After Shi Shanyan announced that the stone appreciation conference began, the registration stage began. Nearly a thousand contestants came to the four levels of competition registration locations: Tian, Earth, Xuan and Huang to register for the competition.
Yuanchu pondered a little, feeling that he was still a bit reluctant to participate in the Earth-level stone gambling competition with his current strength and was not very sure of winning. So he decided to participate in the Xuan-level competition. It happened that the stone gambling experts sent by the three royal families also had the same idea to participate in the Xuan-level competition, so both sides hit it off and decided to compete in the Xuan-level competition.
However, the young man from the dragon clan led the proposal that since both sides decided to make a gamble, they had to find a powerful witness, Yuan Chu naturally had no objection.
So, the young dragon clan led by the leader walked to the rostrum, bowed to Shi Shanyan and said, "Master Shi Mansion, I am Long Ao, the fourth prince of the Dragon Clan. At this stone reward conference, our three royal families planned to make a great bet with a contestant named Yuan Chu. The bet was 10 million Yuan stones, and the winner was determined by the Xuan-level competition champion. Therefore, we plan to let the Lord Shi Mansion be a witness for us. I wonder what you think?"
Shi Shanyan pondered for a moment, nodded, and then slowly stood up and spoke loudly: "Everyone, I announced a special news to everyone. The three royal families of the demon clan want to make a great bet with a contestant named Yuanchu. The bet is 10 million Yuanshi, so they will determine the winner and lose by the champion of the Xuan-level competition. This is a personal grudge between them and has nothing to do with our strange stone mansion. However, I am willing to be this witness and hope that everyone will witness together!"
As soon as Shi Shanyan finished speaking, the entire venue was completely boiling. Everyone was in an uproar and then they were talking. Although everyone heard about this, they didn’t know whether it was true or not. Now that Shi Shanyan’s confirmation was confirmed, everyone was completely shocked, and then everyone expressed their willingness to testify for this great gamble.
After this episode, the competition began immediately. The contestants had to pay the deposit for purchasing strange stones before they could hold the competition. After Yuanchu and the stone gambling masters sent by the three royal families paid one million source stones, they began to select the stones they had liked from tens of thousands of strange stones.
The stone gambling master sent by the three royal families is named Long Jiulian. It is said that he has practiced a stone gambling technique called [Golden Eyes Nine Refinement] and has mastered it into golden eyes. It can see through the illusion. Not only is it the strongest among the stone gambling masters of the demon clan, but it is definitely the most average master. Therefore, this time, the three royal families are so confident that they want to fight against Yuanchu for tens of millions of Yuanchu. When they look at the Source gambling stones, they mainly rely on luck, and are vulnerable to the real stone gambling masters.
Soon Yuanchu and Long Jiulian chose three strange stones, and the others also chose them. Then, there was a dedicated person responsible for cutting stones for everyone. At this time, everyone's eyes focused on Yuanchu and Long Jiulian, because everyone knew that they were the real masters in the Xuan-level competition, and the champion would definitely emerge from the two of them, while the others were directly ignored. Even the attention received by the other three levels of competitions was greatly weakened, and almost everyone's attention was focused on Yuanchu and Long Jiulian.
The person in charge of cutting stones was an experienced old man. He first took a stone from Yuanchu, observed it for a moment and shook his head. Then he picked up the stone knife and started cutting the stone quickly. As the old man fell down with the last knife, the stone did not shine, leaving only a pile of fine stones and stone powder, and everyone sighed.
Long Ao laughed proudly at this time: "Yuanchu, it seems that you are just relying on luck to bet on stones. How about it? This time I will not be able to meet a real master. The first stone is a hollow bullet. What else can you compare to? Let's admit defeat automatically, so it will save you the shame!"
Yuan Chu pretended to be dissatisfied when he heard this, saying, "Hmph, gambling is about gambling. Since it is a gambling, it is inevitable that there will be mistakes. Is it normal? Besides, why are you sure that your people will definitely cut out their treasures? Maybe they are the same as me!"
Long Ao snorted coldly with disdain, and then the old man took another stone from Long Jiulian and began to cut it quickly, but in the end, it didn't show any light. Yuan Chu's crow said, "The first stone was tied, the two ended with a tie."
Then, the old man picked up another stone by Long Jiulian, observed it for a moment, nodded slightly, and then the old man picked up the stone knife and began to cut the stone quickly. As the stone chips fell one after another, the ten-foot-sized stone had turned into the size of a football. Just when everyone thought the stone was another hollow bullet, a golden light suddenly shot out of the stone, "It's out!" Everyone exclaimed.
The old man also felt excited and began to cut it carefully. After a while, as the old man fell down with the last knife, a golden scripture appeared in everyone's sight. The old man waved his sleeves and brushed away all the stone powder on the scriptures, and then held the golden scriptures in his hand.
The old man carefully identified it for a long time, then smiled and congratulated Long Jiulian: "Congratulations, this little friend actually cut out a local peak martial arts. It's so gratifying. At least you can sell 200,000 to 300,000 yuan of source stones. With this local peak martial arts, you won't lose money by these three stones!"
Long Ao immediately looked at Yuan Chu provocatively and looked at him with contempt: "Yuan Chu, have you seen it? What is a master? This is a master. You will lose in this game. You will definitely lose in this game. Do you still need to compete? I don't believe that you can cut out something more valuable than the Earth-level peak martial arts. Can you still cut out the heaven-level martial arts?"
Yuanchu smiled carelessly and indifferently: "That's not necessarily true. My luck has always been very good. Any miracle can happen. It's just a peak martial arts at the local level. I often use it to the toilet. After I win the championship, I can add another stack of toilet paper!"
When Long Ao heard this, his nose was almost pissed, and he was unwilling to argue with Yuan Chu, so he hurriedly urged the old man to continue cutting the stones.
The old man quickly took a very strange stone of ten feet from Yuan Chu. The shape of this stone was very regular and basically appeared in a circle, but there were many clauses on the surface of this stone, with very mixed colors and colorful.
The old man frowned when he saw this stone because it was a stone that could not be cut out of treasures. This stone was called watermelon stone, and it looked like a big watermelon. Watermelon stone was a waste stone. This is basic common sense, and of course there are exceptions.
The old man shook his head, picked up a stone knife and began to cut it casually. After cutting it for a long time, no light was revealed. Until the stone as big as a 10-meter-sized stone turned into the size of two fists, a colorful divine light suddenly shot out from the stone. Everyone around him took a breath of air: "No, watermelon stone can also emit light, what's the situation?"
The old man waved his sleeve and brushed away the dust, and held a five-color scripture in his hand. The old man looked at it carefully for a long time and suddenly screamed: "The heavenly martial arts are really heavenly martial arts. How is this possible?"
Long Ao was speechless when he heard this and cursed in his heart: "Is there any reason for this? Yuan Chu's luck is too damn bad. You can cut it out by cutting out the heavenly martial arts skills. He can go to fortune telling!"
Yuan Chu suddenly burst into laughter: "How is it, Xiao Changchuan, I said you were not convinced this time. I have said that I have always been very lucky. Any miracle will happen. You must be humble and calm in your life. Don't show off in front of me at any time. Don't you understand the truth that those who pretend will die?"
Just as Long Ao wanted to fight back, the old man suddenly shouted: "No, this scripture is indeed a heavenly-level martial art, but it is a broken book, only half!"
Long Ao was proud again this time: "I saw Yuanchu. You just cut out a broken book, and what we cut out is a complete version. Can you compare it?"
Yuan Chu ignored him and asked the old man: "Old man, do you think this heaven-level martial arts are valuable, or is it the complete version of the earth-level peak martial arts? "
The old man pondered for a moment, then said with some uncertainty: "This is not easy to say. I can only say that although the peak martial arts of the earth level are complete, there are many martial arts like this. Although this heavenly-level martial arts is a sub-book, the number of heavenly-level martial arts is extremely small. If I had to choose, I would rather ask for the sub-book of heavenly-level martial arts!"
Yuan Chu blinked at Long Ao provocatively when he heard this. Long Ao didn't like to pay attention to him, but instead urged the old man to continue cutting the stones. As a result, the two remaining stones actually tied again because they were all hollow bullets.
So, Yuan Chu temporarily led Long Jiulian with a slight advantage in the first game. After everyone else had finished cutting the stones, the preliminary round ended. As a result, Yuan Chu temporarily ranked first with a slight advantage, and Long Jiulian ranked second.