Two Transcendents suddenly broke into a fight, instantly attracting the attention of everyone present.

The scene became chaotically frenzied!

A live-to-air host quickly hoisted up the cameraman, exclaiming excitedly, "Oh my god! The tournament has started early! Reporting for you from Doumao Platform, a warzone journalist. First up is the number one from Alliance Academy, clashing with the person at the top of the historical score leaderboard!

As you can see, neither side is using their supernatural abilities, but every move they make is still fierce and life... Good! Chen Yu has used the Super Invincible Tornado Slam... oh! They seem to be fighting over something? Cameraman, get closer please.

It's clear now! It's a pair of underwear!"

...

Ten minutes later.

Chen Yu and the long-haired man, with ragged clothes and a slightly bruised face, were brought into a small room on the 998th floor.

The chief examiner paced back and forth, confused, "What are you guys doing?"

"He stole my underwear," Chen Yu said, wiping that scratch at the corner of his mouth, his expression ugly.

"It wasn't stealing," the long-haired man flicked his bangs to cover his blackened left eye, explaining, "It was taking."

"Are you sick?" the chief examiner looked at the long-haired man in shock.

"If keeping one's word counts as a sickness," the long-haired man put his hands behind his back, looking up at the ceiling, "then I'm indeed critically ill."

"Bullshit!" Chen Yu launched a kick straight at him, "I'll make you critically ill right now."

"Chen Yu, don't go too far! Up to now, I've been going easy on you, understand?"

"No need to go easy. Today, one of us must die."

"Scared of you? Bring it on."

"Stop it!" The chief examiner felt their scalp tingle and hurriedly pulled the two apart, "Would the two of you quit it!"

The long-haired man slapped off the dirt from his kicked leg, scoffed, "You only dare to do this because the chief examiner is here. Otherwise, would you still dare to raise a hand? Trash."

"Shut up! Chen Yu, you stand right there and don't move." Blocking between the two, the chief examiner, annoyed, ruffled their hair and said to the long-haired man, "Explain what is going on. Why did you 'take' Chen Yu's under... underwear?"

"To reiterate, it was not stealing. It was taking," the long-haired man stood tall, "We made a bet that if his score went over twenty points, I would put his underwear over my head. A man stands by his word; I was just doing what needed to be done."

"Damn it." Chen Yu was furious, "I clearly didn't take my clothes off before sleeping last night, how did you steal them?"

"The weak will always be the weak. With your level of alertness, I could've killed you in your sleep and you wouldn't have noticed."

"Chen Yu, his ability is concealment class. It's relatively easy for him to steal things," the chief examiner sighed and once again looked at the long-haired man, "But you stole someone's underwear without saying anything, that's not a good thing to do... wait, the bet you guys made was really dumb! Are you insane? Betting on underwear?!"

"The bet isn't important," the long-haired man put the underwear back on his head, "Accepting a bet and owning up to the loss has always been my way of the ninja."

"Ninja my ass! Chief examiner, step aside and let me finish him off."

"Come on then!" the long-haired man seemed eager to continue.

"Take off that underwear!" the chief examiner, also infuriated, instinctively reached to take off the underwear from atop the long-haired man's head, but feeling that something was not right, quickly threw it back, "Don't you feel that you're both acting very oddly? Behave yourselves! Come with me to draw lots!"

"Give me my underwear," Chen Yu reached out.

"Come and get it if you're man enough."

"Will you two SHUT UP!!!"

...

Eventually.

Under the strong mediation of the chief examiner, Chen Yu and the long-haired man finally went upstairs, waiting in line to draw lots.

But deep down, both of them had already seen each other as sworn enemies.

"Don't let me encounter you in the tournament," Chen Yu's eyes filled with a murderous intent.

The long-haired man replied disdainfully, "I was thinking the same thing."

Chief examiner: "If you two dare to start a fight again, both will be disqualified from the competition!"

Calming the two, she walked onto a temporarily constructed stage under the puzzled gaze of the crowd, scanning the entire arena, "All media personnel, staff members, move back."

The area was cleared.

Only twenty Transcendent candidates remained.

The chief examiner took a large box from an assistant and gave it a shake.

Inside, there was a clattering noise all mixed together.

"The tournament officially starts at noon, twelve o'clock. There's still four hours of time now. Audiences are currently entering in an orderly manner."

"The rules of the tournament are even simpler."

"Unrestricted combat, with the use of non-prohibited weapons that have been brought in is allowed. Victory is decided when one side surrenders, faints, becomes paralyzed, dies, or is thrown out of the arena."

"It's a knockout competition. Win and you move up, lose and you're out. The top ten will receive rewards issued by the Human Supernatural Bureau."

"That's all."

As the chief examiner's voice barely paused, she surveyed the crowd: "If anyone has questions, now is the time to ask. Contestants who think they were seriously injured in the previous assessment can also apply to withdraw."

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The tallest centaur standing in the corner raised his iron club, speaking in clumsy human language, "One-on-one, only that?"

"Yes," the chief examiner nodded.

"T]I[.K, P... (What if I don't understand their surrender and end up killing them?)"

"LP[O]P. (There will be invigilators to stop you,)" the chief examiner smiled.

"UP... (If they manage to in time.)" The centaur put away his iron club and said no more.

"Anyone else have questions?"

"I do." Chen Yu raised his hand, pointing at the long-haired man, "Set a separate area for just the two of us."

"Agreed," the long-haired man also raised his hand.

"Sorry, each opponent is chosen at random." Holding up the box, the chief examiner announced, "Since there are no more questions, let's start the draw. One by one."

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