Chapter 186: Odds on the stage
In order to be cautious, Zhang Fan and his entourage spent more than three years on the detour, and walked nearly 200 billion miles before they came to the northern border of the Wanfa Sect. When he was only about 100 million miles away from the opponent's core area, Zhang Fan let everyone temporarily hide in the Qiankun Shield, while he used his stealth and passive detection techniques to cautiously approach the boundary of the Wanfa Sect. If you encounter any inappropriate warnings, you will immediately change your position, and finally it is easy to infiltrate the boundaries of the Great World of the Ten Thousand Laws Sect.
That long boundary also seemed to have some kind of law power that could provide early warning, but it was not an insurmountable gap for Zhang Fan, who had already been used to transform the peak spiritual power of the gods and even many means at this time. Zhang Fan used the technique of transforming into a powerful puppet and cooperating with the spirit fungus to disguise a monk who was at the peak of the foundation realm, and took the initiative to break into the border, and after alarming the local garrison, he decisively committed suicide like an outlaw. And Zhang Fan also took the opportunity to break into the mundane realm of this great world of the Ten Thousand Hair Sect, and when the stealth technique was fully opened, the low flight was slightly higher than the "treetop height" of the human head, and it seemed that even a local Jindan peak realm inspector did not realize his existence.
This is also after Zhang Fan observed for a while, and it seems that such a phenomenon has still occurred in the border area before he dares to mix in in this way without arousing too much suspicion. However, then, when Zhang Fan secretly investigated some memories of low-level cultivators such as Qi Refining or Transformation Realm Martial Artists, he found that everything was not so simple.
There is no doubt that the kind of regime of the ancient Chinese dynasty on the earth plane, the management is a little stricter, there are things like road guides, this fantasy world with all kinds of magical powers, even if the boundary of a world is a little bigger, how can there be no relatively strict ID card system and even a monitoring mechanism to prevent forces unfriendly to themselves from taking the opportunity to get in? In the past, when I was in the western part of the Boundless Continent, I thought that the mortal realm in other places should still be as relaxed and free as in the middle, but after arriving in the mortal realm of this Ten Thousand Law Sect realm, it was not, and sure enough, everyone seemed to be wearing a unique spiritual power waist card in this world. Cultivating as a low-level disciple in the Qi refining period below the foundation building realm, ordinary people, and even slaves waiting to be sold on the street were generally infused with Gu worms of different natures.
Combined with the obvious hierarchical differences on the street, and even the relatively cheerful and free looks of many ordinary people, Zhang Fan couldn't help but have a bad impression of this Wanfa faction: It seems that it is not as simple as the winner becoming the king and the loser being the villain. Even if the so-called "decency" is a hypocrite, as in some, it is five or six times better than the world of real villains...
This strict identity control is of course difficult for a peak cultivator of Zhang Fan's level. With his strong perceptual ability, Zhang Fan would eventually find a loose cultivator at the peak of the foundation building realm in no more than five days or so, and it seemed that he was a member of the underground killer organization that was not too high-level and had a relatively loose organization. According to Zhang Fan's hidden soul search with the advantage of spanning multiple spiritual power realms, this person is finally a lone ranger who was killed by his parents and master when he was a teenager and has few friends and social connections. The foundation of his own cultivation is flawed, so he also relies more on foreign objects such as Gu worms and puppets in terms of spell means, and he is not too old, so he is a better crossing object. Therefore, after hiding this person with the Qiankun Shield, he used the person's spiritual power waist card as his own use, and transformed into the appearance of this lone killer in the world of the Ten Thousand Law Sect. Ye Ruyun, Ye Ruyue, Sun Meier and others finally found a relatively secret place with Zhang Fan at this time to show their figures. Transformed into three servants who cultivated into the realm of left and right in the early stage of foundation building.
According to Zhang Fan's general investigation of this great world of the Ten Thousand Laws Sect with his spiritual power, and even some understanding of more information: the identity of a monk at the peak of the foundation realm is the most appropriate. There are more scattered cultivators at this level, and the organization and faction are not as strict as those of the masters of the Jindan realm, so it is not easy to attract attention. At the same time, he is not limited everywhere like Qi refining cultivators or lower-level mortals, and it is likely that he will attract some unnecessary troubles and limit his range of action because of his weakness.
It is different from the western part of the Boundless Continent. Strictly speaking, the surrounding population of this great world is relatively dense, hundreds of billions of miles of circumference encloses a huge area, and there are many special open spaces or wastelands in the interior of the border area hundreds of millions of miles deep, but in general, it is more like a modern metropolitan area or a densely populated belt, no, some specific areas are more concentrated in monks, and most places are dominated by mortals.
What surprised Zhang Fan was that the mortal world here was not popular with gold, silver and copper, and it seemed that the mortal world was more like a slave slave belonging to different forces. And the fragments of the lower grade spirit stone were also very common among some Jianghu warlocks, which was simply unimaginable in the western part of the Boundless Continent.
In a place where low-level monks are relatively concentrated, Zhang Fan quickly found a place for the monks in the foundation building stage to compete and carefully observed, not that he was too idle, but that Zhang Fan found that there was no decent casino in this group of monks of the Ten Thousand Law Sect, after all, it felt that the level was too low and too ground. Therefore, "gambling fights" have become casinos in disguise.
What can a high-level monk do when he comes to the place where the low-level "children" are, and what can he do quietly to raise funds? Based on Zhang Fan's experience in the past mixed with the mundane world, it is of course a place like a casino. In this great world of the Ten Thousand Dharma Sects, mortals have no money on them, and it seems that they can make a good life by begging. But the monks don't have enough spirit stones, so it's troublesome to read some things like "Collection of Combat Experience", "Story Meeting", and "Tips for Fighting with Many Genres" compiled by cultivators in low-grade bookstores.
The monks mixed up with the casino too cheap, so they pressed who would win and who would lose near the ring of the competition. Even when two factions and two waves of people compete, they deliberately bought their own side to win, so that gambling money in disguise existed.
In order to have enough gains, Zhang Fan looked for a ring area with a good grade. The average ring in this ring area is about ten miles in size, which is not very big for a monk who builds the base level, but it is enough to show his strength. In order to cope with the occurrence of relatively intensive martial arts competitions in some special time periods, there are nearly 200 "rings" within the realm of foundation building in the ring area within a radius of about 1,000 miles, and there are thousands of rings for monks in the early stage of foundation building that are only two or three miles round.
Among them, the largest main ring is specially for the monks at the peak level of foundation building, and it is thicker, with a radius of about thirty miles. There seem to be some unique defensive formations near the ring, which seem to be arranged by the formation mages of the Jindan realm, mainly to prevent some long-range attack methods from accidentally injuring others.
When Zhang Fan came, it was not a "martial arts conference" or a time period when there were big factions organizing martial arts showdowns, even in more lively hours, such as near noon, there were generally only people competing in the ring that were not half of the ring.
Zhang Fan also learned something: because even under the very strict rules and the supervision of the referee of the Jindan realm, it is impossible to avoid the occurrence of such things as "match-fixing" and "internal manipulation of the results of the game". After all: if the rule is that only one person can get out alive or only one party can get out alive, the space for "match-fixing" is largely limited.
Of course, if it weren't for the factional battle to have a showdown in the ring, but there were very few "death contract duels" in normal times, even if it was just a cultivator who had cultivated to the foundation building realm and then advanced five inches, at least he could be powerful in front of people in the lower mortal realm or qi refining cultivators for hundreds of years, and if he was a "casual cultivator", few people would joke about the death rate of 50%. Therefore, Zhang Fan also understood: If you want to "duel with death" and make money through this method to --- spirit stones, there is only a way to "kick the hall".
For example, the "Northwest 125th Cultivator Realm Foundation Building Master List" where Zhang Fan is located lists more than 528,000 masters in the entire Northwest 125th Cultivator Realm who have reached the peak level of foundation building, and are also on the list in the ring in this region. These people are people who have compared results through more recognized competition procedures or officially announced admitted. Outside of this ranking, it is said that at least twice as many of the off-list foundation building pinnacle masters did not make the list. The reason, of course, is that these people are relatively low-key, and do not participate in the gambling battles that can be officially and publicly proven by this ranking system.
It is said that the scale of the cultivators in the 125th Cultivator Realm in the Northwest is not outstanding among the more than 2,000 cultivator realms in the entire Wanfa Sect Great World, but their strength is obviously above the middle level because of their aggressiveness and strong folk customs, close to the level of the upper district. There are a total of 17 masters of the "Foundation Building Ten Thousand Strong List", basically monopolizing the top 20. Among the top 20, there are only three people who are not masters of the Wanfa Great World Foundation Building Ten Thousand Strength List. The reason: According to Zhang Fan's speculation, it is probably because of some special reason that he did not often participate in the relevant "finals", or it was too late in time.
Although Zhang Fan doesn't know a lot, he also understands that these masters of the "Foundation Building Ten Thousand List" must have too deep a big school background, and even hope to compete for the top 100 of the top 100 on the top 10,000 list, Zhang Fan does not intend to provoke.
When he came to the official red registration platform in the central ring of the 125th District of the Northwest, one of the top masters in charge of the foundation building used specific means to see the depth of Zhang Fan's cultivation at the peak of the foundation building realm, so he asked: "Your Excellency is here to sign up for the death contract gambling fight?" Are you planning to make an appointment to challenge the ranking of someone or several people, or to make an appointment for the gang to make an appointment for the gang showdown?"
"I'm here to challenge some people's rankings, I heard that you can directly challenge a group of people here, generally according to the proposed ranking range from the bottom to the top in turn, abstaining automatically down, until I may encounter a bad situation?" Zhang Fan said disapprovingly.
The monk in charge of signing up in the ring bureau looked at Zhang Fan's appearance and age and even the general tone of his speech, and couldn't help sneering in his heart: It's not for the head of the gang, he recklessly put forward the death contract challenge at such a young age, and he is probably a person who doesn't know the sky and the earth and the earth who came to send death and wealth, right?
"Oh, then do you know that there is no sect and no sect to challenge the death contract gambling of the masters at the peak of the foundation building, but if you want to appear at least, you only need fifty medium-grade spirit stones, and you also have to pay the registration fee of ten medium-grade spirit stones. If you want to challenge the top 10,000 masters and don't have a gang introduction letter, you need twenty high-grade spirit stones... The person in charge of signing up said in a very flat tone.
The only thing that makes Zhang Fan more relieved is that the person in charge of the ring registration seems to be quite honest and does not make false claims to embarrass himself. It seems that the management of this ring bureau is relatively fair and strict, and it is no wonder that the overall strength of the 125th District in the northwest is not bad.
The number of spirit stones is just an entry fee, which sounds amazing, but for Zhang Fan, who has been in this great world of the Ten Thousand Laws Sect for some days and is familiar with the prices and markets here, this does not seem to be too unusual. Zhang Fan's family doesn't have much left, but as a god-transforming powerhouse disguised in a remote place, the cost is still paid.
"Hehe, I don't want to grudge with some big factions, the masters of the top ten thousand list are not something I can afford to provoke. Starting from the 1,000th place in the 125th district of the northwest, up to the range of 800 people in the range of 200, let's take turns to move, and see where my luck can go, starting with 1,000... Zhang Fan said casually.
When an official from the registration office who was resting and reading an idle book not far away heard this, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart: I met another arrogant person who didn't know the height of the sky, alas... However, these arrogant people are also quite self-aware, knowing that the top 150 powerhouses are all ordinary cultivators who can't be provoked.
"Well, in that case, let's wait patiently for ten days. If there is news within ten days, there will be special fluctuations in the spiritual power of the token on it. . . The official at the registration office said programmatically.
Zhang Fan didn't care about this either, after all, District One Hundred and Twenty-Five is also a very large area, and it is normal for these lower-level cultivators to spend such time to notify such a high-level foundation building peak master to come to gamble. And according to the general situation, it is also very likely that many people will avoid the game because of their previous record. Challenge hundreds of people, and it's good to have 100 people who can get into the ring.
(End of chapter)