Chapter 151: Ye Bai vs Shangguan Yijian, a Long-Awaited Battle!

Because Ye Bai gifted points to the various prodigies of Jiangcheng just as time was running out.

The Second Stage of this Ladder Tournament began very quickly!

"Swish! Swish!"

The moment the First Stage ended, beams of golden light descended from the sky of the Secret Realm, enveloping all the participating contestants and the Instructors from the Genius Camps of each city.

In an instant, on the leaderboard, the participating contestants ranked below fiftieth were sent out of the Secret Realm and returned to their respective cities.

The top fifty students, along with the Instructors, were sent to the southeast corner of the Secret Realm, a place no student had ever set foot in before.

Ten arenas were built here, each covering an area comparable to several football fields.

The arenas were connected to one another, eventually forming a massive circle.

In the center of the ten arenas stood a huge LCD screen.

It displayed the names of all the prodigies who had entered the Second Stage, totaling 70 people.

At the same time, the complete rules for the Second Stage were also displayed!

Ladder Tournament livestream room.

The scene on the screens in front of all the viewers also changed.

Half the screen showed the content from the LCD screen.

Half the screen showed a panoramic view of the ten arenas.

"The Second Stage has finally begun!"

"How the resources for the various cities in Jiangnan Prefecture will be allocated over the next ten years depends on this tournament!"

"White God is awesome!"

"Stop spamming for a second. Although I also think White God is awesome, it seems the complete rules for the Second Stage are displayed on the screen; let's take a look at what's going on first..."

The dense crowd of viewers was very excited.

Especially those who both supported Ye Bai and had confirmed that students from their own cities had entered the Second Stage.

"After the Second Stage begins, the top fifty participating contestants will be randomly paired by AI to engage in one-on-one battles. The winners advance, while the losers enter the resurrection bracket to wait for the Resurrection Match to begin, competing for the sole resurrection opportunity; rankings will also be determined during this period..."

"Hiss, these rules are even simpler and more brutal than I imagined! I only saw one word in the whole thing: fight!"

"I thought the Second Stage would take half a day like the First Stage, but now it looks like it will take a few hours at most!!"

"That's great, we'll be able to see White God reach the top very soon!"

"What if it's Xuanyuan Mu who reaches the top?"

"It's not impossible for Shangguan Yijian from my Haicheng, although I don't really like him right now."

After the viewers finished reading the rules for the Second Stage, they were even more excited.

Because compared to the First Stage, where students spent a long time just repeating the dull and tedious task of hunting Alien Beasts.

The Second Stage couldn't be more thrilling!

Fight to the final chapter!

Only contestants with absolute strength can reach the top!

The rules are also relatively fair.

Almost no one will end up with a ranking that doesn't match their strength due to bad luck.

After all, in the one-on-one battles, the losers can enter the Resurrection Match.

During that time, not only can they compete for the resurrection spot, but they can also improve their final ranking!

Unless one is extremely unlucky, but one must know, luck is sometimes part of strength!

And this Second Stage really doesn't drag things out.

"Swish! Swish!"

Everyone had just finished reading the competition rules.

The LCD screen in the very center of the arenas showed movement!

The names of all the students began to spin, and within a few moments, the list for the first round of battles was randomly generated!

"Li Qingqing vs Zhang Liu"

"Xiao Huohuo vs Li Ning"

……

"Xuanyuan Mu vs Li Wen"

……

"Ye Bai vs Shangguan Yijian"

The matched result was a bombshell among bombshells!

Unlike the First Stage where the Instructors could slightly influence the competition, it seems no one can exert influence in this Second Stage; it really is all up to randomness.

Just in the first round, Ye Bai was actually matched with Shangguan Yijian!

Livestream room.

"Shock! Shock! Shock!"

"Although I knew this stage would be thrilling, does it have to be this thrilling? Starting off with White God fighting Shangguan Yijian?!"

"Against Heaven, too against Heaven!"

"White God vs Shangguan Yijian, who is stronger and who is weaker? Let us enter the Ladder Tournament livestream room together; the results will be revealed to everyone very soon!"

"Front row, here I come! I strongly support White God!"

"Although I also want to support White God, I am from Haicheng...

No, wait, if Shangguan Yijian enters the Resurrection Match, he can seemingly still take the sole resurrection spot, so top three shouldn't be a problem??

Go White God!"

The moment the matching results came out, the atmosphere completely exploded!

Everyone started discussing Ye Bai and Shangguan Yijian! Among them, 99.9% of the people were rooting for Ye Bai!

The barrage, which was already dense, was scrolling so fast at this moment that one had to turn off the barrage function to see the live situation!

No one was paying attention to Li Wen, who was matched with Xuanyuan Mu...

Li Wen:??

At this moment, he really wanted to cry.

No, was it easy for him?

It was one thing that he was robbed one after another seven times during the First Stage and only advanced by relying on points given by other prodigies from Tiancheng.

But now that this second round had just begun, he was matched with one of the three King-level Prodigies?

Most crucially, Ye Bai and Shangguan Yijian were matched together.

No matter which one of the two went to the resurrection group, Li Wen did not consider himself a match for either.

So much for the rules being relatively fair?

They were just picking on him alone, right?

The only wrong thing he had done during this Ladder Tournament was wanting to cause trouble for Ye Bai!

On Ye Bai's side.

He also saw the matching results at the first opportunity.

He smiled.

Especially when he saw Shangguan Yijian not far away, who, after seeing the matching results, immediately made a throat-slitting gesture at him with a ferocious expression.

"Finally, it's coming..." The smile on his face grew even deeper!

He had waited a very, very long time for this battle with Shangguan Yijian.

If not for Shangguan Yijian, twelve years ago he would not have...

Ye Sanjian had tried to kill him again and again, but he had been helpless because of the other party's genuine Grandmaster Realm strength.

New grudges and old debts could be settled together!

However, his battle with Shangguan Yijian was placed in one of the last five groups of the first round.

Even if Ye Bai wanted to get on the stage now, it was impossible, so he simply calmed his emotions and started watching the others' battles.

First, he watched the battle between Li Qingqing and Zhang Liu, one of the ten pairs of contestants drawn to go on stage in the first group.

They were teleported to the arena by a beam of light the moment the matching results came out.

And Ye Bai also had an impression of this Zhang Liu.

A prodigy from Ningcheng, with Third Grade Peak Realm Qi and Blood; his Martial Arts Talent was that he could become stronger by consuming raw iron, and the more raw iron he ate, the higher his body's hardness would be.

Don't ask him how he knew this so clearly; if you ask, it's because he had robbed him before.

However, Ye Bai was paying attention to Li Qingqing's battle because he subconsciously felt worried about the girl's situation.

After the one-month Genius Camp training plan ended, the girl's Qi and Blood had only reached the Third Grade Peak Realm...

"Ice Explosion."

"Ice Meteor Art."

"Grasp of Ice Scar!"

"Ice and Snow World!"

However, contrary to Ye Bai's expectations, as soon as the girl got on stage, Zhang Liu, having never seen Li Qingqing before, just had a look of contempt on his face.

The girl attacked directly!

Starting off, it was over a dozen Martial Techniques! Among them were not only the Earth Grade Martial Skills Ye Bai had just taught the girl a few days ago, but Ye Bai could also see that almost all the ones the girl used in this wave were Earth Grade Martial Skills!

"Ice and Snow Funeral!"

"Nine Ice Extreme Swords!"

"Descent of the Ice Emperor!"

And the first wave was just the beginning; then, without moving a single step, the girl unleashed even more Martial Techniques!

"Swish!"

In just three waves, Zhang Liu turned into a stream of light and was teleported out of the arena.

Li Qingqing, victory!

Terrifying, world-shocking!

The girl used facts to interpret one sentence.

All fear comes from a lack of firepower!

Although Xi Qian had only come to Jiangcheng for a few days, the improvement she brought to Li Qingqing was also visible to the naked eye!

It was not hard for Ye Bai to guess that during the First Stage, because the girl had consumed too much Qi and Blood by going all out, she had no time to replenish it and had never fought with full strength!

After the girl won, her figure was teleported to the other side of the scene, which should be the place for winners; Ye Bai had no chance to talk to the girl for the time being.

He was not in a hurry, though; after the stone in his heart was put down, he started watching the battles of other prodigies.

Most people's battles were actually not worth mentioning.

Because they were too weak.

After Ye Bai watched for a while, his attention focused on the prodigies from Jiangcheng.

Xiao Huohuo won.

Liu Bufan won.

However, it was a pity that the other geniuses from Jiangcheng all lost.

But this was normal; their strength was not as good as the top fifty geniuses to begin with, so Ye Bai's efforts were already worth it for being able to obtain a higher ranking reward.

Ye Bai also saw with his own eyes the formidable power of Xuanyuan Mu, the First Genius of Shengcheng and former First Genius of Jiangnan Prefecture!

Clearly, Xuanyuan Mu's opponent was Li Wen, who in many people's hearts had previously been the third person, second only to Xuanyuan Mu and Shangguan Yijian.

Yet, when the two faced off.

"Do you surrender?"

"I want to try..."

"Fine."

"Tree World Funeral!"

After Xuanyuan Mu exchanged two sentences with Li Wen with a numb expression, he made no other movements, simply raising one hand.

The entire arena was instantly covered by tall trees! The arena, built from a material of unknown origin, crumbled inch by inch!

The next second, both people were teleported away, and the arena began to repair itself at a speed visible to the naked eye.

But this had already declared Li Wen's defeat!

Instant kill!

And without realizing it.

The first round of the arena tournament was nearing its end...

When another batch of students was teleported away.

That golden light arrived above Ye Bai's head.

Ye Bai vs Shangguan Yijian!