Competitions, competitions—this world never lacked competitions.
Among all competitions, those in the Scholar Union's official ranking were undoubtedly among the largest and most eye-catching.
Elementary schools competed, regular schools competed, and academies competed even more. Each level of competition was more important than the last, with greater benefits as well.
During his elementary school years, Shi Tiexin had been severely ostracized. Coupled with the sorry state of the Star Engineering Federation's children's school, he had not even caught a glimpse of such things.
The Nine Cities Competition during his regular school years had been the starting point from which Shi Tiexin broke open the situation and made his name. Back then, he had fought five opponents alone and battled Qiu Huang with all his strength, truly allowing his Sharp Will to spread its wings and kindling lofty ambitions ten thousand fathoms high. From this day forward, his accumulated strength burst forth when the water filled and overflowed, and he set foot upon the path of a Nine Bells and Nine Drums prodigy.
This academy competition was far more prestigious than the competitions of regular school.
The Saturn System had over a hundred space cities, scattered at varying distances along Saturn's orbit. Based on their orbital patterns, they were divided into three kinds: upper rotation, lower rotation, and self-rotation. The competition Lumen Academy participated in was the upper-rotation orbital competition, held completely in sync with the lower-rotation and self-rotation competitions. It was considered one of the Saturn System's largest events.
Eighteen academy teams from twenty-six second-tier cities and eighteen academy teams from four third-tier cities—a total of thirty-six teams—would gather in the great third-tier city of Xionghuang Dao for a clash of dragons and tigers.
Why did twenty-six second-tier cities send only eighteen teams?
Because not every academy was qualified to