The time of cultivation always passes very fast. Without paying attention, it will be late at night again.

After roughly feeling the time and knowing that it was late at night, Lin Ming stopped practicing and then fell asleep.

In the early morning, not long after the sun rose, Lin Ming woke up from his sleep.

After getting up and washing up, Lin Ming went out and walked towards the competition square.

Today, the ranking of those who enter the inner courtyard will be determined. The top five students will get the opportunity to enter the academy's Scripture Pavilion to select an item.

After Lin Ming arrived at the square, the place was still crowded.

At this time, Instructor Zhang Man discovered Lin Ming, and then led Lin Ming from a less crowded passage to a seat near the ring and sat down.

Since there was no need for the elders of the academy to speak today, not long after Lin Ming sat down, a voice came from the arena, asking the victors in the second round of the ranking competition to come on stage to select their opponents for this round.

After yesterday's competition, there are currently thirteen students who have advanced to the third round. Twelve of them are those who won the second round of the arena competition. Only Lin Ming received a bye because he drew a blank number plate.

To the third round of the game.

Because there are now thirteen people who have entered the third round, six people will be selected to compete in the number card drawing, in order to eliminate three people.

The remaining seven people who did not draw a number plate, plus the three who won in the next three games, are the top ten in this inner court selection ranking competition.

Because Lin Ming entered the third round with a bye in the last round, Lin Ming will not need to draw a number plate in this round, but will be directly identified as one of the owners of the number plate with the number "three".

Later, during the number plate drawing, the person who draws another number plate with the number "three" will be Lin Ming's opponent in the third round.

At this point in the competition, although everyone is quite capable, there is still a distinction between superior and inferior.

In case in this round of competition, the two strongest people draw the same number card, thus one of them will be eliminated.

The person who was eliminated like that must be dissatisfied. After all, among the people who did not participate in the competition this round, there must be some weaker than him.

In order to avoid such a situation, starting from this round, everyone who is eliminated in the arena competition will have a chance to challenge again.

They can challenge anyone among the top ten, and the chosen person cannot refuse the first time they are challenged.

However, if the challenged person defeats the challenger and keeps his ranking in the top ten, if the eliminated person challenges him again, he can refuse.

After such a challenge, the top ten selected will no longer be controversial.

Then the top ten will draw number plates again, and two people who draw the same number will compete, and the winner will get the temporary top five.

Because it is also possible that the two strongest players will draw the same number card in this round, the loser in this round also has a chance to challenge the winner.

After such a competition format, the five people who finally won are the top five in this inner court selection ranking competition.

Soon after they enter the inner courtyard, they will have better treatment, and they will also have an opportunity to enter the academy's Scripture Pavilion to select an item.

Therefore, getting into the top five in the ranking competition will be the common goal of the thirteen students participating in the competition.

The elder who was responsible for guarding the drawing of number cards for this round saw that the thirteen people participating in the competition had come to the ring, and organized twelve of them to draw their own number cards and select those who would participate in the ring next.

Because Lin Ming entered this round with a bye in the last round, he has been confirmed as one of the people with the number "three" and no longer has to draw a number plate.

After a while, the number plate drawing was completed.

As the results were announced, some were happy and some were sad. One of the contestants who was in the Nine-Star Fighting Master category was particularly depressed.

Because the number on the number plate he drew is "three". This means that he will play against Lin Ming in the next game.

After several rounds of competition, the thirteen people who can still stay here, except for the four great Dou Masters including Lin Ming, the remaining nine are all Dou Masters.

Five of them have a nine-star Dou Shi cultivation level, and the remaining four have an eight-star Dou Shi cultivation level.

The proportion of high-level fighting masters in this inner court selection competition was 70%. The reason why these fighting masters have such high and neat cultivation levels has a lot to do with Lin Ming.

If Lin Ming hadn't sold the Liquid Energy Pill recipe to the academy, the academy would have refined the Liquid Energy Pill and sold it to these students so that they could have the cultivation level to upgrade Dou Shi by two stars.

Although Lin Ming also earned a share of the academy from this, the fact that these students have such high cultivation levels can be regarded as inheriting Lin Ming's affection.

With the drawing of number cards over and the people who need to fight determined, those who need to fight need to start making preparations. And today's game will officially start.

At the scene, two more arenas were raised. This indicates that these three arena competitions will be held at the same time.

Under the referee's shout, Lin Ming came to the ring corresponding to his competition.

"This match will be between Lin Ming and Xie Lei. If there are no problems with you two, the referee will announce the start of the match." The referee in charge of Lin Ming and his group looked at Lin Ming and said.

"I'm ready." Lin Ming said.

"I have no problem either." Lin Ming's opponent, Xie Lei, also said.

"Okay! Then I announce that the Lin Ming vs. Xie Lei arena match will begin now." After both sides of the match confirmed that there were no problems, the referee announced that Lin Ming and his team's match had officially begun.

"Lin Ming, I know that I am no match for you. But I, Xie Lei, will never give in without a fight. So I hope that we can decide the outcome with one move."

"I guess you, Lin Ming, also want to end the fight quickly." After the referee announced the start of the game, Xie Lei did not attack Lin Ming first, but started talking to Lin Ming, hoping to decide the outcome with one move.

Lin Ming knew Xie Lei's intentions.

It was nothing more than that Xie Lei felt that he was no match for him and did not want to give in without a fight. However, he also did not want to have too many fierce battles with Lin Ming and consume his fighting spirit.

Because of the rules of the competition, after Xie Lei failed in the match with Lin Ming, he still had a chance to challenge those who had a bye in this round.

Of course, Xie Lei cannot expend too much fighting energy in the battle with Lin Ming. Because the outcome of the battle with Lin Ming is already determined, Xie Lei has no chance of victory.

If Xie Lei's so-called face wasn't at work, the wisest choice would be to admit defeat directly, so that he could preserve his strength to its peak.

When you challenge again later, your chances of winning will be greater.

But now that Xie Lei chose to challenge him, Lin Ming had no reason to refuse.

This is the privilege that comes with having absolute strength among these people. You can compete with you any way you want, and I, Lin Ming, will accompany you.

Therefore, after listening to Xie Lei's opinion and conversation, Lin Ming agreed with Xie Lei's opinion without thinking.

"Okay. Since you agree, Lin Ming, let's decide the outcome with one move!"

"Eat my Devouring Axe!"

Xie Lei held a mountain-cutting ax in his hand. Not long after he finished speaking, he held the ax in both hands and raised it in the sky.

After Xie Lei raised the mountain-breaking ax in the sky, a blood-red energy gathered on the ax head.

After Lin Ming felt the energy gathered on the mountain-breaking ax, he was secretly shocked.

Because at this time, the energy in the mountain-breaking ax has almost reached the energy level of Xuan-level advanced fighting skills. Therefore, there is really no one who can get here through so many rounds of competition.

After feeling that the energy on the mountain-breaking ax was about to reach the level of Xuan-level advanced fighting skills, Lin Ming stopped moving.

As soon as Lin Ming had an idea, he flashed the ring in his hand, and a knife was held in Lin Ming's hand. It was officially Lin Ming's weapon, the Star Dragon Knife.

Facing the fighting skills displayed by Xie Lei, Lin Ming held the Star Dragon Sword in his hand and began to use the Jinghong Sword Technique.

Jinghong Sword Technique is the first sword fighting skill that Lin Ming has practiced, and its level has reached the intermediate level of Xuan level.

Based on Lin Ming's familiarity with the Jinghong Sword Technique, the Jinghong Sword Technique he uses now will not be much worse than those advanced Xuan-level fighting skills.

Coupled with Lin Ming's current great Dou Master cultivation, the Dou Qi he uses is solid Dou Qi that is compressed and qualitatively transformed from the Dou Master's liquid Dou Shi.

With a higher quality fighting spirit than Xie Lei's, he can definitely catch Xie Lei's attack by using Jinghong Sword fighting skills that are not much worse than Xie Lei's Devouring Axe.

Lin Ming was not worried about whether the Jinghong Sword Technique could block Xie Lei's Devouring Axe, but whether Xie Lei could block his own Jinghong Sword Technique later.

However, after all, Xie Lei has the cultivation of a nine-star fighting master, so he can still block his Jinghong Sword Technique. Therefore, he does not need to hold back when using Jinghong Slash.

"Devouring the ultimate slash, kill the enemy!"

After Xie Lei finished displaying his fighting skills, he roared loudly, waved the mountain ax raised in the sky with both hands, and then struck Lin Ming with the axe.

The mountain-opening ax was gathered by blood energy and dyed its own color in blood. After Xie Lei struck down with his axe, a blood ax energy carrying the force of destruction hit Lin Ming directly.

Facing the destructive blood ax energy, Lin Ming was not afraid at all. He saw that Lin Ming was holding the handle of the knife with both hands at this time, and then slashed out directly at the blood ax energy that hit Lin Ming.

The Star Dragon Sword slashed towards the energy of the blood ax with a more domineering sword energy. It looked like a lion being provoked by a hyena, trying to tear the hyena into pieces.

"boom!"

The two energies met in the middle of the ring, making a deafening sound. The noise at the scene seemed to disappear here.

I don’t know whether it was because the energy collision caused too much noise and directly suppressed the noise, or because the scene was shocked by the energy of the collision and became quiet. Or maybe it was a combination of both.

After the collision of energy lasted for several breaths, the sound dissipated.

After the energy impact ended, the two people on the ring, Lin Ming, still maintained their original posture. But Xie Lei changed.

Xie Lei now not only summoned Dou Qi Shayi, but also squatted down slightly, holding the mountain ax in front of him in a defensive posture.

At this time, Xie Lei stood up straight and glanced at Lin Ming.

After seeing that Lin Ming had not changed at all, Xie Lei said, "I lost."

Then he walked towards the bottom of the ring.

After Xie Lei walked off the ring, the referee announced that Lin Ming had won this round.

In the subsequent challenge rounds, the losers can only choose one person from the byes in this round to fight.
Chapter completed!