"Da Zhuang, you can do it... Beat the crap out of him!"
In one corner of the stands, Zi Ling's Mother's cheering almost drowned out that of a white-skinned middle-aged woman two rows behind.
After Father Stra's farce, the preliminary rounds of the Arena Competition began immediately in an effort to minimize the negative impact.
Although all kinds of teams had appeared in the arena this time, including some representing entire countries, this was, in fact, a competition consisting solely of individual battles.
Only the final champion could obtain the divine spark. Even contestants from the same team had to fight one another... but each unit could send no more than five contestants.
Individual registration was allowed.
The organizers had dedicated agencies to verify the contestants' circumstances, as well as preliminary selection assessments.
That was right. Before the preliminary rounds, there had already been a round of mass selection and elimination. Ability users who failed the official assessment by America had long since been eliminated.
The members of the Divine Land National Team had passed the selection assessment on the very first day of their arrival, after which they had been preparing for battle inside the Two Elements Realm.
There were actually quite a few Divine Land contestants in this Arena Competition. Aside from the Homecoming Team put forward by the Administration Bureau, there were also student teams from Zhongnan Mountain Academy, disciples of some reclusive sects that had maintained their independence to this day, and some lone wanderers.
The situation was much the same in every country. Therefore, despite the first round of selection, the number of contestants who successfully advanced to the preliminary rounds was still astonishing.
The venue had been divided into twenty arena zones, meaning that twenty matches took place simultaneously. Even so, initial estimates suggested