Chapter 461: Chapter 313: Sword Discussion 47, First Layer Test: Forbidden Treasure, Absolute Weapons! [Request for Monthly Votes!]
On the twenty-first day of the Sword Discussion Tournament, after the Hai hour.
The twenty-second day is about to arrive.
At this moment.
The layout of the twelve arenas has become—
Hai Character, Yan Chuan (Star Stone)!
Xu Character, Ding Xiang! (Eight Diagrams Dragon Whisker Handkerchief)!
You Character, Situ Fei!
Shen Character, Chi Gao (Water and Fire Blade)!
Wei Character, Cai Ru’an (Five-Colored Stone)!
Wu Character, Tan Dou! (Three Yin Divine Lead Extinguishing Yang Bomb)!
Si Character, Gongyang Yu (Binding Rope)!
Chen Character, Liu Xin (Chasing God Blade)!
Mao Character, Luo Qi (Ancient Sound of the Primordial World)!
Yin Character, Xin Huan (Rainbow Rope)!
Chou Character, Yin Ye (Golden Tower)!
Zi Character, Guo Xi (Golden Stick)!
...
Twelve arenas, eleven Exotic Treasures!
Isn’t this absurd!
Among them, there are two new faces—
One is Yin Ye of the Chou Character Arena, whose luck burst forth, successfully seizing an arena from the exhausted Jing Bao. However, by rights, given the strength of Yin Ye’s team, they would not hold their ground and would quickly be knocked out.
But at this moment, someone named ’Gan Hong’ came, carrying a third-Rank Exotic Treasure. No one knows what deal he made with Yin Ye, and in the end, Yin Ye stood atop the ’Golden Tower’, unassailable, fearless of any Absolute Skill or Exotic Treasure, firmly guarding the arena like a holdout.
Then there was Chi Gao of the Shen Character Arena, cultivating a "Ice and Fire Palm", left hand icy palm, right hand fiery palm. Spectating for twenty-one days, it seemed his hand technique greatly improved, finally enabling him to activate the third-Rank Exotic Treasure ’Water and Fire Blade’, with the left hand icy palm activating ’Water Blade’ and the right hand fiery palm activating ’Fire Blade’, his strength was exceptional. Even Wei Lingshan was no match, and he successfully secured an arena.
From this point!
Among the twelve arenas, only Situ Fei’s lacks an Exotic Treasure to subdue its fortune; the others all have Exotic Treasures.
"Yin Ye is so lucky!"
"Gan Hong lacks strength; although he possesses a protective Treasure like the ’Golden Tower’, he couldn’t conquer any arena. That being the case, he might as well lend or sell the ’Golden Tower’ to Yin Ye. The Junior Sect Leader of the Purple Beard Sect, Yin Ye, is not short of money. He happened to capture an arena, becoming Arena Master, and at such a juncture, offering the ’Golden Tower’ to him, Yin Ye would be willing to pay any price!"
Wang Zhengyi looked towards Yin Ye on the Chou Character Arena, right hand holding a sword and left hand supporting the tower, full of spirit, and thought, this is indeed luck.
Had Yin Ye not been lucky enough to seize an arena, the original owner of the ’Golden Tower’ wouldn’t have offered the Treasure to him.
Luck is one aspect.
Personal background is another aspect.
Before Yin Ye, there were other teams who luckily won an arena, occupying it for one or two hours, but why did no one offer them Treasures, why didn’t Gan Hong approach them about the ’Golden Tower’?
Wasn’t it because they looked down on those people’s ’background’!
But Yin Ye is different.
He is the Junior Sect Leader of the Purple Beard Sect and has a strong background, naturally able to afford the price.
Not only Yin Ye.
And Guo Xi.
This one ranks fifteenth among the "Chufeng", with formidable strength, but more than that, it is her family background, being from the Guo Family of Bi State, known as the ’Spear King Family’. Her grandfather was the previous Family Head, her father is the current one, and her full-blooded elder brother is the next Family Head!
This background is not at all inferior to Yin Ye’s.
Therefore—
Yin Ye could acquire the ’Golden Tower’!
Guo Xi could acquire the ’Golden Stick’!
Gold!
Gold!
A great deal of True Gold and Silver has been spent.
And even the rewards of the Sword Discussion that have not yet been obtained, such as ’Arena Master Award’, ’Victory Award’, might have already been promised out.
Perhaps the both of them are ’loaning’ for the Sword Discussion.
But it is all absolutely worth it—
"With the ’Golden Tower’, Yin Ye stood firm against both Wei Lingshan and Shi Mingzhu together!"
"Guo Xi, wielding the ’Golden Stick’, even beat Wei Lingshan!"
"The two of them are expected to hold out till the end."
If they become part of the final ’Twelve Strong’, the guaranteed Fifth Tier reward itself, ’ten thousand catties of Essence Stone, a bottle of Lianzang Pill’, is invaluable, and any amount of gold and silver spent for this would be worth it!
Yin Ye, full of ambition, harbors even greater dreams—
"Not just the ’Twelve Strong’!"
"But also the ’Arena Master Award’, ’Consecutive Wins Award’, and ’Victory Award’ in the coming days!"
"Even if afterwards I have to give up eighty percent of the earnings to him and pay an additional one thousand catties of Essence Stone as a baseline borrowing fee, I can still make a huge profit!"
With the ’Golden Tower’ at hand, he will surely not be forced off the stage!
...
Time flies.
On the twenty-second day of the Sword Discussion, the first day of Si Qi.
First round, Zi hour.
"Eh?"
Wang Zhengyi expressed surprise, looking at Yan Chuan: "Do you feel something strange?"
"Indeed strange!"
Yan Chuan nodded.
Woo woo woo~
At the Chess Stone Peak top, a strange wind blew, seemingly bringing a chill. Although it is currently midnight during the Zi hour, with June approaching, such a chill should not be felt.
Moreover, this chill flashed and disappeared, making it even more eerie.
Yan Chuan checked himself but discovered nothing.
Wary and suspicious, he picked up the ’White Horn Trumpet’: "Hello, hello, hello!" After a sound test, he was about to explain.
But this time—
"Huh?"
"The White Horn Trumpet! It can’t be used?!"
Yan Chuan attempted to activate the ’White Horn Trumpet’ with his Inner Strength, intending to easily project his voice to all spectators from sky to earth, but this time, the ’White Horn Trumpet’ went silent, unable to be activated.
Vaguely—
"Infusing ’Spiritual’ seems to activate it."
Yan Chuan lightly infused two points of Spiritual into the ’White Horn Trumpet’, and for a moment, the Inner Strength input into the ’White Horn Trumpet’ was no longer impeded, able to be activated.
But it soon stopped.
Yan Chuan tried the ’Golden Silk Silkworm Armor’, finding it similarly unactivatable, only being usable after infusing Spiritual.
Not only the ’White Horn Trumpet’.