Imperial Capital, the imperial capital of the Tang Dynasty. This ancient city with a long history has been a capital city with cultural and economic heritage since before the Doomsday War, and now it can be called the pearl of Kyushu.
In the coming month, the imperial capital will be a prosperous and lively scene. Just because the New Era Cup finals will be held in the Imperial Capital.
The New Era Cup can be called a continent-wide martial arts feast. It is not only a stage for warriors to achieve their own goals, but also a window for the entire continent to witness the development of martial arts.
Therefore, at this time of year, a large number of spectators will flock to the host city of the New Era Cup to witness the grand event.
Just this year, the Imperial Capital Prefecture roughly predicts that nearly three million people will flock to the Imperial Capital to witness the finals.
Faced with this grand occasion, the Imperial City will lift the curfew during the finals, and will even open two secret realms to accommodate the sudden influx of spectators.
...Although Cai Lai Inn is just an ordinary restaurant in Jiangling District, the imperial capital, now that the New Era Cup final is approaching, the time has come
The situation of “it’s hard to find a room”. Because it is just an ordinary small restaurant, there is not even a singer or dancer in the lobby of Cailai Inn. After all, singers and dancers are in very short supply now.
But even so, the lobby of Cailai Inn is still full of people and full of people, making it a lively scene.
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"Excuse me, the New Era Cup preliminary stage rankings are newly released!" Although there is no singing and dancing to enjoy, the diners are not bored drinking in the hottest New Era Cup competition recently.
As soon as the call came out, the attention of most people in the hall was immediately attracted. It’s just that what everyone hears these days is
There have been enough "breaking news". Now when I hear such an extra account, the first thing that comes to my mind is
"Where did the gossip come from to deceive people?" No, someone answered the call as soon as he finished speaking.
"It's the latest release again. This is the ninth version I've heard today..."
"Yeah, I won't be in your version."
"Haha..." No one is annoyed by such teasing. Such a grand event is already very popular, and it is normal for all kinds of true and false news to spread. It is normal for them to discuss and tease each other.
The person who shouted at the beginning seemed to be confident and not in a hurry. After everyone had finished laughing, he continued: "I don't know if it is true or not, but it is definitely not hearsay..."
"Because this is the ranking in the battle report that just came out from the Ring Cup line..." This person held a stack of paper in his hand and waved it in the air, and then said
The "it doesn't matter" expression awaits everyone's surprised looks. Sure enough, as soon as these words came out, the people who were originally teasing him immediately changed their expressions.
"What! Ring Cup hotline? That's an absolutely authoritative battle report..."
"Is it really the Ring Cup line? Then there is nothing to doubt. As long as the battle report is from the Ring Cup line, it is absolutely true!" The people below exploded again, and they all wanted to see the battle report in this person's hand.
This person didn't dare to whet everyone's appetite at this time, so he opened the battle report in his hand and especially
The big words "Huanbei Special Line" appeared in front of everyone. Everyone became more anxious after receiving the confirmation. Some diners who had originally stood up to leave ordered a few bottles of wine and sat down.
"Tell me, who is on the ranking list?"
"Don't show off, tell me quickly..." Everyone couldn't help but urged in unison.
"Okay, okay, I will read this battle report to everyone now..."
"The rankings for the preliminary stage of the Ring Cup Special Line this time are different from the past. They are divided into a defensive ranking and a siege ranking. Fifty people will be selected for the defensive ranking and ten people will be selected for the siege ranking."
"Wait a minute, it's easy to choose ten people for this city siege ranking. It just depends on the record of the city siegeers. How do you look at this city defending ranking? How do fifty people from fifty cities compare?" The ranking list has not yet been announced, but Some people started to interrupt below and ask questions.
As soon as he finished speaking, someone else immediately joined the discussion.
"Young man, it's your first time watching the New Era Cup, right?" At this time, an older middle-aged man stood up and said.
The young man who asked the question did not dare to be arrogant and asked humbly: "I would like to ask this senior to give me some advice. This junior is indeed participating for the first time and does not know much about the rankings." When everyone heard that the young man was also a contestant, they immediately became interested in this young man. Look a little higher.
In normal times, young people can indeed be a bit arrogant, but now there is a mixed bag of fish and dragons in the imperial capital, and even the disciples of some powerful sects do not dare to act in a high-profile manner during this period.
In line with the principle of keeping a low profile, the young man clasped his fists and saluted everyone around him who praised him. The middle-aged man saw that the young man had a humble attitude and good senses, so he said patiently: "This is also a defense of the city, but the gold content in it cannot be compared..."
"Our Tang Dynasty is located in the middle state of the mainland, bordering the border desert to the north, the Southern Territory to the south, the large and small dependent countries to the east, and the Magic Alliance to the west across the Hades Sea. Although the fifty cities selected in the New Era Cup preliminary round, They are all important cities in the dynasty, but the environment determines the quality of warriors, so the strength of these fifty cities naturally differs..."
"For example, the north is adjacent to the border desert. The strength of the city is naturally not as good as that of the eastern city..." When the middle-aged man mentioned the rise, he completely forgot that his words were obviously regional and could easily cause unnecessary quarrels. .
As expected, before he could finish speaking, someone immediately retorted.
"I don't quite agree with your brother's opinion. Why can't our northern cities compare to those in the east? Let's talk about the important border defense town of Wangdu City, which has been in close contact with the border desert bandits all year round. Not to mention the border guards, even the common people dare to You fought the bandits with real swords and guns, do you dare to say that those wealthy towns in the east can have such strong folk customs?"
"Let's just say, there is also Ake City. Those are all cities that have left the mortal realm..." The spectators, who were obviously from the north, shouted in opposition at this time.
Spectators in the eastern towns were equally unhappy when they heard this.
"What use can the strong folk customs do? Who doesn't know that the towns in the north are poor, and warriors without resources and strength will naturally not be strong..."
"Yes, yes, the north is notoriously poor. How can it compare to the rich towns in the east..."
"What's wrong with being poor? We have backbone, unlike you in the east who are all a bunch of soft-legged shrimps..." Seeing that the topic was about to turn into regional prejudice, the person with the battle report hurriedly stepped forward to mediate.
"Okay, okay, stop arguing, do you still want to look at the rankings..."
"Rather than having meaningless internal fighting, let's take a look at the results of our Tang Dynasty warriors in the rankings..." As soon as these words came out, everyone gradually became quiet.
"The ranking basis for the city defense list is indeed what the brother said just now. However, the Ring Cup line refers to more information..."
"I won't hold back and will announce the ranking directly to everyone..." In order to avoid everyone interrupting again, the person fortunately turned around and came to an empty wall in the hall. There was a prepared pen and ink on the table next to him.
This is prepared by the innkeeper in advance, and the wall is specially reserved for everyone to write contest information. This is also an excellent means to attract guests.
After a while, two rankings appeared on the wall from top to bottom. Everyone looked at the colorful handwriting on the wall. They didn't have time to marvel at the person's writing skills before they were attracted by the content on the wall.
"On the city defense list, Lu Tiancheng is the fiftieth; Cao Baojun is the forty-ninth; the forty-eighth..." The city defense list is fifty, and most of the people ranked behind are the defenders of the edge towns, so they are Some of the people in the imperial capital did not know each other.
Until the top twenty, everyone gradually began to talk about it. By the time we reached the tenth place, everyone was already excited.
"Tenth place, Lu Xiaoran!"
"This person is the sixth son of Luliang Trading Company..." As soon as these words came out, many sour people appeared on the scene.
"No wonder, Luliang Trading Company is extremely wealthy. This tenth place must have been bought with money..." But someone quickly refuted him.
"Then you are wrong. Mr. Lu is guarding Jianghe City, an important town in the south, which is the transportation hub from the south to the central part of the dynasty. It is said that he accepted no less than thirty challenges during the half month he guarded the city..." Someone To clear Lu Xiaoran's name, everyone immediately changed their views on this rich kid.
"Master Lu is an Ivy League student from our Southern Territory..."
"But he also came from our Liang country..." In such a competition, being able to stand out represents not only personal glory but also the pride of a region.
Therefore, fighting like this
It is not uncommon to "claim" players during this period. The only way to stop this meaningless quarrel is to move on to the next topic as soon as possible.
"Ninth place, Li Yumin."
"This is a disciple from our ancient Sword Control Sect of the Tang Dynasty..."
"Eighth place, Wu Cheng."...
"Sixth place, Feng Tianxiao."
"Another Ivy League student from the Southern Territory..."...
"Fourth place, Zhang Linfeng."
"This is the rising star of the Imperial Capital in recent years..."
"Third place, Tang Yuyan."
"People from the royal family appeared..."
"But don't forget that she is participating as an Ivy League student..."...
"No surprise, the first place is none other than Wu Qing, the disciple at the bottom of the imperial capital..."
"It is said that he was guarding Hudu Town and no one dared to enter the city to challenge him!" The Hudu Town they were talking about was a small town outside the Imperial Capital and was regarded as the outpost of the Imperial Capital.
"That's inevitable. The Imperial Palace will train Wu Qing as the next Palace Master..." Although Wu Qing didn't take any action in the preliminary stage, it did not affect everyone's unanimous recognition of his strength.
Everyone moved their eyes from the city defense list to the siege list with only ten places on the side.
"This year's siege list should also be very valuable..."
"That's natural. The quality of the city defense list is so high, so naturally the siege list won't be much different..."
"Okay, okay, stop talking nonsense and quickly look at the siege list."
"Tenth, Sean."
"Southern Territory, Ivy League student."
"Ninth place, Ning Bo."
"Again Ivy League student?"
"There are quite a few Ivy League students on the list this time..."
"Well, you didn't go to see Ivy League's Shenwu Cup the year before last year. I went to watch the game. The quality of Ivy League students in recent years is indeed high..."
"It seems that Ivy League cannot be underestimated this year."
"I heard that this Ningbo is the leading student in this year's competition. He only got ninth place. It doesn't look like he can do well..."
"You must be ignorant. Ning Bo only took second place in the Shenwu Cup."
"Oh? Is there anyone more powerful than Ning Bo? Who is it?"
"I heard it was a guy named Changsun, but he suddenly disappeared for no reason a few months ago, and his whereabouts are still unknown..."
"What's the point of mentioning someone who has already died..."
"Yeah, let's look at the list."...
"Look at the genius commander of my Royal Forest Army on the list..."
"There is also the evil leader of the Southern Cross Legion's special operations team. He is really strong..."
"Yan Gexing is also on the list, so we know that she has been silent all these years just to wait for this explosion..."
"Hey, who is this fifth unknown Talisman Master?"
"I haven't heard of it either..." When everyone saw the fifth place
When the name of "Unknown Talisman Master" came out, everyone raised questions, but no one could tell the details of this person.
The person who wrote the list before saw that everyone was at a loss, so he slowly appeared.
"The identity of this unknown Talisman Master is still a mystery..." As soon as the person who wrote the list said this, he immediately attracted everyone's attention.
"Let's just say that this unknown talisman master is really mysterious. The Ring Cup Line has spent a lot of effort to find out his true identity. We only know that he came from the south a month ago. The route he chose to challenge is also extremely arrogant..."
"Oh?" Everyone suddenly became interested, and caught a lot of unusual news from these words.
First, this is a person whose identity cannot be found out even by the Ring Cup line. It can basically be said that this person just appeared out of nowhere.
Secondly, it took him only one month to reach the fifth position on the siege list, which can be called a monster.
The person who wrote the list picked up the pen again and clicked two points on the wall, and then a straight line connected the two points.
Everyone was puzzled, and the person who wrote the list had his chest rising and falling slightly, indicating that he was a little excited at the moment.
"This is the siege route he chose, directed towards the imperial capital, no matter who the opponent is!" Everyone studied it carefully for a moment, and instantly understood what he meant, and then they all took a breath.
"What he means is...this unknown Talisman Master only has eyes for the Imperial City and doesn't care who his opponent is on the route?!"
"That's so arrogant. Isn't this looking down on the world's heroes?"
"But I have the strength, and I haven't lost a single thing so far!"
"So strong..."
"This...who is he?"
