22 The start of the tournament!

After an hour of waiting every competitor have Finally arrived on stage! But all competitors kept a distance from the seeded disciples! And finally the announcer arrived and announced the rules of the first stage.

" Goodmorning everyone I am the announcer for the 1st stage of the tournament! In the 1st stage everyone isn't going to fight one another but have to withstand the pressure of ten 7th layer foundation building realm experts for one hour! The people who kneels or unable to hold on until the one hour pass is disqualified and is not anymore eligible to join the 2nd round of the tournament!" The announcer shouted to the crowd.

Everyone was surprised and amazed! Ten 7th layer foundation building realm!! Those are the top experts of the whole magnolia kingdom!! Everyone of them can be compared to the sect masters of big sects!! They were amazed of how powerful the royal family of the magnolia kingdom really was! It looks like being the overlord of the kingdom wasn't just for show. They had the strength to back it up!

After a while ten 7th layer foundation building realm martial artist were up on their respective platforms and began to put pressure on the competitors in the tournament! But the pressure was only of the 1st layer foundation building realm. There are a total of 300 cultivators who were able to join the 1st stage

of the tournament but nobody knows how many are able to advance at the 2nd round of the tournament! Because just now as the first one minute of the round passed alot of cultivators are already sweating! But to everyone's surprise the seeded disciples and some unknown cultivators arent even bothered by the aura like it was just a normal breeze to them! But after 10 minutes the pressure being released by the ten people began to increase and it went up to 2nd layer and finally a few cultivators of the 8th and 9th layer body building realm collapsed to the ground full if sweat! Some even collapsed on the spot and some spurted out a mouthful of blood!

A few more minutes passed uland the pressure being released by the ten 7th layer foundation building realm experts began to rise! And finally only 10 minutes remains until the 1st round of the tournament ends! You can see every competitors full of sweat! Even the seeded disciples weren't excused! Every single one of them were full of sweat!

Xiao long was watching Zhao Fu as he persevere towards the end. Xiao long understood the true meaning of round one and that is the cultivators will! Will is the most important thing that the cultivator must have! Even is you have the talent if you don't have the will to go on you will still be stepped on by others in this world! The will of a cultivator is the thing that will decide if you are going to be stepped on by others or you will rise up to fight those who wants to step on you!

As Xiao long watched Zhao Fu struggle he smiled. Not because he likes seeing his disciple struggle but because he saw in Zhao Fu's eyes his will! His eyes told him that no matter what obstacles that may come in his life he won't give up! He will persevere until the end! He must win!" I believe in you." Xiao long said to himself while watching his disciple.

After a while only 1 minute was left until they move on to the next round but there are only 50 or so competitors left! And all of them were tired! Everyone of them gave it their best and finally after one minute the first round of the tournament finished!

" Congratulations to all of the competitors who were able to finish the first round! We will have a short break for the competitors to have a rest. The second round of the tournament will begin this afternoon!" The announcer said before leaving.

" Master I did it!" Zhao Fu excitedly ran towards Xiao long while shouting.

" I knew you would pass the first round. Congratulations!" Xiao long said with a hige smile on his face." First lets go back to the inner world so that you can take a rest

After Xiao long and Zhao Fu entered the inner realm Xiao long gave Zhao Fu some healing pills and let him rest because the second round is still in the afternoon and it's not yet known what's it going to be.

After resting for a few hours both Xiao long and Zhao Fu went back to the arena and Zhao Fu once again said his farewell to Xiao long. And Xiao long smiled and nodded to Zhao Fu while saying goodluck.

"Welcome back competitors!! I know that all of you are tired because of the first round but fear not because the second round won't tire you physically. The second round is all about your comprehension! We are going to provide you with a set of techniques from a 1-star kingdom! Yes you heard me right! To be fair the sponsors of this tournament bought a martial technique from a 1-star kingdom and we will give you exactly 5 hours to comprehend the technique as much as you can! And one of our sponsors will judge your understanding and depth of the technique! I repeat you only have 5 hours!" Afer saying the rules every competitor were given a copy of the martial technique and the announcer said." And the 5 hours... start now!"

The competitors started to read the technique and comprehend it Zhao Fu was no exception because everyone is only given 5 hours!

Xiao long was smiling because he knew that this was Zhao Fu's forte for he had a rating of 23/25 in his comprehension!!" Just believe in yourself Zhao Fu and relax. Try not to rush things." Xiao long said in a small voice.

After a while of reading the technique some competitors tried to practice the technique and some sat cross legged and tried to comprehend its essence and Zhao Fu was one of the few who tried to comprehend it more.

After a while Zhao Fu suddenly opened his eyes and started to practice it! The name of the technique was Fist of Fury were the user throws lightning fast punches with strong attach power to his enemies.

After a few hours of practicing only 30 minutes were left before the time was up and Zhao Fu once again sat cross legged and tried to comprehend the technique once again and finally when they only had 1 more minute before the time was up Zhao Fu stand up and performed the Fist of fury with confidence seen in his eyes and movements!" Fist of Fury!!" Boom! Everyone then looked towards Zhao Fu with a look of astonishment in their eyes.