ZENITH

It's a competition hosted to decide who will get the chance to obtain Matter of Origin.
After Five Mountains and Seas exploded and created a black hole to stop the neohuman outer force invasion, there was still a small gap
b/w 5th and 6th mainland. A mysterious figure stopped the invasion to breach 5th realm and discussed something with 6th realm progenitors (Not shown currently).
The 3 progenitors of 6th mainland and 7 semi progenitors of 5th mainland human domain discuss as the progenitors ask for Matter of origin for them protecting the
invasion from breaching 5th mainland. They discuss and eventually decide to host a tournament to give the top 10 people (5th mainland technocracy, astral domain, human domain and 6th mainland people combined) a chance to obtain matter of origin which gives them a chance to become progenitors. (As tiny probablity as it may be)

The top members of the Hall of Honor along with the nine overseers were all publicizing this martial competition as an event to ‘unite the Human Domain’ in a bid to boost the morale of the entire Human Domain.
The purpose of this competition was to show everyone the strength of the new generation, which was the reason behind its name—ZENITH.

## PRE-ZENITH

The name that had appeared over the southern pass was Bu Kong. Above the western pass was Zhi Yi, the northern pass Yao Xuan, and the eastern pass Lu Yin.

Then, there was a final pass that stood above the other four mountain passes that had to be crossed regardless of the path if one wanted to approach the top of the mountain. Above this central pass, the name Shang Qing appeared.

The competition will take place on ZENITH Mountain in Chaosgod flowzone made toughest rock.

Xia Jiuyou tried to merge with Xia Lou, stopped by Astral-10 with Mavis' support first time and by Lu Yin the second time before ZENITH started.

## Predicted ranking

1. Shang Qing (First honor chosen, Tri Yang Technique - two clones of Progenitor chen at same cultivation level)
2. Bu Kong (6th mainlands daosource three skies)
3. Yao Xuan (Crown prince Astra Beast zone - Celestial Demon race - ranked first on celestial beast ranking)
4. Zhi Yi (6th mainlands daosource three skies)
5. Xia Jiuyou (Progenitor Chen's Nine clones technique)
6. Yuhua Mavis (MAVIS)
7. Wu Taibai (He like to play)
8. Bai Mai (Astral Beast zone - Carrion Bug race - ranked two on their celestial beast ranking.)
9. Qiu Shi (Cosmic sect's senior disciple - All rounder fairy, Queen Jugs)
10. Wang Yi (Technocracy)
11. Liu Tianmu (Thirteen swords, Sword arbitrer)
12. Wen Sansi (Unbreakable barrier innate gift)
13. Lu Yin (MC! - Hunter, ranked low mainly due to 5th and 6th domain's public opinion of his strength due to his low cultivation)
14. Wu Dan (Boundless Advances LockBreaker with at least one sourcebox array)
15. Starsibyl (Progenitor Chen’s Nine Clones Technique and prediction battle style)

All except Lu Yin in the above list are expected to be Enlighters

## FIRST STAGE - Passing the gates

There were many familiar figures across the gates that Lu Yin has come across over his cultivation time. Gatekeepers need to eliminate half the competitors and any competitor that managed to cross them can't be attacked by gatekeepers unless the competitor himself started the attack.

Lu Yin attacked Shang Qing with Daynight praises that pulled shang qing into illusion for small bit of time. This allowed Xin Nu to pass through the final gate. Shang qing misunderstood that the attack came from Yao Xuan crown prince of Astral Beasts.

Four realmlings out of 8 from sixth mainland were cleared out before second stage. Two by shang qing and two by lu yin. All througout this stage, Lu Yin has showed very powerful abilities that subverted the original opinion that Lu Yin was just there to hide truly powerful people's abilities.

## SECOND STAGE - Battle Royales

After passing through the five checkpoints, the competitors would appear in the various arenas, according to the order in which they passed. Only one person would be able to win within each arena, and the number of competitors transported to each arena would be determined by the number of competitors who cleared the fifth checkpoint. This was a battle royale.

Lu Yin and the other gatekeepers also needed to clear this next challenge, as there were no exceptions.

## ZENITH - PRE-FINALS - Single Battle Royale with all competent participants

The preliminary top ten of ZENITH had been decided, and they were:

* Human Domain (5): 1 (Outerverse - Lu Yin), 2 (Innerverse - Liquor Hero, Unseen Light), 2 (NeoVerse - ShangQing, Xia Jiuyou)
* Astral Beast Territory (1): 1 (Yao Xuan)
* Technocracy (1): 1 (Wang Yi)
* 6th Mainland (3): 2 (DaoSource sect - Zhi Yi, Wu Taibai), 1 (Sage Martial Realm - Xiao Qing)

At this time, there are still a few contenders like Bu Kong, Yuhua Mavis, Bai Mai, and Qiu Shi who were defeated but still have a chance to rise up the mountain. That is a joss stick was burned and smoke came, whoever remains on the top of mountain by the time the joss stick burns out will be the true top ten in the ZENITH.

## ZENITH - FINALS

As Shang Qing challenged all the participants alone, he was trying go into near life or death state by doing this for overcoming his battle technique and having a chance to become progenitor in the future. Progenitor of Combat stopped the battle royale forcefully and those who remained became the top ten as he didn't want for another Progenitor Chen to appear in 5th mainland. Everyone is the top level had no choice but to give in and the battle to decide ranking among top ten has started.

### First round:

1. Shang Qing - Liquor Hero (Winner: Shang Qing, Liquor hero directly gave up)
2. Lu Yin - Bu Kong (Winner: Lu Yin, Bu Kong tried to overexert himself by using his blood, but he was defeated)
3. Xia Jiuyou - Qiu Shi (Winner: Xia Jiuyou, Qiu Shi managed to kill him but it was revealed that he has 7 more lives due to his Nine Cloned technique, Qiu Shi was already injured due to her previous encounters with Wang yi and others, so she was defeated)
4. Yao Xuan - Wu Taibai (Winner: Wu Taibai, he showed that he has mysterious energy that is invulnerable to spiritual force. Yao Xuan showed one of Progenitor Wushang's secret techniques: Assimilation - Assimilate with any astral beast with complete control over their innate techniques. He was still defeated by Wu Taibai)
5. Wang Yi - Yuhua Mavis (Winner: Wang Yi, he didn't give any chance to Yuhua Mavis with his top notch speed and didn't allow her to use her Treeheart descendant abilities and defeated her)

Top five: Shang Qing, Lu Yin, Xia Jiuyou, Wu Taibai, Wang Yi.

### Second Round:

1. Lu Yin vs Xia Jiuyou (Winner: Lu Yin, he killed Xia once and forced him to admit defeat)
2. Shang Qing vs Wu Taibai (Winner: Shang Qing, Wu Taibai tried to put up a fight but was unable to overcome the combination of Progenitor Chen and secret technique: Banishment)
3. Wang Yi - Win by default

Top Three: Shang Qing, Lu Yin, Wang Yi.

### Third Round:

Three way battle b/w Shang Qing, Wang Yi, Lu Yin.

* Lu Yin attacked Shang Qing with Daynight Praises and managed to would him slightly. This was the first time Shang Qing was wounded in ZENITH
* Wang Yi managed to wound Progenitor Chen using his Bear technique: Pearl. This is also the first time Progentior Chen's been wounded.
* Lu Yin's seventh bro finger made direct contact with Shang Qing but was not able to do anything revealing some mysterious ability.
* Shang qing merged his two Progenitor Chen clones as the clones at that time knew the technique. Having this technique at Enlighter stage meant that this technique wasn't created by Progentior Chen himself.
* It's revealed that the mysterious ability is an innacte ability that let's Shang qing immune to one attack at any time, meaning he isn't immune to a second attack if it was done at the same time
* Shang Qing revealed his last clone to be Progenitor Hui as he wanted everyone to see his power before the end of ZENITH.
* Progenitor Hui used one of the True Insight's array: As if closed. It was also revealed that Progenitor Hui was the one who created True Insight.
* Lu Yin and even Lockbreaker society president Xiu Ming didn't believe that Hui created this array as it wasn't possible and assumed that it was an acient inheritance that Hui got as it was clear from the array.
* Hui arranged Space transfer array that made it seem like he possesed god like speed. ***Wang Yi gives up at this point***

### Lu Yin vs Shang Qing:

* Shang Qing named Lu Yin as second honor chosen. Lu Yin said he wants to be first and people started to mock him including Mu En. But the truly powerful people such as Chief justice, Arch leader zen and Grandmaster Highsage praised him in their hearts.
* Lu Yin manages to wound Shang qing using all his abilities and Yu Trasnfer secret art. But Hui and Chen use their abilities to give fatal wound to Lu Yin and he falls down and collapses.
* Everyone thinks Lu Yin is defeated.
* At this time, black and white energies come out of Lu yin and envelope him inside a black and white cocoon.
* Jin he tries to ambush the cocoon with many attacks, but they were just absorbed
* His voice cut off, and the black and white cocoon in the distance broke open. A figure slowly stood up from it.
* High in the sky, the black color rose up, looking like a crashing wave that spread out through space before moving off into the distance.
* Throughout the region, everyone and everything that was touched by this black energy felt a chill run through their hearts, even the Envoys whose power levels approached a million. They felt as if a terrifying power was present within this energy. It was not that Lu Yin was a threat himself, but rather this energy that was terrifying.
* However, at this moment, no one cared about the black energy, as everyone was staring at their screens in disbelief.
* Even the Sixth Mainland’s three Progenitors were staring at Zenith Mountain in disbelief.
* At the top of the mountain, Lu Yin quietly rose to his feet. At this moment, his appearance had changed drastically, and he even looked like a completely different person.
* Long hair hung down to his waist. His upper body was naked, though black energy continued to swirl around him like a spinning nebula, encircling his body like a chain. Incomprehensible dark red veins ran across his entire body as white energy formed a shield on his left arm while his right hand held a massive scythe. The black energy gathered behind him like a cloud, and a faint pair of eyes were ever so visible in the cloud, its expression screaming of death and ruthlessness.
* The broken black and white cocoon gradually transformed into more black energy, which slowly moved to wrap around Lu Yin and form a black cloak.
* Lu Yin looked up. His eyes were completely black, and he looked like god of death as he stared at Shang Qing.
* After the completion of the God of Death Transformation, Lu Yin's first target for attack was Jin He. Jin He had used his full power of Truesight in order to protect himself from Lu Yin's slash from the scythe but was unsuccessful in blocking the attack. Jin He had been beheaded and slain by Lu Yin.
* Shang qing was not able to counter Lu Yin's new abilities as he was even able to forcefully remove some arrays and the power he uses is not able to be controlled by Hui's creation realm star energy control.
* Shang qing manages to wound Lu Yin in his abdomen but this makes Lu Yin unable to control his anger and unruliness and to counter that he pointed to challenge everyone.
* -More in depth details to be filled-
* TL;DR Lu Yin manages to defeat every single one without even moving a step and undoes his transformation. He is filled with many wounds as the wounds are not recovered even though the transformation is undone.
* He looks down at everyone and poses a pose that shows that he will be suppressing this generation. Due to this new feeling, Lu Yin manages to form gold color battle force but suppresses immediately. Only Wang Yi and Wu Taibai manage to think of something that makes them shocked, everyone else just thinks of it as a golden flash. Lu Yin now has ***10 lines in his battle force.***

## FINAL PRIZE

In addition to an unimaginable opportunity that will be given in honor zone, Lu Yin as the champion received the Zenith Mountain. It's one of the most important treasures of Hall of Honor. It can shrink or expand, protect it's user. Theoretically it is able to resist 1 Million level attacks provided enough star energy. There was some backlash from Hall of Honor elders to not give the mountain to an outsider but were assumed to be convinced by Arch Elder Zen as he started talking about God of Death with them.