No one spoke. They all watched in silence.
After a short while, the melee was nearing its end. More than half the combatants had been Slaying. Some had already revived three times; with no chances left, they were eliminated on the spot.
Others had revived at random locations elsewhere.
Only three people remained on the battlefield!
"Kong Yan!"
"Kong Yan, the genius from the Ten Directions World."
In the Holy City's great hall, everyone stirred. They recognized the young man with stone-like skin at a glance: Kong Yan of the Ten Directions World.
They remembered how Kong Yan had Slaying two geniuses earlier. They thought highly of him and believed he had the strength to reach the Top Hundred.
And in this melee of more than ten fighters, Kong Yan was one of the survivors.
Besides Kong Yan and the young man in golden armor, one other contestant remained. She was a woman with two horns on her head and an extraordinary aura. She had mastered Fourth-Tier Perfection Origin Laws and was clearly from the Torch Dragon World.
Everyone saw that Kong Yan had intended to deal with the woman first, then turn on the young man in golden armor. But the armored young man seemed to say something that thoroughly enraged him.
"Heh. What's the fun in watching without sound?"
The spirit of the Two Worlds Diagram gave a faint smile and waved his right hand. Sound immediately began to come through as well.
At once, everyone heard a voice coming from the Virtual Projection, cold and calm.
"No need to waste time. You can both come at me." The speaker was the young man in golden armor.
His expression was utterly calm, but beneath it lay a trace of madness: the madness of someone who yearned to reach