The difficult path of cultivation for a grassroots female practitioner

Soon, the steward Luo who was called came over. She was a female monk who looked very capable.

She took Xiao Han to a small reception room next door, and then personally poured Xiao Han a cup of spiritual tea.

"Senior, whatever you want to ask, I can answer you." She sat down opposite Xiao Han.

Xiao Han asked, "Can you tell me about the rules of the competition? Also, can anyone apply to participate?"

The female steward smiled and replied, "Yes, anyone can participate in the competition, but the opponents must be paired up and designated by us. As for the rules of the competition, you can only use magic to attack. As long as you cannot take the opponent's life, you can injure or disable them.

Generally speaking, in a match, if both sides tie within the specified time and there is no winner, each person can get 15,000 spirit stones.

If one side wins and the other side loses, and neither side is seriously injured, the winner will get 20,000 spirit stones and the loser will get 10,000 spirit stones.

If someone is seriously injured, regardless of which side, the injured person will be given an additional 10,000 spirit stones for treatment on top of the original amount."

Xiao Han's heart, which was originally a little eager to try, suddenly turned cold.

The benefits are low and the risks are high. Which Jindan cultivator would be willing to participate in this kind of competition?

He only got an extra 10,000 spirit stones after being seriously injured. How poor must a Jindan cultivator be to participate in the competition?

This was completely different from what she had expected.

Manager Luo had been observing Xiao Han's expressions and when he saw the look on her face, he immediately understood what she was thinking.

She couldn't help but lower her voice and whispered, "These are actually the external prices. If you really want to fight in the ring, just follow our instructions. In addition to the basic appearance fee, there will be additional dividends."

"Dividends? What dividends?"

Steward Luo sat up straight and smiled, "Once you sign the competition contract, we'll tell you in detail what the dividends will be and how much they'll be. Anyway, it'll be at least several times the appearance fee."

Xiao Han drank the spiritual tea in his cup and stood up. "I originally wanted to try my hand at a boxing match, but the appearance fee is really too low, and there's also the risk of injury. The effort and reward are completely disproportionate, so I've decided to give it a try."

Seeing that Xiao Han didn't seem to be joking, Steward Luo recalled that the Jindan cultivators' arena hadn't seen any new faces for over ten days, resulting in no matches being scheduled for the past two days. He immediately said, "Senior, please sit down. Don't be impatient. Please listen to my detailed explanation."

Then, she switched to a secret voice transmission and said, "Don't worry, senior. The outcome of the match, whether there will be injuries, and the extent of the injuries can all be arranged in advance. Simply put, you sign a contract with us and choose the way the match will end, whichever way the match will end.

"It's just that for the sake of realism, some injuries will be arranged during the fight, but they are all minor. Generally speaking, after a battle, you can get at least 30,000 spirit stones."

Xiao Han suddenly understood that the competition was not just about making money from selling tickets, but the biggest source of income was probably from gambling.

The organizer of the ring match controls the outcome of the match, and his purpose is self-evident.

This is just like the match-fixing in modern football matches. The ones who are reaped the benefits are the wallets of fans who love to watch and gamble on football games.

In fact, Xiao Han is very clear about her own combat ability. Now, she has only a little more combat experience than when she was fighting against weak opponents before, but the spells she knows, in addition to a few common spells learned during the Qi training period, there are two powerful spells taught by Xie Yi.

One is the Mystical Art of the Heart, which is powerful but not suitable for ordinary fighting competitions. The other is the Thunder Art, which is not very powerful but has a shorter casting time and is more practical.

Xiao Han had never come to watch a boxing match. She personally thought that a boxing match was probably a performance-type competition, where two people would fight each other for everyone to see. That was why she wanted to come and see if she could also take part in the performance.

Now after asking around, I realized that I was wrong, but we ended up in the same place.

In other words, to the monks who paid to watch the fight, the two men on the ring were fighting to the death for victory. But in reality, everything was just a performance, because both the injuries and the outcome of the fight were arranged in advance.

Xiao Han calculated that if she could fight once a day and get 30,000 spirit stones, even if she only fought three or four times, she would earn back Shui Wuhen's salary.

Well, she was probably the first entrepreneur to find a way to earn her own wages as an employee.

Xiao Han immediately told Manager Luo that he was willing to discuss the matter in further detail, and that he could sign the contract and play once the details were finalized.

Manager Luo was overjoyed. Even though she was in their own territory, she casually set up a soundproofing ban, and then began to discuss the details with Xiao Han.

The first contract signed was that Xiao Han was not allowed to disclose any inside information or details about the ring match to outsiders.

Next comes the question of how to play in the game and what the result will be.

Considering that Xiao Han is only in the early stage of Jindan, the organizer will assign Xiao Han a monk who is also in the early stage of Jindan and is already familiar to many monks watching the game. Then Xiao Han will unexpectedly win the final victory of the game.

The second match will be between a cultivator in the middle stage of the Golden Core and Xiao Han, and Xiao Han will win "with difficulty", but will be injured.

The third match was between a cultivator at the peak of the early Jindan stage, and Xiao Han was unexpectedly defeated.

After listening to the organizer's arrangements and the results of the competition, Xiao Han could only say that when it comes to controlling the gamblers' psychology, you are the experts.

She was more concerned about the severity of the injury than how to arrange the competition.

You know, the higher the level of the cultivator, the rarer and more precious the elixir that can heal their injuries.

Therefore, no matter how serious the injuries of low-level monks were, they could be easily healed by spending some spirit stones. However, high-level monks did not dare to get injured easily.

If some injuries not only caused pain but also damaged their foundation, then it would be like picking up sesame seeds and losing watermelons. She had to clarify this point.

After hearing Xiao Han's concerns, Steward Luo smiled and said, "Senior, there's absolutely no need to worry. Being injured can be fake. We'll arrange for you to exchange and spar with your opponent beforehand, and we'll work out what kind of spells will cause you to be injured and how to act like you're injured. So, do you still have anything to worry about?"

Xiao Han: Oh my god, this is also a show of acting skills in a movie.

Okay, as long as the injuries were all acted out, she would feel relieved.

However, in order to avoid being deceived, she had to carefully draft the details of the injury when signing the contract.

But before she could guard against others, Manager Luo started to give her instructions again.

"When you sign the contract later, you'll also need to swear not to suggest to any of your friends or family members that they bet on your match outcome, including yourself, nor to ask others to place bets on your behalf. In short, you must not reveal anything suggestive about the match to anyone else."