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Through countless rounds of the Genius Battle, Thirteen had led his team through countless tournaments. If it weren't for the few decent geniuses emerging in this year's competition, he would at most just mention their names when they met.
Surrounded by 1008 buildings, there are also some restaurants, among which Restaurant No. 1 is specially designed to cater to teachers like Xiang Shisan who lead groups.
"Boom!" The towering Thirteen streaked across the sky like a streak of light and landed in front of Restaurant No. 1 in the square.
"grown ups!"
The waiter at the restaurant door saluted respectfully.
Thirteen stepped directly inside. There were thousands of seats on the first floor of the restaurant, and there were already hundreds of great beings there.
"Thirteen!"
"Thirteen has arrived."
Each of these beings exuded an aura that was either chillingly menacing, more violent than a star, or so cold it could freeze the soul—various unsettling presences subtly emanated from them… These great beings sat casually, each seemingly a world unto themselves, as if they controlled the surrounding space.
"Hmm." Looking at these familiar faces, Thirteen nodded slightly and sat down like a valiant general.
"Thirteen, your Qianwu Universe Kingdom is quite lucky this time, producing three geniuses at the peak of the universe at once."
Hearing the praise from the visitor, Thirteen nodded without any modesty: "Trov, your universe country has produced a genius nicknamed 'Blood Axe,' who is not bad either. He should be able to get a spot as well."
"We can't compare to your Qianwu Universe Kingdom. You'll probably occupy three of the top ten spots this time."
As soon as Trof spoke, the entire restaurant fell silent for a brief moment.
It's not uncommon for a nation to have three top genius battle slots, but the difference between getting three top 1000 slots and getting three top 10 slots is enormous.
The fact that a single cosmic nation occupied three of the top 10 spots in the Genius Battle is something that deserves to be remembered in the entire history of the Genius Battle.
Of the 1008 cosmic nations, these immortals naturally couldn't possibly know all the contestants from every single nation, but they did exchange ideas with the most outstanding contestants among them.
After a long silence, an immortal broke the silence: "The battle of geniuses isn't over yet, who knows what might happen? There's no need to rank them now."
"That's right, but the winner of this year's Genius Battle is probably not much of a surprise."
"Thirteen, interested in making a bet? Who will be the winner of this year's Genius Battle – someone from the Noah Universe or someone from your Qianwu Universe?"
"I'm betting on the Qianwu Universe Kingdom!" Thirteen naturally couldn't support any other universe kingdom, and then the other immortals who were looking for fun also started placing their bets, making the restaurant noisy again.
"I'm betting on the Noah Universe Kingdom!"
"I will crush the Qianwu Universe Kingdom!"
……
In the plaza, after the arrival of the contestants from the Qianwu Universe Kingdom, a total of over a million geniuses gathered together, each observing the geniuses from other universe kingdoms.
"Too weak, too weak, too weak!"
Luo Feng, who had come to the square excitedly to check out the other contestants, breathed a sigh of relief but couldn't help feeling a little disappointed.
Influenced by the Qianwu Universe Selection Tournament, Luo Feng thought that other universe countries would have at least one or two contestants who were no worse than Rong Jun, which would be equivalent to one or two thousand Rong Juns participating in the battle.
However, after some observation, he discovered that he had not found anyone whose strength could match Rong Jun's. Even if someone was hiding their strength, there were probably only a few who could defeat Rong Jun.
Just as Luo Feng was feeling somewhat disappointed, a commotion suddenly broke out ahead, drawing the attention of countless people in one direction.
Luo Feng also turned his head to look, and saw a young man in white walking out of a building in the distance. He was handsome but expressionless, and his whole person was like an iceberg, carrying a blood-red longsword on his back.
At the same time, in Building 0825, which belongs to the Qianwu Universe Kingdom, a young man dressed in a white robe, with a warm smile on his face and a long sword in his hand, also came out.
"Death Bolan!"
"Lu Yunhe, the God of Slaughter!"
Millions of eyes were fixed on the two of them, but they couldn't elicit the slightest reaction from them.
"It's those two, they're definitely the top two in this year's Genius Battle."
Throughout the plaza, in the eyes of the truly super-strong individuals who ranked at the forefront among millions of geniuses, only the two people dressed in white remained.
After these two appeared, all the geniuses paled in comparison.
"Death Bolan!"
Lu Yunhe looked with interest at the man carrying the blood sword on the other side. That man was the famous Death God Bolan, considered a genius benchmark in the early stages, similar to the Kodi who lived in his memories.
Berlan, at the stellar level, can unleash hundreds of illusory bodies at once, reaching the third level of the "Myriad Flow" technique—the Hundred Flow. Above that are the Myriad Flow and Instantaneous Movement.
As someone who possesses several clones, Lu Yunhe understands very well how difficult it is to have this level of understanding of spatial laws at the stellar level.
Lu Yunhe was very curious about how this Death God Berlan had achieved such a level of understanding of the laws at the stellar level. Was it really just due to his own talent?
With the power of two top-tier races in the universe and a special life form from the universe as his clone, Lu Yunhe has almost pushed his strength to the limit that a stellar level can achieve.
Even so, relying solely on the fundamental laws of space, Lu Yunhe's illusionary body wouldn't be much stronger than Bolan's.
"Killing God!"
On the other side, Bolan was also very interested in Lu Yunhe. He had mastered all the laws of time and his illusory body had almost reached the level of the Hundred Threads Flow.
Throughout the entire Genius Battle, only Lu Yunhe possessed strength approaching his own, Bolan thought confidently.
"Looking forward to fighting you!"
Death God Berlan gave him a look, sensing that this genius was even stronger than he had imagined.
"I'm not looking forward to it!"
Lu Yunhe was well aware of his own limitations. He knew that participating in the peak genius battle at the stellar level was already considered bullying, so he naturally had nothing to be proud of.
"How exactly did this Bolan cultivate to such a level?" Luo Feng stared intently at Bolan. "I relied on my Demon Slayer Clan clone to cultivate, and my comprehension of the fundamental laws of space can only barely reach the level of 'Nine-Line Flow'."
"Although it's partly because I haven't had enough time to cultivate, even if I had several hundred more years, I'm afraid I could only reach the level of the Hundred Threads Flow."
"Brother," a beautiful girl with flowing green hair, naturally curly, and green markings on her face whispered, "those two are Death and Slaughter? They're the undisputed top two in this year's Genius Battle, according to our teacher?"
"Ah."
The green-haired youth with secret markings on his face nodded, staring intently at the white-robed youth in the distance. "It's them. One of them is a stellar-level being who has comprehended the fundamental laws of space to an extremely profound degree; another stellar-level being has comprehended at least four fundamental laws, and each of them has been comprehended to an extremely high level. They are simply monsters."
"Those two could easily take first place in a genius tournament that has been around for nearly a million years." The young man looked down at the girl beside him. "Besides those two, there are other extremely strong opponents in this genius tournament. Let's try our best to get into the top ten this time."
"Top ten?" the girl muttered. As peerless geniuses from the mysterious planet 'August,' the goal of this year's Genius Battle was merely to be in the top 10.
Like the Qian Shui siblings, 'Lightsaber' Aichen, 'Phantom Demon' Galesi, the Savage Star Boy, and others were all worried about the fate of this year's Genius Battle.
Being able to gather with so many geniuses at once is both a lucky and a sad thing.
……
at dusk.
Lu Yunhe, who was enjoying delicacies from all over the universe at one of the restaurants in the central square, suddenly felt a voice invading his consciousness: "All participants of the 1008 Universe Nation, assemble in the central square."
The next moment, the golden dragon clone hurriedly ran into the space-time dimension, and the Ultraman clone quickly used its radiant power, leaving only the human body to act unconsciously.
1008000 geniuses either flew in from the sky, flew out from the residential buildings, or gathered from the edge of the central square toward the center.
This applies to millions of geniuses!
Just a moment!
A massive, orderly formation of 1008000 geniuses stood in the central square. Then… all the geniuses awoke.
"Is this the power of a Universe Venerable?" Lu Yunhe looked terrified. The unconscious control he had just experienced had completely frightened him, and even his various clones were thrown into a panic.
He quickly disconnected the consciousness link after turning around. His clone was connected based on an external cheat, which could be used to disconnect the link at any time.
In this way, even if the strongest being in the universe were to exert soul control, it could only target one clone.
"what happened?"
"Huh, how did I get here? I was just inside."
The entire formation of over a million geniuses was in shock, even the Grim Reaper 'Bolan' was equally astonished.
At this moment, standing in front of the formation were 1008 immortal beings. These immortal beings naturally exuded their aura. The aura of thousands of powerful immortals... instantly silenced all the millions of people in the formation, and no one dared to make a sound.
"Welcome to the Pinnacle Genius Battle hosted by our Virtual Universe Company." A gentle voice reached everyone's ears.
Everyone looked in shock.
Where there had been no one in the air before, a man dressed in a cyan battle robe and with purple scales on his head appeared. He had a smile on his face... but standing in mid-air, he seemed like an ancient god-king, and the aura he naturally exuded made millions of young people involuntarily submit.
and!
Although they could see the man in the green robe in the distance with their naked eyes, all the geniuses present felt as if that great, supreme being was not in the same space as them. That sense of temporal and spatial dislocation made them feel very awkward.
"There are 1008 universe nations, and each universe nation will select one thousand people, totaling more than one million geniuses." The man in the green robe stood in the void, looking down at the million geniuses below, his voice gentle, "Our Virtual Universe Company will select the one thousand strongest people from among you and absorb them into the core of our Virtual Universe Company."
"Millions of you are vying for these one thousand spots."
"Here are the rules."
"Tomorrow, each of you will enter a 'trial space'. Our Virtual Universe Company has prepared more than a million trial spaces for you, one for each person."
"There are seven trial towers in the trial space! Each trial tower has seven floors!"
"Start with the first trial tower. After you've cleared all seven levels of the first trial tower, then move on to the second trial tower... until you die and are kicked out of the trial space!"
"Calculate points based on your results in the trial space."
"The first to the 1th in points will be directly recruited as core members of our Virtual Universe Company without further screening, and will receive 100 quotas."
"No. 101 - No. 7300. These 7200 people will then compete in the arena to compete for the 900th place."
"As for the ones after 7300...all will be eliminated!"
The words of the man in green robe made the millions of geniuses below stunned.
There were a total of 1008000 people this time, which means that more than one million people were eliminated in just one trial space!
It's important to understand that while the internal elimination rounds within the universe are equally brutal and have an even higher elimination rate, that's because the participants' strengths vary greatly. Anyone at the first level of the Stellar Realm can participate if they want to.
But these more than one million people are all geniuses of the universe level. The fact that more than one million of them will be eliminated is enough to make people tremble.
Chapter 97 Climbing the Tower
The next morning.
"Everyone, please prepare yourselves. We will soon be conducting a mass teleportation, sending all participants to their respective trial spaces." A clear and melodious voice echoed throughout the entire dimensional space. All the geniuses in the 1008 buildings had already gotten up, waiting for this initial elimination.