Not long after Liu Yuanjun emerged from the passage, the Top Sixteen contestants arrived on the floating island one after another.
With that, the first two stages of this City Heroes' Battle came to an end. Three days later, the next stage, the elimination tournament, would begin. It was also the stage that attracted the most attention.
Because this year's City Heroes would be chosen then.
The elimination tournament's format was brutally simple: sixteen became eight, eight became four, and the four semifinalists secured places as City Heroes. After that, however, there would still be semifinals to narrow four down to two, followed by a final to determine the winner.
Because they were not just choosing four City Heroes, but also a River City Captain. The strongest contestant would receive the most training resources and the greatest say.
When they attended the Ascendant Dragon Assembly, they would compete as a team. There would be many occasions when they had to fight side by side, so they needed a unified command.
The River City Captain would represent not only Jiangcheng City's strongest genius cultivator of this generation, but also the future leader of the River City Team.
The elimination tournament's matchups were not random. They were based on the standings from the rankings tournament: the highest-ranked contestant among the Top Sixteen would face the lowest-ranked, the second-highest would face the second-lowest, and so on.
This arrangement avoided the unfairness of random draws and gave the greatest chance of keeping the strong while eliminating the weak.
Only, there might be a few small surprises this year...
Once all sixteen contestants stood before their respective square pillars, white light shone from the pillars' tops. A white line then connected each pair of contestants who would face each other.
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