"COO! COO! COO!"

The three young Hand and Foot Winged Dragons huddled together, looking at Li Wei in fear.

Li Wei had given them all a good thrashing, and now they didn’t dare to attack him.

He noticed that there was still an unhatched egg in the Hand and Foot Winged Dragon’s nest.

It was half as tall as a person.

The fourth egg occupied the softest, cleanest, and warmest spot in the nest.

But now, it belonged to Li Wei.

Li Wei dug a hole under the egg and crawled inside.

Looking up, the egg was right above his head, quietly basking in the sun.

A short distance away, the young Hand and Foot Winged Dragons cooed, not daring to approach Li Wei.

After a while, the adult Hand and Foot Winged Dragon returned. It found its young huddled together, and the strange food had disappeared.

It thought the hatchlings had eaten Li Wei.

It dropped a Big Steel-Teethed Wild Boar in front of the young ones, watching them wolf down the dead prey.

The adult Hand and Foot Winged Dragon thought, ’I really should catch some bigger prey. The small ones just aren’t enough to fill my children’s bellies.’

The adult Hand and Foot Winged Dragon walked to one side and lay down to sleep next to the egg.

It glanced at the egg, seeming to notice something was different.

But it didn’t touch the egg, assuming it was just about to hatch.

It didn’t need to incubate the egg; it just had to wait for the young one inside to break out of its shell on its own.

Li Wei sat beneath the Hand and Foot Winged Dragon egg.

He checked his Invisible Armor. Four layers had been broken; the battle had been intense.

One layer broke while blocking the Lava Giant Lizard’s attack.

Two layers broke while withstanding the Lava Storm.

One layer broke while fending off the Hand and Foot Winged Dragon’s attack.

Only eight layers of his Invisible Armor remained. Li Wei quickly replenished them, restoring all twelve layers of his Invisible Armor.

He took stock of his gains.

Three Fire Lotuses, a Tier Two Lava Giant Lizard Demon Core, and a Tier Two Black Bear Demon Beast Demon Core.

It was a considerable haul.

Li Wei had his Shadow Attendant hollow out a piece of wood to store the Fire Lotuses.

He was afraid the Fire Lotuses would get crushed in his pocket, so it was safer to put them in a box.

"This won’t catch fire, will it?"

Li Wei looked at the Fire Lotuses in the box, a little worried.

The Fire Lotuses were quite hot. Even after being removed from the Magma River, they still radiated a temperature of seventy to eighty degrees.

Touching them directly with his hands would cause burns.

Seeing no sign of the box catching fire, Li Wei breathed a sigh of relief.

’Are seven Magic Cards enough?’

A thought crossed Li Wei’s mind.

He focused his attention on his Illusory Body and saw the vision it transmitted.

The audience could see things the contestants could not.

A leaderboard was suspended in the sky above the Island Secret Realm.

It displayed the rankings based on the number of Magic Cards held.

The Mage Association hadn’t told the contestants about the rankings. The goal was to make them all fight for Magic Cards with everything they had.

This would make things more exciting to watch and ensure the conflicts were intense enough.

Otherwise, if everyone saw they were close in the rankings and just tried to secure enough cards to make the top ten, the fighting wouldn’t be fierce enough.

Only the unknown could make the competition interesting.

Li Wei, using his outside-the-game cheat, saw the rankings.

Right now, Li Wei held seven Magic Cards, ranking him second.

First place was Russell, with ten Magic Cards.

Russell was the Fire Element Mage Li Wei had seen on the first day.

Third place was Savis, with five Magic Cards.

Fourth place was Lilith, with four Magic Cards.

Li Wei was a little surprised to see Lilith ranked fourth.

’It seems Magic Cards really are hard to come by,’ Li Wei thought.

By listening to Gu Ze and Rota’s conversation, Li Wei was surprised to learn that the audience hadn’t seen the battle inside the Lava Cave.

And the Lava Giant Lizard hadn’t dropped a Magic Card either.

Could it be that the Mage Association hadn’t discovered the underground Magma River?

Li Wei felt that was unlikely.

After all, the Magma River led directly to the Lava Lake.

The Mage Association definitely knew about the Lava Lake. As long as they’d gone in to look, they would have easily found the entrance to the Magma River.

It was probably just an unforeseen event.

The Mage Association knew about the Magma River, but they must have thought no one would have the chance to enter it during the second round.

So they hadn’t placed a Magic Card on the Lava Giant Lizard, nor had they set up any Surveillance Demon Eyes inside the Lava Cave.

It was also possible that Magic Cards couldn’t withstand the high temperature of the magma.

Li Wei wasn’t sure of the reason either.

In any case, as long as he had benefited, that was all that mattered.

"What’s in that cave? Why did two Lava Giant Lizards crawl out?"

Gu Ze asked, his face full of curiosity.

Li Wei shifted his focus back to his main body.

’On the last day, I’ll just snatch some Magic Cards to guarantee a spot in the top ten.’

He thought to himself.

After all, for someone like him with an outside-the-game cheat, it was still very easy to find some targets to rob.

Li Wei hid in the Hand and Foot Winged Dragon’s nest and continued his Cultivation.

An invisible Surveillance Demon Eye flew over the Hand and Foot Winged Dragon’s nest.

It was searching for Li Wei.

"What’s going on? Where did the contestant Armor go?"

The people from the Mage Association were also completely baffled.

"Don’t tell me he got eaten?"

"Armor isn’t dead. His Fire of Life hasn’t been extinguished."

"But where is he?"

"It’s just like before. He hasn’t gone off to hide somewhere again, has he?"

Previously, when Li Wei had been hiding in a cave for his Cultivation, he had disappeared for a while.

The Magic Association members monitoring the battlefield had hastily dispatched a Surveillance Demon Eye into the cave to check on the situation.

They discovered that Li Wei was actually just hiding inside the cave to cultivate.

After that, they just left him alone.

The Mage Association also didn’t broadcast the scene of him cultivating in the cave.

Since Li Wei was hiding to cultivate, the Mage Association respected his privacy.

The more important reason was that a major figure like Torresta stood behind Armor.

It was an unspoken understanding among everyone.

Now, Li Wei had disappeared again.

This time, it stumped the Mage Association’s monitoring staff.

They had to keep track of everyone’s movements to prevent any dangerous situations from occurring.

The invisible Surveillance Demon Eye couldn’t get too close to the Hand and Foot Winged Dragon, or else it would be detected and shot down, even while invisible.

Just as the monitoring staff were struggling, a message came from above, telling them to stop looking for the Armored Man.

The monitoring staff breathed a sigh of relief.

The President of the Flying Flower City Mage Association looked at the young man before him and asked, "Is he your apprentice?"

A voice, ancient and frail, came from the young man’s mouth. "Not yet."

The President shook his head and said, "Are you still trying to find someone to inherit your Illusion Technique? Give it up."

"You yourself can only reach this level because of your Extraordinary Trait. Even if others learn the Illusion Technique, they could never be like you."

The young man said, "He’s different."

Hearing this, the President was stunned for a moment. "He awakened the same Extraordinary Trait as you?"

The young man shook his head but said nothing.

Outside the door, the President’s secretary looked puzzled. ’Who is the President talking to?’

He hadn’t seen anyone go in.

Li Wei stayed cooped up in the Hand and Foot Winged Dragon’s nest, cultivating until the seventh day of the competition.

[Crystal Meditation Method (Tier One)] 6969/10000

[Fireball Skill (Tier One Great Success)] 6820/10000

[Invisible Armor Skill (Tier One Great Success)] 1200/10000

[Object Control Skill (Tier One Small Success)] 5530/10000

[Great Dream Traveling Skill (Tier One)] 1300/10000

[Illusion Technique (Tier One)] 2600/10000

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Aside from meditating to cultivate his Mana, Li Wei spent all day and night cultivating his Magic in the dreamscape.

He mainly cultivated the Fireball Skill, supplemented by the Illusion Technique.

Occasionally, he would practice his other Magic skills.

His Cultivation progress was not slow.

Li Wei focused his attention on his Illusory Body and saw the new leaderboard.

He had already dropped to sixteenth place.

There were twenty-four contestants remaining.

As he watched the movement patterns of the remaining contestants on the Island Secret Realm, a glint flashed in his eyes.

"Time to hunt!"