Chapter 301 - The Unpredictable yet Thrilling Tests of the Tower of Babel
Chapter 301 The Unpredictable yet Thrilling Tests of the Tower of Babel
“Master Mu, hurry up and hit them on the west!”
Master Guo lies prostrate on dunes. His mouth is full of sand. There are some foreigners in robes. Every time they wave the sticks in their hands, a fireball or an ice bomb falls. They don’t seem to belong to the Vatican. “Where the hell are we?”, Master Guo thinks.
Master Mu has already made the gesture of spells with his right hand, “Don’t rush. Wait for a while.”
Their enemies are powerful and in great amounts. The Wakan of Master Guo and Master Mu is not boundless. Master Guo fights randomly. He feels pretty good, but there is no rule at all. When their Wakan is used up, they will soon be captured by the foreigners.
What is going on here? Is it their illusion? The scene is too realistic. Master Guo and Master Mu have been here for a few days and just gone through a large forest of “monsters”. They are so unlucky to be ambushed after all that happened.
However, the animals they met didn’t seem to be monsters either. They didn’t look like the monsters Master Mu and Master Guo saw in the secret land of Bermuda many years ago. In the secret land of Bermuda, wolves bring wind with their claws, rabbits spout fire and crows emit electric waves when they open their mouths. These monsters, however, don’t have any Reiki on them. The energy of their whole body is hidden in the crystals inside them. Besides, their energy doesn’t come from the elixirs of monsters. It comes purely from crystals of energy.
In fact, if Master Guo and Master Mu knew a little more about online novels nowadays, they would soon realize that they are in the legendary alien world that is dominated by magic.
“Ugh, this strawberry is bitter. What a nasty place!” On the dunes Master Mu and Master Guo are lurking behind, there are many plants in bright colors that look like strawberries. The fruits have been attracting their tastebuds. Since they came here, they have been eating compressed food put in their storage bags. Master Mu has repeatedly emphasized that the animals and plants in this place are different from the common ones on the earth. Except for digging out crystals in the bodies of the “monsters”, they don’t touch the plants and animals they encounter at all.
Master Guo gets sick of the compressed biscuits. He can’t help picking a strawberry and throwing it in his mouth. It has a strong taste which is too bitter to swallow. The juice of the strawberry makes it even worse. The bitterness instantly goes all the way down to Master Guo’s throat with the juice.
It makes Master Guo really want to say the F word.
To Master Guo, the uninterrupted chanting all sounds like bird languages that he can’t understand. The light balls, fireballs and water arrows fall on their magical shield as if they were free.
“How long are you going to wait for?”
Master Mu is very anxious. He has already made the gesture of spells. Once those foreigners tighten the ring of encirclement, he will hit them harshly. How could these people just stand there as if their feet were caught in the ground?
The universe is vast and boundless, and there is a kind of people called magicians. Regardless of the branch, they are not good at close combat. Those magicians have pale faces. They are also known for their poor physical fitness. After casting magic for a long time, the magicians’ mouths are trembling.
Who are the two men coming out of the Forest of Monsters? They are completely different from what the intelligence told the foreigners. These noble magicians want to say the F word as well.
“Never mind, I’m going to lure them to come. These foreigners are really annoying!” Master Guo’s chronic sickness is taken care of by Lin Luoran’s elixir. A fight like this is not difficult for him. He removes his magical shield, takes out a single-edged broadsword in the size of a palm, and runs towards the magicians who seem to be doing dark magic.
“Archers! Get ready! Launch!”
These are not ordinary long arrows, but magical ones. The leader of the foreigners thinks they will win the battle. The old man coming to them has a strange face and carries a strange broadsword too. The old man fights all the way to them with his sword and is not hurt by any of their arrows. It is so strange today!
“%￥%……￥%%” After seeing clearly how the old man looks, the leader of the foreigners waves his hand and shouts, “Misunderstanding! The whole thing is a misunderstanding!” The old man looks vulgar. How would they search for a man like him?
Master Guo doesn’t understand the strange language the leader spoke. Even if he understood it, his belligerent temperament wouldn’t let him stop fighting. Even the Buddha would feel angry if he got out of a weird forest and were ambushed like this. Saying it’s a misunderstanding is not enough.
Therefore, the astonished indigenous people of the alien world regard Master Guo, who can fight with a broadsword and do “magic” without a wand, as a powerful man who practices both magic and Kungfu. Holy shit! How can they provoke a giant like him?
Master Guo rushes to the front of the team. The magicians are so embarrassed. Their long-range shooters are all defeated. Are they doomed? Will everyone be killed? The leader knows they are going to lose while the old man smiles strangely at him.
The sand the foreigners are stepping on suddenly turns into quicksand and entwines everyone as if it were water grass.
After a while, all of the foreigners look ridiculous, no matter they are weak magicians wearing robes or warriors in heavy armors, even the horses that the knights are riding are trapped……The yellow sand covers their bodies from their noses down.
It is impossible for them to die for a while, and it is impossible to kill the old man just by looking at him either.
Master Mu slowly walks to them. Reiki here is abundant. Don’t these people need to sit in meditation and practice their Qi? The Ground-sinking Spell works better here than on the earth.
“￥%￥……&” It’s a misunderstanding! The leader bursts into tears.
Master Guo and Master Mu look at each other and become speechless, “You don’t speak the language of Huaxia?”
The foreigners look very confused. Master Mu knows more about trendy things and talks to them in English, but they still seem to be frightened, fierce and confused.
Master Guo clears his throat and tries Nihonese. He speaks fluently in it because he once worked as a spy in Nihon.
They try a few languages and the foreigners still look very confused. The two sides cannot communicate with each other at all. Master Guo and Master Mu spread their hands silently and don’t know whether they should kill the foreigners.
“This place is weird. Is our test to learn a new language?” Master Mu stares at the sky silently. He only occasionally shows his childish side. The unreliable Mu Tiannan in the past is, in fact, the grandson who is most like him.
Master Guo frowns. He loses a lot of vigor as he gets older. The foreigners are no longer able to fight anymore. It seems dishonorable to kill them. Master Guo picks up a two-foot wand with an ice-blue crystal inlaid on it. The crystal looks like the ones inside the monsters’ bodies. Can it be used by humans as well?
“Give me these things and I won’t kill you.” There are a bunch of small sticks, some powerful bows and arrows. Fortunately, Master Guo’s Storage Bag is about seven or eight cubic meters, unlike those ordinary ones that everyone has in the Special Department. Otherwise, Master Guo can’t really put all those things in it.
Looking at the horses that are buried from noses down, Master Guo complains, “Master Mu, if you left two horses for us, we wouldn’t have to walk anymore.” Although both of them know how to do the Wind-riding Spell, they are used to saving Reiki in the environment of cultivation on the earth. Riding horses is indeed much more comfortable than walking. Master Mu feels a bit of regret.
Master Mu moves his right hand slightly. The sand that buries the horses rolls to the side. Watching the sand becomes magical and rolls to the side without wind, the locals buried in the sand are too astonished to think for a while. Obviously, only the grand magus who knows very well about the magic of the soil can do this!
A clear and melodious voice comes from the low bush a few dozen meters away when Master Mu proudly drags two horses out of the sand and is about to leave with Master Guo.
“Dear magic magi, please wait.”
A girl with long ears stands out. Her clothes only cover her private parts. Master Mu and Master Guo don’t like such sexy clothing that only nerdy guys feel attractive.
The elven girl crosses her hands and puts them on her chest. “Thank you, magic magi, for your help to the elves.” It seems that the elven girl is noble. As soon as she stands out, many other elves hiding in the bush follow her and look at Master Guo and Master Mu vigilantly.
What help? Damn! The foreigners were supposed to ambush these elves with long ears! Wait, that’s not right. Why can Master Guo and Master Mu understand the strange language this elven girl in sexy clothes speaks in?
“Little girl, who are you? Where are we? Why do we understand your language?”
The elven girl smiles with a hint of sadness, “Sir, this is the southern exit of the Forest of Monsters. In order to get the ‘Heart of Druid’, the Bauhinia Empire has been killing elves for decades. This is half of the ‘Heart of Druid’ left. Now, it can only listen to conversations. Other powers are all lost.”
The green “diamond” hanging in front of the elven girl’s chest is half of the “Heart of Druid”. The two masters have been sticking to the principles of not showing wealth and choosing the middle course since they were very young. They really don’t understand why the elven princess wears the “Heart of Druid” directly on her neck. Won’t it remind others to rob it?
The elven princess sighs quietly, “My sister was caught by the Bauhinia Empire a few days ago together with the other half of Heart of Druid. The Heart of Druid must not fall into the hands of the Bauhinia Empire. I’m begging you to save my sister. In return, I’ll give you the Heart of Druid.”
The elves are in a tumult. Although Master Guo and Master Mu don’t understand what the other elves are talking about, they know the elves won’t agree.
Master Guo and Master Mu look at each other. Is their test helping the elven princess rescue her sister?
The two senior cultivators of Laying Foundation only want to pass the test, but they don’t know if they should agree to go. The elven princess feels disappointed as well. If they were two young and powerful magic mentors, the princess wouldn’t have to offer the Heart of Druid. It would be like the legends that have been told by the troubadours for thousands of years. The brave knight rescues the princess and the princess marries him in return. The knight saves the princess and the princess’s kingdom is more powerful with the help of the knight.
It is true that life is not satisfactory most of the time.
Common cultivators will be glad if they get this test, but the two masters of Laying Foundation think it is troublesome.
……
Sand on the beach is soft. The sea breeze blows with a fishy smell. Waves hit the reefs while seagulls are hovering low in the sky. The blue sea and the blue sky meet with each other at a distance from the horizon.
Mr. Lin rubs his eyes, “Yuan Ye, are we at Hainan?”
Cultivation is so amazing. They enter a door and suddenly travel from Iraq to Hainan. Mr. Lin lies comfortably on the beach and regrets that he didn’t bring a camera. Otherwise, it would be nice to take some pictures and show them to Mrs. Lin after they get back. Never mind, he can take Mrs. Lin to Hainan on holidays after he gets back anyway.
Yuan Ye is not as relieved as Mr. Lin. He goes to the highest place to look into the distance. The island is just a mile in circumference. In the middle, there is a shallow puddle surrounded by stones. It might only have a bucket of water in it. Yuan Ye tastes the water and realizes that it is freshwater. He is relieved.
Although they both put clean drinking water in the storage utensils, having a puddle of clean water on this reef island still makes them feel safer.
The highest place above the water on the island is about five meters. Looking at the rough sea, Yuan Ye becomes nervous. If huge waves come, how many times can they resist?
Looking into the distance from the top, there is only the vast sea without any boats or lands on it. Yuan Ye’s abilities don’t allow him to use the Sword-riding Spell to fly out. If he couldn’t find places to rest along the way, he would run out of Reiki.
“Great grandmaster, I’m afraid we are not in Hainan.”
Mr. Lin nods, “I agree.”
Yuan Ye almost faints. Do people of the Lins have a gene called “calmness”? Nothing can make his grandmaster get out of control emotionally. At least, he has never seen it happened. Now, his great grandmaster is exactly like his grandmaster. Is their test getting out of the island?
There are no trees on this reef island, so it’s impossible to build a boat and leave.
What they need to do now is settling down first and find a way out afterwards. Yuan Ye silently makes a decision. He takes out a bag of ham and some yogurt, and gives them to Mr. Lin.
“What taste is this?” Mr. Lin doesn’t like yogurt. He thinks it is for children like Lucy. Besides, the yogurt that Yuan Ye gives him has a strange smell. Mr. Lin frowns and spits it out.
Yuan Ye tears open the ham’s package. A foul odor comes out. After being exposed to the air, the ham turns black and rotten. Yuan Ye thinks it is his illusion, so he opens a few more packets of compressed biscuits, but they all go bad. Yuan Ye and Mr. Lin finally realize that the challenges they are facing are not only getting out of the island.
All the food and drinking water they brought have gone bad!
Yuan Ye looks gloomy while Mr. Lin is optimistic. He pats Yuan Ye on the shoulder, “Hey, we are by the sea. We won’t starve to death, right? You can go and build a camp. Leave the rest to your great grandmaster!”
Both of them are in the early stage of Training Qi, and neither of them has a water-based Taoist root. It is reasonable for Yuan Ye to worry about how they can survive and get out.
However, Mr. Lin, Yuan Ye’s great grandmaster with similar abilities to him, eases all his worries in no time. Mr. Lin pulls out a folding tent from his Storage Belt. Yes, what Yuan Ye sees is true. It is an outdoor folding tent.
Mr. Lin hands the tent to Yuan Ye and smiles mysteriously. He then takes a fishing rod out of his Storage Belt.
Yuan Ye is totally convinced and goes to build a camp as Mr. Lin asked.
Although Mr. Lin practices cultivation, he is still an ordinary people, or in other words, he still thinks like a farmer. He has a mid-range Storage Belt and doesn’t have much cultivation materials to put in. It wouldn’t hurt to bring some tents and fishing rods.
All of the food is useless, so Mr. Lin walks to the edge of the reef and finds two shellfish there. He makes a bait by smashing the shellfish and hanging its meat on the fishhook.
Sea fishing is new for Mr. Lin, so he does not find it toilsome to fish in the strong sunlight. The only thing that bothers him is the huge waves and his fishing rod that is not good enough for sea fishing. Long after Yuan Ye sets the tent next to the highest source of water, Mr. Lin finally catches two three-inch fish using the bait made from fresh shellfish.
The fish is really small for marine fishes.
“This is our lunch.” Mr. Lin tosses the two small fish and a few oysters he caught by the reef to Yuan Ye. Then, he takes out an aluminum pot from his Storage Belt.
They don’t need to worry about firewood. Cultivators can make a fire as long as they can use spells.
Since they are surrounded by seawater, they don’t lack salt as well. Yuan Ye cooks a full pot of fish soup. The two men have a big appetite. The fish is not enough, so they have to drink more water. Speaking of it, there is little water in that puddle. Maybe they should make grilled fish next time?
When the fish soup is ready to be served, Mr. Lin gets lucky and catches a big fish that weighs about two kilograms. The fish almost snaps the thin fishing rod.
“It seems that we don’t need to worry much about food while we are here.” Mr. Lin is proud of the big fish he catches. He digs a shallow hole on the beach and puts seawater in it to raise the fish.
Yuan Ye smiles too. They need to find enough food before they get time to find a way out. It is too shameful to be the first group that fails the Tower of Babel’s test because of hunger.
The two eat the fish soup and start to count everything they have.
A tent, two fishing rods, a bundle of twine, a few pots and pans, a few sets of clothing, some rotten food, a bottle of rotten spirit wine, some elixirs, and a big sword which is a third-tier magic weapon……These are all the things Mr. Lin has in his Storage Belt.
In Yuan Ye’s small Storage Bag, there is only enough room for a flying sword, some medicine powders for various symptoms, a few bottles of elixirs, some rotten food and a dozen of decayed yogurt.
These things are enough for them to live on this isolated island, but only the tent can be used to make a sail. How about other parts of the boat?
The day passes quickly, and the two men still can’t get a clue of what they should do.
The turning point comes on the third day. It is a day with little wind and waves. Mr. Lin doesn’t catch any fish at the beginning. It makes him and Yuan Ye depressed. They should have been discussing whether they should use the Sword-riding Spell to get out, but now they can only grab the big fish raised in the hole and grill it to eat.
Freshwater in the puddle is running out too. Water is slowly seeping out of the mud, but it is clearly not enough for Yuan Ye and Mr. Lin’s daily use. These are the trivial things that make them feel anxious.
Both Mr. Lin and Yuan Ye don’t sleep well that night. They are awakened by the sound of the waves in the middle of the night.
They don’t know when the huge waves rise on the sea, but the waves are hitting the reef island harder and harder now.
Mr. Lin sees something that looks like a small hill moving fast towards them. It goes up and down in the wind and waves. Is it a big ship?
“Look, there are lanterns on that ship.”
The “ship” moves fast and comes close to the island in a moment. It is in a similar size of the island and has two lantern-like eyes. Is it a huge sea snake?
“Yuan Ye……I’ll stall. You use the Sword-riding Spell and go first!”
Yuan Ye looks at the fish bones thrown on the ground and suddenly knows what to do. “Great grandmaster, here comes the material to build our boat!”
The “material” looks at the two little creatures coldly and thinks they are delicious snacks.
Mr. Lin clenches his sword while Yuan Ye makes the gesture of the spell of swords. This is the first time they fight against a sea monster that seems to be powerful. If they want to build a boat with its bones, they need to survive the fight first.
……
There are also some people who get extremely easy tests. They only need to enter an empty room with a girly shadow in it. The shadow tells Hokkien legends to the test-takers.
Ye Xiaobei was left alone when cultivators in the team paired up with each other. He didn’t know how lucky he was at that time.
Isn’t it good to just endure a chatty shadow while you can eat and drink in a completely safe environment? The shadow comes close to Ye Xiaobei’s ears. He shivers and thinks that he would rather fight with monsters. Somebody please drives this sissy shadow away!