Beyond the Timescape

The Immortal Capital’s Trial of the Hunt was divided into three rounds.

In the first round, a total of 10,000 permission medallions were distributed, and the countless cultivators in the four planetary systems would fight over them. That first round was brutal, and involved a lot of medallions changing hands. That said, cultivators could choose whether or not to participate.

Then came the second round, in which the four Immortal Monarchs would distribute their legacies for everyone to seek enlightenment of. The second round was an indication that the trial would soon speed up. During that round, cultivators with an advantage would get a big boost, while cultivators who had no advantage would be whittled out of the competition. The participants were still allowed to kill each other to take permission medallions during the second round, and at the same time, could get stronger thanks to the legacies. The enticement of the legacies and the medallions made the second round very intense.

Now the third round had come. This was the round in which the final eliminations and selections would take place. It was all about hunting down other participants, and either killing them or robbing them of their medallions. By the time the third round ended, all of the previous fighting and killing ensured that there were far fewer than 10,000 cultivators with medallions.

Only someone with complete canon could unfuse with their permission medallion. Those without complete canon could not get rid of their medallion unless they died first.

When the Immortal Capital’s Trial of the Hunt began, people who chose to participate knew there was no turning back. Either you got to the Immortal Capital, or... you died trying and became fodder for other participants. If you got very, very lucky, you could theoretically lose your medallion and live to tell the tale, although that went against the spirit of the competition.

Right now, it was a nearly daily occurrence in the southern planetary system for permission medallions to change hands. There were currently less than 500 medallions left. At that moment, the cultivators who had those medallions suddenly sensed something shocking, and they quickly took out their medallions to check the star chart.

In the chart that showed the southern region, the star that represented Jiang Fan, which shone brightly at Grand Immortal Mountain, suddenly went dim. Its brightness was being gobbled up by another star. And then, that other star became brighter than all the other stars in the planetary system. The only star who could compare to it was a star in the Yuanshan Clan.

All of the cultivators who had permission medallions were astonished.

“Jiang Fan was defeated?”

“He’s the top Shining Star in the south! Who could beat him?”

“It wasn’t Yuanshan Su. Don’t tell me one of the Shining Stars from one of the other three planetary systems came over here!”