So this elder of the Heavenly Dawn Sect really was someone who thought himself clever but was, in fact, a fool.
At that moment, he still had no idea how devastating a blow his actions had dealt to the Heavenly Dawn Sect.
Combined with the series of events that followed, they nearly caused the Heavenly Dawn Sect to fall apart entirely.
Of course, that was a story for later.
The fourth round began. This time, the task was to draw a fourth-tier talisman, but the Heavenly Dawn Sect no longer required one of the highest grades within the fourth tier.
In fact, its grade was lower than many of the competing disciples had expected.
However, there were few disciples left on the platform now, fewer than ten, all of them at the Nascent Soul stage.
To Su Jiu's mild surprise, Li Yishi had actually lasted until the end as well.
But even among those who remained, most were disciples from major sects.
There were disciples from the Heavenly Music Pavilion, the Heavenly Secret Sect, and the Mystic Dharma Immortal Sect. Even the Famous Sword Sect had someone still competing.
Judging by their bone ages, these disciples were all relatively old and hardly famous. Presumably, they were not particularly outstanding within their sects, with only their supplementary study of talisman arts setting them apart.
This round could be considered the final stage of talisman drawing. The fifth stage would be a talisman battle using the talismans they had drawn.
Su Jiu could practically guess why the Heavenly Dawn Sect's elder had chosen a talisman of lower-middle grade.
It was simply because Ming Yun's abilities could no longer support drawing a higher-grade talisman.
Su Jiu had reached this conclusion because, by sheer coincidence, she had just seen the third-tier talisman Ming