God of Pets

Chapter 297 Dragon and Tiger List

Pingshan is a square mountain, and it looks like a screen from all sides, hence its name.

The Dragon and Tiger Ranking is located on the top of Ping Mountain. From a high vantage point, Ping Mountain resembles a giant natural arena, where battle after battle takes place.

Some people have said that Pingshan is actually Pingshan, named so because the top of the mountain is so flat that it looks like it has been repaired.

Chen Guan didn't know which rumor was true, nor did he care about it. He went up the mountain via the path on the right.

Since ancient times, there have been two roads on Pingshan Mountain, one leading to the Dragon List and the other to the Tiger List. The right path leads to the Tiger List, while the left path leads to the Dragon List.

Both lists are located on Pingshan Mountain. Strangely, people who come up the mountain from the left cannot see the Tiger List, and people who come up the mountain from the right cannot see the Dragon List.

The Dragon and Tiger Rankings, though located on the same mountaintop, seem to exist in two different worlds, with no influence on each other.

However, if you look down at Pingshan from above, you will find that the top of Pingshan is actually in the shape of a nine-square grid, with mountain walls separating the two sides.

The two sides each have three sections: the Pet List, the Human List, and the Tiger List (Dragon List). The middle section is where you reach the top of the mountain on both sides, and it's where the Dragon List and Tiger List are located. To participate in the Dragon List and Tiger List, you need to register here.

The very center of the nine-square grid is shrouded in mist all day long, making it impossible to see what's inside. No one has ever entered the central area since reaching the mountaintop, as if that area doesn't exist at all.

Many people have tried to find this area on the mountaintop, but no matter what method they use to climb the mountain, they end up only seeing the Dragon List area or the Tiger List area, and can never find this central area.

After ascending the mountain via the right path, near the summit, you can see a natural stone arch at the end of the path, which looks somewhat like a giant tiger lying on the ridge, or perhaps an archway leading into the Tiger Ranking area.

Cultivators above level 20 will be blocked by a strange wind in front of the archway and will be unable to enter no matter what they do.

After passing through the arched beam, Chen Guan saw a tiger-head stele standing on the mountaintop. It had three vertical lines with one hundred names in each line. Strangely, the names on the stele seemed to change from time to time.

It could be that the location has changed, or some names have disappeared, while some names that were not originally there have appeared.

Chen glanced at the ranking list. A combat maniac like Jiang Qiemo must be fighting on the ranking list, relying purely on his own abilities. The first name at the top was Chun Mantang, the second was Jiang Qiemo, and the third was Mantangcai.

“Spring fills the hall… Full of color… These two wouldn’t happen to be the ones who had a conflict with Jiang Qiemo, would they…” Chen Guan wasn’t surprised by the two’s names, because the names on the Dragon and Tiger List were filled in by the participants themselves, and it was up to each person to decide what name to use.

Chen Guan arrived at the Tiger Head Stele, in front of which were three stone platforms.

The three stone platforms represent the Pet Ranking, Human Ranking, and Tiger Ranking respectively. Writing your name on them with your own blood is equivalent to registering for the duel.

Chen Guan pricked his finger and wrote the two characters "fellow Daoist" in blood on the three stone platforms.

Chen Guan felt that the two characters "以道会友，造交天下朋友" (meaning "to make friends through the Way, and to make friends all over the world") were kind, auspicious, and had a very good meaning.

As the blood-written words gradually disappeared from the stone platform, three portals appeared on the mountain wall behind the Tiger Head Stele, seemingly out of nowhere.

Those three portals correspond to the Pet Ranking, Human Ranking, and Tiger Ranking. Chen had seen the information and knew that the middle portal represented the Human Ranking. Passing through this portal would lead to the Human Ranking Arena.

Following the flow of people, Chen Guan entered through the central gate and arrived at a giant square fighting arena. The arena was surrounded by walls carved into the mountainside, with layers of stone steps leading down to the square fighting platform in the center, where people were currently fighting.

Chen Guan looked around and saw that there were far more people than he had expected. This fighting arena was large enough to hold at least 100,000 spectators, but it was packed with people. Chen Guan soon realized that the people who came here were not just there to watch the excitement; many of them were holding something that looked like a lottery ticket.

Chen Guan's eyes lit up immediately: "Is there a gambling den here?"

This discovery greatly boosted Chen Guan's spirits.

He had no intention of looking for Jiang Qiemo first, so he immediately left the Human Ranking Fighting Arena and went to the Pet Ranking Fighting Arena and the Tiger Ranking Fighting Arena. The result was the same: there were gamblers everywhere with betting tickets, watching the matches and shouting wildly.

This was completely different from what Chen Guan had imagined the Dragon and Tiger Ranking to be. He had thought it was a sacred place like the Mount Hua Sword Competition, but now he realized that it was simply a racetrack.

The intense atmosphere made it seem as if the real protagonists were not the cultivators and pets fighting above, but these fanatical gamblers.

"Great...this is really great..." Chen Guan realized that the best way to make money was not by participating in matches and getting those worthless rewards.

The gambling here is his real money-making tool. Putting everything else aside, if Chen Guan uses his talent to interfere in the battles on the Pet Ranking, even if someone wants to cheat, they won't be able to stop him from winning money.

"This...this is like the bank not locking its doors..." Chen watched the frenzied gamblers in the arena, as if he could see banknotes falling from the sky, creating a rain of money.

Chen Guan first went to learn about the gambling situation here, and did not place a bet rashly.

Chen Guan originally thought that the people who could run gambling dens on Pingshan Mountain must be from the Zhang family.

But after inquiring, I learned that the biggest bookmaker here was not a member of the Zhang family, but a man named Duan Yinde, who on the surface seemed to have nothing to do with the Zhang family.

According to the old gamblers here, Duan Yinde signed a contract with the Zhang family to take over Pingshan. So now all the gambling dens and shops on the Dragon Tiger List are Duan Yinde's businesses.

Duan Yinde wasn't actually called that. It seems his original name was Duan Youde, but at some point, everyone started calling him Duan Yinde.

“Wait a minute… Duan Youde… his surname is Duan…” Chen Guan remembered that Duan Shulin often mentioned to him that the Duan family had a pet arena business.

"Could this Duan Youde be from Duan Shulin's family?" Chen Guan wondered to himself.

Duan Yinde has been operating in Pingshan for many years and still has a good reputation, but trying to win money from the bookmaker is like pulling teeth from a tiger's mouth. Generally speaking, he can only win a small amount of money and rarely makes a lot of money.

Duan Yinde's betting odds are very low, but if you win, you don't have to worry about not getting your money.

Moreover, there are various ways to play. One way is similar to horse racing; if you can bet on an underdog, you might win a big prize.

Of course, the prize money was accumulated from the betting funds of other gamblers, and Duan Yinde was guaranteed to make a profit; it was just a matter of how much he would earn.

Besides Duan Yinde, there are other clandestine private gambling dens. Those gambling dens are very high-stakes, and if you want to win big money, you still have to go to these private gambling dens.

But even if you win the bet, it's hard to say whether you'll actually get your winnings back, or even your initial investment.

Chen Guan discovered that winning a little money wasn't difficult, but secretly making a lot of money was not an easy task.

(End of this chapter)