This night was indescribable. It was truly indescribable.
…
The next morning, the sun was shining brightly and the weather was pleasant.
Lin Yun's face was glowing, his mind was refreshed, and he was in high spirits.
Early in the morning, Lin Yun's group of four followed Tan Qian to the Wuan Gate Square.
Today, the Wuan Gate Square was filled with people as usual. All the high-ranking officials and nobles who were present yesterday were also present today.
The Sky Profound Sect's Patriarch, four branch patriarchs, elders, deacons, and disciples were all gathered here.
Outside the Wuan Gate Square, the number of spectators was several times that of yesterday's opening ceremony.
Because yesterday's opening ceremony, the participants were all in the Forest of Death for the preliminaries, so there was nothing much to see.
Today's matches were the promotion and semifinals. These two competitions would be held openly in the Wuan Gate, so all the spectators outside the Wuan Gate could see it with their own eyes.
The preliminaries were actually a screening process where the weak participants were eliminated, leaving only the top geniuses.
Therefore, the advancement and semifinals would be the peak showdown between the young geniuses of the Southern Summer King Nation.
Naturally, no one was willing to miss such a grand occasion, so most of the people in the city gathered here.
There were at least hundreds of thousands of people in the Wuan Gate Square!
After the elimination of the preliminaries, there were a total of 20 groups left, with a total of 80 people.
Among these 80 people, there were nearly 40 people who were inner disciples of the three great clans of the kingdom. And their cultivation had almost reached the realm of a Level Nine Martial Warrior.
This also meant that it was almost impossible for the disciples of the eight great prefectures and counties to fight their way into the top 40.
When the morning sun hung high in the sky, the invigilator walked to the Wuan Gate, stood on the high Wuan Gate, and announced the procedures and rules of the advancement competition.
"The advancement competition will be one-on-one duels, and there will be a total of 40 duels. Among which, 40 people will be eliminated, and the other 40 will advance to the semifinals.
"During the duel, any weapon can be used. When one side is unable to continue fighting, or voluntarily admits defeat, the duel will end. "
The procedures and rules were very simple, and the invigilator explained it clearly in a few words. Next was the drawing of lots.
In order to maintain the fairness of the competition, the opponents of all the participants were randomly assigned by the invigilators by drawing lots.
However, for the sake of spectating the competition, the core disciples of the kingdom's three great families would be separated as seeded contestants. They wouldn't be allowed to face each other before the semifinals.
As for the other participants, whether their opponents were strong or weak, it was all up to the heavens.
The whole process of drawing lots lasted for nearly 15 minutes.
After the lots were drawn, the promotion round officially began.
The invigilator stood at the Wuan Gate with a scroll in his hand and announced the name list of the duels that had been decided by drawing lots.
The matchup list was randomly drawn, so any lineup could appear. There might be a lineup with a great disparity in strength, but there might also be a lineup with equal strength.
There were several matches between the geniuses of the Royal City and the disciples of the Martial House. The result, without exception, was that the disciples of the Prefecture or County Martial House were eliminated.
There were also a few duels between the geniuses of Monarch City where they were locked in a stalemate and both sides suffered heavy injuries in the end.
Those who advanced were pleased with themselves, while those who were eliminated were dejected.
As for the contestants who had yet to go on stage, they were all waiting nervously and anxiously, praying in their hearts that their opponents would not be too strong.
In the ninth match, it was finally Yuan Xiaofeng's turn to go on stage.
Yuan Xiaofeng's luck was very bad. The opponent he encountered was an inner disciple of the Nangong Clan – Nangong Jian Ren.
Nangong Jian Ren was a Ninth Grade Martial Warrior. He was different from Shangguan Ruiqian, whose arm had been crippled by Lin Yun. His realm did not rely on the accumulation of medicinal pills, but on his own cultivation. He was a true genius.
Yuan Xiaofeng, who was a late Sixth Grade Martial Warrior, against Nangong Jian Ren, was simply like using an egg to smash a stone. There was simply no way he could win.
The match between the two had not yet begun, but the public opinion of the audience had already given Yuan Xiaofeng a crushing defeat.
In the crowd, Yuan Xiaofeng clenched his fists, helplessly sighed, and then raised his hand to the invigilator and said: "I abstain."
Yuan Xiaofeng knew that with his realm and strength, he would not be able to pass the qualifiers.
He was already very satisfied to be able to pass the qualifiers thanks to Lin Yun. He had no extravagant hopes of passing the promotion competition, so when he encountered such a strong opponent, he directly chose to abstain.
Seeing Yuan Xiaofeng directly abstain, everyone present was mocking and ridiculing.
"He actually abstained directly, this guy is really too cowardly!"
"Which state or county is this trash from? He's actually only a late Sixth Grade Martial Warrior, no wonder he directly abstained without even fighting. "
"He's from Yuzhou County, right? Tsk tsk, Yuzhou County is really declining day by day, getting worse and worse. "
From the start of the promotion competition until now, this was the first time that a contestant had abstained, so everyone was very contemptuous of Yuan Xiaofeng.
Hearing the ridicule of the crowd, Yuan Xiaofeng lowered his head in shame. He originally thought that participating in the Royal City Martial Arts Competition was an incomparably glorious event.
But he did not expect that he would come here and lose face, and at the same time, he also lost the face of Yuzhou County, and even implicated the head of the prefecture, Tan Qian.
This was because Tan Qian, who was standing not far away, also received many contemptuous looks from the prefecture heads, and immediately felt embarrassed.
As the next battle began, the crowd's ridicule of Yuan Xiaofeng and Yuzhou County gradually subsided.
After a few more battles, it was finally Hu Jin's turn to go on stage.
Hu Jin's luck was slightly better than Yuan Xiaofeng's. He did not encounter the inner disciples of the kingdom's three major families, only the geniuses of the other families in Royal City.
This genius was called Su Shi, and he was a Eighth Grade Martial Warrior. Although his strength was not as strong as Nangong Jian Ren, he was far from someone Hu Jin could deal with.
Because Yuan Xiaofeng abstained previously, he was collectively ridiculed by the crowd, so Hu Jin did not dare to abstain again, and could only bite the bullet and go on.
After he went on stage, he was still collectively ridiculed by the crowd.
"Why is there another late Sixth Grade Martial Warrior trash? How did this trash pass the preliminaries? "
"A mere late Sixth Grade Martial Warrior dares to go on stage to fight with others, I really don't know who gave him the courage."
"This trash is in the same group as the coward who abstained just now. They are both disciples of the Yuzhou County Martial House."
"Tsk tsk, the pitiful Yuzhou County is full of trash, this is simply a town of trash!"
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