262: Chapter 262 Splitting Up_1 262: Chapter 262 Splitting Up_1 Watching the dark red orbs cast by the Explosive Nightingale, Feng Yuan’s lips curled slightly upwards.

He fiercely waved the scepter in his hand, causing a multitude of giant Rainbow Crystal Pillars to surge from the ground and spin, enveloping the camp for protection.

The dark red orbs landed on the Crystal Pillars, detonating violently.

When the spreading pillars shattered, the broken fragments disappeared into twinkling stars, while the remaining pillars continued to spread.

“What is this!”

“Nagna’s Crystal Garden!

He can even use that!”

“Indeed, his strength is terrifying!”

“But why doesn’t he take the offensive?”

Seeing Feng Yuan merely intercepting the orbs, everyone was somewhat puzzled.

Elder Li, however, seemed to have some understanding of why Feng Yuan was doing this and after some thought, he spoke,

“To provide his friends with an opportunity to shine.”

Seeing that everyone had finished dealing with the moles and quickly ascended to the platform to start cleaning up the Explosive Nightingales, a number of people seemed to agree, saying,

“Given the strength he’s showing now, indeed ranking higher doesn’t make much sense.”

“To be able to actively provide friends with opportunities to shine…”

“Hey!

Where are you looking?

Our security team isn’t as filthy as you think!”

“I never said it was.”

“That’s what your face is saying!”

Seeing the two sides arguing again, Elder Li shook his head and gazed at the scene of Feng Yuan continuing to maintain the Crystal Garden while murmuring,

“You, what exactly are you?”

“The Giant Tree Demon’s control over its energy is truly terrifying, its Flying Leaf technique can even hit the Explosive Nightingales in the sky.”

“That Steel Rhino is also quite impressive.”

In the scene, Duomeng summoned stone pillars and then violently smashed them, kicking the fragments towards the Explosive Nightingales.

Although not all the fragments hit their targets, several did.

“It’s not over yet…”

Noticing that everyone’s Spirit Beasts were growing weary, while the Explosive Nightingales in the sky seemed undiminished, Feng Yuan said to Xiao Ji,

“Borrow the power of Agunas, use the Time Feather, and rein in your strength—don’t kill them.”

“You guys, back off!”

Upon hearing Feng Yuan’s shout, everyone quickly commanded their Spirit Beasts to retreat, and Xiao Ji leaped down from Feng Yuan’s arms, transforming into a Sky Blue Great Bird and flying high into the sky.

“What is he going to do?”

“Eggshell Chicken has a transformation technique too?”

“Transformation?

Not good!

Tell them to immediately evacuate the Spirit Beasts from there!”

Elder Li, upon hearing everyone’s discussion, at first was somewhat confused but then suddenly his expression changed as he yelled.

Just when everyone was feeling puzzled, Xiao Ji swiftly flapped its wings in the air, sending numerous translucent feathers flying in all directions.

Every Explosive Nightingale struck by the feathers instantly fell unconscious and plummeted from the sky.

“Thank goodness…”

Watching those Explosive Nightingales being teleported away as they fell, Feng Yuan breathed a sigh of relief.

After a short while, the sky cleared as the Explosive Nightingales dispersed, and Xiao Ji joyfully chirped a few times, reverting back to its original form and landing in Feng Yuan’s arms.

Qi Chen looked at the Rainbow Crystals turning into stardust and let out a sigh, saying,

“Lucky we have you, otherwise facing those Explosive Nightingales we really wouldn’t know what to do.”

“Duomeng can burrow underground, right?

The mole group has been taken care of, and if there’s no anti-air capability, why not burrow underground to hide?”

“But still…”

“The camp isn’t a fortress, even if it were, when it’s time to give it up, we must.”

“Exactly because you made the camp too attractive, like that cave last time, certainly we wouldn’t be sorry to let it go.”

Glancing at Zhong Liuyan, Feng Yuan said somewhat speechlessly,

“This thing was purely made by Ah Mu; it’s much easier than a cave.

But you all should rest now.

Xiao Ji, keep an eye on our surroundings to see if there’s anyone foolish enough to try a sneak attack.”

Hesitating for a moment, Qi Chen said,

“Alright, once everyone has rested up, we’ll switch with you.”

“No need, Ah Mu will stay behind, and when the others are rested, they can go relic hunting.

Don’t forget, the highest score comes from the final battle over relics.

But be careful of sneak attacks on the way.”

“But don’t stray too far from camp, if anything seems amiss, run back to camp immediately.

Today, our priority is to get through it smoothly.

Tomorrow we can set off to dig for relics—” Feng Yuan said.

“They’re resting now?”

“What, you want to set up another wave of beasts?”

“Forget it, with that Eggshell Chicken standing guard, if it led to the death of Spirit Beasts, we would have a tough time explaining.”

“That Eggshell Chicken is really freaking terrifying, it wiped out all the Explosive Nightingales with a single move, even I couldn’t pull off such a feat.”

“Didn’t Elder Li said that the Eggshell Chicken is aiming for Legendary Level strength?

The Elite Level Explosive Nightingales don’t stand a chance before a Legendary Spirit Beast, you know.”

Hearing those people paying attention to Feng Yuan again, Elder Li calmly said,

“Aren’t you watching the other contestants?

Stop focusing on one person all the time.”

“Elder Li, which academy do you think Feng Yuan will end up going to?”

“It should be Great Xia, considering the strength he’s shown now, unless the teachers at Great Xia Academy are blind, there’s no reason not to specially recruit him.”

“What’s that?

Looking down on Shangjing Academy?”

“Even Shenhua Academy hasn’t said anything.”

Seeing the judges starting to argue again, Elder Li shook his head and continued to watch the screen, silently scoring the contestants in his heart.

“Are you rested?

Then it’s my turn to rest, Qi Chen, you and Ah Mu keep watch.

If they run into trouble or someone tries to sneak attack, call me.”

Seeing everyone walk out of the cabin, Feng Yuan said, casually picking up Xiao Ji who was standing on the vine railing and observing the surroundings,

“You come along too, we need to stay on guard tonight, don’t leave me to watch alone again.”

“You’re planning to stand guard alone?”

“More or less, I’m not responsible for fighting, so it doesn’t matter if I rest a little less at night.”

Zhong Liuyan thought for a moment before saying,

“That won’t do, we can’t rely on you for everything.

This is what we’ll do, Pei Yu, you’ll watch with him and Qi Chen for the first half of the night, and I’ll take over with Yanlan for the second half.”

“Suit yourself, I’m going to rest.”

Seeing Feng Yuan yawning and entering the cabin, Qi Chen said somewhat puzzled,

“Did he not rest well last night?”

“He must have spent too much spiritual power in that Crystal Garden just now.”

Dou Yanlan pondered and said, Zhong Liuyan curiously asked,

“Did he really use Nagna’s exclusive move, Crystal Garden, just now?”

“Yeah, even though it seems weak in defense, that’s probably because it used borrowed power, which lessened its strength.

But in both form and effect, it undoubtedly belongs to Nagna’s Crystal Garden.”

“We need to make sure we’re not eliminated before tomorrow and also not reveal our trump cards; otherwise, it’ll be difficult to aim for a high ranking.”

Qi Chen understood what Dou Yanlan was referring to as their trump card and nodded,

“Got it.”

Zhong Liuyan glanced at Qi Chen and Dou Yanlan and said,

“You’re not also able to borrow Nagna’s power like him, are you?”

Dou Yanlan shook her head and said,

“We can’t use Nagna’s power.”

“Then why are you all wearing Ritual Robes?”

With a secretive smile, Dou Yanlan didn’t answer but turned to Qi Chen and said,

“I’ll go look around for more relics.”

Seeing Zhong Liuyan staring at him, Qi Chen took a few steps back and said,

“Aren’t you setting out?”

Giving Qi Chen a roll of her eyes, Zhong Liuyan pulled Pei Yu and left.

Qi Chen looked at Ah Mu beside him and smiled,

“Didn’t expect that guy taught you so much, if you hadn’t shown your strength today, I wouldn’t have known you’ve grown so strong.”

Ah Mu showed a silly smile, looking at Qi Chen, who touched Ah Mu’s rough bark and gazed into the distance.

“Seriously, we wouldn’t even know if someone sneaked up on us.”

Feng Yuan rubbed his eyes and walked out of the cabin; Qi Chen and Ah Mu looked around in surprise upon hearing his words as Feng Yuan pointed his scepter in one direction and said,

“Xiao Ji, Spark.”

At Feng Yuan’s command, Xiao Ji spit out faint blue sparks in the direction the scepter was pointing at.

A man holding a dagger appeared on the platform as light and shadow twisted.

Glancing at the black cat beside the man, Feng Yuan said with disgust,

“Shadow Cat?

Xiao Ji, borrow Agunas’s power, cast ‘Madness’!”