The glowing bats that are harassing and attacking the participants, trying to grab the Sun Crystals are known as Sun Bats. These bats are actually not nocturnal, barely the size of an adult cat and have light yellow fur; they also happen to be magic beasts!
Magic Beasts are animals that can cultivate. They are actually better fighters than human cultivators because of the fact that they have to fight to survive. They are even better cultivators because their bodies naturally draw in Qi. Due to this phenomenon, they can easily go through the ranks if given enough time. Magic Beasts also have a flaw; if their bodies are almost always cultivating they must have a place to house that holds all of the Qi. Thus, creating the Beast Crystal.
Beast Crystals are where the majority of the Qi of the magical beast is located. These crystals that hold the majority of the magical beast’s Qi are very beneficial to human cultivators. Humans can actually absorb the Qi in the Beast Crystal and add it to their own. Though this is not without consequences. The cultivator that is trying to assimilate the Qi must first purify the qi in the Beast Crystal to the same level of purity as the Qi in their body. This usually takes a good deal of mental work and if they a assimilate Qi that is of a lower purity then their own Qi then there Qi will drop down to the same level of purity as the Beast Crystal’s Qi. If you stumble upon this tale on Amazon, it''s taken without the author''s consent. Report it.
As magical beasts cultivate it uses its own natural affinities and Qi to perform magic. These magics can vary from sharpening their claws to hurling giant icicles to impale men. As they go through through life, their body parts become useful in medicine, weapon crafting, armor crafting and many other products.
These Sun Bats are barely at Rank 1 low. The most they can do is glow and sometimes flash to temporarily blind enemies. Any mortal can actually defeat them. Actually in some of the richer districts of the city they tame them and use them for chandeliers at galas and balls.
As the first participants are reaching for the Sun Crystals, the Sun Bats are swooping down and attacking any greedy hands that reach out towards the crystals. Soon many of the participants have given up on getting any of the crystals for fear of getting there fingers bitten off.
But as there is in any group, greedy hands kept picking the Sun Crystals. As more than twenty Sun Crystals disappeared into the pouches of the participants, I heard loudest screech ring loud and clear as the Sun Bat King, arrived from the top of the cavern with a rabbit in it’s massive mouth.