Angel was walking when she sensed someone approaching at high speed through her glass nodes. She was about to become depressed when she heard, "[Thunder charge]!"
After that, a rumbling sound and two beasts' pained cries echoed around. Angel smirked and stopped, waiting for her perverted partner to show up. Shortly after, a girl with electric blue hair and violet eyes appeared. Angel said, "Nice to meet you so soon, Evelyn."
Evelyn smirked. "You bet; I found one of us. Moreover, it was the big-ti-" *Bang!*
Something sent Evelyn flying. However, the texture felt too familiar. Surprised, she looked at what hit her and saw a golden tail tip disappearing in a space crack. Her eyes widened, completely dumbfounded.
Evelyn was about to speak, but Angel interrupted, "Let's go; we should hunt together. I don't know if points are shared, though… Well, let's try."
Evelyn looked at Angel and asked, "Just now-"
"Do you think that we should also hunt treasures? How do we split them?" Angel interrupted again, with a smile that was screaming not to ask anything about what just transpired.
She didn't know, didn't want to know, and wouldn't be able to understand. So she rather forgets such an absurd thing just happened. Evelyn swallowed her questions and started planning with Angel.
In another place, Yasenia looked at her tail with a stupefied expression, 'D-Did I just c-create a spatial distortion to hit Evelyn!?'
She looked at the setting sun and sighed, full of emotion. "The way of the tail slapping is endless, yet short, fast, but also eternal. My Dao must have advanced to a new realm. Thank you, Evelyn, for making me realize that. I will reward you plenty! Should I use that… What did mom call them? Latex dress? That should count as a reward, right?"
The time kept advancing, and while our group slaughtered beasts and cultivators and picked up treasures quite efficiently, the first day ended. A little later than Noon, the participants saw countless white pillars, indicating the disqualification of tons of participants.
On the outside, the formation teleported the disqualified people outside the plaza.
Many of them started shouting and cursing, saying that it was an unfair method of judging. However, be it the seniors or other people present, just listened without bothering to deal with them. Some seniors kept an eye on them to avoid any mishaps.
Suddenly, one hundred giant screens appeared on top of the huge formation. Different battles in diverse landscapes played on them; some fought on a snowy landscape, others in a rocky one. There were also island-like places, volcanic regions, forests, and more.
The one hundred screens were the number of different realms the participants were in. Because half the population will effectively disappear each day, the domains will fuse as days pass to keep the competition fierce.
As they watched the battles, some academy teachers spoke between them; they were all near Tatyana.
"Our academy students are doing well. Only 20 have been eliminated in this first round."
"That dragon girl is doing great; she doesn't hesitate to kill, and she is very strong even with her cultivation level."
"Andrea is doing fantastic too. She has fought against five cultivators above her level and still won! Her skill set makes her very sturdy, and fighting melee with her is practically suicide."
"Kali is making progress too. We managed to get a lot of new talented students this past ten years."
Tatyana at the side was thinking, 'Not bad. Yasenia's girls are doing fine, they aren't abnormal, but they are high-up in the genius category… Let's observe a little closer~ I want to give my four daughter-in-law's advice when this ends!'
Suddenly, in the sky inside the formation, some images appeared. They seemed a highlight video of the best fights that happened until now. In the middle, Angel's performance appeared, which made Yasenia smile. This video went on for one hour and disappeared.
Yasenia returned to the town; she wanted to rest in the springs to recover her tired mind. 'One full day of fighting is too much to keep battling in top condition. I need a nice rest.'
When she reached, some beasts were attacking the city walls, 'It seems my first prediction was also true, but this is pretty dangerous….'
She saw people fighting the same beasts get backstabbed. People were leading groups to kill each other, ambushes, surprise attacks, wide-area skills… 'Too chaotic; I will continue to hunt. I'm already in the top 20 000, and I'm only 3000 points behind the first… It seems that the competition is fierce.'
After a dip in the springs, Yasenia felt completely refreshed. Being on top condition again, Yasenia decided to go east this time. She had been on the north side, and she didn't feel any significant treasures left. Therefore, she wanted to try her luck there.
On her way, she observed the cultivators' levels. A lot fewer were at the lower levels of the Mental nourishing realm. 'It seems this first round took out the low-level cultivators… Fufufu, that guy is isolated.'
Yasenia ran towards him. She first used [Shooting star] To his feet *Bang!* The cultivator was able to dodge narrowly, losing balance. Yasenia took that opportunity and used [Crescent Moon] to shoot a single moon energy crescent beam.
He raised his sword using his metal attribute to enhance the sword width and use it as a shield. What he didn't expect was the strength behind that hit *BANG!*
He completely lost grip of his sword, and the skill strength sent him flying, 'Isn't she at the half-step Body modification realm!? What kind of strength does she have!?'
Yasenia didn't lose the chance and sent a [Shooting star] towards his flying direction. The watermelon size star landed while he was midair, and she blew up half his torso, killing him.
Yasenia looked at her points and raised an eyebrow. 'Killing cultivators is a lot more lucrative than killing beasts, and we are only in the first day… Won't beasts and treasures be useless after a certain amount of time?'
The other cultivators seem to have also noticed, and they started grouping up. This led them to hunt rogue cultivators and, consequently, the remaining solo cultivators also grouped up.
During this time, Yasenia has discovered that the formation divides the points a beast gives if the group works together and they kill the beast. But if someone outside the party steals the last hit, the killer will receive all the points.
Yasenia continued her killing spree for half a day. She couldn't help but frown each time she went in the direction of a half-step or ninth-level cultivator. 'They are too strong... If I had advanced before entering the formation, I could have ended the first rank more easily. However, as I am now... It seems an impossible task.'
Yasenia sighed, 'I could have made a breakthrough one week ago. However, I want to become the strongest before I challenge the tribulation. Accumulating small advantages will make me a lot stronger later... It doesn't matter anymore; when I leave the formation, I will be able to advance for sure.'
While thinking this, her instincts started sending danger signals. 'What's wrong?'
She looked around and found out that two teams of three cultivators were targeting her from the north and the south, or her left and right. The group on her left all had long swords. The group on her right had one shield user, one archer, and one long sword cultivator.
Yasenia smirked, 'The strongest is a level six cultivator... it seems this battle will be challenging!'
She looked at the sky and saw it was sunset. Her smile widened. 'Solar energy it is~' "[Celestial coat], [Starry sky]."
A golden-slivery glow surrounded her, and white lights started gathering around her as she gripped her giant sword horizontal to the ground, making an imposing sight. The ominous red light in [Draconic heart]'s core changed to a golden color as she channeled sun energy through it.
The two groups realized that they had been discovered and sprang into action. They were surprised to find that more people were targeting Yasenia and looked at each other for a moment. The leader of the left group said, "Kill her, and then we fight each other."
The others nodded. Yasenia laughed, "Shamelessly attacking a body modification realm in groups, don't you feel your cheeks burning?"
Of course, Yasenia knew it was the right thing to do since she was "easy prey", but she wanted to enrage them.
Yasenia used her empowered mind to analyze them in a second and then made a plan in that instant, 'Attack the shield user with full strength and send her flying, charge towards the archer and kill him if possible. After that, improvise and do not let the shield user bother me.'
Yasenia spun once, activating her domain, [Moonless Night], to hinder her enemies and reduce her energy usage. Then she charged toward the shield user using [Lingering Star Steps] to accelerate. The shield user also ran toward her, using a brown energy coat.
"[Shooting star]" She shot a single star towards the shield user, and the female cultivator blocked it *Bang* The explosion strength stopped her charge and made her take one step back! Feeling the force of the star, she was alarmed. 'This woman is more than it looks!'
When she stabilized and looked over her shield, the giant sword was already falling on her, glowing with golden radiance and accompanied by a whisper "[Sunset]." She hastily hardened her defenses.
When Yasenia's sword hit the shield, the woman felt like a giant had punched her shield. Yasenia's sword almost flattened her, but that wasn't all. *Boom!* A golden outward explosion engulfed the girl!
The shield user was directly sent flying with grievous wounds! The explosion charred her bare skin, and she lost sight of one eye. Moreover, her shield arm was fractured!
Yasenia used her tail on the ground to accelerate speedily before the long sword companion of the woman reached her. She changed direction towards the archer using [Lingering star step] to help, and her speed soared. With the abrupt acceleration, she dodged the sword cultivator and managed to align herself with the archer who was about to release a powerful arrow toward her. Yasenia smirked and pointed her sword forward, "[Sun Charge]."
The archer released the black glowing arrow, but Yasenia's golden charge consumed it as she accelerated. The archer didn't expect her second abrupt acceleration, and Yasenia's scorching sword impaled his chest. The energy and momentum of the blade caused Yasenia to pierce through him as she incinerated the right side of his body, killing him on the spot.
After the charge, she used her tail and feet to slide to a stop. Yasenia turned and looked with an excited smile at her opponents. "So weak, and you wanted to kill me? Delusional cultivators are becoming more common nowadays!"
Instead of aiming at the four intact cultivators, Yasenia sped up toward the injured female shield cultivator!
The four sword cultivators put themselves in front of the girl. The strongest with a level six cultivation charged at Yasenia with a magma coat, and another one tried to circle behind her. "Let's try to stop her and then wear her down."
Yasenia used [Shooting star], firing it at the sneaky cultivator, stopping his positioning for a second. Then, fearless, she accelerated towards the sword cultivator. She said with a sneer, "Delusional flea, trying to cover my scorching Sun with magma!? [SUNSET]!"
Yasenia's sword fell as the cultivator made a rising strike. Swords clashed, and a heat burst consumed the surroundings!
Yasenia's coat endured the explosion easily as she pushed against the cultivator, who, after sliding ten meters, managed to stop her charge. He had a badly mangled body, but his eyes shone with decisiveness! 'Even if I fall, I'm taking you with me!'
The others took the chance and attacked, and Yasenia's sneer deepened. While they charged at her, and she was locking swords, she chanted "[Sunrise]."
Her tail flashed, making a rising strike in its sword form towards the resisting cultivator's leg, cutting it off swiftly! With the main support for his body lost, he fell backward. Yasenia raised her sword and slashed downwards again "[SUNSET]!"