This volume was about the Chen Clan's forces advancing into the Heaven Dou Central District. It wasn't just about the Gao Ying Competition; in other words, they had gone from Fasinuo to the whole nation. The map had changed.
A lot of readers who skimmed didn't know this, so I thought I'd mention it.
Actually, this was the same as the previous volume.
The preliminaries, semifinals, and finals of the Gao Ying Competition.
In the Provincial Preliminary Competition, the Chen Clan—or rather, with Chen Xiaojun as the perspective and main body—completed its overall layout in Fasinuo Province and initially dominated Fasinuo.
In the national semifinals, there was the game and struggle with the Clear Sky Sect, the fighting against the Crimson Church, the Three Upper Sects and World-Protecting Nine Imperial Sects entering the stage, matters involving the Imperial Court, and even the Hidden Organization. Events converged, and the national situation unfolded.
In the continental finals, naturally, there will also be corresponding storylines unfolding.
This book is a clan story, a story of struggle for dominance in the martial world. The Gao Ying Competition is the thread that draws the characters along.
To be honest, writing the Gao Ying Competition was pretty frustrating for me. I wanted to write something fresh.
I wrote a bit too many matches in the early part of the provincial competition because I wanted to highlight tactics. Later, when I saw that everyone didn't like it very much, I changed it and shortened the number of rounds.
But I did write out Chen Xiaojun reasonably controlling the entire "Provincial Preliminary Competition," and the freshness of controlling the event itself.
By the semifinals, I only wrote the Five Attributes Academy and a few battles between top academies, and it's going quickly too. There are only two or