Chapter 280: The First Round, Knockout

As night fell, the noisy Hualiu District showed no signs of falling asleep. The streets and alleys are brightly lit, and the noisy and noisy flow of people can still be heard even in the thirteen-story high-rise buildings.

The members of the Dongchen Empire had already rested separately, and the exquisite decoration on the thirteenth floor of the Tianxiang Pavilion amazed them for a long time when they first arrived here.

When I arrived today, Fei Ling was the only one in the room. After Yu Yue shouted, several people quickly got along as before, and did not deliberately ask Fei Ling how he got here, his elusiveness was already something that everyone was accustomed to.

Elder Lin kept his face blushing, ignoring the beauties around him, and as soon as he arrived in the building, he drove all the outsiders out, roughly explained the matter of tomorrow's knockout, and urged everyone to meditate and cultivate. I went out alone, not knowing what to do.

"People from the Pure Feather Palace?" In the night on the outskirts of the Imperial City, the dim starlight reflected Xia Ling's frightened eyes, and it was the first time that the little girl was so flustered.

"That's about it, I only found out about this today, so decide for yourself what you want. ”

"Fei Ling, what are those encounters of yours?" Xia Ling closed her eyes slightly, her body trembled slightly, she gasped for a moment and then asked softly.

"With an oath, there is nothing to say about it. Fei Ling said lightly, "In short, although you and I have an alliance oath, I won't do this kind of thing to directly confront the people of the God Realm now! ”

After speaking, Fei Ling turned his head and left, leaving Xia Ling alone in a daze in the barren forest.

"Even if I give up. Will my husband give up...... If he is discovered and captured by the Jingyu Palace, what is the point of me living alone......" After a while, a desolate smile appeared on the little girl's face.

......

"Old Ancestor, the juniors have come to greet you!" A fourteen or fifteen-year-old boy with short hair and sword eyebrows knelt respectfully in the pavilion hall, this son was none other than any star who had fought against Xia Ling, the captain of the first team of the Great Qi Empire.

At this time, he no longer has the arrogance of the daytime, and his delicate and handsome face is more than three points of respect and seven points of nervousness.

"Is Ben Sheng that old?" a lazy and charming female voice sounded in the attic, and the voice sounded weak, but when it reached the ears of any star, it still made him tremble with nervousness. "You're any star. The descendants of this saint have been separated by generations?"

"Yes. It's the younger generation......" Yi Xing panicked all of a sudden, and didn't know how to call the Fire Phoenix Fairy.

"Hehe, look at you nervous like that, does Ben Sheng look so vicious?"

"Ahh No, no!"

"Alright. Get up. The Fire Phoenix Fairy's tone was quite teasing, "I heard that you participated in this competition, and those little guys in the Imperial City have also come to me many times to mention it. Come here and let Ben Sheng see how good you are!"

"Yes!" he breathed a sigh of relief as if he had been granted amnesty, and he got up and walked towards the temple.

Half an hour later, any star walked out of the Imperial Pavilion sweating profusely, the clothes on his whole body seemed to have just been untied, slightly wrinkled, and his slightly immature face also had a few more shy flushes.

"Is the old ancestor doing this to improve my realm......" After leaving the Imperial Pavilion, Yi Xing was both nervous and excited, "But I am her descendant, is this appropriate...... Forget it, why do you want to do so much, the arrangement of the Lord of the Holy Domain, just obey it! The old ancestor also asked me to come over every night in the future, I am so lucky to be so favored by her!"

Thinking of this, the flush on Ren Xing's face increased a little more, "But the old ancestor actually admires the representative team of the Dongchen Empire so much! Just let me meet them to protect myself? This evaluation is too high, the Dongchen Empire is just a fifth-rate force! I still have to watch the knockout match tomorrow......"

Continental Match, Day 1.

The early sun has not yet warmed the whole earth, and the early morning mist is stirred by the breeze, and the clothes of the early risers are soaked with a hint of coolness.

On the outskirts of the Great Qi Empire, an originally deserted martial arts arena was already crowded at this moment, and the surging flow of people was crowded but orderly into the arena.

The martial arts arena was specially prepared by the Great Qi Empire for the confrontation match, and there were tens of thousands of spectator seats, and such venues would not be used in normal times. Although it was only a competition between the fifth-rate forces today, it still attracted countless people to watch the battle.

Although the cost of holding a confrontation tournament is huge, whether it is the venue, personnel or the prizes prepared, it is not something that the small empire can afford.

But the benefits of the tournament were just as significant, with expensive in-person tickets only a handful of wealthy people could afford. However, the empire used special magic tools to project the game scene into special venues in many cities. This is not done to charge extra tickets, but for another, more substantial benefit: the Grand Tournament bet.

The empire that hosts the tournament does not allow any private bets, but the empire itself has prepared casinos for gamblers, so that excited subjects can bet on their favorite teams, and the empire can also make a lot of money.

Around the tournament field, all the streets were blocked by soldiers in armor, and in addition to the nobles who had tickets could enter, more civilians gathered in the various projection fields.

For the convenience of betting, all of today's knockout teams, as well as their empire's positions in the previous tournament, are announced in advance in the projection, and bets can only be placed before the start of the tournament.

"Why are the odds so high today?" The flow of people in the projection field is no less than that of the competition scene, and in the largest projection field in the imperial city, people are placing the last bets before the game starts.

"Yes, all empires are basically fifty to one, and the top three imperial teams in the fifth tier last time are also as high as one to thirty!"

"Hehe, you don't understand, right? These fifth-rate empires, it is difficult to say whether they will win or lose, and the strength of each session is completely random, so the bettors are also scattered. What's more, this time the number of participants has doubled again, and I don't know how many players have come to fill the number, so the empire dares to give such high odds!"

"That's right, anyway, everyone bets randomly, no matter how high the odds are, the money is also the empire!"

"The quota has doubled? I mean, a small empire can have two teams with their names on the list, so how can you bet!"

"You don't even know this, it's just the first game of the knockout round, just try your luck......"

The Great Qi Empire itself is a rich and powerful country, and at such a grand event, the ordinary people of this empire are more or less willing to take out some gambling money to participate, and the number of gatherings together is quite considerable. What's more, there are many people from other empires, and they will also come all the way to join in the fun, no matter how high the odds given by such a casino are, there is basically no profit or loss.

"Is there only two teams in the Dongchen Empire?" a thin figure wrapped in a white robe, a pair of bright eyes under the hood stared at the huge projection in front of him with a little confusion. This person is any star, and his identity could have gone directly to the scene to watch the game for free, but for some reason he came to the projection casino.

"The empire that my ancestors are so optimistic about, I'll make a lot of money today!" (To be continued......)