Chapter 319: Top 64 starts (1/2)

”Now, for the final event of the day. The battle between the Top 64 strongest cultivators amongst the current generation will now begin,” Fu Zhen announced.

”This time, the participants won't get to randomly choose their opponents. Instead, we have made a placement chart for you to see who you will all be fighting against. Here it is.”

The moment Fu Zhen stopped speaking, a massive chart with the fighting brackets appeared in the sky.

There were 4 different groups in the chart. There were 2 groups on each side and each group had 16 participants.

”As you can see, we have separated the participants based on a few different secret criteria. The one we can reveal is that we made the brackets so that no two participants of the same sect will ever have to fight prior to the semi-finals.”

”Please look at the brackets for a while. In the meanwhile, Group A, please gather down below. The matches will start very soon,” Fu Zhen said.

”I'm leaving junior brother, I will come back later,” Luo Mei said and left the seating area.

”Good Luck sister,” Alex said and looked back at the brackets. Luo Mei was 5th on the list. Thankfully, Wan Li wasn't in that group. He was in group 3 with Yang Ma.

'At least he won't lose immediately,' Alex thought.

”Arghh, this is bad,” Wen Cheng started to worry about something.

”What's wrong, Master?” Alex asked.

”Group 2 is bad. Group 2 is horrible. So many strong participants are in group 2. Yuhan, you think you will be fine?” Wen Cheng asked.

Du Yuhan looked up at the brackets once more and looked down. ”It doesn't matter, sect leader. I will try my best,” he said.

”Sigh, I know you will. Little Ma doesn't have it any easy either. I guess none of the groups are easy anymore. There are so few participants now that every battle you fight might be your last,” Wen Cheng said.

The first battle was starting between a cultivator wearing a golden robe and another cultivator wearing a dark blue robe.

”Oh, the first one is a disciple from the Honor sect. Against a random sect, they should win easily,” Wen Cheng said.

”So the golden robe what Honor sect wears, huh. Honor sect… where did I hear the name before? Hmn…Ah right, their sect leader came to the bi-annual auction a month ago,” Alex said.

”Huh? Lu Chun was in the auction? How do you know?” Wen Cheng asked.

”Oh, Master told me when she noticed him,” Alex said. ”Is it weird?”

”No, I'm just surprised he was even there in the first place. Since they are a 1st-grade sect, they usually don't enter a sect without another first-grade sect,” Wen Cheng said.

”Oh, so then why did he?” Alex asked.

”Probably because the city is close and he had free time. Rosewood city is just 3 to 4 hours of flight for him, you know,” Wen Cheng said.

”Ah, yes,” Alex said as he recalled the map of the empire.