Chapter 751: Chapter 748: The Rules of the Duel!_1

“What are they all doing in Haohai Main City?” Zhu Hailong was puzzled.

“I think it must be because the Purple Qi Secret Realm has appeared in your Haohai County, so various forces naturally have to go to Haohai Main City. But I think the most crucial factor is the Trial Tower. Haohai Main City is, after all, a main city force and possesses a Trial Tower. Before entering the Secret Realm, who wouldn’t want to break through another layer of the Trial Tower and increase their strength?” Yuan Xing the Wily explained.

Zhu Hailong suddenly understood.

So that was the reason.

Now that the Purple Qi Secret Realm was about to open, who wouldn’t want to enhance their strength by breaking through the Trial Tower? The key point was that Haohai Main City was extremely weak. This force had no significant ability to speak of; otherwise, the Green Lotus Sect would not have taken charge of Haohai Main City.

When faced with such a soft persimmon, why would any force resist squeezing it?

These two factors combined made everyone want to go to Haohai Main City for a visit.

Thinking of this, Zhu Hailong naturally found no reason not to take a look: “I have been away for two months, so now I need to go and see Haohai Main City. Yuan Xing the Wily, are you interested in going with me?”

“I’m not interested. Our Wood Dragon City also has a Trial Tower, and we can let the martial artists under our command improve their strength at any time. There’s no need for me to get involved in the excitement.” Yuan XingThe Wily yawned decisively.

Zhu Hailong had only made a polite invitation. After saying a few words, he directly said, “Yang Chen, let’s go!”

Yang Chen nodded and followed Zhu Hailong to Haohai Main City!

When he stepped into Haohai Main City, Yang Chen could feel its awkward situation. He could see the shadow of Beishan Main City on Haohai Main City. A main city force like Beishan Main City seemed to represent the Royal Family’s control over a region, but in reality, where did the Royal Family care?

Under the premise of weakness, it represented being manipulated at will!

“Various forces from different regions have indeed gathered in Haohai Main City; they’re not far away. Let’s go and have a look,” Zhu Hailong called out.

“Yes, Elder Zhu.” Yang Chen closely followed Zhu Hailong.

When they arrived together at the Haohai Main City’s main hall, they saw many people gathered inside.

Yang Chen saw many more Heaven Martial Realm experts among them, countless Earth Martial Realm powerhouses, and as for True Martial Realm experts, they could already be said to be numerous as hairs on a cow.

This was not a strange occurrence; the Purple Qi Secret Realm’s emergence immediately attracted various forces from all over the place. While an individual force might have few True Martial Realm and Earth Martial Realm experts, when many forces were combined, and each force contributed one or two experts, the number became quite large.

Haohai Main City’s great hall was packed with people.

When Zhu Hailong arrived, some people noticed him, but no one said anything; their eyes were all focused on the battle ahead.

“Ancestor!”

“Supreme Elder!”

At this moment, a group of people suddenly appeared.

“Hmm? Zhang Huai, you guys are here too?” Zhu Hailong looked at the group of people, and the leader was none other than the Great Elder of the Green Lotus Sect, Zhang Huai.

Yang Chen was also surprised, not expecting Zhang Huai and others to be here.

When the Great Elder Zhang Huai saw Yang Chen, he didn’t rush to say anything but was extremely astonished: “Supreme Elder, what’s going on with Yang Chen? How is he with you? Don’t tell me he’s your trump card?”

“What, do you have a problem with that?” Zhu Hailong asked suspiciously.

“No, not at all!” Zhang Huai suddenly hesitated, not daring to say more.

He was indeed shocked. Why would Zhu Hailong take a fancy to Yang Chen?

There was no reason at all!

In fact, Zhu Hailong had little contact with Yang Chen and, in theory, didn’t know much about him. However, later he heard that Yang Chen had such a good reputation and saw the few battle achievements Yang Chen had shown, which aroused Zhu Hailong’s curiosity and prompted him to investigate.

In the course of his mild investigation, Zhu Hailong became very satisfied with Yang Chen.

On the other hand, Zhang Huai was now in an awkward position. He had repeatedly suffered losses at Yang Chen’s hands before and had sworn to take revenge when he saw him again.

How could an Earth Martial Realm powerhouse like him tolerate being played by such a young man?

But now, he didn’t even dare to take revenge, as Yang Chen had the backing of the Green Lotus Sect’s Supreme Elder.

This left Zhang Huai with no choice but to obediently say, “Ancestor, this is what happened. We saw many forces arriving at the Haohai Main City earlier and came to see what’s going on.”

“Oh? In that case, you can explain the current situation to me and tell me what’s going on!” Zhu Hailong was very curious.

Zhang Huai hurriedly and carefully explained, “This is the situation: because there’s only one Trial Tower, every force wants their genius to break through the Trial Tower to increase their strength before entering the Purple Qi Secret Realm. However, because there are too many people, if they were to fight one by one, who knows when it would be their turn? So everyone came up with a rule.”

“Oh? What rule? Tell me!” Zhu Hailong asked.

“The rule is that the martial artists of each force can actively challenge their opponents. The final competition will determine who wins, and the winner will be eligible to break through the Trial Tower, accumulating thirty people per batch. Of course, the challenged person has the right to refuse, and if they refuse, the challenger’s attempt is invalid.”

Zhang Huai, as if fearing that Zhu Hailong would not understand, meticulously explained, “So in other words, you must choose an opponent with equal strength to challenge. If you deliberately challenge a weak person and they don’t agree, it will be in vain.”

The rules were simple: win a fight, and you could break through the Trial Tower.

However, winning wasn’t easy.

Because without confidence, no one would choose to make a move, and they could completely refuse the other party.

So everyone was cautious about issuing and accepting challenges.

“So that’s how it is; I understand. What’s going on with the current situation?” Zhu Hailong asked: “The gap between the two sides is quite huge, and the young man on the left seems familiar. Isn’t he the genius from Haohai Main City?”

“Yes, he is Haohai Main City’s number one genius, Lin Yunfeng. His strength has reached the Yuanwu Realm Fifth Layer, which is quite good. Unfortunately, his opponent is a genius of the superpower Donghuang Sect from the western forty-two counties.” Zhang Huai said.

The other elders also chimed in, “The genius from Donghuang Sect is called Wang Zhengtian. It is said that he is not an outstanding genius in the Donghuang Sect, but has only reached the Half-step True Martial Realm.”

“Half-step True Martial Realm, and not considered outstanding?” Zhu Hailong was stunned.

Yang Chen was also somewhat surprised.

If a Half-step True Martial Realm wasn’t considered outstanding, then what level of excellence must be reached?