Rapid Cleanup

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

As Lin Yuan searched for the entrance to the passage, the sounds of energy collisions echoed incessantly, and many participants in the vicinity had already begun to clash.

Looking out, some were engaged in one-on-one duels, while others were locked in chaotic group brawls.

Since the diameter of the tower was only four hundred kilometers, Lin Yuan could quickly reach every area on his current floor.

Whenever he heard the commotion of battle, Lin Yuan would kindly head over to "mediate the dispute."

Soon, the floor where Lin Yuan was located fell completely silent.

"Huh? The qualifiers only started ten minutes ago, why is it so quiet around here? Did everyone finish fighting already?" a participant hiding in the forest wondered to himself.

It wasn't just him; other more cautious participants who hadn't made a move were also deeply puzzled, as this floor was simply too quiet.

Some participants quietly observed the sky above the forest and discovered a man in black armor flying back and forth recklessly, seemingly searching for something.

A few confident participants seized the opportunity to launch sneak attacks, but they were all instantly countered and killed by the man in black armor.

"This movement technique... what is going on? I can't see him clearly at all."

"It's the Law of Earth Origin! This is an expert who has comprehended a law of origin! I must leave this floor immediately."

Ordinary Universe Level 9 participants were no different from commoners in front of Lin Yuan; they had no power to resist and couldn't even withstand a single axe strike from him.

Lin Yuan used only the Thousand Mountain Axe, combined with his extreme speed, to sweep through all the participants who dared to fight in the open.

"Found it!"

After searching in the sky for a while, Lin Yuan finally located a passage entrance. It was surrounded by a circle of massive trees, making it quite difficult to spot.

Before entering the passage, Lin Yuan noticed that it led to the floor below, and above the entrance was written: "Current Floor: 9."

"It seems I am currently on the ninth floor."

"I might as well head down. I'll clear out floors one through eight completely, then work my way up floor by floor," Lin Yuan thought to himself.

Lin Yuan then entered the passage without hesitation, heading toward the eighth floor.

"Get out of this floor! There's a monster!"

The eighth floor was a high-tech city, and the participants within it didn't even have time to fight each other; they were flooding into the passages of this floor like madmen.

"Didn't they say all materials and substances inside the Ancient Tower were C9 grade? How are they being destroyed so easily?"

Participants who had already reached the passage looked back with lingering fear. They saw a figure in black armor, surrounded by raging flames within a thousand-meter radius, moving at high speed and destroying one skyscraper after another as if weeding a garden.

Participants hiding inside the buildings were burned alive instantly. Those who ran too slowly were reduced to ashes the moment they touched the flames.

"These buildings are all made of C9 grade materials; how can they shatter at the mere touch of this man's flames? This isn't right!"

"Did they let a Domain Lord into the qualifiers?"

Before long, all the buildings on this floor had been destroyed. The entire eighth floor was left barren, with nowhere left to hide.

Some participants who had just arrived from the seventh floor were bewildered. What was going on with this floor? Was it a simulated apocalypse scenario?

At this moment, Lin Yuan checked the optical computer on his arm, which displayed his current status.

Participant: Lin Yuan (Nine Flames Universe Kingdom)

Points: 43982

Rank: 2

"Oh? There's another expert?" Lin Yuan was slightly surprised.

Lin Yuan felt he had been killing fast enough; after all, there were only about one hundred thousand people per floor, yet someone was killing even faster than him.

Lin Yuan immediately checked the leaderboard.

World Area 17 Points:

1st Place: Hui Guang.

2nd Place: Lin Yuan.

3rd Place: Gustav.

"Hui Guang? Interesting. Things just got a little less boring."

Lin Yuan quickly located the entrance to the next floor and flew straight into it, heading toward the seventh floor.

Lin Yuan decided that if he was going to do this, he would do it thoroughly. His current goal was to destroy every scene, building, and material from the first floor to the one-hundredth floor of the entire Ancient Tower.

He would first ensure that no participant had anywhere to hide, and then he would slowly harvest them.

Although it was more troublesome, Lin Yuan felt this would allow him to obtain the highest possible score.

As a slave, Lin Yuan had spent twenty thousand years living in constant fear. After gaining his freedom, he had spent the vast majority of his time comprehending secret techniques and laws. Now, he could finally have a truly satisfying release.

Due to his breakthrough in the Law of Fire Origin and his leap in comprehension of the Law of Space Origin, the power of the third form of the Burning Universe Flame Wild Axe, "Burning Sky," was no longer what it used to be.

The flame space he formed was not only much larger than before, but its duration had also seen a massive increase.

From initially being able to maintain it for only a few seconds, he could now sustain it for several hours without interruption. Each time he finished using it, he only needed a short rest before he could release it again.

Lin Yuan descended layer by layer, destroying the scenes and buildings on every level until nothing remained.

One day later, Lin Yuan finally arrived at the first level.

The first level was a maze, and Lin Yuan began clearing it as usual.

"Lin Yuan, is that you? Wait a moment!" Lin Yuan heard a contestant hiding behind a wall calling out to him and halted his movements.

The contestant flew out from behind the wall and opened his force helmet.

"Hmm? I think I've seen you before." Lin Yuan scrutinized the other person.

"Lin Yuan, I'm also a student of the Nine Flame Sacred Land, ranked 239th among the Universe Level students in the Sacred Land. I even faced you in the previous two Ranking Tournaments! Though I didn't last very long, haha..." the Nine Flame Sacred Land student said with a laugh.

"So... Lin Yuan, could you, spare my life?" the Sacred Land student asked Lin Yuan.

"Sure. I'll remember you and avoid you from now on. You should keep working hard too."

After saying this, Lin Yuan continued to hunt other contestants and clear the buildings on the ground.

The student let out a long sigh of relief; it was fortunate that this genius, ranked in the top two of the Sacred Land, was easy to talk to and wouldn't strike at his own sect members.

Of course, Lin Yuan would not actively target students from his own sect, as every student represented "performance" for the Nine Flame Sacred Land.

Unless it was a student Lin Yuan had never met, or if the other party failed to recognize him, then if they were accidentally killed by Lin Yuan, they would just have to accept their bad luck.

There were significantly more contestants on the first level than on the previous levels, many of whom had been driven down here by Lin Yuan along the way.

After clearing the first level, Lin Yuan checked the optical computer on his arm, and the information had refreshed.

Contestant: Lin Yuan (Nine Flames Universe Kingdom)

Points: 378342

Ranking: 1

Having cleared so many levels of space, Lin Yuan's points had unknowingly surpassed those of Hui Guang, who had previously been in first place.

Lin Yuan's goal was, of course, to securely obtain first place in the world sector so that he would not need to participate in the arena group battles.

The arena group battles held no great significance for Lin Yuan; it would be better to devote himself entirely to the comprehension of laws.

After resting for a while, Lin Yuan began to push upward.