46: Chapter 46 Arrival in the Magic-Free Zone

After killing a few Divine Lords who blocked his path, Yang Bai quickly passed through the gravity zone of the Stone Gate Maze.

For the average Divine Lord, the gravity zone applied a tonnage of gravity corresponding to the Divine Lord's own rank.

Yang Bai's current Divine Lord rank was 5, so five tons of gravity were applied; this level of gravity was still troublesome for the average Divine Lord.

However, Yang Bai had activated the Wisdom King Body of the Imperial Eight Techniques, pushing his physical fitness to its peak. To him, the five tons of gravity only caused his footsteps to falter slightly, with no real change in his speed.

Beyond the gravity zone lay the trap zone, where the walls of the maze corridor were lined with all sorts of traps and mechanisms.

These mechanisms were bizarre, triggered randomly, and possessed immense power; if one wasn't careful, one wouldn't even know how one died.

Just when the spectators thought Yang Bai would stop here to carefully consider how to avoid these traps, he did the opposite, choosing the most extreme method of breakthrough.

Yang Bai manifested a stream of wood-attribute spiritual energy in his palm and pressed it to the ground beneath his feet, "Taiyi Green Wood Technique, Single Tree Forms a Forest."

The next second, a massive vine-tree grew from beneath Yang Bai, supporting his body as he advanced rapidly.

In nature, when trees encounter natural enemies or danger, they have their own set of defense modes, and the spell Yang Bai learned from Chu Gehang possessed a similar ingenuity.

Simply put, it meant predicting danger in advance and defending autonomously.

"Swish, swish, swish!!!" "Boom, boom, boom!!!" "Bang, crack, crack~"

As Yang Bai stepped on the thick tree to traverse the trap zone, countless mechanisms were immediately activated, and arrows, bombs, and magma rocks flew towards him, covering the sky.

The Taiyi Green Wood flashed with green light, and then, large patches of emerald branches grew from the trunk, intercepting those mechanisms.

When encountering rolling stones, it created barriers to stop them; when encountering spiked pits, it leaped directly over them; when encountering toxic corrosive gases, the Taiyi Green Wood came with its own anti-miasma function...

Other Divine Lords relied on their learned knowledge and keen observation to carefully avoid the traps.

However, in Yang Bai's case, he was essentially riding a wooden stake, speeding through the rain of mechanisms.

Even if quite a few powerful traps managed to pierce the defense of the Taiyi Green Wood, what greeted those traps was Yang Bai's impenetrable spiritual energy barrier.

A Cultivator's spiritual energy barrier was already capable of withstanding attacks from any mortal object, and it could even resist magic, fel energy, and high-level energy to an extent.

The spiritual energy Yang Bai cultivated was the Five Elements Heavenly Spiritual Energy, which carried the power of the Heavenly Dao and the prestige of an immortal.

As the saying goes, there is a difference between immortals and mortals; aside from attacks reaching the level of Chen Yuhao's phantasmal beast, he was basically invincible below the First Rank.

The trap zone wasn't as intricate as other areas, just having a few twists and turns, so Yang Bai didn't expend much energy and charged right through, taking care of one or two Divine Lords who were studying the mechanisms along the way.

As for the monster zone behind it. Heh, these so-called monsters were basically road blockers designed by the tournament to hinder the Divine Lords and stall for time; killing them yielded no rewards.

Thus, Yang Bai stepped on the wall, walking directly along the high wall, and then cast the Wood Concealment Technique from the Taiyi Green Wood Technique.

The brilliance of the Wood Concealment Technique lay in its ability to make the caster's aura indistinguishable from inanimate objects like trees and stones. If used in a forest, even if a Cultivator used their spiritual sense to investigate, they would return empty-handed.

A wooden barrier rose around Yang Bai, with green leaves and branches growing on it. From a distance, it looked just like an unremarkable little bush that had appeared on the stone wall.

And those maze monsters below indeed mistook the bush for a plant growing on the stone wall.

A few mindless flying monsters swooped past, simply glancing at the bush, before flying elsewhere to search for other Divine Lords.

The little bush traveled along the wall, bypassing the maze gaps; along the way, he even encountered a few Divine Lords currently battling maze monsters.

Regarding this situation, Yang Bai did not stop to give them a hand; after all, this was already the heart of the monster zone, and carelessly dispelling the concealment bush would inevitably lead to being surrounded by monsters.

Although these monsters didn't even count as strong enemies to Yang Bai, he didn't want to waste time and energy in such a place. After all, his main goal for participating today was a speedrun.

God War Tournament main venue.

Yang Bai's performance once again refreshed everyone's perception.

The super-fast speed, powerful divine might, and this incredible, highly sophisticated wood magic made them wonder if this Yang Bai was actually a Forest Priest wearing the skin of a Berserker.

"Holy crap, is this Yang Bai a warrior or a mage? Is he really this strong?"

"This is an ordinary high school student? You're telling me this is an ordinary high school student? Are high school students like this now?"

"I was wrong. I originally thought Yang Bai's information was faked and he hired someone to play for him. Now it seems, at most, he just wrote his ID number wrong."

The spectators below were discussing heatedly, seemingly having long forgotten that this Yang Bai was the cheater despised by the entire internet just six days ago.

A gold-medal reporter from a media agency looked at the editor-in-chief next to him, his voice trembling: "Editor-in-chief, what content should we write today? Should we still write an article about Yang Bai being a cheater?"

"Are you a pig-brained idiot? Change the headline immediately!" "You… forget it, I'll write it myself."

The editor-in-chief scolded the gold-medal reporter, suddenly remembering that all the previous words slandering Yang Bai had come from this reporter. If he let him write it again, wouldn't that just be smashing their own signboard?

Just like the Liu Tong incident, people would only believe what they saw. As for all the previous misunderstandings and slander, they would generally collectively and selectively forget about it.

Public opinion is like this; it moves with the wind. It's not to be trusted, nor should one take it too seriously. Just for entertainment, it's enough to have a laugh.

Quickly passing through the monster zone, Yang Bai arrived at the Magic-Free Zone at the very center of the Stone Gate Maze.

Yang Bai dispelled the Wood Concealment Technique and jumped down from the wall. It took Yang Bai nearly an hour to break through the four zones of the maze.

After an hour of extreme consumption, there was very little divine power left in Yang Bai's body, but that didn't matter.

After all, the Magic-Free Zone in the center of the Stone Gate Maze would seal the divine power of all Divine Lords and simultaneously dispel their true divine forms, making the Divine Lords exist as ordinary people.

In other words, even if one saved divine power earlier, it would be useless upon reaching the final Magic-Free Zone; it was better to just consume it quickly for convenience.

"Huh, someone is actually faster than me."

Yang Bai took two breaths and suddenly realized that he was not the first Divine Lord to reach the Magic-Free Zone; he was the fifth to arrive.

There was no fighting between those four Divine Lords, and judging by their complexions, they were in peak condition.

Before Yang Bai arrived, they were sitting there, eyes closed in meditation.

After Yang Bai arrived, they stood up and picked up the weapons and equipment provided in the Magic-Free Zone.

Yang Bai instantly understood something and sneered, "Heh, so they are wingmen."

These four Divine Lords had taken a shortcut to reach the Magic-Free Zone.