Chapter 350: Chapter 258: 3rd Rank Mountain Master! 2nd Rank Military Leader! 1st Rank City Lord! Cang Mountain Sword Discussion, Spares No Expense!
Yan Chuan and Wang Zhengyi arrived at Chess Stone Peak not long ago. During the time Yan Chuan was treating Zhou Yan’s injuries, Fu Yunzhan and Wang Ge, who had fled separately earlier, also arrived safely.
With this, the Jian Province team participating in this ’Cang Mountain Sword Discussion’ was complete.
That night, Ni Mengtong gathered Yan Chuan and the Zhou Family Sisters’ two teams for a pre-tournament pep talk.
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"In this Sword Discussion, although our Jian Province has eight teams, only you two teams are truly capable of competing."
Ni Mengtong cared little for the other teams, holding no hope for them.
It’s not her fault.
After the ’Jian Province Competition’, during the team reorganization, Yan Chuan and Wang Zhengyi scooped up the leading members from the Top Eight teams, such as Fu Yunzhan, Wang Ge, and Chen Ze, who were originally the core members of a single team. After they were poached, that team was practically finished.
In addition, Liu Qifeng and Shi Xuanli from the Top Eight were not weak either, but unfortunately, due to a cult riot before the Jian Province Competition finals, both were captured and missed the event.
Considering these circumstances, in the end, only Yan Chuan’s team from the eight Jian Province teams could be considered proper, while the others were all about participation, including the Zhou Family Sisters.
In Ni Mengtong’s view, the Zhou Family Sisters had just recovered from serious injuries, and their reliance on the ’Plum Blossom Sword Formation’ might make waves in the backwater of Jian Province, but was insignificant on the grand stage of Cang Mountain, ultimately dependent on true strength.
She only gathered the Zhou Family Sisters out of respect for Yan Chuan.
Ni Mengtong looked over everyone, with her gaze focusing heavily on Yan Chuan and Wang Zhengyi.
Among those present, only Yan and Wang had ascended the "Hidden Dragon List", their strength universally acknowledged, naturally garnering more of Ni Mengtong’s favor.
However——
"In the Fifteen States of Great Yan, young experts are as numerous as clouds and rain, so you must not take this lightly."
"Fortunately, this ’Cang Mountain Sword Discussion’ does not use an elimination format, even the weakest teams will have plenty of opportunities to prove themselves."
Ni Mengtong had her attendants distribute more than ten sets of documents.
Each person, including Yan Chuan, received one.
Yan Chuan unfolded and saw the beginning described the rules and regulations of this Cang Mountain Sword Discussion, the middle part introduced and analyzed each major contender’s team and members, and the end discussed specific strategies for this sword discussion.
Everyone read while Ni Mengtong explained: "’Cang Mountain Sword Discussion’ employs an ’Arena System’, with a total of twelve arenas set at the top of Chess Stone Peak. Anyone confident in their strength can ascend the stage to become an ’Arena Master’. The twelve Arena Masters will defend the arenas, facing challenges from other teams. If the Defender defeats the Challenger, or holds for two hours undefeated, it is a victory, a successful defense."
"The ’Cang Mountain Sword Discussion’ lasts forty-nine days, and those who withstand all challenges and successfully defend till the end will be part of this sword discussion’s ’Twelve Strong’!"
Arenas!
Defending!
Twelve Strong!
"These rules——"
Wang Zhengyi frowned.
The event format of ’Cang Mountain Sword Discussion’ seemed much simpler than ’Jian Province Competition’, but it actually contained far more intricacies and strategic complexities than the provincial competitions.
Not only did Wang Zhengyi notice this.
Everyone else also perceived the subtleties.
Wang Ge exclaimed in disbelief: "With 246 teams in the ’Cang Mountain Sword Discussion’, becoming one of the ’Twelve Strong’, successfully defending, is harder than ascending to heaven!"
"Indeed, it’s difficult!"
Chen Ze, who arrived earlier, had a deeper understanding of the ’Cang Mountain Sword Discussion’ rules and format and said, "The Arena Master must face challenge after challenge from various teams, where strength is one factor, endurance is another. Holding out once is easy, but to hold out ten, a hundred, or even hundreds of times is too difficult!"
teams!
Theoretically, a Defender wanting to hold out until the end must withstand challenges from the remaining 245 teams.
Each team has three opportunities to challenge the same arena.
Therefore, to hold one arena, in the most extreme situation, one must face up to 735 matches.
Of course, such a situation is very extreme and almost never occurs.
"If you want to defend successfully in the end, it’s best not to appear too early, otherwise, wave after wave of challenges, no one can endure."
This is one aspect.
But the organizers evidently knew this as well, and to avoid strong teams sitting back and waiting and not participating, they set up, besides the ’Twelve Strong’, ’Arena Master Award’, ’Consecutive Wins Award’, ’Victory Award’, and ’Performance Award’——
"’Cang Mountain Sword Discussion’ categorizes these rewards into nine tiers based on their richness, with the first tier being the highest and the ninth the lowest. Each tier has the same reward categories but is further divided into nine sub-levels, with different amounts from one to nine levels, the first level having the most, the ninth the least."
"’Cang Mountain Sword Discussion’ lasting forty-nine days!"
"Each day an Arena Master perseveres scores one point for the ’Arena Master Award’, from one to seven points for the Eighth Tier reward; eight to fourteen points for the Seventh Tier reward; fifteen to twenty-one points for the Sixth Tier reward; twenty-two to twenty-eight points for the Fifth Tier reward; twenty-nine to thirty-five points for the Fourth Tier reward; thirty-six to forty-two points for the Third Tier reward; forty-three to forty-eight points for the Second Tier reward; forty-nine points for the First Tier reward."
This is the ’Arena Master Award’.
The ’Consecutive Wins Award’ is based on a three-consecutive-wins basis, starting at the Ninth Tier, with each additional three-consecutive-wins moving up one level. If one can achieve 243 consecutive wins, they will receive the highest reward of first-tier first level.
The ’Victory Award’ is based on the number of wins, not necessarily consecutive, but at least ten wins are needed for the Ninth Tier’s ninth-level reward, with ten more wins for each level increase. If one can win 810 matches, the highest first-tier first-level reward is achieved. But this difficulty is probably harder than the previous two.