Chapter 90 - The First Fight to Start the Dragon Hall Sect (2/2)

“The payment is successful. May I ask if you choose to pay a fee to be exempt from the test or do you choose to take the combat test.”

“Combat. I’ll take the test.”

Qin Fen answered very decisively. A man should courageously face challenges and tests. If a man didn’t even believe in himself, could he still expect others to believe in him?

“That’s good. Please enter the first test.”

As her voice rang through the air, the scene around Qin Fen’s body changed dramatically. He arrived at a place he was extremely familiar with.

The ring!

It was an expansive square ring, and its surroundings were greatly similar to the place where he had his first fight.

When Qin Fen accepted a challenge these days, he would always accommodate the challenger, choosing an environment that was more suited for his opponent. The sudden change to a fair environment made him a bit uncomfortable for a time.

He had to fight three rounds, and he couldn’t get money from any of them. Alas!

As Qin Fen felt the misfortune of losing three chances to make money, he waited for the tester to appear.

A person’s shadow swayed twice in the corner of the ring, and a man wielding a Heaven Scorcher Halberd and wearing virtual guard-tech combat clothes soon appeared.

Qin Fen had learned about these combat clothes from the lessons with his drill instructors. Wearing it allowed the user to easily endure two hundred kilograms of force without being harmed at all. These clothes were quite popular when they first came out, but then certain close combat weapons, like the expensive and luxurious power fist, appeared in the fighting scene, and these combat clothes were no longer as popular as before.

“Are you the one who has come to take the challenge for opening a sect?”

The man who wielded a Heaven Scorcher Halberd studied Qin Fen as if he was interrogating a prisoner. The man had never seen anyone who looked to be so unprepared yet wanted to undertake this challenge.

“Thirty-Six Hours? Huh? You’re that degenerate martial artist from the two-star and three-star area?” The man wielding a Heaven Scorcher Halberd had looked up Qin Fen’s profile before the fight. His words were overflowing with disdain as he said, “The Dragon Elephant Prajna Art? The Shaolin Arhat Fist? These are your martial arts? Three-star and two-star martial artists have really degraded these days. They actually let you seize the laurel of War God?”

Qin Fen was a bit surprised. He never thought that he had a bit of fame among the four-star martial artists.

This test was regulated, though. The tested and the tester had strength on the same level.

Of course, the Sky Battle Net was a place with a large degree of freedom. The use of weapons wasn’t prohibited here. For example, swords, spears, blades, halberds, and the like could all be used.

Firearms could be used anytime besides when opening a sect or challenging a sect. However, in these two special cases, the usage of firearms was forbidden.

Qin Fen wasn’t surprised to be facing a man wielding a halberd. Sometimes the tester was a virtual character created by the system, and sometimes the tester was a real martial artist.

The martial artists who volunteered to become testers for opening a sect would receive something for each time they tested someone. The system would give them a fixed reward.

Of course, the tester had to defeat the test taker, who wanted to open a sect, in order to get the reward. If he tester lost, then the reward would be transfered to the test taker. This was a special incentive.

The rewards for the victor didn’t consist of virtual items, but rather a certain number of what was known as battle points.

In the Sky Battle Net, one could exchange real life money for battle points, then convert said points into virtual goods. Of course, one could also use battle points to buy virtual goods and sell the goods to other martial artists for actual money.

Such conversions via battle points resulted in a depreciation of value by around twenty percent.

The tester in this case would receive a hundred battle points for defeating a newcomer in opening a sect. A hundred battle points converted to about eighty dollars.

One could apply to the system if one wanted to become a sect-open tester. The system would automatically notify the tester once a tester was needed.

Qin Fen opened up his opponent’s profile at this time: Leafsky, Sect Master of the Certain Victory Sect. Uses a self-created martial arts halberd technique, Lu Bu’s Snake Halberd. Cultivates in the internal paleo art, the Sole Energy of Time Immemorial. Height….

The master of the Certain Victory Sect? Qin Fen was a bit stunned. Squad Leader Hao had taught him psychology. Based on analysis according to his teachings, calling a sect something like ‘Certain Victory, ‘Forever Victory’, ‘Unparalleled’, and so on might sound menacing and prestigious as a name, but often they weren’t all that amazing.

And a self-created martial art? Qin Fen didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. Quite a few people these days liked to immediately create their own martial arts when they started learning martial arts. But this was like drawing a tiger using a cat as a model; the self-created martial art was often an uninspired imitation. With the creator having an insufficient foundation, the created martial art could only scare people at most. Most self-created martial arts were bad.

The more a person didn’t know one’s self, the more likely they’d deal with creating a personal martial art.

Leafsky saw that Qin Fen was silent. Standing quietly made it seem like Qin Fen had been scared silly, and Leafsky felt quite smug in his heart. It looked like today his look was quite decent. This fat little sheep should only take a moment to be done with.

Leafsky moved gently with his feet, approaching Qin Fen bit by bit. He planned on using his unparalleled halberd arts to teach this extremely popular Thirty-Six Hours, at least among three-stars and two-stars, a lesson. He would let Thirty-Six Hours know that the four-star level was different from the two-star and three-star levels! When one entered the four-star level, one entered the cruel world of the strong. This was a place where Thirty-Six Hours wouldn’t be able to fit in.

As Leafsky continued to move slowly, Qin Fen’s eyes suddenly lit up. Qin Fen had felt Leafsky enter his attack range.