Chapter Eighty-Seven: The Curtain Kicks Off
The sunlight dispelled the clouds and mist in the mountains, the clouds and mist view the clouds and mist peaks standing in the morning light, the attic halls loomed, and a large number of figures wearing Taoist robes hurriedly walked out from the attic halls and walked towards the bottom of the cloud and mist peaks.
In order to speed up the process of the competition, the competition was set up on the three peaks of Luoxia Peak, Qingwu Peak and Baiyun Peak. The first round of the tournament will be played in a mixed draw and the first round will be a knockout round.
In other words, in this first round, half of the participants will be eliminated directly.
This time, there are five people from each of the three peaks and eighteen mountains, and there are one hundred and five people in total. So, there will be a lucky person with a bye in this round.
In the face of such a large number of participants, even though there are three competition venues, it only took three full days in the first round.
Except for Yun Su, almost all the disciples of the Cloud Mist Temple understood that this first round was actually often the most brutal round. The key to this is its randomness. Because the opponent is determined by a mixed random draw, this round also requires a part of luck to some extent.
If you're lucky enough to draw a less strong opponent, or simply get a bye, you're lucky. The opposite is the opposite. Of course, this is not the worst, the worst thing is that the two strong men meet in this round, and the one who is eliminated is obviously stronger than many people, but he can only regret to exit.
This has happened in the history of Dabi. In the words of the top management of the Cloud View of Clouds, many times, luck is also part of strength.
In the first round, Yun Su and Qing Ling and other disciples of Luoxia Peak were very lucky, although they were not lucky to fail, but the opponent's strength was very ordinary, and all five people from Luoxia Peak passed in the first round.
The second round is still a knockout format, the elimination rate is also 50%, and the opponent is also determined by draw.
Two consecutive rounds of mixed draws to knock out the format, which has never happened in the history of the big competition in the clouds. Vaguely, almost everyone felt that there must be something bigger waiting for them behind this big competition.
To successfully survive the first round of elimination, although there are a few lucky ones, in general, they must all be people with certain strength.
In this round, Yun Su's opponent was a disciple of Black Moon Mountain, and his cultivation in the middle of the Yuan Infant was already a very strong opponent. Of course, even so, there is still a big gap compared to Yunsu. Even in the Phoenix Dance Nine Heavens Sword Duel, Yun Su only slashed out the fifth sword and won the victory.
Perhaps because Yun Su was the only male disciple of Luoxia Peak, this battle attracted many disciples to watch the battle. Many of them were out of curiosity about Yun Su, and many of them were simply because this game was held at Luoxia Peak, and it was the one with the most female disciples watching.
The five-style phoenix dance for nine days caused quite a stir. After all, it was with the Phoenix Dance Nine Heavens Sword Duel that Xu Qingwei helped Luoxia Peak retain the title of one of the three peaks. The strength of the Phoenix Dance Nine Heavens Sword Duel has already been verified, and what people are thinking about now is how many formulas Yun Su has learned.
In the hearts of the vast majority of people, no one would think that Yunsu had learned the complete Nine Forms. After all, in the entire Cloud and Mist Concept, almost half of the disciples have tried to practice the Phoenix Dance Nine Heavens Sword Duel, but not to mention the complete Nine Forms, even if it is the Five Forms, there are not many people who can really master it.
The difficulty of the Nine Heavens Sword Duel of the Phoenix Dance is a recognized fact in the Cloud and Mist Concept.
In the second round, there will be a total of 53 disciples, and there will be 26 competitions, among which there will still be one lucky person who has a bye. Very lucky, this time the bye actually fell on the head of the yellow kite. Yun Su went to watch the first game of the yellow kite, and vaguely, although the yellow kite won the battle very easily, Yunsu could still feel that the yellow kite today has changed very much compared to the yellow kite in Tianmu Mountain.
This refers not only to the improvement of strength, but to Yun Su feeling a wisp of sword intent on Huang Kite's body. Yun Su vaguely remembered that when he was in Tianmu Mountain, the strongest of the Yellow Kite was the Nine Heavens Imperial Thunder True Decision, and that sword intent should have only come out of the Wuwei Holy Realm.
At that time, Yun Su and Xu Qingwei and others entered the ancient tower, except for Yun Su, the rest of Xu Qingwei, Huang Kite, Qing Ling and others should have obtained some kind of inheritance in the tower, maybe Huang Kite got some kind of sword duel, Yun Su thought about it in his mind, and then said: "Congratulations to Senior Sister, Senior Sister is really lucky." ”
Listening to Yunsu's words, Huang Kite's face turned slightly red. She is still the yellow kite who is a little shy and timid.
At sunset in the afternoon, the second round of the competition was over, very unlucky, there was actually a disciple of Luoxia Peak who was eliminated in this round, and that person was Zhang Jing.
As a person personally selected by Chen Baige, Zhang Jing's strength is undoubted, but in this round, her luck was too bad to meet Lin Haoyan of Baiyun Peak.
Lin Haoyan, the dual-attribute nine-rank spiritual root, the first person of the younger generation of Baiyun Peak, it is said that his cultivation has broken through the late Yuan Infant period and entered the distraction period. Zhang Jing has the cultivation of the Great Perfection in the late Yuan Infant period, and among the disciples who participated in the big competition this time, he can definitely rank in the top ten. But unfortunately, in this second round, she actually met Lin Haoyan.
The Great Perfection of the late Yuan Infant period seems to be only one step away from that distraction period, and then the real difference between them is a world of difference.
Zhang Jing's elimination was a big morale blow to Luo Xiafeng. After all, judging from the strength on the surface, the strongest are Zhang Jing and Wang Ruoyan. Even if it is Qing Ling, in terms of pure cultivation realm, it is half a step behind the two. A late Yuan Infant and a late Great Perfection, one step away, but the reality is very different.
After all, not everyone has the ability to leapfrog challenges.
Zhang Jing's defeat had a little impact on Luo Xiafeng's morale. The pressure that fell on Yunsu and the others was even greater.
After the second round, the number of participants was directly reduced to 27. Suddenly, twenty-seven people are still a lot, but once subdivided, in fact, there are very few places on each mountain, and the most tragic thing is that seven of them have been eliminated, and the competition is not not tragic.
The remaining eleven mountains plus three peaks make a total of fourteen mountains. Among them, there are four people in Luoxia Peak, five people in Qingwu Peak and Baiyun Peak, two people in Zangjian Mountain, two people in Guixu Mountain, and one person in the other nine mountains.
Although there must be some luck in this, the gap between the three peaks and the eighteen mountains can already be clearly seen.
Two days later, the third round began. As in the previous two rounds, the third round will continue to be played in a knockout format, but the opponents will no longer be determined by a random draw, but by the time they have won in the previous round.
All the rules were announced on an ad hoc basis, and no one thought that in this round, there would be such a way to decide the opponent. The one that took the least time in the previous round took the most time to go directly to the top.
This sudden approach is a huge difference for everyone, especially the player who was trying to hide his strength in the previous round will face a strong opponent who took less time in the previous round in this round.
The change came very suddenly, but whether it was a difference or a dissatisfaction, the only way for the contestants to obey the things that was promulgated was to go. And, there will be no bye in this round.
The person who has a bye in the second round, that is, the yellow kite, will fight against the opponent who has been beating the opponent for the longest time in this round.
This means that the winner of the third round with the longest time will have to play a battle against the yellow kite to successfully advance. At this juncture, no one wants to make extraneous branches, and this decision will force everyone to do their best in this third round.
After all, no matter how Huang Kite says it, it is also from Luoxia Peak, one of the three peaks, if he can, although he is not willing to be the one who takes the longest time and has to fight against Huang Kite after he is done.