Survival Arena

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After chatting with Tang Xuejia for nearly half an hour, Chu Ge gradually fell asleep.

At six o'clock in the morning, he was awakened by an alarm.

After getting up, he wrote a note and placed it on the desk, then entered the Survival House with his backpack in tow.

He didn't bring the backpack to take into the Survival Arena; it was because his mother had asked why he didn't take clothes with him when he went on business trips, which reminded him.

He had to make it look convincing.

Upon arriving at the Survival House, he tossed the backpack on the sofa.

He quickly walked into the Team Cultivation Hall.

Nangong, Xiao Poor Thing, and Local Snake were already waiting.

"Boss, good morning!"

All three greeted Chu Ge enthusiastically.

They were excited as the upcoming team survival battle was the real test of their strength.

Chu Ge nodded with a smile, walked up to them, and said laughingly, "Our deputy team leader is rare in not coming early."

Nangong reminded him, "Boss, the deputy leader has been spending less and less time in the Team Cultivation Hall lately. You better watch out, don't let other men steal her away."

Chu Ge glared at him.

"That won't happen. The deputy leader surely only has eyes for our leader," Xiao Poor Thing chimed in, earning Chu Ge's approval.

He knew how to speak.

"Big brother, who should I stick with later, or should I still follow you?" Local Snake shouted, very excited.

This was his first time participating in the Survival Team's battle.

Chu Ge glanced at him and said, "You are our trump card; of course, we'll let you run free. Your mission is to survive till the end."

Local Snake replied, "That works for me. It's my forte, to burrow into the ground and survive till the end of time."

His breakthrough to Two Stars was primarily focused on extending his lifespan.

He had exchanged for the lifespan of a Turtle.

In the Survival Arena, lifespan could also be extended.

Some creatures naturally have very short life cycles, especially insects.

The four of them started to chat leisurely.

It wasn't long before Gu Tianjiao arrived at the Team Cultivation Hall.

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She carried herself with grace, fully displaying the Lynx's mystery and beauty.

"Why are you so late today?" Chu Ge asked.

Gu Tianjiao looked at him haughtily and said, "Dear leader, are you going to control our personal lives too? I'm not late, I arrived right on time."

Chu Ge rolled his eyes and didn't ask any further.

Nangong felt a pang of jealousy and muttered, "The sour stench of love."

About another ten minutes passed.

Ye Wukong arrived belatedly.

"You're late," Gu Tianjiao stated sternly.

Ye Wukong scratched his head, looking embarrassed, "My girlfriend's upset with me; she insisted I fly to her city in the middle of the night to see her, but I still have the Survival Competition."

Nangong teased with a laugh, "Then you're in trouble, aren't you? You can't contact her for the next five days."

Ye Wukong could only sigh in response.

"Break up. Emotions will only hold you back. You need to become an emotionless assassin, not a fool troubled by love," Gu Tianjiao suggested.

Ye Wukong felt even more depressed.

Chu Ge shook his head with a smile and said, "Alright, we all have our own troubles in reality. Let's not think about them now. If we lose, we get closer to death, so let's not lose even the privilege to worry."

Everyone nodded, and Ye Wukong began to adjust his mood.

They waited for the team survival battle to start.

At exactly seven o'clock.

"This Survival Competition will be a team survival battle—Never Fight Back Rule!"

"Eight Survival Teams will compete on High Mountain for 120 hours. Killing an enemy will earn the Survivor 200 Survival Points. At the end of the competition, if at least one member of the team is alive, the entire team earns an additional 200 Survival Points. Annihilating another Survival Team earns the whole team an extra 500 Survival Points."

"Special Rule—Never Fight Back Rule: During the Survival Competition, every three hours, one Survival Team will not be allowed to strike back at the enemy. Violations will result in a deduction of 1000 Survival Points each time, with no upper limit. Each counterattack and each wound inflicted on an enemy will be penalized separately. This rule will not be announced within the competition."

"Countdown starts at 30 seconds!"

"29!"

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The six people, accepting death as a return home, took a deep breath, waiting with a mixture of anxiety and anticipation.

Soon, the thirty-second countdown ended.

They all felt the world spinning, their vision went dark, and they couldn't see anything.

About three seconds passed.

Chu Ge felt himself land on the snowy ground, very cold.

He instinctively opened his eyes, and was greeted by the vast expanse of ice and snow.

His limbs were buried in the snow, which was nearly twenty centimeters deep.

Tang Xuejia, Nangong, Ye Wukong, and Xiao Poor Thing landed around him, and looking over the undulating high mountains blanketed in white, the large trees stood on the slopes like sentinels.

The sky was high and blue, with some birds seen flying below the clouds.

The scenery was extremely beautiful, giving them a sense of nature's vast and majestic atmosphere.

Chu Ge and the others did not speak, each observing their surroundings.

"Mother clucker, it's so cold!" Local Snake suddenly cried out, twisting in the snowdrift as if he had fallen onto a hot pan.

Chu Ge looked at Ye Wukong and said, "Put him on your body, and later we'll find a place without snow for him to 'Survive Till the End of Time'."

Ye Wukong nodded, grabbed Local Snake, and slung him over his shoulder.

Chu Ge pulled up the Survival Team list to check:

Roaring Tiger Group—9 people

Southern Assassins—9 people

Poisonous Poppy—9 people

Soaring Grass—8 people

Hundred Ghosts Rampage—7 people

Viewing Death as a Homecoming—6 people

Survive—5 people

I Want to Defy the Heavens—2 people

...

Aside from Roaring Tiger Group and I Want to Defy the Heavens, all teams had recruited a new member.

"No prompt means we're not the first 'Never Fight Back Rule' team, from now on, we must calculate our time well," said Gu Tianjiao.

Without a watch, it was hard to accurately calculate time.

At the thought of the 'Never Fight Back Rule,' everyone felt like cursing.

"Let's go!"

Chu Ge took steps toward the mountain peak, where standing high would give them a better view, and first they would survey from up there.

Everyone immediately followed.

Aside from Nangong, they all felt cold, shivering violently.

Chu Ge didn't use geothermal heat to warm them; in this period, he often practiced with geothermal heat.

Once in a geothermal state, his physical strength would drain faster, and he couldn't maintain this state indefinitely.

If he were to become completely exhausted, he would no longer be able to use geothermal heat.

So unless absolutely necessary, he wouldn't easily use geothermal heating.

"This environment is really troublesome for me," Chu Ge thought to himself, as falling snow would lower the temperature of his geothermal heat.

On their way up, they encountered no other Survivors.

In the vast snowy mountains, it was hard to spot an animal.

They were about seven to eight hundred meters away from the peak, and with a leisurely walk of more than a dozen minutes, they easily reached the top.

Standing on the peak and looking out, they were greeted by the vastness of the world. There was no falling snow, but the ground was already covered with a thick layer of it. The forests looked like chocolate bars on a cake, and between the peaks on the horizon, the sun was slowly rising, illuminating the entire world.

Faced with such a majestic sight, everyone was overcome by awe, unable to describe their feelings.

They only felt how insignificant they were.

"Screech—"

A piercing cry split the heavens, and everyone's gaze snapped in its direction, only to see a raptor diving down at great speed.

A Golden Eagle with a wingspan of nearly two meters!