Divine Beast Creator-Chapter 2186 - 2187: End of the Semester

With a decision made in his heart, Feng Yuan didn’t hesitate and, carrying his small dish of desserts, walked straight towards Qi Chen. The latter happened to not be engaged in conversation at the moment and upon seeing Feng Yuan approach, Qi Chen asked somewhat puzzled,

"Feng Yuan, what’s up?"

"I wanted to ask you something, uh, Wu Dingwu invited me to watch the resource battle at Xu Family Town. Are you and her interested?"

Without playing coy, Feng Yuan directly stated his purpose. After listening to Feng Yuan, Qi Chen seemed to have words to say but held back. He was really not sure if strange mishaps would occur because of Feng Yuan’s visit, but this wasn’t something easy to bring up.

Although evidence seemed solid, in reality, no matter how you viewed it, those incidents appeared to be mere coincidences. At least, they had no concrete evidence showing that Feng Yuan’s past visits were the cause of those messy accidents, but... too many coincidences inevitably raise suspicion.

Noticing Qi Chen’s peculiar expression, Feng Yuan sighed; even though the other said nothing, he could guess Qi Chen’s thoughts.

Perhaps realizing Feng Yuan had caught onto what he was thinking, Qi Chen awkwardly smiled and said,

"Yanlan and I are actually quite interested, after all, you never know what useful techniques you might learn in such a setting."

This wasn’t Qi Chen speaking carelessly. Due to the huge interests involved in the resource battle, participants go all out with their means. Plus, the rules of such duels have very few restrictions; apart from the number of participants and prohibiting malicious harm to opponents, there are no other limits. In a way, these duels are closer to real combat in the wild.

Compared to those beast battles navigating through rules, this kind of combat is evidently more beneficial for Qi Chen to broaden his horizons. The fact is, due to fairness and other factors, many tactics are prohibited in beast contests.

Like the Crystal Domain, this item is restricted in beast contests, but in this kind of resource battle duel, there’s absolutely no limitation. As long as you can pull it off, even equipping every beast with a Domain Crystal is no problem.

Of course, due to the foreseeable dangers of these duels, at least one Legendary Level Beastmaster is present every time to maintain order, mainly to prevent ultimate moves from causing irreparable casualties.

Qi Chen was well aware that for Feng Yuan to bring people to watch such an exclusive resource battle really wasn’t difficult. Not mentioning Feng Yuan’s good relations with He Nanqing, but given the status of Agunas and the others, entry is easily accomplished.

After all, safety concerns are what everyone is worried about. If a Divine Beast is present, at least there can be assurance against casualties occurring. And as for a few more strangers being around? Compared to the benefits, it’s completely negligible.

Retracting his thoughts, Qi Chen spoke,

"Yanlan and I will go together, won’t we cause trouble?"

"Why would you? If anyone were to cause trouble, it would be me, but never mind, I’m used to it."

Spreading his hands, Feng Yuan said with a nonchalant look on his face. Although he didn’t know if anything strange would happen, since that’s how things are, he might as well go where he wants.

Suppressing his laughter, Qi Chen tried to comfort Feng Yuan, but ultimately gave up. There was no helping it; even he felt those words sounded more like teasing than comfort. Unfortunately, Dou Yanlan was not by his side, otherwise Qi Chen could have sought help from Dou Yanlan.

After arranging things with Qi Chen, Feng Yuan did not linger long. No helping it; his social circle wasn’t quite the same as Qi Chen’s. At least for Feng Yuan, his classmates were mostly mere acquaintances, like Wu Dingwu and the others were familiar but not quite close friends.

The carnival banquet lasted until late at night, but Feng Yuan didn’t stay until the end. There were quite a few others like him; not everybody has the energy to party the entire time.

Returning to the dormitory, Feng Yuan immediately shared the plan to watch the Xu Family Town battle with Agunas and the others. Whether they’d tag along, Feng Yuan wasn’t sure, but he certainly wouldn’t take them along without at least asking.

Even Veronia, who is now free, stays by Feng Yuan mainly because there’s nowhere better to go, similar to Agunas, who though gradually blending with other Divine Beasts, still leaves a doppelganger by Feng Yuan’s side.

Compared to Agunas, who has other matters to tend to, Veronia and Tamur are much more idle. Sometimes Feng Yuan found it odd; although Veronia remains due to special circumstances since the Mythical Era, lacking corresponding duties is understandable. However, Tamur was somewhat peculiar.

Generally, modern Divine Beasts all have corresponding duties; even Xiao Ji is the same, albeit Xiao Ji and Kong Qing’s power isn’t quite enough yet to fulfill those duties.

But Tamur is different; its power is at the Divine Beast Level, so lack of power to fulfill duties isn’t an issue.

Of course, Feng Yuan hasn’t asked Tamur about it, since for Divine Beasts, lacking own duties isn’t a good thing. As seen with Veronia, although it hasn’t shown it, Feng Yuan knows deep down Veronia cares about it quite a lot, and regrettably, he has no solution for it.

Agunas was the first to speak, and it didn’t have much opinion about where to go. After all, this was only a doppelganger; its real self was busy with other matters. Unlike Veronia and the others, Agunas indeed has duties.

Veronia thought for a moment before choosing to join Feng Yuan for the fuss. Of course, what it wanted more was to see unexpected incidents occur in the duel, considering it’s not unlikely with Feng Yuan there ~

Feng Yuan truly hadn’t anticipated Veronia to think that way; otherwise, he might have been tempted to defend himself.

He Nanqing did not reject Feng Yuan’s request to spectate. She was aware that this year, with the addition of the Crystal Domain, the resource battle had become increasingly dangerous. Although Xu Family Town wasn’t the most perilous resource point, it wasn’t far off. With Feng Yuan present, the risk of incidents could be minimized.

As for the most dangerous resource point?

He Nanqing had already arranged with Drudgeon to watch over it.

There was no choice; the resources there are too crucial, resulting in both sides going all out. Typically, even Legendary Level Beastmasters couldn’t contain their battles, requiring Saint Beast-Level Beastmasters to intervene.

This year, with the addition of Crystal Domain boosting both sides’ power even further, she couldn’t be certain Saint Beast-Level Beastmasters could still manage such battles.

Even though the combatants only possess Legendary Level power, Feng Yuan and the others had already demonstrated in front of everyone that with the enhancement of the Crystal Domain, power could temporarily soar to significant heights.

Ending the call, He Nanqing rubbed her temples, believing other officials likely faced the same headaches. There was no escaping it; these resource battles couldn’t be canceled, nor could they be changed. After all, in a short time, they couldn’t devise a more suitable method to allocate the resources.

However, whether or not to increase duel restrictions probably couldn’t achieve consensus, given this approach had been in place for so many years. Everyone was accustomed; sudden changes raised big issues over how alterations could still ensure fairness.

He Nanqing was aware that with more rules, situations targeting particular groups become more probable—an unavoidable reality. For some strategies, they indeed were somewhat aggressive and prone to issues.

Feng Yuan wasn’t aware of the dilemmas He Nanqing and them faced, nor would he pay them heed even if he did; those matters had nothing to do with him. Feng Yuan wasn’t so idle as to want to intervene in everything.

For the freshmen, a single night of carnival banquet was far from enough to satisfy them, yet, unfortunately, the opportunity only existed once. On the second day, they couldn’t continue renting the venue.

Feng Yuan wasn’t inclined to keep partying either. Having been busy at the manor for days, with results announced, those still hoping to squeeze in more fun before "disasters" arrived all wilted.

Glimpsing the report card, Feng Yuan nonchalantly slipped it into the drawer. His grades roughly matched his expectations since the exam content posed no difficulty for him.

As for Qi Chen and them?

Dou Yanlan hardly needed concern; Qi Chen, on the other hand, might lag slightly in cultural studies but it was inconsequential. At least passing wouldn’t be a problem. Given Qi Chen’s unique battle intuition, Feng Yuan truly couldn’t say how much cultural studies influenced him, especially with Dou Yanlan helping out.

With the report cards issued, Maomu Academy began its winter break. Maintaining dormitory access during the holiday proved quite convenient for Feng Yuan, sparing him the trouble of moving his belongings elsewhere.

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