Although three or four of the twenty-four areas on the Cloud Carpet were still empty, relatively desolate, and had few caves or abodes, according to the rules of the competition, no area could remain empty. Once the competition began, many people would leave the areas where they had originally placed their signs. After all, once they saw they could not win the contest, who would stay behind?
Moreover, those who lost would have to move elsewhere to place their signs. They had three chances. The first two could be used to test the waters, but the third represented the bottom line of the threshold. Usually, this bottom line was the lowest point and extreme value one could bear psychologically. No one would yield.
"Martial Uncle, where do you think it would be better to place this sign?" After answering Mo Xiaoning, the female disciple turned her gaze to Li Zhier.
Li Zhier, however, glanced at me, picked up the sign the female disciple was holding, and placed it in my hands. Though the gesture seemed casual, it still drew the attention of many immortals. After all, Li Zhier herself was the focus of the entire Immortal Sect.
"Yun Mu, how about we place it in the middle-ranked area? After all, the competition in the front areas will be the fiercest..." Gu Fei could not help asking.
I shook my head. "That is the central pillar, and also the switch controlling the threshold. The fighting there will inevitably be just as fierce."
"Then how about... one of the final areas? Those places will either have reached the end of their strength, or will be eliminating the weaker teams. We should be able to accept that, right?" Mo Xiaoning was rather crafty. What he meant was that if we rotated into one