The rules for this Clear Sky Discourse were both reasonable and unexpected.
As many had anticipated, the contest over Void worlds would use the Cloud-Splitting Talisman Combat. Beyond the four most widespread rules Madam Hua had mentioned last time—the Myriad Manifestations Method, Falling Star Method, Star Array Method, and Single Hue Method—there was now an additional Return to Truth Method, something never heard of before and said to be Madam Xia's recent invention.
That alone would have been one thing, but the most controversial part was the format of the matches.
To contend for a Void world, all five methods had to be contested once, with three victories out of five required to claim it. The problem was that each cultivator sent by a faction could only appear once in the matches for any given Void world. In other words, one needed at least three cultivators whose Talisman Arts mastery was all up to standard before one could even afford such a contest.
Yu Ci could not help suspecting that this rule had truly been designed to target him.
Among those at his side, Xiao Jiu and Lu Ya, even Baiyi, knew nothing of talisman arts. Xiao Wu understood them, but using them flexibly was another matter altogether, and for the time being, he was not suited to appear before others.
Was he supposed to send Wu Yu, Zhang Miaolin, and Daoist Huifeng?
No matter what, after the Clear Sky Discourse, the entire world would likely see that the Shangqing lineage was withering away, unable even to produce three or five people proficient in talisman arts.
That was something to worry about after the gathering. How to respond during it was the real problem.
Yu Ci truly did not want to bring this up. The moment he did, his head