A Grand Parade of Puppets?
After the fourth round ended, the rules changed again starting from the fifth round.
Before the fourth round, there had been nearly fifty thousand Nirvana Realm contestants left in the entire competition.
Logically, after the fourth round, the remaining number should not have exceeded twenty-five thousand at most.
Yet when the fifth round began, the total number of participants had unexpectedly reached exactly thirty thousand!
Yes, when the fifth round began, both the Human Race and the Devil Race had added more contestants.
This left Qin Shaofeng somewhat baffled, because he had no idea where these sudden four or five thousand extra people had come from.
Although the higher-ups of the Human Race and Devil Race had offered an explanation, Qin Shaofeng did not believe it.
Their explanation was that they had made up the numbers to reach thirty thousand, which would make the fifth round easier to conduct.
This was because the fifth round would no longer consist of one-on-one matches.
Even if one lost a match in the fifth round, it would not matter too much, because the entire fifth round used a system based on the number of victories and defeats to determine advancement.
Losing one match in the fifth round was nothing serious.
As long as one won enough matches and achieved a good ranking in the fifth round, one could advance to the sixth round.
As for what counted as a good ranking, that was easy enough to understand.
Within the allotted ten days, the top one hundred contestants by results would advance to the sixth round.
Yes, the fifth round would directly eliminate thirty thousand contestants until only one hundred remained.
Moreover, theoretically, there was no limit on the number of matches in the fifth round.
If one won