Make a Name and Establish Prestige (Part 1)

Two days later, the Red Cliff City Martial Arts School Competition officially began at the grand martial arena in the heart of the city.

The annual Martial Arts School Competition was undoubtedly one of the city's rare grand events. That day, tens of thousands of residents flooded into the great arena, packing the area around the three fighting stages so tightly that not even water could pass through.

War drums thundered, battle flags snapped in the wind—Red Cliff City had never been so lively!

According to the competition rules, each martial arts school could send three martial instructors onto the stage to compete, with rankings determined by the victory tokens they earned.

If a school ranked at the bottom for three consecutive years, it would lose its qualification to operate a school and teach martial arts.

Hongyi Martial Arts School's results had been abysmal for the past two years. If there was still no improvement this year, elimination was inevitable!

Yet Shao Hongcheng, seated in the representatives' section, remained calm and composed without the slightest sign of unease.

A school master beside him asked with a smile, "Master Shao, I heard your Hongyi Martial Arts School recently took in a young genius. I suppose victory is already in the bag this time?"

His voice was quite loud, and the masters of the surrounding martial arts schools heard every word clearly. One after another, they turned their attention over.

Birds of a feather flocked together, and people gathered with their own kind. Though all of them ran martial arts schools in Red Cliff City, there were still ranks among them.

Even within the representatives' section, those seated in the front rows were the strongest group. The second row was a tier lower, and so on down to the back.

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