Using the first round of eliminations, the Mount Song Sect had wiped out eighty of the hundred contestants who had passed the preliminaries and were competing for the position of Guest Elder.
After the first elimination round, the competition slowed down. The remaining twenty contestants were paired off for one-on-one duels. Each person had to fight nineteen matches, battling each of the other nineteen once.
In the end, the system would select the five best-performing contestants based on their performances in all the battles, and they would advance to the final selection.
That was where the competition rules described in the "Contestant Handbook" ended.
As for what form the final selection would take, it was not specified.
However, Ye Weiming was not particularly concerned about the format of the final round. There were only so many tricks to selection events anyway; nothing could possibly arise that was beyond his control.
Even if some black swan event really did occur, Ye Weiming had countermeasures ready to ensure the mission objective would be completed perfectly.
After all, whether the Five Peaks Sword Sects and the Sun Moon Holy Cult went to war was not something the Five Peaks Sect Leader alone could decide. As long as the Sun Moon Holy Cult was provoked severely enough over the Five Peaks Alliance Summit, they could likewise be forced into battle.
Because he needed to conceal his identity, Ye Weiming could not use any of "Ye Weiming's" signature skills in battle. Things like Sky Shaking Nine Swords, Dragon Subduing Divine Skill, Blazing Sun Sacred Qi, and Finger Flicking Divine Sword were all off-limits.
But at his level of strength, dealing with BOSSes below level 140 was basically something he could handle with a set of Taizu Long Fist. There was no need to use excessively