The six who had just been eliminated all wore ugly expressions.
"Isn't the Dao Venerable cheating?!"
All six were filled with a sense of grievance.
Xuanxiao watched the six eliminated contestants and shook his head with mischievous amusement. "Little fellows barely a hundred eons old, yet you dare try to outsmart me? My wool isn't so easy to fleece."
As it turned out, the six Sages had been eliminated simultaneously not because they lacked strength, but because Xuanxiao had quietly changed the ninth floor's rules.
Originally, the ninth floor's calamity of world creation only required them to scrape by along the battlefield's edge, surviving as long as possible.
Now, however, Xuanxiao had rewritten the rules.
The Sages trapped on the ninth floor had to keep advancing toward the battlefield's center to survive.
Those who moved too slowly would be sent straight out of the tower by the Heart-Questioning Tower's power of rules.
The farther inward they went, the closer they came to the heart of Pangu and Xuanxiao's battle of world creation.
There, the Chaos Demon Gods were more densely packed, and the laws of the Great Dao more violent. Every inch forward was a walk along a blade's edge.
The six Sages had all been mercilessly eliminated by the rules simply because they had moved a little too slowly.
No wonder they felt so aggrieved.
They had thought that, by hunkering down on the outskirts like Mo Yuan, they could hold out a little longer. Instead, Xuanxiao had sealed off that escape route altogether.
At that moment, the five remaining contestants on the ninth floor-Laozi, Yuanshi, Tongtian, Jieyin, and Mo Yuan-had all noticed the change in the rules.
Yuanshi was the first to realize something was wrong.
He distinctly remembered clearing out Chaos Demon Gods on the outskirts just