Guang Fu flinched from the sudden prick and dropped the emblem on the ground. After a moment, he realized in shock that the emblem had pierced him.
Somehow, a trashy piece of rusted metal managed to pierce the skin of a nascent soul realm cultivator. Such a thing was hard to believe.
Guang Fu glanced at the emblem on the ground and saw that it seemed to be vibrating. As it vibrated, rust started to fall from it onto the floor.
At first, the emblem was vibrating so softly that it was barely detectable, but after a few seconds, it began making a noise.
Guang Fu watched quietly as the emblem continued to vibrate for an entire minute before a light could be seen coming out of an area where a piece of rust fell off.
The light was soon on other areas as the final bits of rust fell off of the emblem. The light stopped shining and a completely different looking emblem was revealed.
It was completely gold with bits of red in the shield's center. Guang Fu cautiously picked the emblem up off the ground.
As he touched it, he felt the power coming off of it. It was no normal emblem. Guang Fu felt that, at the very least, it was at the void traversing realm.
Without much hesitation and with much excitement, Guang Fu ran outside of the hotel and came to a large facility.
In order to stop cultivators from going away during the war, the people who set up the city sized camp added just about everything anyone could want.
Among those was a training facility. Each use of it only cost 10 spirit stones. Such an amount was pocket change for any core formation cultivator.
Guang Fu entered a private room and sat in the middle with the shield emblem. Despite his attempts, even after a day passed he had no idea how to use it.
Eventually, Guang Fu gave up and went back to the hotel room. He spent the rest of his break time attempting to figure out how the emblem worked, but was unsuccessful.
As the time passed, he felt the talisman in his spatial ring moving and took it out.
"Guang Fu. I repeat. Guang Fu, are you there?"
"I am here." Guang Fu responded.
"Break time is over. I repeat. Break time is over. Head back to your square." The mechanical voice said.
"On my way." Guang Fu said as he put the talisman into his spatial ring and moved out.
As he ran, he took the emblem out and pinned it on his chest.
In just a few hours, he arrived at the teleportation array that led to his square. As he stepped in, he was teleported away.
When Guang Fu opened his eyes, he was shocked and surprised to see a dome barrier not too far from him.
'The square is under attack!' He thought to himself before taking out his talisman and reporting his finding.
"Stay calm soldier. In the case that he wins, nothing will change. If he loses, immediately retreat without giving the enemy a chance to spot you. Good luck." The mechanical voice spoke in a tone stricter than usual.
Guang Fu nodded and waited outside of the barrier. The barrier was white and impossible to see through. Guang Fu could only patiently wait as the battle inside raged on.
After an entire hour of waiting, the barrier disappeared. Looking inside, Guang Fu was upset to see an injured crane standing over the corpse of his replacement.
Guang Fu was about to retreat, but he suddenly stopped. The reason he was told to retreat was because the replacement had been at the 8th level of the nascent soul realm. The zone was for nascent soul realm cultivators, but it did not differentiate between the three tiers.
The tiers only stopped someone from a higher tier from attacking someone from a lower tier.
Naturally, the coordinators did not believe that Guang Fu had the ability to defeat someone a tier above him. He was only regarded as a high tier talent. Not quite a top tier talent.
Tian Ren did not let them know much and Guang Fu had not displayed much.
Seeing such a heavily injured opponent that was only at the 9th level of the nascent soul realm, Guang Fu was tempted to go in.
'With my talent, it will be a quick and easy battle.' He said, convincing himself.
After just a moment of hesitation, Guang Fu jumped in the battle zone and a barrier appeared.
The opponent looked up at him and sneered when seeing Guang Fu.
Guang Fu did not waste any time and launched an attack at the crane. He covered himself with light Qi and created a sword of light Qi before shooting towards the crane.
His attack would be able to cause trouble to even an uninjured 8th level nascent soul realm cultivator, much less a severely injured 9th level nascent soul realm cultivator.
The opposing crane had bloody streaks on its body, likely from a sword. It was panting heavily but calmly watching Guang Fu.
Guang Fu did not think anything of it. All cultivators were arrogant towards those of a lower level or realm. It would be weirder if the crane wasn't arrogant.
Guang Fu reached the crane and jumped in the air. His sword was just about to reach the crane's head, but the crane suddenly launched to the side at an extremely fast speed.
Out of the corner of his eye, Guang Fu saw the crane. It was standing tall with no injuries on its body.
'An illusion! It's a trap!' Guang Fu thought to himself as his sword continued to fall on the empty space.
Guang Fu hurriedly stopped his sword and swung upwards, but the crane was faster. It dashed next to him and moved its wing covered in wind Qi.
Without a doubt, Guang Fu would be pierced by the full force attack of a level 9 nascent soul realm cultivator.