Chapter 351: Success comes at a price
How did she know?
If there was a contestant standing in front of him, then Duran would have been able to tell him the truth very happily:
When Du Lan really received the news from Xu Eunchi, and she didn't receive a prompt to make a choice as Wei Title said, she lifted all her mind!
Duran really didn't know what someone else would think of it, anyway, she couldn't just think of it as her luck or that there was a problem with the world of the setting.
She is accustomed to finding out why, even if it turns out that it is really just a matter of luck - for Du Lanzhen, her success must be clear and undoubted, not vague and unsure that she can succeed again.
Therefore, she thought about it repeatedly on her own.
First of all, all of her monks who had contact with the Western Sect had confirmed that none of them had received news from the Western Sect monks, and the most recent contact had been three days ago.
Then, she told all the contestants about it, and guided the contestants to the vicinity of Xizong in waves, confirming that there was indeed an enchantment, and the news was likely to be true.
After that, she repeatedly confirmed that she had a choice and prompt for messages with all the monks outside the enchantment, and that she had no choice but to contact and receive messages from all the monks in the enchantment. And this situation only applies to herself.
With these prerequisites, Duran is almost certain that this is her problem. It is mostly true that the celestials will block the Western Sect and the Southern Sect and prepare for the divine descending; it is mostly true that the Western Sect and the Southern Sect are blocked by the enchantment, unable to send messages, and unable to contact people from the outside world; the use of the Mutual Acquaintance Charm is prompted and selective, which is basically certain.
Well, there are certain conditions for this matter.
The reason for the whole thing needs to be traced back to three elements: related to Duran Zhen himself, related to the enchantment and divine descent of the Celestial Society, and related to the Acquaintance Talisman.
With the combination of these three elements, Duran really made a bold conjecture.
Everything can be traced back to the source, and so can this matter. For this scene world, tracing the source upwards is nothing more than those sources: the Celestial Society, the True Wisdom Society, the Fraternity Society, and the Xuanmen (including the Guardian Alliance, Scattered Cultivators, and Night Walkers).
What impact will it have on her getting the news of Xizong?
The Guardian Alliance will take action, and the Celestial Society's divine descent may be affected, anyway, it is not a good thing for the Celestial Society and the Suspense Zhao Hades Heavenly Monarch. This is definitely something to avoid for the Suspense Celestial Monarch and the Celestial Society, who are carefully preparing for the descent ceremony, and the setting of the enchantment also fully illustrates this point.
Therefore, the Celestial Society can be excluded from the traceability list.
In the Xuanmen, the Weidao Alliance is her territory, and there can be no demon situation, which can be ruled out. Both the Southern Sect and the Western Sect are trapped in the enchantment, and they can't protect themselves and need her help, which can also be eliminated. That is only possible for the Night Walker, but Du Lan Zhengang established contact with the Night Walkers through Gu Niyun and determined that all of their energy was on the Fish Palace, so it could also be ruled out.
Therefore, tracing back to the source, it can only happen to the two competitors of the Celestial Society, the True Knowledge Society and the Fraternity Society.
Elimination is enough to get to this point, and the next step: match the previous three elements.
Given that this incident happened to Du Lanzhen himself, therefore, the first day element "related to Duran Zhen himself" was satisfied by both forces.
The fraternity society can meet the first element "related to Duran Zhen himself" and the second element "related to the divine descent of the celestial and human associations", but it definitely does not meet the third element "related to the acquaintance". On the other hand, if each of these three elements can be matched, then it is already clear who this matter should be traced back to.
The True Knowing Society didn't want the Suspense Zhao Immortal Heavenly Monarch to take the lead and enter the Wu Realm first, so he revealed the news to Du Lanzhen through the Acquaintance Talisman.
So, there's another question: why Duran Zhen? Why not someone else? What's so special about her?
This question is actually easy to answer: she is the chief elder of the Guardian Dao Alliance, and apart from her, no one can mobilize the power of the Xuanmen so quickly and effectively.
However, Duran really thought about it repeatedly, and always felt that there was a reason other than this.
She's always been daring to think.
Now that it is completely certain that the outer gods will personally blow up the fish pond, then these three outer gods can no longer be regarded as simple as a background board and a scene world setting. They are just like Yu Yao, Cheng Hao, and all the natives that the contestants have seen, and they will interact with the contestants!
Du Lanzhen had already guessed before that the high frequency and large use of the props of the outer gods, even if they were to collect points, would attract the attention of the outer gods - this guess itself was already a sign that her thinking had jumped out of a new pattern.
However, after this incident, after a lot of analysis and traceability, Duran couldn't help but put forward a new conjecture again, and further expanded on her original new angle and new pattern.
Since the use of props will attract the attention of the outer gods, and since the use of the props of the outer gods will cost points, why should she be a little more daring?
Is the point itself a trap?
The more points a contestant gets, the more attention it will attract from the outer gods, and the contestant with the most points is like a pearl in a rice jar, which is extremely conspicuous to the outer gods!
This is the most invisible, and possibly the deadliest, price of success for the best contestants in this scene world!
Only in this way can we explain why the use of Outer Gods' items costs points. Because points are originally a kind of energy, or at least hard currency, for the outer gods!
After Duran Zhen became the chief elder of the Guardian Alliance, he was determined to gather wool everywhere. She practiced her conjecture in Wei Xuecheng, and found that if she maintained a certain level of participation, she would really have a white prostitute, although it was basically 1 point and 2 points, but no matter how small the mosquito was, it was meat, and of course she would not refuse to come.
As of today, even after deducting the points for using the acquaintance charm, she already has 154 points. The abnormality of the Acquaintance Charm is likely to be the favor of the True Knowing Divine Lord!
Of course, this speculation is only "very likely", but it is not certain, and Duran really put it alone.
After knowing who is the contributor, Duran really has to consider the price of his own gains. Of course, she would not be so naïve as to think that the True Knowledge Divine Lord was just to prevent the Celestial Divine Lord from descending, and let her take advantage of it for nothing.
Where there is gain, there is a price!
From the equivalent exchange of the ceremonies of the outer gods, the exchange of points for each action, to the exchange of points and the attention of the outer gods, there is no one who is not interpreting this truth.
So, what is the cost in this matter?
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