The elimination rounds began, and the battles on the arena grew several degrees fiercer.
Anyone could be fighting their final battle at any moment. Who would dare be careless?
Thus, everyone exercised utmost caution, while also revealing their intent to deliver a killing blow against their opponents.
The many judges from Azure Cloud Sect could not help becoming more vigilant as well, afraid they might fail to protect these martial artists and allow casualties to occur.
On one hand, these were talents for the Martial Dao plan promoted by the sect master and could not be harmed. On the other, if everyone else managed to protect their people while they failed to do so, would that not be humiliating?
After one day of fighting, sixty people had been eliminated.
Those sixty naturally still counted among the top hundred and had a chance to enter Azure Cloud Library. Though disappointed, they were not too disheartened.
After all, they all knew that the top twenty were entirely Soul Refinement Realm experts. Breaking into the top twenty was harder than scaling the heavens.
In truth, even the twenty victors selected from the remaining eighty had little confidence when they looked at the twenty ahead of them.
Wei Hong and Lu Liang had also luckily made it into the top forty.
However, they both knew that this was as far as they would go.
Sure enough, during the final elimination round, Wei Hong faced the fifteenth-ranked contestant and was blasted off the arena by a single punch from a Soul Refinement Realm expert, utterly unable to fight back.
His techniques for applying strength were simply not worth mentioning before a Soul Refinement Realm expert.
Four ounces could deflect a thousand pounds, but four ounces might not be able to move ten thousand pounds!
Lu