The Golden Tent Khanate's side had suffered a setback, yet Mogo, seated in the seat of honor, showed no reaction.
After all, the ones who had been humiliated this time were only members of the Black Banner Tribe, while their side still had the imperial clans of the Eight Tribes.
After round after round of matches, only a dozen or so people remained on each side. Counting them up, the Golden Tent Khanate and the Central Plains Martial Arts World had somehow been left with the same number, which made the expressions of the Central Plains martial artists turn somewhat unpleasant.
Everyone knew that those present did not represent the full strength of the Central Plains Martial Arts World's younger generation—not even a fifth of it—but being pushed to this point still made them look bad.
It was not that their generation in the Central Plains Martial Arts World was weak. Rather, the Golden Tent Khanate's Eight Tribes imperial clans were truly formidable in this generation.
The Imperial Court's side had fared even worse. Only Tie Chen remained, and in the end, he too was defeated by someone from the Golden Tent Khanate.
Still, Tie Chen's loss was rather unjust. He could originally have lasted until the end, but his opponent's martial arts happened to counter his own perfectly.
Tie Chen specialized in the Eagle Claw Technique of Tie Ao's lineage, while his opponent was from the Thorn Tribe among the Eight Tribes imperial clans. This tribe's secret art was exceptionally sinister: it involved swallowing and refining all manner of poisonous substances and metals into the surface of one's body, turning them into a suit of flesh-and-blood armor closely bound to oneself.
This method was practically the demonic-path version of Shaolin Temple's secret Vajra Pure Body Glazed Art, and it