After a few hours, Austin returned to Shiny Sect headquarters.
He put on the human-skin mask that Elder Damian gave him so no one had recognized him. The mask made him look like a fierce
and unfriendly young man.
Since his looks changed, he also had a new identity in the Shiny Sect. Everyone there called him Tony Liu.
Changing his appearance gave him the advantage of moving around the headquarters freely. He didn't need to worry that
someone might recognize him or doubt him.
As soon as he arrived at the Shiny Sect, Austin received a message from Rahul. According to the message, all disciples who would
join the Four-sect Joint Tournament needed to gather at the drilling square. Since Austin was one of them, he had to be there too.
Austin didn't see any problem with it so he went. When he arrived at the square, many disciples of the Shiny Sect were already
waiting there.
Elder Damian and more than twenty disciples of the FlHoly Land were there, too.
When Austin entered the square, he immediately went to Rahul and greet him and the other members of the FlHoly Land.
Elder Damian gave him a nod as a sign of greeting and acknowledgement.
Needless to say, Elder Damian liked Austin.
The elder had always been friendly to him since they had met. It was all because of Austin's outstanding performance and his
talents. For Elder Damian, he was a promising disciple.
A few moments later, all disciples who signed up for the Four-sect Joint Tournament were all at the square.
There were more than one hundred of them.
Among those disciples were over twenty disciples of the FlHoly Land including Rahul and Austin.
The rest were elites from the Shiny Sect.
Using his spiritual sense, Austin checked the cultivation bases of all the participants.
He found out that five of them were principal disciples of the Bitter Sea Realm and fifty were inner disciples of the Emperor Realm.
There were also one hundred outer disciples whose cultivation bases were at Semi-emperor Realm and lower.
All in all, there were one hundred fifty-five participants.
The Shiny Sect was one of the fourth-class sects in the East Mainland.
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In the East Mainland, fourth-class sects also had their classifications.
Those who hadn't reached the Semi-emperor Realm were outer disciples.
Inner disciples were at the Emperor Realm and those who had reached the Bitter Sea Realm were principal disciples.
Bitter Sea Realm disciples in a fourth-class sect were rare.
Usually, there were less than ten principal disciples in every fourth-class sect. However, weaker sects only got two or three
disciples of the Bitter Sea Realm.
Shiny Sect had five principal disciples of the Bitter Sea Realm. For that reason, Shiny Sect was considered powerful among the
fourth-class sects.
"I think everyone is here now," said Elder Damian.
He looked around and counted all the disciples.
Then he turned to his group.
"You all know the importance of winning this Four-sect Joint Tournament to our sect. If we can get the first place, we will be in
charge of the sole teleportation array in the Dawning Kingdom for five years. We will benefit a lot from this teleportation array. It
will not only bring us a great deal of fortune and lots of resources but it will also improve our status," explained Elder Damian to his
disciples.
"So, | hope you do your best to win the game. Do you understand me?"
Elder Damian glanced at the disciples one by one.
Obviously, this tournament was very important to him.
He was really looking forward to a positive result of the tournament.
Shiny Sect seemed to be one of the fourth-class sects in the East Mainland, but in fact it was also one of FlHoly Land's
branches.
If this sect could have a good development, it would be an advantage to the FlHoly Land.
Hence, the senior members of the FlHoly Land sent selites to join the tournament. They paid much attention to the Four-
sect Joint Tournament.
"We got it!" replied the disciples in chorus.
They were all in high spirits.
Not only the disciples of the FlHoly Land but also the disciples of Shiny Sect were aware of the importance of this tournament
so they were ready to pull out all the stops for this contest.
"That's good to hear," replied Elder Damian.
"Let's move out!"
He then waved his hand and a beam of light cout of his sleeve. It was the sbeast bone.
The bone got bigger as the mysterious runes lit up.
Elder Damian led the disciples onto it.
"Swoosh!"
The beast bone dashed forward in the air like a flash.
When the beat bone flew over the headquarters, Elder Damian sat on his feet and closed his eyes to meditate.
When the disciples saw it, each of them also looked for a good space to rest.
Half a day had passed.
A big city cinto their view.
"We are approaching the Gold City," said Elder Damian as he got up.
The Four-sect Joint Tournament would be held in this city.
The Gold City was very important to the Dawning Kingdom
It was even more important than its capital.
The reason why it was crucial to the kingdom was because of the teleportation array in it.
In the East Mainland, cities with teleportation arrays were important to every country.
East Mainland was vast and infinite. Its size was beyond anyone's imagination.
According to its history, an Emperor Realm cultivator spent at least ten years to take a tour of the East Mainland.
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So if a cultivator planned to head for a faraway place, it would be impossible for him to reach his destination on his own.
It would take him too much tand energy.
In situations like this, a long-distance teleportation array would be very necessary.
This kind of teleportation array was especially designed to teleport people. Many leading array masters had even invested a lot in
this.
Long-distance teleportation arrays were divided into three types: small teleportation array, medium teleportation array and large
teleportation array.
A small teleportation array could teleport its targets across a dozen countries.
Medium teleportation array was rumored to transport its targets to any places in the East Mainland.
A large teleportation array could teleport its target from one region to another in the Divine Continent. For example, people from
the East Mainland could be transported to the West Desert, the South Mountain, the North Plateau or the Middle Pilgrim Land.
The one in the Gold City was a small teleportation array.
The four major sects in the Dawning Kingdom had been taking turns in controlling this array.
The Four-sect Joint Tournament which was being held every five years could be the way for these four major sects to have a chance
to take control of this small teleportation array.
"I think the people from the other three sects were also on their way now," said Elder Damian.
"Let's get to the hunting area."
Elder Damian then gave a sign to the flying bone.
'I didn't know that the Four-sect Joint Tournament will be held in a hunting area, ' Austin thought to himself.
The beast skeleton flew towards the hunting field on the outskirts of the Gold City.
Soon enough, it arrived at the entrance of the site.
They saw a throng of people swarming towards the entrance of the hunting area.
Apart from the members from the four major sects, other sects, clans and royal families also sent their men to watch the
competition.
Elder Damian and his disciples jumped off the beast bone. He then made his way to the entrance of the hunting field.
Austin and the other disciples followed him into the hunting area.