I created an extraordinary era

Chapter 617 Stay by my side, a mere Unity Realm cultivator is not enough!

In a blink of an eye, it was the next day.

The second round of the Prodigy Ranking competition has officially begun.

However, most of the matches in the second round were already pretty much decided.

Those ranked below 50 only have a chance to turn the tide if they are ranked 51-60.

As for those ranked 60th or below, it's almost impossible for them to win.

After all, those who can rank in the top forty are all those who have reached the peak of Ming Jin in martial arts and have mastered the meaning of the laws.

In this situation, the outcome is not really in doubt.

Unless their actual combat capabilities differ significantly.

If that's the case, then it's impossible for their points ranking to be lower.

While it cannot be ruled out that someone might be deliberately hiding their strength, such a possibility is extremely slim.

The higher your score in the first round, the greater your advantage will be in the later rounds.

Moreover, no one can guarantee where they will end up.

If you rank 80th or even 90th in the points competition, you will face top geniuses whose strength has reached the Dark Force level.

Not to mention, if you accidentally fall out of the top 100, that would be ridiculous.

Therefore, the probability of someone hiding their strength is extremely low.

And indeed, things turned out exactly as expected.

The second round of the competition became a stage for top geniuses at the Dark Force level to showcase their absolute strength.

Compared to them, those martial arts masters who had also cultivated to the peak of Ming Jin and reached the late stage of Xiantian appeared so vulnerable.

However, the difference in absolute strength between them is actually not that great.

Even if both are of innate nature, and both reach the level of hidden strength, their maximum weight is only three thousand kilograms.

This is limited by hard skills such as physical fitness, and cannot be changed without breaking through innate limitations.

No matter how high one's martial arts level is, it is difficult to break through the upper limit without becoming a grandmaster.

However, the difference between the two is not in quantity, but in quality!
The cohesiveness, penetrability, and internal destructive properties of hidden strength.

This makes the defensive and offensive methods of the Ming Jin level appear particularly clumsy and inefficient.

For example, the battle between Chen Feng and Li Minghe.

Li Minghe is at the late stage of Ming Jin and has mastered the essence of wind; his attacks appear extremely powerful.

However, Chen Feng easily pierced through Li Minghe's blade aura and the vortex formed by his wind intent with a single sword strike.

This is the power of hidden strength.

The Ming Jin level is simply unstoppable.

Unless one can suppress their opponent with absolute power, just like a grandmaster.

In that case, even the most refined power would be futile.

Like an incredibly sharp needle, it might be able to pierce through a thick wooden board.

However, if faced with the overwhelming force of a 10,000-ton hydraulic press, the sharpness of the needle becomes meaningless, and it will be crushed and destroyed in an instant.

This is the most fundamental advantage that a Grandmaster-level expert has when facing a Primordial Realm Dark Force genius!
Chen Feng defeated Li Minghe with ease.

It was a victory of quality, an elegant crushing of brute force by skill.

However, this fighting style becomes much less effective when facing a master whose life level surpasses his.

Just like Chen Feng.

The twenty-eight top geniuses at the Dark Force level almost all won with overwhelming advantages.

"The gap is too big! Without reaching the level of internal strength, one will ultimately be unable to compete with those top geniuses!"

Song Yuqing sighed, a hint of helplessness in her eyes.

Her prized agility became powerless in front of Yuan Xiuwen.

The opponent didn't even need to possess the ultimate movement technique; a single strike, concentrated to its extreme and containing terrifying penetrating power, was enough to easily force her to retreat.

The space for maneuver was compressed to the extreme, and the so-called flexibility became a joke.

The second round of the competition progressed rapidly in this somewhat monotonous and overwhelming manner; the previous thirty matches combined did not even take two hours to complete.

Inside the live stream, the chat was scrolling rapidly, filled with various exclamations, complaints, and disbelief.

[Wait, how can there be such a huge gap between geniuses on the Prodigy Ranking?]

Suddenly, a bolded bullet trajectory spoke for countless people.

Many people originally thought the second round of the competition would be even more exciting.

But none of the previous battles lasted more than ten seconds.

Those ranked lower are like paper, easily broken.

Seeing these comments, the Body Tempering Realm transcendents who were also watching the live stream couldn't help but twitch at the corners of their mouths.

These ordinary people, who aren't even superhumans, are really arrogant!

They simply don't understand what the peak of Ming Jin means!
That requires extremely precise control over the body and extremely meticulous use of Qi and blood!
As a result, in the mouths of these people, those top geniuses at the peak of Ming Jin on the Heavenly Pride Ranking were actually made of paper that "breaks at the slightest touch"?
It can only be described as fearless and ignorant.

However, after a moment, someone spoke up:
[Hey, didn't you read the analysis?]

Although the difference between the peak of Ming Jin and An Jin may be just a thin veil, failing to pierce it creates a world of difference.

Don't be fooled by their status as geniuses on the list of prodigies; the development of internal strength is a watershed moment.

[It's the chasm that distinguishes geniuses from top-tier prodigies!]

However, being able to make it onto the Prodigy Ranking already puts one ahead of countless others; even reaching the peak of the Ming Jin realm is beyond our reach.

[You can ask the extraordinary individuals you know; many haven't even reached the late stage of Ming Jin, let alone the peak.]

Of course, this is on the premise that you can make contact with extraordinary individuals.

Indeed, anyone on the list of geniuses is a top genius who has emerged from nearly 10 billion people worldwide.

Most people would find it difficult to even reach that level, let alone become a congenital one.

People may not feel it very deeply yet.

After all, those who can become extraordinary in this era are unlikely to have bad talent.

In another few decades or a hundred years...

When the number of extraordinary individuals reaches hundreds of thousands or even millions, we will realize just how difficult it is to cultivate to the Innate Realm.

I wonder how many people will be stuck at the Body Tempering Realm for their entire lives.

Those who can break through to the Innate Realm and reach the peak of Ming Jin in martial arts are all top geniuses.

However, the battles on the Prodigy Ranking have given many ordinary people a misconception.

As the crowd discussed the match, it gradually came to an end.

Compared to the previous overwhelming victories, the current competition is much more intense.

At least there won't be any more situations where a single move ends the battle.

As the battle progressed, it became increasingly intense.

Now, no one in the live stream was bored anymore.

Actually, compared to battles at the Dark Force level, ordinary people still prefer to watch the current battles.

The battles that followed were completely incomprehensible to most ordinary people.

It just seemed to disappear in a flash.

Now, the battles between the mid-ranking Ming Jin peak geniuses are more in line with the public's taste.

In the arena.

Qi and blood erupted continuously, swords flashed and fists roared.

Although its destructive power and sense of depth are not as great as a battle of internal energy.

But the visual effects were top-notch, the fight was back and forth, and the scene was extremely exciting.

"It's true what they say: the layman sees the spectacle, while the expert sees the details."

One of the Body Tempering Realm experts, watching the comments, couldn't help but shake his head.

Well, even if that's true, he wouldn't understand it anyway!

soon.

Forty matches have already been played.

Although the gap between them is getting smaller and smaller, the person with the higher score always wins.

After all, all forty people had mastered the essence of the laws.

It's quite difficult to lose.

However, the situation changed as the matches between 41st and 60th place began.

Ultimately, three people successfully defeated those ranked in the top fifty and advanced into the top fifty. "Zhuang Yang won!"

The headquarters of the Tiangang Alliance.

Qin Zhi and the others breathed a sigh of relief.

Zhuang Yang's opponent is the person ranked fifty-third.

The two fought fiercely on the stage for nearly five minutes, and both had exhausted most of their energy.

In the end, Zhuang Yang won the match with a ruthless willingness to risk injury for his life at the crucial moment.

Everyone in the Tiangang Alliance was worried for Zhuang Yang.

Maintaining his ranking means he'll at least qualify for the top 50 rewards, which is already a huge success!

As for anything higher, don't even dream about it.

Zhuang Yang's next opponent was the thirteenth-ranked player, who not only reached the level of internal strength but also mastered the concept of the laws.

There was absolutely no chance of winning.

in the afternoon.

The second round of eliminations has entered its final stage.

Because many of those ranked lower were injured or seriously hurt, many chose to forfeit their spots.

At this point, it's pointless to use medication to recover.

After all, even if they recovered to their peak, they still couldn't compare to those geniuses with hidden strength.

After two rounds of competition, all ten spots were filled.

These people not only reached the level of Dark Force in martial arts, but most of them also mastered the concept of laws.

However, out of the ten, only Mira and a young man named Ignis succeeded in the challenge.

As for the others, they all failed.

However, these two were only able to win because they were matched against opponents who were relatively late in the game.

Those who made it into the top five had reached the pinnacle of their current level in terms of control over their own power and application of their artistic conception.

There is a certain gap between them and other people.

The difference between those ranked sixth to twentieth is actually negligible; their form and performance on the day are crucial.

With this, the list of the top ten on the Prodigy Ranking has been officially released.

[First Place: Chen Feng]

Second Place: Freya

Third place: Diaz

Fourth place: Lucien

Fifth Place: Yuan Xiuwen

[Sixth Place: Elena]

[Seventh Place: Nikolai]

[Eighth Place: Yu Yang]

[Ninth Place: Ignis]

[10th Place: Mira]

Of these ten people, only three graduated from the three extraordinary academies.

The other seven were all fifth-year students from various colleges.

Unfortunately, many talented individuals have already become grandmasters and are unable to participate in the Heavenly Pride Ranking competition.

If they had known about the Prodigy Ranking earlier, some top geniuses might have waited a few years before making a breakthrough.

After all, the first place winner gets a thousand contribution points.

Even now, a Grandmaster at the first three stages of the Transcendent Realm wouldn't be able to earn this many contribution points in a year.

……

"These little guys are all quite good!"

Among the crowd, Xia Yuan looked at the list on the screen and smiled.

Of the three lists, the one he pays the most attention to is actually the Prodigy List.

After all, he was quite familiar with the top geniuses on the Grandmaster and Great Grandmaster lists.

You can usually guess who will get what ranking.

But the list of prodigies is different.

Seeing the emergence of various new top talents brings him genuine pleasure.

"Teacher, the quality of this first annual list of prodigies is far superior to what I expected!"

Beside him, Hua Changfeng couldn't help but sigh.

When he was the director of Origin Academy, he was always in charge of assessing new recruits.

I have met countless top geniuses.

However, compared to the top-ranked ones, there is still a gap.

They are at least inferior to Chen Feng and others in terms of combat ability.

"Hehe, if you don't work harder, you might be surpassed by these people in another ten years or so."

Upon hearing this, Hua Changfeng's face immediately turned awkward.

He did not deny what Xia Yuan said.

His talent is simply no match for these top geniuses; it's only a matter of time before he's surpassed.

"Teacher, isn't this what you're here for?"

Then, Hua Changfeng said with a smile.

Having spent nearly a year with Xia Yuan, he has become much more casual in his speech.

In the past, he certainly wouldn't have dared to speak to Xia Yuan in this tone.

"Even with my help, you may not be able to compare to those top geniuses."

Xia Yuan burst out laughing.

During this period, despite his help, Hua Changfeng has made great progress.

However, it will probably take another two or three years to break through to the late stage of Dark Force.

This was even under the same circumstances where Xia Yuanhe had forced Hua Changfeng to remember a higher realm, just as he had done with Zhang Yao.

Otherwise, it would probably take him at least another ten years to break through to the late stage of Dark Force.

It's even possible that they'll never break through to the late stage of Dark Force in their entire lives.

However, as time went on, it became increasingly difficult to help others cultivate in this way.

Even if he instilled the knowledge into Hua Changfeng later, he might not be able to remember it.

To put it bluntly, this method also requires a foundation.

Not everyone can do it.

Zhang Yao had already spent a long time in the early stages of internal strength, and her foundation was already very solid.

Only with Xia Yuan's help was he able to break through.

Otherwise, even if Xia Yuan forcibly helped her improve, it would be impossible for her to succeed.

As for Hua Changfeng...

Xia Yuan could only guide him through constant instruction or help him cultivate in secret realms.

We will help Hua Changfeng improve his strength after he has a certain foundation.

But how far this approach can go is hard to say!
"It's alright, teacher. I'll be content just to reach the Unity Realm!"

Hua Changfeng chuckled and didn't take it seriously.

Now, at least he is no longer like before, with almost no chance of reaching the Unity Realm.

Right now, his chances of reaching the Unity Realm have greatly increased.

As for anything higher, he dared not even think about it.

"Stay by my side; a mere Unity Realm cultivator is not enough!"

Xia Yuan smiled and shook his head, then continued:
"Let's go, we've seen enough of the Extraordinary Talent Competition."

"There's not much else to see."

"I'll come back and watch the final Grandmaster competition after I've finished taking care of other things."

(End of this chapter)