Chapter 3766 — The Newcomers' Challenge
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
Whether his score rose or fell thereafter would depend entirely on how he performed in the tournament to come.
Still, not every newcomer was as well-capitalized as Wei Zhao. One had to know that the total scores of the vast majority of Qingyun Pavilion's newcomers across the previous two stages were generally only some ten or twenty points, and even with the initial points granted for the tournament stage, they generally did not exceed thirty points.
With so few points as their gambling capital, if their strength fell short, or if they failed to pick their opponents wisely, then perhaps after only a few rounds of the tournament, those points would be lost entirely.
In that case, no matter how low the rank of the cave dwelling they occupied, they would lose the right to initiate challenges; and if others came to challenge them and they lost yet again, the challengers would duly gain the challenge points and the cave dwelling, while their own points could only be driven down into the negative.
Any newcomer who sank to the level of negative points had essentially said farewell to the Three-Tiered Pavilion, for this was simply an indelible stain. Even if in days to come they succeeded in establishing their foundation, the Three-Tiered Pavilion would absolutely never accept such a newcomer. After all, word of it would be a disgrace to speak of.
Beyond that, this tournament stage, like the spirit-herb trial stage, was a war of endurance, set to last a full two months.
On every day whose final digit was three, six, or nine, each newcomer had one opportunity to issue a challenge and one opportunity to accept a challenge. And if multiple people issued challenges to the same person, the one who issued the challenge first would obtain the right to challenge, and the challenged party could not refuse.
The other challengers could only be regarded as having issued invalid challenges, and were free to go challenge other targets.
Thus, over the two months to come, there would be eighteen rounds of the tournament in total.
Though not everyone would necessarily take part in every round, the assessment points meant more to the newcomers than a direct bearing on the final rewards; more critically, they would directly influence the Three-Tiered Pavilion's evaluation of them, bearing on their future prospects. It would not be an exaggeration to call these assessment points the very root of their lives.
In such an atmosphere, any newcomer would absolutely never let slip any opportunity to gain points, and the tournament stage was precisely the perfect means of bringing this competition to its most white-hot intensity.
Unless a newcomer had utterly given up all hope, those lagging in the rankings would inevitably seize every chance to challenge, and the hardship of the tournament process could well be imagined. And remember, this was not one match or two, but a full two months of it.
What was more, besides the tournament, they also had to tend to the cultivation of their spirit-herb seeds; otherwise, even if they achieved notable results in the tournament, their scores would ultimately be dragged down by those withered spirit-herb seeds, and they might even have points deducted in the end, in which case all their painstaking efforts would be swept away like water down a drain.
So between the tournament and the cultivation of spirit-herb seeds, everyone was bound to strike a balance; the only difference was whether one leaned a little more toward the tournament or a little more toward the spirit-herb seeds.
After all, they were not Wei Zhao; each person's reserves of true qi were limited, and once depleted, it took a great deal of time to recover.
If they went at the tournament too hard, the true-qi supply to their spirit-herb seeds would fall short and the seeds would wither; conversely, they would easily end up with no competitive edge in the tournament and have their points plundered by others.
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