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Nie Jie also stopped speaking, while the disciples of the Hundred Peaks Sect quickly set up the arena.
As for those who didn’t understand the rules, or those who couldn’t find their arena after an hour, they’re just out of luck. If they can’t even understand the rules or find their arena, why participate in the competition?
Actually, setting up the arena, even a hundred arenas, wouldn’t take long. The half-hour time limit is just to let everyone rest and recover.
Soon, the half-hour passed, and everyone flew towards the same arena. On the mountains on both sides, those not participating in the battle looked towards their sect’s disciples, and many people glanced at Fang Shengqing.
They were curious to see if this person, Fang Shengqing, would encounter a Golden Core Stage Limit opponent.
Upon seeing it, many people showed a look of disappointment.
"No Golden Core Stage Limit."
"Only he’s a Golden Core Stage Limit."
"If he meets a Golden Core Stage Limit opponent in the first round, that would be interesting."
"After all, there are still few at the Golden Core Stage Limit. He is at the Golden Core Stage Limit, which is enough to let him enter the final rounds or even say, directly represent us in the Eastern Province to compete.
After all, it’s not the Minor Era of Inversion of Heaven and Earth period now, and there are still few at the Golden Core Stage Limit."
On the Hundred Peaks Sect’s side, everyone was also looking towards their sect’s disciples who were participating in the battle, while those from Four Treasures Peak were looking at Xingchen Zi.
Listening to the sighs from the surrounding people, a bizarre expression appeared on Ling Xi and the others’ faces. The arena where Fang Shengqing was located was the ninth arena, and indeed, besides him, there was no one else at the Golden Core Stage Limit.
However, Xingchen Zi was on this arena.
Although Nie Jie hadn’t mentioned previously that one must hold a bamboo sign upon ascending the arena, Xingchen Zi still carried that colorful bamboo sign onto the arena.
For a moment, everyone’s gaze on the ninth arena fell on Xingchen Zi and Fang Shengqing.
On the other arenas, some people directly held their bamboo signs, but some did not.
On those arenas without bamboo signs, the cultivators scrutinized each other.
However, those cultivators who carried colorful bamboo signs onto the arena clearly felt hostile gazes directed at them.
Suddenly, on an arena where only five people had bamboo signs, someone who had not displayed a bamboo sign took out a purple bamboo sign and said loudly to everyone: "Everyone, the rules are clear, only one person can leave this arena.
That person is most likely the one holding the colorful bamboo sign. I believe we’ve all come this far, and nobody wants to be eliminated in the first round.
This time, gaining a ranking in the tournament allows one to earn points, which can be exchanged for treasures in our Human Clan’s Points Treasury.
If you want a better ranking, want to earn more points, the best way is to first defeat the strongest person holding the colorful bamboo sign.
Now that we already have six people holding colorful bamboo signs, but the person with the colorful bamboo sign hasn’t shown up yet.
Actually, finding him is easy, as long as everyone shows their bamboo sign if they don’t have a colorful one.
The person left, naturally is the one with the colorful bamboo sign."
As soon as his words fell, among the four cultivators who hadn’t shown a bamboo sign, three did not hesitate at all and directly took out their bamboo signs. Instantly, everyone’s gaze fell on the one person who hadn’t displayed their bamboo sign.
"What? Want nine of you to fight one of me?" The other cultivator who hadn’t shown a bamboo sign laughed suddenly, full of disdain in his eyes, "Do you really think, you nine, can be my match?
Soon, I will let you know how big the gap between Golden Core Stages really is!"
On the other arenas, each cultivator also reacted quickly. Almost every arena was the same, with nine cultivators instantly forming an alliance against the cultivator holding the colorful bamboo sign.
The only exception was the ninth arena.
"We have a colorful bamboo sign holder on our arena, but also an existence at the Golden Core Stage Limit. Who should we target?"
"Does anyone recognize the cultivator holding the colorful bamboo sign?"
"No, his clothes aren’t from any Great Teaching."
"In situations like this, members from Great Teachings or sects usually wear their sect’s attire, but he isn’t carrying any. He must be a Loose Cultivator."
"A Loose Cultivator holding a colorful bamboo sign!"
"His aura is clearly inferior to that of Fang Shengqing."
"We should first target Fang Shengqing; after all, he is an existence at the Golden Core Stage Limit."
"Yes, let’s deal with him first. Isn’t he arrogant? Didn’t he say whoever is in the same arena with him is unlucky! Let’s make him the first to be eliminated."
All around, voices constantly emerged.
Some cultivators even extended an invitation to Xingchen Zi: "Dao Companion, shall we first join forces to eliminate Fang Shengqing? He’s too arrogant!"
"I..." Xingchen Zi barely opened his mouth to utter a word when Fang Shengqing’s contemptuous voice already rang out.
"And what if you nine attack together? It’s merely the rules that don’t allow it. Otherwise, whether it’s ten of you or twenty, I’d still fight."