Amid laughter and cheerful conversation at the banquet, the Starfall Competition was also progressing in full swing, steady and orderly throughout, with round after round of eliminations.
After a full two months of fierce battles, the preliminary and secondary rounds across all three divisions had concluded. The lists of participants who had successfully entered the top ten thousand of their respective divisions and earned a place on the Starfall Prodigy Ranking were officially announced.
Ten thousand slots might have sounded like a great many, but their value was terrifyingly high.
This Starfall Competition encompassed ten major cities across more than half of the Source Realm. It had even drawn numerous reclusive prodigies and veteran powerhouses from the Six Source Ancestral Land, gathering the vast majority of elite combatants of the same realm from both worlds.
Anyone who could fight their way through tens of millions of participants and remain within the top ten thousand of their division possessed deep foundations and outstanding combat strength for their realm. They were true prodigies who had risen above the ordinary and surpassed their peers.
The eyes of the entire Source Realm were fixed upon the Prodigy Ranking. Voices clamored everywhere, praise flowed without end, and forces from all sides secretly gathered information on these newly risen prodigies, competing to recruit them.
The turmoil and clamor outside did not seep into the seclusion chamber in the slightest.
At this moment, Lin Yi had long since immersed himself in the deepest stage of technique fusion. The unification of the forty-nine Emperor Clan Star Cores had reached its most critical and perilous final stage.
The Primordial World within his body was vast and boundless. The qi of heaven and earth surged wildly together, pouring entirely into his body.
Lin Yi's twenty-thousand-zhang Divine Demon Body stood majestically