Chapter 35 Careful Preparation
The number of participants in the competition is 100. But in fact, there are no more than 50 players who are really capable of defeating their opponents, or who have the belief of winning the rankings.
The reason for this is that most of the Qiao family's development is in the rising stage, and there are not many talents. The rest of the contestants are basically young, and they come to participate in the competition for the purpose of learning from them, and basically do not have a brilliant performance.
There are a total of ten rings in the huge square. Each ring is ten zhang wide and long. Next to the ring, there will be an elder, or deacon, who will be in charge of the referee. In each of them, they each held a list of ten people with their names on them.
The first round of selection and the screening process were carried out by the way of ten stations and five battles. Through a two-man one-on-one battle, half of the 100 players were screened out, leaving 50.
In the second round, the method of counting points is adopted, and after the end of this round, the top five are directly discussed to select the number of points. Once the results appear, the competition conference will come to an end completely.
In this round, as long as you defeat one person, you can count a point, and fifty players can choose their opponents at will. Anyone who beats any player earns a point.
In addition, you can also find comrades-in-arms, fight against the enemy together, or go to the stage to challenge. In this case, beating one or more people, all participants, will earn one or more points.
Although it is more stable to earn points by fighting in a team, in the end, those comrades who cooperate with you will turn into opponents. This also means that team fighting, in addition to borrowing the strength of others to strengthen themselves, at the same time, others also borrow their own strength to strengthen their bodies. This is unavoidable because the number of players involved in the battle will gradually decrease.
When the battle is at the end, and all the remaining candidates are unwilling to challenge themselves, then the meeting will end. So we just started settling points. Otherwise, the convention will continue until the participants fight until there are only five people left.
This selection method can be said to be in addition to the assessment of strength, there is also a certain tactical and psychological assessment. In the past, each conference was held until there were still about 20 participants, and then it ended silently because no one wanted to fight. There are many reasons for this, but they are inseparable from the three main problems of strength, tactics and psychology.
The bitter cold of winter, under the invisible heat energy full of passion of everyone, dissipated completely. In the entire huge square, on the ten red cloth rings, fierce battles are also being carried out, and all kinds of legal decisions are emerging one after another, and the aura is gorgeous and dazzling.
Among them, there are five rings, which can be described as hot and exciting. But on the other five, there are hardly too many fight plots. Almost always when the other party admits defeat on their own, or is defeated by a move, this kind of passionless situation at all, the cold end.
In these five cold rings, until the end of the first round of screening, there were always those five people, five noble sons who had a noble status in the clan. It is also the top five that have basically not changed in the rankings since the last two conferences.
It seems that there will be no too exciting pictures in these rings, and the end will be fast, so most of the onlookers choose to crowd under the crowd of other rings. Of course, the winners of these five rings also disappeared into the crowd in the end, went to observe the situation in other rings, and then prepared for the next second round of selection.
"Brother, it seems that that stupid hat really didn't dare to come this time, he was supposed to run in the ring that his father was in charge of, but the guy who was supposed to fight him was really disappointed because the opponent didn't come to win directly. In the crowd, Qiao Nan looked at the figures of the players on the stage, and said with a slightly sarcastic laugh.
"Hmph, I really think highly of that kid. Back then, he still looked like a spirit, saying that I would not be far away, and secretly united with Qiao Teng to oppose us, but now in front of everyone, he is willing to be a turtle with a shrunken head, which is indeed disdainful. Qiao Ba's sneering eyes were also full of mockery.
At the same time, Qiao Yu, who was hidden in the crowd, was quietly leaving after observing part of the battle at this moment. Those Qiao Hua and the others who helped him cover said goodbye to him and went to other rings to watch the battle.
Sneaking home all the way, Qiao Yu sat cross-legged and began to meditate and breathe, concentrating. At the same time, in his mind, he also quickly sketched Qiao Ba's performance in the ring at that time. Although the latter has not used any tricks today, his mastery of spells is extremely profound and powerful.
Before the end of the conference, even if he did not participate in the first round of screening, Qiao Yu would have a chance to challenge a contestant because he was not present. But just a challenge, let people know their strength, will not get any ranking, nor will it affect the ranking of the challenged, which is equivalent to a competition between clansmen.
Today, the reason why Qiao Yu is so sneaky, in addition to avoiding unnecessary commotion, the most important thing is that he doesn't want to expose his strength in advance. For him, it doesn't matter whether he participates in the competition conference or not, the important thing is to challenge and defeat Qiao Ba in front of everyone before the end of the conference.
After completely restoring the picture in his mind to a level close to reality, Qiao Yu stopped meditating. Then he went to the couch and lay down gently, ready to begin using the magical power of dream control.
Falling into a dream easily, Qiao Yu began to restore the situation in the square at that time in the dream. Every person, every object, and even every detail will be carefully calculated to restore and appear in the dream.
This method was often used by Qiao Yu before. At this time, in addition to using dream control to test spells in dreams, he will also engage in battles almost identical to reality with Qiao Ba, who is transformed into Qiao Ba, by the subconscious projection in his dreams.
This method does not take one's own fantasy as reality. Because in Qiao Yu's dream, any detail that contradicts reality will not be allowed to exist. What he does not observe, or does not understand, he will not easily manifest in his dreams, because it is extremely easy to confuse reality with dreams, and thus produce errors.
After all, the battle with Qiao Ba is by no means child's play, and once he fails, Qiao Yu thinks that the former will not necessarily show mercy to his subordinates. A slight error can directly lead to serious injury or loss of life.
The principle of all the projections in dreams is defined by reality, which requires extremely strong spiritual power. The former Qiao Yu could not be fully mastered. But after coming to this world, because of the cultivation of immortals, this fact has changed.
The miraculous ability of dream control can not only make its primordial power continue to enhance in the process of dream control. At the same time, the stronger the power of the primordial spirit, the stronger the ability to control dreams. The two completely complement each other and support each other to achieve a kind of derivative and continuous progress.
Today's Qiao Yu, at the level of the primordial spirit, has reached the realm of the Great Perfection of Qi Refining. Its primordial power is enough to make all the scenes and existences in the dream, even so subtle that even the flow of air will not deviate from reality in the slightest. At the same time, this requires extremely rigorous calculations, based on astronomy and geography, including everything Qiao Yu has learned.
Of course, because he only stayed at the venue for a long time today, there were many developments after that, and Qiao Yu was not clear. This also limits the development of dreams. However, he only needs to know the part that is enough to test.
In the dream, thousands of times, repeated trials. Even if it's just a moment, or a few turns. However, these tiny existences are the focus that Qiao Yu tries to grasp.
In a quiet sleep, I spent a whole day relaxed. That night, the first round of selection was completely over. All remaining participants, in accordance with the regulations, will be renovated in an exclusive rest room and wait for the start of the second round of selection.
However, Qiao Yu, who seemed to have slept all day, woke up that night and was unusually tired. In his dreams, he continued to perform trials over and over again, which had a great effect on the spirit. However, this has also worked, and he has completely overcome some of Qiao Ba's moves. No matter how the other party changes, he has the confidence and certainty to suppress the other party.
Before the battle, it is natural to adjust the mentality and state. Qiao Yu hurriedly meditated, gathered qi to refine qi, and stimulated the little remaining medicinal power in his body to restore his energy. A whole night passed quietly in this situation.
On the second day, it was a lively schedule for a new round of selection. Those onlookers who had been waiting all night and couldn't bear to be anxious poured into the square early in the morning, choosing a place they were satisfied with, and waiting for the selection to begin.
Among these people, Qiao Yu was naturally mixed in the middle, also waiting for the selection.
Until all the onlookers have arrived and settled down, they are not in a mess. One by one, the players who had been prepared for a long time walked out of the rest room one after another. Most of them have already chosen their comrades or opponents in advance. As soon as they entered, they found the ring and began to compete, or joined forces to capture the ring set up by others.
Among these fighters, there are five of them, each occupying a separate ring as soon as they enter. Except for Qiao Ba, Qiao Rou, Qiao Yue, Qiao Miao, and Qiao Yao, no one dared to make such a bold move.
Among the other players, there are some players who are in groups and want to take on the challenge. After all, if you defeat one of them, you can definitely be in the limelight. It's just that in the end, none of the teams dared to touch their brows. The reason for this is that some of them are afraid of the other party's strength, and more of them are afraid of the other party's identity.
As a result, at the beginning of the second round of selection, there were team players who went to find some weak players to take on a vigorous challenge. Not long after this situation lasted, more than 20 players were tragically defeated.
Naturally, I knew that no one dared to challenge. Qiao Ba and the other five people just put on the ring, and after making a show, they quickly shot and began to capture other people's rings, or challenge other players to speed up the speed of scoring points.
The fierce battle selection is like this, hot in each ring, and it is carried out wonderfully. In the crowd, there was a pair of deep eyes, staring closely at the maple red figure on the stage, carefully observing every subtle movement of the other party.
The owner of these eyes is Qiao Yu, who has been waiting for a long time. Although he had tried countless times in his dreams, he had always avoided the problem of confusing dreams with reality.
Now in reality, he will re-evaluate the problem, and all the hardships and trials that he had once had in his dreams are actually just methods that can be used for reference. For him, only reality is the real reality. In reality, Qiao Ba, in the end, what will he do in the next second, even if he has calculated thousands of times, there is such a slight chance of making a mistake.
And what Qiao Yu has to do is to try to avoid the chance of such mistakes. He will raise the odds of winning the battle to the level he is satisfied with, and be fully prepared. He believes that this is the only way to truly win.