Chapter 423

However, this was normal.

Compared to that other team, the strength of Qin Feng’s team was clearly higher.

The second ten-day period of the month-long martial arts competition was dedicated to team battles.

As long as they didn’t want to be eliminated, they naturally had to choose a stronger team.

The schedule for the Kaiyuan Grand Assembly was very tight.

After they finished the finals of the preliminary selection, the real team battles would begin the very next day.

Therefore, after their victory, the members of both teams didn’t waste time on anything else.

Instead, they returned to their respective inns as quickly as possible.

They spent their time studying the intelligence they had gathered on other teams while resting as much as they could.

They needed to conserve their energy and prepare for the next day’s battles.

Of course, this group did not include Qin Feng, Lin An, and Beigong Yun.

After their victory, the five people who had participated in the mission to find the Flame Sun Fruit gathered for the first time to hold a small meeting.

The content of the meeting was, naturally, about the upcoming Kaiyuan Grand Assembly.

“To be honest, overall, our strength cannot be considered the strongest.”

“Even with the addition of those two at the first level of Dao Certification, we can only be considered upper-middle tier.”

“In the team battles, only ten winning teams can participate in the subsequent individual battles.”

“Among more than a thousand teams, our strength level is at most around the top thirty or forty.”

“It is quite difficult to make it into the top ten.”

Although they had passed the first step, the road ahead was still not easy to walk.

Although their team had two experts at the first level of Dao Certification and Beigong Yun, an expert at the tenth level of Dao Entry.

Aside from those three, the strength of the other two could only be considered average.

And the strength of Qin Feng and Lin An was a complete drag.

To be selected by various states and cities as members of a seed team.

Their strength would definitely not be weak.

Even if there were no extremely powerful geniuses, at the very least, their strength would be relatively balanced.

Without any weaknesses, it is very hard to defeat them.

“Lin An and I are currently at the fifth level of Dao Entry.”

“As long as we don’t run into those teams stronger than us in the early stages of the battles.”

“By the later stages, it won’t even take ten days for the two of us to reach the sixth level of Dao Entry.”

“Although it is only an increase of one level, it will still be of some help to our overall strength.”

Facing their current predicament, Qin Feng had no good solution.

It was he and Lin An who were holding the team back.

What could be done about that?

And if they were unlucky enough to encounter the strongest team at the very start, they would be powerless to do anything.

“We won’t encounter the strongest teams.”

“Before the last two days, we won’t encounter any teams ranked in the top one hundred.”

“For us, the hardest part will be the matches in the final two days.”

Qin Feng’s previous words had already expressed his slight worry regarding the random drawing for matchups.

Because luck is something truly ethereal.

Who knew if they would be that unlucky?

But Beigong Yun, who sensed the worry in Qin Feng’s words, was not worried about this point at all.

“Unlike the preliminary selection, those participating in the team battles are all excellent members from various major states and cities.”

“What if the second-strongest team and the first-strongest team meet in the first round? What then?”

“Is the second-strongest team to be eliminated from the very beginning?”

“This is clearly not in line with conventional interests.”

“Although it is said to be random, there is actually some behind-the-scenes manipulation.”

“The top 100 teams will absolutely not meet in the initial matchups.”

“This is also to ensure, to the greatest extent possible, that those who enter the individual battles are mostly strong.”

“Rather than letting the weak muddle through while the strong lose their chance from the start.”

Seeing that both Qin Feng and Lin An did not know this.

Beigong Yun explained it in detail.

After all, this was something tacitly understood, and it really wasn’t reflected in the intelligence reports.

“If that’s the case, it is still favorable for us.”

“After all, with the cultivation speed of Lin An and me, ten days is one level.”

“Although this one-level increase is weak, it is still useful in the end.”

“It’s just… the competition hasn’t even started yet, and there’s already a ranking?”

Hearing Beigong Yun’s explanation, Qin Feng breathed a sigh of relief.

Without the uncertainty of luck, he clearly felt more confident.

It’s just… surely this ranking wasn’t also decided internally?

“The Kaiyuan Grand Assembly—do you think the major powers of the Mobis Kingdom aren’t involved?”

“Would the royal family not pay attention?”

“If not for this, we wouldn’t have to be so cautious, or even have to resort to the method of changing bodies.”

“The basic information of our teams.”

“The organizers of the Kaiyuan Grand Assembly have long since figured it out clearly.”

“They have also grasped the strength of each team quite well.”

“Although there might be discrepancies in the rankings for individual teams, it’s mostly accurate.”

“Even for our two teams that were just formed today, they will immediately analyze us and add us to the team rankings.”

Beigong Yun did not feel impatient at all and answered all of Qin Feng’s questions in detail, far more reliably than the system.

Originally, Qin Feng and Lin An were still hesitating.

Should they ask Beigong Yun how exactly they were disguising themselves and changing identities?

After all, although they were very curious, this was, after all, someone else’s private matter.

They weren’t sure if they should ask.

But since Beigong Yun had brought it up voluntarily this time.

Qin Feng had no choice but to follow the topic and ask with a thick skin.

After all, he was truly curious!

“Speaking of which, what is going on with you?”

“I am certain that you are Beigong Yun, but I am also certain that you are currently a woman, whereas before you were definitely a man.”

“So how did you do it? Is it soul possession or puppet possession?”

Usually, there are only these two possibilities.

It couldn’t be that Beigong Yun had been a woman disguised as a man before, or was now a man disguised as a woman.

He would have to be an idiot to have such a guess.

“It is neither soul possession nor puppet possession; this is my own body.”

Beigong Yun’s answer almost made Qin Feng and Lin An spit out the water they had just taken into their mouths.

This wasn’t a joke, was it? Who would believe this?

“To be precise, this is a part of the body I cultivated.”

Beigong Yun’s words were confusing.

Not to mention Lin An being completely baffled, even Qin Feng was extremely confused.

Could it be cloning?