Chapter 365 - 362: 100-Win Streak, Hidden Realm

Jiang Qiu had already anticipated that he wouldn’t be able to use money to get Zhu Weiyi out of the Celestial Star Arena. He wasn’t surprised; after all, he simply didn’t possess the kind of wealth required to buy the freedom of someone like Zhu Weiyi.

Since arriving in the Primordial World Cluster, all his wealth had come from the Hundred Ghosts Sect in the Yin Yang Realm. In the Desolate Realm, the Hundred Ghosts Sect was, at best, equivalent to a high-ranking noble faction, just enough to establish a foothold in a place like Celestial Star City.

But competing with the top-tier Three-Life Race in terms of financial power was simply out of his league. Therefore, Jiang Qiu had no intention of trying to buy Zhu Weiyi’s freedom with money.

Instead, You Qian proposed a new method. "The Celestial Star Arena is a place that revolves around profit. If you can earn enough profit for the Celestial Star Arena, you can still use a special channel to trade for Zhu Weiyi.

As everyone knows, the Celestial Star Arena is a renowned arena in the Desolate Realm. We host not only battles between slaves, but also battles between challengers, and even battles between challengers and slaves.

Even existences at the Fusion Realm, and even the Harmonization Realm, have graced our arena and won considerable fortunes here.

They all possessed glorious combat records. While making a name for themselves, they also brought handsome profits to the Celestial Star Arena. If you believe you are capable enough, you can try registering for the challenge matches. As long as you break our Celestial Star Arena’s challenge match winning streak record, the matter of taking Zhu Weiyi away can be easily negotiated..."

Reading this, Jiang Qiu had a flash of insight. ’So as long as I get enough consecutive wins in the challenge matches, I’ll earn the right to speak and negotiate with the Celestial Star Arena’s upper echelons.’

After all, a cultivator with a long enough winning streak was destined to become known throughout the Desolate Realm, perhaps even famous in other Great Realms. Such a person carried a lot of weight.

So he searched for more information about the Celestial Star Arena’s challenge matches and found they had quite a history. A Harmonization Realm expert had indeed once fought here, their fame shaking the entire realm.

As for the highest winning streak, it was set by a former Peak Fusion Realm cultivator, who later became the leader of a major power in a certain Great Realm. His name was Wu, and his record was ninety-nine consecutive wins. A legendary tale like that would be told forever!

The winning streak system for these challenge matches was different from the duels between slaves. Although it was possible to kill an opponent in a challenge match, most people didn’t dare to do so due to concerns about their opponent’s background and status. Thus, the mortality rate wasn’t too high.

Moreover, the matchmaking system was relatively fair. A strong contender on a winning streak would inevitably be matched against another strong contender, so the difficulty theoretically increased progressively.

It wasn’t like the duels between slaves, where at least one combatant was guaranteed to die after entering the ring. The difficulty of the opponents in those duels was wildly inconsistent; it was more like pitting insects against each other—they fought whatever seemed most entertaining.

Some people even liked to watch races who naturally cultivated the Water Spirit Charm fight naked against races who naturally cultivated the Fiery Flame Spirit Charm, just to see their Spirit Charm-infused bodies dissolve one another.

Utterly depraved.

Sometimes, they would even have a Peak Dao Entry Realm cultivator fight a Spirit Body Realm cultivator without being allowed to use their Spirit Charm, just to see how long the Spirit Body Realm cultivator could last...

"In one month, Grandmaster Zhu will have to face a Half-Step Fusion Realm expert from the Fire Lizard Race. With a gap like that, there’s no way he can hold out. I have to complete a one-hundred-win streak as soon as possible." Jiang Qiu took a deep breath, a resolute light flashing in his eyes. "On average, that’s three to four wins a day!"

During the great battle in Gao Yuan City, Grand General Luo Beixing had broken through to the Half-Step Fusion Realm and single-handedly swept away all the Demon Marshals. The gap between realms was self-evident.

Zhu Weiyi was a slave in the Celestial Star Arena. His treatment was surely terrible, and his chances of winning were likely slim to none. If he couldn’t win, only death awaited him.

’I have to get him out as fast as I can. I can’t let that duel happen!’

With this in mind, he continued to ask about the rules of the Celestial Star Arena. "You Qian, what’s the maximum number of challenge matches one can fight in a single day at the Celestial Star Arena?"

"Huh?"

The hologram of You Qian projected from the device froze completely. ’You can’t be serious,’ he thought. ’After hearing conditions like that, you’re still planning to take the challenge?’

’Is he joking? Does he really want to challenge the ninety-nine-win-streak record set by a peerless prodigy at the Peak of the Fusion Realm?’

’That’s completely unrealistic!’

’First of all, the Celestial Star Arena is already a renowned venue within this local cluster of worlds. A winning streak here is incredibly valuable. It can even serve as a reference for some super-factions when recruiting new blood.’

’You have to understand, this cluster of worlds is a vast region, and it has given rise to many supreme, top-tier factions that can connect and communicate with all the Great Realms.’

’Take the Three-Life Race, for example. Behind them is a massive commercial empire, the creators of a vast, cross-world item escort network. Their footprint can be found in almost every prosperous land.’

’In any world with a decent level of prosperity, no matter how distant, you will surely find traces of the Three-Life Race. And there are other major factions on that level, such as the Dark List Organization, the Star Realm Raiders, the Pioneer Divine Hall...’

Powerful factions like these have always been secretly watching the Celestial Star Arena. Every few decades, a peerless prodigy is selected to join their ranks. Back then, Wu himself had emerged from secluded cultivation of many years, made a name for himself here, and became the renowned "Sword Emperor."