The most melodramatic rebirth in history

Chapter 172 Pre-war Assessment
"My name is Kuang Tu. May I ask how the three of you are addressed?" The lean man approached and immediately clasped his hands in greeting. Although he addressed the three of them, his eyes remained fixed on the man in blue, without moving.

Even so, Zhu Bupang and his companion were pleasantly surprised.

The two immediately returned the greeting, saying, "Greetings, Senior Brother Kuang! We are respectively called..."

Zhu Bupang...!
"If I don't lose weight...!"

"Brother Zhu, Brother Gou...!" The lean man nodded slightly, his gaze fixed on the man in blue, indicating that he understood.

In reality, it was purely out of conditioned reflex; he hadn't heard what the two were saying at all.

However, due to blind spots in perspective, outsiders may not see it that way...

"Damn it—! Kuang Tu, that bastard!" Xu Peng and the others gritted their teeth as they watched the lean man step forward and his attitude, which was completely different from how he treated them.

Then, the group snorted coldly and angrily went off to find other capable partners. They refused to believe that, apart from Kuang Tu, they couldn't invite anyone from the top ten of the rankings!
"Welcome, Brother Kuang! My name is Feng Ling!"

"Oh, it's Brother Feng! It's a pleasure to meet you!"

After the man in blue clasped his hands in greeting, he and the lean man straightened up and exchanged a few polite words.

However, after Kuang Tu said those words, Feng Ling's lips twitched, and he subconsciously made a connection to something.

Breast augmentation?
"Ahem...! Senior Brother Kuang, you can just call me Junior Brother Feng!" Feng Ling coughed lightly, immediately correcting the "evil" way someone addressed him.

"Alright! Junior Brother Feng..."

Seeing the fat and thin disciples beside him covering their mouths tightly, secretly trying not to laugh, the lean man seemed to immediately realize something and awkwardly clasped his hands in a fist salute again.

Afterwards, Kuang Tu collided the ranking token with Feng Ling and the other two. After a few flashes of light, he successfully joined Feng Ling's exclusive team.

"Alright, all inner disciples, stop now. The free team-up period is over. If anyone is still unable to form a team, we will automatically match them based on the actual situation..."

As the white-haired, youthful-looking old man was speaking, a huge silver screen emanating powerful energy fluctuations descended from the sky, listing the team composition of almost everyone and the preliminary strength assessment of each team.

It's unclear whether the Grand Elder was eager to assert his presence and beat the kind-faced elder to it.

"Yidao, just bear with it a little longer!" Elder Liu Yidao, who was furious, retreated at Feng Tianjue's signal, and was relieved.

"My God, there are 521 inner disciples!" In the VIP audience, an eighth-rank core disciple who was staring intently at the silver screen in mid-air exclaimed in surprise, which surprised everyone.

"Why is that senior brother reacting so strongly? He's already an eighth-level advanced ghost spirit master, is there any need to make such a fuss?" Several outer disciples sitting nearby whispered among themselves.

"Hehe, junior brother, you don't know this, that guy's cultivation is unstable, and he's still in the inner sect, hanging out with the inner disciples!"

A man in white robes appeared like a ghost, seemingly out of nowhere.
The creature that had emerged suddenly landed on an empty seat behind several disciples, craning its neck and making faces as it explained.

"Ah—, who are you? When did you arrive?" Several disciples broke out in a cold sweat, but thankfully they didn't say anything bad.

Then, coming to her senses, she said, "Oh, I see. No wonder he cares so much about the inner disciples! But don't try to fool us!"

"Huh? Where did everyone go...!" After a moment of silence, the group turned around and saw that the rows of seats behind them were completely empty, except for a large, drafty exit passage...

"Hiss~...!" The group felt their scalps tingle and were terrified. They quickly fled towards the more crowded lower rows of the audience.

In the VIP section...

"Greetings, Sect Master, Elders...!"

The wild man led two women slowly into the VIP area. Then, the three of them stepped forward first to bow to the man in the purple-gold crown, and then exchanged fists with the elders.

"Wu Ye, Ning Shuang, Yu Qing, no need for formalities! There's no need for such formality today. Just find a place to sit down!" Sect Master Yu Qing smiled gently as he watched the group take their seats.

There are about two hundred seats in the VIP section, but only about fifty people are present at the moment, most of whom are elders and very few are core disciples.

Perhaps only leaders like Wu Ye, who are at the very top of the core disciples, wouldn't worry about the upcoming core disciple competition.

"Ning Shuang, why didn't your second senior brother Qiu Bai come? Isn't that guy usually the one who loves excitement the most?"

As soon as the woman in white sat down, the kind-faced old man beside her raised an eyebrow, dispelling the gloom in his heart, and secretly asked in a telepathic message.

"Reporting to Master, Second Senior Brother said he's going to conduct an on-site investigation of the current 'new generation' of junior brothers!" Leng Ning Shuang answered truthfully, her face still cold, but her voice carrying a hint of a smile.

"This guy...!" Liu Yidao shook his head helplessly and gave a bitter smile.

"Greetings, Sect Master, Venerable Master, and all Elders...!" Before long, a man in white robes hurriedly arrived, first paying his respects to the Jade Purity Sect Master and the others, before taking his seat in the empty seat on the other side of the kind-faced elder.

After Xiang Qiubai took his seat, everyone fell silent, watching the white-haired old man and the changing data on the screen.

"First of all, this elimination tournament will adopt a group point system. One token equals one point. The disciple who is caught will be considered eliminated and will have to leave the venue at the 'Space Transfer Platform'..."

Secondly, all disciples must remember that the token will dissipate on its own within ten seconds of being separated from its original owner.

Therefore, once you seize someone else's token, you must immediately use your own token to devour it!
Furthermore, the top three teams in terms of team points will receive a bye in the first round; a total of ten teams will be selected in the elimination tournament!

As Elder Long Yuzhong slowly spoke, explaining the specific rules and precautions, everyone was shocked and gasped in unison.

"More than 500 people, to determine the top 50!?"

This is just too cruel!

Putting aside the difficulty of breaking through the encirclement, it would be difficult to even keep the members of the top ten teams that survived!

In other words, the expected fifty people will be no less than fifty! In the end, the number remaining will be far less than fifty!
"Sigh, I'll be playing a supporting role again this year...!" Thinking of this, everyone felt a strange heaviness in their hearts. The cruelty of the competition far exceeded their initial expectations.

"Ye Hui, join Kuang Tu's team! There are now 104 groups. However, since there is one extra person, Cheng Ye is allowed to skip the first round for easier counting!"

And so, the man named Ye Hui was forcibly assigned to Feng Ling's team by the Grand Elder, thus completing the group of five.

"That Cheng Ye is really lucky! He actually got a bye. If I had known this would happen, I wouldn't have been in such a hurry to find someone to team up with!" Many newly promoted disciples complained, revealing resentful expressions.

"Tch, you guys should just give up! Do you even know who Cheng Ye is?" A particularly old-looking disciple standing next to them immediately retorted with disdain.

"Brother Ke Wei, you've been keeping us in suspense! Tell us what happened!" The group wasn't annoyed by the sarcasm; instead, they stepped forward with what they thought were their brightest smiles.

As the saying goes, one doesn't hit a smiling face. Seeing how sensible these people were, the disciple called Ke Wei changed his previous indifference.

After carefully looking around, he covered his mouth and said mysteriously to the group, "Do you know who won first place in the last Inner Disciple Competition?"

"Hmm...!" Several disciples shook their heads, initially showing expressions of understanding. Then, quite honestly, their faces fell, and they uttered a statement that infuriated everyone: "We don't know!"

"You bunch of idiots, are you stupid? That's him...!"

Pointing at the sword-browed man who had just left the area from the floating stone platform more than ten meters high, Ke Wei felt like biting him. He really regretted teaming up with these people.

Damn it, I thought I could carry you guys to victory? With your IQs, I bet you'll be the first ones to have your ranking tokens stolen...

Oh no!
No need to rob, you can just scam them...

"Junior Brother Feng, that's Ke Wei! The freak who ranked fourth in the last Inner Disciple Competition!"

Just as Ke Wei was feeling frustrated, a lean man in the corner pointed at him and slowly introduced him to the man in blue next to him.

"Hiss! That person's cultivation level is probably at the peak of the seventh level!" Feng Ling simply nodded, while Zhu Bupang and the other man frowned in surprise, sighing inwardly, "Another formidable opponent!"

To others, the two of them looked like ignorant country bumpkins. Aside from the man in blue beside them, who could possibly know what they were thinking?
"Hmph! The person ranked second has the nerve to call someone else a pervert?"

Ignoring the somewhat neurotic fat and thin disciples, the inner disciple named Ye Hui seemed to be a loner. He snorted coldly at Kuang Tu and then stood to the side.

"Senior Brother Kuang, do you have a grudge against him?" Feng Ling raised an eyebrow and secretly asked him in a telepathic message. Then, a very subtle mental fluctuation spread towards Ye Hui.

"Uh...! No, it's probably because I won by three moves by luck during the last competition, and he was a little unhappy about it!" Kuang Tu scratched his head and replied, looking quite embarrassed.

"Third place!? No wonder...! But this chart is really surprising me more and more!"

Using mind-reading abilities to peer into Ye Hui's mind, Feng Ling immediately understood. It turned out that during the finals of the previous competition, a female disciple who unexpectedly broke through to the eighth level won first place as a legitimate disciple, who is now the core disciple Ye Jin.

Having broken through the threshold of the eighth level, Ye Jin was naturally unmatched among the inner disciples.

Kuang Tu was unfortunate. When competing for the championship with Cheng Ye and Ye Jin, he faced Ye Jin first and suffered a serious injury. In the second match, when he faced Cheng Ye, he could only lose!
Finally, the rankings were: Ye Jin first, Cheng Ye second, and Kuang Tu third.

However, Ye Jin's sudden promotion to core disciple led many elders and disciples to question the fairness of the competition, and they were pressured by the verbal conflict.

Ultimately, Feng Tianjue ruled that Ye Jin's participation qualification was cancelled, and the ranking order was moved forward according to the original order.

That's why Kuang Tu reluctantly came in second place, while Cheng Ye luckily won first place!

However, although Ye Jin was disqualified from first place, she was still given the same prizes as the champion, so no one dared to cause any trouble.

"Damn it! How come even Senior Brother Ye Hui has been assigned to their group? Now, it's absolutely no problem for their group to squeeze into the top three and get a bye!"

"Two peak seventh-level disciples, what a miracle! I wonder what kind of incredible luck those two 'pigs and dogs' had?"

Xu Peng and the others gritted their teeth, clearly envious and jealous of the powerful lineup displayed by the man in blue. Four seventh-level cultivators!
Two players were at their peak, and two were in their late game!
And the remaining man in blue robes—his cultivation level is unknown! But judging from his position in the center of the group, his cultivation must be quite formidable!
At this moment, Zhu Bupang and his companion stood to the left of the man in blue, while Kuang Tu and Ye Hui stood to the right.

Zhu Bupang and his companion recognized Feng Ling as their leader and naturally followed his lead. Kuang Tu, with his unique insight, also began to subtly admire the man in blue after being invited.

Ye Hui was the only one who was forcibly assigned to the team. He joined the team the latest and was somewhat unhappy about it, so he naturally didn't fit in and stood on the very edge.

Perhaps this was a lucky accident! This arrangement created the illusion for many surrounding groups that everyone was led by the man in blue!
You have to find the softest persimmons!
"Quickly find out which teams are the weakest. We'll take them out first!"

During this brief moment of silence, many strategic teams stared at the giant screen in mid-air, quickly scanning the various information displayed on it.

Feng Ling's team appeared on the screen first, but despite being the behind-the-scenes captain, his strength was ranked last...

"The first group that was evaluated is really strong!"

The presence of two players who were suspected to be ranked first and third in the previous competition caused envy among the members of more than a hundred teams.

Secondly, the second-ranked group was also very strong, with two members being inner disciples who were among the top ten in the previous evaluation, but no one noticed...

"Xu Peng...!"

One name that appeared in the second group was particularly glaring, making Zhu Bupang and his companion look extremely ugly. The team ranked second was none other than their enemy team!
The fifth new member in the second group is someone who ranked fifth in the previous competition, second only to Ke Wei. Besides that person's unquestionable strength, Xu Peng himself is also ranked in the top ten.

In addition, the other three members of their group are also quite strong, all of whom have reached the early stage of the seventh level.

Therefore, the higher-ups of the Jade Purity Sect also gave it an "extremely dangerous" assessment on the silver screen.

"Feng Ling, you have to do your best! It doesn't matter if you get first place or not, just don't get hurt!"

After searching for a long time, the woman in green in the VIP seat finally spotted the man in blue in the dueling arena below and happily transmitted her voice.

Amidst the myriad troubles and disturbances of the world, may the sages bring you, the readers, a pure land for your souls.

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