One-on-One

Group points competition.

Xu Wuyi opened his eyes. This rule matched the Federation's intelligence reports.

The third round usually involved hunting Star Beasts. It tested not combat between people, but killing efficiency and the use of laws in a complex environment.

The rule forbidding humans from attacking one another was meant to prevent ambushes in the hunting ground. High-tier Star Beasts were everywhere in the Star Beast Hunting Ground. If they also had to guard against humans behind them, it would add a difficulty beyond what the trial was meant to test.

The more than twenty-five hundred participants were shuffled at random into over four hundred groups. Xu Wuyi's name appeared in Group Thirty-Seven. The screen listed the other five names in his group.

Carl, from the Azure Star Realm. Lorin, from the True Dragon Star Realm. Tatakule, from the Black Rock Star Realm. Ba Shan, from the Iron Wall Star Realm. Fielding, from the Silver Wing Star Realm.

Aside from Carl and Lorin, who came from two first-tier civilizations, the other three were grandmasters from mid-tier civilizations. Xu Wuyi committed all five names to memory, then stepped through the gate of light.

The Star Beast Hunting Ground was nothing like the previous arena.

It was an enormous primeval forest.

The ground beneath his feet was soft humus that sank slightly when he stepped on it.

Towering trees blotted out the sky overhead. Their crowns rose beyond sight, their dense branches and leaves overlapping until only a few shafts of dark-gold daylight slipped through.

The air was thick with the scent of plants and a faint tang of blood. Deep in the distant forest came low beastly roars that set the surrounding leaves trembling.

Xu Wuyi stood still and spread his senses in every direction. His Order Laws extended through