The Genius Battle caused huge waves in every universe country, attracting the attention of countless people.
And now, the peak battle among the geniuses of the 1008 universe countries naturally made countless people across the various universe countries anxiously await it. Unfortunately, the current trial eliminations were not being broadcast publicly, and only the ranking was being broadcast.
“Rong Jun is so cool!”
“Look, the Virtual Universe Company’s official website has released another promotional video for ‘Wild Man Rong Jun’.” On a street in the Ganwu Continent of the Virtual Universe, a young couple was pointing at a screen on the street. The girl said excitedly, while the boy beside her smiled and said, “The ranking keeps changing, but anyone who has entered the top 1,000 will have a promotional video made for them by the Virtual Universe Company. This time, only ‘Rong Jun’ from our Ganwu Universe Country has received this honour.”
“Wasn’t Luo Feng there before?”
“You haven’t looked at the ranking. He’s already fallen to the bottom.” The boy shook his head.
“Didn’t many important figures say that the Madman ‘Luo Feng’ is very strong? Why is his ranking so low?” the girl asked in confusion.
“I don’t know.” The boy shook his head and sighed. “It’s quite disappointing. I used to admire him a lot. I always thought he was even more ruthless than that Wild Man Rong Jun, but now……”
Throughout the hundreds of millions of star systems in the entire Ganwu Universe Country, when countless people discussed the Genius Battle rankings, most expressed their disappointment with Luo Feng.
Because previously, the Ganwu Universe Country had already reached a consensus. Among the geniuses of their universe country, Rong Jun was first and Luo Feng was second. This battle was mainly about watching these two.
But now!
Rong Jun was extremely fierce, while Luo Feng had fallen to the very bottom.
If the other tens of thousands of star regions in the Ganwu Universe Country were relatively mild in their feelings towards Luo Feng, then the Black Dragon Mountain Star Region had gone completely crazy!
……
“Madman! You’ve really gone crazy. How can you be doing so badly?”
“You shouldn’t be doing this badly!”
“You’re really disappointing!”
“Madman, my beloved Madman, where is the Madman I admire?”
“How can you be at the very bottom? I don’t expect you to rush to the very front, but at least get into the top 10,000.”
“Madman, Madman!”
“You’ve disappointed me too much.”
In the Black Dragon Mountain Empire, countless people who took pride in Luo Feng were extremely emotional. Some became so emotional that they even cursed Luo Feng, hating him for failing to live up to expectations.
“The ranking is constantly changing, and the final result won’t be revealed until the end. Luo Feng might unleash his strength later. During the preliminary selection in the First World Zone, he also became stronger towards the end.”
“Everyone has to believe in the Madman.”
“We will always support the Madman!”
One group had become extremely angry because of how much they loved him. The other firmly supported him and continued to believe in Luo Feng.
However, Luo Feng, who represented the Black Dragon Mountain Empire on this supreme stage alongside the 1008 universe countries, had indeed captured the hearts of countless people throughout the Black Dragon Mountain Empire.
In the Virtual Universe, on the central square surrounded by the 1008 buildings.
The 1008 great Immortal existences were all seated together, looking at the screens floating around them and chatting with one another with smiles.
“There are quite a few geniuses who were hiding their strength during the internal selection within their universe countries.”
“What a pleasant surprise.”
A group of powerful Immortal existences commented on several astonishingly talented geniuses.
Because the top 100 in this trial would directly obtain a place, many true experts who had hidden their strength erupted with power. They were all displaying their strength to the greatest extent, which surprised these Immortal existences.
“This young Ape man is really agile. He is clearly very well suited to fighting multiple opponents alone.”
“Hmm.” The giant in scale armour and battle robes beside him spoke in a booming voice. “After all, the trial space is only a trial, not a one on one battle. Moreover, there are metal lifeforms and mechanical puppets inside, both of which are immune to soul attacks. Those who excel at soul attacks are therefore at a considerable disadvantage.”
One on one battles between humans.
And trial tower challenges.
The talents selected by the two methods would naturally be somewhat different.
“Thirteen, you make a good point.” The silver haired man in a silver robe beside him said, “However, true genius experts will still perform very well. Besides, I think setting up the trial space this way is very good, because in the future, their enemies will mainly be experts from other races in the universe!”
“Hmm.” The giant in scale armour and battle robes nodded. He looked at the ranking on the screen beside him. It showed the rankings of the 1,000 geniuses from the Ganwu Universe Country.
“Rong Jun is 16th. Not bad.”
“This Luo Feng!”
The giant in scale armour and battle robes was somewhat annoyed.
“He really has treated the trial space as a training ground. He spends the full ten days on every level before entering the next one. This kid really doesn’t care about all the criticism outside!”
Because he was paying attention to Luo Feng, he could easily see that Luo Feng was indeed making maximum use of his time.
“Hmm? Eliminated?”
The giant in scale armour and battle robes noticed that two more geniuses on the list had the red universal characters ‘Eliminated’ appearing behind their names.
“Two more have died!”
……
By this point, there were already hundreds of thousands of eliminated geniuses on the central square.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Within just a few seconds, more than a dozen figures were simultaneously teleported onto the central square.
“Feng Lun, you were eliminated too?”
“Blas, you were eliminated even earlier than me.” The green haired youth Feng Lun smiled teasingly.
“I never expected that I could make it into the top 7,300.” The handsome young man beside him, with slightly curly hair and wearing silver battle armour, shook his head. “When I entered the trial space, I desperately tried to kill everything as quickly as possible, hoping to improve my ranking as much as possible. It really went just as I expected. At first, because I killed so quickly, my ranking rose rapidly. At its highest, I reached more than 100,000th place. But later, the third trial tower was simply too difficult. My progress slowed down considerably, and my ranking plummeted! It dropped all the way past 300,000th place. In the end, I died in the fifth level of the third trial tower. I was literally sat to death by a mechanical puppet. What a tragedy.”
“Sat to death?” Feng Lun laughed loudly.
“Which level did you reach?” the handsome young man asked.
“The seventh level of the third tower.” Feng Lun could not help cursing. “The Insect Race Mother Nest was too powerful. One Insect Race warrior after another was being produced. Its reproduction speed was much faster than in the previous two trial towers, and they were also stronger. I couldn’t kill them as quickly as they were being produced. I watched helplessly as more and more Insect Race warriors appeared, and then I was buried alive.”
“Haha……” The handsome young man could not help laughing. “Oh, right. I just checked the rankings. That ‘Madman’ from our universe country, the one who is close to you, why is his ranking so low?”
“Low?”
Feng Lun glanced around.
“See for yourself. There are already hundreds of thousands of geniuses eliminated. As long as this ‘Madman’ is still inside the trial space, his ranking will rise. Just wait and see! I know this guy better than anyone. During the preliminary selection in the First World Zone of the Ganwu Universe Country, he didn’t show himself at all during the first ten days, and then suddenly began slaughtering like crazy. I think it will be the same this time!”
“That’s so cunning?” The handsome young man’s eyes widened.
“That is called composure! Keeping your feet firmly on the ground!” Feng Lun teased. “Unlike you, rushing forward recklessly and killing your way into the fifth level of the third tower before getting eliminated.”
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The seven trial towers.
All 1,008,000 geniuses passed the first and second trial towers. However, beginning with the first level of the third trial tower, large numbers of geniuses were eliminated.
The third trial tower had the most eliminations, accounting for almost ninety percent of the total number!
“Luo Feng, yes, keep going like this. Keep your ranking low.”
Ninth Prince Brolin was staying in his own palace on Black Dragon Mountain Island. He was comfortably reclining in a chair, watching a floating screen in front of him. The screen displayed a forum, and Brolin was reading the countless posts cursing Luo Feng for failing to live up to expectations.
“Excellent, excellent.”
Brolin’s face was filled with smiles.
“Luo Feng, although I don’t want to provoke you, I also don’t want you to become too strong.”
“Your current ranking is just right. It suits you perfectly.”
……
Brolin could continue living comfortably as a prince. After all, the royal family had the backing of its founding emperor, an Immortal existence. Luo Feng could not possibly come looking for trouble with him.
But Nuolan Shan was different.
Now that Luo Feng could easily ask someone for help and deal with Nuolan Shan, the latter had been extremely cautious.
When Luo Feng began making a huge name for himself in the Genius Battle, Nuolan Shan had already been frightened into leaving his family’s headquarters. He had travelled to a distant ordinary life planet in the relatively harsh environment of the ‘Karma Star Region’, living in seclusion.
“Good!”
“Good!”
After finishing his cultivation, Nuolan Shan flew back to the simple estate.
His pair of cold eyes looked at the constantly changing ranking on the living room screen connected to his optical computer, and he could not help sneering.
“You forced me to leave my family. This time, you should suffer a heavy setback, you brat. Ranked at the very bottom? Excellent!”
……
Regardless of the turmoil outside, with countless curses, doubts and words of support, Luo Feng remained as steady as Mount Tai. He spent the full ten days on every level, slowly advancing one level at a time.
He successfully passed all seven levels of the second trial tower.
He successfully passed all seven levels of the third trial tower as well.
As for the fourth trial tower, perhaps Luo Feng would not have been able to pass it before the Mosha Clan clone had been born. But now, he continued moving forward step by step and steadily passed all seven levels.
……
In the Virtual Universe, on the central square.
For Immortal existences with eternal lifespans, spending a year here was nothing. Moreover, they could not simply leave during such a gathering.
The 1008 great Immortal existences were discussing among themselves.
“Thirteen, the ranking of Luo Feng from your universe country has soared again.”
“Look at the live broadcast. This little fellow has never been in a hurry, and every level seems effortless for him.”
“Look, he has entered the top 500!”
The giant in scale armour and battle robes sat on his enormous chair and looked at the screen in front of him.
The ranking displayed on the screen was rather strange. Among the geniuses of the Ganwu Universe Country, the highest ranked was currently Rong Jun, whose overall ranking was 13th.
However, Rong Jun had already died in battle and been kicked out of the trial space.
“Rong Jun had already reached the fifth trial tower when he died, while this Luo Feng was still slowly making his way through the first level of the fourth trial tower!” The giant in scale armour and battle robes could not help laughing helplessly.
He still clearly remembered the great joke from some time ago.
At the time, he had said:
“Luo Feng is just keeping a low profile and moving slowly. Just watch, later on he will rise to around 3,000 to 5,000th place.”
The giant in scale armour and battle robes had said this to the other Immortal existences.
But later.
Luo Feng’s name continued rising steadily, and now he had already entered the top 500.
“The fifth tower!”
“Luo Feng has entered the fifth trial tower!”
……
“First level, success! Ranking 128!”
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“Third level, success! Ranking 42!”
……
As time passed, the giant in scale armour and battle robes frowned. Beneath his battle helmet, his eyes filled with an aura of death stared at the screen in front of him.
He softly said, “This Luo Feng really is… He has hidden himself incredibly deeply! But I like this kind of surprise!”
A faint trace of joy appeared in his eyes.