Those that survived the culling of the first day immediately became hot commodities in many people's eyes. After all, they had already displayed their strengths and abilities.
Some teams would secretly send someone over to contact these people, and once a consensus was reached, these teams would immediately kick out the weaker members of their team. There were also teams that would go the other way round and kick their weaker members out first, much like the group that was trying to recruit Hong Jian's party of three earlier on.
Those with low cultivations were already in a state of restlessness to begin with, and the sudden revelation of being kicked out of the team was like a bolt from the blue on top of that. And no matter how hard they pleaded, it was to no avail.
Reality had always been, and would always be, so cruel and merciless. Some people would decisively cast aside those weaker than them in order to survive.
