Wind Sea Sect once again summoned all the top Inner Sect Disciples for a meeting.
With Wang Yun and the others dead, four powerful Inner Sect geniuses were gone, so Wind Sea Sect decided to send four Core Disciples to participate in this martial competition.
This was considered a replacement for Wang Yun and the others.
These four Core Disciples ranked near the bottom among the Core Disciples, with strength closest to that of the top Inner Sect Disciples.
In fact, there was competition even among the Core Disciples.
There were only one hundred Core Disciple positions. Some newly promoted Core Disciples had to challenge those ranked near the bottom. Only after defeating their opponents could they remain on the Core Disciple list.
Of course, some Core Disciples became elders or took other positions, while others died, leaving vacancies. In such cases, things might not be so cruel, as other disciples could fill the empty positions.
This kept the number of Core Disciples fixed at one hundred.
Those ranked near the bottom had to defeat the newly promoted Core Disciples who challenged them in order to hold on to their positions.
Once they were defeated, they would be demoted to Inner Sect Disciples.
Being demoted from a Core Disciple back to an Inner Sect Disciple was an extremely humiliating affair.
The challenged Core Disciples had already fought among themselves beforehand, and the ten weakest among them were waiting to be challenged.
Even though these four were Core Disciples ranked near the bottom, they were still genuine geniuses who had advanced in the previous round.
They would not be easy to deal with.
They would have to rely on their own abilities.
"There is one more announcement. This time, we will be expanding recruitment and accepting thirty disciples instead of ten.