Standing on a Bone Boat, Wang Yu flew unhurriedly toward the Combat Arena at the very center of the Grotto-Heaven.
Although he did not know the arena's exact location, he could see streaks of escape light heading in the same direction.
Having only recently joined, he had no friends in the Green Water Palace apart from the now-deceased Yan Lingxiang. Naturally, he had no need to strike up a conversation with anyone and simply focused on considering the competition.
As a former true disciple of the Four Symbols Sect, he had never experienced an actual Sect Grand Competition, but he had learned something about it. Comparing the two, he felt their arrangements were much the same.
In the preliminary rounds, the inner and outer disciples would compete separately. Otherwise, outer disciples would have virtually no chance of making it to the end.
The rewards for the top-ranking inner and outer disciples were also vastly different. The top hundred outer disciples would receive entry-tier Cultivation Medicinal Pills, the top ten would qualify directly as inner disciples, and the top three would receive Ranked Magical Artifacts.
For inner disciples, only the top thirty would receive second-tier Cultivation Medicinal Pills, while the top three would receive second-tier magical artifacts.
Unlike the outer disciples, however, the top ten inner disciples from the preliminaries would join the twenty-six other candidates recommended by the thirteen peaks in the final round, earning the right to challenge the Green Water Palace's seventy-two true disciples.
This was the centerpiece of the Sect Grand Competition, the real contest that commanded the attention of everyone in the Green Water Palace.
After all, if the Golden Core true persons and Nascent Soul powerhouses represented the Green Water Palace's current strength and upper ranks, then its seventy-two true disciples all but represented its