The eighth round: a test of combat strength!
The top three would ultimately be selected!
First place would receive five hundred points, second place four hundred, and third place three hundred.
Everyone else would receive no points!
The rules were also very simple. The six hundred-plus contestants would be divided into sixteen groups.
Each group would have around forty people.
Every group would have an arena defender!
These arena defenders were selected by the Immortal Emperor Palace based entirely on their results in the previous seven rounds-the top sixteen in the combined standings for those rounds!
Everyone other than the arena defenders would be assigned to a group at random!
Ultimately, only one person from each group could win.
The specific rule was to challenge the arena defender. Whoever defeated the defender would become the new defender!
However, the arena defender would not fight every one of the other forty people in the group.
That would waste too much time.
Everyone other than the arena defender would first compete among themselves.
Finally, the seed who took first place would challenge the arena defender!
If the arena defender won, the defender would advance to the next round, and everyone else would be eliminated.
If the arena defender lost, the seed would become the new arena defender.
The top sixteen would ultimately be decided!
But that did not mean these sixteen were guaranteed to advance to the next round!
The seeds still had a second chance!
In other words, even if a seed lost, they could challenge the arena defenders of other groups.
This would ensure fairness and impartiality while selecting the top sixteen as quickly as possible, and it would also leave everyone convinced by the outcome.
Once the final sixteen peerless geniuses were confirmed, they would advance to the next