Little Mountain God cultivated slower than the Ten Arbiters, and his talent could not quite compare to theirs.
However, he was unaware of the gap between his own talent and that of the Ten Arbiters.
“Petrify!” Little Mountain God roared. The rocks on his body trembled, and he rapidly shrank in size. The stones merged together as though they were melting, but his rune lines actually spiked in number.
Lu Yin was stunned; was this guy absorbing rocks? Was this a cultivation method? How interesting.
Little Mountain God shrank down to a height of five meters before finally stopping. Now, his rune lines were comparable to Lan Si’s after he had become an Enlighter, which meant that Little Mountain God had actually stepped onto the same level as the Ten Arbiters.
Little Mountain God swiped a hand at Lu Yin.
Lu Yin looked up. “That’s an interesting battle technique. It’s too bad that this is the end of your journey.”
Little Mountain God’s five meter tall body suddenly flew backwards despite no visible movements on Lu Yin’s part. The stone body crashed against the cave wall, leaving behind a massive crater.
Little Mountain God’s eyes nearly fell out as rocks continuously fell from his body. He eventually turned back into a round rock that tremblingly fell to the ground.
Lu Yin had used Vacuum Palm to defeat Little Mountain God. This rock was quite strong, and he could even fight against the elites expected to enter the top fifty, or even the top thirty. However, his luck was just too bad.
Outside Zenith Mountain, the people from Beast Tamers Flowzone sighed. Little Mountain God had lost in the end, though it had been inevitable since he had been up against Lu Yin.
Within the Divine Grade Hall in Beast Tamers Flowzone, Mountain God sighed. When he had seen that Little Mountain God had been in the same arena as Lu Yin, he had still held a sliver of hope, but Little Mountain God had been utterly defeated. Mountain God watched the screen and prayed that Lu Yin would let his heir live.
In the cave inside Zenith Mountain, Little Mountain God shakily tried to fly up, but he kept failing. Cracks had even appeared on the surface of the rock.
Lu Yin looked down at the stone. “Remember—I can defeat you now, and that will also be true in the future.”
Little Mountain God mentally gritted his teeth, but he did not retaliate. He knew how to act in such a situation.
Lu Yin had obviously been the victor, so he looked up at the screen.
At this moment, a few of the arenas were being shown on the screens, as they had attracted the most attention. Among them was Lu Yin’s. Other than that, the most interesting arenas included the one where the Cosmic Sect’s Yan Kun was fighting against Wang Yi, where the Seven Court’s Yōu Qi was fighting against Liu Tianmu, and where the Cosmic Sect’s Mu Ziying was fighting against the Astral Beast Domain’s Star Devourer.
The scene in each of these arenas played out exactly like Lu Yin’s; everybody tried to attack the Ten Arbiters and Wang Yi the moment the elimination round started.
Lu Yin had not seen the start of the various battles, but as he looked at the screen, he was able to see Yan Kun collapsing while Wang Yi remained standing.
Lu Yin’s eyes narrowed. He was curious about Wang Yi, not only because of his abilities, but also because of his surname.
Primeval surnames were always shrouded in mystery for the people from the Fifth Mainland. Even with Lu Yin’s current status, he still did not dare to poke too far into the matters concerning primeval surnames, as he had one himself.
The fact that people with such surnames drew the hatred of the entire Fifth Mainland indicated that there was a larger story behind everything.
Since there were people in the Technocracy with primeval surnames, then did the primeval surnames somehow originate from the Technocracy? If that was the case, then was Lu Yin’s background related to the Technocracy?
At this time, in another arena, many of the competitors collapsed after being affected by Liu Tianmu’s sword qi.
Only Yōu Qin remained standing a hundred meters away from Liu Tianmu with a solemn expression and a thick layer of ice beneath his feet.
Yōu Qin was the only one capable of fighting against Liu Tianmu.
As the inheritor of the Yōu family from the Seven Courts, Yōu Qin’s strength was disappointing. Blood flowed from her wounded abdomen, and even the sword in her hand had shattered after only a few exchanges.
The people from the Neoverse were shocked; were the Seven Courts’ inheritors all this weak? First, Ku Lei had been defeated by Star Devourer, and at this moment, Yōu Qin was about to lose to someone from the Innerverse. The Court of Seven Names had truly fallen far.
Lu Yin watched Yōu Qin and shook his head. The Yōu family’s true inheritor was Yōu Ye’er, as she was the one who had inherited the family’s secret technique. She was the true inheritor of the family, but she was also likely the most hidden of all the Seven Courts’ inheritors.
Lu Yin suddenly thought of Undying Yushan. If that man was still alive, then he would actually be the most hidden, as not even his own family elders knew what the former emperor’s intentions were.
Undying Yushan had become a thorn in Lu Yin’s heart; as more time passed, Lu Yin had a more and more certain feeling that the former emperor was still alive. Lu Yin had also guessed that the spiritual force that he had absorbed from Liuying Zishan might be related to Undying Yushan, but that was still nothing more than a guess.
Within a short bush, a girl who looked to be only around ten or so years old turned to look at a screen. She was surrounded by hundreds of competitors who were all lying on the ground. She was Yōu Ye’er.
Upon seeing Yōu Qin’s unwilling expression, Yōu Ye’er muttered, “This is your destiny.”
In a different arena, Yōu Qi looked up at a screen before looking back down again.
Mu Ziying had been completely defeated. Despite his innate gift providing him an impressive defense, he had still been unlucky enough to be placed in the same arena as Star Devourer.
Everybody in the arena had attacked Star Devourer at once, but they had all been defeated, and half of them had even died. Mu Ziying had been lucky enough to stay alive, but he had still been nearly crippled.
Mojiang Xiao had been grouped with Shang Qing, but even without summoning any copies of Progenitor Chen, Shang Qing had still managed to eliminate all of his opponents.
Elsewhere, Lulu Mavis, Kuang Wang, and Long Yun were all defeated as well.
Michelle lost to Little Leaf King.
After losing, Michelle looked at Wen Sansi before looking up at the screen to see Lu Yin. They had once been classmates, but the gap between them had become indescribably massive.
One defeat that surprised Lu Yin was the discovery that Zhuo Daynight had been defeated.
That was not something that Lu Yin had expected.
There was nobody famous in Zhuo Daynight’s arena, and she had comprehended Night’s End, Daybreak. Even Nightking Zhenwu had succumbed to her illusions, as she was capable of affecting even Enlighters with power levels of 300,000 to 400,000. Despite all of that, she had been defeated.
The person who had defeated her had a strange name: No. 0007.
Lu Yin’s eyes narrowed upon seeing No. 0007. This guy was just a Hunter, so how had he been able to overcome Night’s End, Daybreak?
Zhuo Daynight was not famous anywhere except within the Daynight clan.
Nightqueen Yanqing was the only other person from the Daynight clan who had joined ZENITH.
In the Daynight clan’s ancestral grounds, the members of the Daynight clan were shocked to see that Zhuo Daynight had been defeated.
Nightking Dijiang was surprised and looked at No. 0007. This person had actually survived through Night’s End, Daybreak. There were countless types of innate gifts in the universe, but Night’s End, Daybreak had been invincible in a past era.
It seemed that defeating Zhuo Daynight had not been any sort of big deal to No. 0007, as he was calmly gazing at a screen.
There were tens of thousands of arenas spread across the third layer, and there were about a hundred people in each one. Thus, of the roughly million people who had made it past the five checkpoints, which was actually less than a quarter of the people that had initially started in the competition, only ten thousand people would be left after the elimination round on the third layer.
The battles on the third layer continued for an entire five days.
Powerhouses like Lu Yin easily and quickly overpowered a hundred people, but there were less than a hundred arenas that had true powerhouses. In the rest of the arenas, it took a few days to determine a winner, and the determining factors for the winners were not only strength, but also intelligence and background. Various tricks, threats, and bribes occurred everywhere, and thus, it took five days for a winner to emerge from some arenas.
Some of the winners were not even the strongest in their group.
However, most people did not care about such matters. Only a dozen people appeared on the screens at a time on the screens broadcast across the universe.
As the end of the round approached, there would be a higher and higher chance of each battle being broadcast.
People started disappearing from the third layer and reappearing up higher on the second layer. There were two hundred arenas on the second layer, which was fifty times less than the third layer, and there were also only fifty people appearing within each arena.
Fifty people was still a significant number.
The people who appeared on the second layer were all powerhouses. No matter how lucky a person was, no one could reach this stage without a certain level of strength.
According to some people, ZENITH still had not begun, as to them, everyone who had been eliminated so far had been nothing but filler.
Once people arrived at the second layer, they all looked around and checked their surroundings.
There were only two hundred arenas, and not many elites had been eliminated on the third layer. Thus, the chances of meeting other elites on this stage was much higher.
A lot of people were devastated when they saw who was grouped together with them.
Cang Shi’s eye twitched. He felt chills run down his spine when Yao Xuan turned to look at him.
In the face of such an opponent, Cang Shi swallowed and let out a sigh. This was the end of his time in ZENITH, as he had encountered a gatekeeper.
In another arena, Lan Baobao felt like crying after seeing that she was in the same arena as Shang Qing.
Shang Qing still looked otherworldly with the three strands of qi swirling around him. He floated in the air, stunning the dozens of people who had been grouped together with him.
They had never imagined that they would ever meet Shang Qing.
Some people actually felt very happy, as they were not very powerful and had only managed to reach this stage through luck.
Instead of being eliminated by other people, they felt proud to end up in Shang Qing’s group. That way, after everything was said and done, they would be able to tell others that they had been eliminated by Shang Qing. Who was Shang Qing? He was the Hall of Honor’s first Honor Chosen! The true champion! It would be an honor to be eliminated by him.
A fat man anxiously checked his surroundings. “Skinny Bro! Skinny Bro! Where are you?”
The cultivators nearby all looked at the young man with curiosity. Skinny Bro? This guy had to be nuts.
The fat young man was one half of the Greenmen Duo from the Sixth Mainland, and he was currently facing Tian Hou.
Tian Hou was extremely famous, so everyone kept glancing at him.
As for the Greenmen Duo, they were nothing more than two random competitors.
This same scene was happening in another arena, as the other half of the Greenmen Duo kept shouting for Fat Bro, unable to find him.
However, the saddest person on the second layer was Charon. He stared at Lu Yin in a daze; why was this bastard here?
Lu Yin had also not expected to run into Charon in this place. What a coincidence!
Lu Yin missed the time that they had spent together, as they had been schoolmates who had been very, very close.
