Chapter 404 Everyone, hurry up and get on the train!
One night is indescribable, really indescribable.
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The next morning, the sun was shining brightly and the wind was gentle.
Lin Yun was radiant, refreshed and energetic.
Early in the morning, Lin Yun and his party of four followed Ren Tanqian to Wu'anmen Square.
Today's Wu'anmen Square is still crowded with people. All the high-ranking officials and nobles who were present yesterday are also present today.
The main sect master of Tianxuan Sect, the four branch sect masters, as well as the elders, deacons and disciples all gathered together.
Outside Wu'anmen Square, the crowd of onlookers gathered was several times larger than at yesterday's opening.
Because at the opening yesterday, the contestants were all competing in the preliminary rounds in the Forest of Death, so there was nothing to see at all.
What will be held today is the promotion match and the semi-finals. These two matches will be held in public at Wu'anmen, and all the people watching outside Wu'anmen can witness it with their own eyes.
The preliminaries are actually a big wave of screening, which eliminates the weak contestants and leaves only the top talents.
Therefore, the next promotion rounds and semi-finals will be the pinnacle showdown between the young talents of the Southern Xia Kingdom.
Naturally, no one would want to miss this grand occasion, so most people in the city gathered here.
The number of people in the entire Wu'anmen Square is at least hundreds of thousands!
After the preliminary screening, there are still twenty groups left, with a total of eighty people.
Among these eighty people, nearly forty are all inner disciples of the three major families in the kingdom. And their cultivation levels have almost all reached the level of ninth-level warriors.
This also means that the disciples of the eight major prefectures and counties have almost no chance of reaching the top forty.
When the morning sun hung high in the sky, the invigilator walked to Wu'an Gate, stood on the tall Wu'an Gate, and announced the process and rules of the promotion competition in public.
"The promotion competition is a one-on-one duel, divided into forty duels in total. Forty people will be eliminated, and the other forty people can advance to the semi-finals."
"During the duel, any weapon can be used. It ends when one of the parties is unable to continue fighting or voluntarily admits defeat."
The process and rules are very simple. The invigilator explained them clearly in a few words. The next step is the drawing of lots.
In order to ensure the fairness of the competition, the opponents of all contestants are randomly assigned by drawing lots together with the proctoring officials.
However, for the sake of the enjoyment of the competition, the core disciples of the three major families in the kingdom will be separated as seed players, and they will not be allowed to face off before the semi-finals.
As for the other contestants, whether the opponent is strong or weak, everything depends on fate.
The entire lottery process lasted for nearly a quarter of an hour.
After the draw is over, the promotion competition officially begins.
The invigilator stood at Wu'anmen holding a scroll and publicly announced the list of duels determined by drawing lots.
In the duel list generated by random drawing, any lineup may appear. There may be a lineup with a disparity in strength, or a lineup with equal strength.
There were several duels between the geniuses of the royal city and the disciples of the prefecture and county martial arts houses. The result was without exception, the disciples of the prefecture and county martial arts houses were eliminated miserably.
There were also several duels between the geniuses of the royal city. They were all inextricably linked, and both ended up losing.
Those who advanced were all complacent, while those who were eliminated were dejected.
As for those contestants who have not yet entered the competition, they are waiting nervously and anxiously, praying in their hearts that the opponents they encounter will not be too strong.
In the ninth game, it was finally Yuan Xiaofeng's turn to play.
Yuan Xiaofeng was very unlucky. The opponent he encountered was Nangong Jianren, an inner disciple of the Nangong family.
Nangong Jianren's realm is a ninth-level warrior. Unlike Shangguan Ruiqian, whose arm was crippled by Lin Yun, his realm does not rely on the accumulation of pills, but on his own cultivation. He is a true genius.
Yuan Xiaofeng, who is at the late stage of the sixth-level warrior, faced Nangong Jianren. It was like throwing an egg against a stone, and there was no way to beat him.
Before the competition between the two started, the public opinion of the onlookers had already caused Yuan Xiaofeng to lose miserably.
Yuan Xiaofeng in the crowd clenched his fists, sighed helplessly, then raised his hands and said to the invigilator: "I abstain."
Yuan Xiaofeng knew that with his level and strength, he would not even be able to pass the preliminaries.
He was already very satisfied with Lin Yun's blessing of passing the qualifying round. He had no desire to pass the promotion round again, so when he encountered such a powerful opponent, he directly chose to abstain.
Seeing Yuan Xiaofeng abstaining from voting, everyone present burst into cynicism.
"He actually abstained from voting. This guy is so shameless!"
"Which state and county is this waste? It's only the late sixth level warrior. No wonder he gave up without even fighting."
"He's from Yuzhou County, right? Tsk, Yuzhou County is really declining day by day. Each term is worse than the last."
This is the first time since the promotion round that a contestant has abstained, so everyone despises Yuan Xiaofeng.
Hearing the cynicism from everyone, Yuan Xiaofeng lowered his head in shame. He thought that participating in the Wangcheng Martial Arts Conference was an extremely glorious deed.
But he didn't expect that he would be embarrassed by coming here, and when he was embarrassed, he would be embarrassed along with Yuzhou County, and even implicate the director of the mansion Tan Qian.
Because Ren Tanqian, who was standing not far away, also received disdainful looks from many palace masters, he suddenly felt embarrassed.
As the next duel began, everyone's ridicule towards Yuan Xiaofeng and Yuzhou County gradually subsided.
After several more duels, it was finally Hu Jin's turn to play again.
Hu Jin's luck was slightly better than Yuan Xiaofeng's. He did not meet any inner disciples from the three major families in the kingdom, but only met geniuses from other families in the royal city.
This genius's name is Su Shi, and he is an eighth-level warrior. Although his strength is not as strong as Nangong Jianren, he is still far beyond what Hu Jin can deal with.
Because Yuan Xiaofeng abstained from voting before and was ridiculed by everyone, Hu Jin did not dare to abstain again and had no choice but to bite the bullet.
After he came to power, he was still collectively ridiculed by everyone.
"Why is there another waste from the late sixth-level warrior? How did these wastes pass the preliminaries?"
"A mere late-level sixth-level warrior dares to go on stage to fight with others. I really don't know who gave him the courage."
"This loser is in the same group as the coward who abstained just now. They are both disciples of Yuzhou County Wufu."
"Tsk, tsk, pathetic Yuzhou County is full of rubbish and rubbish. It is simply a town of rubbish!"
Hearing everyone's ridicule, Hu Jin also lowered his head in shame and clenched his fists involuntarily, thinking that in the battle later, he must try his best to perform well, and he must not embarrass Yuzhou County again.