The Ruins (Part-2)

Bashista had frown in his face the kid is really troublesome, 'I would not be surprised if all the others target us because of Long Yu, but I should be grateful he has his hood up thus his face is partially covered, it would be too troublesome trying to save him from all those freaks.', purposefully forgetting that a few hours ago he and his team were among those freaks.

As the number of people entered the stadium, Ryuu aka Long Yu noticed a giant screen where a few numbers were displayed which was changing as more and more people entered.

Long Yu:"Does that number showing on that giant screen mean anything?"

Before his teammates could answer, a suave voice came from his side," That shows the number of participants that have entered, as more and more joins us the number also increases. Oh pardon my rudeness I forgot to introduce myself my name is Xiang Tian, may I know your name fellow cultivator.", as man wearing dull gray colored robes and his face covered with bamboo hat, gave a slight bow while cupping his hand.

Long Yu returned the gesture, as he also gave a small bow while cupping his hands, "My name is Long Yu, brother cultivator, and thank you for satiating my curiosity.", Long Yu felt many people paying rapt attention to his and Xiang Tian's conversation.

Xiang Tian: "Fellow brother I could not help but ask you, you are so young yet so talented, do you belong to some school or sect."

Long Yu smiled before answering, "I am not affiliated with any school or sect. I was taught everything by my family."

Xiang Tian: "So will be joining som….", before he could finish he was interrupted by Ryuu, "No brother I have no intention of joining some sect or schools, and currently I am happily learning my family arts, although I plan to join Shangri-La pavilion just like my Granny Mei."

Xiang Tian: "Oh I see", with that he left them and went a bit further away, as he engaged in conversation with some other people.

Ryuu frowned he did not like this person, when he was near this person his sixth sense was going haywire telling him to keep distance from Xiang fellow, after a few time landing in the hospital after some training session with his teachers he learned to trust his sixth sense it spared him from trips to the hospital many times.

Long Yu: "umm Guys that Xiang fellow was giving me bad vibes I think we should avoid him all together."

The others listened but as they did not want to argue with the kid and have them garner some bad reputation in his grandmother's eyes, they just smiled and nodded with a smile, while inwardly snickering 'the brat got cold feet so early.'

Long Yu frowned then used one of the skills his teacher taught him 'Divine eyes', a level 6 skill the best part is that the skill can be upgraded all the way to 9th level skill, which was then called 'Omnipresent Eyes.', well this skill is useful in order to check illusions, it also helps in combat as it helps in tracking opponents every move, and discern which was he doing just now he used this skill, his eyes glowed a second as he tried to decipher what the conversation between Xian and other cultivators, most were unimportant and soon the person disappeared into the crowd of people.

After waiting for a long time, a huge bell rung and the way into the stadium was closed, Long Yu glanced in an idle manner towards the screen only to see a huge number, 178395, he sucked a deep breath he will be going against such a huge number of participant.

Suddenly a huge semi-transparent image of a person came up, "Welcome candidates welcome to the sacred disciple selection competition, I am...

Long Yu was confused, 'Disciple??? Candidates????', "What is the ghost talking about?", he asked his teammates.

Bashista: "This is a holographic image of the sect leader before it was destroyed, this ruin is actually a test for those who want to join the sect, it was pre recorded message that still plays every time the trial starts."

The Holographic image continued, "In order to become the disciple of our glorious sect, you all have to pass various tests the first of which is to transverse through the blood demon forest, although it is called a forest, but it has six different biomes, such as marsh, grassland, forest, ice, mountains and desert, you all will be teleported randomly, in each biome, you have to survive and collect at least 5000 points each by killing various beasts , the point system is as such

1) Any monster below Zifu Disciple, is 0 points.

2) Rank 1 Zifu Disciple is 1 points.

3) Rank 2 Zifu Disciple is 2 points.

4) Rank 3 Zifu Disciple is 3 points.

5) Rank 4 Zifu Disciple is 4 points.

6) Rank 5 Zifu Disciple is 5 points.

7) Rank 6 Zifu Disciple is 6 points.

8) Rank 7 Zifu Disciple is 7 points.

9) Rank 8 Zifu Disciple is 8 points.

10) Rank 9 Zifu Disciple is 9 points.

11) Rank 1 Wanxiang Adept is 100 points.

12) Rank 2 Wanxiang Adept is 200 points.

13) Rank 3 Wanxiang Adept is 300 points.

14) Rank 4 Wanxiang Adept is 400 points.

15) Rank 5 Wanxiang Adept is 500 points.

16) Rank 6 Wanxiang Adept is 600 points.

Now I am a kind man hence I will tell you a small secret so that you may bypass the system, if you kill someone that person's points will become yours. "

Long Yu was startled at that he will have to kill, he felt dread thinking about killing someone, but suddenly his eyes glazed and he calmed as if nothing happened, unknown to anyone a certain set of runes placed at his neck glowed for a few seconds which calmed him down.

"As I have already told you the rules it is time for me to say goodbye, see you at the next trial location, you have a week to complete all the biomes, if you fail you will be kicked out, if you die your corpse will be nourishment for the beasts, and your treasures, well finders keepers. Now if someone wants to form a team hold each other's hands and utter the word 'TEAM', you have three breaths of time before I finish speaking and you all are teleported. If you form a team with your friends you will be together with them in the same biome, well until we meet again.", with that the image disappeared.

Long Yu quickly held his teammates hands as they all said the word 'TEAM' together, the bracelet glowed before the color remained unchained. He noticed many people doing the same, soon a bright blinding light caused him to close his eyes, when he opened his eyes again he found himself in a completely different place, in front of him was....