To be honest, this reason wasn't all that unreasonable. Fourteen contestants fought in pairs until seven remained; then they fought in pairs again, leaving one person with a bye.
In a normal competition, getting a bye would be a good thing. But here, it was no good thing. At this stage, killing one fewer opponent meant gaining a huge amount fewer Evolution Points.
Now that only four remained, it was equivalent to him fighting two fewer rounds and losing out on a massive amount of Evolution Points.
If he had not completely absorbed the power of his avatar and now possessed Super Divinity equivalent to Godhead Level 19, he would have suffered a loss from skipping two rounds.
So, such a thing truly could not be called either good or bad. But for him, it counted as a good thing.
The remaining four contestants were himself, his other Golden Ancient Tree Avatar, the Seven-Headed Dragon Race, and another familiar face—the Lightning Specter.
That was right. Just as he had received Enigma's mother's power and directly unleashed his avatar's strength, dramatically increasing his power, the Six-Headed Dragon that had fought him before had likewise received a boon bestowed by Nine-Faced Dragon God Aio and regrown a new head.
The new head possessed no attributes and did not grant the Seven-Headed Dragon Race any additional Laws. Its sole purpose was to greatly increase the Seven-Headed Dragon Race's various resistances, especially against the Time Law Lin Xiao controlled.
Put plainly, it was meant to defend against the Time Law he controlled.
Lin Xiao had seen the Lightning Specter before. Aside from the Ancient Ice Soul, it had been the strongest opponent he had faced in the final stages of the Tong Tian Pagoda. It controlled the power of lightning and could forcibly drain