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The speaker didn't finish the sentence, clearly not very confident in his own suggestion.

Afterward, another long silence followed.

They had just witnessed, from start to finish, how Chen Yi had annihilated the Kui Race. It was not the kind of fight where attacks went back and forth; it was a one-sided slaughter.

There was no ability to resist whatsoever.

Chen Yi was like a plow through a field; after he had methodically swept through the Five Chieftains Starfield, the Kui Race was exterminated just like that.

From beginning to end, no matter what kind of territory the Kui Race brought out, Chen Yi didn't even get hurt, let alone slow down. To be honest, to Chen Yi, there wasn't much difference between one Ninefold Planet and eight Ninefold Planets.

The only difference might be that killing eight Ninefold Planets would be a bit more troublesome.

"..."

Finally, after a long time, an avatar took the initiative to speak, "Forget it, I'll go out first. Facing Chen Yi means certain death, at least if I go out there's a chance of survival."

"You guys take your time thinking, I'm off."

"It's been a while since I've seen Jiang Chenglu, I don't even know if he's still alive. I'm going out to have a drink with him."

The next second——

An announcement rang in the ears of all players in the advancement game!

'Ding, announcement to all players in the advancement game!!!'

'Let us congratulate, under the leadership of player Wang Fei, the Ninefold Planet Sunflower Star in the Sunflower Starfield, Sector 6, for successfully advancing to become the second Tenfold Planet in the advancement game!!!'

'This is the greatest feat in the history of the advancement game.'

'Rewarding player Wang Fei...'

'And all players of Sunflower Star, under the leadership of Wang Fei, will leave the advancement game and go to the depths of the universe to participate in the "Life and Death Match"!'

'Let us congratulate Wang Fei for his triumphant return!!!'

The moment this announcement sounded,

the small chat group with only seven members fell into silence again, followed by several messages popping up.

"Forget it, I'll go out too. You guys shouldn't think about anything else. Anyone who has watched the whole process of the battle knows that it's a slaughter without any ability to fight back. Staying here is waiting for death."

"Let's go out. It should be safer if we all do. Once outside, let's put aside the grievances from the advancement game for now and train together. At least if we all survive, we will then have the right to settle old scores."

"Yeah, that makes sense. Once we're out, we all need to help each other."

"It's not that dangerous. Since Chen Yi has been forcing us to promote to Tenfold Planets, it means he knows a lot of inside information. Maybe Jiang Chenglu has a good relationship with him and found a way to tell Chen Yi about the unfavorable conditions outside, prompting Chen Yi to force us to promote and provide support to Jiang Chenglu."

"But was it necessary to threaten us with the extinction of a race? Isn't that a bit too radical?"

"If it wasn't for that, would you choose to advance when you saw Chen Yi's message?"

"That's true..."

"Alright, don't worry too much. As far as I know, Chen Yi's Novice Period is going to end in a month or two. Since Chen Yi and Jiang Chenglu seem to be on good terms, Chen Yi will surely promote to a Tenfold Planet as soon as possible to assist Jiang Chenglu. You've seen Chen Yi's strength; as long as he comes out, who can stop him?"

"So are you saying we just need to hold off the enemies outside and wait for Chen Yi to come out successfully?"

"That's the idea."

"Phew, you've reassured me quite a bit with that. It doesn't seem too dangerous."

"Enough talk, let's hurry up and get out."

...

Immediately following,

several announcements rang out in the ears of all the players in the Upgrade Game.

"Ding, announcement to all players of the Upgrade Game!!!"

"Let us congratulate, AR Planet for being promoted to Tenfold Planet..."

"Let us congratulate, Rapeseed Planet for being promoted to Tenfold Planet..."

"Let us congratulate, Pavilion External Planet for being promoted to Tenfold Planet..."

For a moment—

News of countless Ninefold Planets being promoted to Tenfold Planets flooded the screens, aggressively appearing before every player.

This day!

All Immortals returned to their rightful places!

In the entire Upgrade Game, not a single Ninefold Planet remained; one was annihilated by Chen Yi, while the rest, the other eight Ninefold Planets, were forced to ascend!

...

And the 33 Club chat group as well as its various subgroups, all fell into unanimous silence.

Especially Li Yi from the Awesome Starfield, who was utterly expressionless and silent where he stood.

In his heart,

Ninefold Planets were an existence of tremendous prestige, not to mention a leader of a Ninefold Planet, even a regular player from a Ninefold Planet would receive his full accompaniment as a sign of respect should they be fortunate enough to visit his territory.

Although he had never encountered such a situation.

But given the opportunity, he would definitely not neglect it.

And now, eight Ninefold Planets, simply because of a single sentence from Chen Yi, within just a few minutes, all of them decisively unified and ascended to Tenfold Planets, without even bargaining with Chen Yi, without asking why he demanded such a thing, let alone begging for mercy.

Perhaps these Ninefold Planets also understood that any attempt to negotiate with Chen Yi would result in losing even the chance to ascend and suffer the fate of the Kui Race.

"Huff!"

Li Yi, who had just recovered from his shock after a long while, let out a deep breath and muttered with a still dazed look, "Just a word was enough to scare eight Ninefold Planets into running away without daring to utter a word, tucking their tails between their legs. Yi's power must be incredibly strong by now."

Wang Qi, similarly shocked, hoarsely said, "They must have watched the entire process of Yi annihilating the Kui Race. Although we don't know what that looked like, that battle surely must have left an indelible shadow on these several Ninefold Planets, making it very clear to them that even if they joined forces, they wouldn't stand a sliver of chance of victory."

"That's why they made such a decisive move to ascend and flee."

"Otherwise, if there was even the slightest hope of a Pyrrhic victory, these Ninefold Planets' people wouldn't have acted so promptly and cleanly. At least they would have negotiated a few words instead of leaving without a peep as they did now."

"Moreover, these eight Ninefold Planets all ascended to Tenfold Planets within minutes, indicating that ascending to a Tenfold Planet wasn't a difficult task for them, it might even have been a rather simple one."

"But such an easy task, these Ninefold Planets had been reluctant to choose to ascend, which implies there must be some great danger after ascending to Tenfold Planet, probably the 'cosmic life-and-death competition' mentioned in the announcement."

"The degree of danger in this competition must be far greater than we imagined, so much so that these Ninefold Planets, despite having the capability, were unwilling to ascend."

"Yi's goal in this mission must have been to force these people into the competition."

...

Meanwhile—

Chen Yi and his group had already returned to Blue Star and to their base of operations.

Yancheng, on the rooftop of the Garden District.