The Divine Realm, Western Region.
The last Cursed Spirit disintegrated in the holy light, scattering into a skyful of black ash.
Ye Guyi slowly landed, but the golden holy light surrounding her did not recede. Instead, it grew ever more brilliant, illuminating the entire expanse of shattered ruins.
That light was far too conspicuous.
It was as though she deliberately wanted everyone within a hundred li to notice she was here.
"Fifty-three points."
She lowered her head to glance at the Kogane beside her and murmured to herself.
"Not bad. A cliff-sized lead."
Almost at the same moment, a figure slowly emerged from the distant dust.
Ye Guyi looked up.
She saw that the newcomer had blue hair and torn robes, with the smoke of battle and fluctuations of cursed energy still lingering on him.
His eyes were bright. He looked as though he had just emerged from a deadly battle and still had not had his fill of killing.
It was none other than Huo Yuhao.
The first- and second-ranked contestants on the leaderboard met at that moment.
Both knew perfectly well how the other had climbed to that position.
Over the past few days, each had slaughtered their way through half of the Divine Realm's western territory.
Cursed spirits, undead, and the deities deposited inside the barrier-almost none who encountered them survived.
Now, both were seeing red from killing.
Huo Yuhao's gaze paused for an instant on the holy light surrounding Ye Guyi, so dense that it almost seared his eyes.
That presence was excessively powerful.
So powerful that something long suppressed deep in his heart began to itch again.
"Ye Guyi."
He spoke slowly. "Number one on the leaderboard. You certainly live up to your reputation."
"Interested in finding out which of us is stronger?"
Ye Guyi