A month later, Purple Cloud City in the Eastern Region was extraordinarily lively. Forces from all over the Eastern Region gathered here for the once-in-a-century Stone Dueling Assembly.
The Stone Dueling Assembly lasted for three days and was hosted by the immortal forces of the Eastern Region in rotation. This year, it was the turn of the Purple Subtlety Forbidden Land to be the host.
The Stone Dueling Assembly was like a competition. Theoretically, anyone could participate, but the entry threshold blocked 99% of the people. Participants needed to submit one million high-grade source crystals to qualify.
At the same time, this was also one of the means of making money by holding this Stone Dueling Assembly. If there were no benefits, who would be idle enough to do such a thing?
The Stone Dueling Assembly was divided into preliminary rounds, semi-finals, and finals. The preliminary round was very simple. All participants selected a source ore from the source mines provided by the organizer that they believed would increase greatly, and then cut it open. The treasures cut out were appraised by professionals sent by the major immortal forces of the Eastern Region, and the top 50 could enter the semi-finals.
The semi-finals were slightly more complicated than the preliminary round. The top 50 participants were randomly divided into ten groups, with five people in each group, and then one person from each group was selected to advance to the finals.
The first place in the finals could choose to have a stone duel with the organizer. If they won, they could get half of the source crystals from the organizer's income this time, as well as all the treasures cut out during the competition. If they lost, they would naturally get nothing.
It was also possible not to have a stone duel with the organizer, but they would need to sell all the treasures cut out at half price.
The preliminary rounds and semi-finals were held on the first day.
The remaining two days were for the finalists to select strange stones from the source mines. What are strange stones? For example, some source mines look like a person. This is called a strange stone, also known as a Stone King. Of course, source mines that look like people are one in a billion, because if this kind of stone is psychic, it will become a Holy Spirit clan, and after tens of millions of years of gestation, it will be a Stone Emperor, comparable to a human emperor. Therefore, this kind of stone is protected by heaven and earth, and under normal circumstances, it will not be discovered.
Except for bad luck!
It is rumored that the Purple Subtlety Forbidden Land has unearthed a total of twenty-four strange stones this time. This gimmick has attracted countless stone gambling enthusiasts. Those who do not have enough source crystals to participate in the competition spend 10,000 high-grade source crystals to purchase spectator tickets, while those who have accumulated them for decades or hundreds of years grit their teeth and spend one million high-grade source crystals to become participants, just to personally select strange stones and have a good time!
After some disguise, Li Beifei's group of five successfully paid the registration fee and arrived at a huge square. At this time, the square was already crowded with countless people, and at the top, there were several boxes, which were exclusive stands for the immortal forces of the Eastern Region.
"How many people are there?" Li Beifei clicked his tongue.
The audience seats did not seem large, but they could feel the spatial fluctuations. Obviously, the audience seats were arranged with spatial formations similar to Sumeru formations. They seemed small, but they were enough to accommodate millions of people. Each of these people had to pay 10,000 high-grade source crystals to purchase a spectator ticket. Millions of people, that is hundreds of billions of high-grade source crystals.
Li Beifei and the others looked at the participants again. There were more than 300 participants present, and there were still participants entering through the entrance behind them. It is estimated that according to the current trend, there would be at least a thousand participants.
Each participant needed to submit one million high-grade source crystals. One thousand participants, that is ten billion high-grade source crystals. Although it was a little less compared to the audience tickets, it was obvious that the organizer was earning the source crystals from the audience's pockets.
A Stone Dueling Assembly would net hundreds of billions of high-grade source crystals, and that did not include the treasures cut out by the participants that needed to be sold to the organizer at half price. Only the first place had the opportunity to compete with the organizer, that is, the opportunity!
Calculated in this way, a Stone Dueling Assembly would earn at least a thousand billion high-grade source crystals for the organizer. If the participants cut out some peerless treasures, the profit would have to be multiplied several times or even dozens of times.
Thinking of this, Li Beifei and the others felt that the wealth they had worked so hard to rob from the underground black market a year ago, with each person receiving only a few billion high-grade source crystals, was not much!
"I have to give my father an opinion when I go back and let him hold a Stone Dueling Assembly in Central Divine Continent!" Xia Wuji said, stroking his chin. It was really too profitable. No wonder the Stone Dueling Assembly was controlled by the major immortal forces of the Eastern Region in rotation. This business was almost guaranteed to make a profit!
Li Ruoyu was calm, after all, the previous Stone Dueling Assembly was hosted by the Dao Saint Sect.
At this time, Li Beifei was staring at the source mines placed regularly in the center with his eyes shining. There were tens of thousands of source mines, divided into two areas. There were more source mines in one area, obviously this area was to provide stones for the preliminary round contestants to choose, and the other area was naturally for the semi-finals.
"Old Six, can you see through the things inside?" Li Beifei asked in his heart.
"Are you looking down on me?" Old Six's disdainful voice sounded. This kid actually asked such a mentally retarded question. Besides the powerhouses above the Breaking Dao realm, who can escape my eyes?
"Then I'll have to trouble you later. You don't have to pick anything too awesome for me, just make sure I can advance!"
Li Beifei's eyes were dark. Now he had a bold idea in his heart. Purple Subtlety Holy Land, right? This time, I'll let you make a wedding dress for me!
Bai Yifei and the others did not know what Li Beifei was thinking. At this time, Bai Yifei frowned slightly, as if he had encountered a problem.
"Brother Bai, what's wrong?"
Li Ruoyu asked.
Bai Yifei said with an embarrassed expression: "This competition venue is arranged with a great formation to cover up the secrets of heaven. When I deduced the secrets of heaven, I encountered great resistance!"
"What?"
The few people were shocked. They were all relying on Bai Yifei this time, but now there was a change. Could it be that their one million high-grade source crystals would be wasted?
"Damn, this Purple Subtlety Holy Land is too cowardly, they actually arranged a great formation to cover up the secrets of heaven!" Xia Wuji, who had a lot of opinions on the Purple Subtlety Holy Land, complained.
Although they were now like the richest people of their generation, they also felt a pain in their flesh when they lost one million high-grade source crystals like this.
"What should we do?" Xuan Mingzi asked, he was thinking of earning some betrothal gifts before he came!
"Cold salad!" Bai Yifei shrugged. A great formation to cover up the secrets of heaven was arranged here, obviously targeting some people who practiced the Heavenly Mystery Dao. If he forcibly spied on the secrets of heaven, he might be backlashed, which would not be worth the loss.
"Then let's rely on luck!" Xia Wuji sighed. He originally wanted to give the Purple Subtlety Holy Land a big loss, but now he could only rely on luck. After all, they were not source masters and would not use the means of seeking dragons and dividing veins.
Source masters, their lives are devoted to cultivating source techniques, they are good at finding source veins and source mines, they are extremely knowledgeable about the patterns of source mines, and naturally they are very confident in gambling stones and stone duels. Some powerful source masters can even use the power of the earth to build great formations to defend against and kill enemies, but this level of source master has not appeared for tens of thousands of years. The path of the source master is even more difficult than becoming a saint.
Several people had not been involved in source techniques, and at this time they could only rely on luck.
At this time, Li Beifei very saucily flicked his hair and said: "Don't worry, with me here, I guarantee you can all advance smoothly!"
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