"Red Firmament Sect!"
"Why is it this coincidental?"
There were a hundred sects competing this time.
With lots drawn for one-on-one matchups, the odds of two specific sects being drawn together were extremely low.
Yet even under those circumstances, they had still drawn Red Firmament Sect. There was something strange about it no matter how one looked at it.
Elder Pei frowned, his gaze cutting through the noisy crowd and landing with precision on Zhao Changli, the elder of Red Firmament Sect, not far away.
Elder Zhao stood there with his hands clasped behind his back, looking over from afar.
A completely undisguised sneer hung at the corner of his mouth, as if he were saying, "Just you wait. When the match begins, we'll make you suffer."
Elder Pei's heart sank, and he drew a deep breath.
"It seems this draw may not be entirely heaven's will!"
He had weathered much of the world, so he naturally understood how deep the waters behind this ranking battle ran.
Although Guangling Domain, as the host, claimed to be fair...
That fairness was only relative.
It was not impossible for certain hidden manipulations to exist.
Red Firmament Sect hated Heaven Sect to the bone because of Ren Huai's death. If Zhao Changli was willing to pay a price and call in certain connections, then arranging for the two sects to meet in the crucial round of the point-based combat was likely not difficult.
"So be it!"
"There's no use dwelling on this!"
"Now that the draw is set and cannot be changed, the urgent matter is how to score points in this destined, brutal confrontation!"
"According to the original Exchange Tactics, having Duan Gang, Zeng Yang, and Jiang Zhuoxi form a special tactical group to wear down the opponent's strongest fighters and create