Young Talents Competition (6)

Night fell.

As darkness descended, the Young Talents Competition officially passed its halfway mark.

By this point, more than fifteen thousand cultivators had dwindled to just over three thousand.

The earlier clashes had been the fiercest, and the eliminations the cruelest.

And as eliminations continued, one temporary alliance after another emerged.

There were fewer than two hundred such alliances. Some had only three or four members, while others numbered seventy or eighty. As these groups grew stronger, they began daring to set their sights on the harder-to-obtain treasures.

If the first day and a half had been spent fighting over magical treasures below the third grade, then in the time that followed, as the alliances grew stronger and the treasures fewer, their targets would continue to rise in value.

This time, however, was somewhat exceptional. In previous competitions, battles over treasures above the third grade would not begin until more than half the time had passed, yet Ning Ye and the others had begun on the second day.

This caused the treasures of Purple Pole Mountain to disappear faster than they had in any previous competition.

Of course, that was not the most important matter.

According to the tournament rules, only those who entered the top ten were qualified to retain a portion of the gains from the treasures they obtained. Everyone else had to return theirs even if they had acquired them.

Thus, the real concern was simply to avoid letting resources gather in one person's hands as much as possible.

Purple Pole Palace had prepared a total of ten divine artifacts for the competition grounds. Nine were divided into upper, middle, and lower grades, while one was a Great Dao divine weapon like the Ultimate Dao Axe or the Black and White Chessboard.

Beyond that, there were twenty