The Health Bar Is Showing (Seeking Follow-up!)

The instant the countdown ended, Jiang Liu immediately activated his Afterimage Body, his movement speed suddenly increasing. He became a gust of wind, leaving shimmering afterimages in his wake.

In just a few seconds, he had covered a hundred meters, reaching the end of the small street. Blocking his path was a steamed bun shop, three to four meters high.

Did he need to take a detour?

No!

Jiang Liu stomped on the ground, and his entire body seemed to lift off, easily leaping onto the roof of the steamed bun shop.

Just as he was about to jump down and continue towards the finish line, he felt something hard under his right foot, as if he had stepped on a pebble.

A pebble on the roof?

He subconsciously looked down, his pupils contracting instantly. He cursed inwardly.

Who the hell put a button on the roof!

Beneath his feet lay a very modern mechanical button. He didn't need to think to know what it meant.

He'd triggered a trap!

Before Jiang Liu could react, several small cracks appeared on the roof beneath his feet. A golden spirit arrow shot out from directly below, aiming straight for his crotch!

Holy crap!

Jiang Liu's face turned green. His brain hadn't even processed it before his body moved on its own. His legs buckled, and he leaned back. The golden arrow whizzed past his crotch, a near miss!

Even in an Illusion Realm, he couldn't handle the psychological trauma of being emasculated!

"Five Elements Town, I get it now, I get it..."

He didn't have time to recover from the shock. Muttering to himself, he rolled off the roof of the steamed bun shop and continued to sprint towards the finish line.

However, his carefree attitude from the beginning was gone. His nerves were taut, his eyes darting around rapidly, observing his surroundings as he sped past, afraid of falling into another trap with one wrong move.

Five Elements Town, this was an event map filled with traps!

If he had been hit by that Gold Element Spirit Arrow, even if it didn't kill him and disqualify him, it would have at least had a significant impact on him.

Five Elements Town, with its complete Five Elements, meant he had to constantly guard against traps coming from all directions!

As Jiang Liu cautiously charged forward, he suddenly felt a familiar spiritual energy fluctuation about ten meters ahead. The space in front of him was empty, but the spiritual energy fluctuation didn't lie.

He grew alert and tentatively flicked his finger, sending a Heart Piercing Drop towards the source of the spiritual energy fluctuation.

Bang!

A dull thud!

In the empty space about ten meters away, a water ball exploded without warning. Jiang Liu stared blankly, unable to help but curse, "Damn it, there are invisible traps too!"

Traps invisible to the naked eye, only detectable by spiritual energy fluctuations. If his Realm hadn't been higher than this fluctuation, he might not have found it at all.

Good grief, what kind of map is this?

He had encountered two traps in just a thousand meters. This frequency made Jiang Liu's scalp tingle. He thought, no wonder the developers were so generous. An event with ten thousand Law-tier items as rewards? They were just saying it; they never intended to give them all out.

The top hundred players on each King's Track would receive Law-tier item rewards?

30 minutes, 20,000 meters, a map full of Five Elements traps. Even he, a Qi Refining Layer 8 player, found it difficult. What about the others?

Useless developers, artificially increasing the event difficulty. If you can't afford to give out rewards, don't offer them!

Jiang Liu cursed inwardly. Although he was confident he could complete the course, it didn't mean he wouldn't be angry about the developers' actions.

He was a player, after all. He had to stay true to himself and curse when necessary.

After encountering two Five Elements traps and losing several seconds, Jiang Liu dared not delay any further. Gritting his teeth, he charged forward, scaling walls and leaping over rooftops without taking detours, forging a straight path.

Did he step on something again?

Doesn't matter!

Spiritual energy fluctuation?

Doesn't matter!

Vines? Huh?

A vine wrapped around his foot!

Jiang Liu was sprinting at full speed when a vine quietly emerged from the ground and wrapped around his leg. The momentum of his forward motion sent him tumbling to the ground. If he hadn't reacted quickly and braced himself with his hands, he would have face-planted.

"You son of a bitch!"

With a dark expression, his palm flashed, and he gripped the Sunrise Sword, cutting the vine. Without any pause, he got up and continued forward.

At a corner, he encountered a flamethrower. In an alley, a giant rolling boulder blocked his path. As he ran, a large rock jutted out from the ground.

Parkour?

No parkour, just pure sprinting!

I'm posting, I'm going to post, I'm going to the forum to unleash hell!

Three thousand meters.

Four thousand meters.

Five thousand meters.

It wasn't until a quarter of the way through the journey that Jiang Liu encountered his first player on this map.

Clear footsteps sounded to his left. He glanced over casually and saw a young man in his early twenties, dressed in sportswear suitable for movement, with a health bar hovering above his head.

A health bar?

Jiang Liu blinked, thinking he'd misread it. He stared intently at the person's head again. The clearly visible health bar was only half full, evidently depleted by traps.

It really has a health bar?

He looked up, his eyes drifting upwards, and saw a health bar above his own head as well. Only a sliver was empty, indicating about ninety-five percent health remaining.

The third round. It even shows health bars now?

Jiang Liu was a little surprised, and felt even more keenly the sinister intentions of the event organizers. Displaying health bars encouraged players to obstruct and attack each other, ensuring even fewer people would reach the finish line.

Smart people would ignore other players, not wasting time attacking them.

But the dumber ones...

Like the one next to him.

"Don't blame me! The more people get eliminated, the higher my chances of getting into the top hundred!"

The sportswear-clad youth's eyes lit up the moment he spotted Jiang Liu. A fierce glint flashed in his eyes. He strode over, a ball of flame condensing in his palm, and swiped at Jiang Liu's shoulder.

"Little kid, you're cultivating? Go back and play house!"

Jiang Liu truly hadn't expected the opponent to come over and offer himself up. He had been looking at his own health bar when a figure suddenly darted out from the side. The next second, he felt a jolt on his shoulder as he was attacked.

And then... there was no 'then'.

He watched his health bar remain completely unmoved, not even dropping by one percent.

Can't break through the Thousand Hammer Golden Body, and you dare to make a move in the third round below Qi Cultivation Layer 5?

Who gave you the courage?

"How is that possible!"

The sportswear youth's eyes widened in disbelief as his full-power palm strike failed to chip away even a sliver of the opponent's health.

He had, after all, fought his way through two rounds from a sea of thousands to reach the third round as a Qi Cultivation Level 4 cultivator!

His full-power palm strike, channeling spiritual energy, couldn't even break the defense?

"You..."

He opened his mouth, about to say something, when a streak of watery sword light flashed past his vision. His health bar, already less than half full, was instantly emptied. His body flickered and he was removed from the event map.

"More useless than an outer sect elder from Lingyun Sect. Even he knows to dodge!"