Chapter 81

The Fiery Sky Eagle and the Fiery Pattern Eagle differ by only one character, and they look very similar, but the former is rarer and mostly comes from the alien space in the northwest region.

They fly faster and can fly thousands of miles high. They are flying beasts that excel in speed and wind attributes.

The mysterious beast named Ah Qing that Xia Muqing and Xu Ling were riding on had an unusually docile character. When the girl in the blue skirt patted its neck, it bent down obediently and let Xia Muqing and Xu Ling sit on it.

Then, flap your wings hard!

Dust flew everywhere, air currents surged upwards, and violent fluctuations of profound energy lingered around the Fiery Sky Eagle, carrying it up into the sky and flapping its wings towards the dome of the snow-capped mountain not far away.

"Hiss, so high!"

The cold wind blew in her face. Xia Muqing put her right hand in front of her forehead and squinted her eyes.

This feeling was different from the last time when I sat on the back of Fairy Caiyun. Fairy Caiyun was just flying low around the city, but at this moment, the Fierce Sky Eagle was flying at a height of several thousand meters.

Xu Ling climbed onto the Fiery Sky Eagle's neck and carefully peeked out: "...Wow, that's a bit scary!"

The girl in the blue dress smiled and said, "Don't worry, Ah Qing is very stable in flying. Look over there, isn't it beautiful?"

She pointed to the distance, and Xia Muqing and Xu Ling also looked in the direction of her finger - they saw that under the blue sky, the city turned into a black dot the size of a sesame seed, and the vast mountains and grasslands in the distance turned into a vast brocade, like ink splashed by the sky, painting a bold and wild picture on the ground.

The strong wind blew Xia Muqing's long hair flying.

She stared into the distance for a while, and felt a breath of foul air expelled from her chest. Then, her body and mind were filled with a sense of refreshment, as if she was not riding on the Fiery Sky Eagle, but had transformed into a flying mysterious beast, soaring freely in the sky thousands of miles high.

Over there, Xu Ling was also holding Xingkongying, a little scared but also very excited, shouting: "Ah——"

The shouts were blown away by the strong wind and drifted among the endless mountains and fields.

The girl in the blue dress was also very happy: "My name is Jing Yiyi. I found this Fiery Sky Eagle in the mountains when I was a child. My parents said it might have escaped from a poaching group. It was seriously injured at the time, and everyone said it couldn't be saved."

"But I didn't believe it. The look in Ah Qing's eyes clearly showed that he was reluctant to leave this world. So I contracted it, and now Ah Qing is almost at the second level of evolution!"

Xia Muqing nodded.

It can be seen that this Flame Eagle was well taken care of by the girl, but the injuries it suffered in its childhood still left some marks on its body.

During the flight, Xia Muqing discovered that Ah Qing's right wing always flapped faster than the left wing, and the angle of the body had to be adjusted frequently. It was obvious that the degree of force on the two wings was different.

She leaned down to see more clearly, but at that moment, another dark figure suddenly appeared on their left.

It was also a flying mysterious beast, taking off from the other side of the mountain, flying quickly along the long wind. The fluctuation of its mysterious power was stronger than Ah Qing's, and in the blink of an eye it rushed to a place not far from them.

At high altitudes, the air currents are strong, and collisions can cause damage to flying mystical beasts. Therefore, the route to climb the snowy peaks is very specific, and you can't just fly randomly. At this moment, Ah Qing was carrying them on the correct route, but the new mystical beast didn't avoid or give way, and rushed straight towards them!

Jing Yiyi caught sight of it from the corner of her eye, startled for a moment, and quickly patted Liekongying's back: "Ah Qing, get out of the way!"

The Fierce Sky Eagle made a swift spin with its left wing, and its body turned sharply in mid-air, barely making way for its flight path.

The newly arrived mysterious beast brushed past its wings and rushed past wantonly, stirring up a turbulent airflow that almost shook Xia Muqing and the others off Ah Qing's back.

Jing Yiyi: "Hold on to your wings! Get down!"

They hurriedly followed the girl's instructions and lay tightly on the back of the Fiery Sky Eagle. They finally regained their balance after the mysterious beast sped away.

A frivolous whistle came on the wind, and the sharp sound was stretched out.

"...What the hell!" Xu Ling gasped. "That thing that just passed by, I saw someone on its back."

"It's too dangerous! How can someone overtake a car while flying in the sky?"

Xia Muqing took a deep breath. "That was a bitter-headed eagle just now. It's a very powerful flying mystical beast with a fierce temperament and strong attacking ability."

Jing Yiyi's face turned pale, and she apologized to them in a panic: "I'm sorry, did I scare you just now?"

"It's my fault. I didn't know Chen Sheng was also going to participate in the check-in challenge today... Oh, how did I run into him?"

Chen Sheng?

Xia Muqing asked, "Who is Chen Sheng?"

Jing Yiyi said with a bitter face: "It's... one of my classmates, the top student in the grade, and got the best score in the city in the college entrance examination."

"His bitter-headed eagle is very ferocious and often injures other mystical beasts during training battles. Chen Sheng never apologizes. Because of his strength, many people in school admire him. He's already arrogant, and now his nose is even more arrogant."

"Hey, why don't we take a break at the top of the mountain next to us and then do the check-in challenge later?"

Hearing her say this, Xu Ling's fists stiffened. "What's so great about that? That bald-headed bird is so ugly. Do you believe that my little warbler can pop the big tumor on its head?"

"Let's go, Mu Qing. Let's not hide! Let's show him today that there are always people who are better than you and there are always things better than you!"

Xu Ling was filled with indignation, while Jing Yiyi beside him smiled bitterly.

Xia Muqing glanced at them for a few seconds and suddenly asked, "Yiyi, does Chen Sheng bully you too?"

"Ah?" Jing Yiyi's eyes were a little panicked. "I...how did you know?"

She lowered her eyes and stroked Liekongying's back. "I can't say he bullies me, but he often picks fights with me... Like when he charged at Ah Qing, startled me, and then brushed past me. It's not the first time..."

Xu Ling: "!!"

Xu Ling: "Isn't this bullying?"

She grabbed Jing Yiyi's hand and clenched her right fist tightly. "Let's go! Let's go quickly! Let's go to the check-in challenge venue quickly. Don't let that brat get away!"

"Today we'll help you vent your anger! Let that brat know that humility is a virtue!"

…

After flying for another ten minutes, the Fierce Sky Eagle flew over a platform and slowly landed.

Looking from afar, Xia Muqing thought that the platform was covered with snow. When she actually landed, she found that the platform was made purely of white marble. It was located on the Thousand-Ren Snow Peak, and it had a somewhat holy atmosphere.

Facing the wind and snow, Jing Yiyi pointed to the center of the platform: "That's the challenge venue."

Xia Muqing looked in the direction of her finger and was surprised to find that there were hundreds of wind chimes hanging there. Silver threads passed through the wind chimes, weaving a dense net in the air. The silver wind chimes below swayed gently in the wind, but strangely, did not make any sound.

Jing Yiyi: "Each wind chime here is made with a small amount of black silver wind stone, making it a treasure. The Beastmaster Association arranged them to form a mysterious sound wind formation. The wind chimes are inductively connected to each other, and any one move can affect the entire body."

"The content of the check-in challenge should be to see if each person can activate the Mysterious Sound Wind Formation, and then see the number of wind chimes activated and the volume of the sound—"

"Well, listen! Chen Sheng is challenging!"

The mysterious energy in the air suddenly trembled, the dense network of silver threads vibrated, the wind chimes swayed back and forth, and a sense of ethereality quietly condensed.

In the center of the formation, countless wind chimes were already trembling slightly, apparently about to be activated.

On the high platform not far away, Chen Sheng, who was participating in the challenge, also had a proud look on his face and glanced at them from a distance.

"You guys, come back tomorrow!"

The boy's proud voice drifted across the platform, "The echoes of the mysterious sound I've triggered will take at least eight hours to completely fade away. Only then can you participate in the challenge. There's no point in waiting!"

Xia Muqing: “……?”

She and Xu Ling looked at each other in surprise: "There are such rules?"

So, this is also one of the reasons why Chen Sheng maliciously overtook them, which was to participate in the challenge before them and force them to wait for the next one?

Jing Yiyi: "No, sorry, this is my first time participating in a wind formation challenge too. I didn't know there was such a thing!"

She swallowed, a look of embarrassment on her face. "...So powerful, it activated so quickly. At this rate, it should only be a matter of time before Chen Sheng activates the entire formation—hmm?"

Beside them, Xia Muqing and Xu Ling had subtle expressions. After looking at each other, Xia Muqing suddenly opened her backpack and took out another small wind chime.

Jing Yiyi saw it out of the corner of her eye and opened her eyes wide in surprise.

The wind chime was only the size of a ping-pong ball and had a very delicate shape. The key point was that as soon as it was taken out, the ethereal fluctuations between heaven and earth seemed to have found a new master. It no longer obeyed the stimulating force in the center of the formation, but turned into countless invisible energies, whistling and wrapping around the bell.

Xia Muqing felt the wind chime in her hand grow heavier, the power attached to it growing. A strong intuition surged in her heart. If she shook the wind chime vigorously, she would be able to move the entire wind array, emitting a pleasant sound that would shake the heavens!

Jing Yiyi was stunned: "What is this?"

Can it actually affect the huge formation built by the beastmaster at great expense?

Xia Muqing: "Uh, it's just a small wind chime made entirely of black silver wind stone."

Jing Yiyi: “???”

The wind chimes in the formation here are only mixed with a little bit of black silver wind stone, but the one in Xia Muqing's hand is actually made entirely of black silver wind stone?

Xia Muqing had never expected that the black silver wind chime in her hand would have such a wonderful use.

"I can only say that Chen Sheng's luck is really bad."

Thinking of this, she pressed the black silver wind chime to prevent the formation from producing any mysterious energy resonance. At the same time, she raised her head slightly and smiled at the boy on the platform.

"If you still can't activate the formation, then we can challenge it without waiting, right?"

"Student Chen Sheng, you must hurry. If you can't trigger an echo, don't force the attack. It would be terrible if you injure the mysterious beast."

Chen Sheng on the podium: “……?”