71 Group battles

as soon as he walked in from the door, several people standing on the platforms glanced at him. they were surprised to see him but they didn't give him that much attention. The person with golden skin was a rare sight but there were myriad of cultivation techniques which allowed some cultivators to grow wings and some to transform into animals too.

Thus ace didn't cause much of an impact when he arrived. The four sects also didn't recognize ace as Han shuya and others saw ace before he transformed. The appearance of ace back then was tottly different from right now. He was more handsome and more mature.

" Wow, who is that golden handsome? I wonder how strong he is? if he has decent cultivation, it'll be worth it to chase him! "

" Do you think he can grow gold from his body? do you think he is rich? "

" Big sister i think i am in love! "

" You little brat! how can you fall in love at such a young age? besides, that person would look good with your big sister here hehe"

of course, Ace's good-looking face was further enhanced with his strength. He attracted the attention of the females in the stadium and earned the envy of many males. He slowly walked towards his assigned battle platform.

There were five Battle platform in the stadium and the first round would be a group Battle Royal. There were almost 100 people gathered in each platform as there were just too many disciples. The four second rank sects had millions of disciples and only a fraction of them were here. They were all geniuses nurtured by the sect to take important positions in the future.

there were many disciples there as ace glanced at them one by one. There was no need for him to bring any technical aid with him this time as he was already protected by the titanium dragon from the sky and Alice, with the help of Eternal swarm. In fact, the eternal swarm was now even more bigger and stronger after two days that passed.

The projection of Sector lord appeared on the screen as Ace smirked. Two days were taken for people to get used to hearing sector lord's voice and seeing him on the big screen and even if he didn't appear now, they won't suspect a thing. He gave the control of Eternal Swarm to the Alice and also the responsibility to act as him by wearing the Red Devil armour. Alice was an Advanced AI and could replicate his behavior perfectly as she was able to convince the people that she was the Sector lord.

" The platform in the middle which is the biggest is for spirit master rank 5. Make sure that you don't kill or cripple anyone and the stray attacks would be taken care of by the shields.

There were force fields all around the battle platform which ran on neuclear energy and can even stop a small atomic bomb from going off and contain the damage in one are.

They did this by creating a small area of gravity vortex based on the principal of the event horizon. The black hole which won't even allow light to escape from it and it would slow down even the time at the event horizon.

The same principal was applied here but In much smaller scale. The gravity vortex engine would produce a psudo even horizon force field around the platform and nothing would escape from the force field. If someone decided barge in, he would be thrown back with a rebound.

" Now, when the bell rings, all the participants can start fighting. Keep in mind that we only need top 1000 and there are almost hundred thousand people who are participating. So per 500 participants, only 5 can win. The battle royal has one condition to win. either you defeat 100 people or you survive untill only five people are remaining. You must make opponent unable to fight, The participants who are injured or defeated would be asked to leave the ground immediately..."

There were several other rules announced as soon a small army of robots marched into the tournament ground and they stood below the battle platforms. " The robots would make sure to extract anyone critically wounded. Now, let us Begin with this exciting match! "

* Gong *

The sound was like a thunderclap that woke up the participants as they rushed towards nearest person standing near them. Some made groups with the same sect members while some ganged up on the strong ones. There were also some who went after their enemies and some who were hiding in the dark.

Ace was standing there watching the chaos unfold as a big guy with a dark rusted heavy axe walked towards him. Other disciples instinctively avoided him as he walked and stood in front of ace. " Hey pretty boy, you would my first hunt, blame your bad luck that you have such a good-looking face. let me help you take your beauty down a notch "

Ace churned his internal Spritual force as it slowly gathered in his stomach. It then moved into his right arm and his arm swelled as if a dragon was travelling inside of it. He punched the huge guy who was attacking him with an axe. the impact was so loud that it can be heard by all 100 people in his platform. The big guy was sent flying.

Ace noticed the first thing after he utilized the spiritual force was that he was having a hard time gathering the scattered spiritual force in his body. although he was able to fo it in half a second, it wasn't fast enough. He already had so much knowledge about cultivation now and the thing he was lacking was a spirit core. By gathering the huge amount of spiritual force that available to his spirit master rank body, he would be able to form a small ball of Spiritual energy.

This was called a spirit core and after it was formed, he won't have to bother collecting the Spiritual force from different places in his body, he can directly burst forth with spiritual force with the help of Spirit core.

" It seems i need to form this Spirit core as soon as possible..." He smirked as he looked at other disciples staring at him with hostility. There were only a few strong individuals in the Spirit Master rank 1 and all of them wanted to be the one to survive from 100 people. Some of the sect disciples had an agreement to fight together with any dark horse that appears and crush them at this stage so that their seniors in top 300 won't have to bear the pressure of losing their spot to lone cultivators.

As soon as the big guy who was sent flying, landed on the ground, the ground was cracked a little as the person coughed blood. The forcefield slowly opened and a robot swiftly pulled him outside for treatment.

" It seems he is a dark horse, get ready! everyone, we must defeat him here " A tall disciple of the Five elemental mountain spoke. He was Dai Yin, A genius of Water elemental spiritual force. As soon as he spoke up, More than half of the 100 people gathered behind him. They all looked ace with hostility as Ace smiled as he looked at them.

" I knew this would happen...you can not watch a lone cultivator get ahead of you...but you chose the wrong person to mess with today..." As he said that, He suddenly jumped into air as he pointed his palm towards them. the spiritual force rushed to his palm as a huge golden palm descended from hid palm as it landed on several lone cultivators who were standing near him while fighting. They were all crushed under the palm and some even passed out from the pressure.

He instantly defeated 8 people as he landed on a different spot. The robots were busy getting the defeated out one by one as he looked at the sect's combined group. " It's good that you guys formed a group.... it'll be boring if you come at me one at a time...."