During the ceremony, lots were going to be drawn at random by the machine, and the seeded participants were decided based on popularity among the general public rather than any official jurisdiction.

As such, it wouldn't be impossible for powerful beings to be pitted against one another, and it was precisely because of this that the ceremony drew even more attention.

Those who made it into the final 10 wouldn't have any further opportunities to clash as the choice would be up the Silver Dragon Princess Gu Yuena then, so the round-robin stage was the most important.

Tang Wulin was currently resting with his eyes closed. His sickly, sleep-deprived appearance wasn't something that was feigned, he was truly slightly under the weather.

Something had gone wrong during his heavenly refinement the previous day; an elemental tribulation had suddenly erupted, causing the piece of metal to explode,...