Chapter 65: New Year's Day (3)
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The audience gradually dispersed, and Master Yuheng instructed the staff to quickly rearrange the competition venue, and it seemed that there would be some changes in the way the afternoon game was compared with the morning.
Ah Li waited for the congratulatory crowd around Tu Shanchong to disperse before walking over to congratulate his cousin.
Tu Shanchong looked at Ah Li's increasingly thin and dusty face, and asked with some worry: "Ah Li, are you okay? Why did you lose weight? Is the pressure of the competition too much?"
Ah Li smiled and said, "Cousin, don't worry, I'm fine." I don't have any pressure to play, I just do what I can and it doesn't matter to me if I win or lose. ”
Tu Shanchong wanted to ask something, but Ah Li said: "Cousin, I'll go take a rest, I have to prepare for the game in the afternoon, let's talk when I have time." ”
Tu Shanchong looked at Ah Li's cold back, and couldn't help but think of the genius aunt who was lively and bold and loved life, and the difference in temperament between their mother and daughter was really big.
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After the enthusiastic audience waited for an hour, the much-anticipated Jindan period competition in Xuanyuan Tomb was finally about to begin!
What makes the audience most curious is how the 1,120 participants in the preliminary round can determine the winner of the semi-final in a relatively short period of time?
If the preliminary competition rules of the Morning Yuan Infant Contest are selected, then an unseeded player in the Jindan period will have to go through seven to eight preliminary rounds to reach the semi-finals, and if the unseeded player successfully reaches the finals in the semi-finals, then he will have to participate in fifteen matches alone.
With such a large competition intensity, with the demonic power and physical strength of unseeded players, it is simply impossible to support so many games, then the fairness of this conference will be questioned.
How to set up the preliminary round items is to test the ability of the referee team, and it is also the most concerned issue for the audience and the contestants, if this kind of competition within the sect cannot be fair, it will greatly hit the morale of the ordinary monks of Xuanyuan Tomb.
The rules of the Jindan stage competition were still announced by Master Yu Heng, and he first announced the list of forty-eight Jindan stage peak realm seed players, including famous players such as Ji Yun'er and Yuguan, as well as some recognized geniuses in various veins, and there were basically no objections to the list.
Ah Li's name did not appear among the seeded players, which also broke the conspiracy theory of some people, and someone had released a word before the game that the best way for the Nine-Tailed Fox Clan to escort Ah Li into the semi-finals was to make her a seeded player directly.
The remaining 1,120 people will participate in the preliminary round of the Jindan period, they are divided into 80 groups, each group of 14 people for the preliminary competition, only one person in each group can win, the winning 80 people and 48 seeded players, a total of 128 people enter the knockout round of the Jindan period.
As for how the items in the preliminary round were set up, it had always been listed as the highest level secret of the sect before the game, and except for the seven Cave Void Stage Ancestors and the referee Master Yuheng, no one had any relevant information about the preliminary round items in advance.
Therefore, the audience was very curious to see what kind of method the sect could use to quickly select the semi-finalists from more than 1,000 preliminary contestants in a fair and just manner.
Master Yuheng re-ascended the main altar, he looked around the audience with a warm smile, and waited for the audience to calm down before he spoke, "Good afternoon, everyone. The Jindan Contest that you are looking forward to is about to begin, I will first reveal to you the selection method of the Jindan Preliminary Competition, hoping to bring you surprises, first of all, I will introduce the venue of the preliminary round. ”
With a slight wave of his hand, Master Yuheng raised eight cyan light curtains from the main altar, and the thirty-two protective arrays used for the morning competition disappeared and became eight larger narrow protective arrays, each forty zhang long, twenty zhang wide, and twenty zhang high.
As soon as these eight protective arrays appeared, there was a buzzing sound from the audience, which was the sound of the audience guessing the competition items.
Master Yuheng raised his hand to signal everyone to be quiet, and continued: "Don't discuss it, listen to me announce the rules of the preliminary stage of the Jindan Competition:
The competition is divided into two parts, the first part is called the standing competition, and the second part is called catching the light ball.
After the first light, all the players have 20 breaths to compete for your position in the protective line, and here is a reminder that the closer the position is to the middle area, the better it will be in the second stage of the game;
When the lights are turned on for the second time, all players must stop immediately, stand in place, and wait for the second part of the game to begin.
When the lights are turned on for the third time, the formation will randomly drop 100 light balls above the protective array, and the light balls will appear at the beginning of the second stage of the competition, and all players need to capture as many light balls as possible.
As a reminder, we draw a simple formation in the palm of each player's left hand, and when the player fully grasps and crushes the ball, the formation absorbs the energy in the ball and a five-pointed star appears on the back of the player's hand to the elbow.
The game ends when all 100 orbs of light have been captured in each group or for more than a quarter of an hour, and the player with the most orbs in each group wins. ”
Master Yuheng described the rules of the competition in the most concise language, but there are still many people who do not understand the rules of this competition.
Suddenly, someone in the audience asked, "Master Yuheng, can you snatch the light ball in front of others in that game?"
Master Yuheng smiled and said, "As long as the ball of light has not been absorbed, you can use any method to snatch it. Because the rules are more complicated, I specially invited 14 colleagues from our referee team to suppress their cultivation to the high-level level of the Jindan period, to demonstrate how to play for everyone, everyone look carefully, it is very practical and interesting!"
With a wave of his hand, the fourteen referees entered one of the protective arrays, and at first they scattered in various places in the protective array, keeping a certain distance from each other.
The pale cyan protective array suddenly lit up, and the fourteen referees suddenly moved, they all wanted to occupy the middle position of the protective array, and everyone's movements were very fast, only to see that magic weapons, blades, fists and feet, splitting palms and other means were used.
It's not easy to occupy the middle position in this narrow space, even if you are stronger than your opponents in the same group, but once you occupy the middle area, you will fall under siege by everyone else and have to give up the middle position.
Twenty breaths were fleeting, and no one could stay in the middle of the playing field.
At this time, the protective array lit up for the second time, and all the people who were still grabbing positions immediately stopped their movements, and everyone basically scattered on both sides of the central area according to the strength of their strength, and everyone maintained a certain safe distance from each other, and each occupied a position that they thought was advantageous.
Everyone stayed where they were, looking up at the sky.
The protective array lit up for the third time, and then one zhang away from the top of the protective array, a hundred colorful balls of light suddenly appeared, only distributed within twenty zhang of the center of the protective array, and there was not a single ball of light in the sky at each end of the protective array.
Fourteen referees flew into the air almost at the same time, quickly grabbing the nearest ball of light, and at the same time using magic weapons, weapons, splitting palms, etc., to interfere with others to catch the ball of light.
Some referees who were squeezed to the periphery in the first stage, when they saw that they were far away from the ball of light, simply gave up catching, but used all their strength to hit the ball of light in the middle area with air blocking force or magic weapon, which was completely a posture of "I can't grab it, you don't want to grab it".
Those balls of light only stayed in the air for a breath, and then they were scattered by the palm wind, demonic energy, and magic weapons in all directions, and a hundred balls of light flew up quickly in the protective array, and the colors were very beautiful.
In the first wave of captures, the well-placed referees each caught the first orb, and when they crushed it, an extra star icon appeared on the back of their hands, and they began to look for the second target orb.
Under the chaos of the scene, the referees on the periphery also got the opportunity to catch the ball of light, and all of them were chasing the ball of light and constantly flying and jumping, and they also had to guard against the blocking and interference of others, and everyone began to show their powers.
When some people catch the ball of light by themselves, they don't forget to split the empty palm, and the person next to them who is about to catch the ball of light is split far away, so that he will fail;
Some people released a magic weapon like a boomerang, wrapped in two balls of light and flew back to themselves, seeing that the balls of light were in their hands, a person rushed out next to them and knocked on the boomerang with a stick, smashing the two balls of light directly into the air;
The man with the stick did not chase the two balls of light that were smashed by himself, but used his body to slam into the person next to him, pushing the man out of the distance with one shoulder, and raising his hand to catch an oncoming ball of light;
But just as the ball of light was about to be grabbed by him, it miraculously stopped in the air, and then began to fly quickly backwards;
The man with the stick raised his eyes and saw that someone on the opposite side was holding a magic weapon in the shape of a jade bottle, emitting a strong suction, directly sucking the ball of light, and the person holding the stick had to give up and chase another ball of light;
The 14 referees staged a good scene of snatching the light ball for everyone, and various unbelievable snatching methods opened the eyes of the audience!
These elders of the Transformation Stage are all experienced in a hundred battles, although they have suppressed their realms at the high level of the Jindan Stage, but the technical and tactical level they have displayed far exceeds that of the Jindan Stage, and the methods they demonstrate have brought a lot of ideas to the contestants who are about to participate.
Finally, the last ball of light was snatched by a burly elder when eight people snatched it at the same time.
At this time, the light curtain of the protective array was automatically retracted, and the burly elder laughed, and was the first to walk out of the playing field, he walked all the way to the front of the stage, rolled up the sleeve of his left hand in front of the audience, and raised his left arm high.
The audience on the front can see that from the back of his left hand to his elbow, there is a shining star-shaped mark, and a little counting, there are more than thirty.
The other elders looked at the stars on his arms, some brushed their beards, some stomped their feet, some disdainfully, but none of them showed their arms, it seemed that there were not as many stars on their arms as this elder.
Needless to say, the winner of this demonstration contest was this burly elder.
Although there were no prizes for the elders' demonstrations, the competition was very enjoyable, especially the burly elder who won laughed happily, as if he was the winner of the New Year's Day competition.
This novel way of playing made the eyes of everyone present shine!
This preliminary competition seems simple, but in a very short period of time, the contestants' flight speed, reaction speed, adaptability, eyesight, demon power, exercises, control and overall situation can be assessed, and the strength of a group of people can be easily judged by imitating the way of actual combat.
Now as a spectator, Tu Shanchong is itching to watch, the competition in the Jindan period is so interesting! It is much more fun than the one-on-one competition of the monks in the Yuan Infant Period, Tu Shanchong can't wait to participate in this kind of competition himself, and he can not be rewarded, but it seems that there is no chance today.
And those Jindan period monks who were selected as seeded players actually had a feeling of envy at this time, it was a pity that they were not qualified to play such a fun chaos.
Master Yu Heng took the stage again and said, "Everyone should understand this time, right? Let me emphasize that the light ball that has been snatched by others and turned into a mark in the hand cannot be snatched a second time, so there is no need to continue to entangle the opponent and delay the time for yourself to snatch the light ball.
The principle of this competition is still friendship first, competition second, anyone who maliciously harms other players, the sect will definitely give heavy punishments, do you understand?"
More than 1,000 Jindan monks who were preparing to participate in the competition shouted in unison: "Understood!"
Master Yuheng nodded with satisfaction and said, "Okay." Because there are many contestants in the Jindan period, our referee team has divided the contestants into 80 competition groups in advance according to the conditions such as cultivation realm and cultivation period.
After a while, the referees of each group will call the names of 14 people in each group, and after all the people who are called by name are all there, they will enter the designated protective array with the referees of the group, and the game can be played. ”
Soon, a total of 112 players from the top eight groups entered the eight protective formations, and there were several Jindan stage beginner, intermediate, high-level, and perfect players in each competition group, and some groups also had non-seeded Jindan stage peak monks, and the number of monks of each rank in each group was equal, and there was no obvious unfairness.
This kind of group distribution is more conducive to the victory of some people with higher cultivation realm and stronger strength, and the fair and reasonable grouping method has been well received by the elder group and the audience.
Of course, Tu Shanchong also appreciated this fair and just grouping method, but when he thought that Ah Li was going to compete for the right to qualify with the Jindan Consummation or high-level monks in the same group, he immediately couldn't be happy.
He is now very worried about whether Ah Li can pass the preliminary round, if he doesn't qualify in the preliminary round, Ah Li will lose his own people, and the nine-tailed fox clan and the three ancestors will be laughed at by the other two veins.
Tu Shanchong couldn't help but look at the three Cave Void Ancestors of the Fox Clan, and found that the three Ancestors didn't mean to pay attention to him at all.
Tu Shanchong looked at Tu Shan Zixun and Tu Shan Ziyi in the elder group again, Tu Shan Zixun didn't pay attention to Tu Shanchong, but Tu Shan Ziyi gave Tu Shanchong a positive look, out of trust in Tu Shan Ziyi's usual character, Tu Shanchong immediately felt a lot more relieved.
Elder Yuheng gave an order, and the competition of the first eight groups of players began.
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