Chapter 424 - 245: The Eliminated Second Place

Chapter 424: Chapter 245: The Eliminated Second Place

Jin Zhan’s hands were itching for a fight, but he forcefully suppressed the urge to act.

This humanoid Healing-type Guardian Beast had come before him and actually produced a golden-green crystal imbued with the Power of Rules.

It held this golden-green crystal out in front of him, signaling for him to reach out and take it.

Just as Jin Zhan was about to accept the crystal containing the Power of Rules and cup his hands in thanks to Zhong Yi...

An immense wave of Destructive Energy suddenly erupted from the humanoid Healing-type Guardian Beast’s body.

And landed on him!

In that moment, Jin Zhan only had time to instinctively activate his Dragon Transformation.

But this energy actually pulverized his transformed draconic body in an instant.

When Jin Zhan regained consciousness, he was already in his personal rest area.

Jin Zhan checked his final rank: 314th.

Jin Zhan’s point total was very high, even after losing eighty percent of his earnings.

If ranks were calculated by points, Jin Zhan’s score should have placed him around 43rd.

But for those outside the top ten, ranks weren’t determined by points.

Instead, they were arranged according to the order of elimination.

Back when he was at the First Level, Jin Zhan had explored Secret Realms opened by the Wanyu Source Material Company.

This result was undoubtedly the worst in his entire history.

In truth, Jin Zhan had been hiding his true strength because he knew someone was orchestrating all of this.

While fighting his eight opponents, Jin Zhan hadn’t even used his Contracted Gilded Silver Spirit, transformed into the Broken Mountain Battle Halberd.

Jin Zhan suddenly covered his face with his hands and collapsed onto the sofa.

’To think that I, the falconer, would one day have my eyes pecked out by a falcon.’

He thought about how smug he used to feel after a successful ambush.

That was how utterly mortified Jin Zhan felt now!

After opening up his heart this one time, he feared he would never trust anyone again.

After a long while, Jin Zhan sat up on the sofa, muttering Zhong Yi’s name.

Jin Zhan planned to go to the Wanyu Soul Fighting Company to verify Zhong Yi’s identity.

In Jin Zhan’s eyes, Zhong Yi had to be a Zhenxing C Level Talent at the very least.

Even though Zhong Yi had screwed him over, Jin Zhan was still prepared to add him as a friend and get in touch more in the future.

Even now, Jin Zhan couldn’t understand how a peer could possess the power to kill him instantly.

If Jin Zhan hadn’t experienced it firsthand...

...if someone had told him this before he entered the Secret Realm exploration...

...Jin Zhan would have absolutely punched them, thinking they were insulting his strength.

After Zhong Yi killed Jin Zhan using the Resurrection Celestial Lord, he saw that Jin Zhan had dropped an exceptionally large amount of resources.

Zhong Yi directed the Endless Wood Demon to collect all the resources in the area.

Before Zhong Yi made his move on Jin Zhan, Hong Ji and Ice Glaze had launched successive attacks on those other tough nuts to crack.

Because these participants were already heavily injured from numerous previous battles...

...Hong Ji and Ice Glaze killed them without paying much of a price.

While Ice Glaze was reaping the participant with the Purple Fate Grid, she was hit by their desperate, last-ditch counterattack.

It severed two of Ice Glaze’s fox tails!

For Ice Glaze, an injury like this was an extremely severe Origin wound.

But with the help of the Resurrection Celestial Lord, and as long as Ice Glaze’s two tails weren’t completely destroyed...

...he could quickly have Ice Glaze recover from her injuries and return to battle at her peak.

After killing the participant with the Purple Fate Grid and collecting the resources they dropped... 𝘧𝓇ℯℴ𝓂

...Zhong Yi’s point total was 3,877, bringing him infinitely close to the first-place score.

After Zhong Yi killed Jin Zhan, his points increased by another 3,021.

Now, Zhong Yi had a whopping 6,898 points.

Although killing Jin Zhan didn’t quite double his points, it was close.

Zhong Yi didn’t stop to celebrate his bountiful harvest; instead, he furrowed his brows tightly.

The participants exploring this Divine Wood Secret Realm would be constantly watching the point leaderboard.

That leaderboard was the only source of information for the participants.

His points had suddenly surged, and Jin Zhan had been removed from the board.

This event was bound to attract the attention of the other participants!

Zhong Yi clearly could have killed Jin Zhan easily with the Destructive Energy accumulated in the Resurrection Celestial Lord’s Exclusive Trait, Withered Oasis.

Yet he chose to invite Jin Zhan to act alongside him precisely because he didn’t want to put the other participants on guard.

However, even if he did alert the other participants, it wasn’t a major issue for Zhong Yi.

Zhong Yi could use the scenarios created by the Endless Wood Demon to pin down a large portion of the participants.

As for the top-ranked participants, Zhong Yi would arrange for other contestants to wear them down, just as he did with Jin Zhan.

Then, he would personally step in to do the reaping.

When Zhong Yi killed Jin Zhan, he only used up less than one-tenth of the Destructive Energy stored in the Withered Oasis.

One had to understand that this accumulated Destructive Energy in Withered Oasis was obtained from healing the injuries of Star Night and its Order Beast, the Fallen Star Night Qilin.

The Sixth Level Origin wound from the Peak of Ten Thousand Nations was a completely different dimension of power compared to these Second Level participants—an utterly overwhelming advantage.

Before entering the Secret Realm opened by the Wanyu Gambling Company, Liu Shu had once told Zhong Yi...

...that every point inside the Secret Realm was worth approximately 0.8 Divine Origin Value.

Zhong Yi had already harvested over 5,000 Divine Origin Value in the Divine Wood Secret Realm this time.

When only 10 people remained in the Secret Realm, the exploration would end.