The first day's matches ended once the top fifty places had been decided.
After all, following a full day of competition, quite a few of the students who had just won their matches had suffered minor injuries. This was a good opportunity for them to recover.
Everyone from Pan Gate headed back to their quarters looking delighted. Only Hu Jia remained downcast.
Of the five Pan Gate members who had entered the tournament, she alone had been eliminated in the first round.
To Hu Jia, this was a real loss of face.
She was no longer making her usual noisy fuss.
Her lips were pursed in a pout, and unhappiness was written all over her face.
Seeing Hu Jia's low spirits, Yue Yao and Xun'er drew close to her and began whispering together. Before long, to the surprise of Xiao Fan and the others, Hu Jia had returned to her usual carefree self.
This left Xiao Fan very curious about just what they had said to her.
Once they returned to Pan Gate's quarters, everyone went back to their rooms.
Xiao Fan said a word to Yue Yao and returned to his own room as well.
After all, when the tournament began that day, the system had issued him another new mission.
Ding! New mission triggered. Win the Strong Ranking Tournament championship: Dou Qi points +200. During the tournament, each match won grants Alchemy experience +10.
Xiao Fan stared at the two simple sentences on the system panel, somewhat lost in thought.
He had always assumed that the Strong Ranking Tournament would trigger a new system mission, letting him earn Dou Qi points in reverse through the system's punishment and fleece the system once again.
But Xiao Fan had not expected this mission to say nothing about a