Qi Manyao shook her head, picked up a piece of pork elbow and put it into her mouth. After chewing it for two times, she felt it was a bit fishy and spit it out again.
"What do you mean?"
"The rules of this Ten Thousand Talents List are different every time. Sometimes it is a one-on-one showdown to determine the strongest person. Sometimes it is divided into various forces or countries to compete.
Even weirder times, all the contestants are thrown into the deserted swamp and asked to hunt ferocious beasts. Whoever hunts more ferocious beasts will have a higher ranking.
The key is that it is not forbidden to kill each other, and it is supported to snatch other people's trophies, which means that the monks at that time had to face the ferocious beasts while being careful of human sneak attacks, and the casualties were very heavy."
"In this way, it is impossible to know what the format of this competition will be."
Wan Lei frowned slightly, the feeling of his eyes going dark made him very uncomfortable.
"Yes, the rules are announced just before the competition starts. Except for the nine heads of the nine peak powers, no tenth person will know about it.
But one thing is certain, that is, the rules are fair every time, even if they are pursued as fair as possible. After all, the children of those powerful forces are inherently advantaged over others."
"What about the casualty rate?"
Wan Lei took a sip of wine, this was what he cared about most.
"It's not too high, usually around 10%. Even that time in the deserted swamp, only 20% was damaged.
After all, those who are qualified to participate are the top young people in the entire Lei Feng world. It is impossible for them to cause too many casualties to a generation of strong young people. That would be self-destruction."
Wan Lei nodded, picked up his chopsticks, and was about to eat, but found that there was only a mess on the table in front of him.
"What a fool, you two should leave some for me!"
In the next day and a half, they did not go out again, and Tian Suanzi and Sui Xiaohang did not go looking for their cheap master. The four of them found an inn and played cards for a day and a half.
They all know that after the auction is over, Sui Xiaohang will follow Master Xuandan to the Central Region.
When we meet again in the future, I don’t know what year or month it will be.
So I used this happy way to spend the last time.
"What do you mean by the last time? It makes me feel like I'm about to die. Don't be too impatient. When I become a master of elixirs, you will kneel down in front of me one by one and beg me to give you elixirs."
Sui Xiaohang stood at the door of the inn, posing in an overhanging pose facing the rising sun.
"Shengbao Hall is in that direction, right?"
"It should be that Pindao just made a fortune and it's over there."
"Are you still using fortune telling? The fluctuating aura of cultivation there is obviously higher than anywhere else in the city. They must be people attending the auction."
When Sui Xiaohang heard those voices getting further and further away from him, he put away his posture angrily, secretly cursing these people for not knowing how to cooperate and pretending, and hurriedly chased after them.
Shengbaotang is located in the middle of the city, not far from the governor's house and not far from the inn where they stayed.
On weekdays, Shengbaotang is a place that specializes in selling all kinds of high-end magic weapons and rare gadgets. It has a wide range of channels. When there are too many precious things that cannot be bought on weekdays, an auction will be held.
If there are less items, they will also purchase some items from other countries or even the Central Region and bring them back for auction.
Things that are common in the Central Region are treasures in this remote place.
This time, there were an especially large number of people participating in the auction.
First of all, it was rumored that a batch of elixirs had arrived from the Zhongyu Tiandan Pavilion, including the Heqi Protecting Infant Pill, which immediately attracted the attention of all the elixir-forming monks in Qishan County and surrounding areas.
Especially those monks who were in the upper or peak levels of elixir formation, almost all of them gathered here at this time, wanting to buy a pill to protect their breakthrough to the Nascent Soul.
Secondly, the registration for the Ten Thousand Talents List also attracted the alchemy monks to a great extent.
If Shengbaotang attracts the veteran core-forming monks who continue to make breakthroughs in cultivation and increase their longevity, then the Wanjiao List attracts young core-forming monks.
Most of them are barely qualified to participate in the competition, and most of them are at the lower level of Danjie.
They were full of hope and enthusiasm. They wanted to get a place on the Wanjiao list, but they saw Wan Lei's name on the registration list.
Wan Lei is like a big mountain pressing on the heads of all the young people in Qishan County. If Wan Lei participates, they may not be able to do anything, which makes them retreat.
Then, the alchemy monk at the registration desk spared no effort in preaching that more than 80% of those participating in the competition had Wan Lei's qualifications and cultivation, which completely scared them away.
However, after traveling all this way to the county town, I have to do something.
Come on, let’s go to the auction and have a look.
When Wan Lei and the others arrived at the entrance of Shengbao Hall, they saw the huge crowd of people.
Fortunately, Shengbaotang is super rich and built its house very big, so it can barely accommodate so many people.
Wan Lei and the others waited in line for a long time, and finally at the door, they paid the admission fee of 100 spirit stones each and received their own number plates.
"Good guy, this admission fee alone is enough for Shengbao Hall to earn many thousands of spiritual stones? How cruel, I also want to hold an auction."
Sui Xiaohang looked at the number plate in his hand, then at the dark crowd in front of him, and the corners of his mouth kept turning downwards.
"The admission fee is also to prevent those who have no money and want to watch the fun from going in and causing trouble. After all, if you can't even afford the admission fee, how can you really go in and want to buy something?"
After Tiansuanzi finished speaking, he led everyone to find their own seats.
They went out early in the morning and didn't sit down in their seats until noon.
People from outside have almost come in.
At noon, the auction door closed and the lights in the entire store came on.
A maid served tea and snacks to everyone attending the auction.
Wan Lei took a sip, nodded, and said,
“Good tea.”
He knows nothing. No matter how good the tea is in the world, when it comes to his mouth, it is like a cow chewing peonies.
“Good tea.”
The three cows next to them nodded while chewing peonies.
On the high platform in front, an old man walked up. This man was the owner of Shengbao Hall.
The auctions on weekdays are all hosted by the highly respected shopkeepers in the Shengbao Hall, but this time the owner personally attended the auction, which shows how much attention is paid to the auction this time.
"Thank you all fellow Taoists for coming to our Shengbao Hall. This time, it can be said that we have the most powerful people since our Shengbao Hall held the auction.
Everyone knows the rules of the auction, so I won’t say any more nonsense. You must be waiting impatiently. Now, the auction begins.”