161: Preliminary selection is over, top ten announced

The preliminary round of the Eastern Wasteland First Martial Arts Tournament was a difficult hurdle for all teams.

Coupled with the randomness of the tokens, it also gave many forces that were not particularly powerful an opportunity.

But overall, being powerful was still an advantage.

Among the ten qualifying spots, the majority were occupied by established forces, and there were also emerging forces that rose unexpectedly, becoming dazzling dark horses.

They secured the qualifying spots.

Excluding Lin Hao and the others who were the first to reach the summit of Pilgrimage Mountain.

The second team to arrive was the Piao Miao Holy Land!

They were lucky this time, getting ahead of other teams on the journey and successfully finding seven tokens to reach the mountain peak.

Following closely behind were Lin Yan and the others.

The last token held them up for a while.

But in the end, it didn't stump them, and they successfully reached the mountain peak, completing their qualification.

After that, the people from Reincarnation Holy Land, led by Huang San, became the fourth team to qualify.

Regarding their fourth-place finish.

Huang San was filled with displeasure.

They were the champions of the previous tournament! Their strength was definitely the strongest in this tournament.

How could they only get fourth place?

However, since the main tournament had not yet begun, it was still unclear who had taken the top spots.

“Hmph, the luck factor in this preliminary round was too great.”

Huang San took a deep breath, his tone filled with strong disdain.

“Otherwise, how could we be fourth?”

In this tournament, apart from the old rivals from the few Holy Lands, he didn't pay attention to anyone else.

Even someone like Ouyang Haochen from the Piao Miao Holy Land.

To him, he was just a defeated opponent.

Not worth mentioning.

Being robbed of first place by them did make Huang San somewhat angry.

In the end, he could only blame it on bad luck.

After the Reincarnation Holy Land, the people from the Boundless Sacred Ground also became the fifth team to qualify.

However, these people seemed to have no opinion on this.

After learning their ranking, they left in silence.

It seemed that for them, the ranking was not important, as long as they could qualify.

Subsequently, two emerging forces successively passed the preliminary round with sixth and seventh place finishes.

Following them was the Qingyun Sect, which was relatively well-known throughout the Eastern Wilderness.

Although their strength was not comparable to the Four Great Holy Lands, and they did not have a Human-Celestial realm ancestor presiding over them.

They were still considered to be in the second tier, a force of the same level as the Eastern Sky Dynasty.

Achieving eighth place this time was not glorious, to be honest, so they did not linger for long.

The ninth place was an established force in the Eastern Wilderness.

One of the Four Great Holy Lands, renowned alongside Reincarnation, Piao Miao, and Boundless, the Taichu Holy Land.

Finally, there was the last qualifying force that everyone was anticipating.

Time was already approaching evening,

From the audience's perspective, they could already see two teams rushing towards the summit of Pilgrimage Mountain.

One of them was already in sight of the mountain peak.

But…

A familiar scene played out again.

“Robbery!! Nobody move!!”

The sudden roar made that teamStunned.

They stared in surprise at the four people blocking the road ahead.

The four people from the Eastern Sky Dynasty!

And the one who had just roared was the Second Prince.

He was having a tough time.

He had finally gotten lucky and collected two sets of tokens, and he was about to be first.

As a result, he was intercepted by a Lin Family he had never even heard of.

The key was that they were also short on people and couldn't win, so they could only obediently hand over the tokens.

Those beasts even directly looted both sets of tokens to reduce one opponent.

Making the Second Prince want to cry without tears.

However, in despair, he also came up with a solution.

Damn it, if those beasts could block the road and rob, why couldn't they?

So, they started waiting for prey.

The second team to pass was the Piao Miao Holy Land…

Uh, they couldn't beat them, so the Second Prince didn't make a move.

Then the third team, Lin Yan and the others, the Second Prince didn't recognize.

So he went up to try.

The result.

A guy with glowing eyes took down the entire team by himself.

If the other party hadn't been in a hurry to go to the mountain peak, it is estimated that they would have been severely beaten.

Immediately after, injured, they watched helplessly as powerful teams like Reincarnation Holy Land, Boundless Sacred Ground, and Taichu Holy Land passed by, not daring to make a move.

There was nothing they could do, the strongest person in their team hadn't arrived, and they truly had no confidence in dealing with these established powerhouses.

In the middle, two emerging forces also passed by.

However, since those two forces seemed to know each other, they traveled together.

There were too many people, so they didn't dare to attack.

Seeing that nine teams had already entered, they could no longer hold back.

They jumped out at this moment.

This was the last spot, if they didn't work hard now, they really wouldn't have a chance this year.

Fortunately, their luck was still good, and the strength of this team was not strong.

Without paying a significant price, they successfully achieved victory.

They obtained ten tokens.

There were duplicates.

But this was not enough, for some reason, what they needed was twice the number of tokens.

So, they started waiting again.

Until the arrival of the last pair.

The four people from the Eastern Sky Dynasty used their old trick again.

However, this opponent was much stronger than the previous one.

In a four-on-five situation, the Eastern Sky Dynasty side couldn't even take down the opponent for a while.

They were dragged into a protracted battle.

In the end, after paying a heavy price, the Eastern Sky Dynasty defeated the opponent with three people severely injured and one lightly injured.

They once again obtained eight tokens.

Since they were obtained from two teams, they managed to gather two sets of tokens.

Then, the group of four, supporting each other, stumbled along.

With great difficulty, they climbed to the top of the mountain.

Successfully secured the last qualifying spot.

At that moment, the Second Prince even felt like crying.

It was too difficult.

This journey was truly too difficult, but, fortunately, they did not fail their mission, even though there were only four of them, they still reached the top ten.

As the Eastern Sky Dynasty team secured the tenth place.

Old Qin's voice immediately resounded throughout the entire Pilgrimage Mountain Range.

“The top ten of the Eastern Wilderness have been decided, I apologize, all the forces that are still fighting, the preliminary round is over.”

“You are eliminated!”

The calm voice spread throughout the entire Pilgrimage Mountain Range.

Immediately after, the barrier that had shrunk to only a two-kilometer radius stopped.

Then it slowly dissipated. Within this two-kilometer range, there were at least twenty teams, over a hundred people searching, fighting, and climbing.

But no matter what they were doing, the top ten had been decided, and everything they did was meaningless.

“The end of the preliminary round also signifies the imminent start of the main tournament.”

“The time is tomorrow morning at sunrise.”

“Everyone, please look forward to it!”