[Enough with the nonsense. Tell me what you want.]
The honey badger was obviously hot-tempered, but Bai Qiu’s words had clearly piqued its interest.
Seeing that the honey badger had gotten straight to the point, Bai Qiu decided not to beat around the bush either.
[I can cure the poison in your body and heal every wound you’ve sustained. I guarantee there won’t be any lingering injuries or aftereffects. In return, I want Blood Crystals.]
[How much?]
The honey badger asked bluntly.
Although the person before it looked weak, just as Bai Qiu had never seen a creature like the honey badger before, it had also never heard of anyone capable of accomplishing such a feat.
Bai Qiu took out an antidote along with dozens of healing potions.
Walking around the honey badger as he inspected its injuries, he said,
[A total of 1,500 Blood Crystals. In one hour, you’ll be fully restored.]
In truth, he had chosen that number deliberately.
1,500 Blood Crystals was precisely the minimum requirement to enter a Monarch-tier arena.
He wasn’t sure whether A Yuan, a pseudo-Monarch, would be allowed to compete in the King-tier arena.
If not, he would simply have A Yan fight in the Monarch-tier arena instead.
After all, A Yan was incredibly tough, and at this stage there weren’t many monsters capable of breaking its defense.
The honey badger pondered for a moment before agreeing.
If Bai Qiu truly was as capable as he claimed, this would undoubtedly be a worthwhile deal.
With a clatter, 1,500 Blood Crystals appeared on the ground between them.
[You’d better keep your word. Otherwise, you won’t leave the Boundless Prairie alive.]
Bai Qiu swiftly collected the Blood Crystals before taking out the antidote.
[Open your mouth.]
He fed the honey badger one bottle of antidote, one bottle of healing potion, and then a detoxification fruit, almost completely eliminating the venom from its body.
As the fog clouding its mind gradually lifted, the honey badger finally believed that Bai Qiu had been telling the truth.
Next came treating its wounds.
Bai Qiu summoned A Yuan and had it spray water over the honey badger to wash away the blood and grime before applying the antidote and healing potion separately to each wound…
Before long, the treatment was complete.
Ignoring the honey badger, which was still staring in stunned disbelief, Bai Qiu turned to A Yuan and explained the rules of the Blood Moon Colosseum, as well as his idea of letting it compete.
At first, A Yuan was somewhat nervous.
But after hearing that the strongest opponents it would face were nowhere near as powerful as the Kraken that had nearly killed it before, its confidence immediately soared.
“Then I’m going, Master!”
Holding its head high, A Yuan carried the 300 Blood Crystals Bai Qiu had given it and headed off to register for the lowest-entry King-tier arena.
Meanwhile, the honey badger felt its body rapidly recovering.
Although its vitality had yet to be replenished, it simply took out several dozen Blood Crystals and began crunching them one after another.
Bai Qiu watched curiously.
He discovered that after consuming the Blood Crystals, the honey badger’s weakened aura recovered at an astonishing rate and even showed signs of growing stronger.
Seeing Bai Qiu’s puzzled expression, and remembering that it had only recovered so quickly because of his help, the honey badger kindly explained,
[The Blood Moon Colosseum only lasts for one month each year. During that month, almost no animals leave this place. Blood Crystals, which contain the very essence of life itself, are both our food and the means by which we elevate our lifeforms.]
Bai Qiu nodded to show that he understood before turning his attention back to the arena.
In just that short span of time, A Yuan had already knocked the defending beast off the stage and claimed the position of champion, calmly waiting for the next challenger.
Their first battle had ended in victory.
“That’s the way, A Yuan! Keep it up!”
Bai Qiu raised an arm and cheered.
A Yuan nodded happily.
After becoming the arena champion, not only did it obtain all of the Blood Crystals accumulated in the arena’s prize pool, but 70% of the Blood Crystals carried by the defeated beast were also stripped away by a mysterious force and transferred into A Yuan’s exclusive Blood Crystal storage space.
When Bai Qiu had first sent A Yuan to the King-tier arena, he had been gambling on a lucky break.
After all, A Yuan’s true combat strength had long since reached the Monarch level.
Once he saw that A Yuan had successfully blended into the King-tier arena, he completely stopped worrying about it.
In Bai Qiu’s opinion, not even the honey badger standing beside him—despite having just achieved ten consecutive victories—could survive a single exchange against A Yuan.
The honey badger, however, had clearly never witnessed anything like this before.
When it first saw Bai Qiu summon the enormous azure serpent, it had secretly thanked its lucky stars that this wasn’t the opponent it had encountered in the arena.
Otherwise…
It would have truly died on that stage.
But it hadn’t expected the fight to end so easily.
In less than a minute, A Yuan had defeated the Elbow Strike Kangaroo, which had already defended the arena eight consecutive times.
Unwilling to believe it, the honey badger fixed its gaze on A Yuan, eagerly awaiting its next opponent.
It wanted to find out whether that victory had been the result of genuine strength… or simply good luck.
Although A Yuan had become much less timid after spending so much time with Bai Qiu, it was still rather shy by nature.
Sensing the animals below the arena cheering for its victory, it replied somewhat bashfully through telepathy, [Hehe… I just won by luck.]
A Yuan’s exceptionally beautiful appearance and humble personality immediately attracted a large crowd of curious spectators.
Among them, snakes made up the overwhelming majority.
[It’s the snake of my dreams!]
*[Um… this might sound a little inappropriate… boki… I really like you!]
Seeing the crowd of little snakes—none of them longer than four or five meters—all openly falling for A Yuan, Bai Qiu was left speechless.
Do these little snakes seriously have no idea how out of their league they are?
Before long, however, his attention returned to the arena.
A gigantic rhinoceros leapt onto the stage and sneered, [You only won because your last opponent happened to be exhausted. Let me be the one to crush you beneath my feet!]
The giant rhinoceros possessed an enormous horn nearly as large as its own head.
The slightly upturned horn looked so formidable that even the spectators couldn’t help but worry for A Yuan.
After all, being gored by that horn was no laughing matter.
As the rhinoceros tossed its Blood Crystals into the blood pool, many of the snake spectators began hissing mournfully, as though they had already foreseen a tragic outcome.
Even the honey badger wore a grave expression.
That rhinoceros was troublesome enough that even it found the beast difficult to deal with.
The azure serpent on the arena was likely in serious danger.
The bell rang.
A Yuan opened its mouth and spat out an azure orb roughly half a meter in diameter.
Immediately afterward, vast amounts of water elemental energy gathered, forming interconnected rings of water all around the arena.
[Watch me send you flying!]
The moment the bell stopped ringing, the giant rhinoceros—whose hooves had been pawing at the ground the entire time—lowered its head and charged forward.
Its unstoppable momentum left the audience gasping in amazement.
“Woooo—”
A Yuan let out a melodious cry.
Gliding close to the water rings, its body darted gracefully around the arena.
Its movements were as elegant as a soaring swan and as fluid as a swimming dragon.
Half flying, half swimming, it effortlessly evaded the rhinoceros’s devastating charge.
The rhinoceros quickly regained its bearings.
It dug its hooves into the ground to stop, immediately turned around, and prepared to launch another charge.
But before it could do so, one of A Yuan’s Water Cannons exploded squarely into its face.
The tremendous impact sent the giant rhinoceros staggering backward uncontrollably.
It had already charged all the way to the edge of the arena.
Moments later, one of its hind legs stepped into empty air…
And it tumbled straight off the arena.
— The end of the Chapter–
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