93 Youngsters tournamen (1/2)

Bai Yun woke up in the morning on time. He put on a short sleeve shirt and pants and arm guards. He then changed his look to that of Long Tian and headed straight for the youngster's tournament.

The youngster's tournament was held by the city itself. The major forces of the city would come together to organize the event. It was considered as a good way to encourage the younger generation to do better, as well as have interaction between them to understand how good their rivals are. It was also a chance for the forces to recruit promising youngsters who were not part of any major force. There were many people who flocked to the city to participate in the tournament in hope of a better future.

The youngster's tournament was held in the city arenas. The main arena was used for the higher cultivation realms. The qi condensation realm was conducted in one of the minor arenas. Even though it was called a minor arena, it was still extremely large with nearly a hundred smaller arenas to battle in. As the rounds became higher and higher and the number of players decreased, the number of arenas would be reduced to let the spectators have a better view.

The tournament was a simple elimination type tournament. There were over twenty thousand participants in the tournament. With the high number of people who would be participating in the tournament, they could not hope to do a round robin type tournament. This way there would only be fifteen rounds.

Old Hai dropped off Bai Yun a good distance from the arena. When Bai Yun finally made it to the arena, the opening ceremonies were just coming to an end. The official in charge of the youngster's tournament for the qi condensation realm this year was an elder of the hunters union. He quickly announced the start of the tournament and let it start without any fanfare.

Bai Yun had already been issued a participant number when old Hai went to register him for the tournament a month ago. He quickly found his arena as well as his time of the fight. It was in one of the smaller arenas in the afternoon a few days later. Due to the number of participants in the tournament, some of the people, including ninety nine seeded contestants, would get a bye in the first round. Depending on the other fights before his, it could potentially be delayed.

Bai Yun walked around the arena. By now the matchups had been decided and the matches had started. He walked around and saw for himself the kind of fights that were happening in the arenas.

It would be a lie to say that Bai Yun was not impressed by what he saw. Even though not to the extend of Zhang Zi, the people here almost all had a much better fighting experience than the likes of Bai Song. But it was obvious that their cultivation techniques were lacking. The force they could generate was much weaker than what the people at Bai clan could generate. Bai Yun figured it was probably due to this reason that the major forces could keep their power.

Suddenly, he froze. On one of the arenas, Bai Yun saw Song Hui.

Bai Yun had no idea what she was doing in the arena. He knew that she was a seeded contestant, just like him. Bai Yun had registered using the Long Tian identity he used for the gold test. Many people had seen the battle video of his fight with Zhang Zi. So many people had an idea of his strength and he had gotten the tenth seed. Zhang Zi was obviously the first seed. Due to this, he did not have to fight in the first round.

And Song Hui was also needed at the fifty eighth place. By right she should not be fighting now. Unless she did something insane. 'And what were the chances of that happening?' Bai Yun thought.

Song Hui easily disposed of her opponent, a poor guy in the eighth stage of the qi condensation realm. Just because her whip technique was nothing in front of Bai Yun's eyes, it was not the same for the rest of the world. Her opponent was unable to cope with the rapid change of direction and was struck out easily.

Bai Yun stood there watching Song Hui. She was jubilant upon her victory and had thrown up her hands and started to jump around. She only stopped when the judge finally reminded her.

With a happy hop, she finally got down from the stage. Coincidentally, her eyes closed with that of Bai Yun's at that moment. 'Shit' Bai Yun thought. He was a little scared of this strange creature and had no desire to interact with her.

\”Big brother Long, long time no see.\” Song Hui shouted. She then bounded up towards him. Bai Yun initially wanted to run, but after Song Hui's shout, all the people here were looking at him. It felt wrong to run now. Bai Yun resigned himself to his fate.

\”What are you doing here?\” He asked Sing Hui when she reached him.

\”Participating in the tournament.\” Song Hui responded innocently. The look in her eyes was asking why Bai Yun would ask such a question. Bai Yun almost thought that he was the fool for asking such a question.

\”I meant why are participating in the first round. Arent you a seeded participant. Don't you get a bye in the first round.\” Bai Yun asked.

The moment he said so, Song Hui looked startled. She looked around as if to make sure that no one heard him and then turned back to look at bai Yun. \”What are you talking about, big brother Yun. I'm not a seeded contestant.\”

\”Song Hui what are you talking about. I just checked. You are the fifty eighth seed.\” Bai Yun replied.

\”Song Hui, who's Song Hui? My name is Hui Song.\” She replied. Bai Yun looked at Song Hui, who simply stared back at him with her big rabbit eyes, the very picture of innocence. BAi Yun suddenly felt the oncoming of a migraine.

Bai Yun calmed himself down after a few moments. \”What are you talking about?\”

Song Hui looked around as if to make sure that no one was watching. Then she took a couple of steps closer to Bai Yun and slowly started to whisper. Bai Yun had to bend his head to hear her.

\”Shh. Don't tell anyone. I registered a second identity as Hui Song to battle.\” Song Hui explained.

In the youngster's tournament, it was difficult to check if someone had registered multiple times. Thus they just made it legal to participate in the tournament with multiple identities, even though it wasn't encouraged by the organizers. The advantage of this was that even if you had a bad matchup and lost a battle, you could still have a second chance to fight on.

But not many people would choose to register multiple identities. The reason was that it was extremely taxing. They would have to fight often and if both of their identities got scheduled to a match at the same time, then you had to forfeit one. And the stress of all those extra fights could easily cause problems. And anyone who was confident in themselves would not stoop to such levels to prove themselves.