Chapter 299: The Teleportation Array Activates

Don't take it as a sure sign of angry words.

After all, that "Holy Grail War" happened just before the great upheaval at Lu Lan Mansion, and Li Luo at that time indeed needed some special power to tip the scales, and the Three-Tailed Heavenly Wolf was the best opportunity.

Li Luo even wondered whether Pang Pang Qianyuan also knew about the perilous situation Lu Lan Mansion would face half a year later, which was why he dangled such a huge sweet date, gripping him tightly in his palm.

However, if one wanted the Holy Mystic Star Academy to win that so-called Dragon Bone Holy Grail, looking at it now, the difficulty should be extremely great.

Li Luo asked with a troubled face: "Then do you think in this Holy Grail War, does the Holy Mystic Star Academy have any chance of winning the championship?"

Jiang Qing'e nodded and said: "There is still a chance of winning the championship, and it should be greater than in previous years."

"Why?"

A faint smile surfaced in Jiang Qing'e's eyes as she said: "Because this time the Holy Mystic Star Academy has me."

Li Luo stared at Jiang Qing'e in shock. He had never seen such an arrogant person — just because of your existence, the Holy Mystic Star Academy's probability of winning the championship is greater?

But, this statement didn't seem to be wrong either.

Over these years, Jiang Qing'e had repeatedly broken numerous records of the Holy Mystic Star Academy. To put it bluntly, she was becoming the most outstanding student the Holy Mystic Star Academy had seen in a century, so with her presence, the Holy Mystic Star Academy's probability of winning this Holy Grail War was indeed a bit higher than before.

Li Luo's expression turned complicated. Damn it, she got to show off.

"However..."

"The mechanism of the Holy Grail War is rather complex; it isn't something that can be smoothly won by relying on a single person. So even with me, it can only be said that the probability is a bit greater." Jiang Qing'e added.

Then her gaze turned to Li Luo again, and she said thoughtfully: "Adding you into the mix, perhaps the probability will be a bit greater still."

"I can be useful too?" Li Luo asked in astonishment.

Jiang Qing'e was amused by him and said: "So in your own assessment, you have no use at all? Since when have you looked down on yourself like this?"

Li Luo said helplessly: "Of course that's not what I meant... I mean I'm only a freshman of the One-Star House, the gap between you senior students and me is just too huge. In a situation like this, what use could I possibly be?"

Right now he only had the strength of the third pattern of the Spirit Glyph Stage, while Jiang Qing'e was already at the Earth Fiend General Stage, and even the Princess, Gong Gong Shenjun, and those top students of the academy were already at the Heavenly Gang General Stage.

The gap between them was truly enormous.

"The Holy Grail War isn't as simple as you think. I've already told you, its mechanism is quite complex. Students from the four Star Houses of each academy will all have their own place, after all, the Holy Grail War is meant to inspect the quality of students from every academy. Could it be that students from the One-Star House and Two-Star House don't have the qualification to be inspected? They are the fresh blood of an academy." Jiang Qing'e patiently explained.

"From what I know, previous Holy Grail Wars were divided into two stages. I'll set the second stage aside for now — this first stage is the House Battle."

"That is to say, participating students from the same Star House across different academies will be grouped together, and after layers of screening, a batch of the strongest will remain. These are called Ace Students."

"These Ace Students can all earn championship points."

"And the final ownership of the Dragon Bone Holy Grail belongs to the academy with the highest championship points."

Jiang Qing'e gave Li Luo a slight smile and said: "In other words, if you manage to win the Ace Student title of the One-Star House at that time, you too will be able to earn an important batch of championship points."

Only then did Li Luo suddenly understand — so it was a competition with a House-based mechanism. In that case, he did indeed have the qualification to take the field.

After all, given his current strength, within the entire One-Star House of the Holy Mystic Star Academy, probably only Qin Qin Zhulu could contend with him. He just didn't know whether within the One-Star Houses of those other Holy Academies, there would also be fierce people like Qin Qin Zhulu, or even fiercer ones.

The probability was high that such people existed; otherwise the Holy Mystic Star Academy wouldn't have failed to win the Dragon Bone Holy Grail for over thirty consecutive years.

But there was still some time before that Holy Grail War, so there was no rush, because in the meantime, Li Luo still had plenty of time to continue improving himself.

His thoughts turned, and Li Luo gradually calmed down, suppressing the matter of the Holy Grail War.

And just at this moment, Li Luo and Jiang Qing'e suddenly heard cheers erupting from within the outpost. Immediately after, they felt the ground of the outpost tremble slightly, and powerful energy fluctuations appeared at the central position of the outpost.

Jiang Qing'e was the first to rise and said: "It seems the teleportation array has been activated."

Upon hearing this, Li Luo also let out a long sigh of relief and said: "Finally we can leave this godforsaken place."

Counting the time, they had been in this Dark Cavern for almost a month now. The mental pressure endured during this month was simply inhuman, especially Li Luo, who had been leaping about these past few days to relieve the outpost, a truly heart-pounding affair.

During that period, if even the slightest mishap had occurred, not only would the people have been lost, but this outpost would likely have been littered with corpses.

And now that the outpost crisis was resolved and the teleportation array had reopened, presumably the academy would first clear Outpost Thirteen for a period of time, and these people of theirs should also return to the academy.

They could finally take a breather.

"I wonder if the Dean conveyed my request..."

Li Luo muttered. What he was referring to was naturally those one hundred thousand points. Although their harvest in the Dark Cavern this time was quite abundant, and if he and Jiang Qing'e pooled theirs together, they might not fail to scrape together one hundred thousand, Li Luo clearly didn't want to consume Jiang Qing'e's points, because right now she also needed these points to exchange for large amounts of cultivation resources.

The central high tower of the outpost.

As two figures in purple robes emerged from the brilliant light erupting from the teleportation array, the mentors waiting inside the tower all breathed a sigh of relief.

"Mentor Xi Chan."

"Mentor Shen Shen Jinxiao." They greeted respectfully one after another.

Mentor Xi Chan's face was veiled with a thin gauze; although her features couldn't be seen clearly, her tightly furrowed brow revealed her inner anxiety. She had received the notice earlier and immediately withdrew from the depths of the Dark Cavern, hurrying over to provide support.

After all, Li Luo's squad was at this outpost; if anything had happened, her entire faction would have been wiped out.

As for Shen Shen Jinxiao, he had just happened to return to the academy, and the academy had then dispatched the two of them to rush over via the teleportation array.

Mentor Xi Chan stepped out of the teleportation array, and when she saw that this high tower still stood, her tightly furrowed brow loosened slightly, because this indicated that the outpost hadn't been completely breached — which was rather surprising.

Then she saw Gong Gong Shenjun and the Princess at the entrance of the stone tower.

A look of joy surfaced in Mentor Xi Chan's eyes. The Princess and Gong Gong Shenjun had actually appeared here; with them present, presumably even a Great Calamity-grade Other would be dealt with.

"Gong Shenjun, Luan Yu, since you two are here, that Great Calamity Other should already have been dealt with, right?" The one who spoke first was Shen Shen Jinxiao. He looked at the two of them, and a hint of relief appeared on his face.

Both the Princess and Gong Gong Shenjun nodded.

"Were there any casualties at the outpost?" Shen Shen Jinxiao asked with a look of concern.

The Princess said: "There were some casualties, but they remained within controllable limits."

Shen Shen Jinxiao breathed a sigh of relief and said: "This time it's all thanks to you two arriving in time; otherwise a great disaster would likely have ensued. Rest assured, the academy will certainly give you commendation."

The Princess's charming, captivating face stiffened slightly, and then she let out a sigh.

"Mentor Shen, Luan Yu dares not take credit. Actually, by the time I arrived, the trouble here had already been resolved by Li Luo."

And when the Princess finished saying this, the expressions of Xi Chan and Shen Shen Jinxiao before her both wavered for a moment, and then their eyes simultaneously widened.

(EDG is really awesome.)