As this voice rang out, the participants at the scene all headed towards the area below the arena.
A draw station had already been set up there.
Lin Yun also walked straight ahead and arrived at the spot.
In just a moment, all the participants in the peak competition had gathered here.
Lin Yun glanced around. There were roughly more than five hundred participants, including those from the six major forces, the Dao Alliance, and the young lord of the Underworld Palace was among them.
“Fellow participants, the format of the peak competition was jointly decided by the six major forces and the Dao Alliance back then. My Myriad Treasures Pavilion is only responsible for executing it. I will now explain the rules of the peak competition. The peak competition does not rank participants. It proceeds by elimination until only one person remains, and that person will be the champion,” the pavilion master of Myriad Treasures Pavilion said.
The pavilion master continued, “This peak competition has a total of 568 participants. After the first round of drawing lots, they will take the stage in sequence to compete. Ultimately, 284 will advance, and the rest will be eliminated. The advancing 284 will draw lots again, reducing to 142, then from 142 to 71, until the champion is determined.”
After hearing this, Lin Yun understood the format.
According to this format, some who had the strength to enter the top ten might be eliminated early due to bad luck.
If someone capable of ranking in the top ten encountered a contender for the championship in the first round, they would be out in the first round.
However, for this peak competition, the top ten held little meaning, because only winning the championship granted the spot to enter the Chaos Realm. Ranking in the top ten, or even second or third, actually carried no rewards.
Thus, only the championship mattered.
For the champion, since they could win it all, they would be able to defeat anyone they drew. Only then would they qualify as champion.
So this format had no real issues. Those eliminated simply lacked the qualification to contend for the championship.
The champion needed to win every single match until the end.
“Additionally, I must emphasise one point. According to the rules of the peak competition, the fight ends when one side is knocked off the arena or admits defeat. If you cannot win, you may admit defeat and step down. If you persist stubbornly and lose your life as a result, no one will be held responsible,” the pavilion master warned everyone.
Hearing this, Lin Yun realised that in this peak competition, it was permissible to kill an opponent.
Of course, as long as one admitted defeat promptly when the situation turned bad, fatalities were generally avoided.
“Now, the draw begins. Inside the draw bucket are lots numbered 285 to 568. Participants numbered 1 to 284 will come forward to draw. The number drawn will be your opponent for the first round,” the pavilion master announced.
After the announcement, the participant numbered 1 stepped forward first and drew number 436.
Then numbers 2, 3, and so on. The participants drew lots in sequence.
Lin Yun was number 437, so he did not need to draw. He simply waited for someone to draw him.
Soon, Lin Yun’s number was drawn by participant number 47, who was the sect master of Falling Star Sect.
“Haha, excellent!”
This sect master of Falling Star Sect was overjoyed upon seeing that his opponent was an unknown nobody, rather than a participant from one of the top forces.
This was a pushover. His advancement was surely guaranteed.
The drawing continued in an orderly fashion. It took about twenty minutes to complete all draws.
After finishing, everyone left the area in front of the arena and returned to their original positions to await the matches.
The time reached nine o’clock.
“Fellows, I declare this session of the peak competition officially begun. Next, please have participant number 1 and participant number 436 take the stage to commence the first battle,” the pavilion master announced.
The two participants immediately flew onto the arena ahead, and the battle commenced.
“The peak competition has finally fully started.”
Lin Yun’s gaze also fell upon the arena ahead.
The fight on the arena had already begun.
Since all participants were at the Harmony Realm, no one had an advantage in terms of realm. They competed purely on other abilities.
This first battle proved somewhat stalemated. It lasted a full five minutes before participant number 436 achieved a hard-fought victory.
After the winner stepped down, the second battle immediately began, followed by the third, the fourth, and so on.
One battle after another unfolded continuously on the arena ahead.
