Who Comes Out on Top?

Returning Ruins Sea, Cliff Island.

The torrent of sunlight gradually subsided, and wisps of blue smoke rose from the scorched earth.

The viscous flesh moss receded, exposing rock layers that gleamed like glazed crystal. The survivors stared blankly at the Sky Dome, now clear once more, their gazes gathering on the young man hanging high beyond the heavens.

"What a loss!"

Li Qingshan's face darkened as he coldly fixed his eyes on the cage formed from ten clusters of Blue-White Flame.

Inside the cage, the ten different Alien Races he had deliberately left alive had now become nothing but piles of ash.

"It really was a loss!"

Sheng Tian echoed him, stepping forward with a face full of regret.

"We originally wanted to leave some alive and question them about the Islands' location. Who knew there would be restrictions inside their bodies?"

Li Qingshan shifted his gaze and stared straight at Sheng Tian before suddenly speaking.

"Just now, were you the one who asked me to leave them alive?"

Sheng Tian's scalp prickled under that stare. He froze at the question.

"Hadn't you already stopped when I spoke up?"

"No!"

Li Qingshan said coldly and with certainty.

"It was because of you that I decided to capture them alive and failed to personally cut them down!"

Ten Ninth Order Alien Races—an entire billion experience points had slipped away just like that!

How could such a grave mistake have been his own doing? It had to be because of Sheng Tian!

"I..."

Sheng Tian stood there awkwardly. He truly did not understand what there was to dwell on, much less why Li Qingshan was staring at him as though he were some old deadbeat debtor.

More importantly,

After that great battle, even his faint desire to compete had long been beaten