One, two, three...
Ten, twenty, thirty...
Young Master Ling's expression darkened as he watched one contestant after another pass the second stage of the Formation Arrangement competition.
And he wasn't the only one. Every contestant who had passed before Qin Shaofeng looked rather unhappy at that moment.
Before Qin Shaofeng, quite a few people had passed the second stage besides Young Master Ling and the Demon Prince.
By the time Qin Shaofeng passed, more than a dozen contestants had already made it through.
Still, Young Master Ling and the others weren't worried. The more contestants who passed, the more competitors there would be, and the greater the pressure on them.
These contestants were all prodigies. They didn't take most of the people present seriously.
No matter how many contestants like that there were, they posed no threat to them.
In Young Master Ling's eyes, in fact, the only people present he considered a threat were Qin Shaofeng, the Demon Prince, and a handful of others.
But the problem was, passing the second stage with such a simple Preservation Divine Pattern array, compared with the arrays they had painstakingly arranged...
It made them look like complete idiots.
There was such an easy method, yet they had gone to all that trouble to arrange powerful, complicated arrays. They had simply made trouble for themselves.
Especially after seeing so many contestants pass the second stage, even Young Master Ling and the others felt that their earlier efforts had been downright foolish.
But whatever the case, more and more contestants were passing the second stage of the Formation Arrangement competition.
Although the other contestants could only fuse Preservation Divine Patterns up to six stars at most, they could still arrange a seven-star Preservation Divine Pattern array by using several times as many six-star