Fake Husband of the Glamorous CEO-Chapter 374: Real-life PUBG
As global capital and major powers entered the Arena, more abundant content about the Arena was made public.
The entire Martial Artist Arena channel map spans 500,000 square kilometers.
That’s about the size of Dragon Nation’s Cloud Province.
It would take a Qi Refining Realm martial artist flying on a sword three hours to traverse the entire map, and if one were walking or using Qinggong, it might take 10 days to complete the journey.
Naturally, the Arena serves competitive purposes, and it has a mechanism where, in the center of the map, there exists a "Blessed Land" as officially described.
Once any player enters, they are randomly placed on the edge of the map, and the distance to the central Blessed Land is the same from any starting point.
The Blessed Land indeed doubles the efficiency of cultivation, just as the officials claimed.
However, there is a quality limit to the spiritual energy in the Blessed Land; the more people there are, the lesser the nourishment from the spiritual energy.
This means you need to eliminate the surplus people to prevent the spiritual power you absorb from being divided!
Moreover, defeating an opponent and depending on their power level, determines how many points you receive.
"Defeating a First-grade martial artist gives only 1 point, up to Ninth Grade which gives 9 points; a Grandmaster yields 30 points, and Innate early, middle, late stages yield 50, 80, 120 points respectively; Qi Refining early, middle, late stages yield 200, 400, 1000 points respectively."
There is also a point deduction mechanism for defeats, being half of the points earned from victories—if you keep losing, points will be deducted until you have none left.
The points are updated every second and rankings are refreshed.
By the deadline of every 24 hours, rewards are distributed to the top 10 experts in the global rankings.
Though the rankings reset every 24 hours, accumulated points do not reset, allowing competitors to exchange these points for items in the shop.
However, there is a particular caveat, everyone can only enter the Arena once per day!
Once you enter the Arena, it signifies joining that day’s competition.
Suppose you eliminated 10 opponents today and earned 100 points, if you are not defeated by an opponent but choose to leave the Arena midway, then the points for that day will not count.
Only if you survive until the 24-hour settlement ends and then leave the Arena will your points be valid.
And if you were eliminated without earning any points today, your defeated points will not be deducted from your accrued points.
After the global martial artists thoroughly researched the Arena’s gameplay rules, some couldn’t help but tease,
"Are these battle points serious? Are martial artists from First to Ninth Grade really not worth a glance? (T_T)"
"It truly seems everyone below a Grandmaster is an ant!"
"A master passing by players below a Grandmaster considers even looking at them a waste of time (dog head)"
On the first day the Arena opened globally, martial artists below Grandmaster level felt full of malice and humiliation.
For those Qi Refining Experts really had no desire to engage with them.
Not for any other reason, but because the reward points were too meager.
Rather than spending time chasing and killing you, they’d rather rush to the ’Blessed Land shrinkage’ and compete ferociously.
That day, the Martial Artist channel attracted 23 million martial artists from around the globe.
Countries and their backing capital forces globally monitored the dynamics through the Arena’s "Leaderboard."
After all, all uncultivated advancement materials for cultivation currently available in the Arena will determine which power will be the first to ’eat the crab’ or gain more resources, closely tied to the dynamics of the Arena.
Angsa forces’ meeting was in session, and David expressed some regret, "Damn, if only I had known, I wouldn’t have let those people poach the five thousand Innate Masters nurtured by the Utopia forces!"
Speaking of which, he asked the DuPont Family Head, "How many of the ten thousand Innate Masters in the past half year have advanced to Qi Refining?"
The DuPont Family Head shook his head despondently and sighed, "Very few. I specifically took these soldiers to Dragon Nation for Spirit Root testing, and among them, nearly eight thousand do not possess Spirit Roots, so we can only focus on training the remaining thousand or so to break through to Qi Refinement. Currently, we have 140 Qi Refiners, among which 5 have reached the Mid Qi-Refining Stage."
Martial Artists without Spirit Roots usually find their limit at the Innate level.
Qi Refinement is the entry-level for Cultivators and requires one to possess Spirit Roots.
"This ratio is truly dreadful," sighed David.
If only they had introduced the Spirit Root testing program earlier, they wouldn’t have wasted so much money training a bunch of academics with limited potential.
The batch of over eight thousand Innate Masters from Dragon Nation had already been placed into the military and police systems.
This would be their life fate.
Singh remarked, "Our future hope still lies in the geniuses cultivated in various major colleges."
David nodded.
That’s why various major colleges were so aggressively competing to recruit genius students.
In countries like Eagle, which are backed by several consortium families, schools can seek financial aid from these big families after recruiting genius students.
In the future, when colleges cultivate a genius, they would thus recommend them to serve the sponsoring consortium family.
This model works in countries all over the world.
Future training work would definitely be outsourced to top colleges, and families only need to provide resources and funding from behind.
David then asked the DuPont Family Head, "Did you find out the proportion of Spirit Roots among the Martial Artists from other forces?"
The DuPont Family Head shook his head, "Everyone keeps it very secretive; our intelligence personnel do not have specific information on this."
Singh said, "Don’t worry. Everyone wants to be the first to taste the crab. I bet on the first day they will reveal their hand. We have 5 Qi Refining Experts in the Mid Qi-Refining Stage, and this is only second to the ceiling of the Qi Refining Late Stage combat power on the [Martial Artists] channel."
David asked an assistant, "It’s been 8 hours since this began, how many people are still in the arena?"
The assistant reported, "At the peak today, there were 23.22 million people; now, there are still 3.61 million who have not been eliminated. Excluding the Loose Cultivators nurtured by other smaller financial consortiums in our country, looking only at the 140 Qi Refining Experts, 58 have not been eliminated, and these experts have cumulatively accumulated 4511 points."
Everyone was slightly pleased, "Keep me updated on the data."
The secretary nodded, "Do you want to hear about the Arena’s revenue data?"
Their eyes lit up, having forgotten about making money for a moment.
"Let’s hear it."
The secretary said, "Our nation has registered 5.88 million Martial Artists, and today they all bought tickets to enter the Arena. After splitting with Dragon Nation, we earned revenue of 6.0 billion yuan!"
"Not bad," Singh smiled. "That’s just the current stage of revenue from our more than five million Martial Artists. Given the current rate of growth, with hundreds of thousands of Martial Artists emerging every day, this income source will only keep increasing and will definitely surpass the transportation projects to become the main financial stream!"
They all had great confidence that the revenue from this project would only increase.
Given the current pricing, the cost-benefit ratio for Martial Artists to enter the Arena is very high.
Even if they do not reach the Blessed Land contraction circle, the cultivation environment within the entire Arena is still better than the real world, where the outer circle is only ten times as concentrated.
Those below Grandmasters, the common Loose Cultivators, can completely afford to live covertly in the outer circle for several months just with the cost of a ticket, as long as they have enough food, and they can even pick off a few heads slowly to accumulate points—it’s definitely worth it.
