CHAPTER 684: CHAPTER 176: THIRD TEAM

Due to all the preparations for the annual competition being carried out in secrecy, this was Yun Sheng’s first time stepping into the newly renovated district after several months.

The arena was out of sight for now, but the lounge was much better than before, comparable to a five-star lounge.

"Quite pretentious, making so many of us wait for just you two," the mocking voice was heard as soon as they entered the lounge.

"Yan, those two have been staring at us the whole time, they seem quite displeased, we haven’t provoked them, have we?" "Yan" sharply pinpointed the source of the sound.

A pair of conspicuous contestants were glaring provocatively at "Flame Emperor" who had just entered.

As "Flame Emperor" was not familiar with the new district, they took some time to find the place, arriving later than the other eleven groups of contestants.

"Everyone has arrived, let’s start drawing lots to form temporary teams," Tian Yiyu in charge of this drawing ceremony, rushed forward to stop "Lion Heart" who was speaking in a harsh tone.

Before drawing lots, Tian Yiyu also additionally announced the competition rules for this joint annual competition.

As this year’s annual competition involved both humans and demon beasts, Tian Yiyu also elaborated on the demon beast ranks on the continent.

The demon beasts of Wuji Continent range from First Rank to Ninth Rank, Commander-level Demon Beast, and King-level Demon Beast.

As home to the highest level of competitive standard, most of the competitive demon beasts in the Xuan Yi District of the Sky Wings Arena are High-level Demon Beasts of the Seventh to Ninth Rank.

Such Rank demon beasts are rare elsewhere on the continent.

As for the demon beasts that made it to the final annual competition as monthly competition champions, most of them are already at Commander-level.

An incident involving a King-level Demon Beast occurred in Xuan Yi District in July.

Due to the appearance of the King-level Demon Beast, Xuan Yi District was completely destroyed, hence, the monthly competitions in the remaining four months couldn’t be held as scheduled.

Thus, the monthly competition champions from Xuan Yi District, frankly speaking, total only six.

Excluding the one King-level Demon Beast that fled, those participating in this year’s annual competition are the monthly competition champions from January to June.

After consultation among several district managers of the Sky Wings Arena, they decided to adopt a four versus one mode for the lineup arrangement in this year’s competition.

That is, two groups of dual-player month competition contestants versus one Commander-level demon beast.

After all, in terms of strength, a Commander-level demon beast is much more powerful than pure Holy Mages or Martial Artists below the Martial Arts Sect level.

Even with four against one, the contestants’ chance of winning is only fifty percent.

Hearing that their opponent would be a Commander-level demon beast, most contestants showed unhappy expressions.

Earlier, they all thought at most it would be a Ninth Rank Demon Beast, little did they know, the strength of the demon beasts from Xuan Yi District was so terrifying.

"It’s just a Commander-level demon beast, there is no need for four people; Lion and I are enough to handle it," Li Xinyue from "Lion Heart" said with arrogance.

Li Xinyue and Huang Fushi, both previously powerful figures in a B-level Hunting Corps on the continent.

Having disdained the low income of the Hunting Corps, they turned to competitive hunting soldiers.

Compared to other contestants, both had battled against War Country Commander-level demon beasts before, so they were confident that this time would not be a problem either.

"Flame Emperor" carefully observed the two, the male being tall and handsome, the female sexy and enchanting, both conspicuous contestants, but indeed they had never offended the other party except for this time.

It was unclear where this strong hostility from the two came from.

Li Xinyue also noticed "Flame Emperor," and she was quite frustrated to find that these two young girls were indeed, as depicted on the cards, more concave where they should be concave, and much more convex where they should be convex.

These two, wearing masks, simply stood on the arena and stole all the limelight.

Just thinking about how these two would steal the show in the upcoming annual competition, Li Xinyue and Huang Fushi felt very resentful.

"The rule of the competition is that only two people compete, no one is allowed any special treatment, either join or get lost," Tian Yiyu also felt very dissatisfied with the duo from "Lion Heart".

These two were quite arrogant, having just offended her, the person in charge.

In the arena, the most taboo thing is to encounter people who think they are invincible, but in fact, are nothing at all.

Being scolded by Tian Yiyu, "Lion Heart" did not dare to speak disrespectfully anymore.

Twelve groups of people, went up to draw lots one at a time.

The method of drawing lots, is Tian Yiyu placing numbers "one to six" in a dark box.

Each number has two copies, and those who draw the same number form a temporary team, together facing the Magical Beasts of the Xuan Yi District.

"Lion Heart" drew lots first, and they picked a "three".

Other participants also continued to draw their numbers.

When it was "Flame Emperor’s" turn, the Emperor, representing them, went up to draw and was mentally praying for anyone but that damn Xinyue.

She really didn’t want to form a temporary team with that Xinyue duo.

However, fate is not controlled by wishes.

When the Emperor opened the slip of paper she had drawn, it was clearly a "three".

The result was clear now; Flame Emperor and Lion Heart formed the Third Team.

All temporary team members have been confirmed, forming six teams from first to sixth.

"The specific Magical Beasts will be drawn on the day of the annual competition, before the first match starts. Everyone has worked hard, please prepare well in the next three days," Tian Yiyu recorded the results of the drawing, and then went to report to the arena’s side.

"Such bad luck, got the worst lot, met two who drag their feet," Li Xinyue tore up the lottery number just drawn and threw it vehemently at the Emperor.

"Hey, what do you mean by this, it’s still not clear who is dragging whom down!" the Emperor was infuriated.

Hardly had Liu Qingqing left, and now these two showed up.

Just thinking about having to compete in the annual competition with these two peacock-like figures, the Emperor felt quite distressed.

Competing against Commander-level Magical Beasts was already troublesome enough.

In such a situation, encountering a teammate with high synergy would undoubtedly increase the chances of winning a lot.

But having collided with "Lion Heart," it would be good if they don’t stab her in the back during the competition.

"Speaking of you guys, don’t know what method you used to win over ’Liu Dao’, in my opinion, ’Liu Dao’ is much stronger than you," Huang Fushi chimed in from the side.

"You guys!" The Emperor’s pretty face turned red with anger, really wanting to rush forward to show them their might.

"Who is stronger, we will know on the pitch." Yan was unwilling to spend too much time on these two clowns.

After the temporary teams were confirmed, what followed was the wait for the annual competition to arrive.