Villain Cultivator (Web Novel)

No one here was afraid of a fight. However, they were afraid of greater power that couldn ’t be explained. They disliked being suppressed by the immortals.

The special rules in the battle royal game complicated things. Instead of fighting normally, they had to be wary of red tile traps and the unknown. Even though clearing the red tile challenge would net them a reward, the risks that would come with it were too great.

Yet, Huang Hansheng, Zhou Gongjin, and Brocell smirked. They looked forward to playing around with the special challenges and aimed for the extra rewards that Uriel had promised.

The divine pills or artifacts were too tempting to overlook. None of them was even bothered that Uriel might have tricked them.

On the other hand, Ling Tianlong was the only one who didn ’t trust Uriel. He turned to Miaomiao, blaming him for using another dirty trick.

He suspected that the qualifier round was tailored to favor Miaomiao and his subordinates. As for the rest, they were merely there to fill the number.

Ling Tianlong ignored Uriel ’s explanation, but the latter continued explaining the combat rules.

”As you can see, the platform is made of one million one-square-meter cubic blocks, 1000 x 1000 blocks to be exact. Here is the second special rule of this place – One person may stand or step on the same tile. If two or more people step on the same tile for longer than three breaths, they will be teleported to an enclosed space and trapped there. ”

Uriel demonstrated by tossing two mannequin golems and manipulated them to stand on the same tile. Instantly, they vanished and reappeared west of the platform, being caged in a transparent cube.

10 square-meter cube slowly shrunk.

”The enclosed space will continue to shrink until there is only one person left. Then, the survivor will be teleported back to the tile that they had stood. You catch my drift? ”

In short, the people who had stepped on the same tile would be forced to kill each other, and the survivor would return to the platform. If they couldn ’t finish their opponents in time, the shrinking cube would eventually kill everybody inside.

This qualifier round was complicated. Even Miaomiao swallowed his saliva, gazing at the mysterious platform in caution.

”And lastly, for the sake of fairness, every contestant will be randomly placed on the board! Therefore, a large group that comes with more than a hundred contestants can ’t abuse their number advantage! ”

Uriel addressed Brocell, who had brought more representatives than the required quota. He was the only one that attempted to exploit this Selection Tournament while the others joined unwillingly.

Brocell raised his eyebrows and shrugged. He was still calm after Uriel nerfed him.

”Now, let ’s not waste any time. I shall randomize you to the chessboard! ”

”Chessboard!? ”

Miaomiao widened his eyes. Before he was teleported to the platform, he caught a glimpse of the platform, which turned into a checkerboard with white and red tiles.

As Uriel had declared, the platform turned into a gigantic chessboard without chess pieces.

The participants became the chess pieces instead!

Miaomiao found himself standing in the center of the board. Two tiles to the left, Zhao Yun was sent there. As for the two tiles on the right, Ma Moxi crouched on the ground, inspecting this place.

Behind Miaomiao, Dian Wei had a wry smile on her face, finding the one-square-meter tile under her too small for her stature. She reluctantly transformed into a human as she was afraid of stepping on the red tiles around her.

The rest of Miaomiao ’s teams were sent to the southeast and northeast corner. Their formation was ruined as all team members were separated.

Meanwhile, Brocell and his golem platoons were deployed on the board, too. Half of his golems were positioned near Miaomiao ’s teammates. As for the rest, they occupied the northwest corner and southwest corner.

Pillars of light shone upon the giant chessboard as more cultivators were forcefully teleported to the platform.