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A number appeared plainly before every participant.
Not only did the examinees within the accelerated simulated universe gasp at the sight, but even the eliminated contestants outside couldn't help sucking in several breaths of fake cold air, their vision darkening. After the first round of elimination, there had only been eighty-odd people left. Yet after the second round, it wasn't merely cut in half—there were only thirty-two remaining...
The intensity of the matches had already surpassed everyone's expectations.
In truth, some examinees had been unable to eliminate their opponents due to limitations in their performance or various other factors, ending in one win and one loss, or deadlocked against each other.
But there were simply too many people with ruthless tricks up their sleeves.
In order to eliminate their opponents, too many people had focused on offense and destruction, while their workshops' defenses had seen no qualitative improvement. Once both sides unleashed everything they had, they simply blasted each other to death.
Some even knew they might not be able to hold on, so they opened by using Heaven and Earth Live Together, dragging someone down with them.
The rankings were immediately cut in half, while the points of the surviving examinees instantly doubled.
Moreover, apparently afraid the competition between examinees wasn't fierce enough—that they might just dance around each other without anyone dying—the host, who was eager for a bloodbath, directly awarded everyone points based on the total points from each examinee's two consecutive rounds.
The growth was actually snowballing.
After defeating his opponent this round, Ji Jue's original 362 points plus his opponent's 272 gave him a total of 634 points.
He still had over a hundred points left unused from the previous round. His available points had now reached a staggering seven hundred—enough to pull off