One genius expert after another appeared out of thin air in the preparation hall. These genius experts came from various star fields of the Ganwu Universe Nation, and their appearances were all kinds of strange.
“Pushkin!”
“It’s Pushkin. The one beside him is Jincili!”
The originally quiet preparation hall suddenly became somewhat noisy, causing Luo Feng to open his eyes and look over. At the teleportation point ahead, two humans appeared. One of them was tall and burly, covered in golden fur, and stood a full six metres tall. He was practically a giant ape. His eyes faintly glowed green and were quite frightening. In particular, his pair of fists were practically comparable to two enormous iron hammers!
“Pushkin?” Luo Feng’s mind rapidly went through the information the Black Dragon Mountain Empire had given him.
Pushkin: An unparalleled genius cultivated by the imperial family of the Ganwu Universe Nation. He was skilled in using his fists and possessed the ability to break into the top 1,000 of this Universe Nation. His preliminary selection ranking was ninth in World District No. 89.
“Jincili.” Luo Feng glanced at the little fellow beside the golden-haired ape.
Calling him a little fellow was relative. In reality, Jincili was nearly 1.9 metres tall, even taller than Luo Feng. However, standing in front of the ape Pushkin, who was nearly as tall as a two-storey building, he was indeed a ‘little fellow’. Luo Feng did not know Jincili’s information. At least, it was not included in the information provided by the Black Dragon Mountain Empire.
“Pushkin, sit over here.” Jincili’s face was thin, and his eyes were cold and sinister, resembling a poisonous scorpion. He gave Luo Feng a feeling somewhat similar to Nuolan Mountain.
“Alright!”
A deep and powerful voice came from Pushkin’s throat, carrying an echo.
Jincili and Pushkin walked directly towards Luo Feng and then sat down beside him. “Bang!” Pushkin’s weight caused the chair to tremble slightly when he sat down. Fortunately, every seat in the preparation hall had been designed to be large. Otherwise, with Pushkin’s enormous build, one person alone would have occupied six or seven seats.
Pushkin and Jincili sat next to each other, with Luo Feng right beside Jincili in this row.
“You.” Jincili glanced at Luo Feng beside him, his voice cold. “Sit further away. I don’t like other people getting close to me.”
“Something’s wrong with your head!”
Luo Feng glanced at Jincili and said coldly, then closed his eyes without looking at him again.
“Hm?” Jincili’s cold eyes immediately seemed to burst into flames. He stared fixedly at Luo Feng for a moment, like a cobra staring at its prey. However, this was the preparation hall, where anyone was absolutely forbidden from taking action. Jincili snorted coldly and also closed his eyes.
Suddenly, the sounds from the battle arena outside entered the preparation hall behind it.
“Ladies and gentlemen, the upcoming battle is Arena Group Battle No. 382. Let me introduce the one hundred genius experts participating in Group 382.”
The clear and resounding voice not only spread throughout the entire battle arena, but could also be heard clearly in the preparation hall behind it. Immediately afterwards came cheers like waves.
“First, Pushkin, from the Ganwu Universe Nation, ranked ninth in World District No. 89 in the preliminary selection!”
The thunderous cheers caused even the preparation hall to tremble.
“That is Pushkin?”
“Yes, that’s him. His fists are extremely frightening. Whatever you do, don’t let him get close.”
Some hushed discussions appeared in the preparation hall.
“Second, Jincili, from the Ganwu Universe Nation, ranked 21st in World District No. 13 in the preliminary selection!”
The voice of the commentator outside the battle arena was heard with exceptional clarity by every genius expert in the preparation hall. Only then did Luo Feng rarely open his eyes and glance at the cold young man in the golden battle uniform beside him.
Jincili’s ranking was actually second among these one hundred people. He was very strong.
“Third…”
“Fourth…”
“Fifth, Luo Feng, from the Black Dragon Mountain Empire, ranked 51st in World District No. 1 in the preliminary selection.”
The cheers were as loud as thunder. They came from the excited cheers of more than a million people from the Black Dragon Mountain Empire.
Black Dragon Mountain Island, inside a luxurious palace, more than a thousand people had gathered.
The Emperor, wearing a dark golden imperial robe, sat high above them. Seated below were the many imperial family members of the entire Black Dragon Mountain Empire. Since the imperial family had existed for an extremely long time, its population numbered more than a hundred million. Therefore, those who could enter this highest imperial family banquet were all absolute elites among the imperial family.
Some were World Lords or Domain Lords.
Some were princes who ruled and managed various regions, while others were princes who had hopes of inheriting the throne in the future. There were also some high-ranking female members of the imperial family.
“It’s Luo Feng.”
The entire hall fell silent. More than a thousand members of the imperial family all looked at the screen floating in mid-air. The screen was broadcasting the battle live. The beautiful commentator smiled as she introduced him.
“Fifth, Luo Feng, from the Black Dragon Mountain Empire, ranked 51st in World District No. 1 in the preliminary selection.”
At the same time, an image of Luo Feng appeared beside the commentator on the screen.
“It’s Luo Feng!”
“Haha, Luo Feng will definitely find this arena group battle easy.”
“Looking at the image, Luo Feng is clearly no ordinary person. His eyes are filled with killing intent.”
……
The hall immediately erupted into discussion, with everyone praising Luo Feng. How could they dare not praise him? This was the highest imperial family banquet. In this Genius Battle, the geniuses of the Black Dragon Mountain Empire had now been reduced to a single survivor, ‘Luo Feng’. If Luo Feng lost as well, the Black Dragon Mountain Empire would truly lose all face.
For several consecutive editions, they had failed to break into the top 10,000, while some other medium-level cosmic civilisations had contestants who made it into the top 10,000. They were clearly inferior to those countries.
“Haha…” The Emperor laughed heartily.
The hall below was filled with praise for Luo Feng. However, among the many princes, one prince had a trace of shock in his eyes. It was the Ninth Prince, ‘Brolin’.
Among more than a thousand members of the imperial family, Brolin appeared to be forcing himself to remain calm, but his heart had long been thrown into turmoil.
“This Luo Feng… is, is he really him?”
Although Luo Feng had been famous before, the preliminary selection had not been publicly broadcast, so much of the information about the various genius experts was unknown to outsiders.
Only some powerful forces could investigate it.
For example, the Black Dragon Mountain Empire had previously dispatched an envoy team, while some large organisations and forces within the Ganwu Universe Nation had also sent people to visit Luo Feng. This was because those forces all had methods of investigating Luo Feng’s residence within the virtual universe through the ‘Virtual Universe Company’.
However…
As a prince, Brolin was forbidden from interfering with the empire’s intelligence and information systems, so he genuinely did not know Luo Feng’s true appearance.
“Luo Feng, he’s Luo Feng?” Brolin gritted his teeth. “This is troublesome.”
As for causing trouble for Luo Feng?
He no longer had such thoughts. He knew that with Luo Feng’s reputation, he could easily join some super organisation that even the Black Dragon Mountain Empire feared. He did not want to provoke Luo Feng now, but he was worried that he had once sent people to use laser guns to kill twelve targets simultaneously, and had also sent people to hunt down Luo Feng. Would Luo Feng hold a grudge?
“Hmph, I won’t provoke him for the time being. I’m in the imperial capital. He shouldn’t have the ability to cause trouble for me.” Brolin gritted his teeth and thought inwardly.
Meanwhile, above the hall.
The Emperor was chatting with the two World Lords seated beside him.
“Uncle Bute Ashka, how confident are you that Luo Feng will win?” the Emperor could not help asking quietly.
“His chances are fairly good, but it is still quite dangerous.” The old man with long silver hair and a long beard beside him frowned. “Your Majesty should know that among the 100,000 or so people who passed the preliminary selection this time, nearly half are elites cultivated by the imperial family of the Ganwu Universe Nation.”
“Mm.” The Emperor nodded.
The Lord of the Ganwu Universe Nation had sent more than a hundred million elite geniuses to participate. During the preliminary selection, there had been more than 800 billion people, so this group had not seemed particularly conspicuous. But… among those who passed the preliminary selection, more than 40,000 belonged to the geniuses sent by the Lord of the Ganwu Universe Nation. This showed just how deep the foundation of the imperial family of the Universe Nation was!
“In Luo Feng’s group, the current first-ranked Pushkin, second-ranked Jincili, and others, six of the top ten are all elites cultivated by the imperial family of the Ganwu Universe Nation.” The old man shook his head. “I’m afraid Luo Feng might be surrounded and attacked.”
“Imperial Uncle, what do you think?” The Emperor looked towards another World Lord beside him.
The Imperial Uncle, who was also wearing a dark golden imperial robe, smiled faintly. “Your Majesty, worrying now is useless. Moreover, we don’t know Luo Feng’s true strength. Just watch. It is about to begin.”
“Watch?”
The Emperor could only nod.
On Island No. 29109, the battle arena was already packed with people.
“Dad is fifth. Mum, does that mean the four people ahead of him are stronger than Dad?” Ping Ping asked in confusion.
“That is only their ranking.” Xu Xin smiled. “The four people ahead of your dad have higher rankings, but their actual strength is not necessarily greater.”
“Oh.” Ping Ping nodded.
Beside him, Xiao Hai muttered, “Dad is the strongest. He is the strongest.”
Nearby sat a group of people from Earth, including Hong, Thunder God and their families, Luo Feng’s parents, and others.
“Third Brother, you have to win.” Hong stared at the centre of the distant battle arena.
Thunder God stared over as well.
Now, only Luo Feng remained in the Genius Battle among the three brothers from Earth.
“6… 5… 4… 3… 2… 1!” the beautiful commentator shouted excitedly. The atmosphere throughout the entire battle arena instantly reached its peak.
Boom!
The centre of the battle arena trembled. The beautiful commentator instantly teleported away. At the same moment, one hundred figures appeared at different positions in the centre of the battle arena. They were the one hundred geniuses who had been introduced earlier. Some were tall and powerfully built, some were covered in fur, some had scales and horns, and their appearances were all different.
But they had one thing in common. They were all humanoid beings who walked upright!
“Pushkin!”
“Kun!”
“Luo Feng!”
Cheers that seemed to shake the heavens and earth erupted from the mouths of one billion spectators. The sound seemed capable of shattering the entire battle arena.
Inside the battle arena.
The one hundred genius experts, including Luo Feng, could not help feeling excited when they suddenly heard the cheers of one billion people. They looked around at the spectator stands, which were filled with people as far as the eye could see, coming from various star fields. Luo Feng also quickly distinguished the direction from which the cheers calling his name were coming.
“Over there, those are people from the Black Dragon Mountain Empire.” Luo Feng glanced in that direction. That area was indeed densely packed with countless people.
Silence.
The battle space inside the arena was completely silent. All one hundred geniuses concentrated their attention. This chaotic battle would last for a maximum of fifteen minutes, because the battle space would continuously shrink. After fifteen minutes, it would shrink until it was only one metre in diameter.
“Battle, begin!”
A deep voice instantly rang out in the minds of the one billion spectators throughout the battle arena, as well as the one hundred geniuses inside the battle arena.