Time flew by. In the blink of an eye, half a year had passed.
Above the Tidal Spirit Sea outside Starfall City, the enormous arena built for the Starfall Competition had been completed.
The arena formed a Small World of its own. Its vast expanse rivaled a complete sixth-grade Small World, and it hovered between Starfall City and Heavenly Palace Small City, radiant with spiritual light.
The rush to register had swept across the entire Source Realm.
Prodigies, independent cultivators, and Emperor Alliance elites flocked in from every direction. The number of entrants was staggering.
In the fiercely contested mid Emperor Realm division alone, hundreds of thousands of cultivators had registered.
The division below the Emperor Realm, with its far larger pool of talent, had drawn over ten million entrants—an unprecedented turnout.
Ten million competitors were far too many to face one another in the main arena.
Star Brilliance Tower had set the rules early. Entrants below the Emperor Realm would be sent in batches to Starfall City's many subordinate Small Worlds for mass preliminaries. Round after round would eliminate contenders until only those qualified for the main arena remained.
All eyes in Starfall City, and across the Source Realm, were fixed on the coming spectacle. Excitement for the Starfall Competition had reached its peak. All that remained was for it to begin.
While the outside world roared with activity, the Seclusion Chamber was still and cut off from it all.
Lin Yi had not emerged once. Through Dreaming Reincarnation, he devoted himself to refining his technique day and night.
After six full months of deduction, trial and error, correction, and refinement, he had eliminated every lingering flaw in the first version of the Divine Demon Body Bloodline Fusion Method.
The technique, tailored to his Divine Demon Body and its