C1356 Excessive and oppressive
Hidden Dragon Castle, Central Plaza!
The final rules of the Hidden Dragon Rank competition were actually the same as the Ranking Competition of the second round.
The only difference was that the number of participants in the finals had reached a hundred. Moreover, the final ranking would be decided based on the points obtained by the victor, as well as the amount of Latent Dragon Qi one obtained.
At the same time, in order to let every participant who had obtained the support of the Latent Dragon Qi display their abilities to their heart's content, and in order for the spectators in the surrounding area to see the spectacular performance of every participant, the hundred arenas in the central plaza were all removed, and then replaced with an even larger arena.
Raising his head to look at the purple colored fog covered ranking list above the plaza, Yu Haoran's eyes revealed a look of anticipation.
Before the finals officially began, the ranking would be based on the contestants' performance in the second round of the second round of the semifinals, and the results of the first three tests would be combined to re-enter the rankings.
And this time, the ranking was related to the order in which the contestants would compete.
For example, if you were first place on the rankings, then your first opponent would be the participant in the 100th place. In the second match, your opponent would be the participant in the 99th place, and so on and so forth.
Therefore, the higher your rank is on the leaderboard, then not only will you be able to get higher points, you will also be able to have more Latent Dragon Qi s as support, and will also be able to save more strength and cards up your sleeve, so as to deal with the stronger opponents of the later stages of the tournament.
Although he had always been calm about the rankings, Yu Haoran was still a little nervous about whether his relationship with her would eventually reach the top successfully.
As the purple clouds gradually dissipated, the hundred contestants who had advanced to the finals and the spectators all began to tense up.
Everyone stared at the name list that was about to be revealed.
When the last wisp of purple fog disappeared, a hundred names the size of bowls appeared clearly on the leaderboard.
"Hey!"
Just as the final ranking announcement was made, Meng Zhengkai couldn't help but let out a surprised cry.
If it was based on Yu Haoran's outstanding performance in the semifinals and the eighth rank of the three stages combined, then his ranking should have risen a bit this time.
But after he had looked through the top ten rankings, he did not find Yu Haoran's name.
"Forty-ninth place!" Qin Di said with a gloomy face.
After the Qin Emperor, whose cultivation and mental state was much higher, didn't discover anything in the top ten, he forcefully suppressed the suspicions in his heart and continued to look down along the list. In the end, he discovered Yu Haoran, who was ranked forty-ninth.
In the first match of the semifinals, all of the opponents didn't dare to go up and challenge Lin Ming just because of the deterrence of one basic pole technique.
In the second match of the semifinals, relying on his powerful body and staff techniques, he easily defeated nine powerful opponents.
With such a stunning performance, it would be unjustifiable for the rankings to not raise by more than a few ranks. Not to mention falling straight down to forty-ninth place. How could this not anger the Qin Emperor?
Seeing that not only did his ranking not rise, but instead directly fall to the forty-ninth place, even to the point that even Yu Haoran, who had maintained a normal level of ranking, had an endless amount of fury surging in his heart.
According to the Tower Spirit's introduction to the Hidden Dragon Castle and the Hidden Dragon Rank, although the rankings were arranged by the Latent Dragon Qi according to the participants' performance in the preliminaries and semifinals, the Ranking could still be controlled by humans in the end.
The reason why his eighth place ranking had fallen to forty-ninth in the preliminary competition was definitely because of the seven top experts in the Hidden Dragon Castle s pavilion.
"Prince Consort, are you alright?" Qin Lingfei, who had also noticed Yu Haoran's decline, asked with a worried expression.
At the same time, Yu Siqi, Jian Wuhen and Wu Zhengjun, as well as Jiang Jingya who had been ignoring him all this time, also looked at him with a similar worried expression.
"Don't worry, I'm fine!"
Forcefully suppressing the anger in his heart, Yu Haoran explained with a light smile.
"The ranking list is just for show. The true deciding factor for the number of Latent Dragon Qi s to increase is the finals."
Once again raising his head to look at the list, although Yu Haoran still had a smile on his face, when his eyes swept across the names ranked number one to forty-eight, his gaze actually revealed a trace of a cold light.2
Just as he planned to withdraw his gaze from the leaderboard, black, white, green, red, blue and purple shot out from the leaderboard.
Seven different colored energies slowly condensed into seven different colored Dragon Thrones in the air.
Soon after, six old men wearing black, white, green, red, and blue robes appeared in front of the dragon chairs that had the same color as their robes.
"Greetings, Violet Supremes!" The six elders that had appeared in front of the dragon throne didn't immediately sit down. Instead, they knelt down in midair and called out respectfully.
Following the respectful greetings of the six elders, a purple robed, middle-aged powerhouse slowly appeared in front of the purple dragon throne.
Following which, a terrifying aura that even the peak Martial Saint experts in the surrounding area couldn't endure slowly rose from the body of the middle aged man dressed in purple.
If they didn't want to be pressured by that terrifying aura, then all the experts in the surrounding area must stand up and welcome them.
If they did not want to suffer the oppression of the terrifying aura, then all one hundred competitors in the center of the plaza would have to kneel down and respectfully welcome them.
However, it was not a shameful thing to stand up to welcome the arrival of the Zi Zun. Therefore, even the top profound practitioners from the central region s obediently stood up.
However, to the hundred competitors in the center plaza, the oppressive aura of the purple clothed middle-aged man and his submission of kneeling down respectfully aroused the arrogance in the hearts of everyone present.
Not only did everyone immediately use all their strength to resist the terrifying pressure, they all raised their heads to glare at the purple robed man.
Seeing that none of the hundred competitors in the center of the plaza knelt down respectfully to welcome him, although the purple-robed middle-aged man had a faint smile on his face, his eyes flashed with a frightening coldness.
Soon after, the terrifying aura was constantly being released, and it was also being distributed to every contestant.
"Greetings, Violet Sovereign!" With the terrifying aura becoming more and more powerful, some of the weaker competitors were unable to withstand the pressure. In the end, they chose to kneel on one knee and respectfully greeted the group like six old men.
When he saw that among the first batch of people that kneeled down respectfully greeting the Emperor, there were three elite disciples from the Imperial Family, Qin Di's expression instantly turned gloomy.
Of course, Meng Zhengkai's expression was also quite ugly.
Amongst the first group of people who kneeled down respectfully, there was one Monte family who advanced to the finals. She was also the person he liked the most, a junior.
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