This sudden message was like a chilling wave of absolute zero sweeping across the galaxy, instantly freezing a battlefield already bristling with tension.
Tens of millions of formidable wills came to a synchronized, eerie halt.
Whether it was the lofty experts of the Infinite Sea—Cang, Flame Crow, Leng Yu, Zhou Li, Li Yinghong, and Chu Yunxiao—or the tens of millions of geniuses from the River Realm, every single person's breath caught the moment they saw the "Failure Penalty" section.
Even the prodigies of the Infinite Sea, whose minds had been tempered to the hardness of bedrock, found their pupils visibly contracting when they read the line: "Incur a debt of 1B Contribution Points."
This shock had nothing to do with cultivation level; it struck at the very heart of every contestant's interests.
The dead silence lasted less than three seconds.
Then, like a red-hot branding iron plunged into ice water, the entire starfield erupted, detonated by a tsunami of furious debate!
