Hong Domain/Top-100-Talent Competition

The **Top-100-Talent Competition** of Hong Domain is hosted by the Sky-sea Pavilion and take place in the Holy City of Top 10 inside the Great Hong Empire. There were four thousand talents participating in the Top-100-talent Competition.

## Qualification Phase

To be able to participate in the Top-100-Talent Competition, participants need to earn a spots among the 4,000 distributed. There were 30 places for each of the 29 small countries, and 200 places for each of the six big countries. 100 places were given to each of the seven superpowers as well. Other than that, a couple dozen places were given to each of the dozens of powerful forces from the Great Hong Empire. These four thousand talents represented the best from their respective powers to fight for the top 100 positions.

### **Skymoon Country**

Skymoon Country had 30 positions available in the Top-100-Talent Competition this time. Apart from the four sects, small sects or powers were allowed to contest over the positions as well. Hence, there were many from small powers here for the contest. Some Rogue Cultivators were also here to watch the battles. However, there were very few disciples in the small powers who could enter the True Spirit Realm before the age of 25.

Location : Sky Rapier Sect

* There was an age limit for the Top-100-Talent Competition, and only geniuses below 25 could take part.
* There are 156 participants.
* The competition will be held in the three fighting rings at the same time, which means there are 52 fighters in each ring.
* It’ll be one versus one, and the winner will get one point. The top 30 scorers, 10 from each ring, will earn the right to be a candidate.
* Elders have grouped all the disciples and gained the approval of all sects in advance, to prevent the saturation of Lv 3 experts in one group.

#### **Groups**

* Group 1 : Yun Jiankong, Zhang Qing, Ma Linfeng, Yang Chong, ..
* Group 2 : Duan Jingtian, Shi Fei, Shen Fan, Wang Qi, ..
* Group 3 : Jin Yang, Xie Tianjue, Ren Qianshan, Su Mo, Xia Han, Shao Sheng, Qi Hua, ..

#### **Battles**

Note : N/A = Not Available, D = Defeated, K = Killed

#### **Results**

* *Qualified :* Yun Jiankong, Duan Jingtian, Shen Fan, Su Mo, Jin Yang, Xie Tianjue, Qi Hua, ..
* Apart from Su Mo and Duan Jingtian, only five other core disciples of Gale Island had received the rights to participate in the competition.
* Jin Yang managed to qualify but due to his injuries, he won't be able to recover in time and thus had to give up his participation.

## Rules & Regulations

According to the competition rules and regulations, the Top-100-talent Competition had two segments. The first segment was a battle of the talents and the second segment was dueling.

## **First Segment - Battle of the Talents**

The battle of talents was to test the talent of all participants. This segment was also known as the talent elimination match. It was crueler in the sense that participants would be disqualified regardless of their strength. However, this situation rarely happened. Without sufficient talent, it was unlikely for one to be strong at all, much less obtaining a place for the Top-100-talent Competition.

* The post-archean Test Pillar for Talent was used for examing the warriors’ comprehensive talents, including Martial Soul talent, body constitution talent, willpower talent, and other talents related to martial arts. Every kind of talent could affect the final result.
* A martial artist’s talent was segregated into nine levels with nine different colors. From the bottom to the top: red, orange, yellow, green, teal, blue, purple, golden, rainbow.
* For every level, there were 10 ranks and every section on the testing pillar represented a different rank.
* The participants whose talents fell behind the top 500 would be directly disqualified.

* The 500 talents whose badges are still lit will proceed to the next round, for the fight for the top 100.

## Second Segment (Part 1) - Five Arenas

* The battles take place in the **Archean Fighting Ring**. See more informations here.
* Only 500 participants remain to fight for the top 100.
* The following duels will be held simultaneously across five archean fighting rings.
* The jade tournament badges participants hold will automatically assign them an opponent.
* The Top-100-talent Competition differs from an average competition as the victor is determined by the amount of Talents’ Luck stored in the contestants’ individual jade tournament.
* The winner will swallow a portion his opponent’s Talents’ Luck. Similarly, the loser will lose a portion of his Talent’s Luck.
* The geniuses on the List of Top 100 Talents have accumulated a lot of Talents’ Luck, which explains the gold light from their jade tournament badge. They thus start with more talents luck that newcomers.
* Those with little Talents’ Luck will be able to swallow a larger portion of Talents’ Luck should they defeat an opponent with more Talents’ Luck than them. Conversely, those with abundant Talents’ Luck will only be able to swallow a tiny portion of their opponent’s Talents’ Luck should they defeat an opponent with little Talents’ Luck.
* There were five large fighting ring arenas, situated on the north, south, east, west and central. Soon, all 500 talents were assigned to an arena, with each arena equally assigned 100 talents.
* The combat strength in each fighting ring was well-balanced thanks to the Top 100 Talents token allocation. The number of experts in each ring was similar and the top geniuses were all distributed evenly.
* A Golden light mean that the current Dragon Luck is in the top 100 among participants, that you are currently a member of the List of Top 100 Talents.

### Results

* They did not make it to the top 100 : Ji Xuehan, Yun Jiankong, Xie Tianjue, ..

## Second Segment (Part 2) - Qualifying Matchs

* The 100 participants remaining will be the new 100-Top-Talent of Hong Domain
* The qualifying match will take place on random fighting rings.
* Although tokens randomly arranged participants, they followed certain rules. The next opponent of the winning person is normally the one with longer Dragon Luck than his previous opponent’s, while the defeated person would face one with shorter Dragon Luck.
* Liife-and-death fight are at participants will.

## Second Segment (Part 3) - Final Matchs

* Only 10 participants remain.
* Everyone would have to fight the other nine competitors.

### Final Ranking

 2nd
 3rd
 4th
 5th

## Firmament Divine Realm

It was rumoured that any young talent whose Dragon Luck managed to cross the thousand feet mark at the Top-100-Talent competition would be able to open the door to an ancient land, the Firmament Divine Realm. Su Mo managed to do it after his victory against Ao Wushuang.

Only talents on the List of Top 100 Talents who had Dragon Luck would be able to pass through the gates of Firmament Divine Realm to receive treasures, and even discover the secrets to martial art skills. However, the talents of Hong Domain had not been very powerful in the past millennia, and not one talent’s Dragon Luck had been able to reach the height of a thousand feet. Thus, the gate to Firmament Divine Realm had remained shut. This resulted in Hong Domain’s standard of martial arts to be much weaker compared to the other domains in the East Continent, causing many experts to leave Hong Domain, never to return. Now that the entrance to Firmament Divine Realm was opened, it signified an awakening of martial arts in Hong Domain.

## Trivia

* In the history of Skymoon Country, no one had ever even reached top 50.

## References

1. ↑ Chapter 313
2. ↑ Chapter 284
3. ↑ Chapter 310
4. ↑ Chapter 317
5. ↑ Chapter 313
6. ↑ Chapter 314
7. ↑ Chapter 317
8. ↑ Chapter 319
9. ↑ Chapter 321
10. ↑ Chapter 322
11. ↑ Chapter 323
12. ↑ Chapter 324
13. ↑ Chapter 344
14. ↑ Chapter 408