A great number of participants on the eastern side of Zenith Mountain felt helpless when they saw that even people from the Great Eastern Alliance had been eliminated. They finally realized that Lu Yin was more focused on individual strength rather than status when he chose who to eliminate.

“Let’s rush through the checkpoint all together! If hundreds and thousands of us go, I refuse to believe that he can block all of us. At least some of us will be able to make it through,” someone quietly suggested, and many others quickly agreed.

Similar situations occurred on all three other faces of the mountain.

Only those who were powerful or knew the gatekeepers well had dared to boldly approach the checkpoints alone. The gatekeepers had full autonomy when it came to deciding whether or not a participant was allowed through the checkpoints, though most of the competitors refused to accept that.

However, they also knew that the five gatekeepers needed to eliminate half of the competitors.

The only viable method was to overwhelm the gatekeepers with numbers. If everybody rushed through the checkpoint at the same time, then at least some of them would be successful.

The competitors who had gotten close...