I Became the Alchemy Master by Picking Up Trash-Chapter 212 - 210: Xi Yuan Tournament (Part 36)

"Woo woo woo, Xing, I’m begging you, don’t chop off my leg—"

"Do you have any reason you must keep it? Tell me."

Cui Tianxiao cried so hard his face was smudged, and choked out, "With legs... clothes look better..."

Li Xing snorted and put away the Heavenly Wolf Saber.

Li Xing wasn’t really going to cut him, she was just vexed by the bad luck of being repeatedly teleported.

From the start of the competition until now, their team, ’Specialized in Subduing the Defiant’, was probably the busiest among all teams, busy with rescuing. First, they saved the Desert Ship from danger, then helped Team Tianyi out of trouble, almost becoming rescuers in distress, a kind of Bodhisattva.

She continuously did alchemy, exhausting her physical and mental strength tremendously, and the materials in the space button were almost depleted. But the result was, other teams, with their help, managed to move on normally, while they were teleported again and again to unknown places, always starting from scratch. Who wouldn’t be annoyed by this?

Seeing Li Xing’s emotions stabilize, Ye Qingting reached out to pull Cui Tianxiao up from the ground, patted his shoulder, and said, "After the competition, I’ll go with you to the temple to pray for better luck."

Cui Tianxiao sniffled and nodded, he also felt his luck was too poor, damn it, was he cursed? 𝕗𝐫𝚎𝗲𝘄𝐞𝕓𝐧𝕠𝘃𝕖𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝚖

Ye Qingting: "Xiao Ming, where are we?"

Qi Ming retracted his spiritual power and answered, half worried, half relieved, "Brother Ye, our luck isn’t too bad this time, we’re in the center of the desert, less than nine kilometers from the Turquoise Pool. But..."

Cui Tianxiao tensed up, "But what? Xiao Ming, don’t keep us in suspense!" Right now, he was like a frightened bird, scared that the Specialized in Subduing the Defiant team would fall into another crisis, needing Li Xing to vent.

"But we’re also quite close to another team. If I didn’t feel wrong, it should be the Tu Ling Team."

Ye Qingting rubbed his temples; if two teams meet normally, they’d just have a fight, but he’s afraid it would be like the previous two times. If Tu Ling Team is in a crisis again when they meet, whether to rescue them or not poses a dilemma.

"Xiao Ming, lead the way, avoid the Tu Ling Team, and head for Turquoise Pool!"

Can’t afford to save them, can dodge them, the journey is urgent. Everyone agreed, forming a line and advancing toward the Turquoise Pool.

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Live broadcast scene.

The host looked at the especially close blue and green dots on the map and sighed with his soul:

"What kind of luck does the Specialized in Subduing the Defiant team have, being teleported near the Tu Ling Team again. Judging by their advance direction, they’re deliberately avoiding the Tu Ling Team. I feel this time the Specialized in Subduing the Defiant team made an error in judgment, the Tu Ling Team has been fighting the Iron Bone Wolves for over ten hours, both physical and elemental spirit energy are at a low point, if they meet now, the Specialized in Subduing the Defiant team could have a big chance of winning! It’s really a pity to miss such an opportunity to eliminate an opponent."

The screen displayed a close-up of the Tu Ling Team, Lin Zhian focused his eye on his nephew, adjusted the frame of his glasses, and spoke slowly, "I actually think the Specialized in Subduing the Defiant team’s choice is very wise."

Host: "Oh? Please enlighten us, Mr. Lin."

"On the surface, Tu Ling Team’s combat strength is greatly reduced. But everyone must not forget, Lin Yin is a Dark Elemental Spirit, capable of absorbing the elemental power from opponents for his own use, the more he fights, the stronger he gets. He doesn’t need to worry about the prolonged battle overly consuming his elemental spirit. On the contrary, the more numerous the opponents and the stronger they are, the more elemental power Lin Yin can absorb."

"The strongest person in Tu Ling Team is at their peak. If the two teams meet now, given the tired state of Specialized in Subduing the Defiant after continuous rescues, they might not win."

After listening to Lin Yin’s analysis, the host also felt perhaps his earlier judgment was one-sided. "Mr. Lin’s analysis makes a lot of sense, let’s wait and see how things will unfold."

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Iron Bone Wolf corpses were scattered chaotically on the ground, Lin Yin released his hand, and the deflated lead wolf’s corpse slumped and fell.

After more than ten hours of fierce fighting, over four hundred Iron Bone Wolves were all killed, more than half perished at Lin Yin’s hands.

Pei Nan’s thigh had a piece of flesh torn by an Iron Bone Wolf, he had already taken a high-grade healing potion to stop the bleeding, but the wound ached fiercely, and had to rely on Song Shurun to alleviate the pain and accelerate healing with a healing technique.

Among these Iron Bone Wolves, many were at level twelve, with suitable high-grade crystal stones replacing energy stones, the temperature adjusting talisman could operate again, and Chou Xiaoyuan’s condition improved significantly.

After completing the treatment, Song Shurun carefully bandaged Pei Nan. But Pei Nan had lost too much blood, coupled with effects of high temperatures, without replenishing water soon, he could be in danger of dehydration. However, the water rationed to each person was used up by yesterday, where could they find water for him to drink.

Song Shurun gave him a bowl of wolf blood to drink, Pei Nan pinched his nose, tilted his neck, and chugged it down.

The stickiness of the wolf blood entered his stomach, the stench rushed straight to his brain, Pei Nan clenched his teeth, reran all the motivational stories he read in his life through his mind, yet still couldn’t suppress the physiological reaction, and threw up with a "waa".

"Blergh—blergh—! Cough cough!"

Even with his stomach emptied, Pei Nan could still smell that overpowering stench.

"No, no, this wolf blood... is too awful, blergh—!"

Lin Yin frowned at the sight of Pei Nan’s continuous vomiting.

Compared to the three teammates, Lin Yin’s elemental spirit state was surprisingly good, but regardless of how abundant the elemental power was, he was still a human. In such high temperatures, lacking food could be tolerated, but without water, the body certainly wouldn’t last.

Lin Yin originally planned to drink wolf blood as an emergency, but a wild spirit like Pei Nan couldn’t stand the taste of Iron Bone Wolf, he certainly wouldn’t try it himself.

Since wolf blood couldn’t be consumed, they could only persist in walking to the Turquoise Pool. A distance of nine kilometers, barring any surprises, would take two hours to walk, unsure if their remaining strength would sustain that long.

At that moment, Chou Xiaoyuan sensed a talisman array’s fluctuation nearby.

"Brother Song, someone has been teleported near us!"

Song Shurun was shocked, in their current state with crippled forces, their real combat power only remained in Lin Yin, truly battling another team now, their odds were slim.

"Xiaoyuan, lead the way, let’s go around them."

Lin Yin sneered, speaking with disdain, "Timid and cowardly, having someone like you as a leader lowers the caliber of Cold Smoke Pavilion!"

Lin Yin’s attitude had returned to the arrogance seen during the Tianyi Tournament, and Song Shurun couldn’t help but question if Lin Yin’s irritability was actually due to absorbing too much chaotic elemental power.

Compared to Lin Yin, he was a stable-minded adult, unwilling to bicker with him.

"So what do you think we should do?"

Song Shurun’s good temper pleased Lin Yin, thus his tone wasn’t as harsh and bitter.

"Do you know which team has arrived?"

Chou Xiaoyuan shook his head, in his peak state he couldn’t judge the Elemental Spirit Attribute from a distance, now in a half-wasted state, it was impossible.

Lin Yin chuckled, "Heh, the combination of fire, metal, thunder, and ice, it’s the Specialized in Subduing the Defiant team coming."