A Great Victory! What Does It Mean to Win the People's Hearts?

At Third Sect Master Cao Wang's suggestion, the match that should have eliminated either Duan Yun or Wang Lifei ended in a draw, and both advanced.

At this point, only nine people remained.

These nine would determine victory and defeat through genuine storytelling.

In other words, among the hundreds of storytellers who had come and gone here, every one of them could be called a genius among local geniuses, yet only nine could ultimately step onto this final stage.

Only these nine could display the splendor of their storytelling.

The final result of the storytelling would be decided by the six elders present and Third Sect Master Cao Wang.

They would sit with their backs to the storytellers. Through their storytelling, whoever told the better tale and spoke to their hearts would make them turn around.

Among them, Third Sect Master Cao Wang's turn carried the greatest weight—one person counted as four. In the end, whoever earned the most turns won.

The De Yun Conference was the foremost grand event in the storytelling world. Aside from the Bloodthirsty Storytellers' Order, the hosting sect, being the absolute leader of the storytelling world, it was also because Third Sect Master Cao Wang and these judging elders were relatively fair and could, to a certain extent, treat everyone equally.

During Duan Yun and Wang Lifei's earlier match, he had tilted the scales, but that favoritism had actually benefited Duan Yun.

Because the judge had been dead set on making Wang Lifei win, and Cao Wang knew whose wishes that was. He could not openly confront the Second Sect Master either. After all, he had slept with the man's wife not long ago. In another sense, he had eaten from another's mouth and taken from another's hand, leaving him soft-mouthed and short-handed.

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