Beyond the enormous gate lay another world.
Wrapped in azure light, everyone heard a hum beside their ears, and the scenery before them abruptly changed.
Beneath their feet lay gray-green rock. Ahead, mountains and rivers overlapped in layer upon layer, stretching all the way to the horizon.
A stream flowed nearby, and waterfalls cascaded in the distance.
There was no sun in the sky, yet light shone everywhere, as though some source of illumination hid behind the clouds, bathing the entire world in a gentle azure hue.
All Living Beings Qi rose like mist, like dew, drifting upward strand by strand from cracks in the rocks, beneath tree roots, and the surface of the streams.
One bold youth knelt, hugged a rock, and opened his mouth to inhale.
"Hah..."
With one breath, he felt as though he had sunk into a hot spring. The bottleneck that had trapped him for half a year faintly stirred.
"It's so concentrated! More than ten times as concentrated as the qi outside!"
"There's more over there! That whole forest is full of it!"
"I've struck it rich... I'm going to strike it rich!"
Someone dropped to his knees with a thud, embracing a mass of azure qi as he laughed and cried. Before he could finish laughing, however, a flash of cold light slashed in from the side.
"Get lost! This whole area belongs to me!"
"Bullshit! Let our abilities decide!"
Boom!
At that very moment, the first round of slaughter between geniuses from all regions erupted.
Anywhere the All Living Beings Qi was slightly more concentrated, people fought over it.
Forests, streambanks-even a faintly glowing rock had three groups throwing themselves at it, heedless of their lives.
The geniuses from Spirit Hall did not move.
Hu Liena stood on a high slope, watching