Only part of the Great Banyan Tree Demon's body turned into points of light. Most of it became a dead, gigantic banyan tree.
A hollow appeared in the trunk, golden light spilling out from inside.
Jiang Kai quickly walked over and pulled a large golden treasure chest out of the hollow.
"It's been a long time since I got a king tier treasure chest!" Jiang Kai took a deep breath. Just the rewards inside this chest were worth at least several hundred million. With better luck, it could even be worth several billion!
Although the Great Banyan Demon King had been killed, this was not a place to stay for long. Everyone needed to recover their condition.
Thinking this, Jiang Kai did not open the chest and directly stored it in his card pouch.
"Shishi, Old Zhou, take everyone and leave this place first!"
Researchers accompanying the various guilds in District Sixteen all received a message and passed it on to their respective guilds.
The Great Banyan Demon King had already been killed!
At the same time, on the guild BOSS battle damage rankings, several unfamiliar guild names appeared.
Among them, Qingyun Guild ranked first.
After Qingyun came the Lord God Guild, and the Lord God Guild even possessed a summoning skull!
The news of the first BOSS kill instantly caused an uproar throughout District Sixteen.
Other guilds had not yet killed the BOSS, so they did not even have results, yet Qingyun, Lord God, and some unknown small guilds were already on the leaderboard!
This left many people completely baffled.
"Someone already killed the BOSS? That fast?!"
"What guild is Qingyun? I've never heard of it before. And this Lord God Guild isn't one of the top ten either."
"The Great Banyan Demon King… damn, isn't that the tree demon that even the Xuanwu Guild only managed to fight to the second phase? Strange. When I looked at the map before, there weren't many guilds going to fight the tree demon. How did it get killed?"
Jiang Kai and the others were also confused by the ranking at first. It was only after Zhou Ting explained that they understood.
In fact, BOSS battle damage did not only include damage dealt to the BOSS. The research institute believed that in king tier BOSS battles, one should not calculate only BOSS damage, but rather the total damage dealt to both the BOSS and its guards.
After all, while king tier BOSSES were extremely powerful, the guards around them were not to be underestimated either.
This method of statistics also encouraged guilds with insufficient strength to give up attacking the BOSS itself and instead cooperate with other guilds to block the guards.
The damage Jiang Kai and Hu Yan dealt to the BOSS was indeed very high, but the more than one hundred War Gods of Qingyun dealt more total damage to the guards than the few of Jiang Kai's group. Therefore, Qingyun's total damage exceeded that of Lord God.
After the explanation, Jiang Kai and the others finally understood.
However, Sun Yuan and the others discovered another problem.
"Damn… Jiang Kai, aside from a few War Gods, your people's damage is very low, but your damage score is almost the same as our total Qingyun damage?!" Sun Yuan stared at the numbers on the leaderboard in shock.
Jiang Kai also looked at the data. On the leaderboard, Qingyun's damage score was 8983 points, while Lord God's score was 8418 points.
Besides that, there were some other guilds present at the time, but their scores were basically around 2000 points.
Jiang Kai's critical hits were now three to four hundred times damage. His crit rate was extremely high. Every three attacks would definitely crit, and often it would crit in just two attacks. Coupled with guaranteed critical skills like Moonlit Immortal Trace Sword and Haotian Demon Slaying Sword, on average, Jiang Kai could already be considered to land one critical hit every 2.5 attacks.
Zhou Chu also said, "Jiang Kai, most of your side's score comes from you. That is to say, purely in terms of offense, you alone can match a hundred super tier five War Gods from the ancient martial path!"
Liu Xuefei shook his head in amazement. "A few of us are already considered top tier among super fives, yet compared to you, the gap is this big! If we didn't still have super sixes, our total damage would've been surpassed by you."
Jiang Kai scratched his head. "It's not really like that. You also have healers, and besides, your roles in the battle were extremely important."
Ye Qingwu kept shaking her head. "Jiang Kai, we've all seen you fight. I didn't expect your strength to still exceed our expectations. You guy… you're really a freak!"
"Uh… Qingwu, he's the real freak." Jiang Kai pointed at Ruan Yu, who was unconscious, and said.
After the great battle, Lord God and Qingyun found a valley to rest.
Taking advantage of the recovery time, Jiang Kai and the others studied the current situation.
From the map, Tiger King Peak and Lone Rock Peak currently had the most guilds gathered there. Dense clusters of small green dots surrounded the two BOSS icons.
They should be hunting those two king tier BOSSES.
However, there were also some powerful guilds that chose to go farther instead, gathering at White Bone Cave and Sun Moon Peak.
These two BOSSES had also been hunted before by guilds from District Sixteen, both reaching the third phase.
However, from the map, it was impossible to tell which specific guild it was, only the number of guilds present.
Many small green dots were moving toward White Bone Cave and Sun Moon Peak. It looked like there were too many people at Tiger King Peak and Lone Rock Peak, so they wanted to go somewhere less crowded to get a share of the spoils.
The BOSS battles had been underway for more than four hours, and so far, only the Great Banyan Demon King had been killed.
"Captain Kai, what do we do now?" Hu Yan asked.
Jiang Kai looked around. Both Lord God and Qingyun had suffered heavy consumption in the previous battle, especially Qingyun. They not only had to deal with the guards but also protect Lord God's people. Many were injured and were currently receiving treatment.
On the main force side, Hu Yan's consumption was also extremely heavy. Two Nine Origin Thunder Tribulations and repeatedly adding wind shields to teammates had drained a large amount of his stamina and mental energy. Hu Yan now clearly looked far less energetic than at the start.
Ouyang Yi and Zhao Tiequan were both injured. Summer Flower and Winter Snow from Four Seasons Flower were bandaging wounds, and even Ye Qingwu was getting overwhelmed.
As for Jiang Kai himself, his Regeneration Armor was severely damaged and needed time to repair. Killing the Great Banyan Tree King while it was in a recovery state had almost exhausted all of his stamina, and some key skills also needed time to recover.
Fortunately, the fourth phase of the Great Banyan Demon King was rapid regeneration. If it had been replaced with some powerful attack skills, even if they managed to take down the Demon King, they likely would have suffered heavy losses.
It had to be said that real BOSS battles were still very different from the simulated battles in the War God Hall training camp.
After all, the Golden Fur Spirit Monkey King was a former BOSS. The current BOSSES were stronger, and there were too many mobs, making the difficulty extremely high.
After thinking for a moment, Jiang Kai said, "If you bite off more than you can chew, you'll choke. Everyone rest properly today. We'll set out again once our condition recovers."
He Shishi immediately voiced her support for Jiang Kai's decision.
Because of the BOSS battles, the number of wild beasts in the field had noticeably decreased. On top of that, Qingfeng Mountain was now full of people everywhere. Jiang Kai and the others barely encountered any wild beasts and spent a full day resting peacefully.
On the second day, the leaderboard data refreshed.
On just the first day after the BOSS battles opened, three king tier BOSSES had already been killed.
However, the rankings had changed.
Tianxuan Guild overtook Qingyun Guild and obtained first place in damage ranking, holding one summoning skull.
Azure Dragon Guild ranked second in damage and also held one summoning skull.
Third was Kunlun Guild, fourth Tianjian, fifth…
Qingyun and Lord God were squeezed down to ninth and tenth.
"Why are our rankings so low?" Jiang Kai frowned.
"They probably killed a lot of mobs," He Shishi guessed. "The BOSS battles last a long time. They had plenty of time to kill mobs, so their total damage naturally went up."
"Then the research institute's statistics method isn't reasonable," Zhao Tiequan said.
Zhou Ting looked a bit embarrassed and explained, "It might not be entirely reasonable, but… you can't really blame our research institute. It's mainly because you killed it too fast!"
Jiang Kai frowned slightly. "Is the extra reward for first place in damage ranking big?"
"Of course!" Zhou Chan answered eagerly. "Although the military hasn't announced the rewards yet, this is a nationwide operation, such a big event, and it's extremely important to Huaxia's development. The rewards definitely won't be small."
Zhou Ting also nodded. "I heard that among this time's rewards, there's a rare item. The top ten guilds and ancient martial guilds seem to have known the news in advance and all want to fight for first place."
Hearing that the rewards were so tempting, Jiang Kai's eyes immediately widened. "A rare item? That's interesting… then we can't just hand first place over to others so easily!"
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