Everyone's a Hunter? I'm a Hunter x Hunter!

The Knowledge Hunter's celebration is a "Knowledge Quiz".

It's similar to the TV show "Who's Still Standing?" that Lu Xiu watched in his previous life.

A group of knowledge hunters stood in a room, simultaneously answering questions posed by the officials of Nantian Port. Those who answered incorrectly were dismissed, while those who answered correctly remained.

The question bank covers everything from mythical creature knowledge, history and literature to even medicine, divination, and astrology.

There's nothing they won't ask if you can imagine it. And as time goes on, the difficulty of the questions will increase until only one person is chosen.

The competition is divided into preliminary rounds, group stages, and finals, gradually selecting the winners.

It puts a great test to the hunter's knowledge base.

Lu Xiu had no intention of participating in this competition, nor the axe-throwing competition. Although he was a knowledge hunter, he didn't read many books in this world. Relying on his knowledge from his previous life's games, he might get lucky and make it into the group stage, but reaching the finals and winning a prize was absolutely out of the question.

"If only I had been a scholar in my past life," Lü Xiu thought, finally understanding the meaning of "You only realize how little you know when you need it."

Even in the axe-throwing competition, Lü Xiu didn't know any forging techniques.

Although I'll be switching to weapon hunter in the future and will need to learn blacksmithing sooner or later, the axe-throwing competition starts in fifteen days. There's no time to learn it on the spot.

The winner of the knowledge quiz competition will receive a perfect-grade skill book, a set of level 60 perfect-grade armor of their choice, and a key that can unlock an ancient civilization.

The basic rewards include a perfect skill book and a free set of level 60 perfect armor.

The rewards for second and third place decrease progressively, until the 50th place finisher receives a reward of "Excellent" quality.

However, starting from second place, there is no extra reward of "the key to unlocking an ancient civilization".

That is the treasure that so many hunters crave.

The axe-throwing competition also has the same basic rewards. However, their bonus reward is slightly different: a naturally formed perfect-grade ore with a quality of 95 or higher!

With a quality of 95 or higher, and being naturally generated, its rarity is no less than that of epic-level materials!

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The Elemental Hunter competition is "Elemental Painting".

They used the power of the elements to recreate the beautiful scenery they had once seen.

Whoever recreates the most authentic scenery will rank higher. Therefore, Nantian Port has specially invited three titled Elemental Hunters to serve as judges.

This is an old competition format. Last year, an elemental hunter recreated a beautiful scene that inspired other hunters to gather their elemental hearts on the spot. Undoubtedly, they won.

It remains a beautiful story in Nantian Port to this day.

However, although it's called an elemental hunter competition, most of the participating hunters are actually knowledge hunters.

Given the elemental hunters' notoriously lazy nature... Lü Xiu seriously doubted whether all three titled elemental hunters invited by Nantian Port would actually attend. Last year, only one of the three judges showed up – what a jinx!

The extra reward for first place in the Elemental Painting competition is: an elemental painting made of special materials by a titled hunter who has mastered rare elemental attributes. After absorbing the power within, there is a very high probability of condensing an Elemental Heart.

However, this had nothing to do with Lü Xiu; he really had no artistic talent and had never studied painting.

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The next two matches are the main event, because Lü Xiu will definitely participate in them.

The Gourmet Hunters' Festival Event: The Gourmet Contest!

This food competition is quite special because it's a shop-based event.

At that time, a special food street will be set up in Nantian Port, where all contestants can temporarily own their own shop.

In the preliminary stage, the number of copies sold is compared.

There are no group stages; the finals are held immediately after the preliminary rounds!

The final competition is all about "taste".

The ingredients will be provided by Nantian Port, and the dishes will be prepared. Three titled Gourmet Hunters will also be present to taste and score the food. However, in previous years, at least five titled Gourmet Hunters have actually attended, with a maximum of ten in one year.

Upon hearing that there was food, those bastards of Gourmet Hunters ran faster than anyone else, and the Title Hunters were no exception.

"The topic for the preliminary round is steamed buns," Lu Xiu thought to himself, "I need to bring back the whole recipe for steamed buns when I go to the Floating Cloud Merchant Guild."

Quality is not important.

With the "sweet taste of knowledge," as long as you work diligently, you will eventually be able to elevate the recipes to a treasure level.

Perfect timing! Take this opportunity to upgrade my cooking skills to advanced level, and my "Sweet Taste of Knowledge" skill will be upgraded to perfect level. Maybe I can even upgrade it to a perfect level recipe in the end.

Let's leave it at that for now.

During the preliminary rounds, the hunters provided their own ingredients and all the revenue went to them.

Lu Xiu needs to think carefully about which steamed bun recipe to choose.

As for the extra reward for the first place winner of the culinary competition, it is a perfect recipe that can enhance the effects of food!

Enhance the effects of food!

Lu Xiu thought of Chef Rousong's nourishing chicken soup.

That's a treasure-level delicacy, which can increase the food buff effect by 100%!

What about the perfect level?

Lü Xiu could not calculate it.

Recipes that enhance the effects of food are already extremely rare; even ordinary recipes are rarely sold, let alone perfect ones.

This year's food competition is sure to be fierce!

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The current festival event for Beast Hunters is called "Mounted Archery Hunt".

Hunters are required to hunt while mounted.

Within the specified range and time, the higher the score of the mythical beast hunted by the hunter, the higher the ranking.

If you fall off your mount during a hunt, you will be eliminated immediately, and you can only use one mythical beast at most.

"Falling off one's mount means immediate elimination?" Lu Xiu immediately thought of hunting down other contestants.

If you can knock everyone else off their mounts, then you'll be the final victor, right?

Lu Xiu believed that the other contestants thought the same way when they saw this rule.

The equestrian archery hunting competition is also divided into preliminary rounds, group stages, and finals.

The first-place prize is an extra dragon egg laid by a king-level individual of the extremely rare sub-dragon mythical beast "Xuanlang".

"Xuanlang..." There are countless species of dragons, and Lu Xiu had never heard of this mythical beast.

I'll go to the library in Nantian Port to check later. Since Nantian Port dares to say that this is a dragon egg, it means that Xuanlang, this sub-dragon mythical beast, has a relatively strong dragon bloodline.

Although the five festivals mentioned above are designated for the five hunter professions, hunters of other professions can also participate. There is no restriction on participating in multiple festivals.

The only restriction is that the contestants' strength must be below the title hunter level.

If title hunters can participate, then these competitions become meaningless.

Furthermore, whether making throwing axes or cooking delicious food, the materials used are limited to a maximum of Treasure-grade.

This is also to prevent wealthy individuals who are not short of money from directly taking over the competition.