My starting summon is a small skeleton-Chapter 236 - 233 If you can defeat me, you can become the champion!

Lu Wu's sudden appearance was something that many people did not anticipate.

Almost everyone thought today would be Guzhentian's solo show, with all the spotlight supposed to be on him.

Who knew that halfway through, a Lu Wu would suddenly show up?

And the organizers, they directed all the light onto Lu Wu.

They even said things like "Without Lu Wu, Cultivation would be like an eternal night."

Gutian's old face turned as gloomy as if water was about to drip from it.

Although he knew Lu Wu would appear, and knew he would come as a judge, he didn't expect Lu Wu to be so high-profile.

And at that moment, the people who had just been dismissed by his son were casting their gazes upon him.

In their eyes, on their lips, smirks full of ridicule were brimming.

This instantly enraged Gutian.

"Alright, alright, you're planning to let Lu Wu steal my son's glory, to let my son live under his shine, aren't you? How could such a cunning scheme succeed? My son Zhen Tian has the talent to be a Grandmaster; how could he be suppressed by a Lu Wu so easily? You people watch, watch how my son suppresses this absurd young upstart, to show you all who is the most talented Cultivation Master of this era!"

In the midst of his furious rant, there was boundless confidence.

This was a father's confidence in his son.

On-site, apart from Gutian, there were actually quite a few people who were annoyed with Lu Wu.

Especially the ordinary audience members.

Five or six out of ten people found this suddenly emerging Lu Wu disagreeable.

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Who is this guy, with such an attitude?

Even saying "Without Lu Wu, Cultivation would be like an eternal night"?

Has the Cultivation Method not been around for a hundred years? Bragging should not be like this.

Moreover, what backwater school is Jiangnan University?

From such a nobody college, how does such a nobody have the right to stand above Guzhentian and act as a judge?

Even the standing room area's group of loafers unanimously sided with Guzhentian, only the one who had met Lu Wu wavered between the two for a moment, eventually choosing the latter.

"I feel my little brother here is not too bad!"

"Not bad my hammer, look at him, barely even grown, must be some backdoor dealings."

"Right, look at him, probably knew he couldn't compete, so he sneaked in with a judge title."

...

In the audience seats, although there were some who didn't condemn Lu Wu for his looks, it seemed only that loafer stood with Lu Wu.

But it wasn't just the audience that opposed Lu Wu as judge—contestants on stage weren't happy either.

Almost immediately as Lu Wu appeared, four out of the eight contestants raised their hands, each requesting the organizers to replace the judge.

Those who made it to the finals of the Cultivation Master competition were geniuses in their own circles, if not as prominent as Guzhentian.

Geniuses are often proud and arrogant; how could they easily submit to someone else?

They might have reluctantly accepted if it were a crushing genius like Guzhentian serving as a judge, but for an unknown like Lu Wu to emerge, how could they easily accept this?

Even if they knew some of Lu Wu's legends, the contestants didn't think they would lose to him.

So one by one, they demanded the organizers change the judge.

While the audience below and the contestants above were condemning Lu Wu, Guzhentian got up and walked towards Lu Wu.

Seeing this, the audience below and the contestants on stage all fell silent.

Everyone watched these two as they drew closer, anticipating their upcoming confrontation.

Finally, Guzhentian reached Lu Wu, extended a hand with a mild smile, "Lu Wu, is it? I've heard great things, and now I finally get to meet you..."

"Who allowed you to move around? You're a veteran contestant; don't you know you can't just walk about freely on the competition stage? You're so eager to move around, are you trying to bribe the judge? Excellent, your actions have drawn my attention, now get back immediately! Otherwise, I'll disqualify you right now!"

Hmm, the much-anticipated confrontation did not occur.

Guzhentian had barely extended his hand when he was directly rebuffed by Lu Wu.

Guzhentian was caught off guard by Lu Wu's refusal to play by the expected script and couldn't help but look somewhat embarrassed.

Meanwhile, Lu Wu completely disregarded Guzhentian, turning after rebuking him to address the contestants.

"And you over there—Wang Junkai, Yi Yang, Qianxi, right? You're all so eager to jump the gun, even wanting to replace the judge, do you want me to get you a ladder to climb straight to heaven? As contestants, you need to be aware of your roles. What you should be doing is demonstrating your talent as impressively as possible in the competition, not nitpicking the judge."

"If you're so good at making demands, why not just ask for the trophy and be done with it?"

"And as for you lot, standing there without a shred of presentability, do you really think just because it's a cultivation competition, you don't have to care about how you present yourselves?

Don't you know this competition is the focus of the entire Alliance?

If our friends from other districts see that our Hua District contestants look like this, wouldn't they laugh their heads off?"

Having thoroughly berated all the contestants, Lu Wu was still not satisfied, he even turned to scold the audience below the stage.

"And now for the audience of this edition.

You guys, I really have to say a few words, especially the old man in the front row, yeah you, the one lying on the hospital bed. You're in this state and still come to watch the competition?

Who let you in? If you get too excited during the competition and kick the bucket, whose fault is that?

If you're too old to see straight and your brain's gone bad, just admit it and don't pretend to be capable.

And the rest of you, what are you doing here? Are you here to watch a competition or a beauty pageant?

Instead of paying attention to the competition, you're judging the judges. If you love to comment so much, why not go to Bǎijiā Jiǎngtán, what are you doing here?"

After leaving both the contestants on stage and the audience below in a state of shock with his rant.

Lu Wu shook his head and heaved a sigh, "Alas, this has to be the worst competition I've ever overseen!

Alright, enough chit-chat, now I'll announce the rules for today's final round."

There's no denying that Lu Wu had a commanding presence when berating others.

He firmly controlled the situation with his tirade.

While both the contestants and the audience were still bewildered, Lu Wu explained the rules for the finals.

"Cultivation Master competitions are not the same as Summoner competitions.

Summoner contests are crude and straightforward – just fight it out.

You hit me, I hit you, whoever wins is the champion, but Cultivation Masters are different; they can't fight.

Because a Cultivation Master can't directly use what they've learned to brawl. You can't just throw a 'Little Skeleton Soup 1.0' at someone and have them counter with 'White Bone Wild Boar Soup 9.0'.

Though both of these are quite good ideas, the latter, 'White Bone Wild Boar Soup 9.0', is particularly cost-effective, allowing one to cultivate an ordinary quality White Bone Wild Boar into a Bronze Quality one for only 600 points.

But, obviously, these can't be used directly in competition, right?"

During the rule explanation, Lu Wu shamelessly slipped in an advertisement.

Tie Xiong's eyes lit up at this move, and he quickly took note of this sly tactic and underlined it.

Lu Wu even paused deliberately to give the audience time to take in the advertisement before continuing, "Therefore, the design of a Cultivation Master's competition is much more complicated than a Summoner's.

After all, fairness must be considered.

The disciples of different Cultivation Methods have different specializations, and it's hard to place those varied specialties on the same stage and still ensure fairness.

If you were dealing with a genius like me, who has mastered multiple techniques, then their advantage would just be too great.

However, the organizers managed to solve this problem eventually."

Lu Wu proclaimed, gesturing grandly, "Please look behind me!"

Following Lu Wu's sweeping motion, stone tablets descended one after another.

Each tablet was three meters tall and covered with closely packed text.

"These stone tablets behind me contain the questions for the final round!

There are a total of 12 stone tablets, and each one has 12 questions on it. The twelve stone tablets are divided into four major levels: A, B, C, and D, with each level further divided into three sub-levels: upper, middle, and lower."

"The lowest tier is D-lower, and solving one question from D-lower will gain you 1 point.

For each level ascended beyond that, add 1 point, so solving one question from A-upper grants you a full 12 points."

"Starting now, you contestants have three hours to review the questions. After the three hours of review time, each of you will choose 12 questions to serve as your individual test.

Whoever scores the highest after answering their questions will be the champion!"

Actually, everything Lu Wu had said was already known to those present.

The contestants were aware of the rules, and even the audience knew them, so there was no surprise there.

What both the audience and the contestants were curious about, though,

under these rules, what was the point of having Lu Wu as a judge?

You see, according to the previous rules, there was no need for a judge, so with an added judge now, there must also be a role for him, right? Surely he wasn't just there to flaunt his authority?

Lu Wu quickly satisfied the audience's curiosity.

"Hmm, what I just described was the original set of rules, the ones without a judge.

Now that there's me, a judge, the rules have changed.

Instead of contestants solving questions, now they'll be changing questions!"

"The rules regarding review and selection remain the same. After selecting, you can make changes to your chosen questions, and then pass them to me for resolution.

If I solve them, no points will be awarded; if I don't, then points will be added to the contestant's score.

In the end, the one with the highest score becomes the champion."

"In other words, to become the champion, you have to stump me!"