The moment Hu Gan finished speaking, Xiao Yu immediately understood what he meant. Xiao Yan, Bai Shan, Hu Jia, and the others understood as well, and their expressions instantly darkened. After a brief silence, the spectators in the stands erupted into deafening cheers.
Everyone understood why Bai Shan and the others had suddenly changed expression. The winner of each group would get to choose from the top five slots first, which meant that once the matches began, everyone would undoubtedly join forces to eliminate the greatest threats first.
So, among the fifty contestants, who had originally been the most likely to claim the top five spots?
Bai Shan, Wu Hao, Xun'er, and the Little Demoness already occupied four of them. Aside from Xiao Yu and Xiao Yan, only two of the remaining forty-odd students were Da Dou Shi.
Five slots and eight Da Dou Shi. Under normal competition rules, the top five would absolutely be decided among those eight, leaving students at the Dou Shi level with no chance at all. But now that the battle had been divided into zones, as long as the Dou Shi joined forces to eliminate the Da Dou Shi in their respective areas first, even Dou Shi-level students would have a chance to enter the Dou Technique Pavilion. After all, the Dou Shi who had survived the eliminations of the past two days were among the stronger students in the academy.
Thus, everyone was stunned by the new rules Hu Gan had announced.
"I say, is it really okay for Hu Gan to do this?" In the stands, Fire Old Man shook his head at the two old men beside him. "Once all the Dou Shi join forces, the top five will be impossible to predict."
The old man in yellow robes smiled faintly