Long Yu would not despise others for no reason, but Qi Ziguang was really worthy of his contempt.
The disdain in his eyes was a natural expression of his true feelings, which made Qi Ziguang hate him even more.
However, Long Yu naturally wouldn't care about this.
If he was afraid, he would not have chosen to mock Qi Ziguang and challenged his men to a fight in the street, thus humiliating him.
We are all enemies anyway, so what if I express disdain
The atmosphere in the entire martial arts arena was very lively, but everyone had not arrived yet, so the city lord Sha Yuantian did not stand up and start speaking.
Logically, before the annual Sand City Competition begins, the city lord should give a speech and then display the rewards.
As people continued to pour into the martial arts arena, it became more and more lively, and the area near Sha Yuantian gradually filled up with people.
Ye Lun quietly introduced his eight senior brothers to Long Yu one by one. Long Yu took a rough look at them and memorized them all in his mind, thinking that they might come in handy someday.
What surprised Long Yu was that among Ye Lun and his eight senior brothers, Qi Ziguang, as the seventh, had the lowest martial arts level.
As for the second senior brother Zhu Tao, he seemed a little unworthy of his generation, as he was only at the Tianchu realm.
You know, among the nine brothers, the fourth one is already in the Tianhua realm, while the second one Zhu Tao and the third one are only in the Tianchu realm. As for the eldest brother, of course, he is also a strong man in the Tianhua realm. If he goes further, he will be able to break through the bottleneck and become a strong man in the Tianjie realm like Sha Yuantian.
Except Qi Ziguang, Long Yu will not meet any of these people.
However, Long Yu knew that there would definitely be many people secretly targeting him in the Sand City Competition, such as Zhu Tao's subordinates, and perhaps one or two junior brothers who were close to Zhu Tao would help him deal with Long Yu.
"Just use whatever abilities you have. Anyway, I'm determined to take over the position of the chief of Renhua Realm."
Long Yu narrowed his eyes and thought.
Then, probably thinking that everyone was present, the city lord Sha Yuantian, an old man with shiny black hair still in the center, finally stood up and raised his hand.
This action quickly quieted the noise in the venue, and everyone looked up at Sha Yuantian.
"This year marks the 108th anniversary of the completion of our Yellow Sand Sky City. It also coincides with the Grand Qualifying Tournament, which is held every 20 years. This Sand City Competition can be regarded as a warm-up match for everyone to participate in the Grand Qualifying Tournament."
Sha Yuantian looked around and smiled: "In order for everyone to achieve good results in the Grand Selection, according to convention, the rewards for this year's Sand City Competition will be richer than usual."
After saying this, he turned around, raised his hand, and waved away the black cloth covering the shelf beside him.
Next to the shelf stood two Heavenly Realm Sand City guards, guarding the rewards on the shelf that would be given to the winners of the Sand City competition—a large number of elixirs and combat soldiers!
"In the Sand City Competition, the Human Elementary Realm groupings are open. The top three will each receive a lower-grade Heavenly Grade Pill, and the first place winner will receive an additional lower-grade Heavenly Grade Pill. The same goes for the Human Bloom Realm and Human Tribulation Realm groups."
After hearing these words, Long Yu's eyes lit up.
This convention is really good. In order to ensure that everyone participating in the audition can achieve good results, the winning rewards for this Sand City competition have been doubled.
Of course, this is for Long Yu, because he is determined to get the first place in the Human Realm.
"Two different mid-grade Heaven-level elixirs may be enough for me to enter the Human-level realm, as long as I can break through the bottleneck..."
Long Yu thought about it in his heart and became more and more excited about the Sand City Competition.
“… As for the various groups in the Heaven Realm, in addition to the original rewards, the top three will each receive an additional two Heaven-level elixirs!”
Sha Yuantian continued to speak, causing the whole audience to be shocked.
It was nothing for Long Yu. The earth-level combat soldiers were of no use to him. After all, combat soldiers had to be combined with martial arts to achieve the greatest effect, and most of the martial arts practiced by Long Yu were unarmed martial arts.
As for the Nine Nether Dragon Spear, he had not used it for a long time and only kept it as a memorial left to him by his father.
"Every year, the strength of our Huangsha Tiancheng is constantly improving. One day, our Huangsha Tiancheng will become the strongest in the Tiangang Realm. I hope that everyone will continue to work towards this goal."
After Sha Yuantian finished speaking, he finally sat down and waved his hand, saying, "Let's start with the Human Realm competition and announce the draw results."
As he said this, a burst of colorful light suddenly appeared in the sky above the martial arts arena, forming a series of characters, which was the name list of all those who had registered for the Sand City Competition.
The first thing that appeared was the battle list of the Human Initial Realm, Human Flower Realm, and Human Tribulation Realm.
Long Yu raised his head and looked towards the sky. After a rough search, he found his name - Mountain Ghost.
"There are actually more than fifty Huajing cultivators who have signed up to participate in the competition."
This number really surprised Long Yu. It seems that Huangsha Tiancheng still has a strong foundation.
You know, a martial artist at the Human Hua Realm can definitely become a hegemon on the Tianyu Continent, and there are more than fifty martial artists of this level in Huangsha Tiancheng alone.
These are the people who participated in the Sand City Competition and are under 40 years old.
In the entire Huangshatian City, there are definitely more than a hundred martial artists in the Human Hua Realm, which is a terrifying number.
"There are probably only a dozen or twenty martial artists at the Human Hua Realm in Tianyu North Court..."
Based on what he saw when he participated in the Tianyu Holy Selection, Long Yu made some guesses and roughly concluded that the strength of Tianyu North Court was far inferior to that of Huangsha Tiancheng.
Of course, Tianyu North Academy is just a branch. Tianyu Holy Academy has a total of five academies. When combined, the overall strength should not be inferior to Huangsha Tiancheng.
Long Yu couldn't help but think that when he just left the Dragon Skeleton Ancient Tower, he killed Yuan Hao Ning, a martial artist in the Human Hua Realm from the Jiutian Star Palace. It seemed that it caused a great loss to the Jiutian Star Palace
The Sand City Competition was divided into groups of people from the Human Realm, with a total of fifty-two participants. They fought in pairs according to the order determined by the draw, and the final winner would take the top spot.
The rules are simple but also cruel, because if you lose a game you will be eliminated and have no chance to continue.
This is of course no problem for Long Yu.
"My first opponent turned out to be Chu Chengke."
Long Yu thought of the big-eyed naked strong man who had ambushed and tried to kill him on the streets of Sand City ten days ago. He didn't expect that his first opponent would be him.
Is there something fishy about the order of the draw? Otherwise, how could it be such a coincidence...
But no matter what, it doesn’t have much impact on Long Yu.
In the Renhua Realm group, the first to play was Gu Jun. His opponent was dejected as soon as he came on stage, obviously feeling very unlucky to have drawn Gu Jun as his first opponent.
Although he felt that it was impossible for him to get into the top three, it would be too embarrassing to lose in the first round.
Of course, although he knew that he was no match for Gu Jun, that man still insisted on going on the field and fighting with Gu Jun. As the saying goes, if you lose, you must lose beautifully. This made Long Yu quite admired.
It seems that except for a few people, all the martial artists in Huangshatian City are pretty good.
The ancient army won easily, and after returning, Long Yu flew to the field.
As Long Yu appeared in the arena wearing a ghost mask, 80% of the people in the arena turned their attention to him.
Opposite Long Yu, the big-eyed naked strong man Chu Chengke appeared with a big knife.
"You had Young Master Ye to protect you last time, but you won't be so lucky this time. I will beat you until you beg for mercy."
Chu Chengke said with a grin, looking like a butcher.
Long Yu didn't say a word. After he came on the stage, he raised his hand and the Nine Nether Qi condensed directly in his hand.
"Awake and reincarnate, drunk and sleep in the underworld!"
Long Yu threw two consecutive punches at Chu Chengke through the air, and the Nine Nether Qi immediately spread out!
Chu Chengke didn't expect Long Yu to attack directly, but he didn't panic. He slashed across with the big knife in his hand. A bright sword light swept out and went straight to meet the two black fist lights of Long Yu.
"Nine Nether Explosion!"
Seeing that Chu Chengke was concentrating on dealing with his fist, Long Yu punched the ground without thinking, and condensed the Nine Nether Explosion Stream under Chu Chengke's feet.
The two punches that Long Yu threw first had already forced Chu Chengke to use all his strength to block them.
Suddenly feeling something was wrong under his feet, Chu Chengke immediately put away his sword and flew straight up into the sky.
However, the next moment, a column of nine-ghost energy exploded and instantly enveloped Chu Chengke who flew into the sky.
A strong man in the Renhua realm is much more durable than an ordinary martial artist. After enduring Long Yu's Nine Nether Explosion, Chu Chengke did not die immediately. Instead, he managed to fly out of it, shook twice, and then fell to the ground with a thud.
All this happened in less than three breaths.
Chu Chengke's words about beating Long Yu until he begged for mercy were still ringing in everyone's ears, but at this moment, the big-eyed naked strong man had already fallen to the ground twitching all over.
"Mountain Ghost...wins!"
The martial artist who was in charge of refereeing took a long time to react, and quickly called other martial artists to come and carry Chu Chengke out for treatment.
Long Yu glanced at Chu Chengke. If there were good healing pills, the injury would not be fatal.
"So fast!"
Eighty percent of the people in the martial arts arena were paying attention to Long Yu's fight. When they saw that he dealt with Chu Chengke so easily, they all looked as if they had seen a ghost.
After all, Chu Chengke won third place in last year's Sand City competition.
However, now, he couldn't even deal with the ghost-faced masked man in the initial stage of human existence, the so-called mountain ghost!
Not only was he unable to deal with it, but he was seriously injured and defeated before he could even last three moves. This shows how terrifying the power of the "Mountain Ghost" is.
This scene successfully attracted the attention of Sha Yuantian and some of his nearby disciples.
Not only Zhu Tao and Qi Ziguang, but even Ye Lun's other senior brothers looked at Long Yu with some hostility in their eyes, because Long Yu's rise would inevitably make Ye Lun even more powerful, which would not be a good thing for them!