Various challenges were displayed in dazzling array, impossible to read through one by one.
So Ascendants were particularly clever, intentionally writing the challenges they created to be extrely complex, causing others to see the wall of text and imdiately feel too lazy to understand it, thereby reducing the probability of being challenged to so extent.
Other Ascendants created a bunch of disgusting challenges.
Probably because their own abilities or items weren't special enough, and any challenge they created would definitely be beaten by others, they simply took the route of being disgusting.
Just from what Guan Tong saw, these included: a challenge for longest ti rolling around in a pigsty with ten pigs, a breath-holding challenge with one's head subrged in toilet water, a challenge for the number of live maggots eaten raw, a saliva exchange challenge, and so on...
He had to admit, he rather admired these creators; they were truly ruthless people, sacrificing greatly to prevent their Mind Power from decaying.
For these ruthless individuals, Guan Tong still expressed respect and had no intention of snatching their first place. His targets were basically still those common, mass-appeal type challenges created with a casual attitude.
Guan Tong directly searched using keywords like "speed" and "distance," and many challenges imdiately popped up.
The very first one seed very suitable for him.
"Challenge: Move from the mountaintop stone monunt of Tian Ding Mountain to the entrance of the ticket hall at the mountain's base in the fastest possible ti."
For him, these challenges from point A to point B were all the sa. Because with the "Body Swap" ability, as long as he coordinated well with Shadow, he could complete the challenge in an instant.
However, he hadn't heard of this "Tian Ding Mountain." Taking out his phone to search, he found it was about six hundred kiloters away from him.
Furthermore, he discovered that Tian Ding Mountain was a remote, small scenic spot in a local county town. After entering the Doomsday Rules era, this attraction had been closed and was no longer open.
This wasn't strange. After entering the Doomsday Rules era, many places like scenic spots had closed down. Especially those places requiring regular maintenance by personnel, otherwise posing life-threatening dangers, had all closed due to insufficient manpower.
Now, the person who created this challenge chose this mountain, possibly thinking others wouldn't go to such a remote place to compete with them.
But Guan Tong had Shadow for travel; whether the distance was a bit farther or closer didn't make much difference to him.
"Put it on the candidate list first, then go challenge it later."
Guan Tong bookmarked this challenge item and continued looking down.
There were several similar rules, all specifying specific challenge location positions.
Doing this was actually quite smart, as it added an extra challenge cost for other challengers—it didn't matter if your strength was greater than mine; to challenge my project, you had to co to my location first.
If two people were separated by vast distances, even in different countries, the short fifteen-day rule activation period might not even be enough just for travel.
With this layer of ti cost, it would dampen the interest of many potential challengers.
Challenges like Guan Tong's, where running 200 kiloters anywhere was fine, belonged to the broad-condition type. However, even if he could specify a location, he wouldn't specify Mingdao Mountain, as that would definitely attract so people to co find him, and he wouldn't have peace and quiet anymore.
But Guan Tong thought that if one could set the challenge location, places that were relatively hidden or unknown to others might have an advantage?
This thought of his was imdiately answered.
Because when he clicked on another location-specific challenge again and focused his attention on the location, a line of coordinate positions automatically appeared before his eyes.
"So that's how it is... If the creator specifies a certain location, that location is marked by the Terminal in coordinate form."
He thought to himself that in that case, those with secret bases definitely wouldn't dare specify their own base. Otherwise, forget about challenging or not, they'd expose their own location first.
Guan Tong continued looking down.
He soon found another challenge that he found very interesting.
"Challenge: Longest long jump distance. Challenge location requirent: within the sports area of Jin Yang City - Shelter No. 710."
The first half of this challenge wasn't difficult. Guan Tong could simply jump while using Body Swap, land at the farthest point, and easily take first place.
But the key was in the second half.
"The challenge location requirent is inside a shelter..." Guan Tong understood the intention. "Quite clever, using the official shelter's rule of not being open to the outside world to limit competitors only to those within the sa shelter."
Official shelters, apart from official departnt personnel and registered residents, do not allow outsiders to enter or exit.
Thus, for outsiders to enter and challenge, they'd have to force their way in, which would be equivalent to confronting official ard forces; the result was predictable. Few people were willing to pay such a high cost just to snatch a first place.
This way, as long as soone inside a shelter was certain that a particular ability of theirs was stronger than everyone else's in that shelter, they could design a challenge to take first place and pass the rule.
"I rember official shelters can each house about a thousand people. Ensuring you get first place based on ability or items among over a thousand people is indeed much easier than getting first place nationwide, or even worldwide."
Guan Tong felt that soon others living in shelters would follow suit, or perhaps many were already doing this, using official ard forces to protect themselves from competing with large numbers of people.
However, according to currently published data, the number of newly built shelters in the month after the seventh rule ended was limited.
Previously, about over twenty million people lived in shelters. Now, even if the second batch doubled, the total population able to live in shelters would still be less than a hundred million.
That ant less than a hundred million people could use shelters to reduce competition; the rest still had to face mass competition. After all, ordinary gathering points were different from shelters, being semi-closed, not fully closed.
Guan Tong continued looking down, bookmarked a few more he could challenge, and then went to check his own website.
There were already quite a few people in the private ssages saying they wanted to purchase information and had sent their digital IDs.
"It seems my website already has sufficient credibility in the eyes of so large organizations."
The high price of fifty thousand ant almost only dium-to-large groups could afford it. Their willingness to buy represented trust in his intelligence capabilities.
This trust should partly co from the website's security and partly from the information previously publicly posted in the intelligence section.
Guan Tong opened the Terminal. His friend list was still zero because he had deleted the friends of people he previously traded with after the trades.
If he needed to trade again next ti, he could just add them again. Compared to trouble, Guan Tong was more afraid of being harassed.
Yes, harassed. After the seventh rule, many people had the item "Communication Secret Scroll," which could directly initiate a call to a friend; its effect was quite overbearing.
Guan Tong didn't want to add a bunch of trading friends and then suddenly have soone use this scroll to call him at so point... Although the probability wasn't high, it was better to avoid it if possible.
He added those who privately ssaged to purchase information, collected the Ascension Coins, and then new inquiry private ssages ca one after another, many asking about the "delivery" ti.
Guan Tong had already stated in the post that delivery would be 24 hours after the rule announcent and didn't repeat the explanation.
A total of eleven accounts paid him to purchase information, each for 50,000 Ascension Coins, totaling 550,000.
Adding to the previous remaining 210,000, Guan Tong now held a staggering 760,000 Ascension Coins.
This number was already very large, probably reaching several hundred tis the average for individual Ascendants.
Because so far, as long as an Ascendant could pass the first seven rules, or failed one, considering spending, the accumulated Ascension Coins should be around 1,000.
One person one thousand, ten people ten thousand, a hundred people a hundred thousand.
Guan Tong's current 760,000 Ascension Coins was roughly the total coin count of 760 people.
In other words, he himself was now equivalent to being able to mobilize the Ascension Coins a dium-sized group organization could mobilize, which was already quite impressive on a personal level.
Of course, it still couldn't compare to large organizations with thousands or tens of thousands of people, and the gap was enormous compared to national official entities that could mobilize resources of hundreds of millions of people.
However, Guan Tong was currently very satisfied with his advanced developnt and could feel he was on an upward trend. As ti passed, the speed of his overall improvent would further accelerate.
"Alright, the rule only lasts fifteen days; gotta make the most of the ti."
Fifteen days might not seem short, but if you wanted to seize more first places, it was really short.
Because many Ascendants would specify challenge locations, and you needed ti to travel there...
"Let's get the first place for that Tian Ding Mountain challenge first."
Guan Tong released Shadow and, based on the coordinate position, had it transform into a shadow line, extending outwards.
Even with Shadow's speed, covering nearly six hundred kiloters would take so ti. By the ti it reached Tian Ding Mountain, it was already afternoon.
At first, Guan Tong hadn't noticed anything, but when Shadow went to the "mountaintop stone monunt" specified in the challenge rules, he discovered seven or eight tents pitched there, completely surrounding the monunt.
Hmm...?
Seeing this scene, Guan Tong thought, "I didn't expect a camp to be stationed here. And judging by the look of it, are they not allowing others to challenge?"
Thinking this, he took out the [Passerby Transformation Device] from his Storage Box and chose to use it.
The next mont, he transford from a young man into an elderly man in his sixties.
After transforming, Guan Tong looked at his wrinkled hands and felt sothing was off. Taking out his phone to look, he was imdiately speechless.
"Why did I turn into a little old man this ti... Whatever, little old man it is, as long as it doesn't affect my ability usage."
The transford Guan Tong used his ability: Body Swap.
The next mont, Shadow appeared in his position, and he appeared on the mountaintop of Tian Ding Mountain over five hundred kiloters away.
As soon as he landed, from among the tents surrounding the monunt, one that was being unzipped had a young man wearing a padded jacket step out.
That young man ca out adjusting his belt, seemingly going to relieve himself. Upon seeing Guan Tong, he was montarily stunned.
"Where did this old man co from?"
"Old man?"
"Soone's here?"
Hearing the commotion, people from the other tents ca out to check, totaling fifteen or sixteen people.
They all looked at Guan Tong with so confusion; clearly, after entering the Doomsday Rules era, seeing soone this old was quite rare.
Then a long-haired, dark-skinned fat man stepped forward and asked, "Old man, what are you doing here? What the hell are you doing coming up the mountain for no reason?"
Guan Tong pretended to cough twice and said, "Cough, cough... This... I saw there was a challenge, from the stone monunt on this mountain to..."
"Hahahaha!"
Before he could finish speaking, the n and won in the camp burst into roaring laughter.
"So you ca for that challenge. Grandpa, are you okay?"
"At such an old age, you still want to challenge? Shouldn't you find a place to stay and wait to die?"
"Really don't know where this old geezer popped out from; quite amusing."
Guan Tong said slowly, "Since the rules allow others to initiate challenges, it's normal for
to co challenge, right?"
Upon hearing this, the long-haired dark-skinned fat man from earlier sneered, "Old thing, let
tell you, that challenge was created by . You want to take it away? No chance. My brothers and sisters are guarding this place. Don't say it's just you, an old geezer; even if anyone else ca, there's no way!"
"Oh. So you're ensuring you keep first place by not allowing others to challenge," Guan Tong said.
"Brother ng, why waste words with this old thing!" another young man cursed angrily. "Get lost now, or I'll kick you down the mountain, believe it or not?!"
Guan Tong nodded. "It seems I need to teach you all a lesson about respecting the elderly and cherishing the young."
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