Chapter 586: Chapter 294 Astonishing Changes!_1 While Wipha was perplexed by the current situation, his Undying State finally came to an end. Enduring another massive wave of inexplicable, high true damage, he could no longer hang on and died right there on the spot. However, as soon as he died, he was immediately resurrected. It was clear this guy had the ability to resurrect himself. Zhui Yi, with the Eye of Origin, had already known this. This guy possessed three Resurrection Effect Rings. However, compared to his being Immortal, this was not a threat. If he resurrected, Zhui Yi would just kill him again. Continuous Immortality, being unkillable, was the most annoying aspect. Under Zhui Yi’s merciless command, over a hundred million Skeleton Monsters in the invisible state launched another attack. Wipha, after resurrecting for the third time, was helplessly slain on the ground. Until his death, he could not understand why a second-transition professional was so outrageously strong. He felt as if he was facing an opponent of the fifth-transition tier! If he thought as such, he wouldn’t be wrong. Chen Mo’s Divine Power was now as high as 230 points, a figure that ordinary, newly advanced fifth-transition professionals would need considerable training to achieve. In terms of actual strength, Chen Mo had already outpaced professionals at the early stage of the fifth-transition. As a peak fourth-transition professional himself, losing to someone beyond the early stage of the fifth-transition wasn’t too unjust. Following Wipha’s death, Chen Mo, who had been treading his own path, immediately received The Heavenly Path’s Hint. [The Heavenly Path’s Hint: Congratulations, you have successfully killed your prey. You have obtained a hunting reward of 10,000 points and all 10,000 points your prey had accumulated!] [The Heavenly Path’s Hint: As you have killed your prey, you will inherit your prey’s target. Your new prey target is No. 3745.] Oh? So I get to inherit prey targets? That’s great. I thought the rewards would dwindle after killing my prey and others reaped the leftovers. I didn’t realize it was a cycle of inheritance; this is a way to obtain even more points. Having read The Heavenly Path’s Hint, Chen Mo was quite pleased. After all, the point difference between killing your own prey and killing someone who wasn’t your designated prey was enormous. The points for the kill itself differed by a factor of 100, and the amount of the opponent’s points obtainable after a kill also differed by a factor of two. The Heavenly Path’s Hint continued. [The Heavenly Path’s Hint: All data related to participants who have died during the Demon Tower exploration activity will be completely erased and recovered from the replicate. The recovery of dropped items is complete. Based on the total value of the opponent’s dropped items, you have received 2,000,000 victory points! These can be used to exchange for rewards at the end of the event. Please note that if you are killed, these points will also be transferred to someone else!] How come it’s only two million? When I was in the second-transition competition zone, I got one or two million victory points from killing a top second-transition professional. For a fourth-transition, even a hundred times that amount wouldn’t be excessive! So why is this so little? Chen Mo immediately summoned the Heavenly Path Elf and raised his query. "Hello, dear professional. The conversion of victory points will vary according to the competition zone. The value conversion requirements for the fourth-transition competition zone are much higher than those for the second-transition zone. It’s like challenging an SSS-level replicate in the second-transition versus the fourth-transition. The monster difficulty can differ by more than a hundred times, but the best possible reward remains an SSS-level reward; that aspect is the same." Hearing the Heavenly Path Elf’s explanation, Chen Mo felt some relief. The logic did make sense. However, it still felt like a rip-off, considering a fourth-transition professional carried far more valuable items than a second-transition professional could ever possess. "So, will the rewards available in the War Spoils Shop be better than those during the second-transition?" "Yes, the shop will feature more items than the second-transition War Spoils Shop, such as treasures that enhance domain abilities or pets’ abilities, for example." While Chen Mo was clarifying matters about victory point rewards with the Heavenly Dao, the outside world was already in an uproar. "What’s going on? Why did No. 5588 suddenly disappear? We didn’t see his marker flash to another location either. Did he die?" If teleportation occurred, the corresponding marker would flash a few times. However, everyone on the map had just finished teleporting, and there was no second wave, so no markers were flashing. So, when someone noticed No. 5588’s marker disappear, they questioned it. The people nearby immediately glanced at the densely packed numbers on the contestant list. Finally, amidst the dense crowd of numbers, they found No. 5588. At that moment, No. 5588 had turned black; it was obvious he had died. But actually, they didn’t need to search any longer, as The Heavenly Path’s Hint had popped up in the center of the main map. [The Heavenly Path’s Hint: Contestant "Wipha (No. 5588)" from the Zuoma Star System—Level 100 (fourth-transition professional, 25th-star profession "Supreme Beserker")—has died! Current participants remaining in this replicate: 9,999!] "Dead? What happened? Our Earth contestant is far from him. How did he die? Did he step on a trap and die?" "I don’t think so. I’ve heard about this event. Whether you challenge a BOSS or fall into a trap, you only lose consciousness on the spot for a while. Unless attacked by a death-inducing poisonous fog, you don’t die." "So, was he dragged into the Death Fight Space and killed?" "That can’t be possible. The Death Fight Space sucks a group of people into the same area and changes their coordinates. Look at the map coordinates [6666, 6666]; it clearly indicates the Death Fight Space is there. If a Death Fight Space event had truly occurred, a red dot should have appeared at that location. Instead, his red dot disappeared from his path. It’s like he was just walking along and then suddenly died." "A peak fourth-transition expert just walking along and then suddenly dying? How could this happen?" Someone shouted, "Hey, look at the points of our Earth’s second-transition contestant!" Instantly, everyone turned to look at the points leaderboard. The points of this second-transition professional from the Solar System had, at this moment, incredibly changed from 20,000 to 40,000. But this second-transition professional from the Solar System was currently in a corridor with nothing in it. It’s impossible for him to gain so many points out of thin air! "Killing your prey earns 10,000 points, and contestant No. 5588 also had 10,000 points. After killing your target, you inherit all their points. In other words, if our contestant from the Solar System killed No. 5588, he would gain 20,000 points!" "My God, no way! Our contestant from the Solar System’s points have gone up from exactly 20,000 to 40,000. There aren’t any other areas on the road where he could get points; his points couldn’t have increased out of nowhere. Does that mean he killed the fourth-transition professional?" "It shouldn’t be. He just chose a route away from No. 5588, and later, No. 5588 also accelerated away from our Earth contestant for some distance. The distance between them is now vast. The Heavenly Dao stated at the start that all spatial abilities in this replicate would be limited to a maximum of 100 meters. Even if he has the means to kill from afar, it’s impossible to kill from such a great distance!" "If it wasn’t our Earth contestant who killed him, then why did our Earth contestant suddenly gain 20,000 points? That’s exactly the point reward for killing one’s prey. His points couldn’t have just increased by themselves." Upon hearing this, the crowd was utterly puzzled. Logically, the Heavenly Path’s rules are absolute. Even the most powerful fifth-transition experts on Earth, upon entering a Heavenly Dao event replicate, must abide by the Heavenly Path’s rules. Rule Power is an extremely strong force, not something that they, who haven’t explored much of even the first level of the Tower of Eternity, can transcend. Therefore, killing from a distance should be absolutely impossible. Yet now, the man had indeed been certified dead by The Heavenly Path’s pop-up window, and the Hunter from Earth had indeed inherited the points. At this time, someone looking at the contestant list promptly shouted, "No need to guess! Look at the target number behind our Earth contestant’s name on the contestant list; it has changed to No. 5588’s previous target number. I specifically noted No. 5588’s target number earlier. One only inherits the target number by killing their own prey, right?" "That’s not necessarily true. I’ve done a fair amount of research on Heavenly Dao activities. This particular event has occurred before. According to previous records, you don’t have to kill your prey yourself; as long as your prey dies, you will also inherit your prey’s target number. So, this cannot be used as evidence that our Earth contestant killed that fourth-transition professional." "Then this is just too weird. Don’t tell me that fourth-transition professional suddenly reached the end of his lifespan and just died?" Once this was said, many people thought it sounded like a joke. A peak fourth-transition expert, unless they were an old monster who had lived for thousands of years, would only die of old age if the difficulty of their lifespan-extending replicates became so extreme they couldn’t pass them, leaving them no choice but to die naturally. But how could someone who had lived for thousands of years still only be a fourth-transition professional? Obviously, this statement was a joke, yet it seemed strangely reasonable. Otherwise, how could this person just suddenly die for no reason while walking? However, some people still insisted that Chen Mo had completed the kill; after all, the change in points couldn’t lie. "Even if we assume he died of natural causes, his death wouldn’t cause our Earth contestant to instantly gain 20,000 points. Only those who die from the poisonous fog have all their points transferred to the player with the most points. Our Earth contestant has the most points, so he’d have inheritance rights. If this fourth-transition contestant, No. 5588, died of natural causes, he would only have had 10,000 points on him. Our Earth contestant should only be able to inherit those 10,000 points. He wouldn’t be able to get the hunting reward, so he couldn’t possibly have gained 20,000 points. So, no matter what, if he didn’t kill this fourth-transition professional, the 20,000-point increase is quite strange." "This is ridiculous! It’s getting harder and harder to understand. Looking at the points, it seems like our Earth contestant killed this fourth-transition professional. But considering the distance, with the Heavenly Path’s rules in place, it shouldn’t be possible. Can anyone explain what’s happening?" 𝚏𝕣𝐞𝗲𝐰𝕖𝐛𝐧𝕠𝕧𝚎𝚕.𝐜𝚘𝗺 Once this was said, people stared blankly at each other; no one could explain it. Never mind them; even the three Alliance Hierarchs from the Academy Alliance found this situation astonishing. Or rather, the more familiar people were with the rules of Demon Tower exploration, the more puzzled they would be by the current situation!