Chapter 670: Cai’er’s Domain of Purification (III) (2/2)
In this stage, a point would be awarded to every one of the other five Temples’ candidates for a victory, two points for two victories, with a doubled amount of points for every additional individual victory.
Great restrictive clauses regulated this individual stage. First, no equipment or pill are to be allowed, and only the use of one’s individual strength is allowed. Second, no situation of wounding the opponent allowed, and is penalized with a direct elimination. This Temples’ Great Gathering being no struggle of life and death, these two rules looked simple, but were greatly restrictive. Just think, when all contestants would at least be powerhouses of the eighth step, what is the level of control required to absolutely avoid wounding any opponent?
The individual competition would terminate within three days, followed by sorting the points to conclude the primary stage of the Temples’ Great Gathering.
The reason why this involved so many contestants was to assess the strength of every Temple as a whole, as a single person’s strength was not enough to stand for his or her whole Temple.
After the individual battles, would begin the contests for the highest spiritual energies. The Six Great Temples would all dispatch three candidates of age below a hundred years old to undergo spiritual energy assessment. Every year below a hundred would give an additional thousand points of score.
The addition of these three candidates’ spiritual energies will make up their ranking, and the first place Temple will be awarded with two hundred points, the second would receive one hundred fifty, third place, one hundred twenty, fourth place, ninety, fifth place, sixty, but none for the last one.
After the end of the spiritual energy competition follows the Domain Competition, with each of the Six Great Temples sending three contestants.
Then a domain confrontation, with eighteen domain wielding powerhouses fighting together. Whichever side cannot maintain his domain anymore will be excluded, until only three contestants from one Temple are left. This one is really important, as the first place will be awarded five hundred total points, with every next one being awarded a hundred less, with the last one getting no reward.
This kind of team competition does not emphasize on domain power, but should best implicate three complementary domains. That’s because the winner won’t necessarily be the side with the greatest powerhouse, but the side of the best coordination.
In the previous gathering, the Knight Temple had managed to win with the combinations of the domains of the Knight Temple’s Divine Knight of Defense and Planning Yang Haohan, the Divine Knight of Control and Constraint Long Tianying, and the Divine Knight of Adjudication and Trial Long Xingyu, achieving victory in this most important stage, thus fundamentally settling the Knight Temple as number one.
The Temples’ Great Gathering’s last trial would be the most significant team battle. Each Temple would send ten contestants to undergo a round-robin tournament, with each victory awarding a hundred total points. Among teams, the Priest Temple would not be participating, giving them a direct three hundred total.
All four stages would be confrontation between the top of the Temple Alliance’s higher-ups. Generally, the least performing in the Temples’ Great Gathering would be the Priest Temple, but its importance still had no needs to be proved anymore. Anyway, a priest would visibly not be fitting as a ruler for the Temple Alliance. Aside from them, the others would all attach great importance to this ranking contest.
The final ranking of the previous Temples’ Great Gathering had the Knight Temple in first place, followed by the Mage Temple, Spiritual Temple, Assassin Temple, Priest Temple, and Warrior Temple.
The Priest Temple, having been given some preferential treatment, ended up surpassing the Warrior Temple and gaining the fifth rank. The Warrior Temple would frequently be ranked among the last ones.
This announcement was not at all correlated to any adjustment of the Alliance, but the individuals with deeper understanding all knew that the final ranking would determine crucial changes in the Alliance this year. So the contest for the first place would surely be even more intense than the previous years.
The white clad young man was standing there for half an hour already, looking like a statue which didn’t move in the slightest from the beginning.
“What looks so good in a mere announcement?” A distinct voice suddenly rang behind him, coming from a girl clad in a green gown.
This girl was very beautiful, looking in her twenties, but gave off an aloof feel, and an impression of great pride making her unapproachable.
Her green gown looked very simple and didn’t give off any elemental fluctuation. As she appeared behind the young man clad in white, an indescribable faint green light bubbled up from her, pushing this white clad youngster forward.
This female mage was Tan Wan, the sole disciple of the head of the Mage Temple, Li Zhengzhi. Over these four years, she kept training bitterly, and was fully directed by her master, making her one of the targets of the Mage Temple’s ressources, and causing her cultivation to have made great progress.
Xuanyuan Yan who had formerly been standing alongside her had now fallen far behind. Her cultivation had already broken through the eighth step, and she had learnt some formidable original wind elemental spell from Li Zhengzhi, and was one of the Mage Temple’s representative for this Temples’ Great Gathering. Given her age, that was absolutely an enormous honor for her.