There was no response.
Nothing happened, either.
That Monster must have gone to kill me in my previous life.
So I'm safe now?
"Hey, are you there? Come out and say something. Are you Cthulhu?" Xu Yuan asked.
A line of small text appeared in the Void:
"What is Cthulhu?"
“It's... a Monster you can't possibly defeat,” Xu Yuan said.
The small text appeared at once:
"When the gap in strength is great enough, anyone can become what you call 'Cthulhu.' To an ordinary person, a Nascent Soul cultivator would be 'Cthulhu.'"
That was true enough.
Xu Yuan felt somewhat relieved.
Why get hung up on that?
Growing stronger matters most. Otherwise, sooner or later I'll be a lamb waiting for the slaughter!
Suddenly,
lines of faintly glowing text appeared:
"The matter in which you were certain to die has ended."
"The Nightmare-Level Competition you are about to face, 'Road to Survival and the Revival Match You Had to Enter Because a Sword Pinned You During Your Crossing and You Couldn't Come Back to Life' (second half), has also increased in level."
"This is due to the aftereffects of the ???-level Competition just now, which strengthened your Competition."
"The current Competition has been upgraded to Extinction Tier."
"The countdown has been reset."
"The Competition begins in three days!"
"Please prepare!"
Xu Yuan froze.
He had faced a Nightmare-Level Competition once before.
Strictly speaking,
he had only killed those three Ghost Entities by exploiting a bug.
And now came a Competition ranked even higher than "Nightmare"!
Extinction Tier!
It had actually been upgraded!
And all because of the aftereffects of that ???-level Competition!
There's no way I can win this.
Why do I have to die?
*Who put a Flying Sword through me on the Bridge, and why are they so