Chapter 3706 — The New Rules
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 3
This newcomer assessment, astonishingly, ranked the newcomers of the Three-Tiered Pavilions separately!
The top three of each of the Three-Tiered Pavilions would receive a Foundation Establishment Pill or a Foundation Establishment Barrier-Breaking Pill; the fourth through tenth places would receive three spirit jades; and after the tenth place, nothing at all.
Apart from redistributing their respective cave dwellings according to rank, and the top three being allowed to choose pills, this reward scheme was almost identical to the newcomer trial in the back mountain two days ago!
By all logic, just as with the previous newcomer trial, such rules ought to have been a godsend to the naturally disadvantaged newcomers of the Azure Cloud Pavilion; after all, their strength was generally feeble, and if they were made to compete with the newcomers of the Soaring Heaven Pavilion and the Mystic Mechanism Pavilion, they could never dream of obtaining such lavish rewards as Foundation Establishment Pills or Foundation Establishment Barrier-Breaking Pills.
But do not forget: this newcomer assessment differed from that back-mountain newcomer trial in one vital respect—its ranking would bear directly on the allocation of cave dwellings!
Under the rules of the ranking matches in years past, even a grassroots newcomer of the Azure Cloud Pavilion, so long as his strength sufficed, could in the end obtain all the finest cultivation resources, cave dwellings included; and a formidable figure like Wei Zhao could even take Cave Dwelling Number One at the summit for himself!
Yet once things were switched to this present newcomer assessment, though it might be glad tidings for the弱者 who kept to the sidelines, it was also tantamount to naturally erasing their chance to rise against and surpass the newcomers of the Soaring Heaven Pavilion and the Mystic Mechanism Pavilion!
In other words, a newcomer of the Azure Cloud Pavilion like Wei Zhao, no matter how strong, could no longer dream of Cave Dwelling Number One at the summit; even if he could effortlessly crush his opponents, it would be of no use. Cave Dwelling Number One at the summit belonged to the Soaring Heaven Pavilion and would forever belong to the Soaring Heaven Pavilion—the newcomers of the Azure Cloud Pavilion could never hope to lay a finger on it!
In the ranking matches of years past, the newcomers of the Three-Tiered Pavilions all started from the same line; what cultivation resources one obtained depended entirely on one's own strength, and it was on the whole fairly just. But this newcomer assessment, for all its many variations and its look of greater scientific rigor, in truth naturally favored the newcomers of the Soaring Heaven Pavilion!
This was the so-called more equitable newcomer assessment! Wei Zhao could not help but give a cold laugh. Though he had no interest whatsoever in Cave Dwelling Number One at the summit, at this moment a surge of indignation still rose in his heart.
"This assessment is plainly partial to the newcomers of the Soaring Heaven Pavilion! Even if their strength is utter rubbish, they can sit back without a care and enjoy the finest cave dwellings. Pavilion Master Hu, and you dare call this fair?" Qiao Hongcai at the side suddenly called out in a loud, clear voice.
He was a straight-tempered man who hated evil as his enemy; on his very first day at the Welcome Pavilion he had dared to question injustice, and at a moment like this he would naturally not shrink back.
And his challenge struck a chord not only with the ambitious newcomers of the Azure Cloud Pavilion, but even with the old-timers of the Mystic Mechanism Pavilion, who echoed him one after another—and among them, Dongfang Badao and a few others were the most indignant of all.