40 The Hengduan Mountain Range

In less than a minute, more than 30 contestants who had challenged Xu Mo collapsed on the stage without exception.

The latter calmly walked down from the arena. The surrounding was deathly silent. Everyone looked at Xu Mo with fear and admiration instead of contempt.

He slowly paced back to the stands. Terry eagerly served tea and pastries.

"You've worked hard, my Lord!"

Xu Mo nodded with a faint smile, but he didn't take the things that the other party handed over.

Terry smiled embarrassedly and did not mind. He returned to his seat and asked loudly. "Next, is there anyone else who wants to challenge the other Adjudicators?"

The whole arena was silent, and nobody was talking.

Clearly, everyone was blown away by Xu Mo's actions just now!

If the person ranked last was already so powerful, and the few people on the viewing stand were all strong people ranked at the top.

Who would look for abuse over nothing, and even pick their abuser?

Terry waited for a moment. Seeing that no one spoke, he smiled and continued, "Then it seems that everyone doesn't want to choose the difficult method."

"From now on, within three days, kill a Diamond-ranked monster and you pass this round!"

As soon as he finished speaking, all the candidates present immediately ran out of the arena.

In three days, if they didn't hurry, it would be very difficult to kill a Diamond-ranked monster. After all, Diamond-ranked monsters weren't easy to find nowadays.

It would take at least a day to travel from the Alliance Headquarters to the nearest area where monsters ran rampant. In other words, the candidates only had one day left.

Killing a Diamond-ranked monster within a day, this mission's danger and difficulty levels were self-evident!

However, at the same time, high risk brings high returns. Moreover, compared to monsters, the candidates were more unwilling to face the Adjudicators.

After all, they only had one chance once they fought an Adjudicator head-on. If they lost, their chance would be gone.

On the other hand, hunting monsters was different. There were many possibilities.

There was a rule in the Adjudicator Selection Competition stating that candidates could work together to kill a Diamond-ranked monster, but the number of people could not exceed three.

Seeing that no one challenged them, the Adjudicators stood up and left.

Every Adjudicator had expected this situation, but Mu Rong's words caught Xu Mo's attention.

"Maitreya, are the selections so hasty nowadays? They can even form a team. If they can form a team, then…"

Mu Rong's words made Xu Mo understand. No wonder there had only been 21 Adjudicators all this time.

It turned out that they had suffered behind the scenes. They were able to complete seemingly impossible missions under extremely harsh conditions.

It was not a coincidence that they were able to achieve their current statuses!

Xu Mo followed the Adjudicators out. When he passed by the Alliance Hall, he subconsciously paused.

When he saw the latest mission list, his gaze froze. He immediately went forward and casually accepted a few missions.

"Dong Huang, you accepted the missions so quickly?" Qing Lian noticed Xu Mo's actions.

Xu Mo smiled and nodded at him before walking out.

After returning to the villa, he opened his personal attributes and re-checked the missions he had accepted. Then, he took out the monster crystal cores that Qing Lian had given him.

The monster crystal cores he had received not only contained the resources that he deserved after the re-evaluation, but also the resources that Niu Mo had entrusted Qing Lian to pass to Xu Mo.

Almost all of them were Platinum-ranked crystal cores. Xu Mo planned to absorb them all.

However, as he had expected, even with so many crystal cores and the system's help, Xu Mo could only advance to 5-star Platinum rank.

It was obvious that after advancing to Platinum rank, it was more and more difficult to increase one's realm through crystal cores.

This wasn't out of Xu Mo's expectations. The reason why he had accepted so many missions was for the mission rewards.

The resources given by the Alliance Headquarters and Niu Mo were already insufficient to feed Xu Mo's appetite.

He packed up and went straight to the Alliance Headquarters.

He can directly go to the location of the missions he accepted through the Alliance Headquarters's teleportation formation.

However, to Xu Mo's surprise, when he appeared in the Alliance Headquarters again, many people looked at him strangely.

"Wow, that's Xu Mo, the 22nd Adjudicator!"

"I heard that he fought more than 30 contestants today. All of them were beaten down!"

"Not only that, the first contestant who challenged him was directly punched into the wall by him and couldn't be pulled out. In the end, another Adjudicator had to pull him out!"

"Really? That's amazing. Oh my God…"

"I also know that this Adjudicator is only 18, and he only recently inherited his bloodline."

"No way, doesn't that mean he's a new recruit? A new recruit can be so powerful? What level is his bloodline?"

"I don't know about that, but I heard that his information has been listed as top secret!"

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Everyone pointed at Xu Mo and discussed animatedly. He ignored them and went straight to the teleportation formation.

He first went to Terry and asked for the mission map. Then, he entered the teleporter where the first mission was located.

His first mission location was a place called the Hengduan Mountain Range.

Before the world changed, it was a famous tourist destination.

However, after the Nine Stars Alignment, an earthquake higher than magnitude 10 occurred in the former tourist attraction.

After it happened, the entire mountain range seemed to have been sliced across the sky. This was according to the witnesses after the incident.

Apparently, something had escaped from the Hengduan mountain Range, but the exact situation was still unclear.

Since then, there have been many cases of monsters killing people in the mountain range. It has become one of the ten most dangerous places in the world.

According to the clues that the Alliance Headquarters had, there was a high possibility that there was a Strong King-ranked monster in the Hengduan Mountain Range.

However, no one had ever witnessed it with their own eyes. Of course, even if there was, it was probably impossible for them to spread the news.

After all, there was only one 9-star Strong King-ranked Inheritor among the humans.

The moment Xu Mo stepped into the teleportation formation, he appeared in a forest that was similar to the terrain outside Yanjing Fortress.

This was the Hengduan Mountain Range's outer region. This was the closest area where the alliance could reach and set up teleportation formations.

But even though this area's danger level isn't high, the current teleportation formation wasn't fixed.

Xu Mo walked forward carefully. As he approached the mountain range's core area, he could clearly see that the jungle here was very different from the jungle outside Yanjing Fortress.

Any random tree here was several times bigger than the one outside the fortress.

It was the kind of place where a person wouldn't be able to see the end of the forest. Moreover, its surroundings were quiet.

Xu Mo's keen senses detected that when he passed through the teleporter into the Hengduan Mountain Range's periphery, at least 3 Gold-ranked monsters had targeted him!