Cruel Rules

"All right, the competition continues! Next group: Li Ran of the Great White Sword Sect versus Zhang Feiliu of the Flowing Cloud Sect!" the referee shouted to the crowd below the arena.

At those words, everyone gathered their wits and resumed the competition.

As for the unconscious Gao Wenjie, disciples of the War Demon Hall who had already been eliminated carried him back to the War Demon Hall's quarters for treatment.

In the Great Dynasty Tournament, so long as one did not directly take an opponent's life, even if that opponent died after the match—

—the attacker would receive no punishment. Such was the cruelty of the martial path, and it was precisely what the higher-ups of the great sects wished their disciples to understand.

When Ye Yun delivered his final strike against Gao Wenjie, he had not only destroyed Gao Wenjie's true qi vortex and the acupoints and meridians throughout his body.

He had also sent a force of energy into the vicinity of Gao Wenjie's heart through Dark Force. Three days later, that force would erupt.

If Gao Wenjie or those treating him failed to discover the existence of that force within those three days—

—then when it erupted, Gao Wenjie's death would come.

After what had happened with Ironwood, Ye Yun no longer showed mercy when he acted. Anyone who harbored killing intent toward him, he would not allow to remain alive.

As time passed, the second round of eliminations came to a successful end after more than an hour.

Without any surprises, both Zhao Wuji and Ironwood easily defeated their opponents and advanced to the third round of eliminations.

Yet one matter greatly surprised Ye Yun: Ironwood's cultivation and the martial art he used.

Ironwood's cultivation had now caught up to Ye Yun's, reaching the Tenth