Devouring the Stars: Soul Master

Chapter 163 A Powerful Ascent to the Top! Resource Plunder Before Heading to Chaos City
In the Ninth World Zone, at an altitude of 10,000 meters, spaceships were packed together in an almost crowded manner, their density even greater than the number of combatants below!

Due to rule restrictions, participants can only fly to a maximum altitude of approximately nine thousand meters above the ground.

Above that, there is an invisible barrier.

The spaceships high in the sky, at an altitude of 10,000 meters, are the spectators watching the preliminary rounds.

The Genius Battle preliminary rounds have over eight billion viewers in each world region, so it's impossible to broadcast a war of such scale.

Therefore, Virtual Universe Company launched a way to see the world from above by taking a spaceship.

Moreover, the fees are quite expensive.

But this clearly cannot dampen people's enthusiasm for the battle of geniuses.

Throughout the entire Qianwu Universe Kingdom, from royalty and nobles to ordinary citizens, countless people spent money to travel by spaceship to observe the battle from above this 100-world zone.

Especially in the Ninth World Zone and the First World Zone, the number of spectators in the skies above these two zones was terrifying!
Because this is the competition area for the two personal disciples of the Qianwu Kingdom's ruler!
It is extremely rare in the long history of the universe for two disciples of the ruler of a cosmic kingdom to participate in the same battle of geniuses.

Many powerful immortals came specifically to watch.

……

Inside a magnificent, palace-like spaceship sat thousands of people—the true ruling class of the Black Dragon Mountain Empire, including its emperor.

"As expected of the personal disciple of the Qianwu Kingdom's ruler, his strength is too great, he is not on the same level as others at all."

A realm lord of the Black Dragon Mountain Empire exclaimed in shock as he watched Qin Ming indiscriminately slaughtering on the screen.

Besides Qin Ming's image, there was also a leaderboard on the screen.

The leaderboards for all one hundred sections were displayed there, and Qin Ming undoubtedly had the highest score!

In just one day, Qin Ming's points soared to 130 million!

It was almost a precipitous lead over everyone else.

Even with a hundred divisions, it's still far ahead.

"Let alone these stellar-level little guys, even if I went there, I'd probably end up the same way. I can't even understand how he did it."

From the start of the war until now, he has only been flying in the air!
Everyone who passed by instantly and voluntarily chose to end their lives.

Another realm lord shook his head and smiled bitterly.

He had lived for a long time and experienced thousands of battles against geniuses, but he had never seen such a bizarre fighting style.

"Instant kill" doesn't even begin to describe it!
The other realm lords and domain lords also felt a pang of sadness; compared to such a genius, it was truly disheartening.

Even the founding emperor of the Black Dragon Mountain Empire, that immortal being, who sat on the throne, had doubts in his heart.

“I know how he did it! One of my family’s disciples happened to be in the Ninth World District and happened to run into His Highness ‘Qin Ming’.”

Suddenly, a powerful realm lord below spoke up.

Everyone immediately looked over.

"It is indeed an illusion! A large-scale illusion."

The powerful realm lord shook his head and smiled bitterly.

"He pulled everyone into a strange illusionary prison, where everyone had to endure excruciating pain."

"Not only do I suffer, but I also see others suffering along with me."

"According to my people, some people were tortured inside for three days and three nights before they couldn't take it anymore and finally chose to end their own lives."

"Most of those who entered later, upon learning the situation, did not want to endure the torture and chose to commit suicide immediately! That's why we have the current situation."

silence.

It instantly pulls people into an illusion, and then subjects them to the excruciating pain of being pierced by a thousand cuts!
And they made everyone suffer along with them!
This is tantamount to killing someone by breaking their spirit.

When you see others choosing to give up one by one, even those who could persevere will likely choose to give up as well.

After all, once that invincible aura has accumulated, few people are willing to withstand it.

"This one is not the only powerful one. Another disciple of the Qianwu Kingdom's ruler is equally invincible!"
A star-level being is enough to unleash the first level of the Divine Weapon, the 'Phantom Sword Style'.

Nine illusory golden swords roamed freely, invincible, and he slaughtered the entire city.

In the silence, someone looked again at the second-ranked player in the overall points ranking of the Qianwu Universe Kingdom.

The second place winner was none other than Luo Feng!

In the First World Zone, Luo Feng has 37 million points, ranking first in the zone!

"These two kill anyone they see, giving the other contestants no chance to fight back. One is an illusionist, and the other is a mentalist; they're practically sweeping everyone away."

"Yes, they're too strong. They must be the top one or two in the Qianwu Universe."

"It is said that these two are both geniuses within the territory of my Black Dragon Mountain Empire, but they were discovered early on by the great Qianwu King and taken as his disciples."

"If I could represent my Black Dragon Empire in battle..."

A group of people discussed it with shining eyes.

Even the emperor of the Black Dragon Mountain Empire, sitting on his throne, couldn't help but let his imagination run wild.

If Qin Ming and Luo Feng represent the Black Dragon Mountain Empire and achieve such results, it would be of great benefit to him.

But then he saw the Qianwu Universe Kingdom mark next to their names and sighed. How could he possibly be qualified to compete with the great Qianwu Kingdom Lord for disciples?
"Although they cannot represent my Black Dragon Mountain Empire in battle, their people are within our territory!"

"We must befriend them at all costs!"

"Don't they want to establish a primary universe nation? To bring all the surrounding galaxies, no, all the galaxies, under their name."

The emperor of the Black Dragon Mountain Empire remained silent for a long time, a resolute look appearing in his eyes.

He is determined to hold on to this thigh!
Since we can't cultivate the path of origin, let's cultivate the path of investment.

Based on his status and the distance between their hometowns, he was willing to risk the entire Black Dragon Mountain Empire!

This is an excellent opportunity to befriend two future top experts and the ruler of the Qianwu Kingdom.

……

Those paying attention to Qin Ming and Luo Feng are not limited to the powerful figures of the Black Dragon Empire; many kings and nobles of the Qianwu Universe Kingdom, members of ancient forces, and even ordinary citizens are all watching.

Such results are truly astonishing.

Even forces from other cosmic nations have been paying close attention to them, collecting intelligence on the two.

Meanwhile, Jia Yi, who was in charge of the Earth lineage, was also watching with a group of people, all of whom were excited.

This time, it wasn't just Qin Ming and Luo Feng who participated; a group of people, including Hong and Lei Shen, who entered the Qianwu Secret Realm as guards, also signed up and achieved good results.

Jia Yi did not participate not because he did not want to compete with many geniuses.

Instead, he has now broken through to the cosmic level!

With the Domain Lord-level bloodline and nutrient tank provided by Qin Ming, he soared to the Universe level at an astonishing speed, and this improvement had no side effects.

After all, having a Domain Lord-level bloodline would allow one to easily advance to the Domain Lord level.

At this moment, they all understood. China's chance to take off once again had arrived!

……

In the Ninth World District, Qin Ming's mental power radiated out to the maximum extent, and his entire body moved at high speed in the sky.

In just one day, he had swept through three gathering places of the participants.

Although the Ninth World District is a jungle and mountainous terrain, they were deliberately brought together at the beginning of their arrival so that they could fight each other better.

In some places, or even entire cities, this can occur.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to obtain such an impressive number of points.

Anyway, the world of selection is only so big.

At his speed, it wouldn't take him long to reach other gathering places.

"Hmm, we've found another gathering place!"

Upon seeing an ancient city in the distance, Qin Ming's lips curled into a smile.

For him, the difficulty was not defeating his opponents, but finding other people.

brush!
The shattered stars beneath his feet increased his speed dramatically, carrying Qin Ming above him as he charged straight in...

……

Day 19.

"Your Highness, spare me! I am a member of the royal family of the Qianwu Universe Kingdom, one of our own! I have important information to report to Your Highness!"

From afar, a golden-armored warrior saw Qin Ming and immediately dropped his weapon, raising both hands in the air.

"Oh? What happened?"

Qin Ming flew forward with some confusion.

These days he wandered around freely, going wherever there were people, and he also encountered several members of the Qianwu royal family and geniuses from the Qianwu Secret Realm.

Out of consideration for their shared ties with Master Qianwu, they were spared from being killed.

"Your Highness, news of your hunts in many cities has spread. Among those ranked second to first 1000, there are quite a few who want to unite to kill you."

The golden-armored warrior quickly spoke up.

"Oh? You've run away all this way, accumulated enough points, and finally dare to challenge me?"

A hint of interest flickered in Qin Ming's eyes.

According to the scoring rules, half of the points will be taken away after being killed.

We're now in the later stages of the selection process. If you have a high enough score, you can advance to the next stage of the arena battle even if you lose.

The Qianwu Universe domestic selection is divided into the world preliminary rounds and the second stage, the arena battles.

Compared to the first stage of the 30-day world qualifiers, the second stage of the ring battles took much longer.

After all, those who can enter the arena are all geniuses.

To better select geniuses, the arena battles have a resurrection mechanism.

This resulted in the arena battles taking an extremely long time, requiring a full three years of fighting!
Qin Ming was naturally uninterested in this.

Winning first place in the regional preliminaries will directly qualify for the final 1000 spots in the Qianwu Universe Kingdom competition.

"I see."

"Perhaps they can bring me some amusement?"

……

"As expected, I was overthinking it."

Qin Ming pursed his lips and slowly flew across the sky.

Below, tens of thousands of corpses lay scattered about, without a trace of blood, as if they were all asleep.

The second-highest scorer in the Ninth World District is just a genius who has just stepped into the threshold of the Laws. In his eyes, he is no different from others.

They are all beings that can be crushed at a glance.

"It's over. I have three years now, and maybe I can take the opportunity to do something else."

I glanced down at the screen on my wrist.

Participant: Qin Ming (Qianwu Universe Kingdom)
Points: 6,237,320,000

Rank: 1
Qin Ming casually found a hilltop and sat down, lost in thought.

These past few days he has been on a killing spree, almost wiping out everyone in the entire world zone. He has also encountered several so-called 'ambushes', but they were clearly no match for him.

Below him, the second-place player in the Ninth World District only had a pitiful 800 million points, and the rest were even lower, making them seem particularly pathetic.

"With my strength, the only place where I can truly demonstrate my power in the Genius Battle is the last Trial Tower! The others, including Bolan, are no match for me."

Perhaps Luo Feng can also defeat Bolan.

Thinking of how Bolan performed in the last trial tower in the original timeline, Qin Ming thought to himself.

"After the Genius Battle, one can break through to the Universe Level and enter Chaos City to cultivate for thirty years."

The Mountain Giant clone should also be brought along.

These thirty years should be used to prepare resources for spiritual practice.

The human form itself is fine, but the mountain giants need to devour massive amounts of precious metals and minerals to increase their strength and life level.

"Including the weapons and armor of the mountain giants, at least one set of divine weapons is needed to meet the requirements."

"Yes, we also need to prepare a million corpses of peak world lords. That way, once we enter the mission world, we can rely on the Zerg Queen 'Irina' to plunder its resources."

Qin Ming is currently very short of money!

Moreover, all these resources must be prepared before entering Chaos City.

Universe-level geniuses can only train within the many secret realms prepared by the Virtual Universe Company and cannot go out.

Only when one breaks through to the Domain Lord level can one release their abilities externally.

The training missions at the Virtual Universe Company are quite different from those in the Qianwu Secret Realm. Those are real treasure troves, with hidden inheritances and treasures behind each mission.

For example, the Blood Crystal of the Blood World, or the inheritance of the Ancestral God Cult general in the Demon Mountain quest.

Qin Ming had no intention of letting these things go.

Within the bounds of the rules, he will plunder resources to the greatest extent possible.

"Fortunately, I happen to know someone who has the resources I need! And I am now strong enough to acquire them."

A smile appeared on Qin Ming's lips.

(End of this chapter)