As soon as those words were spoken, everyone immediately understood the rules of this Selection Battle.
To put it plainly, it was a game of hunting and counter-hunting, and the hunting ground was the outskirts of Ascension City.
For the people of the Outer City, although advancing would be difficult, compared to the people from the Heavenly Ruins, they were clearly more familiar with the terrain.
This was their innate advantage.
And the most ruthless part of this Selection Battle lay in two points.
First, the area here was far too vast, and the dangers were unknown.
This made the battle relatively fair, while also giving the people of the Heavenly Ruins a certain breathing space.
And vice versa.
Yet it just so happened to have another rule: they had to make their way toward Ascension City.
Even if they wanted to borrow the terrain here to hide, in the end, they might still come up empty because of the distance.
The other point was that whether hunter or prey, in the end, they could all hunt by blocking the routes leading to Ascension City.
Although that might be a final effort, it was still a hunting opportunity, wasn't it?
Of course, there was also a great hidden competition within it.
That was, the disciples of the Outer City needed fifty Prey Tokens to advance.
How many disciples did the Outer City have? Only around four thousand.
If they all wanted to advance, they would need two hundred thousand Prey Tokens.
And what about the disciples of the Heavenly Ruins? There were only a little over ten thousand of them.
A little over ten thousand people could allow, at most, only around two hundred disciples to advance.
And even that was only an extreme number. In reality, it was simply