"Let's withdraw for now; this isn't the time for a wholesale massacre."
Having eliminated his opponent, Yun He flicked into motion, quickly vanishing from the spot and entering a dense forest not far away. He found a large boulder, sat cross-legged on it, and quietly waited.
The entire Preliminary Elimination Tournament would last for a month. In the very beginning, because there were too many people, the battles would be extremely fierce and brutal, yet the points gained were meager.
Conversely, by the later stages the number of people would drop significantly, with the weaker ones being eliminated, leaving behind basically the strong.
For those who survived until the later stages, every single person would hold a substantial amount of points. Killing one person then would be far more useful than killing a hundred or a thousand now.
Let's keep a low profile for now and just slaughter them in the later stages!
Yun He smiled faintly, deciding to let the sheep fatten up a bit before slaughtering them.
As for Luo Feng in the First World Zone, he had the exact same idea as Yun He. Because he needed to refine and familiarize himself with the first form of his Yan Shen Armament: the Phantom Sword Style, he was keeping a low profile and lying low.
At this time, Luo Feng had not been in contact with the Yan Shen Armament for very long, his Law of Gold domain had only reached the fifth stage, and he had just touched the threshold of the Law of Gold.
Right now, what Luo Feng needed most was time to grow.
After all, compared to many contestants, Luo Feng, who was not yet thirty years old this year, and Yun He, who was in his early thirties, were simply far too young.
Including Hong and Thunder God as well, being only a few decades old, they were truly too young.
The lifespan of a Star Level is ten thousand years, and many contestants were actually several hundred or even over a thousand years old.
In the skies above each World Zone, every contestant could fly up to a maximum height of about nine thousand meters from the ground. Any higher than that, and an invisible barrier would impede them.
Above the barrier.
Spaceships were flying slowly past. Inside a single room aboard one of the spaceships, Luo Hongguo, Gong Xinlan, Xu Xin, the two children Luo Ping and Luo Hai, along with Xu Xin's older brother Xu Gang's family, were all present.
Through the external virtual projection.
The people on the spaceship could look down and see the bloody carnage taking place within the cities across those various World Zones. They could also zoom in, clearly seeing the appearances and physical traits of every single one of those contestants on the continent below.
Of course, those hiding inside buildings could not be seen.
"Mom, I can't find Uncle Yun's ranking, and I don't know which World Zone he's in." Little Luo Hai bit his lower lip, holding a screen in his hand. The screen displayed three leaderboards, which respectively locked onto Luo Feng, Hong, and Thunder God in the First World Zone, World Zone 72, and World Zone 88.
Yet he could not find which World Zone Yun He was in, unless he typed in the name World Zone by World Zone to search.
For this pair of twin brothers, who had never met the Uncle Yun they had heard about since they could understand things, they were extremely curious.
"Bring it here, I'll find it." Xu Xin smiled slightly, took the screen, randomly selected a World Zone, and entered the two characters for Yun He, whereupon results popped up inside.
"Found him, Yun He is in World Zone 66." Xu Xin smiled. She had simply seen that the number 66 looked rather pleasing to the eye and decided to try searching for it, never expecting she would actually find him.
"You found Little He? Let me see." Gong Xinlan hurriedly cast her gaze over.
"Ah~ Uncle Yun's ranking is so low! It's even way lower than Dad's!" Little Luo Ping exclaimed in shock.
Luo Feng had at least cleared out the contestants in his own building before going into closed-door cultivation, while Yun He had only killed one person. In World Zone 66, he was basically no different from being in last place.
Right now, Luo Feng's ranking was also starting to drop.
"Big Uncle's ranking is dropping too. But Second Uncle's ranking is rising so fast." Little Luo Hai's gaze fixed closely on the screen as he said, "Second Uncle is rising so fast, he's already rushed into the top 100,000. My dad and Big Uncle are both past the ten million mark, while Uncle Yun..."
Regarding the ranking further down, Little Luo Hai's face turned red, and he didn't have the heart to say it out loud.
One hundred World Zones were holding preliminaries simultaneously. Because the number of participating personnel was simply too large, it was completely impossible to broadcast them. Therefore, throughout the entire Black Dragon Mountain Empire, from the upper echelons down to ordinary citizens, countless people spent money to board spaceships and watch from the skies above these 100 World Zones.
As for even more people, they could only view the ranking situations of the various World Zones through the real-time rankings of the Virtual Universe Company.
Time ticked away day by day.
Soon, the elimination tournament reached the twentieth day.
On the boulder, Yun He, who had been sitting cross-legged, suddenly opened his eyes.
"Hm?" Yun He's gaze turned cold, and he pointed his finger toward the empty space in front of him.
Screech!
A transparent sword beam burst forth, directly piercing through a bucket-thick trunk of a tree not far away, running an elimination contestant hiding behind the tree trunk clean through the heart.
"Every day there are clueless attackers like this." Yun He sighed helplessly. At this moment, within a radius of a hundred meters around him, over a hundred corpses were already lying.
They were all contestants who had wanted to come sneak attack him over these past twenty days.
They never bothered to think: if someone dared to sit here so openly and audibly, would they be afraid of a sneak attack?
Didn't they see the hundred-plus corpses all around?
"Points..."
Yun He lowered his gaze to look at the screen on his arm.
Contestant: Yun He. (Black Dragon Mountain Empire)
Points: 180,234.
Ranking: 95,007.
World Zone: World Zone 66.
Just sitting here waiting for a windfall, he had actually managed to acquire 180,000 points, and his ranking had surged into the top ninety-five thousand.
Especially in these last two days, every person who came contributed a large haul of points.
Yun He was utterly speechless.
He didn't even feel like moving anymore; he just wanted to lie flat right here.
Could he really end up securing a spot in the top 1001 of this world by the very end?
Of course, that was just a passing thought.
His goal, after all, was to win first place in this World Zone.
He had zero interest in participating in any arena battles or Reincarnation Battles. To him, that was purely a waste of time; with that time, comprehending laws was so much better. Not to mention battle maniacs like Luo Feng and Rong Jun.
By now, time had already reached the twentieth day.
"Shouldn't the sheep have fattened up by now?"
Yun He slowly stood up. This was the first time he had stood up in twenty days.
Over a hundred corpses, over a hundred sneak attackers, with strengths ranging from strong to weak.
Yet none of them possessed even the qualification to make him move his body.
No matter who came, a single finger and a sword beam were all it took to settle it.
He didn't even need a second move.
Yun He's gaze looked toward the city whose outline faintly emerged in the distance.
It was time to reap the harvest, and he would start with this very city!
Yun He kicked off the ground, his entire person rapidly flying into the air, and flew openly toward the distant city just like that.
Not long after, he arrived at the suburban area of this bustling city, stopping in front of a three-story small building.
On the roof of the three-story building, a burly man over five meters tall opened his eyes, his wide palm grasping a door-slab-wide giant axe.
His copper-bell-like eyes stared at Yun He, filled with excitement, and his voice boomed thunderously, "You actually dare to proactively come looking for me? You must have some skills. I hope you won't disappoint me. Come, let's have a rousing fig-huh?"
The burly man's eyes bulged wide, except that his eyes had already lost their luster, and his body toppled onto the rooftop, emitting a booming sound.
Right between his brows, a thumb-sized bloody hole had appeared.
Yun He didn't even spare him a glance, merely casually pointing out a sword beam. His eyes observed the entire city, sensing where powerful auras were faintly emanating, and silently memorized the locations in his mind.
"I faintly sense that there are a total of fifteen relatively powerful auras in this city. Let's start the harvest with the closest one!"
Yun He's gaze looked toward a hundred-meter-tall skyscraper about ten kilometers away from him. At the top of that skyscraper, a powerful aura was uninhibitedly radiating outward.
"The hunt has begun!"
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