My Way

Chapter 974 Rules of the Preliminary Round

simply put.

In those written descriptions, the rules of the preliminary rounds of the Jade Court Martial Arts Tournament can be roughly understood as follows: after the countdown ends, all participants will be randomly teleported into the inner space of the Cave Heaven in batches, and will constantly release special signals to the surrounding areas so that other participants can lock onto their positions, inducing each participant to attack each other. When 70% of all participants are eliminated, this round of the preliminary rounds is considered to be completely completed.

Of course, this is just the simplest way of describing it.

In fact, those were competition rules composed of thousands upon thousands of words.

It also details the various competition rules.

For example, when everyone is teleported in, they can actually team up with each other in advance, so from the very beginning, the preliminary rounds of the Jade Court Martial Arts Tournament were not absolutely fair.

Each lone wolf player is likely to be forcibly surrounded and attacked by a large group of guys as soon as they enter.

and.

The special signals that reveal a contestant's location are not of a fixed intensity.

It has a lower limit to its strength.

However, there is no upper limit to the intensity.

The actual strength depends mainly on the user.

The more a user reveals their strength of Qi and blood and true essence, the stronger this special signal becomes, even to the point that it can be observed by other contestants remotely with their naked eyes from thousands of miles away.

on the contrary.

If you want to hide yourself.

This special signal is so weak that it can only be clearly seen when the two are hundreds of meters apart.

This is the case.

This round of the [Jade Court Martial Arts Tournament] truly has virtually no restrictions.

You can either fight your way through and win, or you can hide from the start and wait until 70% of the contestants are eliminated, winning without breaking a sweat.

From start to finish.

The organizers did not set any rigid competition rules.

It's simply a matter of eliminating 70% of the contestants.

Regardless of the methods or means.

There isn't even a fixed time.

As long as everyone is willing.

We can force ourselves to stay here for several years.

Other than that.

Another rule worth noting is that everyone actually has two chances in this preliminary round.

When everyone first encountered life-threatening danger inside the stadium.

People will not be teleported directly out.

Instead, they will be teleported to a special space similar to a "preparation room," where Ling Wuyuan and the others are currently located. They can rest here for up to three days. During this period, participants can re-enter the arena at any time to a random location or choose to withdraw from the competition.

This is one of the rules of the competition.

It's more or less a preferential treatment clause for each unlucky person.

This gives them some leeway throughout the game.

It's not that they're not bad in terms of strength, but they're unlucky enough to encounter a BOSS at the beginning, leaving them with no room to use their skills and being eliminated on the spot.

of course.

If you encounter the BOSS twice in a row... then you can only blame your bad luck.
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Faced with those clearly marked competition rules.

Ling Wuyuan pondered for a moment while stroking his chin.

He felt that it was definitely the right choice not to learn about the rules in advance through Su Qingyue.

After all, at this point, he found these rules rather interesting to be honest about.

For example, a rule that can automatically adjust the strength of special signals based on the strength of the user.

This made the preliminary round feel like a battle royale or werewolf game.

Before the actual confrontation.

It's difficult for everyone to determine the target's actual strength. This makes it easy for a tragic scenario like being tricked by a seemingly weak opponent to occur.

Even though the target's signal wasn't strong, after I went to find them, I ended up being the unlucky one who willingly walked into their trap...

Think about it.

Some rather perverse individuals might use this method for fishing...

For a while.

Ling Wuyuan was also genuinely looking forward to that scene.

By the way.

His gaze also swept over the teleportation countdown, which still had several hours left...
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At the same time.

He relayed the competition rules he had observed to Pei Yiman and the others outside in real time via the [Gray Mist Mark].

Pei Yiman and the others promptly began discussing the rationality of these competition rules.

Those are just different opinions.

The only thing everyone had in common was that they felt the preliminary rounds were anything but fair.

It depends half on skill and half on luck...

Due to the influence of various factors.

A stronger individual may not necessarily last longer than a weaker one.

and.

After repeated viewings, Pei Yiman and the others also discovered that the "no restrictions on methods" in this "Jade Court Martial Arts Tournament" were truly no restrictions on methods...

As long as the participants are willing.

Contestants can even directly pilot floating rune warships to bombard other contestants.

It's similar in nature to an unrestricted fighting tournament.

You choose to reasonably pull out heavy machine guns, rocket launchers, mechanical dogs, drones... to launch a devastating attack on various unarmed opponents.

of course.

Those external things are limited to those that one has personally created.

Therefore, there's no need to worry too much about the various [Mind Domain] floating rune warships flying around and shooting randomly.

If you really play like that.

This match has truly become a battle royale.

Some people were responsible for escaping.

Another group was responsible for the killings.

At the very least, that's how it should be normally...

If someone truly possesses the ability to successfully create a large number of [Mind Domain Realm Floating Rune Warships] or [Mind Domain Realm Combat Puppets] while still at the [Original Form Realm], then Ling Wuyuan should say nothing.

The saying "Talented people emerge in every generation" applies here.

He would be quite pleased.

Furthermore, Pei Yiman and others discovered that the preliminary rounds of the Jade Court Martial Arts Tournament were essentially based on a points system.

The more opponents you eliminate, the higher your score. The higher your score, the later you'll be on the field in the next round. This means your opponents will have more time to rest and observe, allowing them to leisurely observe each opponent's fighting style and make targeted adjustments.

Therefore, to some extent, the organizers don't really expect the contestants to resort to underhanded tactics, after all, winning that way is just too ugly... Everyone wants to see real strong players, not all sorts of cowards who only know how to hide and run away.

for this.

Ling Wuyuan, on the other hand, didn't care at all.

The strong have their ways of winning, and the weak have theirs; this is determined by strength.

You can't expect the weak to sweep everything aside as easily as the strong.

Furthermore, regardless of the outcome, a win is a win, and a loss is a loss. This is also why, when setting the rules of the competition, the various factions did not force each participant to take the initiative.

If a weakling manages to win through underhanded means, all parties can acknowledge and support them.

(End of this chapter)