"Whew...... It's okay......" Seeing that the crystal in his hand finally reacted, Gurung breathed a sigh of relief, because of the existence of a mysterious pendant, he didn't care about his elemental talent at all, as long as he was not considered by everyone to be an insulator, even if the test result was ordinary, he could accept it.

However, except for Gurung's thoughts, everyone present had different expressions. There are those who feel sorry for him, those who are disappointed by their families, those who gloat, and those who look disdainful.

Looking at Gurung, who seemed a little depressed, Ryan walked up to him, patted him lightly on the shoulder, and comforted: "Gurung, don't worry about this, although your elemental talent is much worse than your strength talent, it will not affect your achievements in the future......"

Gurung smiled indifferently and said to Ryan: "Thank you, Brother Ryan, I'm fine." ”

Seeing Gu Long's casual appearance, Ryan nodded reassuringly and said, "Good boy, behave well tomorrow, I'm looking forward to fighting with you!"

"Me too. Gurung looked excited and winked mischievously at Ryan.

"Pretending to be a boy......" Ossis said indignantly, but unexpectedly, he was heard by Elena.

"What did you say?" a pair of beautiful eyes glared at Ossis.

"Hmph......" Ossis squeezed a cold snort out of both nostrils and turned his head away, no longer sarcastic. Ossis didn't do this because he was afraid of Elena, after all, there was a gap of two small ranks between the two. It's just that Ossis knows that this woman is extremely difficult, and although he is not afraid of her, he doesn't want to get into trouble either.

After a day of testing, the results of more than 300 family members have finally been counted, and the list of participants in tomorrow's big competition has been released, according to the calculation method of realm plus talent results, Gurung is exactly ranked tenth, and the top three are occupied by Ryan, Ossis, and Elena. In addition, the names of ten others were also read out by Noah, and these ten are all young children with outstanding talents, and they will be cultivated by the Rock Family according to the standards of core children.

"Okay, little ones, don't be discouraged, although you didn't become one of these twenty people this time, after you go back, you should cultivate harder and strive to surpass them in five years. Noah said with a smile.

Listening to Noah's encouraging words, some teenagers who were less than fifteen years old nodded firmly and regained their confidence, but those who were sixteen or seventeen years old and approaching the age of twenty looked desperate. Five years later, they are already over the age limit of Dabi, and in a way, they have lost the opportunity to show their strength again.

"Survival of the fittest is a survival rule that cannot be avoided by any force......" Looking at the people with different expressions, Gurung secretly sighed in his heart.

Early the next morning, the entire Panshi family's mansion was immersed in a noisy atmosphere, and the largest square in the mansion had been transformed into a huge ring, and the audience seats around the ring were already full.

"Gurung, no matter what the outcome of the day is, father is proud of you!" At this moment, Sag and Gurung were sitting in an inconspicuous position in the crowd, the cape and hat tightly fastened to Sag's head, and only his nose and mouth could be seen.

"Don't worry, father, I will definitely do my best!" Gurung nodded vigorously and said with a smile.

"The 10 players who are about to participate in the ring will immediately assemble in the center of the ring, and we will draw lots to determine your opponents and the order in which they will play. Veron's majestic voice echoed through the square.

Gurung said hello to Sag and walked to the center of the ring with the others.

"Listen carefully, the ring competition is divided into preliminary rounds, semi-finals, and finals. Ten people in the preliminary round will play in pairs according to the draw, and after eliminating five people, they will enter the semi-finals. Speaking of this, Wei Lun looked at Ryan, who was still standing aside in a daze, with a hint of love in his eyes, and continued: "Because Ryan's strength has reached the fourth order, the finals and the rematch, he will be bye, which means that the remaining four people will fight through each other, leaving two players to play the final match, and the winning side will have the last battle with Ryan." Do you have any comments?"

Everyone shook their heads and agreed, and had to admit that although it seemed to favor Ryan, in fact, Velon's arrangement was absolutely reasonable, except for the preliminary round, whether it was the semi-final or the final, it avoided the opportunity for everyone to fight against Ryan, and this arrangement undoubtedly increased the bargaining chips for everyone to advance.

"So, let's start the lottery! Regarding the reward of this big competition, I'm sure you have also heard a little, yes, this time your grandfather Noah won five guaranteed places for the family to be sent to the Rock Academy, yes, you heard it right! Yes, it is a guarantee, which means that after getting this place, you don't need to participate in the selection competition of the Nine Academies with a very high mortality rate! You can directly join the academy as an official freshman!" Including Gurung, the faces of the ten people showed ecstasy in unison.

The nine colleges recruit students once every five years, neither test their talents, nor limit their grades, there is only one way to select the colleges, all students who want to sign up must participate in the selection competition of the nine colleges for half a month! Each selection competition will randomly select one of the forbidden places of the nine colleges as the competition field, and the students who participate in the registration will be selected into different colleges according to their respective attributes after surviving in this forbidden place for fifteen days.

These forbidden places not only hide various levels of magical beasts, but also some unknown mechanisms and mazes, in addition to these, they also have to face some man-made assassinations...... For these reasons, over the past 100 years, the mortality rate in the selection competition has exceeded 80 percent! This does not include some lucky people who were rescued by the strong men of the hospital after abstaining in the middle of the process. The preciousness of the guaranteed quota can be seen.

"Wait—" Just then, an old voice came from the other end of the square.

"I heard that the Panshi family's five-year young generation contest was held today, and an old friend specially led the children of the clan to meet the world. ”

"It's these old guys again, every time they put on a show like this, it's annoying!" Noah in the audience wiped his forehead impatiently, and his voice sounded very dissatisfied. With Noah's gaze, a total of ten people slowly walked towards the ring, among the ten people, four old and six young, and it was a white-haired old man who interrupted Wei Lun before.

"Hmm, I didn't expect him to come......" Gurung found a familiar figure behind the white-haired old man, it was Kane, who had clashed with him before.

Noah dodged, and instantly appeared in front of the white-haired old man across a distance of 100 steps, blocking their way, with this hand alone, the white-haired old man frowned fearfully, and everyone in the audience also let out a burst of exclamation.

"Dean Noah, what do you mean by that?" the white-haired old man asked knowingly with a puzzled expression.

"Old Locke, I said that you are really thick-skinned, and you always have a pretentious face...... Tsk, if you want to get your hands on the guaranteed quota, you can say it clearly, why put on such a coy posture and make people laugh?"

"You ......" The white-haired old man known as Locke looked angry, stretched out his hand and pointed at Noah, his face changed several times, and finally slowly put his hand down, turned to the ring and shouted: "Wei Lun, is this how your Rock Family treats guests?"

Originally, Wei Lun was happy to see Locke eat in front of Noah, but since Locke spoke, he naturally couldn't be silent anymore, so he took a few steps forward and said with a smile: "Hehe, since we are guests, our Rock Family naturally has no reason not to welcome it, but I don't know how many people came, so what?"

Noah, who was still about to be sarcastic, heard the patriarch's words, so he naturally didn't speak again, snorted angrily, and gave Locke a provocative look of "I don't accept you to hit me".

Old Locke twitched the corners of his mouth, ignored Noah, and said unhurriedly: "I have heard that the younger generation of the Rock Family is Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and my old friend came this time to let these unscrupulous boys in the clan be able to have a chance to compete with your young talents, and by the way, ask for some luck......

"Phew, when you are a, you still want to build an archway!" Noah muttered to himself, but his voice was a little louder, and the face of the Locke family was blue and purple for a while, but it was not easy to have a seizure, so he had to pretend not to hear.

Veeron pretended to glare at Noah, held back a smile and asked, "Then I don't know what you are talking about?"

"Naturally, it's the guaranteed place of Rock Academy. Locke's eyes twinkled.

In this way, after some bargaining, the two sides finally worked out a new set of rules, ten people on the rock side, six people on the Locke side, a total of sixteen people all disrupted random pairing, through sixteen into eight, eight into four, four into two, two into one to compete for the big competition rankings, the top five after the most Lu, equal share of the guaranteed places.

The reason why the Rock family was able to give in was not because they were afraid of the strength of the Rock family, but because of the big competition in previous years, the Rock family would come to cause chaos, which was called a competition, but in fact, it was to get a piece of the pie for the academy. From a political point of view, the Skyfire Empire does not want to see the Rock family dominant, so it can only use the Rock family to compress the number of the younger generation of Rock to join the academy, so as to reduce the number of strong family members who come out of the Rock Academy.

In the same way, the Rock Family also has the power of the family that befriends the fire attribute of the Empire, and in the Imperial Contest every five years, it is also suppressing the number of imperial powerhouses in the Heavenly Fire Academy.

What's more, politics aside, the exchange between the two families will help the growth of the younger generation, and the continuous intensification of the contradictions between the two families will also become one of the sources of motivation for the younger generations in the family.

Looking at the people who had already discussed the result, Noah knew that no matter how much he objected, he could not change the result, so he could only rub his red nose fiercely, and shouted to Gurung angrily: "Gu boy, blow up their eggs! I am responsible for what happened!"

......

Kane, who followed Locke, has been looking at Gurung since he entered the square. It is very strange that although the two have clashed before, although his gaze at Gurung is complicated, there is no trace of hatred, and Kane's lips are slightly moving at this moment, and he doesn't know what Lu Dao is talking to himself.

"It's strange, what is he staring at me all the time? Could it be that he wants revenge? But looking at his eyes, it doesn't look hostile to me......" Gurung thought with some distress, after three months of penance, he was extremely sensitive to the things around him, and naturally noticed Kane's gaze.

"Fists and feet have no eyes, point to the end! Next, I announce—Dabi begins!" Everyone gave up the ring and retreated to the audience, where Wei Lun, who was sitting in the main seat of the audience, got up at this moment, and the loud voice swept the entire square, and the dense crowd erupted into a tidal wave of cheers.

"In the first game, Gurung Rock vs. Kane Locke!"