The Lightning Driver
Chapters. 53. Sect Competition
The Heavenly Dragon Sect, already a week ago was seen busy with the pre-competition preparations between the disciples.
Although this competition was internal to the Heavenly Dragon Sect, but the other martial society would still be crowded and present to watch the silat fight between fellow disciples. Moreover, the Heavenly Dragon Sect was the first-class sect in the South.
According to the information posted by the sect Manager, that the competition this time will be carried out in two stages. Pre-competition stage and one-on-one elimination battle stage.
This was because, the many talented younger generations that existed in the Heavenly Dragon Sect, be it inner disciples or outer disciples that were allowed to enter this competition.
The Heavenly Dragon Sect would also promote outer disciples, becoming inner disciples when that disciple was judged to be talented and strong-willed.
The pre-competition stage, is the best step to reduce the number of participants that are too much. According to the info circulating, there were approximately a thousand disciples who had registered with the cultivation of the Peak Stage Earth Realm, and the Early Stage Sky Realm.
The Heavenly Dragon Sect, did not distinguish or give any special provisions to elite disciples, and inner disciples. All students are required to start the competition fairly, and must go through the pre-competition process.
For the pre-competition itself, it will be implemented with the concept of Team and Individual Battle Royal. That is; each participant will fight on the designated area of the sect for half a month.
The team battles by gathering as many demon essence crystals as the specified amount.
Teams or individuals who could last for fifteen days, and successfully collect demon essence crystals would then be allowed to enter the elimination battle competition.
The challenge of this pre-competition, was that the portion of the demon essence crystal was limited in number, as well as the disciples were allowed to seize, kill, kill, or do anything that could be a personal advantage of the other team.
To make it easier for participants, they are also equipped with token names of participants that contain the name of teammates at the top. The token can also be used to exit the pre-competition, before the pre-competition ends. By squeezing the token until it is destroyed, it will then be moved to the Safe Zone automatically.
Any participant who dies, or is killed, or resigns will disappear from the list contained in the token. Each participant will know how many participants are left.
Fifty disciples who could still secure and possess a demon essence crystal would be declared as elimination stage participants.
The venue that would become the pre-competition arena was the Other Dimension Pagoda.
In addition to the Thousand Illusion Forest, the Heavenly Dragon Sect also had a portal passageway connecting the sect with a Pagoda-shaped place consisting of six floors.
Each floor has its own uniqueness, which becomes the arena where pre-competition is the third floor. This floor is in the form of a world of its own, no one knows the height, breadth, and boundaries of that world.
It could be said like a labyrinth, every hundred miles would return to the starting place, but this opened the labyrinth. Like mountains surrounded by small hills and vast forests. What distinguishes it from the Thousand Illusion Forest is; this place is easy to enter and easy to get out too.
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Three weeks before the pre-competition began the disciples of Elder Zhou, had already agreed they would be together someday on the third floor of the Other Dimensional Pagoda.
In order to solidify the cultivation foundation of He Fei and Ye Xuan, Gou Long distributed one third grade demon essence crystal to the two of them, thus they had the ten year foundation of the Early Stage Sky realm.
Gou Long also forced for Murong Qiu to break through to the Early Stage Sky Realm, again he sacrificed a third grade demon essence crystal, in order for the Heaven and Earth aura to be sufficient for Murong Qiu who broke through the realm.
He also did not forget to give the Celestial Realm Condensate Pill that had the pulse of a pill, the pill had not been used by Gou Long. When he broke through the realm in the Thousand Illusion Forest the other day, Gou Long did not use the pill.
A week before the pre-competition, Murong Qiu had managed to break through the Early Stage Sky Sphere, the same as their previous two seniors, Murong Qiu had also been given a 3rd grade demon essence Crystal to solidify the foundation of inner strength.
Their preparations felt extremely mature and perfect, with four Early Heaven realm and one Peak Stage Earth Realm person in Gou Long's estimation, I don't know which team is capable of stemming their movement.
As for Hua Mei, Gou Long had only asked her to solidify the cultivation foundation of the Peak Stage Earth Realm.
Gou Long himself, focused on practicing the punch moves that he had not had time to practice, including the Eighteen Paths of the Dragon Conqueror, which he had only mastered one.
For four days, Gou Long focused on that stance, thanks to the guidance of White Cloud Grandfather, Gou Long managed to master the Eighteen Paths of the Dragon Conqueror completely.
Mastering the style completely really feels different from only mastering half of it.
The Eighteen Palms of the Dragon Conqueror, has a very powerful magical effect especially the eighteenth style, the Shaking Tail of the Dragon Sakti.
Gou Long had already fought with the cobra demon, when the cobra demon wiggled its tail, the Thousand Illusion Forest of the porcupines, the broken wood trees overlapping each other.
This move, more powerful than the swaying of the cobra's tail. The destruction power could flatten a single hill.
That was how the Library Bureau team prepared themselves, with the big target they were carrying out, which was to lead the list of the strongest disciples, or at the very least enter the top twenty.
The day of the pre-competition finally came as well, over a thousand disciples seemed enthusiastic with the opening of the third floor of the Other Dimension Pagoda, some disciples instantly entered when the portal opened.
Gou Long and comrades, waiting for the last moment to enter the portal. They did not feel rushed with a period of time reaching half a month inside the Pagoda.
Not far from where Gou Long and his comrades were, there were several teams who modeled Gou Long's actions. They were the ones considered as the elite disciples of the sect, belonging to that group of bullies Gou Long in the library. “Oey Yong.”
Gou Long knew the group was looking at him with contemptuous gazes and sneered. The one leading the group was Oey Yong's cousin, Oey Gang.
Not only did they look contemptuously at Gou Long, they also showed a slitting neck hand movement. The intent was clear, on the third floor of the Other Dimension Pagoda later, the one they were aiming for and the first killing target was Gou Long's group.
Despite their various arrogant attitudes, Gou Long remained patiently restrained. With more life experience than them, Gou Long also believed his strength was superior to theirs.