Just like last time, a middle-aged man wearing a Tai Chi suit stepped onto the stage, holding a large cardboard box.
Arriving at the center of the stage, the man set down the large cardboard box and picked up the microphone to say in formulaic lines, "This year's youth competition will still adopt the method of drawing lots for registration. Any cultivator who meets the age requirements can sign up, with sects and clans limited to two participants each. Now, would the contestants please come up to the stage to draw their lots."
Thus, the contestants who had signed up came from all directions towards the stage in the middle of the valley.
