Mo Hua's gaze turned wistful, then gradually sharpened again after a moment.
He cast aside his stray thoughts, focused his mind, and began studying the rules of the "Asura Battle."
The so-called Asura Battle had once been the decisive battle in the Ganxue Sword Debate Assembly, advancing from the Earth-Grade Sword Discussion to the Heaven-Rank Sword Discussion.
The participating disciples would fight, slaughter, flee, and survive within an enormous and complex Sword Discussion Arena, taking sects as factions and squads as units.
The order of elimination determined the disciples' rankings.
The disciples' rankings added victory points to their sects.
As the former "Heaven-Rank Promotion Battle," the Asura Battle carried a vast number of victory points.
Whoever survived until the end would earn more victory points.
Those points were enough to alter the situation of the previous sect sword-discussion rankings.
Within them lay tremendous opportunities.
Naturally, they also contained enormous risks.
It meant that if a sect performed exceptionally in the Asura Battle, it still had the possibility of advancing further.
If it performed poorly, its ranking might decline even further.
Of course, such disparities were ultimately still built upon the rankings from the earlier
sword-discussion matches.
The Asura Battle was, after all, merely one sword discussion.
No matter how heavily weighted it was, it could not allow a bottom-tier sect among the Eight Great Sects to soar in a single leap into the ranks of the Four Great Sects.
Under normal circumstances, it only meant a fluctuation of three or four places up or down.
This did not matter much to ordinary sects.
Especially the Twelve Streams and Hundred Sects of Ganxue.
Moving up or down three or four places was mostly inconsequential.
But for the Eight Great Sects—especially those at the forefront of the Eight Great Sects—and the Four