After the fourth round ended, the rules changed again starting with the fifth.
During the fourth round, nearly fifty thousand Nirvana Realm contestants remained in the tournament.
By rights, after the fourth round, the number of contestants left should have been no more than twenty-five thousand.
But now that the fifth round was underway, the total number had somehow reached exactly thirty thousand!
That's right. As the fifth round began, both the Human Race and the Devil Race had added more contestants.
Qin Shaofeng couldn't make sense of it. He had no idea why another four or five thousand people had suddenly been added.
Although the leaders of the Human Race and the Devil Race had offered an explanation, Qin Shaofeng didn't believe them.
They claimed the extra contestants were there to bring the total up to thirty thousand, making it easier to proceed with the fifth round.
That was because the fifth round would no longer consist of a series of one-on-one matches.
Even if a contestant lost a match in the fifth round, it wouldn't matter too much. The fifth round would use a system in which contestants advanced based on their overall number of wins.
Losing one match in the fifth round was no big deal.
As long as you won enough matches and placed high enough in the overall standings, you could advance to the sixth round.
As for what counted as a high enough placing, it was easy to understand.
Anyone who ranked among the top one hundred within the ten-day time limit would advance to the sixth round.
That's right. The fifth round would cut the field from thirty thousand contestants down to one hundred.
In theory, there was no limit to the number of matches a contestant could fight in the fifth round.