Endless Winter: My Camp Upgrades Infinitely

Chapter 631: Chapter 265: The Martial Tournament Officially Begins, Advancement Impossible (3)

Qiu Peng turned around and nodded to Yuan Cheng and the others behind him.

Bang, clunk...

Suddenly, the sound of huge iron chains came from below Qiu Peng.

Everyone looked down and realized that the huge iron gate, fifteen meters high and eight meters wide, suspended in midair, was moving.

Roar... Roar... Roar...

From behind the city gate, several roars suddenly came closer and closer.

”What’s that sound?”

”It sounds like... Cold Beasts!”

”What, Cold Beasts?”

”It’s really Cold Beasts, I’ve heard their roars before, it’s them.”

”It indeed is, don’t you remember the last Cold Beast tide? We’ve all heard them.”

”Why are there Cold Beasts?”

.........

With the roars getting closer and never stopping, the hundred or so formations in the city’s main square immediately became restless.

Roar......

An angry roar came from behind the gate, followed by Yuan Cheng, dressed in black, walking in with a smile while holding a chain in one hand.

Behind that chain was tied a Long-tongue Snow Mane.

The Snow Mane was over three meters long, its blood-red pupils staring hard at Yuan Cheng.

It was panting heavily through its nostrils, its back spines all cut off, but its limbs were still struggling on the ground, making the accumulated snow churn continuously, the momentum was quite terrifying.

The roar it let out seemed to shock people, but some brave souls could clearly see its long tongue in its mouth had been directly tied into a dead knot...

”It’s really a live Cold Beast...”

”It seems to have suffered some injuries.”

”Long-tongue Snow Mane, that’s Director Yuan, why did he catch a Snow Mane.”

”Could it be, they’re letting us...”

Wow......

The moment the Long-tongue Snow Mane appeared, at least half of the people in the square took a slight step back, especially when Yuan Cheng deliberately dragged the iron chain along the main road. The logging realm participants on either side showed deep fear on their faces, some who were timid even fell.

”Hehehe...”

Yuan Cheng laughed immediately upon seeing the fallen people.

In fact, to the logging realm participants of Xia City, including the sixty to seventy thousand commoners who recently came from Longyou, Cold Beasts were not unfamiliar.

The Hunting Team would bring back Cold Beasts every night, and not just low-level ones, but intermediate Cold Beasts too. They shouldn’t be this scared when seeing Cold Beasts.

The problem was that this Snow Mane Yuan Cheng had was alive.

Of the more than seventeen thousand logging realm participants in Xia City, those who had truly seen a live Cold Beast probably wouldn’t exceed one-tenth, and the vast majority of that tenth had because of the Cold Beast tide that Jing Xian stirred up last March.

Indeed, if not for the Cold Beast tide Jing Xian caused, the logging realm of the Great Xia Camp would basically have no opportunity to see a live Cold Beast.

The reason is simple: the logging realm does not have hunting qualifications.

When collecting wood in Redwood Ridge in the past, they might run into one or two sleeping ones, but now, with the Hunting Team of Great Xia continuously growing stronger and more thoroughly clearing the vicinity of Redwood Ridge, their chance of seeing Cold Beasts became increasingly low.

Seeing a Cold Beast and seeing a Cold Beast corpse are completely different concepts.

Especially the logging realm participants attending the martial meeting tonight, over half are youths aged between ten to fifteen. Aside from a very few who experienced the Cold Beast tide, the rest, apart from having eaten beast meat, basically know nothing about Cold Beasts.

Such a ferocious Cold Beast appearing right before their eyes was evidently quite intimidating for these children.

The door of Iron Cage No. 1 was opened by someone, and Yuan Cheng forcefully pulled the chain, tossing the Long-tongue Snow Mane directly inside, then quickly stepped forward to untie the iron chain from the Snow Mane.

The Snow Mane was obviously very afraid of Yuan Cheng. As soon as it was untied, it first looked at the cage door, then upon realizing something, immediately turned and ran towards the fake mountain inside the cage, directly hiding behind the mountain.

”Hehe, at least you’re smart enough, close the cage.”

Yuan Cheng walked out, then signaled others to close the cage.

Roar......

Another angry roar sounded as everyone turned to look at the city gate.

This time it was Yuwen Dao, dragging a Golden-eyed Demon Sheep.

Like the Snow Mane just now, the eyes on the back of this Demon Sheep were all blinded, and the sharp horn on its forehead was ground down, clearly handled.

Yuwen Dao threw the Demon Sheep directly into the second iron cage;

Roar......

As Luo Yuan and the other eight Cold Resistance Level participants successively arrived, the roars of Cold Beasts never ceased.

Bone Spur Frost Wolf, Blue Moon Elf, Cloud Mist Teng Jiao, Golden Armored Thunder Kui, White Bear, Fire Stone Tiger, Frost Electric Ape, Green Thunder Roar, the eight chains quickly filled up.

At the same time, the voice of Qiu Peng on top of the gate sounded again.

”I can now tell you the method of preselection trial. It’s to draw lots to enter an iron cage as a group. By any means necessary, as long as you succeed in hunting the Cold Beast inside, then the group collectively advances.”

Wow......

The square suddenly erupted in a stir, everyone’s faces filled with shock.

Even for those just over ten years old, and some adult logging realm participants, their expressions instantly went blank. They turned to look at Qiu Peng on the gate, their faces full of doubt and bewilderment.

”Isn’t this sending us to our deaths? What kind of martial meeting is this?”

”It’s impossible, even if these Cold Beasts are injured, we can’t be their match. Our weapons and bows and arrows can’t pierce the Cold Beast’s skin!”

”No way, absolutely no way.”

”Even a mature Snow Mane, its life force is extremely tenacious, with a minimum strength of over fifteen thousand, if not more. Encountering one in the wild, it’s hard even to escape, let alone hunt it, how could it be possible!”

.........

The voices of discussion from the plaza made the faces of the Cold Resistance Level crowd, who had just walked back to the top of the city gate, sink significantly.

Especially Qiu Peng, Yuan Cheng, Lin Kai, and Lu Yang, their expressions were very unpleasant.