As soon as Sage King Li Tian gave the order, the Sages in the Martial Arts Practice Ground stepped forward and started drawing lots.
Ye Qing represented the strongest team on the surface and drew a team called Team Invincible.
Team Invincible's name was just as domineering. However, unlike Ye Qing's team, they didn't receive much criticism from the Holy Son.
It was probably because Ye Qing had been in the limelight recently. After crippling Elder Tianshu's cultivation, he had become a popular figure in the Demonic Sky Holy Gate.
Ye Qing also had an acquaintance in Team Invincible. It was the Great Sage Rose, whom he had met in the Demonic Sky Dojo.
In the past, the Great Sage Rose was still a direct disciple. However, with her tyrannical strength and outstanding performance, she was successfully promoted to Holy Son.
The Great Sage Rose's beauty was unparalleled. Many Holy Son were under her skirt and pursued wholeheartedly.
Therefore, after the Great Sage Rose became a Holy Son, many Holy Son came to court her and invited her to join their team.
The Great Sage Rose had sharp eyes and chose Team Invincible. Coincidentally, Team Invincible's captain was courting her.
Team Invincible's captain was called the Great Sage Sky Blade. Among the Holy Son, his strength was ranked at the top.
Team Invincible formed by the Great Sage Sky Blade had a high chance of getting into the top three. The Great Sage Rose's choice was undoubtedly very smart.
Speaking of which, in Team Invincible, the Great Sage Rose was an existence that was dragging them down. However, the Great Sage Sky Blade didn't care.
As long as they could win the favor of the Great Sage Rose, they could give the Great Sage Rose a position in the team and bring her along. It wasn't a big problem.
In the arena, the drawing of lots ended quickly. Many teams had their own opponents.
Ye Qing drew Team Invincible. In an instant, a wave of mockery and ridicule sounded. They thought that Ye Qing's strongest team on the surface would be eliminated soon!
Under the Sage King Li Tian's arrangements, the Holy Son Ranking Tournament began in full swing. First, the first round of selection began.
Using the method of drawing lots, each battle team's lineup was decided.
Among them, Battle Team Invincible, Ye Qing's strongest battle team on the surface, and Devil Sky's strongest battle team led by the Great Sage of Magic Sickle.
As time passed, the Holy Son Ranking Tournament officially began. Ye Qing led two of the strongest team on the surface onto the stage.
The Devil Sky Holy Gate's Martial Arts Practice Field was extremely wide. There were more than a hundred battle stages built within, and the competition began at the same time.
On each battle stage, there was an elder of the Devil Sky Holy Gate who acted as a judge. They were in charge of the battle between the two teams.
The Demonic Sky Holy Gate's ranking competition had to follow certain rules. After the other party admitted defeat, they could not force a fight.
Every Holy Son of the Devil Heaven Holy Gate had a very high status. They were the elites of the Devil Heaven Holy Gate, so they couldn't die so easily.
The judge was on the stage to maintain the order and fairness of the competition.
According to the rules of the Devil Sky Holy Gate's ranking competition, no Holy Son was allowed to use Saint artifacts during the battle.
The Ranking Tournament mainly tested one's martial skills or various divine abilities, not a competition between Saint artifacts.
Some Holy Son had Saint artifacts. If they could use them during battle, they would undoubtedly have a huge advantage.
In the Martial Arts Practice Field, Ye Qing, Mud Masler, and Grass Mud Horse walked onto the stage step by step.
The spectators nearby looked over in shock. When they saw Ye Qing's two teammates, their faces were filled with astonishment, and their mouths were wide open.
Ye Qing's two teammates were clearly not the Holy Son of the Devil Sky Holy Gate.
The number of Holy Son was limited. Every Holy Son of the Devil Sky Holy Gate had a name and a surname. No one had ever seen Grass Mud Horse or Mud Masler.
These two unfamiliar faces were definitely not Holy Scions. Even among the true inheritors, it was very rare to see them. Most likely, they were nameless people who were not well known.
"What the hell is Ye Qing doing?
Doesn't he want to win? "
"Everyone else's teammates are Holy Son. What's up with Ye Qing's teammates?
A horse?
And a skeleton? "
"In my opinion, the strongest team on the surface is about to lose in the first battle. How dare they call themselves the strongest team on the surface? What a joke!"
Mocking voices came from the spectator stands. Ye Qing's two teammates didn't look very impressive, and their cultivations couldn't be considered tyrannical either. They became the targets of everyone's disdain and ridicule.
However, Ye Qing didn't care at all. His teammates didn't look strong, but in reality, they were tyrannical to a heaven-defying degree.
Mud Masler and Grass Mud Horse had both received help from the Devil Fruit. After a period of refining, they had already absorbed the Devil Fruit's energy.
Mud Masler and Grass Mud Horse might not look very impressive, but their current battle strength was comparable to a Holy Son.
Walking onto the stage, Ye Qing met Team Invincible's Holy Son. Skyblade Great Sage smiled coldly and slowly said, "Ye Qing, with your strength, don't embarrass yourself in front of me. Don't waste my time. Hurry up and get off the stage!"
Skyblade Great Sage was incomparably arrogant. The moment he opened his mouth, he wanted Ye Qing to get off the stage. In Skyblade Great Sage's heart, Ye Qing couldn't be compared to him at all.
Skyblade Great Sage's two teammates were also very unfriendly towards Ye Qing.
Especially Rose Great Sage. Her eyes were spitting fire, as if she couldn't wait to eat Ye Qing in one bite.
Ye Qing still remembered when he was at the Motian Dojo, the Rose Great Sage begged to eat snail rice noodles. Ye Qing satisfied her request and made her a bowl of steaming hot snail rice noodles.
He also added many delicious seasonings into the rice noodles, such as Grass Mud Horse's proudest creation, and so on.
Back then, Rose Great Sage's cultivation improved after eating the snail rice noodles. She was very satisfied and was quite grateful to Ye Qing.
However, that was only the first bowl of snail rice noodles. After that, Rose Great Sage had no effect at all. Instead, she had a stomachache and had to go to the toilet in the valley for three consecutive days.
Rose Great Sage still remembered the comical expressions of those true disciples when they saw her having a stomachache.
Her goddess image was basically ruined because of Ye Qing's snail rice noodles.
Rose Great Sage's memory of the snail rice noodles was still fresh. She still remembered how miserable she was at that time and hated Ye Qing to the core.
When he was selling the snail rice noodles, Ye Qing had disguised himself as Cai Xukun, thinking that no one knew.
However, in reality, the extremely intelligent Rose Great Sage had already connected Ye Qing and Cai Xukun and highly suspected that they were the same person.
"Ye Qing, let me ask you. In Motian Dojo, are the inferior Devil Fruits and the snail rice noodles your handiwork?" Rose Great Sage asked coldly.
"Uh … I've only sold Devil Fruits before. What snail rice noodles?
I've never heard of it at all!
Besides, the Devil Fruits I sell are all genuine. It's just that the effects are limited. Who says they're fake? "Ye Qing said in all seriousness.
The corner of the Rose Grand Sage's mouth twitched. She was speechless. After leaving the Demonic Sky Dojo, she went out to check the information. She discovered that there was no dog named Cai Xukun among the direct disciples of the Demonic Sky Holy Gate. Therefore, she had reason to suspect Ye Qing.
"Alright, Rose. No matter what that brat Ye Qing did, I'll make him kneel at my feet in today's battle and never get up!" Sky Blade Great Sage said from the side.