Chapter 978 – Entering the Arena for the First Time
Chapter 978 – First time in the arena
In the blink of an eye, a month had passed in a hurry.
The immortal qi of Zhangwei Mountain was too barren, and after a month and a half of cultivation, Xu Chuniang finally replenished the immortal qi in her body.
On this day, she left half of the one hundred Immortal Crystals she had earned for Xiao Bai, and with only fifty-eight Immortal Crystals on her body, she left Zhangwei Mountain.
As she descended the mountain, she passed by Elder Gong’s stone house, and Elder Gong reminded her, “Tomorrow the mountain fog will lift, just right for going up to the mountain to cut down the Accumulated Snow Pine, are you sure you don’t want to leave again in just two days?”
“No.”
Xu Chuniang politely refused, “Cutting down the snow pines requires a lot of Immortal Qi, and if you want to replenish the consumed Immortal Qi, it will take a lot of time to go back and forth.”
Gong Lao nodded slightly, “Alright, since you’ve already made up your mind, then I won’t say anything else, be careful when you go to the fighting arena, if you have any accidents, those debts owed to me can all fall on your brother.”
“I know, if everything goes well, I will soon be able to pay off the money I owe you.”
“I hope so.”
Gong Lao watched Xu Chuniang go far away until the other party’s figure completely disappeared from sight before he withdrew his gaze, silently shook his head, and stepped back into the stone house.
After leaving Zhangwei Mountain, Xu Chuniang traveled all the way towards the direction of Floating Jade City, and in less than an hour, she arrived near Floating Jade City.
This time, she only used five Immortal Crystals to buy a one-day entry order to the city.
After joining the fighting arena, she would automatically become a member of the arena, and at that time, there would be someone who would help her apply for the entry order, and even her place of residence had been arranged.
Xu Chuniang received the entry order, and after a month and a half, she stepped into Floating Jade City once again.
During her absence, not much had changed in the city.
After entering the city, she headed straight for the fighting arena, and the guards guarding the entrance to the arena were once again two sets of new faces.
Before the two spoke, Xu Chuniang explained her intentions, stating that she wanted to enter the fighting arena.
The two guards sniffed and sized her up, “After entering the fighting arena, you may not leave the arena until you have fought a hundred matches, and you must fight ten matches in the arena every month, are you aware of that?”
The last time she came to the fighting arena, Xu Chuniang had already carefully read the contract and was familiar with the rules of the arena.
She calmly said, “I’ve already understood these, and I accept all the conditions.”
The two guards glanced at each other, and one of them took out a contract and a pen from their storage immortal artifacts and handed them to Xu Chuniang.
“Since it’s all clear, then sign this contract, and once you’ve signed it, I’ll bring you into the fighting arena and receive one hundred Immortal Crystals.”
Xu Chuniang took the contract and gave it a cursory scan, confirming that there were no problems before picking up the pen and writing her name on the contract.
After she put pen to paper, the contract suddenly split from it, splitting into two halves, and each complementing the rules, growing into two identical contracts.
The guard took one of them and pointed at the remaining one in her hand, “Keep this contract, when you have fought a hundred matches and want to leave the arena, you only need to bring this contract with you to terminate the contract with the arena.”
Xu Chuniang understood and put away the contract in her hand, and suddenly asked, “If I don’t want to leave the arena for the time being after a hundred fights, will I still have the chance to leave in the future?”
The guard swept her a glance, and in a good mood answered the question, seeing as she had made herself earn immortal crystals.
“When you’ve fought a full hundred matches and still want to continue to renew your contract with the fighting arena, you’ll have to sign a new contract.
Alright, come with me, I’ll take you to collect your Immortal Crystals first, and later on, someone will take you to familiarize you with the environment of the fighting arena and send you to your place of residence.”
Saying that, he took out a special formation talisman to activate it, and the real entrance to the fighting arena appeared in the mountain forest on the side.
Xu Chuniang followed behind the guards and walked into the fighting arena, which had a different world inside, not only did it cover an extremely large area, the scenery was also new and eye-opening. The guards brought Xu Chuniang to a small building, and soon a scantily clad female Immortal walked out of the small building.
She smiled as she sized Xu Chuniang up and looked at the guard, “This is the newcomer you were talking about, right?”
The guard nodded and took out the contract he had just signed, handing it over to the visitor, “The contract is here, I’ll leave first if there’s nothing else.”
“Alright, you go ahead and get busy.”
After the female immortal watched the guard leave, she swept a glance at the contract in her hand and looked at Xu Chuniang.
“Your Excellency is Fairy Xu, right? Seeing as you’re not too old, why are you thinking of taking the path of the fighting arena?”
“To come to the fighting arena, naturally I want to earn immortal crystals.”
“Hehe, that’s right, if it weren’t for earning Immortal Crystals, who would be willing to sell their lives?”
The female Immortal smiled kindly, with a good-natured look that could easily make people feel good.
“Let’s go, I’ll first take you to familiarize yourself with the environment of the arena, follow me closely, the formations in the arena are very complicated, if you don’t pay attention, it’s easy to lose them.”
Xu Chuniang followed behind the guiding female immortal, listening to her introduce the fighting arena.
“The entire fighting arena is divided into three main areas, the outer arena, the inner arena and the backyard, where we are now is the outer arena, while the inner arena is where the fighters fight, where a lot of people will pay to watch the bouts.
As for the backyard, it is where you usually live.
Fighters are not allowed to leave the arena at will, and only have the opportunity to apply to go out once a month, and the maximum length of time should not exceed three days, and every time you go out, there will also be a special person to follow you.”
The female immortal said while gauging Xu Chuniang’s complexion, seeing that she did not show any dissatisfaction, she explained with a faint smile.
“Because there have been many cases of fighters fleeing privately from the arena in the past, so although these rules are a bit unreasonable, they are also things that can’t be helped, so I hope Immortal Xu can understand.”
These rules, Xu Chuniang had read about them in the contract long before she signed it, so naturally, she would not have any objections.
After leading Xu Chuniang through the outer field, the female immortal catalyzed the formation talisman and led her into the inner field.
“The entire inner arena is divided into dozens of fighting arenas of varying sizes, Immortal Xu, as a newcomer who has just joined the fighting arena, has a default rank of Dingxia, and in the future, will also start her conquests from the lowest level of the fighting arena.
Like here, it’s a D ranked arena.”
Xu Chuniang swept a glance, the D grade arena in front of her wasn’t big, excluding the ring in the very center, it could only accommodate a few hundred people.
The female immortal explained, “There aren’t many people who watch D ranked bouts, so D ranked arenas tend to be the smallest, and when you have a higher rank and are promoted to C rank in the future, you’ll naturally be able to travel to bigger arenas and be noticed by more people.”
Moving up from D lower to C lower was separated by three levels, and for each level up, one had to win five consecutive matches, which was not an easy task.
After visiting the inner arena, the two went to the backyard.
Under the guidance of the female immortal, Xu Chuniang received a hundred immortal crystals with the contract in her hand.
“Many people come to the fighting arena to wrestle for a chance when they are desperate, and these people often don’t even have their body’s Immortal Qi replenished, so these one hundred Immortal Crystals can help you quickly replenish the Immortal Qi you have consumed.”
The female Immortal paused and said with intent, “However, as I see Immortal Xu, she has plenty of Immortal Qi in her body, so it seems that she doesn’t need to use Immortal Crystals to replenish her Immortal Qi.”
(End of chapter)