This volume follows the Chen Clan's expansion into the Heaven Dou Central District, not just the Gaoying Tournament. In other words, we're moving from Fasno onto the national stage-a bigger map.
Many readers who skip around don't know this, so I wanted to let you know.
Actually, this is the same as in the previous volume.
The preliminaries, semifinals, and finals of the Gaoying Tournament.
In the Provincial Preliminary, the Chen Clan-or rather, with Chen Xiaojun as the viewpoint character and central figure-completed its overall strategic positioning throughout Fasinuo Province and established an initial hold over Fasno.
In the National Semifinals, there are strategic struggles with the Clear Sky Sect and bloody clashes with the Crimson Church. The Upper Three Sects and the Nine Imperial Gates of World Guardianship enter the fray, with matters involving the imperial court and even hidden organizations. As winds and clouds converge, the national stage opens up.
The Continental Finals will naturally have their own corresponding storylines unfold as well.
This is a clan-centered story about contending for supremacy in the martial world. The Gaoying Tournament is the thread that draws the characters along.
Honestly, writing the Gaoying Tournament has been pretty frustrating. I wanted to bring something fresh to it.
Early in the Provincial Tournament, I wrote a few too many matches because I wanted to highlight tactics. Later, when I saw that people weren't especially keen on them, I adjusted things and cut down on the matches.
But I did manage to write out the fresh angle of Chen Xiaojun plausibly controlling the entire "Provincial Preliminary" and steering the tournament.
Once we reached the semifinals, I only wrote the fights against the Five-Attribute Academy and a few top-tier academies. We're nearly through those, too-only two or three matches left.
The Gaoying Tournament draws