"Okay, that's all the rules for the individual competition. You've all seen the rewards on the bulletin board, so I won't go into details. I'll explain the rules for the team competition after everyone's individual competitions are over. Now the individual competition officially begins!"
Then the formation masters who participated in the competition came on stage one after another.
There are a total of seven formation masters from the State of Chu participating this time.
The State of Jin was a powerful nation of formation masters, with a total of twenty-five formation masters participating in the competition.
There were eighteen in the State of Yan.
There were fifteen in the State of Zhao.
A total of fifty-five formation masters from various countries participated in the competition.
The competition venue was very large, with a total of one hundred stone tables, and each stone table had a chessboard.
There was also a long gum tree next to each stone table, on which were spare chessboards, fifteen in total.
The young formation masters found the locations of various countries, and then found a stone table with their names written on it in that area. They then quickly sat down and began to set up the formation.
Xing Nong's seat was at the first table in the row of stone tables of the Chu State, followed by Wen Yuanqian, Li Wenhao and others. The order was based on the preliminary ranking, so Zhang Ruohua was at the last.
Zhang Ruohua felt ashamed.
She is the captain, so why doesn’t she sit at the first table
Now everyone in the four countries knows that she performed the worst in the last competition!
Zhao Luran was in front of Xingnong. She now knew that Xingnong was the girl in purple that day.
No wonder the people of Jin protected her, as she seemed to have a close relationship with the Crown Prince of Chu.
But she could never have imagined that Chen Xingnong was actually a princess of the State of Jin!
Her status was so high that she didn't even dare to kill her secretly.
You can't even glare at her!
The only thing she could do was to get a good result in the Young Formation Master Competition and defeat her!
The State of Zhao suffered heavy losses this time because of her, and she was the best formation master of the State of Zhao. If she was not the best formation master of the State of Zhao and still had some value, she could have died to atone for her sins this time.
If she doesn't get a good result in this competition and is surpassed by Chu by a large margin, it means that Zhao will become the lowest among the four countries in the next fifty years, and she will be the eternal sinner of Zhao!
Because three years later, she was no longer a teenager and was not eligible to participate in the formation master competition. Unless a genius appeared in the young formation master competition three years later and won the first place in one fell swoop.
But currently, there hasn't been one among the young formation masters of Zhao State who is more talented than herself, so she cannot fail this time.
Their Zhao State's formation master team must be stronger than that of Chu State!
Zhao Luran and the formation masters of Zhao State were working hard at this moment.
However, there is no formation master who is not working hard at this moment.
The May sun was already a little hot and everyone was sweating profusely. If the sweat was not about to fall into their eyes, they would not be willing to waste a moment to wipe it off.
Xing Nong was lucky because she was the first one, so her position was shaded by a tree, which was also specially arranged by the King of Jin.
The King of Jin didn't even care what others thought, or whether it was fair or not. He even had someone put an ice basin near Xingnong so that she wouldn't be too hot.
No formation master in Jin State had this treatment, including Princess Shengping.
Later, King Shengping felt that his daughter was suffering from the heat, so he shamelessly followed the example of the King of Jin and arranged an ice basin.
Anyway, it was the King of Jin who was shameless first!
Shen Hanyu saw the business opportunity and immediately arranged for someone to deliver the ice.
The weather is so hot, each formation master must have at least one piece, right? ! In less than a quarter of an hour, more than 5,000 taels can be obtained!
Shen Hanyu took the opportunity to say to the envoys: "Dear envoys, a one-meter-high block of ice only costs one hundred taels a piece, only one hundred taels a piece! Who wants to sell it?"
When the envoys from various countries heard this, they all bought ice basins for their own formation masters. However, the sun was so strong that buying only one would not be of much use.
Therefore, the envoys with sufficient funds arranged an ice basin on the left, right and back for their country's formation master.
Zhao State was recently in a financial crisis and was relatively poor. They were short of funds and did not even have enough money to provide an ice basin for each formation master. Fortunately, there were ice cubes all around, so they were much cooler.
Shen Hanyu looked at the white ice cubes sparkling in the sun and was very satisfied. He made more than 10,000 taels in such a simple way.
In half an hour, he will sell iced green bean and bird's nest soup to the formation masters to cool down. It's very cheap, 50 taels per bowl! Do you want to buy it? Everyone is drinking it. If you don't want your formation master to get heatstroke and lose the next round of competition, then don't buy it!
One bowl per person, more than 2,000 taels, easy to get! Besides, in such hot weather, one bowl per person is not enough, right
... ...
Half an hour passed, and many formation masters had completed the first formation and were setting up the second one. Because the second formation required two elements, except for the stronger formation masters who had made preparations in order to get high scores, everyone else was now thinking hard and setting up the formation with difficulty.
At this time, Zhao Luran had already arranged three formations, and the second formation was a mixture of three elements. She was confident that she could get 30 points steadily! There was still half an hour left, and she planned to use it to arrange a formation with four elements mixed in. This formation was difficult, and she had just started to learn it. Even if she could arrange it, it would be the simplest level. However, Zhao Luran believed that the formation masters present, even the Princess Shengping of Jin, only knew the formation of four elements. Of course, the formation of four elements she arranged would be better than hers, after all, she was a disciple of Master Guo, but she would definitely not be able to arrange a formation of five elements. Among the formation masters of the four countries, there was no one who was proficient in the formation of five elements except Master Guo. Of course, it does not mean that the formation masters of the four countries cannot arrange a formation of five elements, but the formations they arranged are mainly based on one or two elements, and the others are secondary, which can only be regarded as low-level formations.
She first glanced at Princess Shengping in front of her and found that she had already set up four formations. She was worthy of being the most talented young formation master in Jin State. Fortunately, she was not bad either. By the time, she should be only one formation behind her.
She couldn't help but look back to see how many formations Xingnong had completed. She found that Xingnong had completed six. She was shocked. So fast
Xing Nong stood up at this time. She wiped the sweat from her forehead, moved the seventh chessboard to the long eucalyptus beside her, and picked up another new chessboard to start setting up the formation.
Zhao Luran: “… ”
How could it be so fast
Even if you have designed similar formations in the past, you still need to think about the layout!
Besides, only difficult formations can give high scores, but difficult formations require more time.
Could it be that she wanted to set up a few more formations with two elements and win by numbers
So, she wouldn't have set up six formations with more than two elements, right
Zhao Luran thought it was very possible. After all, she arranged it so quickly!
But this is indeed a sure-fire way to win. A formation with two elements gets three points, and if you arrange two more, the total score is definitely more than that of a formation with four elements!
Zhao Luran glanced around and found that most of the more capable formation masters present had already completed the designs of three formations. It seemed that many people did the same.
Seeing this, Zhao Luran couldn't help but change his strategy and followed Xingnong's example. In the last half hour, he set up three more formations with two elements.
An hour passed quickly in the mixture of ice and fire.
Xing Nong set up twelve formations in total, Princess Shengping set up ten, Luo Fan, a formation master from Yan State, set up nine, and Zhao Luran set up seven. The four of them were the strongest formation masters in their respective countries. The other formation masters did not have as many formations as them. Most of them had four or five, and some even had only one or two.
Mr. Guo began to bring the formation masters from various countries to the stage to give scores.