In the small courtyard, another team of Cheng family members had been waiting for a long time. Their expressions were solemn and the atmosphere seemed a little heavy.
At this time, Cheng Qingjia came with another team, and he also looked listless.
Xu Chunniang secretly scanned the cultivators in the courtyard. Among these ten people, two had completed the foundation building process, three were in the late foundation building stage, and the remaining five were in the early foundation building stage.
The overall strength is not much different from the team she is in now.
"Seventh Uncle, Fellow Daoist Tang."
Cheng Qingjia greeted everyone, "What's wrong with you? Why are you all so sad?"
"Qingjia is here."
Cheng Qi forced a smile. They arrived early and had just gathered some information outside, and the situation was not optimistic.
The Liu family sent out four teams this time, and the Zhang family also had three teams of elites.
The entire southern five islands, including the Zhan family of Coral Island, have a total of eleven families, except for the Chen family of Qingzhu Island and the Dong family of Chisha Island, which also only sent two teams.
But the Chen family and the Dong family have always been at the bottom. Has the Cheng family fallen to such a state now
After hearing the news, Cheng Qingjia's heart also sank, "What about those independent cultivator forces? How many hunting teams have they dispatched?"
In addition to the eleven aristocratic families, there are three forces formed by independent cultivators in the five southern islands.
"I have also inquired about these. Only the weakest Red Sand Island cultivators sent out two teams. The rest are three hunting teams."
Cheng Qingjia frowned even deeper. The hunting team consisted of ten people, and the minimum requirement for cultivation was to build a foundation.
Therefore, the gap between each team is difficult to make up.
It seems that the best result that the Cheng family can achieve in this hunting competition is to surpass the Chen and Dong families, as well as the group of independent cultivators from Chisha Island, and rank eleventh.
And whether we can defeat these three forces is still unknown.
No wonder Uncle Seventh was so frustrated. In the last hunting competition, the Cheng family barely got tenth place, and the sea area they were finally assigned to was not only remote but also extremely barren.
If the ranking drops again this time, Cheng Qingjia simply cannot imagine how passive the family will be at that time.
Cheng Qi sighed lightly, his eyes swept across the crowd, and paused for a moment on Tang Chuan and Xu Chunniang.
"I wonder what you fellow Taoists think?"
As a cultivator who has completed the foundation building, Tang Chuan is already very old and has participated in hunting competitions more than a dozen times, so he can be said to be very experienced.
Hearing this, he pondered for a long time and then spoke slowly.
"The gap in strength cannot be made up easily. It would be better to reorganize the two teams of monks and divide them into two strong and weak teams."
Cheng Qi understood what he meant, but still had concerns.
"If that's the case, the strong team will certainly be strengthened, but the weak team is too weak. They don't even have cultivators in the foundation-building stage. If they encounter a stronger sea monster in the late foundation-building stage, they may not be able to defeat it."
The hunting competition is a hunt for sea monsters by human monks, but every year many monks die at the hands of sea monsters.
"That's fine. The strong team will go deep into the sea, and the weak team can stay in the shallow sea area to hunt."
Tang Chuan had obviously thought it over carefully, and said without hesitation, "If the two teams are balanced, they will be restricted and unable to display their true strength."
Cheng Qi was somewhat convinced and looked at Xu Chunniang, "Fellow Daoist Xu, what do you think of this method?"
Xu Chunniang thought for a moment and said, "This is my first time participating in a hunting competition. I will follow your arrangements."
So Cheng Qi made the decision and, according to Tang Chuan's suggestion, those with higher cultivation levels were grouped together.
The other team of ten people is composed of cultivators in the early stage of foundation building. They are probably the weakest team in this hunting conference.
Five days later, the hunting competition officially kicked off, and all participants, led by the Zhan family, came to the Zhan family's training ground.
The training ground was crowded with people. In addition to the old families and independent cultivators, many small families and independent cultivators also participated in the hunting competition.
They may work in teams of three or five or alone, but the total number of participants is no less than that of these major forces.
The Zhan family is worthy of being the number one family among the five southern islands, the only one with a Nascent Soul cultivator in charge. Its training ground is so large that it can easily accommodate thousands of cultivators.
Xu Chunniang once again sighed at the prosperity of the maritime cultivation world.
The number of foundation-building cultivators who came to participate in the hunting competition today alone has exceeded the number of foundation-building cultivators possessed by the Xiaoyao Sect.
"This ring is made of a stone that can automatically record the monsters you kill and keep score. The stone is made in a special way, and the record will automatically disappear after one hour."
When Zhan Siming, the head of the Zhan family, was explaining the rules of the hunting competition, the monks of the Zhan family were distributing rings to everyone.
Xu Chunniang took the ring, and the records in the photo stone disappeared automatically, so there was no need to worry about exposing her means of killing the enemy.
She probed her spiritual sense and found nothing unusual, so she followed the others and put the ring on her thumb.
The ring seemed to sense something and automatically shrank a little, fitting her finger perfectly.
The words of Patriarch Zhan were still coming from the high platform, introducing the points calculation rules for killing sea monsters.
Every time a Qi training sea monster is killed, 10, 20, 30 and 40 points will be awarded depending on the level of its cultivation.
Every time a Foundation Establishment Stage sea monster is killed, one hundred points, two hundred points, three hundred points, and four hundred points will be awarded according to the level of its cultivation.
If you kill a Jindan-stage sea monster, the points will be multiplied tenfold, to a minimum of 1,000 points.
As for Nascent Soul stage monsters, they are extremely rare in the five southern islands.
If you encounter this and are lucky enough to survive, it means your ancestors are blessed by God.
As Patriarch Zhan announced the official start of the hunting contest, many cultivators took action.
After Cheng Qi told the other team not to go deep into the sea, he was leading everyone out when a group of people suddenly blocked their way.
The leading female cultivator was dressed in a fluttering red dress, with bold and bright eyes, and had achieved perfect foundation.
Among the nine people behind her, eight have completed their foundation building.
There was also a person who had a powerful aura that was far superior to the others, and he was actually at the Golden Core stage.
While Xu Chunniang was still secretly guessing the other party's identity, Cheng Qi was already smiling and bowing to the visitor.
"Meet Miss Zhan San, Senior Zhao."
The former nodded slightly to her as a return gesture, but as for the Jindan cultivator named Zhao, he didn't even raise his eyelids.
"I'm looking for Cheng Qingjia."
Zhan Yingluo's eyes fell on Cheng Qingjia, and she made no secret of her purpose.
Cheng Qingjia felt a little unhappy, but because of the other party's identity, she responded, "Miss Zhan San."
Zhan Yingluo nodded and said calmly, "You go to sea with me."
Cheng Qingjia took a deep breath to calm herself down, "Miss San, this is probably against the rules. If I go out to sea with you, my Cheng family's team will be one person less."
"What rules? My Third Miss's words are the rules."
Zhan Yingluo didn't say anything. An old man beside her said calmly, "Miss Third asked you to go to sea with her, which is a compliment to you."