Faction Competition

Faction Competition (大比 dabi), contest at Xuantian Monastery, involves capturing flags
== Factions alliances ==
Once the first Faction Competition had ended and Long Chen had been exiled, all the factions in the monastery had formed three alliances.
One was the alliance led by Gu Yang. They had a total of seven factions, and they were the absolute strongest.
Then, there was another alliance led by Tang Wan-er and Ye Zhiqiu. They had a total of five factions.
Other than Song Mingyuan and Li Qi, the fifth person to bring their faction to support them was Luo Cang.
That was the first stranger who had expressed his support of Long Chen.
There had been others who had stood next to him to express their support for him back then. However, once he had been expelled, they had all maintained their silence, some even furtively joining Gu Yang's alliance.
That was definitely infuriating, but Tang Wan-er was also helpless. She had seen the cruelness of reality.
Of the seven other factions that had stood up for Long Chen, only Song Mingyuan, Li Qi, and Luo Cang had truly been in support of Long Chen and would have left with him.
The other four had clearly just been awed by Long Chen's terrifying strength and wanted to get closer to him.
Although Gu Yang was powerful, there was no way he would be able to resist both Tang Wan-er and Ye Zhiqiu.
Most importantly, within their factions was Long Chen with his limitless potential. Even at the seventh Heavenstage of Blood Condensation, he was able to just barely fight off against Tendon Transformation core disciples. That displayed his potential to everyone.
So back then, they had thought that with everyone supporting him, they would definitely be able to save Long Chen.
That way, not only would they embody justice, but they would also be able to get a powerful companion. 
But later the sect leader had appeared and exiled Long Chen to the rubble wasteland, stupefying them. In their eyes, Long Chen was definitely already dead.
They had had no choice but to rethink their alliance. Some of them had barely hesitated to throw themselves to Gu Yang, subserviently joining his faction.
=== Neutral alliance ===
Other than Gu Yang and Tang Wan-er's alliances, there was also a neutral alliance. That alliance was led by Guan Wennan.
He was the fourth core disciple who had revived his ancestral mark. His combat power was incredibly powerful, and he was extremely arrogant.
But in front of three others who had also awakened their ancestral marks, he couldn't help but be nervous. That was especially true when it came to Gu Yang. He had already awakened his ancestral mark before joining the monastery, so his strength was definitely the greatest of everyone.
With Gu Yang and Tang Wan-er taking opposing sides, he had smartly chosen to be neutral. He didn't curry favor with Gu Yang, but he also didn't strike Tang Wan-er while she was down.
He led four factions to do their own things. They wouldn't offend either of the two other alliances.
== Story ==
During the first Faction Competition, Tang Wan-er and Ye Zhiqiu's factions had been betrayed, causing them to have zero flags at the end, ranking them last.
Then, Long Chen had furiously killed those traitors and had been exiled to the rubble wasteland. The chances of him returning alive were extremely slim. After all, that was the graveyard of the exiled.
Ever since the monastery had been established, there had not been a single core disciple who had managed to walk out of the wasteland alive.
Furthermore, all those exiled core disciples had already broken through to the Tendon Transformation realm, while Long Chen had only been at the seventh Heavenstage of Blood Condensation. 
Yet Long Chen survived.
Long Chen's departure had been a large blow to Tang Wan-er and Ye Zhiqui's morale. But they were comforted by the fact that even after such a huge setback, there was not a single person who left their faction.
After consuming the medicinal pills Long Chen had left for them, their factions' cultivation bases once more grew explosively. Even without the support of many points, they weren't at all inferior to others.
Whenever they went to the Mission Distribution building, they were only able to receive a couple of garbage missions.
Furthermore, they were unable to obtain even those trash missions every day. The majority of the missions had already been taken by the other factions. There was zero chance of them obtaining a high level mission with more rewards.
Whenever they went to go accept missions, they were often provoked, ridiculed, and abused by the other factions.
That had caused Tang Wan-er and Ye Zhiqiu to be endlessly infuriated. Even just receiving the lowest level missions brought other people's provocations onto them. If they were then unable to accomplish those missions, not only would they not get any points, but they would also be intolerably bullied.
==References==
Category:Xuantian Dao Sect/East Branch/36th Supermonastery/108th Monastery
Category:Contest