Chapter 384: Rewrite

The Grand Competition begins!

After a few matches, it was Sun Tao's turn to take the stage. His luck was decent — his opponent had also only reached Minor Accomplishment of Gang Qi.

Still, anyone who dared to sign up had confidence in their own strength. Sun Tao fought a grueling battle of a hundred moves against him, and the two remained evenly matched.

After another thirty moves, he narrowly won by a single move, defeating his opponent and advancing.

Zhang Yong's luck was worse — he drew an old disciple at Major Accomplishment of Gang Qi, and was blasted off the stage after just three exchanges. Fortunately, in the second round he defeated his opponent and advanced to the next match.

What Xu Yang was most concerned with were the people on the Song Song Shizhao list — Han Feng, Xiong Kun, Xie Zhan, and the others.

Next year he would be contending for the top three, and his opponents would likely be the people on the Song Song Shizhao list.

Li Li Chuyang, Jiang Fan, and Du Chuan had taken the top three this year, so they would not be participating in next year's Grand Competition.

This was an unspoken understanding among the outer disciples — once you took the top three, you stopped entering the Grand Competition and hogging the slots.

Xu Yang swept his gaze around. Including Lu Ren and Su Zhe, none of them had cultivated their Gang Qi to Perfect Completion.

But aside from Lu Ren, the others now had the backing of the great clans of Qingyang City. By the time of next year's Grand Competition, the number of people who had broken through to Marrow Washing should be greater than this time.

Time quickly arrived at the second day. The majority had already been eliminated yesterday; those remaining were all disciples at Major Accomplishment of Gang Qi, and the Grand Competition was truly heating up.

"It's Lu Ren's turn to take the stage!"

"Huh? His opponent is actually Su Zhe — the Song Song Shizhao geniuses are clashing this early?"

Xu Yang heard the exclamations around him and looked back. On Arena Two, Lu Ren and Su Zhe were stepping onto the stage at the same time.

Lu Ren was stunned — he hadn't expected his opponent to be Su Zhe. His luck was truly bad.

Meeting a Song Song Shizhao genius at this stage made it easy for both sides to fight in earnest and end up hurting each other. What he had hoped for was to cross swords with a Song Song Shizhao genius only when contending for the top twenty rankings.

Su Zhe's fighting spirit soared: "Make your move. Today I will rewrite the Song Song Shizhao rankings."

His goal in this Grand Competition was to defeat everyone outside the top three and stabilize the Su family's position.

For him, facing Lu Ren now was even better — defeat Lu Ren first, then defeat Xie Zhan, Chen Yu, and the others, and take out every person ranked above him one by one.

"Su Zhe has such lofty ambition!"

"What spirit — he actually dares to challenge the authority of the Song Song Shizhao rankings."

"So it turns out he doesn't accept the rankings on the list."

"It's not just Su Zhe. I think the other Song Song Shizhao geniuses don't accept the rankings either."

"This Cidewai Sect Grand Competition is going to be a good show."

……

The moment Su Zhe's words came out, they immediately sparked heated discussion. Many people stopped watching the other arenas, wanting to see the clash between Song Song Shizhao's eighth and ninth.

"That was exactly my intention!" Lu Ren's fighting spirit rose.