No hope for eternal life

Chapter 110 Competition Rules Changes

Xiao Jingshan gave a bitter smile when he heard that. Even if he was just a nominal disciple, it was his name. He couldn't just leave it as a nominal disciple and not care about it. Otherwise, if he caused any trouble in the future, no one in the world would care whether it was just a nominal disciple or not.

So, Xiao Jingshan thought of a compromise and said to Feng Ze: "How about this, let's make a gentleman's agreement. If your daughter can get the first place in this palace examination, I will accept her as my personal disciple. Otherwise, please don't embarrass me anymore. In addition, for the sake of fairness, the rules of the subsequent competitions will also be changed accordingly."

Xiao Jingshan also knew that Feng Li's cultivation had already entered the Fake Dan realm. If he followed the normal competition rules, winning the first place would be almost a sure thing, so he proposed to change the competition rules.

"No problem, it's a deal." Feng Ze replied quickly. He believed that Xiao Jingshan was a man of dignity and would not deliberately make competition rules targeting his daughter, so no matter how the competition rules changed, his daughter would still have the greatest advantage.

Afterwards, Feng Ze and Xiao Jingshan communicated with each other via telepathy to discuss the subsequent competition rules.

After they reached a result that satisfied both parties, Feng Ze gave instructions to the golden-armored general who was responsible for announcing the rules of the competition.

After the golden-armored general understood, he immediately announced loudly: "The demon-slaying competition is over."

As he spoke, a huge list of a hundred people appeared out of thin air in the sky. It was the list of the top one hundred foundation-building cultivators who advanced.

Then, the golden-armored warrior continued, "The next round of competition will be a team competition. One hundred monks will be divided into groups of five, for a total of twenty groups. Each group of monks will compete with the other nineteen groups of monks. The ranking will be determined by the number of wins. The top five and top ten groups will directly advance to the top twenty-five and top fifty of this palace examination."

"In addition, the principle of grouping is to have one county as one group. If there are more than five people in a county, the monks in that county will decide on their own to eliminate the extra monks. If there are less than five monks in a county, monks from other counties will be recruited. In the end, eighteen counties will form eighteen groups, and the remaining two groups will be formed by the extra monks in each county."

"Huh?" Mu Changsheng was surprised to hear this: "This time the palace examination rules have been greatly changed compared to previous years, and it even seems a bit unfair."

Normally, there are strong and weak cultivators in a county, but it is not a problem for the first place in each county to enter the top 25. However, according to this competition rule, only the cultivators from the top five counties can enter the top 25. The people from the remaining counties will not be strong enough and will be eliminated.

Moreover, Mu Changsheng also realized a problem. According to this team competition rule, it is very time-consuming. However, the palace examination is divided into three rounds: foundation building, golden elixir, and Nascent Soul. The time for each round is limited. After the team competition consumes so much time, there is not much time left for the final round of competition.

Mu Changsheng couldn't help but wonder how the final competition would go. After all, this matter was related to the Nine Revolutions Golden Pill that would be awarded to the top three.

On the other side, Song Zhi came forward and took the initiative to say to Mu Changsheng and Mu Xun: "We have five people from Nansha County who have advanced to the top 100."

The five people from Nansha County who advanced to the top 100, in addition to Mu Changsheng, Mu Xun and Song Zhi, the other two were Zhang Yuxu and Xu Lingxi.

Zhang Yuxu and Xu Lingxi also came over on their own initiative. According to the competition rules, the five of them were teammates.

Mu Changsheng nodded slightly upon seeing this. Among the five of them, some were good at close combat and some were good at long-range attack, so they were a good match.

Soon, many groups were formed, with the eighteen county prefectures forming eighteen groups, and the remaining two groups were composed of monks from multiple county prefectures.

Afterwards, the twenty groups were numbered respectively, and Mu Changsheng's group was group number seven.

At the same time, three huge arenas were set up on the square in front of the Golden Throne Hall. Mu Changsheng thought that the three competitions should be carried out at the same time. After all, it would take too much time to hold individual competitions one by one.

As expected, the referee on the central stage began to announce the list of the competition groups: "Stage No. 1: Group No. 1 vs. Group No. 2; Stage No. 2: Group No. 3 vs. Group No. 4; Stage No. 3: Group No. 5 vs. Group No. 6."

Mu Changsheng's group is number seven and is not in this round of competition, but looking at the order of the competition, it will most likely be their turn in the next round.

Before this, Mu Changsheng wanted to deepen his understanding of Xu Lingxi and others, do some homework in advance, be prepared for any eventuality, and formulate a reasonable strategy during the competition.

So, Mu Changsheng asked Xu Lingxi beside him: "Miss Xu, can I ask how many Explosive Qi Pills you have left? I want to know in advance so that I can make some reasonable arrangements during the competition."

Xu Lingxi heard this, but did not refuse, and gave a more accurate number: "Nineteen competitions, enough for me to use at least five Explosive Qi Pills in each competition."

The conversation between Mu Changsheng and the other person seemed to remind Mu Xun, and Mu Xun suggested: "Since this is a team competition, each group needs a leader to act as a commander, so that the cooperation can be more efficient. I suggest that Mu Changsheng be the leader."

"Agree." Song Zhi spoke first.

"agreed, agreed."

Xu Lingxi and Zhang Yuxu also agreed one after another. They were not fools and could see that Mu Xun had a very good relationship with Mu Changsheng. As Mu Xun, who won the first place in the county examination, took the initiative to propose, they naturally had no reason to refuse.

Seeing this, Mu Changsheng clasped his fists and said, "Thank you for your appreciation. I will do my best to rank our group among the top five."

Then, Mu Changsheng said: "I currently have some preliminary ideas, so I'd like to share them with you so that we can discuss the feasibility together."

Mu Xun encouraged, "That's right, go ahead."

Seeing everyone's eyes on him, Mu Changsheng expressed his thoughts: "During the competition, the five of us can maintain a one-two-two formation. I am a physical cultivator and will be at the front of the formation. Miss Song and Miss Xu are both good at long-range attacks and will be at the end of the formation to attack and consume the opponent. Mu Xun and Zhang Yuxu, you two can attack both from a distance and from close range and will be in the middle. You can retreat to protect Miss Song and Miss Xu and advance to support me."

"Of course, this is just a general idea. During the actual competition, we will make some adjustments based on the strength of our opponents."

"Agree" "Agree"...

Mu Xun and the other three all agreed with Mu Changsheng's idea. At least it sounded like there was nothing wrong with it. Moreover, Mu Changsheng was at the forefront and would bear the greatest pressure. This alone was enough to prevent Mu Xun and the other three from finding any fault with it.