The finals were over, and the rewards were given out. It seemed like it was time for the Eight City Sword Tournament to end. After everyone received their rewards, they should go home and wait for another ten years!
Most of the competitions were like this.
However, this was not the case for the Sword Among Eight Cities Tournament. The end of the finals was only the first half of the Sword Among Eight Cities Tournament. What was really exciting was the second half of the Sword Among Eight Cities Tournament. It was the Challenge Matches that all the players were fascinated by, full of suspense, and full of excitement!
According to the statistics, the Challenge Tournament was the most watched competition among the Eight City Sword Tournament. The number of people who watched the main competition usually accounted for about 45% of all the players. However, the final Challenge Tournament accounted for 78% of all the players. More than three-quarters of the players watched the Challenge Tournament together. This was the most exciting part of the Eight City Sword Tournament!
So what exactly was the Challenge Competition?
Simply put, the junior would succeed the senior. A player of a lower level would challenge a player of a higher level. For example, an ancient sword player would challenge a treasured sword player, and a treasured sword player would challenge a famed sword player.
It was conceivable that this would be an extremely difficult task. A battle between two sword-bearers of a lower level would definitely be extremely difficult. At the same time, this battle would also be very entertaining, full of thrilling gimmicks.
Of course, this was not an easy thing to do. Only the top players could do it. In order to prevent the Challenge Tournament from becoming a boring one-sided battle, only the top players among the top players were qualified to participate in the Challenge Tournament … According to the rules of the Eight City Sword Tournament, only the top player of the group was qualified to participate in the Challenge Tournament. In other words, only players like Guhan who had won the championship could participate in the Challenge Tournament.
This was the real reason why Guhan participated in the Eight City Sword Tournament. The rewards given in the Challenge Tournament were the ones that could really move Guhan. They were far more exciting and powerful than the reward of the first place in the treasured sword level!
According to the rules of the Challenge Tournament, the rewards were not given by the system. They were taken from the players!
Take Guhan as an example. If Guhan could defeat a player in the famed sword group, then the Sword Essence Oral Fluid obtained by that player would become Guhan's Sword Essence Oral Fluid. On the other hand, if Guhan lost, the Sword Essence Oral Fluid in Guhan's hands would become that player's.
Therefore, Gu Han didn't drink his Sword Element Oral Solution. Once he drank it, he would automatically lose the qualification to participate in the challenge. He didn't even have a stake, so how could he participate in the gamble?
Speaking of gambling, in the system's activity interface, there was a public gambling option called the Sword Tournament Welfare Lottery.
This was an option that would only appear when the finals were over and the Challenger League had begun. At this time, everyone could place their bets on the Sword-on-Sword Welfare Lottery event page. The wager was RMB, and the bets were based on how far the players who participated in the Challenger League could advance!
Taking Gu Han as an example, Gu Han was one of the bets that the players were betting on in the Challenger League. There were a few options.
First: Guhan failed the challenge and was unable to defeat any opponent in the famed sword group. Odds: 1: 150.000.
In other words, if you bet that Gu Han would not be able to defeat any of the opponents in the Famed Swords Group, you would receive a reward of 150 times your bet … Don't ever doubt that the banker, or the System, would lose money with this payout, because this payout was calculated through an extremely complicated algorithm. The System took 30% of the winnings as a bonus and calculated it, so it would definitely not lose money.
In other words, most of the players who had bought the lottery felt that it was impossible for Guhan to be unable to defeat a famed sword level opponent. The number of people who bought this option was pitifully small, not even 1/150 of them.
Second: Guhan succeeded the challenge and was able to defeat players below the top 128. Odds: 1: 12.223.
This meant that most gamblers believed that Guhan would be able to defeat players above the top 128 in the famed sword level. That was why the odds were still as high as 12 times.
Third: Guhan succeeded the challenge and was able to defeat players above the top 128 but below the top 16. Odds: 1: 1.589.
Fourth: Guhan succeeded the challenge and was able to defeat players above the top 16 but below the top 4. Odds: 1: 0.256.
At this moment, the payout rate had actually dropped by five times. The payout rate for ten dollars was 2.3 dollars at most. This meant that in the hearts of most gamblers, Gu Han's strength was around the top 16 to the top 4 of the Famed Sword Level.
This was already quite a high opinion of Gu Han. In the history of the Challenger League, there had only been one Treasured Sword level player who had managed to defeat a Famed Sword level player who was ranked in the top four and above, becoming the only Treasured Sword level player in the Eight Cities Tournament. Everyone should have heard of this player many times. He was the Double Sword Emperor in the game and in real life, the creator of the Great Ocean Waves, Sword Emperor Gu Jinfeng!
However, the odds for Gu Jin Bureaucrat's fourth option were only 1: 1.225, and the odds for his third option were 1: 0.312. This meant that the gamblers thought that Gu Jin Bureaucrat was more likely to defeat players above the top 128 but below the top 16, not players above the top 16 but below the top 4.
In the eyes of the current players, Guhan was already stronger than Gu Jin Bureaucrat of the past!
There was nothing much to say about the odds for the following options. The odds for buying the fifth option: Guhan could defeat the top player of the famed sword level had risen to 1: 5.687, and the odds for the sixth option: Guhan could defeat a spirit sword level player had fallen to 1: 128.047, which was the same odds as those who thought that Guhan could not defeat a famed sword level player.
Defeating a spirit sword level swordsman as a treasured sword level swordsman?
This was something that Gu Jin Bureaucrat could not do back then!
As for the following options, such as defeating the top 128, top 16, first place, and so on, the odds had soared to thousands of times.
There was also the option to defeat an immortal sword level swordsman. The odds were as high as hundreds of thousands of times. Because no one was buying, the odds were naturally infinitely high.
Guhan looked at his account. After such a long time of accumulating rewards, it had actually accumulated to as much as 70 million RMB. This was not a small amount. If he made the wrong choice, he would lose all of it!
"Fine!
Fortune comes from danger! "
Just as Guhan was about to click on an option, Tomono Kakaze's voice suddenly appeared in Guhan's ear. "Guhan, you can't buy this lottery ticket!"
"Why?" Guhan was stunned and asked.
"You're usually so smart, but why are you so stupid now?!"
Tomono Kakaze's child-like voice was very unhappy. "If you bet that you can only defeat the top 128 and then deliberately lose to the opponent, what fairness is there to speak of?
Victory and defeat are all in your hands. This is equivalent to manipulating the game, do you understand? "
"Of course I understand this!" Guhan nodded. "I promise, I will definitely go all out, is that okay?"
"You say you will go all out, and I will believe you?"
Guhan could imagine the look of Tomono Kakaze on the other end of the call, looking at a fool. "Even if I believe it, will the other players believe it?
Unless you bet on the option that you can defeat the spiritual sword top 16 and above, no one will believe that you will go all out! "
"So, according to what you mean, as long as I buy the option of the spiritual sword top 16 and above, it will be okay, right?" Guhan asked.
"Hey, don't you think that you can really defeat the spiritual sword level swordsman?" Tomono Kakaze asked in surprise.
"You don't have to worry about this, you just need to tell me whether it is okay or not!"
"Yes, it is totally okay!"
Tomono Kakaze said generously, "Anyway, I can't get a share of the bet. As long as you can prove that you will go all out and not fake the game, that is enough!
You can choose the option of the spiritual sword top 16! "
"Thank you!"
Gu Han cupped his hands towards Tachibana Tachibana and clicked on a certain option. In an instant, he spent all of his 70 million RMB on it.
"You're a madman!"
Seeing the option that Guhan had chosen and the odds that had been reduced from 140,000 to 390 times, Tomono Kakaze felt as if she had seen a madman. Was this Guhan a fool, or was he too confident?
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"So you're the Military Governor that Little Yin mentioned!"
At three o'clock in the morning, when Guhan was about to go offline, he unexpectedly found that Lu Xihua was still online, and she even contacted him through the communication device to ask to meet. Thus, Guhan brought Lu Xihua to his home. The first sentence that Lu Xihua said when they met was this.
"I'm the Military Governor, is that strange?" Guhan curled his lips. "Did I hide my game name from you?"
"No, I mean, I didn't expect you to be so famous. You're the person that Little Yin mentioned who charged five yuan to read the post!"
Lu Xihua lowered her head and was silent for a while. "I watched the live broadcast today. I didn't expect you to be so strong, so strong that I can't even compare to a single hair of yours!"
"So?
So what do you think? "Guhan asked with a smile.
"So, can you teach me a little more?!
Don't always teach me those repetitive basic sword techniques. I can even repeat those things in my dreams! "
There was some resentment in Lu Xihua's words. She had been practicing with Guhan for several days, but Guhan always taught her the same basic sword techniques over and over again … This made Lu Xihua, who was extremely talented, very helpless and dissatisfied. She felt that she had reached the end of these basic sword techniques, and there would be no growth even if she continued to practice them!
Especially when she found out that Guhan was so strong today, the resentment in her heart about Guhan instantly broke out.
"You want to become stronger!
This makes me very happy. I also hope that you can become stronger and become a hindrance to me in the future! "
Guhan touched Lu Xihua's head. When Lu Xihua's head was pressed by Guhan's hand, she instantly calmed down, and her original resentment seemed to disappear without a trace.
"Don't ever think that basic sword techniques can't improve you, because a person's foundation will never be solid. Back then, I also practiced basic sword techniques for three years to achieve what I have now.
Even until today, I have to practice basic sword techniques again every day, do you understand? "
"Don't worry. I've already considered all aspects of your growth. Believe me, you'll understand my painstaking efforts very soon!"
Guhan patted Lu Xihua's head, and Lu Xihua moaned … This guy, he actually fell asleep comfortably in the game!