and Le Renkuang, only to see that they had stuck his Blue Sea Wandering Dragon Daggers to their feet and showed great comfort .
“Look . ”
Xia Xiaochan suddenly pointed at someone on a chain not far away . He was ablaze, but he was walking faster and faster .
In another direction, several people were doing the same thing .
The chains were gathering as they approached the palace, and Han Fei saw that Li Hanyi’s team were five hundred meters ahead of them .
The man wearing the mask was even faster than Li Hanyi’s team .
His face slightly changed, Han Fei whispered to his team, “Let’s accelerate, in case they ambush us after they arrive first . ”
Luo Xiaobai was surprised . “You can still accelerate?”
Han Fei said, “I think I can deal with the pressure . ”
Xia Xiaochan said, “I’m fine too . ”
Zhang Xuanyu said, “I can’t catch up to them even if I accelerate!”
Le Renkuang, on the other hand, simply turned a deaf ear to Han Fei, as it was impossible for him to accelerate at all .
Luo Xiaobai said, “You and Xiaochan can go first . We’re too weak to go any faster for now . ”
Han Fei nodded and unleashed his spiritual energy, allowing him to run on the chain .
Xia Xiaochan was even more unbelievable . She was a hundred meters away after one flash .
The three people behind were dumbfounded, and Zhang Xuanyu seemed fascinated . “Is there any battle technique about the flash ability? I really want to learn it!”
Le Renkuang remarked, “Han Fei’s body is truly extraordinary . He can still run under such pressure?”
On the other hand, Li Hanyi’s team noticed Han Fei too . They were all shocked to see that Han Fei was running .
Li Hanyi roared, “Accelerate . We have to arrive earlier than they do . ”
The last two thousand meters seemed to have turned into a death race, and the rest of the walkers on the chains were lost for words, wondering why they were competing for the treasures with those freaks .
Han Fei was running like an ordinary person, but Xia Xiaochan was like a special athlete . She swooshed forward by a hundred meters much faster than Han Fei did .
Three minutes later, Xia Xiaochan reached the end of the chains first, and Han Fei had just finished half of the race .
Xia Xiaochan, on the other hand, ran to Li Hanyi’s team . She saw that Su Yebai in Li Hanyi’s team had darted dozens of spider threads to the stairs at the end of the chains . The man was rushing with the support of the spider threads and legs .
Seeing that Su Yebai was the first to arrive, Xia Xiaochan snorted . “You got me last time . Let’s see if you can poison me again . ”
Xia Xiaochan disappeared, and in the next moment, a dagger suddenly appeared before Su Yebai .
