Chapter 18: The Leaderboard
Jiangzhou, Qingyunzong, Xianggao Peak, inside the bamboo house. A weak figure leaned against the bamboo couch by the window, looking into the distance, holding a portrait in her hand.
The person in the painting is a good day. Since separating from Liangchen, Yue'er has been thinking about it from time to time, and with her memory, she made this portrait. Spring hatred and autumn sorrow are all self-provoking, who is the flower and the moon, seeing her daughter looking at the direction of Apocalypse Mountain in a daze these days, people are getting thinner and thinner, and her parents are also distressed. Yue'er's parents are a pair of Taoist couples, her mother is a Kun Dao, the Dao name Qingfengzi, and also a cultivator with profound cultivation, Yue'er's father is the contemporary head of the Qingyun Sect, the Dao name Yufengzi.
Qingfengzi Zhenren understood her daughter's thoughts, and learned some good things from Yue'er's father, and she was also curious about this young man she had never met. Qingfengzi Zhenren came to sit down beside her daughter and quietly accompanied her daughter. When Yue'er saw her mother, she snuggled into her arms and said to herself, "A-Niang, he will come, right?"
"Silly girl, the cold poison on your body hasn't been removed yet, so you can't cultivate well, and you think crankily all day long!" Qingfeng Zi Zhenren took her daughter in her arms and said worriedly. Yue'er was a little withdrawn, and she didn't care about her mother's dissatisfaction, but just lay quietly in her arms and fell asleep unconsciously. Qingfengzi Zhenren looked at the daughter in his arms with love, thoughtful in his heart, and sighed to himself: "The woman is not left!"
As the saying goes, it is the most difficult to accept the grace of a beauty, this beauty, originally there was only one Yue'er, but now it has become two, and at this time, Liangchen is even more eager for the Qingtian list. Since getting that much gold, Liangchen's living standard has been greatly improved, and he no longer has to look for people and eat according to people's faces as before. Everywhere I went, I went to the best local restaurants to eat and drink, and I never treated myself badly. Ruzhou is only a thousand miles away from Jiangzhou, and Liangchen has enough spiritual power, and he arrived in Jiangzhou City three days later.
At this time, Jiangzhou City was already crowded with people, and the Qingtian List, as the top priority in the world's cultivation world, brought together almost all the young cultivators in the world. The reason why it is said to be a young cultivator is because there is a clear rule in the Qingtian List, those who are over thirty years old are not allowed to participate, and there will be special people to measure the age of the participants, and there is basically no possibility of cheating, and the four lists of the Green Dragon and White Tiger Vermilion Bird Xuanwu can only occupy one seat on each of the four lists in their lifetime. The reason why this is the case is because the original intention of holding the Supernatural List is to distribute a part of the excellent cultivation resources to the best cultivators in the world, and in this way, to drive the upsurge of cultivation in the world. The younger the cultivator, the more he can make the most of these resources, and after the age of thirty, the benefits he can get from these resources are already minimal, hence this rule.
Before the age of thirty, some outstanding cultivators can even break through the Spirit Realm and reach the Cave Realm, and cultivators who have reached this level generally do not have the possibility of being too young, so there is no lower age limit for the participants in the Optimus List. Moreover, although there is a clear rule in the Optimus List, if you kill an opponent, you will be removed from the list, but in the fight, the sword has no eyes, and many people will die here every year, so participating in the Optimus List itself is an extremely dangerous thing, and the cultivators with low strength can only watch and shout.
The rewards of the Superstar Ranking are divided into four levels, each level has three places, and a total of twelve people. There is no boundary between levels, only by strength, the only difference is that different levels correspond to different rewards, naturally, the higher the level, the more generous the rewards. All the large and small forces that can be ranked to participate in the Superstar Leaderboard must provide the same amount of resources to the organizer according to the number of their own participation places in order to obtain the invitation card of the Superstar Leaderboard. These resources will be used as rewards for those who make the final list, which is also the rule of the Optimus List. In addition, the organizer will also have its own right to release a certain number of invitation cards, as long as you can get the invitation card, no matter what your status, you can participate in the list. Wolves have a lot of meat and a limited number of invitation cards, so you can imagine how precious they are and how difficult they are to obtain.
In addition to the invitation card, if you want to participate in the Optimus List, there is only one way left, and that is to defeat eighteen masters of the same realm in a row. Since the advent of the Superstar List, this kind of people have never added up to more than one hand.
Of course, the biggest reward of the Optimus List is the cultivation resources left behind by the original group of human powerhouses. In the Qingyun Sect is the Dragon Soul Tower, which is also the biggest reward of the White Tiger List.
Qingyun Sect is an ancient sect that covers an area of 500 li in the Qingtian Mountain Range, bordering Weishui in the south and Jiangzhou City in the east. It belongs to 36 peaks and 50 caves. The founding patriarch Qingyun Zhenren, carrying a three-foot Qingfeng, defeated all the masters of the world, opened a sect between the mountains and mountains, and the inheritance has been going on for thousands of years, and there are countless disciples of the sect, and the disciples of the 36 peaks are even more talented. The large and small forces on the land of China should give them some face. Qingyun Zhenren is also one of the founders of the Qingtian List, when he personally killed a dragon that harmed the common people, laid out a formation, suppressed its soul, and built a dragon soul tower, the soul of the evil dragon was gradually refined into pure energy by the formation, so the dragon soul tower also became a holy place for practice. In addition to the main door for personal use, as a reward, it will also be opened to the top of the list once.
The previous editions of the Superstar were held in a similar way, divided into three phases.
The first is the audition stage. The land of China is so huge, there are a large number of cultivators, and there are as many as a thousand participants in the previous editions of the Heavenly List, and if so many people want to compete one by one, it will not be possible to do it without a few months. Therefore, the audition must be conducted first, and all the contestants can freely form a team, that is, Yue'er's mouth to fight in a group, with a maximum of five people in a group and take turns competing with each other. The 1,000 people are divided into three games, with several hundred people in each game, and each takes the top four, and finally decides 12 teams to enter the next round.
The second stage is the ring match. Only the winners of the audition will be eligible to enter the second stage. There are three seats in the ring, and you can freely occupy them to become the champion, but you have to hold on until no one challenges you, and each person has to accept at least ten challenges a day, and the three winning champions are the three of them. After the Tianzi-level three people are selected, all the remaining players who have entered the second stage will decide the three people of the earth-level in this way again, and so on, and finally select twelve people. At this stage, it is theoretically possible to form a team, but the premise of forming a team is to become the champion, and at the same time need to accept the challenge of the same number of challengers, and the challengers can also form teams freely. Therefore, in the second stage of the competition, almost no one will team up again, all of them will fight separately, not to mention that no one can guarantee that their team is invincible in the world, but in the end they really won, and the team will continue to compete, and there are so many places on the Optimus List, there can be fewer people, not many people.
The third stage is the most special. Because the overall strength of each generation of cultivators is uneven, in order to prevent the situation that the strength of all participating cultivators is low, the founders of the Superstar List also thought of this layer, and jointly set up a formation to test the strength of cultivators, the Voyeur Array. This formation can not only test the cultivator's own strength, but also spy on his cultivation talent and potential, which is very miraculous. If some of the remaining twelve people can't withstand the test of the formation, they will also fall off the list, and the Qingtian list has always been the survival of the fittest, only the elite, and would rather be lacking than excessive.
In Jiangzhou City, Liangchen saw so many young cultivators for the first time, and his heart was extremely excited. From ancient times to the present, the land of China has never lacked enthusiasm for cultivation. The ultimate goal of cultivation is to break through the shackles of the laws of heaven and earth, to fight against the heavens, and to go against the heavens, which requires great courage and determination. This fine concept of man's determination to conquer the sky has long been rooted in the hearts of every descendant of Yan and Huang, and it has never been broken.
At that time, wars were still frequent, and the people had long been living in poverty. Jiangzhou City is very different, located in the hinterland of the Central Plains, the land is fertile, the water and land transportation is extremely developed, and this is the base camp of the Qingyun Sect, the city is very safe, a faction is prosperous, and other places are starving and desolate, forming a sharp contrast. In addition to the town guards appointed by the imperial court, there is also Qingyunzong's own patrol team. Although the number of these patrol teams is small, all of them are masters, and this is the famous Qingyun Sect Law Enforcement Team, which is under the jurisdiction of the Qingyun Sect Reward and Punishment Academy.
As usual, Liangchen found the largest restaurant in the city, Taibai Building, found a table by the window on the second floor, ordered a large table of sumptuous wine and food, and ate and drank happily. At this time, a chubby little fat man carrying a small wooden box on his back, came upstairs, looked left and right, and saw that Liangchen was alone, so he mysteriously came to Liangchen's table, sat opposite Liangchen, and stared at the table of rich wine and food with undisguised eyes, and kept swallowing saliva.
Liangchen was in a good mood at this time, and he had almost eaten, and there was still a lot of wine and food left on a large table, so he greeted the little fat man with a smile: "Brother Tai, you're welcome, you can eat if you want." The little fat man was very happy to hear it and thanked Liangchen: "Then I'm not welcome the fat man." After saying that, he took a pair of chopsticks and devoured them, eating very unsightly, but Liangchen didn't care, he preferred to get along with this kind of unpretentious person compared to a hypocrite. After a gust of wind swept the clouds, the little fat man swept all the wine and food on the table, burped with satisfaction, and looked at Liangchen happily.
"Fat man, my name is Dabao, and I don't eat and drink for nothing, I guess you are also here to participate in the Supernatural List. Loose cultivation like you, shouldn't you be able to get an invitation card?" The little fat man's voice was very low, with a lewd smile on his face, because of the preciousness of the invitation card, so many people will take it, and it is normal for the little fat man to be cautious, the little fat man saw that Liangchen was noncommittal to his words, but he was guessed by himself, and continued with a proud face: "It's okay, the fat man has a surplus here, sell it to you." The fat man sees that you are not bad, give you a family price, what do you think?" After speaking, the little fat man raised a finger and gestured at Liangchen, which was the meaning of a gold bar. At that time, a gold bar was about ten taels, but this was really not high for the price of the invitation card itself.
Liangchen also had some curiosity about the little fat man, the invitation card of the Qingtian list is extremely precious, how can it be redundant, when he asked: "My name is Liangchen, can you let me see your invitation card first?" The little fat man thought for a while, then pushed the little wooden box in front of Liangchen, and explained seriously: "There are many people, be careful, if something happens, the fat man can't protect you." Liangchen smiled and opened the wooden box a crack, glanced at it, and closed it again. Immediately threw a gold bar to the little fat man, accepted the box, the little fat man happily took the gold bar, took it in his mouth and bit it, and after confirming it, he hid it with satisfaction.
"Where did you get this?" asked Liangchen curiously.
"This is the fat man, my ••••••" The little fat man was just about to talk to Liangchen, only to hear a chaotic noise downstairs, as if someone was shouting to arrest someone, the little fat man immediately said hello to Liangchen: "Brother Liangchen, I'll talk about it another day, I'm still in a hurry, one step ahead", after speaking, he jumped out of the window very skillfully and disappeared in the crowd. Liangchen also looked confused, shook his head with a smile, and got up to leave.