Ten-Direction Arena Battle!
All prodigies would compete for the only ten arenas.
Only those who fought to the very end could claim final victory and become Azure River Satellite City's most outstanding Star-Martial Prodigies!
The rules were simple and brutal, utterly straightforward.
There would be no imagined pairwise matches to slowly determine the final ten. Instead, everyone would be thrown onto the arenas at once, and through the cruelest gauntlet of defending and challenging arenas, the true peerless prodigies would be decided.
This format surprised Lin Yuan, but also delighted him.
Out of the corner of his eye, he saw that Gu Yiyi and Qi Tianlin beside him both looked calm, showing no surprise.
He immediately understood. It seemed the Ten-Direction Arena Battle was the fixed selection method for every regional preliminary selection. These scions of great clans and true inheritors of martial academies had all prepared long ago.
"In the Ten-Direction Arena Battle, each person has only two chances to challenge an arena. Those who use them up without taking an arena will all be eliminated."
"In other words..."
Qi Tianlin's expression gradually turned solemn as well. His gaze was deep as he looked at the ten arenas ahead, without moving his feet.
"The later one challenges an arena, the greater the advantage!"
Lin Yuan was exceedingly clever and immediately understood why.
It was simple. There were one hundred and sixty people present!
With two chances per person, that made three hundred and twenty arena challenges.
Going up too early would inevitably draw the greatest firepower. One would be worn to death by wave after wave of challengers. Even a Star-Martial Prodigy could not endure so many geniuses of the same level taking turns against them.
No wonder that Third Realm academy master had announced the start of the