As luck would have it, the one who drew a bye was a Foundation Establishment Cultivator.
Furthermore, in the subsequent drawing of lots.
Of the six remaining Foundation Establishment Cultivators, four were matched against Early Stage Golden Core Cultivators, and two were matched against Middle Stage Golden Core Cultivators who had put on an average performance earlier.
Even more coincidentally,
The six Late-stage Golden Core Cultivators who had previously performed well were almost all matched against opponents who had also done well in the last round.
When this result came out, the few of them cursed internally.
If ranked by strength alone, they were easily in the top one hundred, yet now they had to fight just to qualify.
However, Chongzhen Temple was clever about it. They had only arranged a total of six of these special matchups.
The rest were all truly random draws.
So, to an outsider, it was impossible to find fault with the process.
