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Su Hao understood balance.

In order to make the mission seem more difficult and have an effect on training him, the instructor arranged for him to have four… most ordinary team members.

"Without water-element sprites, it also means that the battle power under the water is limited. Those who can't fly have to rely on rafts to cross the lake too."

In comparison, if he formed a team with Liu Ren and the others…

Liu Ren had the Sea-Tide Frog King, Gu Lingyao's Tide-Calling Spring Sprite and Fairy Snail, all of which were water-element sprites of top quality. They could easily push the raft with unique skills like Wave Treading.

Right, what about the Lava Dragon Turtle?

Liu Ren, who failed to cozy up to him, also thought of this question. "Instructor, look, the Lava Dragon Turtle is so heavy. Once it gets on the raft, the whole raft will fall apart, right?"

Instructor Ma glanced at it. "Heavy sprites can't go onto the raft, but other sprites can't be left behind."

"Now, the timer starts!"

...

"Student Su Hao, please assign us tasks. We will definitely do our best."

A female student surnamed Lin from the same team mustered up her courage and said. Then, she quickly lowered her head, her face a little flushed.

When the other boy saw this, he was envious and jealous, especially… He looked at Student Lin frequently, but Student Lin kept stealing glances at Su Hao. It was simply…

But that was Big Boss Su, he was desperate orz!

The seniors might not know Su Hao's name, but the freshmen had more or less heard of his legend.

Su Hao easily obtained commanding rights.

He looked towards the woods.

The trees in the New World were very tall and of good quality. These trees could be used to make relatively large rafts with enough buoyancy.

The only problem was the production craftsmanship.

But the craftsmanship wasn't enough, so the sprites had to make up for it.

Apart from Su Hao himself, the main sprites of the four teammates were respectively: Rain Forest Giant Ape, Elephant General, Snowfield Sky Deer, and Sword Thorn Assassin.

Three earth-elements and one ice-element.

So he found it troublesome.

Apart from the Snowfield Sky Deer who could step on water, all other sprites needed to ride on the rafts.

On the raft, not to mention fighting, even a slightly larger movement could break the raft.

"Your Rain Forest Giant Ape and Elephant General are in charge of tying up the trees. Lin Jing, look for suitable vines with your Snowfield Sky Deer. Huang XX, your Sword Thorn Assassin and my Flaming Spiritcrow are in charge of chopping down the trees."

The Sword Thorn Assassin was the final evolved form of the Sprite Ground Hedgehog.

It had a humanoid form, and the brown spikes on its back looked like long hair that extended from its head to its toes. Its claws fused, evolving into the form of a sword. It was a relatively rare agile assassin-type sprite among the earth-element types.

After the mission was assigned, the five people and over ten sprites scattered into the woods.

...

The raft production competition was in full swing.

With the help of the sprites and the excellent materials obtained locally, the raft pieced together looked pretty well put-together.

Somewhere on the shore, a Polar Nine Tails was spitting out frost, freezing the head and tail of the raft and constantly strengthening it.

On the side, a boy in white glanced into the distance from time to time.

He was looking in Su Hao's direction.

Battle intent burned in his eyes.

He suffered defeat after defeat, but he, the man from the Bai family, would never give up.

"In the past, regardless of whether it was a head-on battle, mission battles, or assessment battles, I lost. But today, I will win."

Bai Hongzhen wasn't being arrogant.

He admitted that he was inferior to Su Hao.

For the time being… the Polar Nine Tails wasn't a match for Reverie Butterfly and Flaming Spiritcrow, but…

"I have the geographical advantage today!"

xIn terms of geographical advantage, apart from his trump card, Polar Nine Tails, the Sea-Tide Frog King and Giant Cannon Lobster were both water-element sprites. They had an advantage in battle in the lake environment!

The teammates assigned to him by his instructor were stronger than Su Hao's teammates!

With such a huge advantage, Bai Hongzhen felt that… he couldn't lose anymore!

...

An hour later.

"Time's up. The teams that have finished making the raft can start crossing the lake."

Heavenly King Wu's voice spread far and wide, reaching everyone's ears.

Whoosh--!

Wooden rafts were pushed into the water by the sprites, causing countless splashes.

"Let's set off too. Let your sprites try not to move."

Su Hao said to the two male students.

After their Rain Forest Giant Ape and Elephant General carefully boarded the raft, they shrunk into a ball.

It was the same for Su Hao's Electric Bear. It looked very aggrieved.

Among the others, the Sword Thorn Assassin or the initial stage evolved sprites, after those who were not big, who couldn't fly or swim boarded the raft, it wasn't too crowded either.

Su Hao stood in front of the raft and threw out a vine, which was bitten by the Water Unicorn Beast.

Together with the Snowfield Sky Deer, they started to drag the raft forward.

The raft swept across the lake, and circles of ripples spread out, starting to advance towards the Thousand Peak Island at the end of their vision.

Soon…

The raft Su Hao was on… was pulled a long distance away.

He saw that under the control of the water-element sprite, the entire raft which Gu Lingyao was on, had suddenly rushed out into the distance as if it had a propeller.

Two wooden stakes were nailed to the back of the raft that Li Songting was on. His Master Hound burst into muscle form and pressed down on the wooden stakes with both hands. Its legs kept shaking as it stepped on the water surface and pushed forward with all its might.

The water surface exploded with countless waves, but the raft also rushed forward rapidly.

In comparison,

The Water Unicorn Beast didn't have enough water.

It wasn't strong enough either.

There was no need to mention the Snowfield Sky Deer.

Should he add Flaming Spiritcrow to pull the boat?

Su Hao sank into deep thought.

...

Whoosh ~

The lake breeze blew.

Bai Hongzhen stood in front of the raft and looked around.

Around him, several rafts advanced side by side with him, they were the first tier.

But there was no raft where Su Hao was.

He looked back and searched for a long time…

"Su Hao, Su Hao, you disappointed me too much."

Since Bai Hongzhen couldn't find Su Hao, he stopped searching and said to the Sea-Tide Frog King and the other sprites who were working hard under the raft, "Come on! Work hard! We want to get first place today!"

...

Heavenly King Wu stood in mid-air and looked down at the lake.

Behind him was a Trading Puppet. Its Psychic power was supporting him, not leaving any traces.

"Almost."

Heavenly King Wu saw that the first tier had already crossed half the distance. He said to the other instructors, "It's time to increase the difficulty for them."

The instructors nodded and revealed their smiles.

The water-element horse instructor rode a Cloud Water Dragon Horse and flew through the air, scattering some invisible powder that had no smell.

It was a seducing powder specially developed for the water-element sprites of Dragon Court Lake.

The powder scattered.

On the lake, some students' water-element sprites seemed to have smelled something delicious, but the next moment, the smell disappeared again.

They were stunned for a moment before continuing to act as coolies.

At this moment.

Whoosh--!

Water streams exploded on the lake surface. Brownish-red colored sprites with whiskers on their heads, and armed with harpoon weapons leaped out of the lakebed.

Sprite: Lobster Soldier!

It was one of the commonly seen sprites in the Dragon Court Lake area.

"Why are there suddenly so many wild sprites?!"

Some students panicked. Their sprites fought hard to repel the Lobster Soldiers that kept coming out. "They are clearly just entry-level sprites, why is it like they are injected with hormones, even the elite-level pressure can't scare them away?"

Some people thought to themselves.

Suddenly, kacha --

A pair of big pincers emerged from the bottom of the water, cutting a huge hole in the middle of the raft, which was more than ten meters long.

The students on the raft panicked.

The next moment…

Boom!

A huge water stream exploded, directly breaking the raft into two.

In the waves, a human-shaped sprite about two to three meters tall and two to three meters wide appeared. It was also brownish red and had a pair of pincers.

"It's, it's Crab General!"

Elite Crab Generals appeared one after another, stirring up waves. Water pillars exploded, and water droplets fell like rain.

In an instant, there were many cases of rafts destroying people and sinking them.

Some students could save themselves by letting their flying sprite pick them up and fly back to the shore dejectedly.

Some couldn't save themselves, so a wave of Psychic power enveloped them and threw them back.

The raft of Su Hao's team was at the back.

But it was still targeted by wild sprites.

Whoosh--!

A crab general leaped out from the bottom of the lake, its big pincers flashed, and it smashed towards the Snowfield Sky Deer, which was pulling the raft.

When the patrolling soldier Flaming Spiritcrow in the sky saw that something was wrong, it immediately made a "Squawk" sound and suddenly turned into a line of fire, flashing straight down.

With a whoosh, clear cracks appeared on Crab General's crab shell. Not even half a second after it appeared, it fell back with a bang.

"Steady, don't panic, it's not a big problem."

Su Hao told the sprites on the raft not to move, and then let the Water Unicorn Beast sink under the raft to defend.

He touched his chin and started thinking.

Their speed was already very slow to begin with. With the interference of the Dragon Court Lake sprites, they reckoned that they would fall into the last 20 teams.

This couldn't go on.

Su Hao looked ahead. Water pillars exploded, waves surged, and rafts fell apart in the battle.

There was even a raft that was swallowed by a Giant Leviathan that suddenly emerged from the bottom of the water. They had escaped death by a hair…

Wait, Giant Leviathan?

As the evolved form of Salted Fish King, once it evolved, it basically had elite-level strength. Its development potential was pretty good.

It was just that nurturing the Salted Fish King to meet the evolution conditions was extremely difficult.

But there was no need to doubt the Giant Leviathan's battle power, and it also had a huge body. Once it appeared, it brought great pressure to the students.

A Leviathan alone, had destroyed several rafts in a few minutes.

The other teams in the surroundings had already gone all out, wanting to get away from this Giant Leviathan.

Su Hao's eyes lit up. "Butterfly…"

"Gurgle~!"

It understood tacitly, turned into a gust of wind, and flew up, landing on the Giant Leviathan's head in a moment.

The orb circled around it and the illusion enveloped the sprite.

In the end, it was just an elite-level wild Giant Leviathan. Butterfly's strength overwhelmed it.

It spent a few minutes of "friendly communication" and "magical persuasion" with the Giant Leviathan, and finally…

A Giant Leviathan broke through the waves and came over.

It pointed right at where they were.

On the raft, the other four people who didn't know the situation were nervous. They believed that Big Boss Su Hao had the ability to deal with the Giant Leviathan, but the Giant Leviathan could destroy their raft with a pounce…

"Wait, look, there are people on the Giant Leviathan… No, there are sprites!"

One of the boys in the team noticed the small figure on the Giant Leviathan with his sharp eyes. Only then did the others heave a sigh of relief.

So the Giant Leviathan…

It had an owner!

That didn't seem right either!

...

Ten minutes later.

"Gurgle ~ (Charge)!"

Butterfly stood on the Giant Leviathan's head.

The Giant Leviathan's tail was dragging a raft as it advanced at an extremely fast speed.

Around the raft and under the water, there were also a few Crab Generals who were also "convinced" to act as guards.

The lobster soldiers that emerged from time to time were beaten down by a pair of pincers.

The occasionally appearing Crab General was also beaten up by "traitors" like them.

When there were too many of them, it would attract them to the surface of the lake and let the One Blade Fire Crow deal with them.

Whoosh—

Su Hao's luxurious team rode the wind and broke the waves. That huge island kept enlarging in his vision, showing straight, tall, and blade-like mountain peaks on the island.

They were about to reach Thousand Peak Island!

...

At the same time.

Under the interference of the Shrimp Soldiers and Crab Generals, only the last three rafts remaining were in the lead.

Bai Hongzhen stood in front of the raft. He had already forgotten about Su Hao, but when he glanced at the two rafts that were level with them on both sides, his gaze was still solemn.

"Hurry, faster!" he urged.

The island was getting closer and closer, but none of the three rafts fell behind any other.

They were all doing the final sprint.

Suddenly!

Whoosh--!

A huge wave of water came from the side. Bai Hongzhen, who was standing at the front, swayed continuously with the raft and almost fell down.

The water-element sprite hurriedly stabilized the raft and stayed alert of its surroundings.

After Bai Hongzhen barely stabilized himself, he looked to the front, on the right.

Over there, waves were crashing. A Giant Leviathan was dragging the raft and sprinting rapidly. In the blink of an eye, it was in front of them. Only the splashes of water kept splashing towards them.

On the raft…

"Su Hao, it's actually you!!!"

Bai Hongzhen's mouth opened slightly.

Looking at the raft, and then at Reverie Butterfly standing on the top of the Giant Leviathan, he recalled the fear of a group of people being dominated by Reverie Butterfly during the challenge segment.

He slapped himself forcefully.

"I'm so silly, really!"