"Damn it, you bastards from Overlord Martial Arts Hall, rember this, I won’t let you off!"
"Heh, does spitting cruel words now have any aning?"
One person from Overlord Martial Arts Hall stepped on a young man, taking several tokens from him.
"Zhang Tong, if you want to bla soone, bla your Eastern Martial Arts Hall’s pathetic strength."
"Let’s go!"
No one from Overlord Martial Arts Hall sympathized with the robbed Zhang Tong; the pre-selection is a process of group elimination.
You say it’s unfair?
Heh, what is fairness?
If you have the strength, even one person can pass; if you’re a loser, even a group will remain losers.
"Brother Yu, what do we do next?"
Several people from Overlord Martial Arts Hall simultaneously looked at the man in front of them. He was in his early twenties, with long hair, and a tall and sturdy body that exuded an aura reminiscent of Xiang Yu.
And his na was the sa as the overlord.
He is also called Xiang Yu.
"How many tokens do we have now?"
"Brother Yu, we have at least one token each of gold, wood, and fire, with extras. We also have two Earth Elent Tokens, but only one Water Elent Token, which is the least."
Xiang Yu frowned: "Water Elent Tokens are the fewest!"
"Yes, Brother Yu, and it’s strange. We’ve defeated over twenty people, yet most of the tokens we have are gold, wood, and fire. Even the tokens we brought were these three."
"The Earth Elent Tokens only fell after we got on the island, but there seem to be plenty of those. Yet, we’ve only seen this one Water Elent Token."
One person beside Xiang Yu wasn’t much to look at and had no distinguishing features, but among these people, he was clearly second only to Xiang Yu.
"Brother Yu, I have an immature idea."
"Oh, let’s hear it."
Xiang Yu looked at Gongsun Yu beside him, a key figure in the Overlord Martial Arts Hall, second only to him. Though not striking in appearance, Gongsun Yu had a Ph.D. and exceptional analytical skills.
Gongsun Yu mused and then spoke.
"I think we may have overlooked sothing. According to the pre-selection rules, each person must collect all Five Elents Tokens to qualify for passage."
"Is there a problem with that?" soone beside him asked, puzzled.
Gongsun Yu responded, "The committee never ntioned how many of each type of Five Elents Token there are. Based on our previous understanding, except for the final Earth Elent Token to be found on the island, what if the remaining four tokens aren’t evenly distributed?"
"I think you’ve all noticed that up to now, the tokens we’ve obtained are mostly gold, wood, and fire."
"I originally thought the committee would use the Earth Elent Token to regulate things. Now it seems it was indeed used as a plot point, but not the most significant one."
"Even if they used spatial distribution, we’ve seen a lot of Earth Elent Tokens. We managed to grab two, so why is the Water Elent Token so rare!"
With Gongsun Yu’s words, the other people also started to ponder.
"Hmm, now that you ntion it, our only Water Elent Token was taken off soone else. If we’d realized earlier, we might have pressed the opponent for information."
"What good is saying this now; the Water Elent Token was taken on the cruise." The person beside said.
Xiang Yu also furrowed his brow, "Gongsun, just tell us your conclusion."
Gongsun Yu exhaled.
"Female contestants."
"Hmm?" soone beside him looked curiously at Gongsun Yu.
Gongsun Yu continued, "If it were evenly distributed, we wouldn’t have so few Water Elent Tokens. Even that one Water Elent Token wasn’t seized but found."
"From beginning to end, we actually haven’t seen a single Water Elent Token on our opponents. Why is that?"
"Do you suspect that all the Water Elent Tokens are with the female contestants?" Xiang Yu asked.
Though Xiang Yu had a domineering personality, he deliberately avoided choosing female opponents unless they challenged him first, as winning against them seed unfair to him.
It’s not out of fear.
But rather unsportsmanlike.
Indeed, most martial artists are quite chauvinistic and disdain fighting won, as a victory wouldn’t feel honorable.
"Yes, before we boarded the cruise, I observed that out of the over three thousand participants in this initial pre-selection, only about one-tenth were won."
"That ans between three hundred to four hundred participants were female, and according to the numbers from the previous two National Martial Arts Tournants, around three hundred is about right."
"The committee is definitely using the control of the Five Elents Tokens to filter the final numbers of qualifiers."
"Originally, I thought the Earth Elent Token would control the total number of qualifiers. But now it seems not, because the thod of distributing Earth Elent Tokens from above makes number control difficult, so there might not be too few Earth Elent Tokens."
"Instead, it’s the Water Elent Tokens truly controlling the number passing."
"And if only females have the Water Elent Tokens, that explains why we’ve seen so few."
"Damn, does it need to be said? Fighting won isn’t fair, and going against them would make us scorned. I can’t bring myself to do it."
"Right, taking tokens from won, many probably think like us, which is why Water Elent Tokens are so scarce."
"Not only that, but there’s also fewer won, and many of them are good-looking with great figures. Instead of targeting them, most probably want to win their favor. Who would have thought this? The committee is sly, and if it weren’t for Brother Yu, how would we have figured this out?"
"At least I wouldn’t have thought about it and kept foolishly competing against others. But no matter how many of the other four types we snatch, it won’t matter if we don’t collect all Five Elents Tokens."
Xiang Yu found Gongsun Yu’s analysis quite reasonable; if this was indeed the committee’s plan, it was a headache.
"Regardless if it’s right or wrong, we’ll know by trying."
Xiang Yu took a deep breath. He really didn’t want to be a bully, but the pre-selection rules seed to force him into it, making him bully the female contestants.
"Ah-choo."
An elder on the cruise sneezed.
"Who’s cursing ?"
"Old Chen, your cunning design is really infuriating, but by now, it’s probably been discovered."
After a wave of eliminations on the cruise, another wave got eliminated in the over two-kiloter swim. Finally, on the island, so stronger martial arts halls swept out another batch, leaving less than half the original contestants.
As token collection continued, the remaining contestants roughly grasped the scarcity of their numbers.
Though many were eliminated, not even one-third of the eliminated were won, an unusually low elimination rate.
"But this arrangent of yours is indeed annoying; what did these young won ever do to you?"
"Oh, they didn’t do anything to ; I just can’t stand it. The National Martial Arts Tournant should be based on strength."
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