When everyone has already started to habitually feel that you should win, and when you lose, it will make everyone feel that it was an upset and an accident. This is actually a type of increase in prestige. So right now Lin Feng often secretly and foolishly laughed by himself at the prestige value displayed in the system.
After the first round, everyone found that, coincidentally, in the top 16, the eight forces each occupied two spots.
Immediately after, the second round of drawing lots was about to begin. After the first round of competition, those who could remain were all seeded players of the various forces, geniuses among geniuses, experts among experts.
Therefore, from the start of the top 16, every match was a battle between the strong. The spectators were also more and more looking forward to the detailed arrangement of drawing lots for the top 16.
Although the top 16 in the Golden Elixir Period could all obtain a place to enter the Ancient Desolate Sea World, the true ranking was still very important to most people. The Golden Elixir Period represented the foundation and potential of a force. Yesterday's competition between the Foundation Establishment disciples was just a warm-up for today's competition.
These cultivators in the Golden Elixir Period who participated in the competition were all geniuses of the younger generation of their respective sects. They had unlimited potential and outstanding strength, and no one was willing to be below others. They all had the thought and the confidence to come out on top.
At this moment, everyone's eyes were fixed on the copper bottle in front of Dao Master Chang Le. There, the arrangement of the top 16 would be drawn.
Zhuge Fengling stared at the copper bottle and muttered, "The strongest opponents should be Jiao Junchen, Tao Yaoyao, Song Qingyuan, and Gu Lei. Oh, right, there's also that big guy from the Northern Militant, Dou Kun."
"If we draw them in the second round, our luck will be too bad …"
Yue Hongyan glanced at her. "We're going to meet anyway. It doesn't matter if we fight earlier or later. What's there to be afraid of?"
Yang Qing whispered, "Senior Sister, there's still a difference. Just like when you guys were in the top four of the Foundation Establishment stage, if Third Senior Brother hadn't fought too hard with Dao Yuting of the Heaven Pool Sect, he might have had the strength to fight you in the finals.
"On the other hand, if you had encountered Dao Yuting when you were in the top eight or top sixteen, even if you could have won, it would have affected the rest of the competition."
Yue Hongyan said, "However, not everyone possesses Dao Yuting's strength. Even if they are exhausted from their battle with Dao Yuting, it is not impossible for them to defeat their next opponent."
Hearing their discussion, Xiao Budian smiled, tilted his head slightly, and asked Zhu Yi: "Second senior brother, who do you want to draw?"
Zhu Yi's expression was calm as he said indifferently, "It doesn't matter who I draw."
His tone was light and breezy, without the slightest hint of arrogance or boasting, only a kind of absolute confidence.
Zhu Yi looked at Tiny Tot. "What about you, junior brother?"
Tiny Tot grinned: "Jiao Junchen, Tao Yaoyao, Song Qingyuan, Gu Lei, Dou Kun …" He repeated all the names that Zhuge Fengling had just called out, and added two more names, both of which were the toughest opponents in the top sixteen of the Golden Elixir.
Hearing this, Zhu Yi smiled, while Zhuge Fengling's face instantly collapsed. She thought to herself: "You little devil, are you trying to embarrass me?"
The little guy seemed to know what she was thinking, and said with a smile, "To be able to eliminate one of these experts from the top eight, or even the top four in the eyes of most people, outside of the top eight, that would be a happy thing."
Zhuge Fengling laughed dryly, but did not speak. The Gold-digging Rat on her shoulder smiled bitterly and said to her through telepathy: "Fengling, these monsters think differently from us."
At this moment, Dao Master Changle had already drawn the first name. It was Zhu Yi.
The onlookers suddenly went into an uproar, and then became quiet. Everyone held their breath, waiting for Dao Master Changle to draw the next unlucky person.
Yes, in the eyes of most people, except for a few people, those who were in the same group as Zhu Yi were unlucky.
Other than Zhu Yi's past achievements, the most important reason was that during the spell conference, Zhu Yi had captured the Great Qin Dynasty's royal disciple who wanted to compete with him for the Dark Single Bone Tooth.
This matter suddenly made Zhu Yi rise to the position of a hot topic.
The tall and thin young man was also in the late Golden Elixir, and he also cultivated the White Emperor's Dragon Book, which was a secret technique of the Great Qin Dynasty's royal family.
However, such a cultivator in the late Golden Elixir was captured alive by Zhu Yi, who was only in the early Golden Elixir. This was beyond many people's expectations.
Even if it was widely rumored that Zhu Yi had the ability to compete with a Yuanying stage ancestor, the rumor said that Zhu Yi could do this because he had a Yuanying stage artifact to protect himself. However, he did not use the artifact to capture the royal disciple alive. He completely relied on his own magical power.
As everyone knew, the difference between resisting, suppressing, defeating, killing, and capturing alive was completely different in terms of difficulty.
According to the thoughts of most people, it was acceptable for Zhu Yi to defeat the tall and thin young man and injure him.
Killing him was quite difficult, but it was still acceptable.
However, capturing him alive was beyond the imagination of many people. The process of Zhu Yi capturing him alive was witnessed by more than one person. Those who saw it with their own eyes were even more shocked after thinking about it.
Because, from the looks of it, it seemed like, perhaps, it seemed like Zhu Yi didn't spend too much effort to capture that person alive. It was as if he had done it with ease.
This made everyone even more shocked at the powerful strength that Zhu Yi showed.
After all, Zhu Yi was only at the early stage of the Golden Elixir realm. Many people found it hard to imagine what kind of powerful magical powers he would have when he advanced to the middle stage of the Golden Elixir realm or the late stage of the Golden Elixir realm.
What kind of scene would it be after he successfully formed his Nascent Soul?
Just thinking about it made a group of people's hearts tremble. Therefore, Zhu Yi, who had just revealed the tip of the iceberg, had become one of the hot favorites in the competition during the Golden Elixir period. He was a boss-level character.
In many people's hearts, Zhu Yi had already occupied a place in the top four in advance. Now he was waiting for others to challenge him. Unless he met other super popular candidates, Zhu Yi would definitely enter the top four.
Lin Feng could feel the emotional fluctuations of most of the people in the venue. He grinned, saying in his heart: "Xiaoyi, oh Xiaoyi, you're really good. Originally, shouldn't it be you climbing up step by step, overturning one obstacle after another, and finally reaching the top to challenge the demon king?"
"Now that the roles have been reversed, you've been directly thrown into the position of the demon king. How can people accept this?"
Lin Feng smiled, "I really feel sad for those little braves who are ready to challenge the demon king. Your heroic journey is destined to be a sad story."
In the process of Lin Feng's imagination running wild, Dao Master Chang Le had already drawn out Zhu Yi's opponent.
When Lin Feng saw this, he was immediately happy.
As the old saying goes, enemies always meet. Zhu Yi's opponent was the second son of the Huo clan, Huo Ming, who had a conflict with the disciple of Xuanmen Tianzong.
Seeing the result of the draw, the venue was quiet for a moment. Everyone's eyes moved back and forth between Zhu Yi and Huo Ming.
"This competition is worth watching." This was what most people thought.
For the demon king Zhu Yi, Huo Ming was one of the few opponents in the top 16 who could make the result of the battle suspense. The Huo clan was good at fighting to the death. Every disciple of the clan had walked out of a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood.
The Huo Clan's disciples' true strength couldn't be displayed in the usual sparring matches. Only bloody battles could demonstrate their combat prowess.
And the special nature of the Hidden Dragon Pot could meet this requirement. It allowed Huo Ming to fight with all his strength.
In addition, in the competition of the Foundation Establishment Realm, it was Zhu Yi's junior brother, Wang Lin, who eliminated Huo Ming's junior brother, Huo Chen. There was a deep grudge between the two sides, which made this competition even more interesting.
When Huo Ming saw the result of the draw, his expression did not change at all. He just looked at Zhu Yi in the distance, his eyes calm and indifferent.
But just this glance immediately made Lin Feng and Zhu Yi, master and disciple, secretly nod their heads: "Not bad, that time when he cut the stone, it indeed made his dao and mental state improve a step further."
If it was the previous Huo Ming, although he could usually keep calm, at this moment, when he saw the result of the draw, he was like a long knife out of its sheath, overflowing with cold air and awe-inspiring killing intent. He stared at Zhu Yi like a tiger watching its prey.
But at this moment, Huo Ming was as calm as before. There was not the slightest killing intent or fighting intent leaking out from his body.
Huo Ming's control of his state of mind and his own magic power had indeed improved to the next level.
The special nature of the Huo clan's Dharmic powers made it easy for them to lose control of their state of mind. Therefore, when the Huo clan's Dharmic powers were cultivated to a high level, it would often produce a characteristic of returning to simplicity.
Asura Daoist Master Huo Xiu was the best example. Now, Lin Feng could vaguely see a shadow of Huo Xiu in Huo Ming.
It was not much, only one point, but for Huo Ming, who was in the late Golden Elixir, it was very rare. The Huo clan had some Yuanying ancestors who might be stronger than him, but their state of mind might not be much better.
Next, the matchup that was drawn made people not know whether to laugh or cry. It especially made the people of Purple Cloud Path depressed.
Gu Lei and Li Kuiyin, who were both from Purple Cloud Path, were drawn together. This pair of brother and sister met in advance of the round of 16. It was destined that one of them would not be able to enter the top eight.
The third matchup was between Shi Xingyun and the Northern Militant Divine Soul cultivator Sang Luohe. This group was generally considered to be the hardest to predict. Shi Xingyun had always been low-key, and almost no one had seen her in action.
And as an extremely rare Divine Soul cultivator in the Northern Militant Imperial Court and Divine Land, Sang Luohe, Sang Luohe, was also very mysterious.
In the fourth and fifth group, the Sun Moon Sword Sect's two sword companions went up one after another. Their opponents were the other Huo clan disciple who entered the top 16 besides Huo Ming, and the super popular person who was recognized as being on the same level as Zhu Yi, the Celeritas Sword Sect's senior sister, Tao Yaoyao.
The sixth group caused another wave of discussion. The Heavenly Pool Sect's Song Qingyuan against the Northern Militant Imperial Court's Dou Kun.
And the seventh group was Xiao Budian's turn.
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