Douluo: This time we will rewrite our destiny

Chapter 200 Underground Soul Master Elite Competition

According to what Bai Tan said, Huo Yuhao and his party quickly turned around the corner. The hotel where the competition was held was as bright as a golden glass lamp in the sparse and deserted streets.

"That's how it is here," Xiao Hongchen said, "Once the curfew time comes, there are only a few fixed places that are lit up. During the day, the places where the sun shines are safe; at night, the places where the light shines are dangerous. This The hotel should be the largest Odu Hotel in this area.”

Huo Yuhao walked at the front. He quickly scanned the area around the hotel to confirm the safety situation.

The architectural style of this hotel is different from that of the guild. It is more like the modern hotels commonly seen in Mingdu. It is obviously closer to the lives of ordinary residents than the bounty hunter guild. I think it will be open for normal business during the day, maybe this time it was just a sudden requisition.

At the front entrance of the hotel, four strong men over two meters tall and wearing tight-fitting black suits stood, looking at the flow of people passing by with cold eyes.

Huo Yuhao took another step forward, and immediately a strong man in black came up to stop him: "The hotel has been requisitioned during the competition and is not open to the public."

"We are here to participate in the Mingdu Soul Master Elite Competition." Huo Yuhao said politely.

The strong man in black was stunned for a moment, and the expression on his face obviously softened a bit. The status of soul masters in the Sun and Moon Empire is much higher than that of other countries. It is never a wise choice to offend a soul master here, regardless of the other party's level. What's more, this competition is indeed important to the Austrian Chamber of Commerce.

"I understand." The man nodded immediately, his expression gradually showing the common respect people have for soul mentors, "The preliminaries are in progress. Please wait a moment while I contact the staff in charge of registration for the competition."

After saying that, he immediately turned around and walked towards the stairs leading to the underground floor. After a while, a man wearing a snowman hood and thick white clothes came upstairs and quickly came to them. The snowman's hood made this man look top-heavy and a little funny. He had a long carrot nose and black buttons sewn where his eyes should be. For a while, everyone didn't know how this man could see the road clearly.

"Everyone, please follow me." He said, and Huo Yuhao and his party realized that this was a man. "I am the general manager of the Aodu Chamber of Commerce Division in this competition. Just call me Snowman."

This is also the codename of a bounty hunter. Huo Yuhao was a little surprised. Logically speaking, they did not show any identity and should not be greeted by the general manager. Xiao Hongchen seemed to be aware of Huo Yuhao's doubts. He touched the latter's arm, took a step forward, and lowered his voice and said, "Internal response."

Huo Yuhao looked at Xiao Hongchen, and then at the man in the snowman hood in front of him. The snowman nodded towards Xiao Hongchen, and then tilted his head at Huo Yuhao. It looked funny but also a little scary.

"Okay, Mr. Snowman." Huo Yuhao said, "What is the registration process?"

"Register a code and pay one hundred gold soul coins as the entrance fee." Snowman said, and Huo Yuhao noticed that his voice was very clean, and it didn't sound like it was spoken by someone trapped in a hood. "But the last step has been omitted, because the noble vampire count has paid the entrance fee in advance for you."

After saying these words, Huo Yuhao felt truly relieved. If this person's head was normal, he would have believed Xiao Hongchen when he said it was an inside job, but people wearing hoods always subconsciously give people a sense of distrust, even if the hoods look childish and funny.

Snowman pulled out a registration form from his coat, and Huo Yuhao noticed that there were already densely packed names on it. "So many people?" He was a little surprised. It was indeed rare for such an underground competition to be held on such a scale.

"Our competition area already has the smallest number of applicants." Snowman smiled and handed over the pen, "But I believe that you and your lover can represent the Aodu Chamber of Commerce and shine in the competition."

Huo Yuhao didn't respond to the flattery. He took the pen and quickly wrote down his and Chi Qiu's code names on the registration form.

"Oh!" Snowman's tone sounded quite excited, "What a codename that suits you two. I believe you will become an impressive being. Then please come into the venue and let me explain this competition to you two. background and circumstances.”

The snowman talks a lot. On the long stairs leading underground, Huo Yuhao learned that the competition system of this soul mentor elite competition was not too rigorous.

The first thing to do is the qualifying competition, and all soul engineers under the age of thirty can participate. The requirement of the qualifying round is to make a fourth-level soul guide, then you can enter the next round and have real qualifications for the competition.

For Huo Yuhao now, this is easier than the quiz at the Sun and Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy. However, the level of fourth-level soul instructors is already the backbone of the folk soul instructors in the entire Sun and Moon Empire - no matter how strong they are, they will be able to eat more or less royal food, or have the endorsement of big forces behind them.

This underground competition is nominally for gambling, so the qualifying rounds are naturally indispensable. The method of betting is very simple, just bet on how many people can pass the qualifying round. You can bet on specific numbers, or you can bet on odd or even numbers, or on multiples. The odds vary for each method.

Now, in the small closed square on the basement floor, the qualifying competition for the Austrian Chamber of Commerce Division is officially underway.

Because the production of soul guides does not end in a short time like a combat competition, this first round of competition gave the soul guides three days. The subsequent competitions are also knockout rounds, but the topics of the competitions will be different.

The three major black markets also specially invited a member of the Sun and Moon Empire's royal family and a powerful ninth-level soul engineer to serve as the chief referee. A referee committee composed of twelve soul engineers of level seven or above ensures the fairness of competitions and gambling.

This also made the significance of this competition clear: the royal family, especially Xu Tianran, said they hated gambling on the surface, but the royal family was endorsing this underground competition.

If you didn't understand all this under the cover of night, you would probably think that the Sun and Moon Royal Family's announcement to ban gambling in this competition was very righteous.

At present, more than 100,000 people have participated in gambling on this underground black market competition, and the amount of bets can be imagined.

In order to attract enough outstanding soul mentors to participate, the rewards of the competition are all rare metals.

Starting from the first round, as long as you pass a round, there will be rewards. Even the qualifying rounds are the same. With each round, the rewards will increase significantly.

The provider of the reward, even the Xishui Alliance, does not have such a huge reserve of rare metals. Moreover, in the Empire of the Sun and Moon, private mining of rare metal veins without permission is illegal and a felony. It is equivalent to stealing national property and will lead to jail time. of. Then the providers of these rare metals are also clear.

The three major black markets are also competing with each other, so the competition is divided into three divisions. In the end, the champions of each division will compete again. At that time, the three major black markets will also be betting on rare metals.

Huo Yuhao listened and had his own considerations. Of course, the championship must be won. Winning back these rare metals is of great significance to himself and Xiao Hongchen, the two major consumers of soul tools. In addition, if he can reach the finals of the three major competition areas, he will definitely come into contact with people from the Xishui League.

Now, Xiao Hongchen's team faced the Holy Spirit Sect during the day, and he also had to face the Xishui Alliance at night. "There was originally a step to confirm the soul master's identity." Seeing that the stairs were coming to the end, Snowman quickly concluded, "But I won't confirm it with you two. The venue for our competition is ahead."

As he spoke, he pushed open a simple mahogany door. After this night's experience, Huo Yuhao has summarized the style of the Aodu Chamber of Commerce: simple, full of original style, which also represents their original and simple style of behavior - immersed in those things directly related to life and death day and night. , in the matter of seeing blood. It is said that Xishui League is the opposite of this style. They package themselves very delicately.

Walking through the door, the spacious hall was beyond his imagination. The ceiling light shrouded the entire hall in bright and soft light, which just ensured the light intensity required for making soul guides.

The interior style of the hall is also very rough, with beams exposed on the dome. Under the curved dome are circles of viewing seats. The viewing area is roughly divided into eighteen areas, and each area has what looks like VIP seats. The same small room.

Under the tiers of seats is a competition area about the size of one and a half basketball courts. Dozens of metal tables are placed on it, and soul guides shine from time to time. Around the round table, there are also some metal tables placed, totaling more than a hundred. Some of the metal tables were now vacant.

"Those who can watch the game live must have bet at least 10,000 gold soul coins." Snowman clapped his hands at them, and his white gloves made a muffled "bang bang" sound, "They are all VIPs."

"Is this also the case in the underground arenas of the Xishui League and the Pingfan League?" Huo Yuhao asked calmly.

"Oh, as far as I know that's not the case." Snowman shook his head comically. Wang Dong, who was walking behind, tried hard to hold back a laugh because his carrot nose looked like it was about to fall off. "The underground arena of the Xishui League is The golden hall and Pingfanmeng’s are the renovation of the auction house.”

"Golden Hall?" Huo Yuhao pretended to ask casually, looking at the center of the competition field casually. As far as he was concerned, there were probably nearly two hundred people participating, and this was just one competition area.

"Maybe that's also an auction house." Snowman's tone became cautious, "But they didn't let me in, so I naturally can't make any more comments."

Golden Hall. Huo Yuhao chewed on this word. He remembered the time when he and Chi Qiu sneaked into the Xishui League to collect information. He was not sure whether the place he went to was the so-called golden hall, but it was indeed filled with gold everywhere, which was very dazzling.

At that time, Huo Yuhao had speculated that filling the entire space with gold would only be a monotonous and dazzling color no matter where he looked, which would also be a way to destroy the spirit.

It was also there that he witnessed the evil soul master's atrocities for the first time.

"Okay, auction house." Huo Yuhao said, "Now can I and... uh, Miss Dragon Witch enter the competition?" He was not used to calling out code names.

"Of course, Mr. Ice Wolf." Snowman answered his words with a smile, and then personally led him and Chiqiu to the center of the field. Xiao Hongchen and Wang Dong stood on the edge of the viewing area and waved to them: Of course, these two can watch the game without betting. In a sense, it's a back door.

The snowman led them to the center of the playing field, quite intent on drawing everyone's attention to these two special children. The table for making the soul guide is complete with all the materials, and most of the sand is left in the hourglass. An old man in yellow quickly came behind them. The snowman patted the old man on the shoulder and then walked out of the field.

"I am responsible for supervising your competition process." The old man in yellow explained his purpose in a concise and concise manner.

"It's just a fourth-level soul guide. This shouldn't be difficult for you, right?" Huo Yuhao looked at Chi Qiu who was already studying the materials. The latter smiled back and already used the "staff" to knock off a hard piece. Very high metal: "My little wolf, before this competition, I have passed the sixth-level soul engineer certification."

Huo Yuhao was stunned by this title, and his ears hidden under his cloak turned red. This is also his fault, because his soul master badge was awarded directly by Mr. Kong. Since he became a teacher of Mr. Kong, he no longer needs to participate in the unified assessment organized by the college with everyone. After all, what soul master assessment is more authoritative than Kong Deming's certification?

"Understood, my miko lady." He replied not to be outdone, and then turned his attention to the metal body on the table again. As if to cover up his blush, he easily picked out the piece that was most suitable for engraving the core array, and casually asked the old man in yellow who was supervising their competition: "Are you also a soul master? What level are you at now? "

However, the old man was a little shocked when he heard that Chi Qiu was a sixth-level soul engineer. Chi Qiu's appearance is in sync with Huo Yuhao's age, so in the eyes of the old man, this mysterious girl who is no more than 20 years old has become a sixth-level soul master - he is nearly 70 years old and is still a third-level soul master!

However, there was something even more shocking to him now.

He has supervised many competitions and has met quite a few high-level soul engineers. Among these people, Huo Yuhao was the first to start carving the fourth-level core array without making any metal shell in this assessment environment; and Huo Yuhao was the first to chat with him while distracted during the carving process. Only one copy.

Which soul master is not most attentive when carving the core array? That is a double consumption of mental and soul power. Once there is a slight deviation, all previous efforts will be wasted.

However, the boy in werewolf costume in front of him was indeed carving the core circle and talking to him: "How many games have you supervised? I see there are a lot of people signing up! The work must be hard, right?"

He really didn't know how to answer this kid's question. Hard? There is no hard work compared to carving a level 4 soul guide array while chatting away.

The key is, he ends it quickly. After a while, he placed a perfect core circle on a clean spot on the table. The mysterious girl was almost finished, but still slower than him.

As a third-level soul master, the old man in yellow looked at the fourth-level magic circle carved by Huo Yuhao, but he didn't understand it at all. What's this? He looked at the way those notches were connected in confusion, charging? break out? No...it's different from those formulaic core arrays on the market. This core array is full of personal style. To put it bluntly, it is the most important thing for a senior soul master: innovative inspiration.

What kind of metal shell should be matched with such a core array? He really couldn't think of it. Other senior soul engineers will at least lay down a foundation and give their ideas a shape, just like making a rough draft on a canvas before they can carve out the details.

But Huo Yuhao... just as if he was applying paint directly to the canvas, he picked up a few more pieces of metal seemingly casually, with a cold breath exuding in his hands. The crystal-clear carving knife flew up and down, and soon a white pistol The shell of the soul guide is completed. The speed of movement and the precision of the knife are impeccable.

What level of soul master is he? The old man in yellow clothes completely lost his judgment at this moment. That girl is at level six, and he is at least level seven? Eighth grade? The people brought by Snowman himself were definitely not weak. He was prepared for this, but Huo Yuhao still exceeded his imagination.

Huo Yuhao even had the leisure to carve his name on the barrel of the gun.

"I'm done." He raised the soul gun and made a fake gesture of pulling the trigger toward the sky. "After the level is verified, I can take it away by myself, right? This was done on a whim, based on the impression of a senior I just met."

Whim? He said everything just happened was just a whim?

Of course, the yellow-robed referee could not have imagined that the person in front of him was the disciple of National Master Kong Deming, the most outstanding genius in the field of soul tools in recent years.

(End of this chapter)