The golden hall was as lively as ever.
Today, the central circular stage had been expanded and could now accommodate all the contestants.
Forty-eight soul tool Construction Platforms stood neatly on the circular stage, arranged in arcs.
Chen Ping swept his gaze around. The suspended private boxes above were already full, and not a single seat remained empty in the golden hall's general seating area.
Some changes had been made to the golden hall.
A rectangular alloy platform had been added above the Competition Platform, suspended five meters off the ground by steel cables.
The platform was a full fifty meters long, stretching almost from one end of the golden hall to the other.
It was only five meters wide, however, and looked as though it had been made for duels.
Soon, staff members led both Chen Ping and Huo Yuhao onto the Competition Platform.
Opposite each soul engineer stood the opponent assigned to them by a draw for this round.
As for how that draw had been conducted, the organizers offered no explanation whatsoever.
That was how the Underground Forces ran competitions. If you disliked it, you could swallow your complaints.
Just as Chen Ping remembered, his opponent was a young man who looked twenty-six or twenty-seven.
He was extremely ugly, with a flat nose, small eyes, and a mop of slightly yellowish hair with a patch missing right at the crown.
His appearance truly left little anyone could compliment.
It was Gao Dalou, the fellow with the hereditary Ranked Carving Knife, Blood Coagulation.
Every soul tool Construction Platform now had a three-tier storage rack, each tier filled with metal.
The first tier held ordinary metals, while the second and third held rare metals, totaling thirty-two varieties.
Such an abundant supply of materials would have been enough even to