prynovel Chapter 29 : Chapter 29
Chapter 29 : Chapter 29
Chapter 29: Trait Light Orbs All Over the Ground!! Tenth Heaven of the Innate Realm?
The moment Xiao Xuan saw that, he immediately flew downward at high speed!
Before long, he landed at the entrance to the colosseum, and the Blackgod Battle Armor on his body instantly receded.
Only the weapon’s scabbard and a mask remained.
Before coming here, he had looked up the rules. Everyone here wore masks.
Some even altered their appearance outright.
After all, it was very easy to make enemies in this place.
If the disciples of some great family later came after you with their elders, or simply spent money to hire an expert to deal with you, then you would truly be in trouble.
After walking inside, Xiao Xuan headed straight toward a massive blood-sampling device!
A long line of people was queueing there to have their blood drawn and receive their Identity Codes!
The Identity Codes here only displayed a single value: Vitality. Nothing else was tested!
In theory, an Identity Code could remain valid for up to a month, but in practice, people still changed it every time they came.
After all, who could say whether their Vitality had risen by the next visit? Vitality was the simplest way to verify a martial artist’s realm.
Of course, there were also people who broke through during battle.
In that case, nothing could be done. The one who had broken through could only voluntarily admit defeat. If they refused, and their opponent noticed afterward, then the opponent had the right to demand a retest once the fight ended!
If the difference in Vitality turned out to exceed 5%, it would be judged as cheating.
At that point, the offender would face an enormous fine.
And if they had no money, they would simply be buried under high-interest debt.
Fortunately, blood sampling itself was extremely fast.
In less than half an hour, it was Xiao Xuan’s turn.
After paying a 10,000 fee for the blood test, his Identity Code was sent to his AI Core.
Even Xiao Xuan could not help complaining that the price was outrageously high!
Everyone had to pay it.
According to the AI Core’s search results, although an Identity Code remained valid for up to a month, the sheer number of people made the profits terrifying.
The daily traffic here was measured in the tens of millions.
Although most of them only came to gamble, and did not need to have their blood drawn unless they intended to fight, there were still at least tens of thousands of people getting tested every day.
That meant several hundred million in income per day!
Its net annual income was roughly in the hundreds of billions!
And if you won money through betting here, you still had to pay a handling fee.
That source of income was even more terrifying.
No wonder there were Martial Venerables flying all over the place here.
It was even said that a Martial Thearch personally oversaw the place.
“Right, if betting is allowed here, doesn’t that mean I can place bets too? On myself?”
Xiao Xuan’s eyes lit up at once.
If he bet on himself, then naturally he could only bet on himself to win.
Of course, there were also people who pulled tricks by having others bet on them to lose, then throwing the match on purpose.
That was especially common among popular fighters. One fixed match could leave them stuffed to the brim with winnings.
That sort of thing was impossible to eliminate entirely. If you lost money on it, you could only blame your own bad luck.
After all, as long as gambling existed, there would always be shady dealings.
Still, as long as it was not too blatant, no one would investigate.
For example, if all the available data suggested that you should be able to crush the other side with ease, and your opponent had shown no strength greater than what you yourself had displayed before, yet you still lost, then that was obviously suspicious.
In that case, an investigation would begin.
And once they really found evidence of match-fixing, the officials would not even need to act. The experts who had lost money would tear that person apart themselves.
Of course, betting on yourself to win was definitely not a problem.
Even if the other side threw the match, that was their business, not yours!
After that, Xiao Xuan took a rough look at the basic structure of the colosseum.
The entire colosseum contained thirty thousand arena platforms, and those platforms were spread across a thousand honeycomb colosseums.
All of the colosseums were divided into five zones. The outermost zone belonged to the Innate Realm!
Further inside were the zones for Grandmasters, Great Grandmasters, Martial Kings, and Martial Emperors!
As for experts above the Martial Emperor Realm, they did not fight here at all.
That meant Xiao Xuan could only fight in the outermost zone for now!
After all, his realm was still the Innate Realm.
Of course, he could go to the Grandmaster-level arena if he wanted.
But he had not come here to make money.
He had come here to pick up Traits!
With that thought, Xiao Xuan went directly into the nearest colosseum.
BOOM!!
The moment he walked in, he heard thunderous roaring all around him.
“Put some strength into it, Iron Bull the Explosive Fist! I put ten thousand on you, so smash that bastard to death!”
“Damn it, King of Strength, are you an idiot? You can lose even like this? If you cannot do it, go back home and drink milk!”
“Hahaha, good! That’s it! Beat that piece of trash to death!!”
…………
He saw that this colosseum contained more than a hundred small arena platforms, and on those platforms, Innate Realm martial artists were fighting like mad.
Meanwhile, in the surrounding spectator stands, countless people were cheering and shouting.
Xiao Xuan took a careful look and immediately noticed that the ground was covered in white 【Excited】 Traits.
Of course, there were also quite a few emotion Traits such as 【Anger】 and 【Joy】.
There were a lot of them, but the crowd was far too packed.
And they were all only White Traits anyway. Even if he exhausted himself picking them up, the Eco Points he gained would not even amount to a tenth of what his Bloodthirsty Demonic Art passively generated.
“If only I had a clone skill!”
Xiao Xuan sighed.
If he could split himself up, then picking up Traits all over the place would be absolutely incredible.
Though now that he thought about it, clone Traits probably did exist.
They were just extremely high-grade, usually Silver or above.
Still, unlike the White Traits scattered across the spectator stands, many of the Traits on the arena platforms were Green and Blue!
Most of them were things like 【Severely Wounded】 and 【Pain】—the sort of Traits that dropped during combat.
The only problem was that the arena platforms were all covered by energy barriers.
Unless he actually went up to fight, he could not get those Traits at all.
“But if Innate Realm fighters can already drop Blue Traits, then wouldn’t there be even more Blue ones in the Grandmaster arenas?”
That thought suddenly occurred to Xiao Xuan.
Without hesitating, he immediately headed deeper into the complex.
Soon, after pushing through one crowded colosseum after another, he finally arrived at the Grandmaster-level arena zone!
Here, each colosseum only had ten arena platforms.
There were far fewer of them, but the fighters on them were much stronger, all of them at the Grandmaster Realm!
The moment Xiao Xuan looked around, his eyes lit up.
Sure enough, the Traits scattered across the ground here were still White, but the Traits on the platforms were mostly Blue!
As for Purple ones, they were extremely rare.
After all, those who possessed Purple Traits generally had futures that reached at least the Great Grandmaster Realm.
Even so, there were still quite a few Traits on those platforms.
“I should just challenge the reigning fighters directly. With my talent, I should be qualified to challenge every one of them, right?”
Xiao Xuan directly gave up on the Traits below the platforms.
There was no point. Coming here for those would only waste time.
With that in mind, he looked over the ten platforms.
Very soon, one figure was blasted off one of the platforms.
That person slammed heavily into the ground.
“Victory and defeat have been decided on Platform No. 9 in Sector 251! The reigning fighter has already won four consecutive matches! Does anyone else wish to challenge him?”
The referee immediately shouted.
Several Grandmaster-level martial artists below the platform hesitated over whether to go up.
RUMBLE!!!!
But at that moment, a bolt of violet lightning crashed down directly onto the platform.
In the next instant, a black-masked figure appeared before everyone’s eyes.
Xiao Xuan’s flashy entrance instantly drew a great deal of attention!
“Damn, a Purple lightning-element talent? Could he be a genius from Nanhai University?”
“He does look young. He probably is. I just don’t know who he is!”
“I’m betting on that flashy kid!”
“Me too, me too! If he’s a genius from Nanhai University, then he’s definitely going to win!”
…………
In an instant, everyone excitedly piled their wagers onto Xiao Xuan.
Very quickly, the payout odds for Xiao Xuan’s victory were crushed all the way down to 1:1.12.
In other words, if you bet ten thousand on Xiao Xuan and won, you would only make twelve hundred.
The Grandmaster at the Seventh Heaven on the other side also grew solemn.
But at that moment, a line of text appeared directly above Xiao Xuan’s head.
Challenger: Purple Thunderflame!
Realm: Tenth Heaven of the Innate Realm!