Beastmaster of the Ages - Chapter 7938

Chapter 7854: The Martial Arts Realm

First, she found Li Tianming agreeable.

Second, because of her connection to the Ancient Martial Immortal, she might receive greater rewards by being given a spot among the new recruits!

Meanwhile, in other recruit towns nearby, many people had also heard about Li Tianming.

Everywhere, there was much discussion…

“It seems a remarkable person has emerged from the neighboring recruit town of 1262. Have you heard?”

“What level is he?”

“He passed the first round of the recruit martial arts tournament under the Emperor’s command.”

“Although rare, it’s not unheard of. What’s the big deal?”

“He was selected from the Ten Thousand Sects Emperor War. He had no prior foundation, and his cultivation resources were the worst. He hasn’t been here long.”

“What?”

“How is that possible?”

After learning the full story, the other recruits from the Feng School were all trembling with shock.

“…”

Training time passed quickly, and the second round of assessments followed.

On this day, Wang Zhen gathered all the recruits who had passed the first round of assessments at the training ground.

This selection was very strict; tens of thousands applied, but only about one hundred from recruit town 1262 ultimately passed the assessment.

Because of the small number of people, Wang Zhenjiang simply gathered them into a small team.

Li Tianming was also in this team.

“The second round of assessment will be held in the ‘Martial Arts Realm.’ Remember, you must abide by the rules. If you break the rules, you will not only be disqualified, but you may also be punished.” Before setting off, Wang Zhenjiang earnestly instructed them.

“Understood!”

“Don’t worry, Wang Zhenjiang, we know what we’re doing!”

The group of soldiers responded in unison, their morale soaring.

“Let’s go.” After Wang Zhenjiang finished speaking, he glanced at the hundred or so people and walked ahead.

He would personally lead the team for this journey!

After leaving the recruit town, through the Giant Source Platform, the group quickly arrived at an extremely vast cosmic space.

However, it was not on the front of the Great Wall. The front required military garrisoning, and there were very few spacious areas available for people to use.

This was actually a region of the human world facing the Great Wall behind the Corona Borealis of the Martial Immortal.

Under Wang Zhenjiang’s leadership, the group stepped out from the platform…

Upon seeing the scene before them, the soldiers’ eyes widened slightly.

“What is this?!”

“So vast, so magnificent!”

Under the gaze of the real universe, what appeared before Li Tianming and the others was a vast starfield!

Radiant light shone down, countless entropy-source mystical heavens, like starlight hanging from the ceiling, illuminating the area brilliantly.

Beneath the starry sky, countless arenas, formed by the compression and condensation of star regions, were densely packed throughout the cosmic space!

The base of each of these arenas was constructed with Dao patterns and reinforced by top-tier Dao arrays to prevent the leakage of battle aura.

Countless arenas now shimmered with starlight, illuminating the faces of everyone present.

“This is the Martial Arts World,” Wang Zhenjiang said calmly.

The martial soldiers from the 1262 New Recruit Town were also here for the first time, and they were already speechless with astonishment.

When they arrived, other martial soldiers who had successfully advanced had already gathered below the arenas.

The entire Martial Arts World was packed with people!

Every single one of them possessed extraordinary strength.

Martial soldiers who had passed the first round had already reached the upper-middle level of the overall competition!

Those who came here were not only soldiers participating in the new recruit martial arts tournament, but also spectators, and even some with military ranks.

Overall, it was incredibly lively!

Everywhere, people were discussing the key contenders of the tournament, all of whom were already famous at the Great Wall of Martial Immortal North Crown.

Occasionally, Li Tianming could overhear a small group discussing him, though these people were very few.

“The battle won’t start so soon. I’ll take you to the New Martial Pavilion to report now,” Wang Zhenjiang said from the front.

The group quickly followed Wang Zhenjiang.

During this process, Cang Mishuo, who was somewhat familiar with Li Tianming, walked alongside him.

“I took a look, and these people are all too strong. Many of them are capable of crushing the Dragon Star Puppet. I estimate that we’ll stop here at this round; it’ll be difficult to advance any further,” Cang Mishuo rarely spoke up.

Li Tianming glanced at the other person and smiled, “There must be someone in a similar situation to us, right? As long as you’re just a little bit stronger than them, you might not be completely wiped out in the light.”

Cang Mishuo pursed his lips and said, “I hope so.”

Actually, his will to survive was very strong; otherwise, he wouldn’t have persisted even after being seriously injured in the first round.

But after seeing the strength of the other recruit towns, he was indeed lacking in confidence.

The New Martial Pavilion was actually located on the edge of the Martial Arts World.

Although it occupied a small space, its importance was no less than that of the Martial Arts World itself.

After all, it was an organization specifically established to host the recruit martial arts tournament.

Those coming and going here were basically all participants.

Li Tianming looked up and saw that the New Martial Pavilion towered into the sky, magnificent and imposing, even larger than the imperial city in the Beacon Ruins.

The imperial city was still an enclosed area with a bunch of buildings built within it, but the area occupied by this one building alone was already larger than the entire imperial city. The extra manpower and resources required were far greater; it was on a completely different level!

“Truly impressive!”

The people of Recruit Town 1262 exclaimed in amazement.

This place was filled with participants in the Recruit Martial Arts Tournament. Even with Li Tianming’s rapidly improving strength, he stood out as just another face in the crowd.

“If they had assigned me a stronger opponent, I might have been sent home in the first round…” Li Tianming remarked.

“There’s no need to worry about that,” a soldier beside him said.

“Brother, what’s the secret behind this? Please enlighten me,” Li Tianming, ever the friendly type, immediately called out to the man.

“It’s simple. The Recruit Martial Arts Tournament has a rule: each person’s combat strength is ranked based on the time it takes them to complete the Dragon Star Puppet challenge,” the soldier explained. “

Understood, thank you,” Li Tianming nodded.

In other words, this round of selection was actually an elimination tournament conducted in groups and rankings.

Li Tianming recalled that his speed in defeating the Dragon Star Puppet was actually quite slow, falling into a relatively low tier.

Now, however, Li Tianming had improved by three levels, so at least the first battle shouldn’t be a problem.

In fact, the number of high-level opponents that Li Tianming wasn’t confident against was relatively small.

Unless there were special circumstances, he would find it difficult to face them.

“So it seems that the original intention of this rule was actually to prevent seeded players from meeting early and then having countless one-on-one elimination battles to determine the next round’s contestants,” Aurora saw through the essence.

“If I remember correctly, there are a total of one billion participants in this round of the entire recruit martial arts tournament, right? A billion people competing in the arena? How long will that take?” Sui Shenyao was dumbfounded.