Chapter 507: Fifth Place! The Final Day!

After eliminating the ability users below, Xu Jingming descended from the sky to the ground.

He glanced at the smart bracer on his left wrist.

'Name: Xu Jingming (Da Xia)

Zone: Zone 73

Points:

Rank: 6

......'

'Still sixth place?'

Xu Jingming frowned, 'The higher up you go, the harder it becomes to climb the rankings...'

The four fifth-rankers he killed at the start boosted his rank from beyond 100,000th to 54th.

But the few thousand points he just gained from killing ability users didn't move him up a single rank.

After a moment of thought, Xu Jingming quickly understood why.

By the eighth day of the competition, most points were concentrated among the top强者.

Unless you kill those top ability users, killing ordinary contestants won't earn you many points.

'Keep killing! Let's see if the top five can force me to use Thunder Extreme State.'

Xu Jingming's eyes burned with fierce battle lust as he continued walking forward.

The preliminary round had reached its eighth day, yet all his opponents had been weak.

Aside from Wang Mang, he hadn't encountered a single sixth-ranker.

Simply using Dou Tian Shen Lei and a few basic combat techniques was enough to kill them.

He hadn't even used Thunder Extreme State, let alone the stronger Thunder Storm State or the Ultimate Thunder Ring.

The entire Zone 73 covered an area of one thousand square kilometers.

With full power, Xu Jingming's Lei Long Wings could sweep the entire zone in less than a day.

But Lei Long Wings consumed immense energy—he couldn't use them continuously.

He also needed time to kill ability users or find a place to rest and recover his energy.

Even though this was a virtual world, his physical stamina was identical to reality—he needed rest when tired.

Even so, by the ninth day of the preliminary round, Xu Jingming had swept nearly a quarter of Zone 73.

Yet he had encountered only one sixth-rank ability user.

After killing him, Xu Jingming's rank finally rose from sixth to fifth.

Ninth day of the preliminary round, 11:59 PM.

The night sky was pitch black; a light drizzle fell.

Xu Jingming walked through the city streets, golden thunder swirling over his skin, repelling every drop of rain.

Blood flowed across the streets, the stench of blood thick in the air—every few dozen meters, a corpse lay sprawled.

To maximize realism, corpses of slain contestants did not vanish—they remained exactly as they would in reality.

After nine straight days of slaughter, the one million people in Zone 73 had dwindled to fewer than a thousand!

The rest had become corpses, creating this scene.

The stench of blood entering his nostrils didn't unsettle Xu Jingming—it pleased him.

The 'ruthless' side effect of Doushen Shenlei's body had been largely released through days of slaughter.

He felt utterly at ease, his entire body in perfect comfort.

'Only one minute left—then the entire thousand-square-kilometer zone will shrink to one hundred kilometers.

Then I'll finally see the four ahead of me.'

Shhh—

Behind him, his brilliant Lei Long Wings unfurled, and with a single gentle beat, Xu Jingming soared to the rooftop of a nearby hundred-meter-tall skyscraper.

'This is the best vantage point—I'll wait here for the zone to shrink...'

On the skyscraper's rooftop, Xu Jingming retracted his wings, sat cross-legged, and closed his eyes to rest.

The final day's battle would be fierce—he needed to return to peak condition.

'Fifth place? Xu Jingming started too late; it's normal his accumulated points haven't caught up to the top few.

But once the map shrinks on the final day, this will be when Xu Jingming unleashes his final slaughter!'

In the virtual world, at the headquarters of Lei Ting Martial Arts, on the balcony of a villa, Su Qingli gazed up at the massive leaderboard.

Her beautiful eyes held a hint of anticipation.

Beside her stood Ling Shuang, dressed in a red classical robe.

'Li Ming and Zhou Hui—aren't they both from Bear Fury Martial Arts?'

Ling Shuang stared in surprise at the names displayed at first and second place in Zone 73.

Bear Fury Martial Arts, one of Da Xia's top martial arts sects, had also sent its prodigy trainees to this talent competition.

And Li Ming was the strongest among Bear Fury's prodigy trainees!

He possessed an A+ level ability, sixth-rank lower tier, and had previously competed against Wang Dong.

The other, Zhou Hui, was Bear Fury's second-ranked prodigy trainee.

He possessed an A-level ability, sixth-rank lower tier, and his strength was formidable.

'That's them.'

Su Qingli nodded slightly. 'They were assigned to the same zone.'

'From the same martial arts sect, same zone—could they have planned to team up?'

Hearing Ling Shuang's delicate brows knit slightly as she guessed aloud.

The competition zones are assigned before the match begins, so contestants from the same faction, in order to advance, are very likely to choose to team up.

"Even if they team up, so what? They still can't beat Xu Jingming, can they?"

Su Qingli naturally saw the worry in Ling Shuang's words, turned those clear, limpid eyes toward her, and said with a light smile.

Hearing this, Ling Shuang paused briefly, then nodded in agreement:

"Indeed, Xu Jingming's strength far surpasses the two of them."

As she spoke, she also felt a little strange in her heart.

That's right!

Xu Jingming's strength was terrifyingly strong!

In this Competition Zone 73, he had basically been steamrolling everyone the whole way.

There was only one way to defeat him — all one million people in the entire competition zone would have to band together to deal with him alone.

Only then would it be possible to wear him down to death.

'Logically speaking, I shouldn't have this kind of worry.'

Ling Shuang thought about it for a while but couldn't figure it out, so she simply stopped thinking about it.

Raising her head, she looked at the enormous leaderboard in the sky, quietly waiting for the final day of the preliminaries to arrive.

Apart from the Lei Ting Wu Guan headquarters side, Song Qiuyun, Jiang Chuxuan, and Tang Qi from Mo Da, among others, were also looking forward to it.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!......

Throughout the entire virtual world, countless figures also陆续 came online.

The majority of them were ordinary people or low-level ability users.

But there were also some people emanating terrifying auras — a single glance from them was enough to render a person unable to move.

Clearly, these were all top ability users from different factions and different countries!

On the final day of the preliminaries, the competition zone's area began to shrink.

The first hour or two of fighting was the most intense, the time when the rankings changed the fastest.

None of them wanted to miss this moment.

And so, under the watchful eyes of countless people, the time arrived at 00:00 on the tenth day!

"Attention all contestants — the preliminaries have reached their final day, and the competition zone's area is beginning to shrink!"

The majestic voice echoed in the ears of every contestant still in the competition zone.

The originally vast preliminary competition zone suddenly began contracting inward!