69: Temporarily first

The Iron Armored Rhinoceros's defense is very formidable, but its greatest weakness is its fear of sonic attacks.

At this moment, Lu Yuan's two teammates were simultaneously and continuously condensing energy spears in their hands, abruptly and repeatedly throwing them from the side.

The spears accurately hit the Iron Armored Rhinoceros's eyes. Finally, Lu Yuan erupted with his full power, and after dealing with the Iron Armored Rhinoceros leader, the remaining six Early Stage D-rank Iron Armored Rhinoceroses were quickly taken care of.

"Continue, next location, and find the others as soon as possible." Subsequently, the three of them killed as they moved in one direction.

In other parts of this trial area, Xiao Meier, Gu Qianjun, and others began to demonstrate their powerful talent and strength, with their points accumulating rapidly.

Of course, many people also began to be eliminated.

Meanwhile, deep in a dense forest, Zhou Xing stood on the branch of a giant tree, observing the movement not far away.

Below was a group of Steel-Bristled Wild Boars ranging from Early Stage to Middle Stage D-rank. There were eleven in total, each with a body no smaller than a small car and possessing sharp tusks like scimitars.

"Another batch of points." The corners of Zhou Xing's mouth curled up.

From the moment he entered the wilderness until now, he had already killed exactly twenty-seven D-rank Mutated Beasts, and many more F-rank Mutated Beasts had been wiped out. Currently, his points had reached 328, firmly placing him in the top three.

He was in no hurry to strike at this moment. After all, having experienced being ambushed right after arriving here, Zhou Xing would repeatedly observe his surroundings before every move to prevent attacks from others.

The closer it got to the end, the more one needed to be careful not to fail in an easy task.

Three days had passed, and the points of everyone still in the trial were not small amounts, enough to tempt many with ulterior motives.

After confirming there was no aura of others around, Zhou Xing waved his left hand, and immediately a large number of ice spikes shot toward the group of Steel-Bristled Wild Boars like raindrops.

As Mutated Beasts, their senses were very sharp. Although most of these ice spikes were deflected, several Steel-Bristled Wild Boars were still hit in the eyeballs.

"Awoo—!"

The injured wild boars let out miserable cries, their eyes turning blood-red as they frantically crashed into the surrounding trees, unable to distinguish friend from foe.

"Fire Meteor!"

Zhou Xing took the opportunity to leap to another tree as a massive amount of fire power continuously gathered high in the air, eventually forming a red cloud spanning a hundred meters.

"Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!"

Following that, flaming meteors with a diameter of about one meter fell from the sky one after another.

The moment they hit the ground, these meteors exploded directly. The scorching high temperature intertwined with the extreme cold from earlier, causing the surface of the Steel-Bristled Wild Boars' bodies to emit "crackling" sounds as many fine cracks appeared.

"Time to wrap this up!"

Seeing the timing was right, Zhou Xing dove down from the branch and, upon landing, slammed both palms onto the ground—

"Ice Fire Dual Stream: Extreme Blast!"

Blue-white and crimson powers drilled into the ground, then suddenly erupted violently beneath the beast pack.

A massive pillar of ice and fire energy drilled straight out of the ground, its terrifying power sending all the wild boars, including the Steel-Bristled Wild Boar leader, flying.

The Steel-Bristleds, known for their defense, melted directly under this surge of energy.

Eleven Steel-Bristled Wild Boars died, and under the roasting of the high temperature, they emitted bursts of meat fragrance, making even Zhou Xing unable to help but swallow his saliva.

If he hadn't considered that this was a trial, he might have actually intended to feast heartily.

However, most Mutated Beasts required specialized divinity purification treatment before they could be consumed; otherwise, it might trigger a divinity conflict.

Two Middle Stage D-rank and nine Early Stage D-rank Steel-Bristled Wild Boars provided Zhou Xing with 85 points. Instantly, Zhou Xing's points reached 295, temporarily putting him in first place.

However, Zhou Xing did not lower his guard at this time, and he used his fire power to burn the corpses of the Steel-Bristled Wild Boars to ashes.

In the end, out of this group of Steel-Bristled Wild Boars, only the two Middle Stage D-rank ones dropped two "god of steel" divinity fragments, while the others were all metal-type energy crystals.

After quickly collecting them, Zhou Xing intended to leave.

But at this moment, he suddenly stopped and tilted his head.

"Swish!"

In the next instant, a faint sound of breaking air came from the distance, and an energy arrow grazed his face, piercing into the tree trunk behind him.

"Here we go again," Zhou Xing sneered.

From the initial sneak attack by that fool from Dark City until now, in less than three days, he had already suffered four ambushes. However, without exception, these people were all personally eliminated by Zhou Xing.

Clearly, the commotion here just now had still attracted the attention of some people.

"So it's someone from Star City."

At this time, three figures quickly approached and soon appeared dozens of meters away from Zhou Xing.

Looking at their attire, Zhou Xing knew they were from Luo City; their Chief was that Celestial Phenomenon Realm named Li Qing.

According to the introduction Bei Chen had given Zhou Xing before, Li Qing's most formidable trait was not her strength, but her intelligence-gathering ability.

However, the reason Zhou Xing paid more attention to Luo City was because of the seed contestant, Gu Qianjun.

From the combat data he had seen earlier, the "god of vacuum" ability was very powerful, especially since the opponent was also a Genius Awakened One who had reached the Control Realm upon their first Awakening, with their own divinity content reaching a staggering 50%.

Without using more of his abilities and relying only on his dual ice and fire powers, Zhou Xing really didn't have any certainty of victory.

"You're Zhou Xing, right? Proactively transfer your points to us, and we might consider letting you leave. Three against one, the advantage is ours."

The leader was named Lin Yi, and his own strength had reached Control Mid-Stage. Combined with two partners at the Initial Control Stage, an ordinary person would truly be no match for them.

Unfortunately, this time he had encountered Zhou Xing.

This time, everyone could only see their own points and ranking; the rankings of others could not be known unless they were proactively shared.

Especially since Zhou Xing had just burned the numerous Steel-Bristled Wild Boars to ashes, these three had only just rushed over after hearing the commotion and were unaware of Zhou Xing's power... "Haha, Little Qing, these three from your Luo City are about to be eliminated directly. It's really bad luck that they happened to run into Zhou Xing."

Meanwhile, in the observation hall of Dawn City, everyone had long since been shocked by Zhou Xing's outburst.

Even a Demigod Realm powerhouse like Wei Guangming was somewhat surprised because Zhou Xing's strength, even with the Fusion of two elements, should absolutely not be this powerful.

Especially the process of killing the Steel-Bristled Wild Boars just now; it was a completely one-sided crushing.

One must know, that was a pack of Mutated Beasts with two members no less powerful than human Control Mid-Stage experts; even an Awakened One who had reached the Late Control Stage might not be certain of success.

It seemed this Zhou Xing was still hiding something.

No wonder that fellow Bei Chen dared to play so big this time.

Many of those who participated in the betting, including Long Haotian, came to a realization at this moment.

Clearly, that fellow Bei Chen had hidden a lot; he was planning to make a full recovery in one go.