Several days had passed since Chen Xu had Miracle release the announcement. Today, Chen Xu had just finished watching Ghost Axe refine a new secret treasure base when he remembered the matter again.
Thus, he summoned Miracle once more.
“My Lord.”
“Miracle, how is the task I gave you earlier going? How many people have registered so far?”
Hearing this, Miracle acted a bit fidgety, not daring to look Chen Xu in the eye.
“What’s with that look? Don't tell me you haven't published the announcement yet?”
“My Lord, the announcement was published long ago, it's just...”
“Just what?”
“It's just that the number of registrations... the number of participants is a bit low.”
“How many?”
“So far, there are only a little over ten thousand people. Furthermore, almost all of them are tower-climbers from the Necrotic Archmage Tower. When Yan Ruyu and Huangjinwu heard that my Lord was hosting a tournament, they responded to the call and synchronized a promotional event. Anyone who participates and places can receive a special title that grants bonus buffs inside the mage tower. That was the only reason we managed to attract those ten thousand-plus people.”
After listening, Chen Xu frowned.
This shouldn't be happening. He was the undisputed number one in the myriad worlds. How could a tournament hosted by him fail to draw a crowd?
Sensing something was amiss, Chen Xu immediately looked at Miracle.
“Show me the announcement.”
Miracle immediately pulled up the announcement and projected it into the air for Chen Xu to read.
Beside them, Ghost Axe and Chen Yan also leaned in, joining in on the curiosity.
Sweeping his gaze over it, Chen Xu immediately spotted the issue.
The rewards were far too stingy.
Putting everything else aside, just looking at the Transcendent Rank rewards, the prize for the top one hundred was only a thousand Divine Power Crystals. That was way too low.
It wasn't that a thousand Divine Power Crystals were bad. For those at the Transcendent Rank, this was already an immense fortune. After all, Divine Power Crystals were a hard currency that could only be condensed by those at the Mythic Rank.
However, setting the cutoff at the top one hundred was practically a joke. This was a tournament spanning the entire myriad worlds, with an unfathomable number of potential participants. Moreover, the Transcendent Rank was inherently the tier with the largest population.
Forget only rewarding the top one hundred; even if they rewarded the top one million, Chen Xu would still think it was too few.
The same issues applied to the Epic Rank and Legendary Rank. The threshold for rewards was too high, and the prizes weren't generous enough. How could they possibly attract transcendents to compete like this?
“Did you discuss these rewards with Boss?”
“My Lord, yes, we did. These were all reference values provided by Boss.”
“Sigh, Boss is too constrained by his merchant mindset. He doesn't understand that the rougher the seas, the pricier the fish. If he doesn't take a gamble, when will Wanbao Pavilion ever reach the pinnacle of the myriad worlds and become the number one chamber of commerce?”
Chen Xu sighed in frustration, his tone carrying a sense of disappointment at Boss's lack of ambition.
It was a good thing Boss wasn't present. Otherwise, this God of Trade and ruler of the City of Miracles would surely cry out in grievance.
The rewards currently offered had already completely drained Wanbao Pavilion's liquid capital. Even if Boss wanted to raise the stakes, reality simply wouldn't allow it.
As the saying goes, one doesn't know the cost of living until they run the household. Boss had his own difficulties.
However, Chen Xu's vision stretched far beyond Boss's calculations.
In Chen Xu's eyes, if the First Grand Assembly of Transcendents of the Myriad Worlds could achieve its expected results, the number of participants would be measured in the hundreds of millions, or even trillions.
With such a massive participant pool, the number of worlds involved behind them would be countless. What did that mean? It meant an unimaginably high level of traffic and exposure.
With that kind of traffic, would they ever have to worry about merchants not wanting to buy ad space?
Furthermore, Chen Xu could open up sponsorship slots, outsourcing a portion of the rewards to merchants who wanted to partner with them.
In any case, all he wanted was the prestige—the absolute grandest reputation.
He wanted all living beings in the myriad worlds to know about the Grand Assembly of Transcendents of the Myriad Worlds from now on.
He wanted all living beings in the myriad worlds to think of him, the Lord of the Undead and the number one powerhouse of the myriad worlds, whenever they thought of the Grand Assembly.
Perhaps this was the very meaning of “Existence.”
Chen Xu's heart burned with anticipation. He felt that, in the dark, he had gradually grasped the correct path to the Existence Rank.
Therefore, he would never allow anything to stop him, to stop him from attaining his Dao.
Chen Xu looked up at the announcement in the air and spoke as he began to modify it.
“Miracle, take this down. I am making the following adjustments to our plans.”
“Yes, my Lord.”
“Expand the prize-winning slots for the Transcendent Division to one hundred million. The baseline reward will be a minimum of one hundred Divine Power Crystals. As for how much it increases with each tier, let Boss handle the math. Tell him not to think about relying solely on Wanbao Pavilion to support the Grand Assembly. This is a grand event for the entire myriad worlds. He will understand what I mean.”
“Understood.”
“Now, as for the rewards for the top three of the Transcendent Division... let me think.”
Chen Xu suddenly remembered something: the Bone Angel Statue in the Undead Dao Court, which was a special structure that could grant him transformation abilities.
Although he no longer had any use for such flashy gimmicks, to those low-level transcendents, it would be an unparalleled lifesaving item.
What did low-level transcendents lack? Resources? Knowledge? They lacked both, but what they lacked most of all was time—safe, uninterrupted time to grow.
An item that could protect them and give them a trump card was absolutely a reward that no low-level transcendent could refuse.
Therefore, Chen Xu planned to use the Bone Angel Statue as a blueprint to craft three transformation bracelets.
An Element Bracelet, a Demon Bracelet, and an Undead Bracelet, each corresponding to one of the three Dao principles he commanded.
As for the power ceiling of these transformation bracelets, he would roughly set it at the Eternal Rank. It would allow the user to briefly experience the power of a top-tier Eternal Rank powerhouse for one minute.
The reference model for the Undead transformation would be the Kunpeng, the Demon transformation would model a Hell Demon King, and the Element transformation would model an Element Guardian.
Yes, this reward should be generous enough.
In fact, “generous” was an understatement.
Watching Chen Xu edit the rewards, Ghost Axe's jaw literally unhinged and dropped to the ground with a soft clack.
The noise immediately drew everyone's attention. A startled Ghost Axe hurriedly picked up his jaw and snapped it back into place.
With the rewards for the Transcendent Division settled, next was the Epic Division. At this rank, cultivators had already established their own paths and possessed a certain degree of self-preservation.
Because of this, deciding the Epic Division's rewards was much simpler.
“Open the prize-winning slots for the Epic Division to one million, with a baseline reward of ten thousand Divine Power Crystals. As for the top three, they will receive a fully customized growth plan. The Legendary Division is also straightforward: one hundred thousand winning slots. For the top... wait, let's make it the top ten for the Legendary Division. The top ten will receive a comprehensive, all-inclusive Mythic Rank ascension package. The Mythic Division is even simpler: one hundred winning slots, and the top ten will receive an opportunity to ascend to the Eternal Rank.”
As for what this “opportunity” actually entailed, Chen Xu hadn't decided yet. Regardless, with his current power, even the slightest scraps falling from his fingers would be considered a heaven-defying opportunity to an Eternal Rank cultivator.
“What should the reward for the Eternal Division be, then?”
At this point, Chen Xu hit a bit of a roadblock.
Below the Eternal Rank, he could easily guarantee an ascension. But once they reached the Eternal Rank, he couldn't guarantee helping them break through to the Unique Rank.
After all, he was currently just a humble Unique Rank Dao Lord, not a Saint of Existence.
Just then, Chen Xu's eyes drifted toward the secret treasure base nearby, and an idea instantly struck him.
“I've got it! The top three of the Eternal Division will each receive a Dao artifact!”
With rewards like these, Chen Xu refused to believe people wouldn't sign up.
“Miracle, revise the announcement according to what I just said and publish it again.”
“Yes, my Lord.”
“My Lord,”
Ghost Axe chimed in at this moment.
“What is it?”
“Should we add another rule? Specifically, that all participants can be resurrected? Just like those demon-slaying warriors you recruited in the past?”
Hearing this, Chen Xu slapped his forehead.
Right! How could he have forgotten about that? What was the most important thing for participants? A safety net!
And what could possibly be a better safety net than guaranteed survival?
With a wave of his hand, Chen Xu added Ghost Axe's suggestion to the announcement.
“There shouldn't be any problems this time, right?”
...
Three days later, the announcement that the number one powerhouse of the myriad worlds, the Lord of the Undead, was hosting the First Grand Assembly of Transcendents of the Myriad Worlds spread across every corner of the universe.
Countless transcendents, lured by the jaw-dropping rewards, flooded into the Undead Network to register.
The absurd volume of registrations even gave Miracle a shock, forcing it to temporarily expand its servers specifically to handle the tournament.
“Hey, have you heard? Big Boss Chen is hosting a tournament for the myriad worlds, and the reward for the Transcendent Division is a Spark Lens!”
“A Spark Lens?”
“Yeah, a Spark Lens! Though it's a Spark Lens that lets you transform into elements, undead, or demons.”
“...”
Rate on N.U.
