Xiao Yi scanned his surroundings.

These various forces, these various Heavenly Talents, and these powerful experts.

The Five Great Academies, Heavenly Hidden, Golden Dawn, Heavenly Que, Five Fools, Bright Illusion.

The five academic teams, besides the five Chiefs, also had the top disciples within their respective academies; of course, they also had elders leading the teams.

These leading elders, Xiao Yi hardly recognized any of them.

The other four academies need not be elaborated.

His connections with these four academies were originally very few.

And as for the Heavenly Hidden Academy here, he similarly didn’t recognize anyone.

But in his perception, these leading elders were at least more powerful than Supreme 9994 Dao Cultivation level experts.

Each academy, with two people, a total of ten people.

The two from the Heavenly Hidden Academy were likely hidden elders from the Heavenly Hidden Mountain peak.

The other four academies should be the same.

As for disciples, it was the same situation.

In the Five Great Academies, apart from the five Chiefs, Gu Feifan, Linghu Wang, Golden Dawn, and others, he wasn’t too familiar with the top disciples of the other four academies.

On the contrary, the top disciples of the Heavenly Hidden Academy were nearly all familiar faces.

Seven-orifice Fang Shushu, Heavenly Sound Chu Rou, Huoo Linlang, Heavenly Blue Muu Ning, and so on.

However, the five teams obviously formed a single entity.

On the other side, there were the Eighteen Mansions’s Talents, Beiyin Sect Martial Artists, and nearly a hundred first-class forces.

Similarly, they all had their own elders leading the teams, each with two.

The elders from the Eighteen Mansions and the Beiyin Sect were also all above the Supreme Realm, a total of 38 people.

Meanwhile, those from the first-class forces were much inferior, most of their leaders were around the Peak of Saint Emperor Realm, with few reaching the Martial Arts Great Power Level.

To this, Xiao Yi wasn’t surprised.

In fact, with his strength, he often encountered martial artists above the Martial Arts Great Power level and with Supreme Realm strength.

Looking across the vast Central Region, Martial Arts Great Power was actually a quite formidable martial artist.

Daring to be called Great Power was already proof of the vast amount of Martial Arts this martial artist controlled, and his great strength.

A Martial Arts Great Power, truly placed in a first-class force, was already one of the top strength.

Among these first-class forces present, the leading Peak of Saint Emperor Realm experts were probably some of the strongest elders within their forces.

And those leading at the Martial Arts Great Power Level should be like the sect masters or old sect leaders.

Naturally, Xiao Yi couldn’t recognize all these people, but a few indeed renowned Martial Arts Great Powers, he could still recognize; they were all sect leader figures within the first-class forces.

The martial artists present were roughly like this.

And what was most important to mention was the numbers.

Yes, the numbers.

On the Five Great Academies’ side, each team had over twenty people.

Apart from the two leading elders, the Heavenly Talents truly entering the Ancient Emperor’s Tomb definitely numbered more than twenty.

On the various great forces’ side,

apart from the Eighteen Mansions and Beiyin Sect having relatively more numbers, the rest of the nearly hundred first-class forces had only a few people.

On the Five Great Academies’ side, there’s no need to mention, the five teams formed a single unit.

While on the various great forces’ side, one could clearly see, each force distinctly gathered together.

Some were closer to the Heavenly Spear Mansion side; some were closer to the Ye Saint Mansion side...

One could clearly see that these nearly hundred forces were evenly distributed into four groups.

And the centers of these four groups were the Heavenly Spear Mansion, Ye Saint Mansion, Arrow Star Mansion, and Dongli Sword Palace.

The reason for this was not hard to see.

Among the various great forces, the ones with actual quotas were these four forces.

And the leaders of these four forces, Ran Qi, Ye Liu, Lingg Hong, and Ao Yinfeng, were within the main game.

Additionally, they could lead a certain number of martial artists into the Ancient Emperor’s Tomb.

Naturally, for those great forces without quotas, being close to these four major forces became necessary.

Their Heavenly Talents, even if they couldn’t enter the main game, entering the Ancient Emperor’s Tomb was in itself an opportunity, and they could gain some reward, more or less.

If luck favored them, these gains wouldn’t necessarily be small.

As for the Central Region Eighteen Prefectures, Heu Youu, Xue Bai, Lei Ba, Gongsun Huowu, Guu Lianxing, and others, all had no quota.

Neither did Beiyin Sect’s Beiyin Dong.

But they could follow Ye Liu, Ran Qi, and Lingg Hong to enter.

Of course, this required a price.

Whether to lead these Heavenly Talents into the Ancient Emperor’s Tomb depended on those with quotas.

Among the Eighteen Mansions, there must be agreements or trades.

It was the same for other first-class forces, perhaps offering certain benefits to the Heavenly Spear Mansion, Arrow Star Mansion, and Ye Saint Mansion or paying a certain price to the Dongli Sword Palace.

In short, these Heavenly Talents from major forces originally without the qualification to enter the Ancient Emperor’s Tomb, could follow and enter at this moment.

Seeing this, Xiao Yi couldn’t help but smile.

At this moment, it was not hard to imagine the preciousness of those ten quotas for the Ancient Emperor’s Tomb.

The benefits the Heavenly Spear Mansion, Ye Saint Mansion, Arrow Star Mansion, and Dongli Sword Palace obtained from various great forces were undoubtedly considerable.

However, Xiao Yi’s smile wasn’t because of anything else, but because he remembered a time when he didn’t have a single quota, yet shortly after, within a year, he inexplicably had a pile of quotas.

And all those quotas were given away.

The only quota that couldn’t be given away was the one acquired by winning as ’Yi Xiao’ in the Dongli Sword Palace.

If he could sell that quota, Xiao Yi would absolutely do so without hesitation.

Xiao Yi shook his head with a smile.

Beside him, Ye Liu and others asked in confusion, "Brother Xiao Yi, what are you smiling about?"

"Oh, it’s nothing." Xiao Yi smiled.

"I was just thinking, if I could sell this quota, it would fetch quite a benefit."

Around him, Ye Liu, Ran Qi, Qing Lin, and others couldn’t help but roll their eyes at Xiao Yi.

"Those entering the secondary game are one thing, the price offered by major forces is acceptable, and we are okay with leading them in."

"But the real quota, the opportunity to enter the main game, is such a tremendous opportunity; who would be foolish enough to sell it."

"Heh." Xiao Yi chuckled, saying nothing.

...

Half a day passed quickly.

In the light-hearted conversations between Xiao Yi, Ye Liu, and others, half a day flew by.

At this moment, it was just at night.

Ao Donglou, as if sensing something, glanced at the sky.

Xiao Yi also suddenly furrowed his brow, looking up at the sky.

The area deep in the Extreme East was desolate and vast, looking up at the sky casually revealed densely packed stars, dazzling and bright.

But among those dense stars, at this moment, the brilliance unexpectedly carried a trace of mystery.

Xiao Yi narrowed his eyes, "Heavenly stars gather, starlight forms an array, it’s actually stirring the surrounding Heaven and Earth Power."

The scattered starlight seemed ordinary, but the starlight blended in the surrounding Ancient Restriction Formation, reflecting like a boundless starry curtain.

A trace of indescribable mystique was slowly moving around.

"It seems the Ancient Emperor’s Tomb is about to open." Xiao Yi murmured to himself.

After a while, Ao Donglou shouted violently, "The Ancient Emperor’s Tomb is about to open."

"Those with quotas, step forward immediately."

...

First update.