"Welcome to the last day of the second stage of the Intersect Competition!" the emcee said. "Today, elder Pai will pick the contestants for the matches!" He said as he gave the boxes to Pai Lie who looked enthusiastic.
Everyone already knew he wanted to see Cheng Sheng's performance. They already heard him declaring during the night banquet of the preliminary stages when the winner was announced, he was dissatisfied because Cheng Sheng chose the martial arts test instead of Array Drawing where no one had passed. He wanted Cheng Sheng to demonstrate his skills right then and there but the other elders of the Alliance, as well as Xie Lan, Chen Jing, and Wu Yuan, stopped him. The Array masters are greatly lacking in number compared to the masters in the other areas of alchemy. Aside from Pai Lie, there's no one else who masters in alchemy nor there's anyone who is knowledgeable in alchemy. Not until Cheng Sheng appeared.
