Before long, under everyone's tense, expectant gazes, the results from the sixth and seventh arenas finally emerged as well. Two teams made up of Nine-Star Dou Zhe successfully advanced.
With that, the qualifiers from every arena in the first round had been decided, apart from the third and fourth.
At that moment, everyone's attention involuntarily turned toward those last two arenas.
They held their breath and stared without blinking, afraid of missing even a moment. They wanted to see how things would end in those two arenas; after all, this would bring the first round to its conclusion.
Yet the final result plunged the entire venue into silence, so utterly still that it felt almost eerie.
To everyone's astonishment, every contestant in those two arenas had been eliminated!
Within the arenas, the magic beasts rampaged about, kicking up clouds of dust. Some of the young competing warriors lay on the ground, groaning in agony, while others slumped to one side in dejection, their eyes vacant.
The arenas were a complete shambles, clearly the aftermath of an exceptionally brutal battle. In the end, none of them had managed to defeat the ferocious magic beasts, losing their chance to advance.
"This..."
Standing on the dais, Gu He could not help frowning at the result, three deep furrows forming between his brows. A flicker of doubt rose within him, and he instinctively turned to glance at Liu Ling.
Something about this struck him as suspicious. Winning and losing were perfectly normal in a competition, but the complete annihilation of the contestants in both arenas left him with a nagging suspicion that something was wrong with the rules-or something else.
Feeling Gu He's gaze, Liu Ling merely blinked, putting on an innocent expression.
Then he looked at Yao Ye's team, which had already advanced