In the square before the Heavenly Strategy Academy, once the first person buckled under the pressure and chose to withdraw, quite a few others followed.
They had come to take part in the Second Dragon Ascension selection, not to throw their lives away. More importantly, in a free-for-all involving thousands, even if ninety-nine percent of them fought to the death, they would only die for nothing.
Sun Tao stood beside Xu Yang, his expression as still as an ancient well, without a trace of fear.
Along his journey, he had faced life-and-death trials in the Cloud Ridge Mountains several times. What he faced today was nothing to him.
Liu Rumei and Zhang Jun gritted their teeth and stayed as well.
If they could enter the Heavenly Strategy Academy, they would still have hope of resisting Huo Xiaochेन. If they withdrew, all they could do was wait for him to kill them.
Huo Xiaochेन would not even need to act himself. The Xiao Family could wipe them out by sending a few people.
"Time's up!"
Soon, Chu Nangui's voice rang out. Everyone looked outside the circle and discovered that few had withdrawn-only a little over a hundred. Compared with the more than two thousand participants, that number was almost negligible.
"Very good. Congratulations to those who stayed. You've passed the first test," Chu Nangui said with a smile.
His words sent the entire square into an uproar. What he had said earlier had merely been a test of everyone's courage and resolve.
Those who had forced themselves to stay all breathed sighs of relief. Few of them had not feared that Chu Nangui would actually make them fight a free-for-all.
Just imagining more than two thousand Heavenly Origin Martial Artists fighting in one place was enough to make their scalps prickle.