Great Escape

By the third year, the Hundred Institutes Grand Competition had entered its final climax.

With the second-place Second Place changing hands once again as the sign, the rankings thereafter underwent swift and drastic changes. One prodigy after another from the top hundred, even the top thirty, was "eliminated" due to various accidents.

Some unlucky fellows even died beneath surprise attacks from Nascent Soul Great Demons, without even having time to flee.

Meanwhile, the Five-Colored Barrier continued to contract inward at an unhurried pace. On the eve of the Great Escape, the entire activity area had dwindled to a radius of merely two thousand li. It was a vast stretch of rolling mountains with somewhat complex terrain, at least leaving the hundred or so people who had endured until the end a sliver of breathing room.

Yet within such a narrow area, there were actually as many as fourteen Nascent Soul Realm Great Demons active, along with an unknown number of foreign cultivators possessing Nascent Soul Realm combat strength.

Over the final three months, these hundred or so Golden Core prodigies not only had to beware of "backstabs" from their own kind, but also constantly evade attacks from Great Demons and foreign races. Their situation could only be described as exceptionally miserable.

What was even worse, however, was that because of the Luck Fortune Jade Pendants, everyone's "real-time location" was displayed with perfect clarity before everyone else.

That being the case, even if one wanted to lie low until the end, it was absolutely impossible.

In order to survive until the final day, "alliances" between the strong naturally began to form.

In just a few days, lone participants became few and far between, replaced by more than a dozen "temporary teams."

Perhaps it was no coincidence that many members of these