He was actually the Spirit Master in charge of Zhu Chi's second round of the Large Competition!
When Liu Ming clearly saw the fat old man's face, he was naturally shocked. However, after thinking quickly, his expression returned to normal.
The fat old man shook his sleeve and immediately, small flags shot out. With a shake of the wind, they transformed into banners that were inserted into the two sides of the arena. There were more than twenty banners that were arranged neatly in half.
Looking at the symbols on the banners, the ten banners on one side were the symbols of the rankings from one hundred to ninety-one, while the other side was the symbols of the rankings from ninety-one to eighty-one.
At this moment, the fat old man indifferently said:
"All the Core Disciples that match the rankings on the banners can now come onto the stage."
Just as he finished speaking, a "sou sou" sound came from below the stone platform. The twenty Barbarian Ghost Sect Disciples that were already prepared immediately flew onto the banners that represented them. Not a single person was missing.
Liu Ming's eyes flashed and he saw two familiar faces, Xiao Feng and Du Hai. One of the two was ranked ninety-three, while the other was ranked eighty-nine.
"Very good. According to the order of the rankings, the last ten disciples can challenge the first ten disciples once. The winner will go to the higher level ranking and the loser will stay in the lower level ranking. If no one challenges after I ask three times, the challenge between the two groups of disciples will end. In each group, each person only has the right to challenge once. The challenge begins now. "The fat old man nodded and spoke without thinking.
The Core Disciples under the two banners looked at each other. Immediately, a seemingly strong male walked out from under the banners and challenged a disciple on the opposite side.
The fat old man formed a hand sign with one hand and a formation immediately appeared on the stone platform. A layer of light covered the entire stone platform.
Because the two disciples in the center of the arena had already signed the Writ of Life and Death yesterday, they didn't need to repeat this. One of them took out a long blade while the other put on a black gauntlet and immediately formed hand signs to cast spells from a distance.
The battle between the two couldn't be said to be very exciting. They seemed to be constantly using the Practitioner Weapons in their hands to attack each other while quickly releasing all kinds of simple support attacks.
These two seemed to be abnormally cautious and conservative people and didn't have any intention of getting close to each other.
But in this way, it became a battle of mana consumption.
For them, even though it was easy to release a practitioner weapon attack, it was obviously not powerful enough to break through the opponent's defense. The power of a spell attack was enough, but its casting speed was obviously not fast enough. Most of the spells would be easily interrupted or dodged by the opponent.
As a result, the battle between the two of them was just a process of continuously waving their practitioner weapons, casting simple spells, and constantly running and dodging. It made the audience feel a little drowsy.
However, after the time it took to finish a meal, the challenger finally caught his opponent off guard and knocked him out with a fireball. Then, after the fat old man announced his victory, he rushed to his opponent's banner in ecstasy.
After the fat old man descended from the sky, he examined the injured person and gave him some treatment. Then, he ordered people to carry the loser away and announced that the next challenge would continue.
Perhaps it was because of the stimulation from the first person, two people immediately rushed out at the same time. One of them was Xiao Feng.
After the two of them exchanged glances, Xiao Feng, who was slightly slower, reluctantly retreated.
Thus, after the new challenger chose his opponent, another duel began.
However, Liu Ming only watched a few times before sighing to himself.
The battle between the two people on the stage was almost the same as the previous battle. It was also a simple exchange of practitioner weapons and simple spells. There wasn't much to see.
Liu Ming didn't waste any more time watching and walked out of the crowd. He found a corner at the edge of the stone mountain and sat down cross-legged. He closed his eyes and started to meditate.
Even though he couldn't see the situation on the stone platform, he could still hear the cheers coming from there. However, his face didn't show any expression.
On the other side of the stone platform, as time passed, the challenges ended one after another. Xiao Feng finally made his move and luckily defeated an opponent, occupying the eighty-fifth place.
On the other hand, Du Hai successfully defeated a challenger and maintained his ranking.
Thus, after two more matches, when there were no more challengers, the one hundred to ninety-first disciples left the stage and were replaced by the ten core disciples ranked eighty to seventy-first. Thus, a new round of challenges began.
However, this time, Du Hai and the other ten became the challengers.
Just like this, the entire competition maintained the pattern of the ten lower level disciples challenging the ten higher level disciples. However, after two days of intense battles, most of the disciples knew their limits and didn't use their right to challenge. They only showed their faces on the stage for a while before leaving the stage in satisfaction.
Thus, other than a few rounds of battles between disciples that were slightly more frequent and intense, the entire competition passed very quickly. After half a day, it was time for the top twenty disciples, Shi Chuan, Sima Tian and the others, to step onto the stone platform.
At this time, Liu Ming, who was originally resting, opened his eyes and once again stood up and walked toward the stone platform.
Indeed, it was as he had expected. The battles between the top thirty and top twenty disciples became abnormally intense. Almost every disciple ranked in the top thirty issued a challenge. Including Shi Chuan, the top twenty disciples all displayed astonishing strength that the disciples in front of them could not hope to match up to.
When these disciples fought, there were some who displayed the Falling Rock Technique that was close to completion, causing rocks the size of a human head to fall like rain. There were also some who simultaneously summoned two Soldier Level ghosts. Under their coordination, they continuously pushed their opponents back. There were even some who displayed extremely powerful Body Refinement Techniques. With a single punch, they were able to collapse the opponent's Practitioner Weapon defense.
Among them, when Shi Chuan was challenged by a strong opponent, he had no choice but to reveal a silver chain for the first time. He transformed it into countless locks and firmly bound his opponent. Only then was he able to finally defeat his opponent.
Sima Tian also revealed a strange cold short ruler that was as black as ink for the first time. With a wave of it, balls of strange cold black air violently rolled out and actually turned the challenger into a black ice sculpture in an instant, causing quite a few people to cry out in surprise.
However, other than these two people, the bald large man, Gu Jue, who was ranked nineteenth, caused Liu Ming to pay some attention to him.
Other than the abnormally thick Soul Shackling Chain, the aura on this person's body gave off an indescribable feeling of familiarity.
As for the bald large man, he only relied on the black chain in his hand to easily defeat his opponent. His strength was also clearly unfathomable.
However, what caused him to pay attention to even more was that when Martial Uncle Ruan saw the bald large man enter the stage, his expression seemed to inadvertently change. Moreover, when the large man was fighting, his gaze did not leave the large man from start to finish, as if he was extremely focused on the large man's every move.
Under a sliver of doubt, Liu Ming also had some doubts in his heart.
However, no matter how intense these battles were and how a portion of people were defeated and replaced, Shi Chuan, the bald large man, and the others were able to maintain their rankings.
When the last battle between the two batches of disciples ended, the fat old man did not call for Liu Ming and the others to come onto the stage. Instead, he announced that they would first rest for two hours before starting the competition for the top ten disciples.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Shi Chuan, Sima Tian, and the others all swallowed pills on the spot and seized the time to meditate.
As for the other Barbarian Ghost Sect disciples, they began to excitedly discuss the competition that was about to begin. They also discussed who would not be challenged and who would lose their rankings.
Liu Ming faintly heard that there were not many words that mentioned him, but most of them did not look favorably upon him. He could not help but coldly laugh in his heart.
When the two hours time limit was up, Shi Chuan and the others had more or less recovered the Fa Li that they had previously used.
After the fat old man placed the banners of the top ten disciples on the side of the stage, he announced that Lei Zhen and the others, the ten people, would come onto the stage.
When Liu Ming and the others heard this, they naturally did not hesitate to go onto the stage.
The fat old man's originally smiling gaze, upon seeing Liu Ming walk to the ninth banner, immediately became slightly dazed. However, after his gaze slightly flashed, it immediately returned to normal.
Gao Chong flew onto the stone stage from another direction and just happened to come face to face with Liu Ming. After coldly looking at Liu Ming, he wordlessly walked to his own banner and stood properly.
Lei Zhen, who flew over from the side, laughed when he saw Liu Ming, his face filled with eagerness.
"The competition for the top ten disciples will now begin. The ten people who win will become the true top ten disciples and will be able to enter the ranking battles of the top ten disciples later on. I now announce that the free challenges will begin. "After the fat old man quickly said these two sentences, his figure slowly flew backwards towards the side of the stone stage.
Although the people on the stage continuously looked at each other with sparkling gazes, none of the ten people who stood in front of Liu Ming, including Shi Chuan, immediately stood out. However, among them, there were at least five or six people whose gazes continuously swept over Liu Ming's body.
Liu Ming's expression did not change, but he let out a sigh in his heart.
It was clear that close to half of the people on the other side had locked onto him as a challenge target.
This was also a very normal thing. On the surface, compared to the others, he seemed to be the weakest. The reason why they did not immediately issue a challenge was mostly because they were worried that he might have other hidden methods.
Just as Liu Ming was thinking about this, the person next to Shi Chuan finally hesitated for a moment before abruptly walking forward and loudly saying:
"Disciple Hu Fei wishes to challenge the current ninth ranked Junior Bai. I hope that Martial Uncle Ruan will allow it!"
This person was as tall and skinny as a bamboo pole. The embroidered robe he wore flickered with a faint green light. At the same time, on his back was a narrow and slender crescent shaped strange blade. As soon as he stood out, he gave off a gloomy feeling as if he was facing a poisonous snake.
Hearing this, Liu Ming immediately squinted his eyes and sized up the other person a few times.
Hearing this, the fat old man indifferently looked at Liu Ming before nodding his head in approval.
Seeing this, Liu Ming expressionlessly walked out from under the banner.
At this time, the fat old man formed a hand sign with one hand, causing the light barrier on the stage to once again appear. It covered the two fighters and loudly announced the start of the challenge.
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