"No, this year's Imperial City Challenge is a rare grand event, and even the emperor will appear in the final final," the fat man said, and then he said: "And there is a prince who is going to participate in the competition this year, do you think he can not show up as a general?"

"The prince participated, this is really heavy news!" The thin man said loudly, and the fat man hurriedly blocked his mouth, "You be quiet, this is gossip, who knows if you will participate or not, if you don't participate in the end, you will give me a charge of beknowing!"

The thin man hurriedly shut up, but soon the two of them followed the crowd and shouted, and the shouts quickly made the scene lively.

Lin Ming also noticed Qi Bao, "I didn't expect this Qi Bao's reputation among civilians to be so high," he sneered, although he didn't know what kind of character Qi Bao had, he could also get a glimpse of it through Wu Kun's narration, "What good grasshopper can be tied to a rope with Zhang Liwei?"

The appearance of several lieutenant generals also caused an exclamation, and the last one to come up was Zhang Liwei, who looked a little haggard probably because of the pain of losing his son.

This kind of noisy situation did not stop until sunrise, and at this time, there were also several judges on the judging seat, their aura Lin Ming couldn't see through, but he could vaguely feel that he was in the fifth or sixth order of the God Emperor Realm, and it was more than enough for such a master to sit in the judging seat.

Then a man walked up in front of the judging table, this person was no stranger to him, it was Sima Cheng dressed as a scholar, and at this time he held a scroll in his hand and began to read out the contents inside.

Some of the previous content is irrelevant, but the later competition system is the point, Lin Ming's temporary group is actually a supernumerary group, which is a drop in the bucket compared to the system of this huge Imperial City Challenge.

This challenge is roughly divided into ten groups, namely the Green Dragon Group, the White Tiger Group, the Xuanwu Group, the Vermilion Bird Group, the Kirin Group, the Fire Glass Group, the Ice Spider Group, the Scourge Group and the Wildebeest Group.

The first five groups are mainly candidates from within the Netherworld Imperial City, while the last five groups include people from various states and foreign lands.

Hearing this, Lin Ming couldn't help but laugh and said, "This Netherworld Imperial City has really done its tricks, and its status has been so high, and people from other countries have become synonymous with fierce beasts," he shook his head and smiled bitterly again.

A few golden crows also smiled from ear to ear, but the competition system that was then read out attracted Lin Ming's attention again.

The first round of this competition adopts the group elimination system, each group competes internally, competes for the top ten and then enters the second round, as for the second round, it will be read out in the next competition, Lin Ming couldn't help but hook the corners of his mouth after listening, "Group elimination system, this kind of competition system is very interesting!"

He raised his eyebrows and then continued to look at Sima Cheng, at this time he had already retreated, and then the members of today's group, the members of the Vermilion Bird Group!

They went up one by one to meet with the audience and the judges, and then turned around and left the court, but Lin Ming counted almost hundreds of people, "There are so many people, it seems that this first group of battles will take a few days to finish." ”

"Brother, it's the first time you've come here to fight for life and death!" While thinking that the older man glanced at Lin Ming and said, Lin Ming nodded, "Won't it take a few days?"

"One more day, half a day less, you can compare, do you know why people don't stand in these places?" he pointed to a few blank spaces on the side of the ring, Lin Ming was puzzled.

"These places are actually rings, don't believe you wait and see," he smiled and continued to look at the arena, and sure enough, after Qi Bao's speech, the group elimination round of the Suzaku group officially began, and the momentum of the scene with a few cannon shots once reached *.

And the consequence is that in the place where the middle-aged man pointed out, there were really rings one after another, they were all made of high-grade obsidian, and the sides of the ring were like jade, and the most important thing was that this ring was still shrouded in light curtains, and ordinary people couldn't see Lin Ming but saw it at a glance.

"It's ...... Starlight Array!" Lin Ming almost shouted out in surprise, he frowned and looked at it carefully, only then did he breathe a sigh of relief, it turned out that this formation shrouded in the obsidian ring was just the skin of the Starlight Array, although it was stronger than the ordinary defensive formation, but it was really not enough compared to the real Starlight Array.

"People are not as good as the ring series," Lin Ming said with a wry smile, and then looked over again, at this time, Qi Bao had been chattering on the rooftop for a long time, and finally the competition officially began under his shouts.

There are a total of ten rings, twenty people go up each time, and each ring is about five games, and each game is only an hour long if it is according to the state of aura, and the shortest is often to determine the winner in an instant.

At this time, the first batch of contestants have already stepped into the ring, they are all outstanding young generations selected by some cities, older than forty years old, younger than fifteen years old, of course, this is also the rule of this competition, after all, in the world of monks, twenty to forty years old is the golden age of cultivation, although some people have cultivated to a super high realm, even if they are immortal, but twenty to forty years old is still their most precious cultivation age.

Lin Ming's eyes wandered between these players, and he judged by his breath that most of these people's strength was concentrated in the middle and late stages of the Heavenly God Realm, and there were also some peak powerhouses, and of course, there was even a man from the God Emperor Realm.

This man was also the eldest of the twenty contestants, he was a first-order of the God Emperor Realm, and he had just broken through and was planning to show his skills in the competition.

Sure enough, his opponent was desperate, because his strength was only the sixth order of the Heavenly God Realm, and there was a world of difference between the peak of the Heavenly God Realm and even the half-step God Emperor Realm and the first order of the God Emperor Realm, not to mention the gap between the sixth order of the Heavenly God Realm and the first order of the God Emperor Realm, it was simply a difference between the heavens and the underground.

But that day, the sixth-order man of the God Realm represented his own city after all, and he had no reason to retreat and could only choose to fight, but the current strength gap still made him hesitate for a few seconds before sacrificing his weapon, at this moment, he directly pulled out his long sword and rushed out, "If you want to win, you can only surprise and attack it unprepared, your idea is good, but don't forget that all this is based on a small gap in strength!" Lin Ming muttered to himself.

Sure enough, not long after his body rushed out, he was blocked by a strong wind, and then his black body in front of him was like a small grass wrapped in a strong wind.