Yōu Ye’er had a ruthless expression as she raised her hand. “Heart-killer Lotus, come into the world.”
As her voice fell, the blood-colored lotus flower beneath her feet grew ethereal before flying out towards Bai Ling.
Bai Ling’s face revealed her shock. She was dazed, and she lowered her head to see a blood-colored lotus mark appear on her chest. Then, it suddenly disappeared. The very next moment, Bai Ling’s eyes changed, and her face grew pale. The light slowly left her eyes as she gradually collapsed to the ground, completely dead.
Everyone was silent as they blankly stared at the battlefield.
Had one of the Sixth Mainland’s Realmlings, Bai Ling, died just like that? She had died without any explanation.
Shang Qing’s face was solemn as he stared at Bai Ling’s body. That bloody lotus had actually killed her.
The blood-colored lotus was not any kind of power vessel, but rather Yōu Ye’er’s battle technique. She had used it to instantly reverse the tempo of her match and even killed Bai Ling.
At this moment, Yōu Ye’er’s actions had left countless people utterly speechless.
Bai Ling had killed too many people in the Starfall Sea during the war, and she had accumulated a great number of blood debts. Many people from the Fifth Mainland were happy to see her die, but nobody could understand what Yōu Ye’er had done.
The more unknown something was, the more frightening it became.
Bai Ling, a Realmling, had died so mysteriously. Thus, Yōu Ye’er gave everyone the chills, especially when she normally looked like she was only eleven or twelve years old. That somehow only made her even more frightening.
On the first layer, Yōu Ye’er retracted her hand. She had not expected her killing lotus to be so powerful, but this was better. Her mouth curled into a smile as she stepped onto the blood-red lotus, looking at the other winners while exuding a strange charm. She stared at Shang Qing and the others before looking up at the peak of Zenith Mountain. They would have to fight it out for the title of Pinnacle Youth.
Lu Yin frowned slightly. Yōu Ye’er’s battle techniques were by no means ordinary. If he had guessed correctly, then she had to have used a Progenitor’s battle technique just now. It was just like how Nightking Zhenwu had inherited the Arrow Progenitor’s battle techniques, though it seemed that Yōu Ye’er had received something even more evil and terrifying.
Was that your family’s inherited battle techniques? That shouldn’t be the case, as I can’t even defeat Yōu Qin that easily. Still, it’s hard to say since Yōu Qin is certainly not a true member of the Yōu clan while Yōu Ye’er is their inheritor and the master of their secret technique.
No matter who it was, at this moment, everyone had just become a million times more cautious of Yōu Ye’er.
In the Neoverse, Yōu Kexin stared at her screen with a complicated expression. At this moment, most of her screen was filled with a close up shot of Yōu Ye’er.
She was the Yōu clan’s true inheritor.
The Seven Courts advanced and retreated together, but that was entirely because of Progenitor Chen’s Mausoleum. There was still a fierce competition between the different families.
Yōu Ye’er’s appearance would make the other families uneasy, especially her heart-killing lotus, which would chill any opponent.
The match between Yōu Ye’er and Bai Ling had caused the atmosphere to grow tense. Although no one could understand what had happened at the end of the battle, that was not enough to stop the Fifth Mainland from cheering. After all, one of the Sixth Mainland’s Realmling’s had just died.
The people of the Sixth Mainland felt dazed and speechless.
The next battle was between Yun Feifei and Xu Ling.
Their fight was actually quite riveting, but Yōu Ye’er had already stolen the limelight, and many people were still focused on her.
In the end, Xu Ling won.
Lu Yin had carefully observed their match. He was aware of Yun Feifei’s strength. She was ranked second among the Cosmic Sect’s inner disciples, but after Yao Ji had become the fourth true disciple, she had moved up and become the first ranked inner disciple. She was certainly not weak, but she could not compare to Xu Ling.
In the end, she was defeated by a sneak attack from Xu Ling.
Lu Yin grew curious as to why Yun Feifei had not been able to touch Xu Ling. She was a disciple of the Cosmic Sect, and she primarily focused on cultivating the Cosmic Art. Thus, speed should be pointless against her, though Xu Ling was not particularly fast. Still, her attacks had not landed, which was bizarre.
Outside Zenith Mountain, Wu Da was feeling quite depressed. He had originally believed that he would be able to broadcast all of ZENITH, but he had since discovered that he could not even understand what was happening in the matches.
The beginning had been quite smooth, as he had simply focused on describing how the five gatekeepers each protected their own pass and calling out those who successfully passed through the checkpoints and those who failed. Everyone had been watching the same thing, but Wu Da had been a vivid commentator and had even inserted some gossip about certain contestants’ feuds and grudges between his commentary. Gossip was wonderful.
However, when the hundred-person battle royales had started, his broadcast had started running into difficulties. There were simply too many competitors that Wu Da could not understand, such as Yao Xuan, God Taiyi, the Sixth Mainland’s Zhi Yi and Wu Taibai, and many more.
Finally, when the elimination matches started, he had understood even less of the battles.
Wu Da’s dream was to report on world-shaking events and deliver news that everyone paid attention to. However, he was at a loss for how he could describe these powerhouses’ battles, and it was because he did not understand anything that was happening.
When Yōu Ye’er’s blood-red lotus flower appeared, he had been completely stunned. What was he supposed to say about this?
Yun Yun was also struggling. She was not as good as Wu Da, as he had graduated from the Astral Combat Academy at the very least. Thus, Wu Da struggled to understand the fights while Yun Yun could not even follow the speed at which the fights were taking place.
Most of the people in the universe who were watching the broadcast of ZENITH could not understand the fights, but that did not stop them from cheering the participants on.
The next match was Cursewind versus Lu Yin.
The huge blue lion smashed onto the ground and roared defiantly.
Across from him, Lu Yin had a completely indifferent expression. He had not expected to encounter Cursewind here. It really was a small universe when it came to old enemies. Truthfully, Lu Yin could have stopped the lion from ever making it to the final checkpoint, but he had decided to let the lion pass through and continue on in order to throw him down from higher up the mountain.
Cursewind was feeling very depressed at the moment, as he wanted nothing to do with Lu Yin.
Originally, Cursewind had possessed the courage to go up against Lu Yin, but as Lu Yin revealed more and more of his abilities throughout the course of ZENITH, Cursewind’s confidence had gradually vanished. The biggest shock was when he had witnessed Little Arrow Saint’s tragic fate.
When Cursewind saw the chilling curve of Lu Yin’s smile, wind rushed out of the blue lion’s left eye while fire swept out of his right eye at the same time. The temperature of the battlefield immediately spiked as the air turned red. It looked as though a star had fallen upon Zenith Mountain.
Even the people at the foot of the mountain were able to feel the immense heat.
Bone-eroding wind and soul-burning fire—this was Cursewind’s terrifying innate gift. His strength was almost comparable to the Ten Arbiters’, and if he was directly compared, then in terms of star energy and physical strength, the blue lion was very similar to Lan Si.
In Lu Yin’s vision, the number of rune lines that he saw from Cursewind was very similar to what he had seen from Lan Si.
Lu Yin subconsciously glanced over at Lan Si. Despite facing fierce flames that seemed to burn down the sky itself and soul annihilating, bone-eroding winds, Lu Yin did not move. Part of the storm opened up in front of Lu Yin, and a passage connecting Lu Yin straight to Cursewind appeared. This was a result of Lu Yin using a Vacuum Palm. His attack had shot straight through the wind and flames, brutally striking Cursewind.
Cursewind had already prepared himself to receive Lu Yin’s Vacuum Palm, but those preparations were completely useless. Vacuum Palm was a freakish attack, and his only two options were to either dodge or resist it. Although he wanted to dodge, Cursewind lacked the necessary speed, and he also did not have the physical power of Yuhua Mavis.
There was a loud bang as the huge blue lion’s body was directly struck. A terrifying shockwave exploded from his back, spraying out a cloud of blood that splattered to the ground.
The storm made of wind and fire sputtered out, revealing Lu Yin, who was still completely clean.
In the distance, Cursewind’s massive body collapsed with a bang.
Many people from the Astral Beast Domain were shocked. Cursewind had been defeated in a single blow, just like what had happened with Little Arrow Saint. This was entirely due to the power of Lu Yin’s Vacuum Palm. Even if one looked at all of the contestants from ZENITH, just how many people could stand up to such an attack?
This was not an innate gift or a secret technique. It was just a single palm attack. Lu Yin was demonstrating to countless people what an invincible power was.
Cursewind was not weak, and he was strong enough to go up against anyone on the same level as the Ten Arbiters. However, Lu Yin had far surpassed that level, and his master had even ordered him to take the title of Pinnacle Youth.
Off in the distance, Shang Qing stared at Lu Yin’s right hand in surprise. He was rarely surprised, but Lu Yin’s progress really gave the first Honor Chosen an incredible feeling.
The events that had taken place in the Mountain and Seas Zone were still vivid in Shang Qing’s memory. Back then, Lu Yin had only managed to receive seven of Yuhua Mavis’s punches, but the power that Lu Yin had just revealed greatly exceeded the power of Yuhua Mavis’s seventh punch, and it was possible that not even she could come away unscathed after receiving Lu Yin’s Vacuum Palm.
It was no wonder why Yuhua Mavis had been tossed aside by Lu Yin, and it was also no wonder why he had been chosen to be a gatekeeper.
Yuhua Mavis’s eyes sparkled with excitement. This was the opponent that she wanted! If Lu Yin was even stronger, then she could even release her full power without holding anything back. She really wanted to see who could endure more punches between the two of them.
Cursewind had been seriously injured and was on the verge of death, so his body was directly sent out to the white skeleton next to Zenith Mountain.
Lu Yin appeared near Shang Qing and the other victors.
The next match was a battle between two lucky Explorers: one was from the Neoverse and the other was from the Sixth Mainland.
Outside Zenith Mountain, atop the white skeleton, Cursewind was saved.
“Lilac Snow, is that the person you were talking about? The one you called the most powerful human being who managed to win the Tournament of the Strongest? His progress is too fast!”
“Yes. It’d even be difficult for an Enlighter with a power level of 300,000 to injure Cursewind’s body, but he was defeated in a single palm. If the attack had been aimed slightly to the side, then his organs would have been destroyed, and his death would have been guaranteed. This can actually be considered a lucky outcome.”
“His name is Lu Yin, and he is the current master of the Human Domain’s Outerverse. Back when the Outerverse was isolated from the Innerverse, a large part of why we were unable to breach Ironblood Weave was related to him. Also, he saved Wang Wen after he was kidnapped by Cursewind.”
“Humanity has always been able to produce incredible geniuses. I hope that he won’t turn out to be the next Progenitor Chen. It would be better for the crown prince to kill him.”
“That’s impossible. A Progenitor hasn’t appeared in countless years.”
“What do you think the purpose of this ZENITH is? A Progenitor will arise sooner or later.”
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On Zenith Mountain’s first layer, not far from Lu Yin, God Taiyi turned to look at him. “Has anyone said that you improve so quickly that you make other people panic?”
The moment these words were spoken, Qiu Shi, Yuhua Mavis, Yōu Qi, Liu Tianmu, and even Shang Qing and Yao Xuan looked over.
There was a great deal of information about Lu Yin available, and the most well known detail was that he had only cultivated for a bit less than fourteen years. Shockingly, he had gone from being an ordinary person to his current level in that amount of time.
Lu Yin shrugged. “This is just what it means to be a genius.”
God Taiyi praised Lu Yin. “Indeed, you really are a genius.”
Lu Yin smiled. Was he just showing off? No, this did not count. His goal was to rank first in ZENITH.
However, even the strength that he had revealed so far was not enough for people to place him within the top ten. Well, perhaps he would make it into the top ten, but definitely not the top five. Shang Qing was the only contestant who was publicly recognized as a truly matchless powerhouse. There was no way that that would change.
A winner was finally decided on the battlefield; the Sixth Mainland’s Explorer had won.
Before long, two more people appeared on the battlefield, and shock filled Lu Yin’s face. Wu Taibai had appeared, and opposite him was Fat Bro, one of the Greenmen Duo.
So far, there had been very few matches in ZENITH where two powerhouses from the Sixth Mainland had faced off against each other. Therefore, this match instantly garnered a great deal of attention. Fat Bro was not weak by any means, but he was up against Wu Taibai.
The Daosource Three Skies were above the heavens for the Sixth Mainland’s youths, and this was naturally true of the Greenmen Duo as well.
When Fat Bro saw Wu Taibai standing across from him, he immediately posed a question. “May I admit defeat?”
Wu Taibai smiled. “Yes.”
This was the reverence that was given to the Daosource Three Skies: even a surrender had to be allowed. The respect that the Sixth Mainland cultivators felt for the Daosource Three Skies was something that had permeated into the very bones of some individuals.
