By comparison, the Northern Region offered quite a different flavor!
Unlike the other regions, where all the contestants stood in a uniform line, the competitors here had been neatly divided into two sharply distinct camps:
On the left gathered members of the Demon Race of every description. Their faces varied, but every one of them bore unmistakable demonic traits.
Not only that, their numbers were immense, accounting for more than two-thirds of all Heaven's Chosen attending the tournament from the Northern Territory!
Leading these young demons was a fair-faced figure with the air of a graceful young nobleman.
He gently waved a feather fan in his hand and wore a scholar's headcloth. Every gesture exuded refined elegance; without examining the details of his face, one would have found it difficult to associate him with the Demon Race.
On the right stood a mere four hundred or so talented young members of the Human Race.
They wore thick, shaggy, oversized fur robes, a distinctive style that unmistakably reflected the rich character of the Northern Territory.
It was worth noting that their demonic compatriots also wore warm, comfortable fur coats, seemingly unwilling to take them off even in the Central Region's rather hot weather.
As for the leader commanding the human contingent... she was actually a breathtakingly beautiful, cold woman whose expressionless face seemed almost paralyzed!
Her exquisitely sculpted face looked as though it would never show even the faintest smile, as cold and merciless as thousand-year-old ice. She wore a white fox-fur cloak, and the other Heavenly Prodigies of the Northern Territory kept several meters away, not daring to venture any closer.
The cultivators of the North Sea Continent were predominantly Demonic Cultivators. Every one of them radiated an intense aura of demonic flame, as though afraid the world might