All those defeated by Chu Feng had been eliminated.
And Chu Feng had obtained a key, just as he wished.
After that, the other contestants entered the barrier gate.
Approximately two hours later, people began emerging from within the barrier gate.
After the first person stepped out, the second and third followed in quick succession before long.
Before much time had passed, a full one hundred people had emerged from the barrier gate one after another.
After the hundredth person walked out, Wuming Ken formed a hand seal and softly uttered the word "open."
In that instant, a tidal surge of energy rushed out from within the barrier gate, and within that energy were countless silhouettes.
But in mere moments, every single entrant had been carried out along with that surge of airflow.
However, these people too were all eliminated contestants.
Wuming Ken stowed the colossal gate away into his pouch, and the real show officially began.
The one hundred people who had emerged from the gate first, together with the ten individuals standing atop the Summit Pillar, made a total of one hundred and ten. These were the ones qualified to enter the Nine Dragon Phenomenon Ridge and compete for the Ten Stars of Ancestral Martial.
It could be said that these remaining one hundred and ten people were the elite, selected from among hundreds of thousands of young generation cultivators.
Among these one hundred and ten individuals, the weakest was at the Heavenly Immortal Realm—not a single one among them was weak.
Not only were they formidable in strength, but most hailed from prestigious noble families and were geniuses long renowned across the land.
Looking at these one hundred and ten people, the anticipation in the crowd's eyes burned even brighter. They all knew that this was when the true show was about to begin.
"Many of you have no doubt heard of the Nine Dragon Phenomenon Ridge. It is a legendary place—a legend says that it leads straight down into the deepest depths of the Nine Dragon Upper Realm."
"Whether this legend is true or false, we do not know. All we know is that to this day, countless people have entered the Nine Dragon Phenomenon Ridge, yet none have truly reached the depths of the Nine Dragon Upper Realm."
"Many among them even went in and never returned—no trace of them alive or dead."
"The reason for this is that within the Nine Dragon Phenomenon Ridge, there exist thirty hidden paths."
"It is said that ten of those hidden paths are paths of life, while the remaining twenty are paths of death."