Starting from helping someone rob a wedding, he was forced to hide in the Sunset Sect

Mahjong is an entertainment game launched by the government a hundred years ago. It is more difficult to get started than flying chess.

Over time, mahjong has gradually developed into a popular entertainment game.

There are dozens of mahjong parlors in every big city, and at least a few in every county town.

People would gather together to relax and enhance friendship by playing mahjong.

Xu Yeyu had seen mahjong in the county town before, but he wasn't very interested in it, so he didn't ask anyone what it was.

Luo Xuan came to the floating platform and asked the eighty monks to find a place to sit and wait for the mahjong competition to begin.

Xia Xiaomo sat at the table, lost in thought.

How come people from the ten major sects would organize an event like a mahjong competition?

If you don’t know, you might think they are a group of ordinary people, not monks.

Luo Xuan stood in the middle of the platform, holding four dark gray stones in his hands.

This is a projection stone. There are some runes engraved on the stone. The projection stone can project the image onto the receiving stone.

When the formations on the two stones are activated, the image-receiving stone can receive the images from the projection stone.

People can learn about distant scenes or events by watching the projected images.

Following Luo Xuan's gesture, four projection stones slowly rose up and floated in the four corners of the platform.

After a moment, the surfaces of the four projection stones began to glow faintly.

The monks present all had a question in their minds: who exactly was the Holy Son of the Hehuan Sect projecting the image to?

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An inn in Qianluo City is already full. It is not meal time, but it is still packed with people.

They were all waiting for the images from the image-collecting stone.

This morning, the government posted a notice in every restaurant, inn and teahouse in Qianluo City.

The general idea is that the activities held by the Hehuan Sect can also be watched by ordinary people. They can go to any restaurant, inn or teahouse in Qianluo City to watch.

Suddenly, the shadow-collecting stone in the corner emitted a faint light, projecting a picture that attracted everyone's attention.

The picture shows a group of monks sitting at a mahjong table.

"Am I seeing things? It turns out that monks also play mahjong?" a middle-aged man asked in surprise.

"The activities of the Hehuan Sect are really interesting. They even hold a mahjong competition!" another person exclaimed.

"It seems that it will be difficult to get a seat in the Mahjong Hall in Qianluo City in the future." A young man said with a smile.

Not only this inn, but also restaurants, inns and teahouses in Qianluo City were playing this scene.

After the people from the Xingtian Division learned that the Hehuan Sect was holding an event in Qianluo City, they decided to allow ordinary people to watch. They hoped that through this event, ordinary people would have a deeper understanding of cultivators.

Monks are also human beings.

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Luo Xuan took out dozens of pieces of paper from the storage ring, on which were written detailed mahjong rules.

Of course, he took into account that some monks might not have been exposed to this game, so he specially prepared these papers.

Although mahjong has been promoted for a hundred years, there are still some people who have lived in small towns or villages since childhood and later became monks without ever being exposed to mahjong.

"If any fellow Taoists don't understand the rules of mahjong, they can come to me and get a piece of paper which explains the rules of mahjong in detail." Luo Xuan said.

Mahjong uses a deck of 136 tiles, including three suits: Wan, Tiao, and Tong. Each suit has tiles numbered from one to nine, and there are also special tiles such as Hong Zhong, Fa Cai, and Bai Ban.

Mahjong requires four players. Each player will receive thirteen random cards at the beginning, and then take turns to draw and play cards until one of the players wins.

The following are some common winning hand patterns.

Ping Hu, the hand has no special card pattern, but meets the basic combination requirements for winning, also known as Ji Hu, which is the winning with the smallest odds.

Seven pairs, seven pairs in the hand.

All the same suit, consisting of ordinal cards of the same suit, such as only strip cards, only tube cards, etc.

Mixed color, composed of ordinal cards and character cards of one suit, for example, only the tube card and the middle white.

The hand is made up of wind cards and arrow cards.

Gang Shang Kaihua: The card you touch after you have made a Gang card is used to win the game immediately.

Qiang Gang Hu: When other players make an open or concealed Gang, you can Hu the card that was Ganged. There is a nickname called "Murderous and Heart-breaking Hu".

There are also some card types such as Qing Yao Jiu, Xiao Sixi, Xiao San Yuan, etc., but no one may be able to win with these card types even after playing mahjong for several days.

There are also more difficult types of cards to win, such as Four of Happiness, Nine Lotus Lanterns, Thirteen Yaos, etc. You may not be able to win with them even after playing mahjong for several years.

When any player wins, the game ends and the player gets the corresponding points.

If no player wins, the game is called a draw.

There were only a dozen monks from Luo Xuan's side who came to collect the papers. Most of them knew how to play mahjong. They had more or less come into contact with this game in the mortal world before.

The monk who does not know the rules of mahjong is concentrating on looking at the winning hand patterns, hoping that the first stage of the mahjong competition will start later.

"Of course, if you are not sure whether you can win, you can find the three monks from the Xingtian Division next to me. They can help you confirm whether you can win. If you don't know how to count, you can also call them." Luo Xuan said, pointing to the three monks next to him.

The younger generation of Xingtiansi all know how to play mahjong. To put it bluntly, Xingtiansi is also a government agency, so there is no reason why they don’t know how to play its own game.

"Each game of mahjong will only have two rounds, which means that each person takes turns to be the banker twice. The banker can continue to be the banker if he wins. When three people are eliminated or two rounds are played, the monk with the most chips will enter the next round." Luo Xuan explained.

Otherwise, if you win once and I win once, then how long will this game end?

"Everyone has their own chips at your table. When you lose all your chips, you can choose to leave through the teleportation array, or you can stay here and watch other people's games."

Xia Xiaomo looked at her chips and remembered that the last time she played mahjong was several years ago. She felt that her luck in playing mahjong was pretty good.

"During the Mahjong Competition, all Taoists are prohibited from using spiritual consciousness or other cheating behaviors. Once discovered, you will be disqualified from this event."

"We will give everyone five minutes to prepare. The first stage of the mahjong competition will begin in five minutes." Luo Xuan said.

Within five minutes, several monks who didn't know how to play mahjong also understood something. Their memory and comprehension were better than those of ordinary people.

Just remember the common winning hand patterns.

"After two rounds, there are only five people left. How do we decide the other three in the top eight?" A cultivator in the Foundation Establishment stage raised his hand and asked.

When Luo Xuan heard this question, he was shocked, luckily this person reminded him.

Because he didn't know how many monks would attend, he had never thought about this issue.

"Don't worry about that. I will arrange for the Taoist friends who win the first game to participate in the elimination match to determine the top eight positions."

Luo Xuan paused for a moment and continued, "Then, I declare that the Mahjong Competition officially begins!"

Luo Xuan picked up the kettle and took a sip of water, thinking that he should ask a junior fellow student to come over and announce the rules.

It feels a bit strange that I, a son of God, am hosting a mahjong competition.

Just as he was thinking about this, he saw three monks standing up, with strange expressions on their faces.

"My friend, you are so perverted!"

"Who wants to play mahjong with you like this?"

"Can we still play?"

The three monks decided to leave and walked straight to the teleportation array, leaving this sad place. They didn't want to see mahjong again.

Xia Xiaomo held the chips of the three of them, and she thought to herself, is my luck so good?