"..."
Right, Young Miss wasn't ambitious, she wasn't here to enter higher level Dragon Gate Tournaments.
While Xiaoyao and the others were talking, they also noticed that as soon as they came out, Fourth Prince and Li Yuan kept staring at them, seeming very shocked why they could still come out, as if nothing had happened.
Could it be his Drunken Fragrance Powder had problems.
Fourth Prince could only accept this explanation, otherwise he couldn't think of or believe any other reason, he could only grit his teeth watching Young Miss and the others, he felt somewhat regretful, he shouldn't have let them off so easily just now.
He couldn't imagine they would appear again, and still carrying tokens, everyone had one, including his three sisters, this was what he found most unacceptable.
Although Princess Ke Xin also greeted him the same way, still just as gentle, she no longer stood together with him, instead stood beside Young Miss and the others, the other two were even more cold, this was also within his expectations and was ignored by him.
County Princess Ling Lan had influence, but to avoid suspicion and prevent people from suspecting her father wanted to usurp the throne, regarding the struggle for the throne, she and her father had no voice and wouldn't interfere in any matters.
Princess Ke Xin would have to marry sooner or later, and Zhang Caiyi's current influence was declining, naturally had even less impact, if it wasn't like this, he probably wouldn't have easily abandoned them.
Because of the previous conflict, Fourth Prince never came to say anything to Guxing again, he hadn't reached the point of being completely shameless, or rather, he could be despicable and shameless in secret, but on the surface he cared about face.
Xiaoyao and Young Miss waited at the final exit, chatting while waiting for everyone to come out.
"Xiaoyao, how many people do you think will come out this time?" Young Miss asked.
"There should be quite a few, actually if they could pass the front parts, the back is simple, this time is just symbolic screening, removing some who really lack strength, basically they'll let most of them pass," Xiaoyao said.
"What do you mean?"
"Young Miss, our Heavenly Wind Kingdom has quite a few spots for Dragon Gate Tournament, at most we can send seventy to eighty people, meaning we just need to eliminate a dozen or so from the previous group, then everyone can pass," Xiaoyao said.
"Ah, is that so?" Young Miss only now learned about this.
Each country would be given certain quotas based on their national strength, having a few more actually didn't matter, but strength definitely had to be sufficient, otherwise going out would just be embarrassing.
"Therefore boss and the others should all be able to pass, as long as they don't encounter too unlucky situations," Xiaoyao said.
"Really?" Young Miss continued asking, "Then let's guess who will be first."
"I think it should be boss," Xiaoyao said, and not long after his words landed, Guxing appeared, her body still clean as before, no tears, no dust, as if no battle had occurred.
"Seventh Sister, could it be you also had no one guarding?" Young Miss was very puzzled, Guxing's condition didn't look like battle had occurred, and this time was too fast, she had just arrived.
"There was, I defeated him," Guxing said indifferently.
"..."
"Underestimated you," seeing Young Miss's shocked expression, Guxing continued explaining.
Even if he underestimated her, being able to defeat the guarding examiner wasn't easy, probably not many people here could do it.
Right, Guxing was the only person who defeated an examiner, while others even if their opponents underestimated them, couldn't find opportunities to defeat them.
Next was Fourth Prince, if talking about individual strength alone, he was indeed very strong, him appearing second was probably very normal.
When Fourth Prince saw Guxing and Young Miss both waiting, his expression immediately changed, he originally thought he was fastest, didn't expect to still lose in the end.
At this time he didn't know Young Miss passed directly, at this time besides the examiners and Young Miss's group, no one else knew, didn't know someone was directly let through.
Because of this, he thought Young Miss had fought her way through, of course he just felt Young Miss must have been lucky to arrive here first.
Same with Guxing, he felt she was also lucky, and when he learned Guxing defeated the examiner to pass, his expression would be as wonderful as it could be.
"Sure enough still fell behind," Nangong Suxin said after coming out, seeming to already understand this result.
"Eh, Nangong Suxin, you look like you were beaten up, so disheveled," Young Miss looked at Nangong Suxin and laughed, laughed heartily, because she saw Nangong Suxin was somewhat bedraggled.
"You think I'm as lucky as you, I met a perverted examiner who insisted on beating me up like this before saying I passed. Eh, Guxing, how come you look like nothing happened?" Nangong Suxin started complaining, she was indeed somewhat unlucky, and when she saw Guxing's appearance, she was puzzled.
"Seventh Sister defeated the examiner, hehe, how about that, awesome," Young Miss said with a smile, as if she was the one who did it.
"No way, defeated the examiner?" Nangong Suxin asked in shock, while Fourth Prince standing to the side with a cold smile also changed expression, both thinking this was impossible.
These examiners all had King Level strength, taking up almost half of Heavenly Wind Kingdom's King Level warriors, and how old was Guxing, reaching General Level intermediate would already be incredible, King Level was almost impossible.
"Just luck, he underestimated me," Guxing replied lightly.
"This isn't luck, this is strength, which of us didn't they underestimate..." Nangong Suxin frowned, she now understood Guxing's strength was far more formidable than hers.
To say those King Level examiners didn't underestimate them was impossible, originally this wasn't a life-or-death battle, plus the level difference was there, anyone would underestimate.
But underestimation was underestimation, if the strength difference was large, it was completely meaningless, those who could win definitely had certain strength.
Next, Nangong Tianming, Lin Yi, Mo Mo and others also appeared, it seemed Mo family members basically all passed, and Nangong family was the same, Qingyun Province had over twenty people pass, this was a glorious thing for Qingyun Province.
"Congratulations, you will represent our Heavenly Wind Kingdom in the Dragon Gate Tournament Eastern Regional Competition, this time the eastern regional will be held in New Moon Empire three months from now."
"During these three months you can go home, but it's best to concentrate on cultivation, Heavenly Wind Kingdom will provide the best resources for your training, you can use the royal palace's training grounds, and the library in the royal palace will be open to you."
This was Heavenly Wind Kingdom's reward for each victory, therefore even if they didn't continue winning in the subsequent Dragon Gate Tournament, they could get compensation here, Heavenly Wind Kingdom's resources and library could definitely compare to a great family, after all it was a nation's power, how could it be small.
Three months' time was enough for many people to gain much, especially common genius talents like Zhan Bai, believing after getting these three months of support plus the secret manuals in the library, he might soar to great heights.
Of course, this was also what Heavenly Wind Kingdom most wanted to see, the better the Dragon Gate Tournament results, basically also represented a country's stronger national power, at least this continent saw it this way.
Therefore, after leaving this Heavenly Wind Kingdom, in the subsequent Dragon Gate Tournament, it would become cruel, because this was no longer national selection, but struggle between nations.
New Moon Empire, wasn't that a newly promoted empire, it seemed they wanted to use this Dragon Gate Tournament to establish their national prestige.
Regarding this New Moon Empire, people present probably all knew, this New Moon Empire was a new empire that had just been promoted to empire status in recent years.
According to continental rules, for a country to become a kingdom or empire, they had to meet certain conditions, without such conditions they wouldn't be recognized, even if you called yourself an empire, no one would treat you as an empire, and doing such things would only bring humiliation with no benefits.
You had to meet conditions to be promoted, this was something everyone knew, no one would play tricks here.
This was also because empires had certain benefits, which was receiving tribute from nearby kingdoms, this rule was established who knows when, but everyone had always followed it, after all empires had no reason not to want this benefit, while kingdoms didn't pay out much.
Of course kingdoms also received corresponding returns, like receiving empire protection, when invaded by other kingdoms, empires had obligation to mediate and protect, though only to a certain degree, couldn't be too much, but if you tributed more things, naturally protection would be more.
Some small countries without power to protect themselves would tribute large amounts to empires, generally empires would protect such small countries, otherwise who would tribute in future, and these small countries generally no one wanted to swallow, after all too small, unnecessary, therefore empires actually didn't lose out.
Empire standards were similar to kingdoms, kingdoms needed ten or more King Level warriors, while empires needed ten or more Emperor Level warriors, this seemed simple but was very difficult to achieve.
Emperor Level warriors, the entire continent only had so many, most concentrated in Great Tang Empire and various major sects (sects had their own territories, didn't belong to any country), Even if the remaining ones are divided into ten each, there will not be more than six…
(End of Chapter)