On this point, He Pingsheng and the Ninth Prince had arrived at the same conclusion.
He, too, was thinking of the Thirteenth Prince.
No one else would do something so pointless.
But there was no evidence.
Forget it!
Liang Zhili pursed his lips and said, "My sister is already waiting for you. You should hurry over and fight her first!"
He Pingsheng said, "No rush... I wanted to ask you how the qualifying selection for the Nine-Nation Grand Tournament will work."
"How will the matches be conducted?"
"It's very simple!" the Ninth Prince said. "First, you must be a cultivator from our Liang Kingdom, and your background must be clean!"
"That's the most important point. We can't have someone being used by another nation to betray our kingdom's interests!"
He Pingsheng nodded. "But Golden Core Stage cultivators throughout the Liang Kingdom must be as numerous as carp crossing a river. How exactly do you narrow them down?"
"The Dragon Stele is the standard!" the Ninth Prince said. "Look over there. See that enormous stone stele behind the Dragon Platform? That's the Dragon Stele!"
He Pingsheng looked in the direction the Ninth Prince pointed. From where he stood, there was indeed a towering stone stele behind the Dragon Platform's formation, though he could only see its back.
The Ninth Prince continued, "That stele records the names of the Liang Kingdom's top hundred Golden Core Stage cultivators!"
"Starting now, any cultivator from the Liang Kingdom can challenge the top ten on that stele. Whoever manages to hold those ten spots in the end will represent the Liang Kingdom at Tawenian Mountain in the Nine-Nation Grand Tournament!"
He Pingsheng asked, "What exactly is this Dragon Stele?"
"Is it specifically for recording rankings?"
"Yes!" The Ninth Prince nodded. "Sometimes, opportunities for Golden Core Stage