Chapter 24: A Stirring Call, Respondents Flock!

"You were the sixteenth to fall." Tian Shan said.

"The sixteenth to fall?" Zhao Xing was somewhat surprised. He thought he would be among the last few."

"The top-tier geniuses' falling times are quite close." Tian Shan smiled, "Shi Yong and Zhuang Ziqing only lasted ten breaths longer than you. The last one standing, however, was Feng Qiu."

"In the final stage, it comes down to a bit of luck as well."

Zhao Xing nodded slightly.

Indeed, in the final few dozen, it's no longer about one's strength.

It depends on the position of the strongest opponents across from you and who you choose to target.

As Zhao Xing knew, the strongest two geniuses from the military department, Xia Jing and Fu Ying, had both reached the late stage eighth-grade and had even mastered martial skills beyond the Nine Revolutions.

If luck was bad, encountering these two first in the final stage could easily push one out of the top twenty-one.

"[Incapable training], done every other day."