Chapter 168 The Beginning of the Competition (1/2)

Chapter 168 The Beginning of the Co?” Asked Alesia to a focused Daniel

Daniel looked attentively at the man that had appeared out of the blue in the middle of the er, and yet, he could not be sure that he was the one that had commissioned the attack on his coht of the possibility that the man's injury could be a simple coincidence, or that by absurd, it could be a distinctive mark of a certain type of people within the collective He wasn't stupid enough to ainst someone with such a flimsy excuse

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Ten minutes earlier, within the hall underneath the stadium

This hall was reserved for the participants and their teachers to prepare for the games

Here, the rules of the competition had just been explained to thened to the winner of the coames were also divided into two phases

The first phase, was the test of comprehension

There was only one way to assess a person's comprehension in dept, and that was to make them create an essence sphere

Naturally, due to the e tiular and peranizers of the event had decided not to use that as the main way of evaluation

Instead, they had decided to make the participants produce one without essence treasure, which meant that they would require to focus their entire comprehension into a sphere-like form That, would require much less time

After the assess iteanizers had decided to conduct this part of the event, was to sihest level of sphere that the participant was able to create, before the time limit finished, and their i it to dissipate

This was also a way to raise the level of the coher level which had puta specific essence, would be able to condense a sphere er cultivators

Naturally, any form of restoration for one's immortal essence which wasn't part of the natural production of one's body, was strictly forbidden

They would only have one chance to create the best sphere with their own immortal essence

The second part of the competition was, of course, a practical test of control over a specific type of essence

For exa their comprehension and control of fire essence, would have to perforainst a anizers, and defend from one of their attacks

These st the very rare cultivators that had reached a perfect coh level of cultivation

Only they were able to perfectly match the power of each participant, andthe results

They also never belonged to any of the companies that participated in the event, so as to make sure that they wouldn't over evaluate the members of their own companies, or under evaluate the members of competitor companies

After the tests for each essence would end, the next test would be conducted, and the cultivators would have the chance to remain in the arena to be tested in another essence, or leave, and co

Many cultivators participated in ory, after all, the points would be stacked at the end of the event, and only the cultivator with the st them could win the final prize

If by absurd a cultivator was able to obtain a perfect score on both comprehension and control over an essence, they would still only have two hundred points Anyone that had a her comprehension and control over two different types of essences would be able to h were standing quietly within the roup of cultivators

”Aren't you two a little young to be participating in this event?” Asked an oldhie, and a woman which was thirty-five at the very least

He was the teacher of the tea to participate for their company, while the other tere the participants

Edroup, and said ”Intelligence, talent, and opportunity Neither of these are conditioned by age” His tone was indifferent, and his ood point, the old e of the participants of the event was forty, and for a good reason The older a cultivator, the more time he would have had to study a particular essence

Of the twenty-four hundred participants, only Jerigh and Roley were under thirty years of age

By roup was indirectly boasting about having the greatest talents of the entire collective

”How disappointing For a teacher, you sure are capable of underesti the value of time” Said the old man with clear disappointh voice caht state for a few moments

”IT IS MY PLEASURE TO WELCOME YOU ALL! TO THE FOUR HUNDRED AND SEVENTH EDITION OF THE 'A WORLD IN THE PALM OF YOUR HAND' COLLECTIVE'S GAMES!” Shouted the nine-fingered man from the middle of the stadium

As soon as the last word left his mouth, thousands of pieces of fireere launched in the air, and exploded with colorful shows of lights in the darkening sky