Chapter 16: Dabi Begins
The next morning, Shangguan Zhentian gathered ten teenagers together to explain the rules of the competition and the personnel who participated in the competition.
There are a total of 12 families in the Shangguan family, including the Shangguan family in Gushan Town, and this time there are 100 people from the main family who participated, plus 120 people from each family, a total of 220 people participated.
The other three major families are Nangong, Beiming, and Ximen, and there are about the same number of people, adding up to nearly a thousand.
There are 500 young people who participated in the big competition, and the number of people who signed up for the casual cultivation was as many as four or five hundred.
Therefore, there are more than 2,000 people who participated in the rookie competition under the age of 16.
The big score is the qualifiers, round-robin rounds and finals, and each family can recommend 10 seeded players when registering, plus 20 seeded players from the City Guard, for a total of 60 seeded players. Seeded players do not have to participate in the qualifiers and qualifiers and can go straight to the finals.
All other registered players need to start from the qualifiers, and are evenly divided into 20 groups, and 10 people from each group will enter the round-robin round-robin, a total of 200 people.
After Shangguan Zhentian finished explaining, everyone dispersed, and the fat man Shangguan Yulong ran to find Xiao Jiu.
"Boss, I think we might as well go to the Wan Dan Building and the Refining Pavilion today! The Wan Dan Building mainly sells all kinds of pills, while the Refining Pavilion sells all kinds of weapons and accepts the customization of all kinds of weapons! And these two places definitely exist like giants in the Heavenly Spirit Continent industry!"
"Oh~!What a! Then you have to go and see! Call someone, go!"
The six of them walked out of the old store of the Ma family together and rushed to the place that the fat man said.
Along the way, Shangguan Yufeng was like a milk swallow out of the nest, running forward and running excitedly, chattering non-stop, and the fat man led everyone to Wandanlou first.
This Wan Dan Lou looks like a huge Dan Ding from a distance, and far away from here, you can smell the rich Dan fragrance. There is a huge plaque inlaid on the top of it, with three simple and solemn characters of 'Wandan Building' written on it, and the lower right corner of the plaque is engraved with 'Fengnan Branch'. Its façade is a five-storey wooden building, which is mainly its business premises. Further inside, it is the place where its alchemists make alchemy and live, called 'Dan Yuan', which covers an extremely wide area and is generally not open to the public.
At the door of the Wandan Tower, there were two high-ranking maids of the Martial Arts Realm, who were in charge of welcoming guests.
The strength of the martial arts realm can only be a maid here, which shows the strength of Wandanlou. Under the guidance of the maid, everyone entered the first floor of the Wandan Building, and the maid began to introduce them to the grade and function of the elixir.
This first layer is mainly aimed at the samurai realm, and everyone has already surpassed this level, and has not stopped for long, and has stepped up to the second layer.
The second layer of maids is the powerhouse of the Grandmaster Realm, and the pills sold are suitable for martial artists in the Martial Master Realm, ranging from ordinary pills to the best pills, and the number is no less than a thousand.
Xiao Jiu asked the fat man to equip everyone with a few top-grade healing pills, which were reserved for Dabi's injuries. However, the price of this superb elixir is really expensive, and each pill costs thousands of Xuanjing coins.
After a while, the kung fu fat man took out tens of thousands of Xuanjing coins, and his distressed fat face couldn't help twitching.
Xiao Jiu saw him take out money and grind, slapped him on the back of the head, and said: "Do you kid want money or death? Do you know what is the most painful thing in life? That is, when people die, money is not spent!"
"Hey, boss, do you know what is the most painful thing in life? That is, people are alive, and the money is gone!"
Everyone burst into laughter, and even the two maids covered their mouths and secretly rejoiced.
"Where did this roe deer come from? Buy a few pills of Nima and still be there crookedly!" a very arrogant voice sounded behind everyone.
Everyone turned their heads to look, only to see four people standing behind them, and saw that these four people were all wearing gorgeous clothes, and they looked seven dissatisfied and eight were not angry.
"Hmph! It's really stupid every year, and there are a lot of them this year! You can meet them everywhere!" Xiao Jiu glanced at a few people and said with a sneer.
"Stinky boy, who do you say are 'stupid'! Do you know who we are? Hmph! We are from the Northern Underworld family, hurry up and apologize to us, otherwise we will ——!"
Xiao Jiu thought to himself that he was in a relationship with the Northern Underworld family, and some time ago he killed that Northern Underworld Wuji was also a Northern Underworld family, could it be that he was born with his family and couldn't make a natural mistake?
"Hmph! A group of people who don't know the so-called squirting children talk about the family at every turn, but in fact, it's not bullshit to leave the family!"
"Yo he! I actually ran into a thing that wasn't afraid of death when I went out today! Brothers, him!" After speaking, he rolled up his arms and sleeves and was about to rush up.
"A few sons, this is Wandan Tower, no one is allowed to make trouble here!" the two maids suddenly stepped forward to stop the four of them.
"Bastard, what's the matter? Don't you even pay attention to the Northern Hell Family?"
"Hmph! You sons don't seem to have come out too much! You go and inquire about what my Wandan Building is, not to mention you, even your head of the family is not allowed to make a mistake here! You can go back and ask your elders!" the maid said sharply to the four of them.
"Uh~!Hmph! You wait, let's go out of this door!" Several people were reprimanded by the maid, as if they were 'ripe duck with a hard mouth'!
"I would like to advise a few people, even if you go out of this door, you don't want to make trouble! The city guards are not vegetarians! They may not buy your face! Hou Ye has given a death order, and no one is allowed to make trouble during the big competition, otherwise the big competition will be disqualified!"
"Good ——!, it seems that you are also here to participate in the big competition, see you then!" Everyone in the Northern Underworld family was speechless, glared at Xiao Jiu and the others fiercely, put down a few cruel words, and walked away.
Xiao Jiu stepped forward to thank the maid for relieving them from the siege.
"A few sons don't have to be polite, in our territory in Wandan Building, we can ensure your safety!
After the turmoil just now, everyone suddenly felt bored, gave up their hands, and went downstairs to rush to the Refining Pavilion.
The layout of the Refining Pavilion is roughly the same as that of the Wandan Tower, except that its exterior shape is like a sharp sword out of the sheath, pointing straight to the sky.
Everyone walked into the Refining Pavilion, and their eyes suddenly lit up.
Mu Qianyu stopped in front of a three-foot short sword for a long time, this is a grandmaster-level short sword, its upper formation runes flicker, the sword body is smooth, and the sword body is narrow, which is very suitable for the style of Mu Qianyu's fast sword, but the price is also ridiculously expensive, asking for 12,000 Xuanjing coins.
"Hehe~!, I have taken a fancy to this sword!" Xiao Jiu walked up to him and asked.
"Hmm~!I just think it's more suitable for me!This price is too expensive!" Mu Qianyu whispered embarrassedly.
"Haha! I'll buy it when I like it! We're not short of money now! Besides, 'if you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your weapon'! It's not easy to come across a favorite weapon, so buy it!"
After Xiao Jiu finished speaking, he asked the fat man to hand the short sword called 'Qiushui' to Mu Qianyu.
"Brothers, 'Don't miss it when you pass by!' Whoever has a match, say it quickly!"
Hearing this, everyone was refreshed.
With the continuous improvement of his strength, Zhou Xiaohu was not very satisfied with the weapons that Shangguan Zhentian was equipped with this time, and he fell in love with a sledgehammer that was not large but weighed a thousand catties, and was also bought by Xiao Jiu.
The rest of the people, except for Xiao Jiu, all chose a weapon that suited them. This time, nearly 100,000 Xuanjing coins went out, which made the fat man extremely depressed.
After everyone finished shopping, it was noon, and they returned to the old store of the Ma family. In the next two days, everyone did not go out again, and they were fully prepared for the big competition.
Three days later, the day of the rookie Dabi in Fengnan County.
Early in the morning, after everyone assembled, Shangguan Zhentian said a few words of encouragement to everyone, and then distributed number plates to the ten teenagers who participated in the big competition, and Xiao Jiu got a number plate with the number '823'.
Under the leadership of Shangguan Zhentian, the group rushed to the venue of the Dabi - the city guard military exercise ground.
The rookie Dabi is a major event in Fengnan County in the past five years, and along the way, there are crowds of people rubbing shoulders.
At 9 o'clock in the morning, everyone finally came to the city guard military training ground.
Around the martial arts arena, the flags are unfurled, grand and extraordinary, and all around it are surrounded by fences, three steps, one five-step and one sentry.
The entire martial arts arena covers a wide area, and at a glance, there are more than 100 hectares, to say the least.
The refiners in the arena used special materials to depict defensive formations, surrounded twenty rings of the same size, which were used for the peripheral competition, and twenty referees stood aside, waiting for the big competition to begin.
Directly opposite the martial arts arena, there is a high viewing platform, on which sits the organizer of the competition, Fengnan County Shouzhen Nanhou Bao Buping, as well as the members of the arbitration committee of the competition, the head of the Fengnan branch of the Wandanlou, the Zihuo Danzun, the refining pavilion Fengnan branch of the hundred refining instruments, and the heads of the four major families.
These seven people formed the arbitration meeting of this big competition, and in case of disputes, the seven people negotiated together, and the result was the final award.
'Knock, knock, knock——!' Nine gun salutes rang out.
Zhennan Hou Bao Buping walked to the front of the stage and announced loudly: "Fengnan County's five-year rookie competition under the age of 16 will start now! Ben Hou is reiterating that those who participate in the competition must act according to the rules of the competition! You are all young talents of Fengnan County, if you can not hurt people's lives, don't hurt people's lives, no matter who dies, it will be the loss of my Fengnan County! The following contestants will enter and test the relevant qualifications!"
There was a commotion outside the field, and the participating teenagers gathered at the four entrances, east, west, north and south.
At the entrance, there are special personnel responsible for testing bone age and strength, and only those who meet the conditions can enter, so as to prevent people from fishing in troubled waters.
Xiao Jiu waited in line at the east entrance for the test entry.
During the period, there was no shock, and only a dozen people were disqualified from the competition because they were over age and thrown off the field.
After Xiao Jiu's test was completed, someone shouted: "No. 823, Tianjiuling of the Shangguan family in Gushan Town, age fifteen, martial artist-level high-level strength, meet the conditions, enter the No. 8 ring!"
The onlookers were in an uproar, and they were all surprised by Xiao Jiu's age and strength.
This qualifier is actually a chaotic battle, and the players on the stage will fight separately until there are ten people left on the stage.
After a while, about 100 people gathered near the No. 8 ring, and the referee began to call the number to take the stage in order, and those who did not call the number three times were deemed to have abstained.
Everyone took the stage one after another, each looking for a place and waiting for the start.
After the stage, the atmosphere became tense, and everyone was secretly on guard against the people around them to avoid being attacked.
"Let's go!"
The referee waved his hand and gave an order, and the scuffle was about to break out.