Chapter 573 — The First Upset

Shi Yi gripped its head with one hand and hammered with the other, giving it no chance to invoke Temporal Reversion—wild combo after combo, wild punch after punch, the assault seeming to outstrip time itself. Watching Kahn ground down and coughing blood, the spectators felt their hearts turn cold.

The viewers who had believed Kahn could use Temporal Reversion to counter Shi Yi were struck dumb.

"This..."

This... what kind of monster is this!!!

Where did this monster come from!

To actually... actually trample that Kahn to such a state! Not even leaving it the chance to react and invoke Temporal Reversion!

"Analysis complete..."

"Contestant Shi Yi is in an overload state. Estimated duration of temporal sustain: under one minute..."

At this moment, seeing Kahn's wretched condition, the spectators across every realm gulped hard, and only when the battle spirit's analysis concluded did the people come back to their senses.

Right. How could a state this powerful be sustained for long?

The spectators who had just entertained the absurd notion that Kahn would lose now shook their heads violently. Kahn would not lose...

It might waste one Time Imprint, but the winner would still be Kahn!!

Yet Shi Yi's very existence seemed born to shatter that fair notion.

Shi Yi exhaled once, and flung Kahn's body... toward the sky!

The next instant.

BOOM!

Beneath Shi Yi's feet, in midair, an unprecedented giant millstone appeared.

The round metal millstone took shape, showing black and white, one yin and one yang, one light and one dark, wreathed in two-colored lightning that intermingled, transformed, and clashed—mysterious beyond measure. All around it seemed to dissolve into primal chaos, its balance shattered, ground away to nothing.

Having condensed the millstone, Shi Yi stood upon it, watching Kahn, thrown into the sky, slowly fall.

Riiip.

When Kahn plummeted above the millstone, his body was pinned in midair by yin-yang lightning, and a violent force of annihilation swept upward!!!!

"Aaaah!!!!!!!!" Amid Kahn's earth-shaking roar, everyone looked on in disbelief at the two marks steeped in the traces of time that radiated from his body.

Time Marks!

The key to Kahn's resurrection.

Yet now, these Time Marks were being torn from his body, and as the yin-yang millstone beneath Eleven's feet spun madly, a mysterious power beyond all comprehension frantically broke them down and ground them away!!!

In an instant, the two Time Marks were eroded by the black-and-white force and crumbled into nothingness.

Above the millstone, the power of time within Kahn's body was likewise being savagely broken down and annihilated. The suspended Kahn seemed, in an impossibly short span, to transform from an invincible king high above all into a prisoner whose life lay in another's hands.

"ROAR!!"

Eleven radiated a menace that filled the heavens, proclaiming its victory!!!

Universe, did you see that!

This—this is the Iron-Eating Beast!

As that menace surged and shook the void, every spectator's heart trembled along with it, their eyes bursting wide.

"Even the Time Marks..."

"Impossible!!!" The century-long runner-up Minggu could not accept the sight before him, shock beyond measure filling his heart.

"Holy shit, holy shit, holy shit." Lin Feng, watching just like the rest, was thrilled to the extreme. Seeing Eleven actually win, he too found it absurd. Though Shi Jin had been full of confidence, actually witnessing the outcome was a different feeling altogether.

"This..." In the suspended domain, the Void Emperor too sank into unparalleled contemplation. Wait, what on earth was going on here?

Shi Jin, with a single beast—a beast with no beastmaster's support—had defeated the previous champion, the Void Raven Kahn, ranked among the top thirty of all starry races?

Though he had held high hopes for Shi Jin, Shi Tan's opening performance was simply too outrageous.

At this very moment, Fanba of the Star-Refining Clan, the green dragon Gorka, Director Sen, Zilan, the Phoenix Man, and a whole host of acquaintances who had initially favored Eleven not at all and thought Eleven truly unlucky, lost the ability to think entirely.

"What... is wrong with this world?"

"Heh heh!!" The Gem Cat, seeing the result, was unsurprised. What was wrong with the universe, what was wrong with the universe—Shi Tan's Qi had wrought such a miracle in the cosmos, and it felt not the slightest surprise. It looked toward the silent Dragon God and patted the senior on the shoulder.

"Easy now, Senior Dragon God, keep it up—you've already been left far behind by Shi Jin."

"Here, this cultivation fruit is for you..."

The Second World, the battle arena.

"Mew..." Eleven looked toward the battle sprite, asking whether this counted as its win.

The Time Marks had already been annihilated; surely it couldn't really kill this Qi, could it?

It looked toward Kahn, who had lost all ability to resist and was plummeting toward the great crater.

To be fair, this friend was still worth making.

The battle sprite was somewhat dazed as well, unable to believe it. The previous champion, Kahn, who had won seventy-nine consecutive titles, had in this tournament, in the very first match of the opening round, been utterly crushed and sent home, eliminated... ranked in the millions!!

It snapped its gaze toward Eleven, looking on behalf of all spectators at this harmless-looking panda, Eleven.

Who exactly was this Qi, who exactly?

At this moment, every spectator's curiosity about Eleven reached its peak. This Qi was simply too terrifying.

[Arena No. 2022, Winner: Eleven!]

Before anyone could react, such a light-screen projection popped up before their eyes, and then the live broadcast ended.

At this moment, countless people tore off their viewing devices, revealing their stunned eyes. Kahn, who had won seventy-nine consecutive titles, had been toppled??

And toppled in the very first round??

First-tier domains, second-tier domains, third-tier domains—every place that could follow the God-Sealing War was shaken, and those who paid little attention to the God-Sealing War were instantly informed of the news as well.

Even if Kahn had taken first place again, it would not have caused such a shock. But Kahn being defeated by a nameless nobody—that was simply... unbelievable!

It fully deserved to be today's headline news on the Realm King Star.

...

In the Heavenly Demon Domain, the fallen-angel prince who, like Shi Jin, hailed from Blue Star, had actually been following the God-Sealing War all along. It had not entered the competition, but it had noticed traces of Shi Ying's participation.

Originally, upon seeing Eleven matched against Kahn, it had been exceedingly gleeful. Now, seeing Kahn crushed by Eleven the entire match, for a moment it simply could not accept this absurd situation, could not believe this was a Qi who, like itself, had come from Blue Star to the Realm King Star.

Even if this Qi's talent was terrifying beyond measure, without a beastmaster's enhancement, it had actually thrashed the universe's current number-one quasi-god?? What kind of joke was this!!!

The Blue Star World Tournament was one thing, but why the cosmic God-Sealing War too...

The Prince of Fallen Angels, who had believed his own progress immense, wore a crazed expression. It had never returned to Blue Star, and so knew nothing of the alien insects ravaging the planet, nor that Shi Jin had dealt with them. Otherwise, it would be even more unhinged now...

The Domain of Time, headquarters of the Star Crow Clan.

The Star Crow Clan was a race few in number, and Kahn was the greatest hope of this generation.

On the Star Crow Clan's side, none of the true Star Crow folk paid any attention to Kahn's performance in the God-Sealing Tournament. They saw no need to. With Kahn's strength, there was simply no way he would lose.