Beams of teleportation light lit up outside the Martial God Palace. The eliminated Martial Venerables and Martial Emperors appeared one after another, returning beneath the Sky-Reaching Stairway.
They had already lost their qualifications to enter the Martial God Treasury, yet there was little disappointment on their faces. Every one of them still wore the dazed expression they had before leaving the great hall.
Some stood motionless long after landing. Some stared up at the Martial God Palace. Others moved their lips faintly, as though they were still reliving the scene they had just witnessed.
The sight of thirty billion points and the Secret Realm's collapse continued flashing through their minds. Even after being teleported out, they found it difficult to calm down at once.
The Martial Artists remaining near the Sky-Reaching Stairway quickly noticed them. Those people had failed to pass the first round and had been waiting for the outcome inside the palace.
Now that the eliminated participants were returning one after another, they immediately crowded around, wanting to know what had happened in the later examinations.
"Why do you all look like that?"
A Martial Venerable standing beneath the stairway reached out to stop an acquaintance, studying his face several times.
"What happened inside the Martial God Palace?"
Only then did the stopped Martial Venerable come back to his senses. He turned to look around and realized that everyone was waiting for his answer.
Yet after opening his mouth, he did not know where to begin. The shock Jiang Hao had delivered just now was simply too great.
"Say something! Were you eliminated, or did something go wrong with the later examination?"
Several Martial Emperors nearby also walked over. Though they had been stopped on the Sky-Reaching Stairway, they had not left immediately because they wanted to wait