243: The cover-up

"Participants from all the various Sects, behind me is the location for this team competition. This Secret Realm is home to a large number of extremely ferocious Yao Beasts, so please act according to your own capabilities."

"There are no restrictions on methods for this team competition. Even snatching them from others counts. The beast cores are not registered to anyone; whoever hands them in, they belong to that person."

An Elder from the Divine Mirror Sect stood at the front, unfurling a scroll in his hands, upon which the rules of the team competition were clearly written.

As he read aloud, he observed the expressions of those present. As a high-ranking member, he naturally knew that this competition would likely have circumstances different from any in the past.

With those large Sects joining forces, what started as merely the ambition of the Heavenly Profound Sect gradually turned into a movement to overthrow the Ten Great Powers.

The others naturally would not agree to this, so they divided into various factions. This time, it could be said to be very spectacular.

Every family sent Elders or Disciples to observe, wanting to see what kind of outcome this Grand Competition would ultimately lead to.

If the allied army could win, the names of at least three or four of the Ten Great Powers would be rewritten.

The Elder softly chanted some incantations, and then the Secret Realm behind him began to slowly form into a whirlpool, with an extremely powerful suction force coming from within.

"Everyone, after entering the wormhole, the Token you carry will keep your Sect united, allowing you all to descend into this Secret Realm together. I wish you all a safe journey!"

After speaking, the Elder stepped aside to open the passage, and they entered in order of their ranking.

This Grand Competition was limited to the top one thousand Sects; those ranked below one thousand were simply too weak. There were many powerful Yao Beasts inside, and if they went in, they would very likely be wiped out by a single Yao Beast.

Therefore, it was best not to let them go in and throw their lives away.

These Tokens not only allowed them to be teleported together, but they also had another function: Qi binding. As long as they crushed the Token, the power of space would appear and whisk them away from the Secret Realm.

This place is not some illusion; if you die here, you are truly dead.

Therefore, everyone's life must be the priority.

All beast cores from killed Yao Beasts must be placed inside the Token; beast cores not placed inside do not count.

When two parties are in battle, their Tokens will become entangled with each other's Qi. If one side is defeated by the other and is forced to crush their Token to teleport away, half of the beast cores in their Token will be taken by the opponent.

This also prevented those Cultivators who wanted to hide beast cores within their Tokens. In this way, the Grand Competition could be kept within a certain scope.

The Ten Great Powers entered the portal in order of their previous rankings, and then with a flash of light, everyone disappeared from where they stood.

On the large screen outside, images suddenly appeared, and the people in those images were none other than the Disciples who had just entered.

A large number of people appeared in various corners of the Secret Realm. Su Yao led the Heavenly Profound Sect Disciples to appear on a dense grassland, where a breeze blew by, and the green grass rolled continuously like a turbulent sea.

Everyone checked the surrounding environment and couldn't help but take a few extra breaths of air; the air here was simply too fresh.

"Senior Sister, it is so empty here; it seems like it might be quite difficult to find Yao Beasts."

Zhang Hai looked around, a look of confusion on his face. The view here was excellent, and the area was very vast, but they could not see any shadows of animal activity.

Obviously, on this grassland, they would not encounter any animals for the moment.

Su Yao frowned deeply, observing all around for a long time without finding any traces of prey.

"Everyone, hide your figures now and start shielding your own Qi. Try your best not to be discovered by anyone. Let them do the work of hunting Yao Beasts."

"It's only a month anyway. Let them hunt a large number of Yao Beasts, and when the time comes, we will go directly to hunt them."

Su Yao's tactics were both simple and brutal. At the same time, they also sent their location to the other few allied Sects.

At this moment, the people watching the large screen outside saw that the people from the Heavenly Profound Sect actually had no sense of urgency and were lying on the grass with their hands behind their heads, resting leisurely.

Some even started setting up pots, heating oil, and cooking a meal in one go, as if they were here for an outing, not to participate in a competition.

At this time, all the contestants had entered the Secret Realm and were scattered everywhere. The various Powerhouses of the Divine Mirror Sect looked at each other and nodded.

Except for the Heavenly Profound Sect, which had fewer people, the other large Sects were basically deliberately arranged near those hostile Sects.

They couldn't win one-on-many, but one-on-one was definitely a crushing victory.

They naturally knew where those hostile Sects had been teleported to, so they headed towards that direction immediately.

They intended to start a massacre before this group of people could gather together, causing them to suffer a loss in combat power.

In this way, their strength could be divided, and even if they gathered together later, they wouldn't pose much of a threat.

Everyone had their own tasks; only the Heavenly Profound Sect's task was to hold this grassland.

The reason was very simple: this grassland was the place where they needed to rendezvous. Once the other four major Sects finished handling these matters, they would immediately come to this grassland.

After all, this Grand Competition was hosted by the Divine Mirror Sect. Now that this bunch of ants wanted to threaten their status, they naturally would not show any mercy; all the underhanded tactics that should be there were present.

This matter was only known to the high-ranking members of the Divine Mirror Sect; the high-ranking members of the other large Sects did not know that there was such an arrangement.

The team-leading Elders specifically instructed the Disciples on which direction to go, as their enemies were there.

In this way, they could wipe out those hostile Sects in a short period of time.

Li Haotian looked at the scene on the large screen, a smile curling on his face. Those Sects thought their approach was very clever, wanting to join forces to overthrow the Ten Great Powers, but they did not know that their plan had long been exposed and a countermeasure had been devised.

This time, they were the ones who initiated the trouble, so the Ten Great Powers naturally would not show mercy and would inevitably exterminate their Sects.

These Sects would not have an easy time in the future.

They indeed had the strength to become stronger, but they lacked the strategy and power to seize the throne of the Ten Great Powers.

To have remained in the position of the Ten Great Powers for so long, which one was not a Sect with a Legacy of nearly ten thousand years? How could they be easily overthrown by them?

As the various Sects began to move, an extremely tragic slaughter broke out in the Secret Realm.