After the Martial Arts Grand Competition entered its fifth round, the pace slowed. Almost every match took more than ten minutes to decide.
A night passed. With the competition running around the clock, it soon reached the twelfth round.
By then, dawn was breaking.
After the previous rounds, 774 of the original 800 contestants had been eliminated. Only 26 remained for round twelve.
All 26 were Third-Order Qi Accumulation Realm Martial Artists. Most had reached the Third-Order Late Qi Accumulation Realm; even those at the middle stage were in the minority. Only a handful were at the early stage, and Qiao Xuanxi was one of them.
Qiao Xuanxi had used Divine Source during the Blood-Qi Stage, opened her Primordial Aperture, and cultivated the heaven-grade, mid-tier Profound Yin Profound Yang Qi Gong. She was a formidable fighter in her own right. Though she had lost in the eleventh round, she had won her Revival Match and reached round twelve.
The twelfth round was also the final round for the second division venue. Of the 26 freshmen, 13 would be eliminated and enter a Revival Match, from which seven could return. Together with the 13 winners, they would make up the 20 contestants advancing from the second venue. The venues would then merge, and they would compete for a place in the division's top 100.
Next, the ten venues would merge to determine the Martial Way Department's top 50 in Heaven Second Campus, then its top ten. Those ten would face the top ten from the Martial Way Department divisions at Earth Second Campus, Mystic Second Campus, and Yellow Second Campus.
"Round twelve begins.
First match: Jiang He of First Martial Arts Class versus Zhou Yuan of Class 16.
Second match: Li Hailong of Sixth Martial Arts Class versus Hu Mengjie of