[The First Stage is called Elental Baptism.]
[During this stage, the participants must collect 100 Elental Spirit Ascension Crystals within ten days.]
[As you already know, Elental Spirit Ascension Crystals can only be obtained by killing the Elental Beasts within their respective regions.]
[Participants who fail to gather all one hundred crystals within the ti limit will be eliminated.]
[As for the collected Elental Spirit Ascension Crystals, they belong to the participants.]
The mont the participants heard that, many imdiately beca excited.
"Haha! Isn’t this too easy?"
"With my Fire Elental Spirits, killing Fire Elental Beasts will be effortless."
"I can probably complete it within three days."
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Hearing that the first stage only required them to kill Elental Beasts, so participants even revealed relaxed expressions as they were fully confident in their Elental Spirits and their own battle prowess.
Of course, deep down, they also considered the dangers from fellow participants who might steal the Elental Spirit Ascension Crystals they collected.
’So, the Elental Spirit Ascension Crystals are obtained by killing the Elental Beasts.’
Ajax learned sothing new once again.
Even though he had no idea about the Elental Beasts before entering this place, Ajax had previously found so Elental Spirit Ascension Crystals in the Old Universe.
However, those crystals were useless to him because not only had all his Elental Spirits fully awakened their [Elental Ascendance], but they had also evolved into Divine Elental Spirits and gotten themselves sealed inside his Divine Spirit Consciousness.
’The rewards from this first stage are useless to .’
Ajax shook his head in disappointnt.
"I was a bit hesitant about entering this Elental Source Land; however, just these 100 Elental Spirit Ascension Crystals are already worth risking my life for."
"True...with 100 Elental Spirit Ascension Crystals, all my Elental Spirits can speed up their awakening of [Elental Ascendance]."
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However, Ajax noticed many participants becoming greatly excited about the Elental Spirit Ascension Crystals.
’They might not be useful to , but for these young geniuses, they are extrely valuable.’
Ajax naturally knew the reason behind their excitent.
’Other than the fact that the Elental Spirit Ascension Crystals are extrely rare and can only be found in the depths of the Dark Region, these geniuses themselves have a huge need for them.’
For Summoners planning to ascend to the Heavenly Realm, they naturally wanted to bring their Elental Spirits along with them.
However, for that to happen, the Elental Spirits had to fully awaken their [Elental Ascendance] before ascending together with their Summoner to the Heavenly Realm.
Even though every participant who entered this Elental Source Land was a monstrous genius, the sa couldn’t necessarily be applied to their Elental Spirits.
Moreover, not everyone possessed a Special Title like Ajax’s Elental Spirit Master that connected all their Elental Spirits together.
’Also, it becos extrely difficult to progress once the Elental Ascendance reaches ninety percent.’
Ajax knew this better than anyone.
Even with the combined efforts of more than 1600 Elental Spirits, along with special resources from the system, it still took many months for all his Elental Spirits to fully awaken their [Elental Ascendance].
Thus, most participants’ Elental Spirits were still far from fully awakening their Elental Ascendance and naturally needed these Elental Spirit Ascension Crystals badly.
Because of that, the mont the rewards were announced, all the participants beca excited.
’Looks like no one is thinking about the strange requirents anymore.’
After entering the Elental Source Land, so intelligent participants had quietly discussed the odd entry requirents and suspected sothing was wrong with this place.
However, with the appearance of such high-level cultivation resources, everyone’s attention had completely shifted toward clearing the First Stage.
"Also, the Ancient Voice ntioned that the best perforrs in each stage would receive special rewards."
"I wonder what kind of rewards they will be?"
Not only Ajax, but all the participants were curious about the special rewards.
Unlike Ajax, however, they were filled with excitent and anticipation.
The reason was naturally the Elental Spirit Ascension Crystals once again.
Since the normal rewards for clearing the first stage were already so valuable, the special rewards would definitely be even more precious.
Thus, everyone beca even more eager to clear the stage quickly.
[Everyone might be thinking that you can simply stay within the elental terrain most suitable for you and continuously farm Elental Spirit Ascension Crystals.]
[But sorry to destroy your dreams.]
However, before the participants could celebrate for too long regarding the seemingly easy first stage, the ancient voice continued speaking.
[Participants must collect 20 Elental Spirit Ascension Crystals each from the five different elental terrains: Fire, Water, Wind, Earth and Dark.]
[Even if you collect more, only 20 Elental Spirit Ascension Crystals per elent will be counted toward clearing the stage.]
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Instantly, many participants’ expressions stiffened.
"I thought I could simply use my Fire Elental Spirits to farm Fire Spirit Ascension Crystals within the Fire Terrain."
"Sa here. My plan was to farm in the Wind Terrain using my Wind Elental Spirits."
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The atmosphere imdiately beca much heavier.
Because this requirent was far harsher than they originally imagined.
The thing was, most Summoners only possessed affinity with one or two elents, whereas only a few rare geniuses had affinity with three or more elents.
And naturally, they could only form contracts with Elental Spirits belonging to those elents.
Thus, even though collecting one hundred Elental Spirit Ascension Crystals wasn’t easy, they originally thought they could simply remain within terrains matching their elental affinities and slowly hunt the Elental Beasts there.
However, according to the Ancient Voice, not only did they need to collect one hundred crystals, but they were also forced to travel through all five elental regions.
Clearly, peacefully farming crystals in one safe terrain was impossible.
"Haha...what did you expect? Do you think this Elental Source Land is your father’s inheritance to freely hand out high-level cultivation resources?"
"As cultivators and Summoners, you can’t expect your enemies to always fight on your favourite terrain."
"We should be prepared to battle in all kinds of environnts."
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anwhile, those with an affinity toward two or more elents naturally looked down on the other participants’ mindset.
’Wait a second...even if we struggle in certain terrains, can’t we just steal from others?’
Very quickly, everyone realized another dangerous fact.
The Ancient Voice never ntioned any rule prohibiting participants from fighting or robbing one another.
Thus, those powerful participants lacking affinity with multiple elents imdiately began selecting possible targets in their minds.
After all, the crystals could definitely be stolen from other participants.
aning, the deeper the stage progressed, the fiercer the battles between cultivators would beco.
"I have affinity with the Dark Elent. Are you interested in forming a team with ?"
"Dark Elent? Sure. I have affinity with Fire and Wind Elents."
"How about adding soone with Water and Earth affinity as well?"
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Soon, many participants imdiately started forming temporary teams capable of covering all five elents.
By forming such teams, not only would their chances of collecting the required twenty crystals from each elental terrain greatly increase, but their overall fighting strength would also beco much stronger against those planning to rob them.
’...’
Looking at everyone revealing their elental affinities by summoning their Elental Spirits while forming teams, Ajax beca speechless.
’I have affinity with all elents; however, I can’t prove it because all my Elental Spirits are sealed.’
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