Chapter 393: The Grand Competition Rules, Diao Niang Breaks Through

The Heavenly Dynasty Grand Competition proceeded group by group. Group Ding went first: one hundred and twenty-eight contestants fought over seven days to decide the winner and top ten.

Then Group Bing had seven days to decide its winner and top ten.

Group Yi followed, with another seven days to decide its winner and top ten.

Group Jia came last, to determine the top hundred.

In truth, anyone who entered the preliminary selection’s top five hundred and twelve could become an official candidate, but they were merely Seventh Rank candidates.

Why would they want that? Seventh Rank amounted to the lord of a small city. In the Imperial Capital, it would only make them ordinary soldiers in the Imperial Guards. With their influence and backgrounds, they had no interest in such minor posts.

Most had come for the prizes and reputation.

Seventh Rank officials in other provinces were only at the Nascent Soul stage, and only in the Central Province did Seventh Rank officials start at the Soul Formation stage. As for those in the preliminary top five hundred and twelve, which of them wasn’t at least at the late stage of Soul Formation, or even at the peak? Seventh Rank officials? Not even dogs would want them, let alone mere candidate status.

Still, a place in the Heavenly Dynasty Grand Competition’s top five hundred and twelve gave them a degree of official standing. Apart from imperial descendants, none of the contestants held office themselves. They were the children of officials or major factions; gaining official standing of their own wasn’t a bad thing.

More importantly, the prizes were substantial: Spirit Stones, Spirit Liquid, Dharma Treasures, even Saint Origin Spirit Fruit. Those rewards, though, were reserved for the top hundred.

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