"What? There are five matches every day? Isn''t the challenge conducted using the elimination system? The number of participants will only be less as time passes. How can there still be five matches every day?"


    Lord George took a deep breath and said, "Because there are very few people who sign up to participate in the Guard Challenge every year. To be a Guard, you do not just defeat your opponents in thepetition. At the same time, thepetition will also arrange for Guards with corresponding strength topete. Only the cultivators who could defeat both contestants and Guards can be qualified to be guards."


    After chatting briefly, George asked the servant to arrange a room for Wilbur. Immediately after that, George returned to his room, opened the secret chamber, walked into a dark, spiral staircase, and came to the basement. George took a few more steps forward, and a light appeared in the basement.


    George looked up and saw a huge crystal ball in the air a hundred meters away. This huge crystal ball was emitting a faint light. When George walked to the front of the crystal ball, he felt a powerful force. He pressed down, then knelt down on one knee and said respectfully, "Lord Hadirt, you summoned me?"


    As soon as he finished speaking, a gloomy face appeared on the huge crystal ball. It was Hadirt, the City Lord of the seventh ughter town, Tevinter Town.


    Although there was an alliance among the nine lords, the strength of the City Lords was not at the same level. Therefore, there were situations where low-level City Lords would surrender to high-level City Lords.


    Back in the past, it was with Hadirt''s help that George took the position to rule over the fifth town, Walker Town. In order to repay Hadirt''s kindness, George once said that he would handpick ten dragon n cultivators who had attained the Senior Guard position and sacrifice them to Hadirt.


    Hadirt in the crystal ball looked at George kneeling on the ground coldly, and said angrily, "George, don''t forget what you promised me. You haven''t sacrificed a dragon n cultivator to me for five hundred years."


    "I''m making preparations for this matter. I believe it won''t take long to sacrifice the eighth dragon n cultivator with Senior Guard strength to you, Lord Hadirt."


    "Well, I hope you''re telling the truth this time. You only have five years. Within the next five years, if I do not get the eighth dragon n cultivator, I wille to Walker Town to find you in person."


    "I understand, Lord Hadirt. The eighth dragon n cultivator will be sent to you in two years."


    "Good." The face in the crystal ball was satisfied. It then nodded and disappeared. After the pressure disappeared, George could not help but slump to the ground, breathing heavily.


    Even after five thousand years, George still could not resist Hadirt''s intimidation. Hadirt''s cultivation strength was far superior to George''s. Seventy percent of Walker Town''s wealth every year went into Hadirt''s pocket. This also made it impossible for George to get in touch with the cultivators in the upper dimension.


    As long as the City Lord or a family sacrificed enough gold coins, they could get in touch with the cultivators in the upper dimension and gain their protection. This was something that many middle dimension cultivators would dly do. After all, with the protection of an upper dimension cultivator, not only they could cultivate faster, but one could even learn the techniques from the upper dimension.


    Some cultivators even received swords and armor as rewards from upper dimension cultivators. These weapons, which were useless in the eyes of upper- level dimension cultivators, immediately turned into deadly weapons when they reached the middle level of dimension. With this, the middle dimension cultivators could obtain higher status.


    George envied this very much, but Hadirt took seventy percent of the ie from Walker Town, and the remaining thirty percent could barely sustain the operation of Walker Town and the maintenance of the City Lord''s quarters.


    George was very much a vain person. He did not want outside cultivators to see his downfall, so he did not save his gold coins. This way, although it was sufficient for daily use, it could not help George obtain the protection of upper dimension elites.