When the morning light on the eleventh day of the first lunar month fell on the earth, the main square of the Qitian Hall in the inner city of Qiwang Fort was already full of people.

Around the round altar used during the New Year's ceremony, eight huge wooden rings are placed along the square in the east and west, a total of 16 wooden rings, each ring has 30 zhang square, three feet high, and the 16 big rings occupy almost three-quarters of the main square of the Monkey King Hall.

Each ring was guarded by a team of soldiers from the Qizhou Wang family's army, and there were also several Qi Wangbao deacons in each ring who were doing the work of registering names, recording victories and defeats, and guarding the number of battles. And every ring was crowded with people, waiting for the start of the jousting tournament in a chaotic and orderly situation.

The New Year's Ceremony of the Five Business Alliances is a typical way of defending and fighting martial arts, as long as the people in the rivers and lakes who sign up at the registration office will be arranged to participate in the competition, the winner can continue to defend the ring, but the loser can challenge other rings until all the rings are lost. Each of the 16 champions who succeeds in the final ring will receive a generous prize, and each defender who can win 20 times, 10 times, or 5 times in a row will also have different kinds of rewards, and those who can perform well in the sixteen rings will also have a considerable reward, and even everyone who signs up for the tournament will also have a participation prize. The defenders who successfully defend the 16 big rings will automatically become the participants of the final day of the tournament and compete in the finals.

Of course, although the martial arts competition is a feast for those in the rivers and lakes, for those ordinary people, it is no less than a big event. For this reason, the Five Merchants Alliance even specially opened part of the inner city walls of Qiwang Fort around the main square of the Monkey King Palace, and those who watched the game could climb the designated section of the city wall and watch the martial arts competition from a high position.

As for the VIPs invited by the Five Merchants Alliance, they will be on the high platform of the Monkey King Hall with the core members of the Five Merchants Alliance when watching the game. The high platform of the Monkey King Hall is a few feet above the ground, but it is a lot higher than those rings, although the rings at the far end may not be seen clearly, but a few rings near are enough.

The sixteen rings are numbered, the northernmost and middle rings are the No. 1 and No. 2 rings, the east and the west are the No. 3 and No. 4 rings respectively, and in this order, the southernmost four rings from east to west are the fifteenth, thirteenth, fourteenth, and sixteenth.

Basically, because the first to fourth rings are closest to the Monkey King Hall, the people who board these four rings are basically the children of those super forces and large sects and gangs in the rivers and lakes, and the four rings from the thirteenth to the sixteenth in the southernmost are basically the competition areas of those who are masters at the bottom of the rivers and lakes or people from small forces. Of course, there are also those who want to fish in troubled waters and go to the back of the ring so that they can meet some weak chickens and make their defense more frequent.

The ultimate rule of jousting tournaments is that no human life is allowed, and if one of the opposing teams surrenders or falls to the ground outside the ring, the other team wins and continues to defend the tournament. Of course, the time of a single martial arts competition is not unlimited, but it limits the kung fu of a tea as the final time of a single game. If the winner of the contest is not decided within the kung fu of a cup of tea, it will be judged by the members of the Qiwangbao Law Enforcement Hall, who are in charge of serving as referees.

In this way, judging the outcome of the game by people will naturally cause controversy, but the Five Business Alliance has also set up a relevant mechanism, which will resolve those disputes without affecting the next competition, and publicize the process and results of the resolution under the noses of everyone, without any false treatment.

In a word, the judgment of the martial arts competition is fair, just and open, and the competition is to let those who compete in the martial arts conference be able to let go.