Dragon Blooded War God

Chapter 950: Martial Tournament

The Martial Tournament was held once every fifty years. Just like the past years, the tournament would be held at the gigantic plaza near the City Lord’s mansion. This plaza was much larger than the Underworld Plaza and was known as the Underworld Martial Square.

On this day, the place was already filled with crowds even though the tournament had not started yet.

There were millions of people living in the city, but only those who were at least at the Fifth Divine Martial Stage or had internal connections could watch. Despite that, the square was still packed. From the top, the whole place was covered in a dense, black sea of heads.

This was an event held by the city and was not related to the Underworld Army. Therefore, the city guards were in charge of maintaining order. Underworld City had hundreds of thousands of city guards, making them only slightly smaller than the Underworld Army.

The city guards were not as strong as the army, as the latter underwent militaristic training. However, they were strong enough to maintain order at an event like this one.

This year’s tournament was a little special, so it had drawn a larger crowd than usual. Many people were looking forward to watching it because the beautiful City Lord was recruiting a disciple.

This was a major event for all the medium and small cities under the jurisdiction of Underworld City. Ye Xuan was the strongest member of the Ye family, which controlled Underworld City. Anyone who became her disciple would see their status and abilities skyrocket.

More importantly, not only was she extraordinarily powerful, she was also so beautiful that she had become a goddess most people could only dream of. It would be heaven to be mentored by her.

The young citizens of the city who were no more than fifty years old and had reached the Seventh Heavenly Martial Stage all joined this major event. Even many Underworld Soldiers joined the tournament, making the number of participants reach a shocking twenty thousand. It was not going to be easy to pick a champion out of this crowd.

The format was simple—they would duel in pairs. Every person would fight once per day, and the Underworld Estate would provide all the treatment and medicine needed if they were injured.

It would take about twenty days for twenty thousand people to dwindle down to the final winner. There would be the most people fighting on the first day at about ten thousand pairs, and the number would decrease every day.

Ten thousand duels would proceed at the same time in one day. With the city guards maintaining order, it would be possible to pull this off.

The estate had mobilized everyone they had for this tournament, with more than a hundred Divine Martial Realm experts controlling the crowd so that nothing unexpected would happen.

At this point, there were already over ten Divine Martial Realm cultivators patrolling the square. The Underworld Martial Square was a hundred thousand mu[1] in area, and it had countless stages of many different sizes, so duels of different scales could be held on them.

The first day required a hundred stages, and every stage would see more than a hundred duels. It would take twenty-four hours to complete the first round.

It was early in the morning, and the venue was prepared for the tournament. Everything proceeded in an orderly fashion.

The spectators were all gathered in a designated area by the city guards to prevent them from disrupting the event. They could still see the duels clearly from the stands because these people were all at least at the Fifth Heavenly Martial Stage and had better eyesight than the average person.

Initially, the results of this tournament were uncertain because there were many prodigies from the Underworld Army and the major factions of Underworld City participating, as well as cultivators from different parts of the land. No one knew who would win.

However, a piece of news spread just three days before the event.

General Su Mo’s cousin, the young prodigy Su Xue, was also going to join the martial tournament.

Reaching the Divine Martial Realm before fifty years old was enough to make anyone a legend. Out of all the participants, she was the only Divine Martial Realm cultivator. Therefore, after news of her participation spread, everyone was certain that she would be the winner. ???ô???

Many people were privately complaining about this.

Su Xue was already part of a highly influential family and was close to Su Mo, yet she was still here to fight to become Ye Xuan’s disciple. This was unreasonable, but they could only swallow their anger. If Ye Xuan had agreed to this, then everyone had no choice but to rely on their own capabilities.

After learning that Su Xue was participating, more than three thousand people resigned from the tournament because they knew that there was no chance they would win. They decided to not risk their lives for this. Many people had signed up so that they could experience the consecutive duels and train their bravery.

The tournament would start in two hours. The main characters had arrived while the spectators all discussed among themselves. It felt like countless flies were flying around the square.

“With Su Xue here, what’s the point of dueling?”

“She’s a whole Divine Martial Realm cultivator! Why would she come and fight us? How shameless!”

“I refuse to accept this! Even the young prodigies of the Gongsun and Fu families have not reached the Divine Martial Realm yet. How could any of them be a match for Su Xue?”

“Everyone, just accept it. She’s stronger than all of us, so she can do whatever she wants. We’re all minor characters; being able to fight in the Underworld Square is already something to be proud of. As for winning first place, there are twenty thousand people here, so who could guarantee that they’d enter the finals?”

“You’re right. However, it’s ridiculous to watch a tournament with an obvious ending.”

“If only someone who is strong enough to defeat Su Xue comes, it will be interesting.”

“Are you joking? A Divine Martial Realm cultivator is a hundred times stronger than a Ninth Heavenly Martial Stage cultivator. Who would defeat Su Xue? That is unless they have reached the Divine Martial Realm. However, other than the City Lord’s brother, who else has reached the Divine Martial Realm in Underworld City?”

“You’re right too.”

“Be patient. Today is only the first round, and the event will go on for many days. There are at least fifteen thousand Seventh Heavenly Martial Stage people here. We’re at the Eighth Heavenly Martial Stage, so we don’t need to worry yet.”

“We’ll survive a few more days, at least.”

“Since we have already signed up for this, winning first place is not important. Our only goal should be to train ourselves and fight for glory. Brothers, let’s see who will survive the longest! That person will be the hero among us!”

Similar discussions rang out across every corner of the square.

Every participant received a purple jade token. It was empty without any writing on it, but only people with this token could enter. Long Chen and Su Xue also received the same token.

Those without the token had to stand outside to watch.

Participants with the purple jade token stood in more than a hundred rows under the instructions of the city guards. There were too many people, at least ten times more than last year. Therefore, they had no choice but to implement a standard crowd control system.

Major clans and factions who were invited to spectate had their own seats, such as the Underworld Army and other families like the Gongsun and Fu families of Underworld City. The people from the City Lord’s mansion sat with Ye Xuan at the topmost seat.

The people from the Underworld Army had not arrived yet, but the others were already there.

City Lord Ye Xuan waved over a nearby Divine Martial Realm cultivator as she watched the crowd with a smile. “Chen Liu, bring Ye Xuan and Long Chen here. Prepare two seats for them next to me.”

The Divine Martial Realm cultivator had been controlling the crowd, and he quickly hurried over when the City Lord summoned him. After hearing her instructions, he went to her brother’s quarters.

The First Divine Martial Stage cultivator named Chen Liu entered the City Lord’s mansion. He passed through layers of pavilions, hallways, and gardens to arrive at Ye Xuan’s quarters.

He was a foreign official recruited by Ye Xuan only recently. He originated from a medium city under Underworld City’s jurisdiction and was a legend there. He was only just slightly above two hundred years old, and reaching the Divine Martial Realm before two hundred was not an easy feat. In terms of potential, Chen Liu was considered more talented than most of Ye Xuan’s Divine Martial Realm officials.

The young Ye Xuan had reached the Divine Martial Realm at just twenty-nine, so Chen Liu respected him. However, in his opinion, it was normal for Ye Xuan to achieve this because his wealthy family provided an abundance of resources.

As for Long Chen?

Chen Liu had met Long Chen a few times in the past few days. He was just some kid at the Seventh Heavenly Martial Stage and was just good friends with Ye Xuan. He did not understand why the City Lord cared so much about Long Chen.

To be honest, Chen Liu had drooled over the chance to become the City Lord’s direct disciple, but unfortunately, he was long past the fifty-year-old age limit, so all he could do was sigh and accept it.

Very soon, he arrived outside the youth’s quarters. Long Chen and Ye Xuan were preparing to leave when the Divine Martial Realm cultivator suddenly appeared and bowed. He said, “Young Master, the City Lord has instructed me to take you to the Underworld Martial Square.”

Ye Xuan said, “I can’t believe my sister. I know where the Underworld Martial Square is, but she still asked you to get me. Let’s go. Brother Chen, let’s see how well you do today.”

The City Lord had not spread the news about the assassination attempts on her younger brother. Only those at the Second Divine Martial Stage and above knew about it. Chen Liu had not entered the City Lord’s inner circle yet, so he did not know about this matter and naturally did not know why Long Chen was so special.

Along the way, he kept eyeing Long Chen, who was chatting away happily with Ye Xuan.

1. One mu (?- Chinese traditional unit of area) is about 666.7 square meters ?