Chapter 169: Shambles

Sun rose up in the sky and Ning opened his eyes as well. At some point through the Ning, the spirit stone had been emptied and he had to take out a second one to cultivate with. 

However, by the morning even that was gone. Thanks to cultivating all night, he was as fresh as ever and ready to go. 

He stood up from the rock, full of energy, and walked towards the other forest. Along the way, he found many monsters and found quite a few ingredients as well. 

"I wonder if the people outside left the arena at night or stayed throughout the night," Ning wondered. Ning could understand the cultivators staying, but the mortals that came to watch stuff must've definitely left at night. 

He continued walking and soon reached the forest. The forest wasn't any different from the other one and Ning continued to exploit his hidden aura for more points. 

Beasts continued to target him for his weak aura, and he continued killing them. As such, quite a few hours passed. 

Ning was in the middle of the jungle and another beast with an aura that said it was in the 6th Qi Condensation realm tried to sneak attack him. 

It was a monkey with four arms and it sneakily climbed through the trees, slowly coming behind him to attack. As soon as it reached close to him. 

It punched his back as hard as it could. Ning swiftly turned around to catch its incoming arm. But even as he did, the talisman on his chest started glowing and soon a barrier appeared around him. 

"Huh? No, it's not fatal. What are you doing?" Ning shouted but he couldn't do anything to stop it. "Noooo….." Even as he shouted, he disappeared. 

When he finally reappeared, he looked around where he was, expecting to see a hoard of people looking at him near the portal on the stage. 

But instead, he found himself near a stream of water, in the middle of a grassland. 

"What?" he asked himself in confusion. "Wasn't I disqualified?" he thought as he looked around and then up. 

The sun was in the sky, directly on top of him. 

"Oh, it's noon. F*ck. Can't they make the effect of teleportation and leaving the secret realm different? F*cking scared me for nothing," he thought and stood up. 

He looked around to see the best route to take now when he noticed something. Far away in the sky, he could see a slightly purple layer of barrier spanning everywhere he could see. 

'Is that… what they are using to stop us from moving any further?' Ning wondered. He turned around looking at the other sides and realized that the barrier on that side was at the same distance from him. 

It was very far away, but he could tell the distance. He turned to the two remaining sides and realized that he had been teleported to the middle of the secret realm. 

"Damn, where was I before? This is clearly the middle portion. I hope there aren't any strong monsters out there," Ning thought. 

All of a sudden, something entered the range of his divine sense. Ning looked at it and saw that it was a crocodile beast. 

It was a 7th Qi Condensation realm beast and was slowly swimming through the water, trying to stay hidden as it closed in on Ning. 

Ning didn't even bother trying to wait for the crocodile to reach him and just jumped at it. The crocodile was surprised and opened its mouth to bite at Ning, but Ning just stepped on the lower mouth and grabbed the upper mouth with his hand. 

He then pulled it away and ripped the crocodile in half. He stored the corpse and walked out of the water. 

Just as he did, 3 different people walked out of the jungle at the same time. However, they weren't together and came out of different sides of the jungle. 

"Holy… so many people. I guess since the land is halved, you idiots would start popping up soon," a man as he walked out. 

He was wearing a green robe, in contrast to the other two who were wearing a red robe and a light blue robe. 

"Hoh, an idiot calling someone else an idiot? That's rare to see," the man with the light blue robe said. 

Ning looked at the three and saw that they all had the 8th Qi Condensation realm. That was an incredibly rare occurrence. In contrast, Ning currently looked like he had 6th Qi Condensation realm. 

The third guy in red wasn't speaking at all and kept looking at the other two with caution. Ning was no threat to him so he didn't even bother looking at him. 

Ning was slightly surprised at the third guy's appearance but thought it was just a coincidence and focused on the two loud ones. 

"You guys must've gathered quite a few points right? Why don't you give half of it to me?" the guy in green said. 

"Sure, why don't you give some to me as well? I would appreciate it a lot," the guy in light blue said. 

They both looked to their side towards the third person, but he wasn't speaking at all. So they stopped bothering with him but kept a cautious eye on him. 

"Why don't I get rid of this guy and we can continue this afterward?" the guy in green said pointing to Ning.

"And get half his points? Keep dreaming. I will be the one killing him." The guy in light blue didn't wait for any more words and directly jumped towards Ning. 

The guy in green also jumped towards Ning to deliver the final blow as that would be what gave the people their points. 

Ning took out his spear and put it up horizontally to stop the swords. One hit the blade and another the hilt, yet even when together, neither of them could budge the spear.

"You guys talk really big, but do you have the ability to back it up?" Ning said as he looked towards both of them and a malicious smile appeared on his face.