Chapter 300: The Battle for the Cauldron Begins!

A peaceful day.

Among the many players vying for the throne, the game time finally arrived!

Ding~

System Notification: The Battle for the Cauldron will begin in one hour; please have each competing squad ready.

System Notification: After the Battle for the Cauldron begins, the official forum will open a link, allowing all players to visit the first arena as spectators.

Spectators are like phantoms who can directly descend onto the battlefield, watch the fight from a first‑person view, but cannot affect anything in the competition.

Likewise, competing participants cannot see the presence of spectator players at all.

Also, once players enter the arena, all outside communication is cut off; they can only contact other participants in the same arena.

One hour of preparation time.

Su Sheng gathered everyone, completed all pre‑battle preparations, and checked to ensure nothing was missed.

At the plaza, all ten competing teams appeared together.

Su Sheng... no...

The preparation went so that everyone's eyes were drawn to the two Solo Player teams, and of course Su Sheng's attention was mainly on the Cloud Studio team.

After all, Dream Building Squad—Su Sheng knows it well.

The leading player of Cloud Studio turned out to be a girl, wielding a long sword with a bracer that had an arm shield attached, looking like a Trap Formation Warrior, but Su Sheng knew she was a Hidden Class!

Archer, defensive knight, Holy Light Priest, Arcane Mage... plus a sword‑wielding Hidden Class—that's Cloud Studio's lineup.

Su Sheng glanced at everyone's team compositions; they were all relatively balanced.

There were ten teams in total; aside from the pure‑piercing team led by Zhang Qinghai, everyone's team was a mix of various professions.

"Mo Wen, the Great..."

The members of Dream Building Squad, led by Zhu Meng Junjie, moved directly toward the Yanhuang side.

At the same time, Zhu Meng Junjie opened his mouth to greet.

"Congratulations on qualifying as well," Su Sheng said with a smile.

"Lucky us, we still hope Mo Wen, the Great, will give us more support in the Battle for the Cauldron," Zhu Meng Junjie replied modestly.

Swish~

The others turned to look in surprise.

Are Mo Wen, Qian Chen, and the Dream Building Squad really that familiar?

"Cough..." At this moment, Jiang Hai Tange gave a light cough: "All ten competing teams are basically here; we'll be ready to start the match soon. Should we lay out a specific set of regulations?"

"How can you not know the competition format, what rules are you pulling out?" Ye Tianzi snorted twice, glancing irritably toward the Yanhuang side.

The Imperial Dynasty lost a team—the one led by Jiang Xiang Wang Hou—who was eliminated by Su Sheng in the main tournament and then fell again in the revival round.

But as for the competition, being weaker than others isn't worth mentioning; still, Ye Tianzi felt a bit annoyed.

"Regardless of the format, Dream Building Squad regards Yanhuang as our primary focus," the Dream Building Squad said.

Instantly, Ye Tianzi's complexion grew even worse.

Dream Building Squad, being a team that qualified in the preliminaries, is naturally sought after by the Imperial Dynasty; seeing the relationship between Dream Building Squad and Yanhuang, Ye Tianzi realized his chances were likely gone.

Fortunately, there is still one Solo Player team.

Then Ye Tianzi saw the Cloud Studio side, where the leading girl, with her team, walked over to Tian Sheng Changge; the meaning was already clear.

Ye Tianzi now wanted to curse...

But the match is about to start; this is a Main City‑based competition, and it's not the time to say anything that would affect everyone's cohesion, so Ye Tianzi could only swallow his emotions silently, though his face remained cold.

Jiang Hai Tange and the Cloud Studio members chattered away, while Su Sheng was also making small talk with the Dream Building Squad members.

Peak War God and Ye Tianzi exchanged a silent glance, both showing helplessness.

Although other Main Cities also have many decent Solo Player teams, their guilds won't just wait around; moreover, the Battle for the Cauldron's timing doesn't allow relocation in a short period, so these out‑of‑town guilds can't compete with the local guilds.

Close to the water, the pavilion gets the moon first...

System Notification: The Battle for the Cauldron is about to begin; please have the competing teams enter the battle map.

Swish swish~

All participants chose to enter the battle map.

Su Sheng and his five companions were teleported to a lawn, where a light circle limited everyone's movement range.

System Notification: The Battle for the Cauldron is about to start, and the competition will follow a battle‑royale season.

Each competing team will randomly descend at a corner of the map's outer edge; the captain of each team will hold a fragment of the cauldron. There are forty teams in total, and forty‑nine cauldron fragments.

Besides the fragment held by each captain, the map will spawn nine BOSSes, each bearing one of the remaining nine fragments; every player can view the locations of the nine BOSSes on the map.

Only by gathering all forty‑nine fragments and forging the square cauldron, then placing it within the central ShenShou Zhi Cheng statue belonging to one's own Main City, can the side that activates the divine beast claim victory.

The divine beast statue stands in the ShenShou Zhi Cheng at the exact center of the map.

The match lasts ten hours.

Each hour, the map's area shrinks; with each shrink, the BOSS locations are randomly refreshed.

After nine hours, the map will be confined to the central ShenShou Zhi Cheng.

During the match, player teams may seek strong alliances with other teams from the same Main City, or act independently.

Note: Teams from the same Main City may form face‑to‑face parties with each other.

Battle‑royale?!

Su Sheng stared in surprise at the system's description of the match mode.

Match countdown: 10‑9‑...

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The competition begins!

Swish~

The light ring disappeared, Su Sheng and the others took a look, finding themselves in a plain with no monsters or other people around.

All participating teams randomly landed at the map's outskirts, still unaware of how large the map is.

"Sheng ge? What do you say?" Chen Guan looked at Su Sheng.

"Let's first check the boss's position." Su Sheng was full of confidence; this time, the Leader of the Cauldron-Seizing Battle will undoubtedly be from our Yanhuang!

Meanwhile, the spectators outside all chose to descend in Tourist Mode; tourist players can switch to any team's position at any time and from anywhere to observe.

While the competing teams cannot see the tourist players, the tourist players cannot affect anything on the battlefield.

Forty participating teams....

The most spectators were not for the Yanhuang of the First Guild.

Nor was it the team of the top-ranked player, Mo Wen Qianchen.

But rather the second team of the fourth-ranked Hongmeng, the competing team led by Deputy President Gu Qingcheng.

Beauty that could overthrow a city, one of Hongmeng's Deputy Presidents, real name Gu Qingcheng, is a renowned esports goddess in the gaming circle!

Once, during the warlords era, he once had his image rights purchased by Teng Long Company, making Gu Qingcheng the spokesperson for the game's promotion.