Five days later, Ling Sha's martial matchmaking was held on the map "Desert Sea" to the northwest of Zone One.
The Huashan Guild invited several brother guilds to help, and they forcibly cleared out a large area in the Desert Sea to serve as the venue for the event.
Various sects and schools, at the very least two to three thousand people, were active within the venue.
Many sects that had not been seen last time also appeared here this time.
After Jiang Kai and Zhou Chu arrived at the scene, they were also shocked by the grand scale of it all.
Such a big display also made Jiang Kai feel a trace of curiosity toward this martial-minded Ling Sha.
"The last time there was such a big scene was when the Ancient Martial Alliance leader was selected last year," Zhou Chu said from the side. "Didn't expect Huashan to make such a huge spectacle just for a martial matchmaking."
"Who's the current Ancient Martial Alliance leader?" Jiang Kai asked.
"Chen Feng, the sect master of Tianxuan Sect," Zhou Chu said. "Tianxuan Sect has developed rapidly over the past twenty years. He himself is super-six full level, an honorary member of the Four Divine Beasts Group of the Huaxia War God Hall. His attainments in martial arts are also extremely impressive, and he can be considered both virtuous and skilled."
Jiang Kai could not help but sigh. "The Four Divine Beasts Group, I still haven't seen them yet."
"Not seeing them is normal. The Four Divine Beasts Group has only twenty official members in total, plus eight honorary members. You could say these twenty-eight people are the strongest combat force in Huaxia right now."
"Are the honorary members all from the ancient martial circle?"
"Six of them are from the ancient martial circle. The other two are older and stepped down from being official members, but they still have combat ability, so for now they're placed among the honorary members," Zhou Chu explained.
"Then among these twenty-eight people, how many have strange professions?"
Zhou Chu shook his head. "The official roster is a military secret, let alone their professions or talents. Even members of the Four Divine Beasts Group don't know information about members of other subgroups."
"Oh right, you need to be careful. The Twelve Sacred Beasts Groups also have differences in strength. The White Elephant Group where Dongfang Ming is belongs to is considered relatively weak. This time, there are members from other Sacred Beasts Groups participating in the competition, and their strength is stronger than Dongfang Ming's."
Jiang Kai smiled slightly. "Old Zhou, I already said I'm not here for matchmaking. I'll just fight casually. If it really doesn't work, I can even take the initiative to concede. Who cares about strong or weak."
Zhou Chu looked at Jiang Kai and said in a low voice, "Grandmaster, with your strength, you could actually enter a Sacred Beasts Group."
"I have my own team," Jiang Kai said. "I'm used to teaming up with them. I don't want to go to other teams."
Zhou Chu nodded lightly. "That works too. Anyway, the Sacred Beasts Groups aren't fixed. If a team's strength improves, it can replace another subgroup and become a new Sacred Beasts Group."
Jiang Kai did not take this too seriously.
A Huashan disciple came over to Jiang Kai and Zhou Chu. After learning that the two were representing Qingyun Sect, he led them to their designated seats.
An hour later, most of the guests had already arrived, and the preparations for the martial matchmaking were complete.
Interestingly, because this was the Desert Sea map, some disciples responsible for security would occasionally clash with desert lizard dragons.
However, everyone else was already used to it, letting the host deal with the beast disturbances themselves, while they had already turned their attention to the open arena at the center of the venue.
Before long, the Huashan sect master, along with four elders and three men wearing blue uniforms, walked to the center of the venue.
Zhou Chu quietly introduced them to Jiang Kai. "That's the Huashan sect master Yin Tianguang. Behind him are the four great elders of Huashan. The three in uniform look like they're from Dongfang Military Industry."
"Is Dongfang Military Industry related to the Dongfang family?" Jiang Kai asked casually.
"No relation."
Yin Tianguang walked to the center of the venue, clasped his fists to all sides, and said in a booming voice, "Thank you, fellow practitioners, for honoring us with your presence to attend my daughter Yin Ling Sha's martial matchmaking."
"First, let me share some good news with everyone. Our Huaxia's Dongfang Military Industry has already developed its own recording equipment. This time, Engineer Liu personally brought his disciples and the equipment to record the wonderful moments of this competition for us."
"At that time, as long as you participate in the matches, we will send your match videos offline."
The three men in uniform gestured to those around them.
This news caused quite a stir. After all, at present only Genesis Technology and the island nation's Shima Tech possessed video equipment globally, and now Huaxia had its own as well!
"Dongfang Military Industry really is impressive. Golden Compass, Ruichuang, and Xuanwu couldn't develop it, yet they managed to do it first."
Zhou Chu smiled slightly. "Dongfang Military Industry is state-level. They're usually low-key, but their technical strength is not inferior to other companies."
After introducing Engineer Liu and the other two, Yin Tianguang continued, "Everyone has heard about my daughter's fondness for martial arts. This time, we went to great lengths to invite the most outstanding young talents of this era."
"Actually, whether the matchmaking succeeds or not is not something I, as her father, can decide. But since talents from all sides have gathered today, then next, let us properly appreciate the demeanor of the younger generation."
"I won't say much about the rules of the martial matchmaking. Same old rules. Participation is voluntary, and the winner may present Ling Sha with a gift."
"However, there is a slight change. Since some distinguished guests have come from afar, returning gifts afterward would require a lot of trouble. So Ling Sha will choose on the spot whether to accept the gift, rather than returning it three days later."
"As I always say, martial matchmaking is our ancient martial people's inheritance of our predecessors' culture, but we must also keep pace with the times. That is precisely why now it is martial matchmaking, not martial marriage selection."
"Since it is matchmaking, it requires mutual willingness. Therefore, I hope the young people participating in the competition will keep a calm mindset."
"Lastly, I also hope everyone can come on stage and display their strength. That's all. Now then, the competition begins!"
Yin Tianguang and the four great elders clasped their fists to the crowd once again, then stepped down from the stage together with Engineer Liu and the others.
Jiang Kai frowned. "Why hasn't that Yin Ling Sha come out?"
"What? Aren't you not interested in her?" Zhou Chu asked curiously.
"I'm just asking. It's a martial matchmaking, and the main person doesn't even show her face. Who's going to get on stage?"
"Heh heh…" Zhou Chu sneered twice. "Ling Sha's beauty doesn't need proving. She and Chang Siyuan are both young people in the ancient martial circle, the two recognized goddesses."
"But she should at least come out and let people see her. Someone like me hasn't even seen her at all. Normally speaking, I wouldn't get on stage."
As soon as Jiang Kai finished speaking, seven or eight people immediately jumped onto the arena.
Seeing this, Elder Hu of Huashan hurriedly went on stage to coordinate, and only then arranged for two people to fight first.
Jiang Kai had a head full of black lines. Could the reason he couldn't find a girlfriend be that single dogs had already become this fiercely competitive? Everyone else was scrambling to get on stage, while he was still secretly crushing…
After stepping down, Yin Tianguang chatted and laughed with the people around him.
Standing around him were people from Tianxuan Sect, Penglai, Tianchi, and several wearing military uniforms. They all looked like people of extraordinary status.
"Old Zhou, you're a sect master too. How come they didn't arrange for us to sit in the main viewing stand?" Jiang Kai asked curiously.
Zhou Chu said somewhat embarrassed, "The main viewing stand has limited seats. That's a privilege of major sects. Our Qingyun Sect only has a little over a hundred people now, so we're not qualified to go there."
"We're in the front row anyway. Let's just make do."
The two people on stage were fighting fiercely, but in Jiang Kai's eyes, their strength was not outstanding and did not catch his interest.
"Why haven't Dong Shuai and the others arrived yet…" Jiang Kai pondered.
He just wanted to get this matter over with as soon as possible. So should he wait for Dong Shuai and the others to arrive before going on stage, or just go on stage first?
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