598 Playing Tag
With the excitement over, the group started making their way to the city again. It looked like their incident wasn't a one-off or due to the presence of so many women though. Almost every group that wanted to enter the city gates was challenged on their way in, for some minor slight, or even no reason at all, just someone challenging them to a sparring match.
As far as Cain could tell, it was a combination of establishing some sort of informal ranking among the Sects that had gathered, and attempting to recruit for the Sect of the challenger, should they put on a suitably impressive show.
Their method of determining their opponent's potential seemed to be rather flawed though, and the matches were often one-sided blowouts, where the group being challenged simply stomped their challenger into the mud.