Bai Qiaomo stood up and walked down from the stands with Feng Ming following him excitedly, picking and choosing. The champions in the arena were very nervous.
If they were chosen, would they fight or give up the stage voluntarily? It was really difficult to decide.
Feng Ming was very kind and chose a champion who still had a chance to challenge. He let Bai Qiaomo go up to challenge this person. Even if the champion was knocked off the stage, he still had a chance to get the position of champion.
After understanding Feng Ming’s meaning, the other person had no intention of fighting. Just like before, he gave up the arena voluntarily.
Once Bai Qiaomo stood on the stage, Zong Yupao nodded to him and Bai Qiaomo gave him a greeting in return. They were very polite to each other.
The others could also see that Bai Qiaomo won the respect of Zong Yupao and Wu Liyan on the first day of the arena battle. Otherwise, with their pride, how could they pay attention to people who weren’t as good as them.
“Haha, since you’ve all gone up, I won’t wait any longer. Count me in.”
“And me.”
Several more late stage essence liquid realm players with the same cultivation as Bai Qiaomo chose an arena and jumped on it.
Some gave up on their own initiative while others felt they could still give it a try. Maybe they could challenge opponents of a higher level.
So some arenas started fighting while others were quiet. The one in the arena either crossed their arms or had their hands behind their backs, watching the ongoing fights in other arenas.
No one challenged Zong Yupao or Wu Liyan. Once the challengers on other arenas were over, no one came up to challenge Bai Qiaomo to snatch his position as the arena master.
He was so lonely at this moment compared with the dozens of challengers on the first day.
Feng Ming was also a bit bored. He looked left and right and saw Ji Yuan and Qiu Yi, so he took the initiative to walk toward them.
Ji Yuan was a bit overwhelmed when he saw the ger coming toward him.
Due to the past experience with Bai Qiaomo, Qiu Yi had a much better impression of Feng Ming and decided not to hate him so much.
Seeing Feng Ming coming over he took the initiative to greet Feng Ming, completely forgetting Ji Yuan’s instructions to him.
Ji Yuan saw Qiu Yi taking the initiative to greet Feng Ming and secretly thought it was over.
“Fellow Daoist Qiu, Fellow Daoist Ji, how are all of you?”
Ji Yuan thought to himself, ‘I was fine before we met, but not so fine after we met.’
However, he couldn’t say what was in his heart. On the surface, Ji Yuan said warmly, “Fellow Daoist Feng, are you bored?”
“That’s right. Look how fierce the fighting was on the first and second days. What about now? Aren’t they asking us to just watch pillars?”
Ji Yuan was vigilant, but also amused by Feng Ming’s description.
Look at Zong Yupao and the others on the stage. Weren’t they just pillars in the arena for people to watch?
“Are you counting Fellow Daoist Bai as well?”
Feng Ming shook his head proudly. “Even if Brother Bai is a pillar, he is the most handsome pillar.”
‘Shameless ger,’ Ji Yuan complained in his heart.
Qiu Yi clenched his fist and argued, “It is obvious that Senior Brother Zong is more handsome.”
“My Brother Bai is the most handsome.”
“Senior Brother Zong is more handsome.”
Ji Yuan covered his face. Were these two children bickering? Did they have to be so childish?
On the stage, Wu Liyan said, “What are you two arguing about? The most handsome one is me.”
Feng Ming turned his head and compared them seriously. Then he said, “You are just a bit worse than my Brother Bai.”
He also gestured with his fingers, which made Wu Liyan laugh.
Feng Ming also liked Wu Liyan’s cool and energetic personality.
As a result, until the end of the day, no one came to challenge the three arenas of Zong Yupao, Wu Liyan and Bai Qiaomo.
They were just pillars on the stage. Even Wu Liyan felt a bit bored.
Not everything thought that Bai Qiaomo ranked third in strength, but the players qualified to fight him were guarding other arenas.
How could they not defend their own arena and come to fight Bai Qiaomo? In any case, they would fight in the finals.
So after the arena battle that day, these people successfully advanced.
Some people felt that they understood it. “No wonder these seeded players will defend the arena on the last day. If they go on stage on the first or second day, what is the point of this arena battle? Just watching them standing there stupidly?”
“Besides, isn’t this the result of those people from the Imperial Academy? Everyone is guarding against others using the same means to deliberately create a round-robin battle, forcing people off the stage and losing the qualification for the finals. Now even if there are forces who want to use a round-robin battle, they are embarrassed to do it since the group on the first day went too far. No one wants to be compared to them and ruin their reputation.”
“It turns out that the group’s approach has such benefits.”
“That is because of Bai Qiaomo. If it was someone else, see if they could hold on. Think about it, a best-grade pill and a mid-grade Green Yuan Bead. How many good things were consumed in that arena battle?”
“Don’t worry about not having anything to watch. The finals starting tomorrow will be more interesting. It is a battle between real masters.”
After the arena battle, some people went to the twelve betting games and saw that Bai Qiaomo’s odds of winning the championship really became 1:5, while his odds of winning third place became 1:1.2. It seemed that everyone was optimistic about him winning third place.
The top seeded player to win the championship was still Zong Yupao. No one was optimistic about Wu Liyan beating Zong Yupao unless Wu Liyan had recently learned some new and powerful martial arts, or her strength had increased in a short period of time,
The final day arrived. Everyone arrived at the arena and found that there were only ten arenas. This made it easier for the spectators on the stands to watch.
Once all the players entered the arena, the chief referee said a few words before announcing the rules. The 60 players who entered the finals would draw their own number and then draw lots to decide their opponent. Two against two, they would go to the arena to decide the winner. The winner would enter the next round until the final battle for the championship and runner-up.
Bai Qiaomo went on stage to receive his number, number 7. Feng Ming thought it was a pretty good number.
Bai Qiaomo smiled while thinking that Feng Ming would find something nice to say no matter which number he picked.
His opponent was number 38. As he looked for his opponent, number 38 also looked over and the two of them looked at each other.
The opponent smiled bitterly when he found out that it was Bai Qiaomo. It was obvious that he didn’t have much confidence in defeating Bai Qiaomo.
Since Bai Qiaomo’s number was in front, it was his turn to go on stage in the first round. The players from number 1 to 10 went on stage to compete with their opponents.
Feng Ming immediately rushed to the number five arena where Bai Qiaomo was going to fight to cheer for him.
His opponent took a deep breath and walked slowly to the arena.
The strength of this opponent was in the middle stage of the essence liquid realm. This champion emerged on the first day of the arena battle and wasn’t sure about the chances of a higher-level challenge, especially when he was challenging a player like Bai Qiaomo, who already had the strength to challenge a higher level.
Before he went on stage, the senior from his force patted him on the shoulder and encouraged him. “Put aside your burdens and have a good fight. You won’t suffer a loss when fighting Bai Qiaomo. Bai Qiaomo is very measured in his moves.”
Even if the dozens of people on the first day deliberately used a round-robin battle to consume Bai Qiaomo’s fighting power, he didn’t leave those people with irreparable injuries. He dealt with the opponents neatly and swiftly. Some blood was seen only with the last opponent.
Therefore, when encountering such an opponent, the cultivators from all forces had a good impression of him and felt at ease.
“Okay, I understand.”
This person came on stage and greeted Bai Qiaomo with a serious expression. “Fellow Daoist Bai, my strength isn’t as good as yours but I will take this battle seriously. Please teach me more.”
Bai Qiaomo answered politely, “Okay, let’s teach each other. Please.”
“Please.”
Bai Qiaomo still held the spear and didn’t take it easy because his strength was one level higher than the opponent. He took the battle equally seriously. This was real respect for the opponent, and he wasn’t perfunctory.
The opponent was indeed unlucky. The weapon he used was a pair of short blades, but Bai Qiaomo’s spear made his defense airtight. The opponent had no way to get close to Bai Qiaomo, and the advantages of the short blade couldn’t be brought into play.
The only sound heard on the stage was the clashing of weapons. After five minutes, the tip of the spear touched the opponent’s throat.
The opponent didn’t show any signs of frustration. Instead, he felt that he had fought thoroughly for five minutes and realized his own shortcomings. He happily thanked Bai Qiaomo.
“In this match, Number 7 Bai Qiaomo will advance to the next round.”
Everyone could see that the opponent was much weaker than Bai Qiaomo, so the result of this battle was no surprise. It was normal for Bai Qiaomo to defeat his opponent within five minutes.
He didn’t reveal the trump card he had used against Xiong Kui, or the opponent wouldn’t have lasted even one minute.
Bai Qiaomo took Feng Ming back to the stands to watch the other unfinished arena battles.
There were contestants with huge differences in strength, just like Bai Qiaomo and number 38, and there were also contestants with similar strengths. It would be difficult to tell who was better in a short period of time.
Bai Qiaomo watched carefully. He might fight one of them in the next round. As for Zong Yupao and Wu Liyan, he wouldn’t meet them until the end.
—Unless someone did something and eliminated one of them early.
But such a result didn’t appear, which showed that the draw this time was relatively fair.
The first round of battles ended and the second round hadn’t begun, but some of the audience members became excited.
Feng Ming knew the reason. It was because in this round, Wu Liyan went up on the stage. As for Zong Yupao, he was in the third round.
Maybe the referees also regarded Bai Qiaomo as the third place winner and separated the three people, arranging them in different rounds.
Feng Ming held his chin and said, “Oh, this girl is fighting for the first time since the martial arts competition started. In any case, I haven’t seen her fight before.”
Bai Qiaomo smiled. “Didn’t you see a photo stone of her battle before?”
Feng Ming waved his hand. “That’s different. How can it be as exciting as watching it live?”
Pei Yingmin and the others were also watching Wu Liyan’s battle seriously. They really hadn’t seen her fight so far, and they were quite afraid of her strength.
Wu Liyan took out her weapon when she came on stage. Feng Ming might’ve seen it in the image of the photo stone before, but he was still a bit surprised when he saw her take out a heavy broadsword.
This girl was really and her aura was more than that of other male cultivators.
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