23 The Dragon Realm Tournament starts (1/2)

The day of the tournament had finally arrived. The tournament that would select the next Dragon Warrior made everyone in Dragon City very excited.

The tournament which would be lasting 10 days would be celebrated on the Dragon Stadium. The streets through all the city were embellished, and hundreds of decorations proudly displayed the Dragon motive everywhere.

Over a dozen enormous golden dragon statues decorated the external part of the venue.

As thousand of lines surrounded the venue, people were eager to get into the stadium.

For this tournament it was expected that there would be around 4000 participants. The rules set up by the Dragon King stated that:

1. Participants most be between 12 and 20 years.

2. They most at least on the Qi Condensation Realm fifth level.

3. It's forbidden to kill your opponent.

4. Treasure weapons are forbidden to use, as well as any kind of pill during the competition.

5. The participants will be divided into 4 arenas, where the top 8 would come out from the preliminaries. Then the finalists will be put in a bracket where a single champion will emerge

6. A participant wins if his opponent admits defeat, his opponent gets knocked out of the arena or if his opponent becomes unconscious.

Outside of the estadium in the vicinities of the venue illegal gambling dens were running their business. According to the gambling houses, Long Qiong was the favorite as they expected that someone on his age and with a cultivation level on the tenth level of the Qi Condensation Realm would have no trouble winning the championship.

Opposite to Long Qiong's case, although gambling dens didn't expect that Long Lao Er would be last place, they expected that he wouldn't even pass the preliminaries. Of course that didn't matter to his thousands of followers, most of them being girls and the rest being kids who admired him. So those people were betting on Long Lao Er's becoming the champion.

In the venue on the backside of the Dragon Stadium was located the entrance for the judges and participants. For this preliminaries 4 junior elders were going to become the judges.