Shen and all the other disciples that shared the quarters felt as if time was passing slower than usual as they awaited the elders Summons to head towards the large scale arena the the 4 clans had built together long ago to hold this annual tournament. Finally the Elders called out to the disciples and had them follow through the woods and under a small pass that would open only for the duration of the tournament as it was an array and the clans needed to keep a continuous stream of energy flowing into it's core to sustain it. Their was Five large stages within the fighting area of the arena. Their was a large section built for the seating of the crowd that extended all around the five arenas. Shen looked in awe at the high walls around him that separated the fighting arenas from the crowd. He heard the elder begin to speak "You should all be prepared to face any of the 4 elements present Wood, Sound, Fire, And even Lightning you will face all the elements and shall be expected to do well here as the only real rule is no killing or crippling on purpose do you understand?" " Yes Elder No fighting or killing" "on purpose" He added to the disciples repetition of the only real rule of this tournament I should inform you all that the other clans are all ready here and that the fighting will begin very soon" At this the Disciples began to converse amongst themselves excitedly and they chatted the whole time as the elders told the other clans of the rule. Shen didn't listen to any of the useless words of encouragement that the elders shared with the disciples or much else for that matter. Shen only listened back in when he heard his name called and was pointed towards the southern stage along with 200 other disciples each of the stages had around the same amount of participants and shen couldn't help but look around for that one slightly over weight sound cultivator that had helped him back in the forest when he was collecting fox type beast tails for a task. He spotted the heavy set cultivator at the western stage and couldn't help but want to fight him himself. Shen quickly looked back at his own stage and watched as the first two fighters were a sound and a fire cultivator neither one had a counter present so this fight would be completely reliant on skill. The fire cultivator like so many others wielded a sword and the sound cultivator had a rapier as his weapon a strange choice but one that seemed natural to him. When the fight began the fire cultivator shot a pillar of fire into the air and then stuck his sword inside of it super heating his sword and increasing it's lethality However as he was doing such a bold thing the sound cultivator lunged towards his body and attempted to impale the fire cultivator he saw flames gather around the flame disciples waist and then the flames crashed against the ground violently and caused the sound cultivator to retreat as he couldn't approach easily. The sound cultivator then seemed to stand still with their weapon raised until all of a sudden they were swinging the blade in a profound pattern and leaving marks where the sound was made they then urged the sound energy marks to go towards the fire cultivator at a high speed. The fire cultivator who was so confident up till this moment yelped as he was injured by the sword marks and surrendered the fight was quick but as the sound clan specialized in speed one could only expect this. Then 7 uninteresting fights took place before Shen was called up to fight against a fire cultivator himself.