Chapter 0351: Who Will Be First?

On the sandy area to the south of the Trial Island, a flash of blades appeared—as a six-winged iron insect at the seventh level of the Upper Divine class was flung into the air from the sand before crashing back down, its blood splashing across several miles of ground.
A purple shadow appeared. After appearing, it waved its hands and stored the original beast crystal of the six-winged iron insect in its space.
“I wonder how Fed and Spindu are doing now?” the purple shadow murmured to itself as it stood there.
This was Harris, equally famous as Fed and Spindu.
After half a year of trials, he had already hunted down over 31,200 original beasts. Although this number was lower than those he had hunted during his last visit to the Trial Island, the original beasts he had killed this time were all at the sixth level or above of the Middle Divine class. According to the trial scoring system, while the number of beasts killed mattered, the stronger the beasts, the higher the score. Thus, his current score was even higher than that from half a year ago.
“First!” A glint appeared in Harris’s eyes as he infused water-based divine power, causing his top-tier ninth-grade divine weapon to emit a humming sound.
“Yet, after half a year, I still can’t find those ten Upper Divine mutated original beasts!” Harris wondered, feeling slightly disappointed.
Before entering the Trial Island, when Donald mentioned the ten Upper Divine mutated original beasts on the island, he had resolved to capture them all before Fed and Spindu.
“Half a year left!” With that, Harris transformed into a puff of water vapor and disappeared into the air.
It was the “dispersion” trait of the water element’s laws.
The same thing happened to Spindu and some other outstanding disciples. Although the generous rewards this time spurred everyone to hunt faster, resulting in better results than before, they were still puzzled—after half a year, they hadn’t encountered a single one of the ten Upper Divine mutated original beasts.
Half a year later, atop a snowy mountain on the Trial Island, a giant ice toad crashed to the ground and fell silent. Then, a man and a beast appeared.
Yellow Dragon rode the Wind-Flame Dragon Qilin over to the ice toad, a smile forming on his lips: “The tenth!”
The last one—finally, all ten Upper Divine mutated original beasts on the island had been captured!
Yellow Dragon’s brow flashed as he stored the ice toad in the Immortals’ Pavilion.
“Master, gaga… What do you think Kennedy and Donald would say if they knew you’ve captured all ten?” The Wind-Flame Dragon Qilin asked with a expressive smile.

Huang Long smiled upon hearing this and said, “Pretty much the same as you.”
Wind-Flame Dragon Lin was stunned for a moment before laughing heartily.
“Let’s go. Capturing these ten Upper God Variant Beasts has taken too much time; we’ve hunted fewer beasts.” Huang Long patted Wind-Flame Dragon Lin.
But Wind-Flame Dragon Lin looked gloomy, his gaze strange. “Master, it’s still not enough?”
Although capturing these ten Upper God Variant Beasts had affected Huang Long’s hunting efforts, falling short of the speed at which they had hunted over 100 million beasts in two years in the Ancient Forest, they had still managed to hunt an astonishing number of beasts along the way—over 2 million!
Over half a year, with Huang Long’s 1,008 divine clones and a million Variant Beasts, they had captured those ten Upper God Variant Beasts while also hunting over 2 million more!
Over 2 million! Though Wind-Flame Dragon Lin didn’t know how many beasts the other members of the Lu Ning family had hunted, he knew that even if Huang Long’s descendants hid somewhere and waited for half a year before coming out, Huang Long would still be first.
“Less? Of course it’s less!” Huang Long looked ahead, his eyes gleaming. “There should be another 50 to 60 million beasts on this trial island. It’s a rare chance that the Lu Ning family has gathered all these beasts here. To miss such a good opportunity would be a shame.”
“What? Master, do you mean to hunt all the beasts on this island?!” Wind-Flame Dragon Lin realized what Huang Long meant and was shocked.
50 to 60 million? That was insane!
However, considering Huang Long’s pace from two years ago in the Ancient Forest, when he had hunted over 160 million beasts in just two years, it wasn’t impossible to hunt 50 to 60 million beasts on the island in half a year!
Huang Long could create 1,008 clones, each using the Great Extinction Sword Formation, combined with a million Variant Beasts, advancing in all directions. Even a ninth-level supreme warrior like the King of the Underworld would be unable to keep up with such a hunting speed.
Because such a speed could no longer be compensated by mere strength.
Huang Long nodded calmly. “Let’s go.” With a wave of his hands, he created 1,008 clones, which then spread out in all directions.
“A trial island to hunt beasts? Hehe, it’s a shame such an opportunity only comes once every ten years.” Huang Long felt great regret. Otherwise, it would truly be one of the best ways to improve strength by hunting beasts.

Although the Ancient Forest was connected to the borders of the six continents in the Netherworld, Huang Long had checked that traveling from Runing’s headquarters on Niya Continent to the Ancient Forest would take one or two years even at the speed of his flying immortal artifact, so it was not convenient.

Outside the Trial Island, within a city near Runing’s residence not far from the island, Donald gazed at it with a frown. “Half a year has passed, and this Huang Hai hasn’t sent any distress messages to me. Could it be that he… or perhaps he hid somewhere on the island and that’s why he didn’t encounter those Level 6 or Level 7 primal beasts?”

Otherwise, if Huang Hai were in danger, he would surely ask for help.

“Never mind. My worries are probably unnecessary. Huang Hai should be aware of his own strength, so he shouldn’t be in any danger,” Donald said with a shake of his head and a smile.

Gradually, ten months passed.

As the one-year trial neared, the descendants of the Runing family on the Trial Island entered an even more frenzied and tense state of hunting primal beasts. What puzzled and frustrated them greatly, however, was that seemingly many fewer primal beasts appeared on the island since half a year ago?!

Half a year earlier, they might encounter a hundred or two hundred beasts a day, but now they could hardly find dozens in a day. As time went on, sometimes they couldn’t find a single primal beast even in half a day!

“What’s going on?!” Fei De stood in the air, his brows tightly furrowed.

In the first half of the year, he had hunted over 37,000 primal beasts, but in the last four months, he hadn’t even reached 10,000—including just one recently, bringing his total to over 8,600!

“Could it be that not only those ten elite divine mutated primal beasts have hidden, but all the others have also disappeared?!” Fei De thought gloomily.

In the end, he could only shake his head, sigh, vanish in a flash, and continue searching for his prey.

One month passed, and the trial on the Trial Island had lasted eleven months.

“What’s going on?! A month ago, we could still encounter a few primal beasts a day. Now, not even a trace of them can be seen—let alone seeing them; we can’t even find a pile of their droppings.” In a corner of the Trial Island, the short, fat Francis cried out in frustration and simply sat down on the ground to rest and stretch his muscles.

“By now, after the last trial, I should have hunted nearly 30,000 primal beasts. But this time?!” Francis wore a mournful expression. “This time, I’m really going to get punished!”

Eleven months later, the number of primal beasts he had hunted still didn’t even reach 15,000.

“Damn it, have these primal beasts taken some wrong medicine? Why are they hiding in caves to poop?” The chubby dwarf Francis even began to resent these primal beasts.
“But thankfully, there’s still that Huang Hai this time.” After feeling depressed, Francis was somewhat comforted by the thought that Huang Hai was also participating in the trial. After all, no matter how poor his results were, he wouldn’t end up as last place. His grandfather, Barret, probably wouldn’t be so cruel as to punish him severely.
As time passed, only three days remained before the annual trial.
The closer the trial approached its final day, the more anxious, angry, and frustrated the Ruining Clan’s descendants became. They even cursed those primal beasts that had disappeared. Many of them wondered if the clan had reduced the number of primal beasts on the island this time—such a thing had never happened before.
When a year passed, the trial on the island finally ended. All the descendants were automatically sent out of the island. With flashes of light, they all appeared in the square outside the island—where they had gathered before entering.
Although they had been angry and frustrated inside the island, once outside, they all maintained a calm expression, smiling and talking to each other as if their results had been good.
“Fatso, how did your hunting go this time?” Chester asked Francis with a gloomy expression.
“Results?” Francis frowned and opened his mouth, then said, “Forget it, better not mention it!” Just thinking about his hunting results made him want to smash something.
Chester frowned, about to ask again, when suddenly, there was a commotion in the crowd.
“Fiede, Harris, Spindu are out!”
Chester glanced over and indeed, it was Fiede, Harris, and Spindu who had been teleported out together.
“Who do you think will be first this time? Could it be Fiede?”
“I doubt it. I think it might be Harris.”
“Harris? I think Spindu is more likely.”
The Ruining Clan’s descendants discussed among themselves. As they whispered, Fiede and the others walked toward the crowd. Just as everyone was about to discuss further, a figure flashed by, and Donald appeared before them. Seeing Elder Donald, everyone quieted down.
After appearing, Donald glanced at all the descendants, pausing briefly when he passed by the Yellow Dragon. Seeing that the Yellow Dragon was unharmed, he felt much relieved.