Devouring the Stars: Soul Master

Chapter 168 Famous Throughout the Universe, Ranked Number One
The undisputed number one!

Qin Ming's scoring speed was incredibly fast; he could eliminate all opponents at an extremely rapid pace almost every time he entered a new level.

Even Berlan, who also erupted from the very beginning, was far inferior in this respect.

Although Berlan could kill an opponent with every sword strike, martial artists were clearly no match for illusionists and controllers in terms of large-scale slaughter.

Besides these two, Luo Feng is also a key subject of observation for many immortals.

However, Luo Feng's performance was somewhat unexpected.

This time, after clearing out most of the monsters, Luo Feng deliberately left a few alive, severely injuring them before closing his eyes to rest.

"What's going on with Prince Luo Feng? Why did he stop?"

"Is he deliberately stalling for time?"

A group of immortal powerhouses looked at Luo Feng on the screen with puzzled expressions.

The giant in the scale armor robe, 'Thirteen,' also frowned slightly. He had a general idea of ​​Qin Ming and Luo Feng's strength.

At this moment, the two represent the Qianwu Universe Kingdom and are the rulers of the Qianwu Kingdom!

Countless people are paying attention to their results.

For something that exists through the ages, dignity and face are of utmost importance.

However, his brows immediately relaxed.

Luo Feng's possession of the Golden Horned Beast was not a secret within the secret realm, since he was a Golden Horned Beast when he first entered!
In the final year of the finals, Luo Feng's strength improved remarkably rapidly!
The Golden Horned Beast possesses the ability to create clones!

Although it is unknown what kind of clone Luo Feng has created, this sudden increase in strength is very likely related to the clone.

At this moment, His Highness Luo Feng deliberately delayed.

Perhaps they just wanted to buy themselves more time to comprehend the fundamental laws of space.

You can stay on each floor for a maximum of 10 days!
Each trial tower takes 70 days. With Prince Luo Feng's strength, he should be able to pass the first six trial towers, which would take 420 days.

More than a year is enough for His Highness Luo Feng's strength to undergo another transformation.

"Hehe, walking fast doesn't necessarily mean going far! You'll see."

Realizing this, the scaled giant Immortal 'Thirteen' smiled.

For Prince Luo Feng to be able to disregard external pressures is clearly a sign that he is about to unleash his full potential.

While paying attention to Qin Ming and Luo Feng, the giant in the scale armor also took notice of Rong Jun.

On the live stream screen, a savage youth with bare feet and wild gait could be seen wielding a battle sword, slashing at a metal puppet warrior and cutting it into pieces.

A smile appeared on the giant's face as he donned the scale armor.

…………

The first trial tower, the seventh floor.

In the vast desert, on the green land in the very center of the desert, there is a huge sphere.

The sphere is about sixty meters in diameter. It has some bumps and dents on its surface and naturally emits some poisonous gas. There is even some venom flowing in its honeycomb-like structure.

"The First Seventh Layer: The Zerg Mother Nest"

Destroying the Zerg mother hive grants 10,000 points, allowing direct teleportation to the first level of the second trial tower.

Zerg Hive: In reality, even the weakest Zerg Hive is comparable to a World Lord, and many are even comparable to Immortals. The Zerg Hives in this Trial Tower are proportionally weaker to suit the trial participants.

Recommendation: Destroy the Zerg mother hive as soon as possible. The later you destroy it, the more numerous and stronger the Zerg will be spawned!

Looking at the mother nest in the distance, Qin Ming's expression was somewhat strange.

Zerg Mother Nest!

He was quite familiar with this thing.

Within the Myriad Soul Banner space, there was a Zerg Queen at the peak World Lord level.

Although Irina has perished and is merely a flesh and blood puppet, she is unable to breed Zerg warriors.

However, with the money he made from selling Locke's Divine Water, he has purchased the corpses of several peak world lord insectoid warriors in the virtual universe over the years.

Each time it's 1000 million!

After being refined into flesh and blood puppets, the number of peak world lord-level flesh and blood puppets within the Myriad Soul Banner space is astonishing!
Of course, limited by the monster souls within the Myriad Soul Banner, these flesh and blood puppets cannot fully unleash their power.

Even so, under the control of the Zerg Queen Irina, its power was enough to kill an ordinary immortal powerhouse.

The combined power of a million Zerg warriors is quite terrifying.

Looking at the Zerg mother hive, before it could spawn a large number of Zerg warriors, the Divine Suppression Weapon above flew out pieces of Star-Suppressing Stones, which condensed into nine Thousand-Jin Seals and completely shattered it.

Even the mother hive was shattered, and the life force of the Zerg queen vanished instantly.

After defeating all opponents on the seventh floor of the first trial tower, you will be automatically teleported to the second trial tower.

The opponent in the second trial tower is exactly the same as the one in the first trial tower.

The only difference is... his strength has skyrocketed!

……

The seven trial towers have the same goal and number; only their strength has changed.

The first level consists entirely of ferocious beasts called 'Blood-Haired Mammoths,' totaling 10000.

The second level contains 10000 monstrous 'Nine-Headed Pythons'. The difference between monstrous beasts and ferocious beasts is... their extremely high intelligence. Monsters like those on Earth are monstrous beasts.

The third layer consists of 1000 metallic lifeforms called 'Thor' race warriors'.

The fourth level contains 1000 strange cosmic creatures called "Flying Hou," which are among the most peculiar of the ferocious beasts.

The fifth level contains 100 mechanical golems!
The sixth level contains ten colossal star beasts, 'Azure'!
The seventh level contains one Zerg mother hive!
The same applies to all seven trial towers.

However, the strength of the target in each trial tower is increasing rapidly.

……

Qin Ming's sprint speed in the Trial Tower was too fast!
Even the Nine Swords Venerable, who was hosting the competition, turned his attention to Qin Ming.

Looking at Qin Ming, he couldn't help but smile, as if he were seeing his younger self.

A long time ago, he was the champion of that year's Genius Battle!

"Qin Ming? Let me see how far you can go. Although the ruler of Qianwu Kingdom has had bad luck, his strength is still very powerful."

The Nine Swords Venerable was also quite looking forward to it.

Under normal circumstances, if he presides over the Genius Battle, then the geniuses and strong individuals who emerge in the next Genius Battle will automatically join his faction.

Although it was impossible for him to take Qin Ming as his disciple, he was naturally happy to have a powerful subordinate.

At this moment, it wasn't just Nine Swords Venerable who was paying attention to Qin Ming.

Through the virtual universe, Qin Ming's displayed strength has already spread throughout the entire primordial universe!

At this moment, countless powerful beings came to know Qin Ming's name. Although the trial eliminations were not broadcast publicly, some of the battles of the outstanding geniuses were released through video clips.

For example, on the official website of Virtual Universe Company, there is a battle video of Qin Ming.

In the video, Qin Ming stands on the Shattered Star Shuttle, wields the Eight Desolations Halberd of the Mountain-Suppressing Army, and has the Universe-Suppressing Tower above his head, smashing mechanical puppets equipped with sophisticated weapons to pieces with overwhelming force.

Then, when entering the next level and facing 10 star beasts 'Cang', he simply glanced at his opponent and reaped the kill.

"A divine weapon! This is a divine weapon!"

"It turns out that Prince Qin Ming is following the path of earth and space laws, and his understanding of the laws is also astonishing. He is simply no match for him."

A fellow stellar-level mentalist, watching the video, couldn't help but exclaim in surprise.

The names of the Nine Controllers' Divine Weapons are extremely renowned throughout the universe.

This is a divine weapon that requires at least a basic understanding of the fundamental principles of the laws to activate!

In the Giant Axe Arena, a Stellar-level being able to control the first level is considered invincible at the Stellar level.

"His Highness Qin Ming is definitely number one!"

"Bolan, who came in second, was left far behind."

The citizens of the Qianwu Universe Kingdom were all incredibly excited.

Under such dazzling light, even Rong Jun, who was ranked 17th, was obscured.

"Where is Prince Luo Feng? Why can't I see his ranking?"

“Look at the leaderboard, his ranking has been falling, he’s always at the bottom.”

"How is this possible? His Highness Luo Feng's strength in the preliminaries was astonishing, and he was invincible in controlling the Divine Weapon."

Throughout the hundreds of millions of star systems in the entire Qianwu Universe Kingdom, countless people are discussing it.

Some are happy, some are sad.

Before the battle at the Trial Tower, everyone in the Qianwu Universe was eagerly anticipating the performance of the two princes.

Among them were many powerful individuals. After making inquiries, it was learned that Qin Ming and Luo Feng were absolutely dominant against everyone else within the Qianwu Secret Realm.

But at this moment, this situation has clearly made some people dissatisfied.

It's not just about simply supporting a particular person.

Rather, it's a grand competition involving the entire human race, so how could it be complete without betting, the oldest of industries?
Even in the Hongmeng Space, the strongest space for humanity in the virtual universe, the gambling industry exists!

Many people are betting on Luo Feng!

……

A virtual universe, with a central plaza surrounded by 1008 skyscrapers.

The 1008 great and immortal figures sat together, looking at the floating screens around them, and talking to each other.

"There are quite a few geniuses who hide their strength during the selection process within the universe kingdom."

A group of powerful immortals were commenting on some astonishingly talented individuals.

The top 100 in the trials will directly receive core positions in the Virtual Universe Company, which is why many hidden geniuses have emerged.

This surprised even these immortal beings.

"This Dreamwing Clan youth has some of the style of 'Lightsaber' Aichen; he's quite adept at dealing with group attacks."

"This illusionist is at a disadvantage. He can't unleash his full power when he encounters metallic lifeforms and mechanical puppets."

Some immortal warriors lamented the loss.

"This is just a trial; it doesn't matter if you fail. But if you have obvious weaknesses in actual combat, that would be fatal."

The Trial Tower contains metallic lifeforms and mechanical golems.

These are all immune to soul attacks, precisely to avoid this situation.

The scaled giant Immortal 'Thirteen' shook his head.

The main enemies of human powerhouses are other powerful races in the universe!
For example, the Mech race! Or the Zerg race!
These two groups consist of two types of beings: one is mechanical lifeforms, which are naturally immune to illusions.

Another one was born with ten thousand soul essences, possessing extremely powerful mental strength; each one was a master of the soul.

A mere illusionist is at a disadvantage in the universe.

“Thirteen, what you say makes sense. Your Highness Qin Ming is quite skilled at controlling the Divine Weapon.”

"The immortal in the black robe beside me said."

"Of course! You'll see His Highness Qin Ming's true strength soon; he hasn't even used his full power yet."

Thirteen laughed heartily; Qin Ming's performance had made him the star among the immortals of these 1008 cosmic kingdoms.

On the list of geniuses of the Qianwu Universe Kingdom next to him, Qin Ming's name was prominently ranked at the top.

"Qin Ming is ranked 1st, and Rong Jun is ranked 16th."

"It all depends on when His Highness Luo Feng will make his move."

The giant 'Thirteen' in the scale armor looked at Luo Feng, who was ranked last.

"Huh? Eliminated?"

As 'Thirteen' looked at the list, which now included two more geniuses, the word 'elimination' appeared in red universal script.

"'Hong' was also eliminated? Eliminated on the seventh floor of the third trial tower, not bad."

……

As time went by, figures moved from the Trial Tower to the central square.

At this time, there were already hundreds of thousands of eliminated geniuses in the central square.

Seven trial towers.

The later you go, the faster you get eliminated.

In the first and second trial towers, almost no one was eliminated.

However, starting from the first level of the three trial towers, a large number of geniuses were eliminated.

More than 90% of people were eliminated in the third trial tower!
At this moment, Qin Ming had already reached the seventh trial tower!
The Blood-haired Mammoth in the seventh Trial Tower has begun to experience a surge in strength.

Ten thousand blood-haired mammoths, each attack imbued with primordial laws.

This is a qualitative change!
Virtual Universe Corporation never intended for anyone to pass all the trial towers.

In the original timeline, even the genius 'Death God Berlan,' who was said to appear only once every tens of thousands of eras, stopped at the first floor of the seventh tower!
"Unfortunately, it's still not enough for me!"

The Illusionary Eyes lit up in Qin Ming's eyes.

　I'm begging for your monthly votes at midnight!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)