Watching the matchup list appear in the sky, Zhang Yu thought, The final round... as expected, it's a competition of individual strength. Thirty contestants will be paired off one-on-one.
In today's first round, fifteen winners will be decided from the thirty contestants.
In the second round, one of those fifteen contestants will receive a bye, while the remaining fourteen will face off to determine seven advancing contestants.
In the third round, the eight contestants will once again battle in pairs, determining four winners.
Then come the semifinals and the finals... where the strongest competitor in the Top Ten League will be decided in the final one-on-one match.
To ensure the contestants' condition and allow time for treatment and repairs, there will be a week of rest after every round. Looking over the process and rules, Zhang Yu thought, Pure, unrestricted combat... truly a rarely seen traditional competition format in Kunxu.
A week of rest is a huge advantage for me. If I can make it to the finals, that means I still have four weeks. At the same time, Zhang Yu had already seen the opponent he would face in the first round.
Ling Pojun of Immortal Soldier University thought, It's Zhang Yu? This should be the best opponent I could have drawn in this round. Although Zhang Yu had proven through match after match that his overall strength was not weak, in Ling Pojun's eyes... that depended on who he was being compared with.
Compared to the other opponents in this round—Kuang Tianqing, Yan Xiang, Cang Shenyu, Tian Shenggong... Zhang Yu's strength seemed remarkably approachable.
Especially the power Zhang Yu had displayed. In the first match, it had been based on civil engineering techniques; in the second, he had gained an advantage through aquaculture. Then, only by cooperating with