On the fourth battle platform, the elderly seed contestant from Youzhou suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood. His face turned pale at once.
Next, what came from the Youzhou spiritual controller’s mouth changed from blood to white foam. His body began to shake violently.
Soon after, the old man collapsed to the ground. His body twitched wildly. With one trembling hand, he quickly took out a pill and shakily put it into his mouth. He swallowed it with great difficulty.
However, the pill seemed to have no effect at all, or perhaps it was already too late. His body convulsed more and more intensely, and the white foam from his mouth grew thicker.
In the end, the Youzhou seed contestant old man stretched out a finger to point at the Yangzhou seed contestant old man. His eyes stared wide open at the Yangzhou seed contestant. Then his entire body went still, with no breath left.
“Before you stepped onto the stage, I already crushed the poison pill. This poison pill is colourless and odourless, impossible to cure with a hundred pills.” At that moment, the Yangzhou seed contestant Lu Mohan on the fourth battle platform spoke calmly.
“What? That seed contestant was directly poisoned to death?”
“Even a seed contestant could be poisoned to death. This poison pill is far too terrifying.”
“Good heavens, just who is this Lu Mohan? His methods are actually so ruthless.”
“That seed contestant died too unjustly. We still do not know how strong he really was.” …
The crowd sucked in cold breaths one after another. Everyone knew the one who died was a seed contestant. His strength was surely not weak. Yet he had no chance to fight back and was simply poisoned. He died far too unjustly.
One could imagine just how fierce that poison was.
The other spiritual controllers present also drew in cold breaths. They feared not opponents who won with strength, but this kind of unequal poisoning. The poison was set before the match even began. There was no chance to strike back. One could die without even knowing how.
“If I draw this Lu Mohan, I must act first and hold my breath for the whole match!” Many spiritual controllers quickly made plans to deal with him.
“Lu Mohan advances directly. Please remove the poison from the battle platform.” The referee on the fourth battle platform said warily.
Lu Mohan took out a pill, then crushed it. The pill powder caused the air to boil as it rapidly spread around. The entire battle platform gave off a fierce sound before returning to calm.
“The poison has been neutralised.” Lu Mohan stepped down from the platform.
The battle on the fourth battle platform was now completely over.
Lu Mohan did not need to lift a finger. He directly eliminated a seed contestant.
On the fourth battle platform, the previous two spiritual controllers had already lost two matches each and were eliminated. No one from there entered the second wave of screening.
After leaving the battle platform, Lu Mohan once again cast a cold, sinister gaze towards Lin Xiao. The meaning was clear. He was threatening Lin Xiao.
Lin Xiao ignored it completely. Using poison to attack was indeed very frightening.
However, he had the Heavenly Eye in his body. Even the Xuanwu Poison Scale that could poison a Martial Saint could be absorbed by him. He was not afraid of this Lu Mohan.
Boom!
At that moment, an explosion rang out from another battle platform. A spiritual controller was blasted off the stage.
On the other side, shaken to the edge of the platform by the shockwave, stood a youth under thirty years old. The youth wore the attire of Lingchi Island.
“Explosive Pill!”
At once, the crowd cried out in shock again. Explosive Pills had appeared even in the first round. Everyone thought the spiritual controller who used it had been eliminated. No one expected it to be a disciple from Lingchi Island.
Of course, everyone subconsciously linked the Explosive Pill that appeared on the island in the first round to this youth. Whether it was really him remained uncertain.
“As expected of Lingchi Island. They even possess the formula for Explosive Pills.”
“A youth refined an Explosive Pill with such great power that it could even blast a seed contestant away. If that is the case, the older seed powerhouses of Lingchi Island must possess even stronger Explosive Pills.”
“This round truly sees all kinds of powerful methods starting to appear.”
…
The crowd was astonished. This round was indeed a clash of the strong. Various techniques and trump cards began to reveal themselves.
The exciting battles continued. It did not take long before the first and second waves of the fourth round all ended.
During this time, the power of the seed contestants was also fully displayed.
Dark horses among the non-seed contestants emerged one by one.
In total, seven seed contestants were eliminated. Seven dark horses took their places.
In the end, the remaining thirty spiritual controllers were mostly old men close to fifty years old, along with a few middle-aged men. Only four youths remained.
Lin Xiao, Yan Huashu, the youth from Lingchi Island who used the Explosive Pill, and a young female disciple from the Tantai family.
Among them, the youngest was undoubtedly Lin Xiao. The other three were all above twenty-seven or twenty-eight years old.
What surprised Lin Xiao quite a bit was that Yan Huashu had actually managed to advance.
In the second wave of battles, Yan Huashu used only that one move every time. Yet with just that single move, he defeated his opponents each time.
Lin Xiao even began to wonder if that fellow was still hiding some powerful trump card.
“Congratulations to everyone who advanced to the top thirty!” At that moment, Ximen Haoyue’s clear voice rang out. “Now, prepare for the fifth round of competition!”
“The fifth round will select the top ten strongest spiritual controllers on the continent. Draw lots to divide into five groups, six people per group. Challenge in the order drawn. Each person fights four matches. The top two in each group advance.”
“The third place in each group enters the second wave of screening. From all the third-place finishers, two people are selected. Each of them gets one chance to challenge any one of the ten who advanced.”
At this stage, apart from the dark horses who defeated seed contestants and eliminated them, the rest were seed contestants. These were essentially the top thirty spiritual controllers under fifty years old on the entire continent.
Originally, dividing into five groups with two advancing from each would almost always be the very top among the thirty.
However, the rules still left two spots. They gave those two a chance to challenge any of the ten who advanced. This was to avoid the situation where the strongest were all drawn into the same group.
The rules of this continental spiritual controller grand competition were truly meticulous.
The group of spiritual controllers could draw lots with peace of mind. This prevented the top three strongest from ending up in the same group.
With the challenge opportunity, even if that happened, the third person would still have a chance to advance again.
Of course, if the top four or top five strongest were all in the same group, then one could only say they were unlucky. After all, that probability was very, very small.
“Now, please have all spiritual controllers draw lots!”
With that said, a bundle of bamboo slips flew past the Illumination Spirit Mirror and shot into the arena.
The remaining thirty spiritual controllers all urged their spiritual power. They drew the bamboo slips into their hands and tore them open.
“Battle platform number two. This time, we should not end up in the same group, right?” At that moment, Yan Huashu beside Lin Xiao could not help but look towards Lin Xiao.
