Second Round Ends

To win the first competition event and become the Parkour King, recruit many experts, establish a Sect, grow stronger, and achieve greater glory!

Wang Hui, after immobilizing Jiang Liu, had already begun to fantasize about standing out from millions of competitors. Riding on Yao Xiang's back, he couldn't help but burst into laughter.

So what if he's at Qi Refining Layer 8? So what if he has eight magic tools?

He had collected a large pile of Immobilization Talismans precisely to eliminate the biggest threats on this course!

Jiang Liu was the biggest threat in his eyes!

Top ten? You won't even make it to the third round!

If one Immobilization Talisman wasn't enough, then five, then ten!

Wang Hui couldn't help but burst into laughter when he saw Jiang Liu fall into the trap. However, before the laughter could even leave his throat, it abruptly stopped.

He suddenly felt a tightening around his neck, as if something was strangling him. He instinctively looked down and saw a thick black rope around his neck, its surface soaked with a bluish-green fluorescence.

Is this a magic tool?!

Wang Hui was stunned for a moment. Before he could even realize what was happening, his neck was suddenly yanked, and his entire body was thrown up, falling off Yao Xiang's back. He tumbled down the mountainside in a very undignified manner.

As he rolled down the mountain, a figure whooshed past him, causing his expression to change drastically, his mind filled with question marks.

Fellow Daoist Jiang?!

Didn't he get immobilized by the Immobilization Talisman?

Didn't the effect of the Immobilization Talisman only last for 2 seconds? How could he move so quickly?

Not only could he move, but he had also whipped him with a rope!

"Holy crap!"

Wang Hui didn't have time to ponder why the Immobilization Talisman didn't work. He quickly scrambled to his feet and shouted at Yao Xiang, "Yao Xiang, come catch me!"

"Boss!"

Yao Xiang laughed heartily inwardly. He swung his long legs and shouted back without looking, "I'll win the Parkour—"

Before he could finish, as if struck by something solid, he felt a sharp pain in the back of his head. His entire body froze in place instantly.

[Received Body Restraint Ring effect, you will be prohibited from moving.]
[Your Realm is far lower than the caster's, you will be permanently prohibited from moving.]

Yao Xiang: "?????"

What do you mean permanently prohibited from moving?

Yao Xiang looked up and saw a golden ring floating above his head, just like the Ruyi Jingu Bang from Journey to the West, filling him with despair.

What kind of BUG Equipment is this!

Boss Wang was thrown down the mountain, and Yao Xiang was immobilized in place. Their ambitions vanished in an instant.

Let alone becoming the Parkour King, they wouldn't even make it into the top ten of the second round.

"To be able to run this fast with such a low Realm, one truly cannot underestimate anyone."

Jiang Liu passed the despairing Yao Xiang and sighed inwardly. Being permanently immobilized by the Body Restraint Ring meant that the opponent's Realm was likely only at Qi Refining Layer 2 or 3.

With such a low Realm, he could still keep pace with him. This kid was destined to be a mount!

With two obstacles casually removed, Jiang Liu ascended the mountain without any further difficulty. He reached the summit in just ten minutes.

[Congratulations on winning first place in the second round of the Parkour King event, successfully advancing to the third round. The third round competition will commence punctually at 12:00 PM tomorrow.]
[You have entered the AFK zone, Cultivation Speed increased by 2000%. There are 19 minutes and 34 seconds remaining in the event. Please enjoy the victor's rewards.]

A 2000% increase in Cultivation Speed!

Jiang Liu had originally wanted to climb higher and gaze into the distance, standing at the edge of the mountain to admire the beautiful scenery thousands of meters below. But upon hearing the electronic voice in his mind, he immediately lost all interest in sightseeing and plopped down on the mountaintop.

What scenery could possibly be as appealing as a 2000% increase in Cultivation Speed?

Twenty minutes of 2000% Cultivation Speed was enough to significantly boost his cultivation value at Qi Refining Layer 8!

Qi Refining Layer 9 was within reach!

Two minutes after he began cultivating, the second-place finisher also reached the summit. The moment they arrived, they collapsed onto the ground, gasping for breath, clearly exhausted.

Even cultivators at the Qi Refining stage would be completely depleted of stamina and utterly exhausted after sprinting up a treacherous mountain thousands of meters high.

Third place, fourth place, fifth place.

The remaining participants who reached the summit all collapsed. They wanted to take advantage of the AFK zone, but as soon as they circulated their cultivation techniques, they suffered Qi deviation. Helplessly, they could only exhale deeply, calming their disturbed breaths.

Several people lay sprawled on the ground, looking at Jiang Liu, whose breathing was steady and undisturbed, with indescribable strangeness in their eyes.

"No way, isn't he tired?"

"A mountain thousands of meters high, and he just climbed it without even a gasp?"

"Are high school students this amazing nowadays?"

"We're both cultivators, but the gap is too big."

Compared to the mining area in the first round, the mountain climb in the second round was much more difficult. The 60-degree slope was not only steep and treacherous but also extremely energy-consuming. Cultivators with lower Realms ran out of stamina midway, and some couldn't even complete the entire climb.

Qi Cultivation Layer 2 or 3, the physical body's strength is only one to two times stronger than ordinary people, and the amount of spiritual energy is not much. Very few people can run several kilometers at full speed through dangerous mountains.

The first round did not limit flight, and God-Tier Players with wings luckily passed.

But in the second round, their true forms were revealed. Realm, speed, and stamina were all indispensable. If any were lacking, let alone the top ten, they wouldn't even see the mountaintop.

Of course, those who could make it into the top ten of the second round were still high-spending players.

For high-spending players, even without wings, they had advanced movement speed buffs, realms far exceeding ordinary people, and even several magic tools.

Take Li Dongze, for example. His spending on spirit stones in the city was second to none. He couldn't compare to Jiang Liu, but he was more than enough compared to others.

"Oh my god, I'm so tired!"

After reaching the mountaintop, Li Dongze leaned directly against Jiang Liu's back, panting with his tongue hanging out like a dead dog. His Mosaic magic robe was soaked with sweat.

"Is it that serious?"

Jiang Liu opened his eyes and looked at Li Dongze with disdain. "You're tired after just a few kilometers?"

Let alone being tired, he had traveled unimpeded, as if walking on flat ground, without even a drop of sweat, fully displaying the demeanor of a Cultivator.

Getting tired after climbing a mountain of several kilometers was truly a disgrace to cultivators.

"You're just talking without pain."

Li Dongze rolled his eyes fiercely and said irritably, "I'm only at Qi Cultivation Layer 5, and I only have three magic tools. It's already pretty good that I could charge up the mountain at full speed."

"Do you know how I got through the last few hundred meters? I climbed up using my hands and feet!"

Jiang Liu: "."

Compared to Li Dongze, the stark contrast could only be attributed to the fact that there were differences between cultivators.

"Don't just stand there, hurry up with the 20x multiplier."

"Can't cultivate, can't cultivate, I pulled a muscle."

Thirty minutes passed quickly. When the second round ended, Jiang Liu subconsciously looked around. The number of players was less than half of what it was at the foot of the mountain.

In other words, more than half of the people hadn't even finished the entire run.

Thirty minutes to climb a mountain of several thousand meters, was it really that difficult?

When he saw that dejected fireball, he finally realized.

It might actually be a bit difficult.