One opponent and nine opponents were entirely different concepts.
A one-on-one duel and a melee differed most in that alliances could be formed in a melee.
Whichever side had more people could clear out their opponents first.
The battlefield was very quiet now.
Not long after, Li Tianming found the boundary!
Sure enough, it was the same kind of barrier as last time.
However, this time there were over a thousand layers of word locks, and every character had a thousand strokes.
"The difficulty has increased quite a bit. It'll be hard to break through in the short term."
Li Tianming did not care whether it was three-seven or twenty-eight; he would pick the lock first.
"I'll unlock it to nine hundred and ninety-nine first. If the opponents are too strong, I'll leave."
No one was approaching anyone else yet. It was the terrifying calm before the storm.
"Still, there are no images this time!"
Li Tianming raised his head and waited for a long time, but the misty hive gave no prompt.
Last time, Gu Chi Xiaoying had killed an opponent as soon as he entered. Everyone saw the footage of his killing, and only then did people begin slaughtering one another.
Kill someone, remove a bee head!
"The difference is that this time, no one should have bee heads. Theoretically, under these bizarre circumstances, with no other outside pressure, there is no need for everyone to fight to the death."
"This strange hive also hasn't explicitly told us to determine life and death, leaving only one person alive."
Because of this, the other nine people did not make any reckless moves either.
Unknown opponents were the most unnerving.
Even the second-ranked participant on the Lesser Realm King Ranking could encounter the first-ranked one.
Even the first-ranked one could