Chapter 69: The Eight Directions
Xue Chuan squinted his eyes at the old man in front of him, who was a head shorter than himself, and said suspiciously:
"Are you really sure I don't need to train anymore?"
Xia Shou took a puff of dry tobacco comfortably, shook his old recliner, and said impatiently:
"Your Blue Sky Immortal Body has reached a bottleneck, and the strange thing in your body can't continue to grow because of the realm restrictions, so it's useless for you to continue to stay here. ”
Xue Chuan glanced at the attic where Liu Shengyi was a little reluctantly, and muttered:
"Why are you in such a hurry..."
Xia Shou sneered:
"There is still half a year left, and the Fengyun banquet will officially begin, why don't you set off to compete for a place now, are you waiting for someone to give it to you for free then?"
Xue Chuan was stunned:
"What's the quota, isn't it open to everyone?"
Xia Shou was also stunned:
"I thought you knew it, the contestants of the Fengyun Banquet must have a recommended quota, otherwise they can't participate, like those cultivation families basically have one or two, and the ancient families will have more than seven or eight. ”
Xue Chuan was stunned:
"What about me who doesn't have a quota?"
Xia Shou rolled his eyes:
"What can I do?
......
"I still have to grab a place... I feel that the force of this Fengyun banquet has dropped a lot all of a sudden..."Xue Chuan walked on the streets of a medium-sized city in Litao with an unhappy face, muttering to himself.
According to Xia Shou, the imperial court of the Taili Dynasty would issue quota tokens to each cultivation family according to a certain share.
According to the rules of the Fengyun Feast, on the day of the feast, the person holding the token must publicly reveal his identity in any local city, and let all young talents between the ages of fourteen and twenty-four who are in the same realm as him challenge him, and must not refuse to fight.
If the token is still in his possession for three days, then he will be eligible to move on to the next stage.
At that time, there will be overseers secretly appointed by the dynasty in each city to maintain the order of the feast.
Theoretically, each person can only start one challenge a day, and can only accept three challenges, and can voluntarily admit defeat, and have a mandatory rest period of three hours between challenges.
In order to avoid the occurrence of "stalking", the same person can only challenge once, in other words, if you fail to challenge a token holder, you will not be able to do anything to him again during the feast
In other words, when you have a token in hand and you want to shine at the Storm Banquet, you first have to pick a random city, then publicly shout "Master has a token", and then prepare to meet the wrath of the people.
This first phase of the process will last for a total of ten days, and within ten days, if you successfully survive the challenge, the Dynasty Overseer will mark your token, giving you the right to travel to the capital of each of the domains to participate in the second phase.
What's even more interesting is that there is no exact protection requirement between the token holder and the challenger, so most of the time, in order to maintain their physical strength, the token holder can only hand over the token in a humiliated manner when facing some crazy people who exchange injuries for injuries, and then plan to recapture it.
Among the juniors, they can only do it in the city, anytime and anywhere, but they can't play yin, such as poisoning. If you face the poison magic in the war, it doesn't hurt, but if you do it, you will meet the wrath of the Taili Dynasty.
And those who exceed the boundaries of realm and age cannot do anything to any token holder, otherwise they will not know how to die even if they affect the family.
Some people can see that although this token causes trouble, it is the best life-saving thing.
Holding the token, scurrying around in the wilderness, or even running to pee in front of the gate of your enemy's house, the other party will not dare to touch you.
However, the scope of this protection is also limited to the token holder not to do something that violates the royal law, otherwise the government will come to the door, even if there is a token, it will be able to catch it.
Some people will ask, how did the Taili Dynasty know what was happening in this place?
In addition to the overseers in each city, there are also commissioners of the government who are secretly observing in various corners that you don't expect, if there is really a blind spot for observation, there are also tokens to record everything, and if they are found out in the future, they will also die and cannot die again.
The most important point is that no one dares to challenge the prestige accumulated by the Taili Dynasty for tens of thousands of years.
"There is still half a year before this feast officially begins, but the token has been issued a year in advance, and before that, you can forcibly take the token from others..."
Xue Chuan secretly planned some more insidious plans in his heart, and thought about which unlucky ghost would be better.
Even if the Feast of Storms does not start, during this last year, tokens can still be snatched and there is no limit to the number of challenges, and people of high realms are also unable to do anything to token holders and challengers.
Therefore, as long as you run to the door of the immortal cultivator family in any big city and shout and kick the door wildly, their clansmen holding tokens will have to come out to fight, otherwise they will be regarded as refusing to fight, and the ownership of the token will be directly transferred.
However, if you fail the challenge, you will automatically lose the qualification of the challenger, and at that time, the old-timers of those families can do it to you without any scruples.
Therefore, although the rules are relatively more relaxed during this period of time, few people will choose this way, and even if there is, they will inquire about multiple sources of information and pick the softest persimmon to pinch.
And Xue Chuan is obviously the kind of bastard who will choose to kick other people's doors to call the battle.
"Hmm... Away from the peach place, the place is not familiar, and it is a little inappropriate to smash other people's faces..."Xue Chuan was a little entangled.
To be honest, he is very interested in kicking the door at the door of someone else's house and shouting for a fight, but he is still a little hesitant because of the thickness of his skin.
Xue Chuan's hesitation was not because he was embarrassed after the defeat, but because he hesitated that everyone had no grievances, but he came to the door to find trouble, which was a bit unauthentic.
In Xue Chuan's heart, there was no possibility of his defeat at all.
Just kidding, under the tenfold field, he can withstand the violent attack of the top-level Tianjiao of the six-fold blood quenching, how can these so-called heavenly talents of ordinary cultivation families endure him?
Anyway, there is still half a year in the time, Xue Chuan is not too eager, so he simply travels, stopping and looking at the scenery along the way, and it feels quite comfortable.
"Why don't I go back to Donglai? There are many enemies there, and it is reasonable to do it. ”
Xue Chuan touched his chin and felt that it was better to go back to his hometown to "kill the ripe".
At this moment, Xue Chuan, who was a keen hearing, heard an unusual commotion coming from the street in the distance.
"Oh? seems to be a little fun. Xue Chuan narrowed his eyes, took a step, and walked towards the place unhurriedly.
As a medium-sized city from Tao, this Xiangcheng is also quite prosperous, the management is in good order, the streets are full of people, and the shops on both sides are lined up, but it is also a lively scene.
It's just that there was originally a relatively empty square at the intersection of several streets, but at this time, there was a not small art stall.
Xue Chuan took a cursory look at it, it was the usual routine of the group of people who ran the rivers and lakes, some eye-catching tricks, like breaking bricks with bare hands, swallowing swords in their mouths, etc., which were also scary to watch.
The dozen or so shirtless men, all dressed in horizontal meat, were "hum ho hahe" there, which was very magnificent, which attracted the surrounding onlookers to applaud again and again.
"Good!
"How long have you been practicing your hand strength?"
"With such a flexible body, it seems that I thought he was a reckless man who couldn't turn over with a fight, but I didn't expect it to be so fast!"
"It's so enjoyable!"
Xue Chuan stood in the crowd, and he also looked at these former colleagues with great interest, although he can really swallow the iron sword with his body alone, and he can chew and swallow it if he is interested, but he still looks very engaged.
Gradually, people found that the young man who looked extraordinary in this pile cheered loudly, and it seemed that he was the first time that a boy in the city had seen the countryside.
I have to say that Xue Chuan's playfulness is still very big.
The boss of the gang, a short-haired man, saw that the time was almost right at this time, and he also said loudly:
"Everyone, they are all begging for a living, brothers are not easy, if you have fun watching it, it is better to give some copper coins, it can be regarded as accumulating some merits, and doing a good deed every day!"
The onlookers responded one after another, and a few people who could see the charm also gave dozens of copper coins, while Xue Chuan was very generous and directly threw a few taels of silver.
"Little brother, what a bold person!" The short-haired man was obviously also very happy, so he started talking to Xue Chuan.
Xue Chuan smiled slightly and said softly:
"It's not easy, I can help a little is also helping, but I still give some advice, the guy who will inspect the bricks next time will practice more, from his right side, the action hole of changing the bricks is a bit big. And the next time you apply wax oil to the tip of the gun, mix some honey, the head is more blunt and not easy to slip. ”
The short hair shouted and was stunned, and the feelings are still met with a knowledgeable person?
Then, he quickly reacted, this young man didn't poke them, he was still cheering there, and the broken silver he gave at the end was also a foil for them, and he couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed:
"Little brother, I didn't expect you to know how to do it, but I lost my eyes. ”
Xue Chuan waved his hand and said:
"It's okay, it's okay, those who go to the rivers and lakes are friends, and they should help. ”
Then, the two exchanged for a while, and Xue Chuan said goodbye to the short-haired man and turned to leave.
At this moment, Xue Chuan saw a scene that interested him even more.
I saw that among the crowd of onlookers, there was a woman in a capable white military shirt, with handsome facial features, but with a sharp edge that did not match the tenderness of the woman.
The woman in the white shirt was standing next to a young man in a blue shirt, and she was talking to him tenderly, nothing more than to talk about this interesting charlatan.
Women's love to watch lively sex is innate.
Although the man was submissive and spoke sweetly, his eyes were flickering, and Xue Chuan saw it clearly with a little dodge.
Following the young man's glance from time to time, Xue Chuan saw a woman with the same attractive features, looking around, as if looking for something.
Seeing that the woman's makeup was more flattering, and her posture was also graceful, Xue Chuan understood the mystery and couldn't help but smile:
"It's kind of interesting, it looks like there's going to be a good show later. ”