"The match has begun!"
"The Final Battle map is Hill of Immortals and Demons, a classic eight-player battle map!"
"Lu Ze spawned at the central camp in the due north. This position... is surrounded by two sects!"
"Azure Peak Sect is on the left, and Limitless Sword Sect is on the right."
"Junior Brother Lu is under a lot of pressure!"
Zhong Yi's commentary was impassioned and stirring.
But Lu Ze and the others inside the Illusion Realm could not hear it.
What Zhong Yi was narrating was real-time information. On the first day of commentary, Sky Profound Gate and Limitless Sword Sect had clashed over this very issue.
Sky Profound Gate believed that Limitless Sword Sect had heard the commentary and prepared in advance for their surprise attack, which was why it had failed.
From then on, whenever commentary was given, a soundproof barrier was set up around the contestants' competition area.
"The menial disciples of all six contestants have begun mining! Oh, no—Junior Brother Lu's should be called slaves!"
Under Zhong Yi's deliberate control, the scenes from all six contestants' sect bases appeared before the audience at once.
Every player began with four menial disciples.
The Demon Path's basic production units were called slaves.
The five true disciples all coincidentally drew a box around their four menial disciples, then sent them toward the Spirit Mine beside their sects.
Only on Lu Ze's screen—
As the four slaves headed toward the Spirit Mine, they split apart one after another in an orderly fashion, each scattering to a different part of the mine.
"Hahaha, Junior Brother Lu's slaves seem to have gained intelligence. They ran off on their own!"
Zhong Yi tossed out the joke without giving it much thought.
At the start of the match, everyone's actions were