Chapter 389: The Nine Cities Challenge Rules (1/2)
On the one hand, it's a little serious, on the other hand, it's not very... Well, the serious side is not serious enough.
With Yuan Zhan in the room, the three men randomly found an open space and he automatically grew three chairs and a stone table on the ground.
Xiao Hei brought the little Iron-back dragon cub, who had grown up a lot, to the stone table happily, with a few pans of melons and fruits on his head and fresh-roasted kebabs.
The Curse-Witch Zhou Wu likes Xiao Hei, and when he saw him he would be dragging him into his arms, when he knew he would be having his cheeks pinched, Xiao Hei moved quickly and got up, riding on a small Iron-Back cub back, boom and running to the opposite side.
The Curse-Witch Zhou Wu laughed and scolded the pup, he grabbed the kettle out of his apprentice, poured a glass of water, and drank and wiped his mouth. “What did Tucheng-Earth City and Yincheng-Sound City say? Tell me first.”
Yan Mo spoke in detail what She-Dan and Lamo-Na had proposed.
The Curse-Witch Zhou Wu sneered. “None of them are anything good. They didn't say everything. If I was not here, you'll probably be deceived! Hum, it's so coincidental that when I went out, I ran over coming back. Do you believe that there are no spies on either side of the tribe?”
Yuan Zhan knows well that. ”Our tribe has developed too fast in recent years, and the people we take in are not checked. There are many slaves sent by other forces on their own initiative. It's strange that there will be no spies. But according to the time they came, the spies were either very low-ranking or marginal.”
”Just count yourself lucky.” The Curse-Witch Zhou Wu and Yan Mo are similar in some respects, both of them are a little biased towards research and are not very interested in management and power.
”Shifu, why do you say the two city envoys deceive us? What didn’t they say?”Yan Mo grabbed the barbecue dish and poured some hot soup to make The Curse-Witch Zhou Wu drink soup first and then eat meat.
The Curse-Witch Zhou Wu muttered, but he still drank the hot soup first and blew his mouth by saying that it’s hot. Yan Mo ignored him, although the old man had a good spirit, but after all, there was no concept of eating at intervals at all. At that time, the old man said that he did not see remember it so he eats when he is hungry, he often had gone hungry, instead of having no food he still stood by saying he could not remember to eat.
Yan Mo watched the Winged Yingzhao sweating all over, and knew that the Curse-Witch Zhou Wu may have rushed back all the way. The Winged Yingzhao has been taken good care of, and he naturally serves only Shifu.
The Curse-Witch Zhou Wu enjoyed the service of a good disciple. His eyes were all smiling and his mouth was still muttering.
Yuan Zhan again reminded the Curse-Witch Zhou Wu that his apprentice's question had not yet been answered.
”It's not surprising how these two cities want to use you. Many new forces have been deceived like this in the past, but few of them are like the Jiu Yuan. Most of them will be delighted and dance crazily if they can give a lower city status. But those new forces don't know. Often, the forces that join a certain city will be taken to the Nine Cities gathering to shore up the power of the upper city.”
”What do you say?”
”That little Lamo-Na girl told you that the Nine Great Cities, except Wucheng-City of Witches, all the other eight cities will take part in the competition and then decide the ranking by the results of the competition, right?”
Yan Mo nodded.
The Curse-Witch Zhou Wu hummed, ”First of all, the girl said something wrong. Wucheng-City of Witches will also take part in the competition. Otherwise, how can Wucheng-City of Witches maintain her detached status? But Wucheng- City of Witches performs very well every time. The other eight cities are reluctant to rank Wucheng- City of Witches, which is why many forces call Wucheng- City of the original holy city.”
”Understand, this is you too strong, we cannot play with you, simply divide you out, and do not play with you. But we can't ignore you, so we have to make a good name to hold you.”
”Secondly, since it's a competition, we have to pay the corresponding price, because it's the highest competition between cities. Of course, it's impossible to satisfy others with only a little bit of crystal and slaves. So we usually pay the price of at least one lower city or even a middle city, and the forces we bring out are naturally the best that we have just got, and it's not painful to lose them. Finally, the more capable the city is, the more cities it will get. The worst of all, of course, is the greater the loss. Considering the location of the Nine Cities, in order to facilitate the rule of the party, the eight cities will have another exchange of power.”
Yuan Zhan had a grin on his face and a gloomy tone. ”So Tucheng-Earth City and Yincheng-Sound City can give us a middle city location at random, with many benefits.”
The Curse-Witch Zhou Wu grabbed the kebab and nodded as he gnawed. ”Yes, if you lose, you'll have to look at the face of another city who beaten the upper city that owns you. Even if they can go a step further in the party test, they can also go back to pick you up. What are the conditions to be agreed first? As long as their strength is enough to suppress you, you become their affiliate. How do they want to change the conditions? No, they'll still hit you if you don’t like it.”
Yan Mo murmured, ”If Tucheng-Earth City can estimate the strength of A-Zhan, it probably hopes that A-Zhan can help them to participate in the competition, but also hopes that the Jiu Yuan will be used as a lottery entree. If A-Zhan can make them perform better and better, if not, they can also give you to their former enemies to other cities to beat you into submission. If the Jiu Yuan is unwilling to be under that city, he is bound to make a scene with that city. Tucheng-Earth City just needs to watch the bustle. As for Yincheng-Sound City...”
The Curse-Witch Zhou Wu answered, ”It's a little strange that Yincheng-Sound City will find you, after all, Yincheng-Sound City is separated and far from the Jiu Yuan. Huocheng-Fire City didn't find you, but they did, uh... Have you ever asked Lamo-Ling?”
”Yes, he said that Lamo-Na was ambitious and that Her Highness had made it clear to A-Zhan that she wanted to be Queen.”
”It seems that the Jiu Yuan has something that Her Highness wants.” The Curse-Witch Zhou Wu dropped the bamboo stick and mentioned one thing: ”Her Highness almost died when she was a child. The Priest of Yincheng-Sound City couldn't cure her. Finally, their High Priest Lan-Yin sent her to Wucheng-City of Witches. I remember that Fat-Elephant Si Fei Xiang talked to the little girl.”
The Fat-Elephant Si Fei Xiang? Yan Mo flashed in his mind, ”Is it the prophesying Wucheng-City of Witches High Priest?”
The Curse-Witch Zhou Wu nodded. ”I don't know what the Fat-Elephant Si Fei Xiang said to her, but the little girl did it at a risk of offending me, concealed another important thing from The Nine Cities gathering, and adding the Jiu Yuan to the Yincheng-Sound City or it could be that there is something in Jiu Yuan than that is very important to her.”
After the Curse-Witch Zhou Wu's analysis, the real meaning of Tucheng-Earth City and Yincheng-Sound City was seen instantly like slaves stripped of their clothes, and there was nothing covering in front of them.
Yan Mo and Yuan Zhan have eye contact. In fact, no matter what Tucheng-Earth City and Yincheng-Sound City's intentions are, they have never thought of becoming an affiliated city. But they have not yet given a clear answer to the two cities. Besides wanting to hear the Curse-Witch Zhou Wu's opinions, they do have the idea of fearing that the two cities will join hands in finding trouble for the Jiu Yuan.
As Lamo-Na said, can the Jiu Yuan be stronger than the Nine Cities? Let alone the Nine Cities, if a Tucheng-Earth City force alone goes wholly against them, and they will have a long headache.
”Shifu, if we reject Tucheng-Earth City and Yincheng-Sound City...”
”No problem rejecting them, but then you have to go to the Nine Cities challenge party.”
”Why? What happens if you don't participate?” Yuan Zhan asked.
The Curse-Witch Zhou Wu rolled his eyes. ”The Jiu Yuan has fallen into the eyes of Tucheng-Earth City, Huocheng-Fire City and Yincheng-Sound City. The other six cities are likely to receive all kinds of news about the Jiu Yuan. If Tucheng-Earth City Priest and Princess Yincheng-Sound City personally invite us to join their strength, we can refuse to do so. Talking about Tucheng-Earth City and Yincheng-Sound City, other cities will not allow us to continue to grow. To put it bluntly, no one wants to go to add another strong city.”
Yan Mo seems to understand something, so ”The Nine Cities gathers in ten years together, not twenty, thirty years or longer, because they simply don't want to give other cities some growth time.”