Swallow the starry sky, grind to become the strongest in the universe

Chapter 49 The Last Three

"Yu Duan has made it into the fourth trial tower! His points are increasing fast!"

"Koti has caught up too, these two are neck and neck in points!"

"These two little guys are not only incredibly skilled in the laws of nature, but they're also terrifyingly young!"

In the plaza rest area, the main focus of the immortals was still on Yu Duan and Ke Di.

As for Aarons, who ranked the highest, he was originally a mentalist and gained a considerable advantage during the trial tower challenge. Moreover, he was older and his temperament was probably not very good, so he didn't receive much attention.

"One has cultivated for over thirty years, and the other for over sixty years. Their mastery of the laws is unbelievable."

An immortal team leader from the Qianwu Universe Kingdom sighed, "When will our Universe Kingdom be able to produce a genius of this caliber?"

However, this immortal also revealed a lot of information.

That is, Kodi is older than Yu Duan and has been cultivating for a longer time. For the first few decades, he was just an ordinary star-level cultivator. It was only after the Genius Battle started more than three years ago that he became a super dark horse.

……

The fourth trial tower, the fifth floor.

The black and white rainbow light refracted in mid-air, and Yu Duan's flight trajectory seemed to defy the laws of physics, shuttling through the gaps of countless laser beams and lasers with incredible agility and instantaneous sharp angle turns.

call out!call out!call out!
On the large mechanical alloy base, there are hundreds of humanoid mechanical puppets that are over 8 meters tall, each covered with various technological creations.

It has laser cannons, railguns, and even release ports for miniature flying mechanical bombs; this is the most insidious part.

"The difficulty of this level is such that it is estimated that no more than 10,000 people can pass it."

Yu Duan's figure traced an exquisite arc. If a powerful expert who had mastered the laws of time were watching, they would be able to perceive that Yu Duan's movement trajectory and the flickering of time fluctuations were perfectly matched.

Of course, this perfect match is only relative; you can't compare it to those who are granted titles of nobility or kingship.

However, compared to the vast majority of realm lords who master time-based movement techniques, the level of this movement technique is already ridiculously high.

"Shh!"

Suddenly, an extremely dazzling white light appeared on the long sword held in Yu Duan's hand.

Countless silver and white law patterns condensed on the translucent sword body, instantly forming a white pointed cone.

The entire process took less than a hundredth of a second. Suddenly, the white cone swelled up, as if it had transformed into a laser beam, piercing through the body of a mechanical puppet at an extremely high speed.

In the next instant, the white spike that had pierced out and stretched for tens of kilometers suddenly transformed into a dark stream of light, and then completely disappeared into space and time, becoming an invisible and deadly blade.

"Shh! Shh! Shh..."

The invisible blade still maintained a length of tens of kilometers, its power reduced by an unknown number of times, but it still sliced ​​through the bodies of mechanical puppets in the blink of an eye.

A moment later, as the last mechanical puppet was shredded by Yu Duan, Yu Duan's figure was also teleported to the sixth floor.

The opponent on the sixth floor is Tianlang, one of the eighteen royal families of the demon race!
As the royal family of the demon race, the Sirius clan is born with a genetic level six times that of ordinary life forms, and can reach the level of a domain lord upon adulthood, second only to the pinnacle bloodline of the universe.

However, the fourth trial tower, Sirius, was of average strength and posed no challenge to Duan.

After successfully passing the first level, the seventh level, the Zerg Mother Nest, will begin.

In previous Genius Battle Trial Tower stages, the opponents on the fifth and seventh floors will remain unchanged; only the opponents on the other floors will be adjusted.

To some extent, the army-based combat strategies of the Machine Race and the Zerg are not afraid of analysis and countermeasures, at least at the stellar level.

……

As many contestants of the Genius Battle progressed through the challenges, the promotional video for the Genius Battle was finally produced.

Among all 1008 great cosmic nations, the Genius Battle is undoubtedly the hottest news and the most talked-about topic right now.

I wonder how many people are paying attention to information about the Genius Battle.

However, the trial tower challenge phase was not broadcast live. Only the 1008 immortal gods leading their respective cosmic nations were able to watch the live stream.

As for ordinary citizens of the universe, they can only watch promotional videos, documentaries, and the constantly changing points leaderboard.

In the virtual universe, on the streets of a bustling city on the Northern Ming Continent.

The young couple from two large families were taking a walk when the content playing on the large screen by the street suddenly changed to a promotional video of geniuses from the Northern Miasma Universe Kingdom overcoming challenges.

"Look, it's 'God of Light' Yu Duan, he's so handsome!" The girl stared intently at Yu Duan's face.

The boy next to him curled his lip; if Yu Duan weren't his idol, he would have said a few more things to criticize him.

"What kind of monster is this? I've never seen one before." The girl looked curiously at the bizarre giant bird on the screen that had been beheaded by Yu Duan with a single sword strike, and asked the boy next to her in confusion.

"The monster on the fourth floor of the Trial Tower is called the 'Azure Scaled Eagle'."

Seven virtual screens were projected onto the boy's right-hand computer, showing the opponents on each of the seven levels of the trial tower.

The first level has 1 Black-Scaled Mad Bulls, a ferocious beast devoid of intelligence.

The second level contains 1 Rock-Armored Crocodiles, a common race of demons, and their numbers are numerous.

The third layer consists of 1 vine warriors, a powerful plant life form.

The fourth layer is the Azure-scaled Eagle, a strange, cosmic flying life form.

As for the mechanical puppets, the demon wolves, and the insectoid mother nest on the last three floors, there is no detailed description.

At this moment, the number of related discussions on various platforms of the virtual universe network is increasing exponentially.

"They're too strong! Over a thousand Tree Vine Clan warriors, their vine attacks are extremely unpredictable, and they can't do anything to Yu Duan!"

"The God of Light is the ruler of light!"

"Aaaaaah, why isn't the God of Light in first place? How come Aarons has a slightly higher score than my God of Light?"

"And this Koti, his points are only a little bit lower than my brother's."

Since the promotional video started airing, Yu Duan, Aarons, and Kodi have all gained a large number of fans.

Yu Duan has the most fans, and the reason is...

Yu Duan's strength is one aspect, but another is that Yu Duan's appearance is more universal, while Aarons and Kodi have some distinctive features. People who like them will like them a lot, but people who don't like them will find them unacceptable.

The most active young people online are like this: 99% are obsessed with looks.

Time keeps passing.

As the difficulty of the Trial Tower increases, more and more geniuses are quickly eliminated.

In the end, only three people remained in the entire Trial Tower.

Those were Yu Duan, Kodi, and Aarons. As for the others, they had all been kicked out of the Trial Tower, and their scores were now fixed.

Although the Trial Tower is not completely over yet, the leaderboard has already been released, and only the rankings of Yu Duan and the other two are still subject to change.

Among the top ten on the leaderboard, only three are martial artists, including Yu Duan and Ke Di; the rest are all mentalists.

"Currently, Aarons, who is ranked first on the leaderboard, is attempting to conquer the sixth trial tower, the seventh floor!"

"The difficulty of the seven trial towers increases progressively!"

"The geniuses who can pass the seventh level of the fourth trial tower have all crossed the threshold of the fundamental laws."

"As for the fifth seventh level, it requires extremely high attainment in the higher laws, such as Koti and Aarons, who can cast at least nine illusions."

"As for the sixth and seventh levels, no one has tried to pass through them for many years, but whether it is Aarons, Yu Duan, or Kodi, they all have a chance to pass through this level."

The leaders of the various cosmic nations were also explaining to the young people they were leading just how difficult the seventh level of the different trial towers was.

In the rest area of ​​the Southern Fox Universe Kingdom, a young genius looked curiously at his team leader, Immortal.

"My lord, what is the difficulty level of the seventh floor of the seventh trial tower?"

The immortal leader shook his head: "I don't know either. The highest I've ever seen someone reach was over a thousand epochs ago, when a super genius made it to the fifth level of the seventh trial tower."

"Now, that super genius has become a super existence in the Giant Axe Arena, as powerful as the Lord of the Universe, and is known as 'Erosion Fire'!"

"As for the final level of the seventh trial tower, perhaps only the true top executives of the Virtual Universe Company know exactly how difficult it is."

Just as this immortal leader of the Southern Fox Universe Kingdom was giving a science popularization speech.

Aarons successfully passed the final level of the sixth trial tower.

The third level of the Divine Weapon, the minor completion of the Sword Domain, after the four golden swords merged, the Sword Domain seemed to transform into a real meat grinder.

They finally succeeded in killing the Queen in the center of the Zerg hive and cleared the sixth trial tower.

At this moment, everyone was in an uproar, eagerly anticipating Aarons' next move.

The seventh trial tower, the first floor!
As soon as Aarons's figure appeared, the figures of tens of thousands of black behemoths materialized.

"Boom!"

An earth-shattering aura surged forth, and the nine realms connected into one, with rich fluctuations of primordial laws intertwining, transforming into a true world-destroying torrent.

"My God, I feel like I can't even beat a Blackscale Mad Bull!"

"Such powerful fluctuations of primordial laws! How could a mindless ferocious beast possess such power?"

"A virtual universe, you know? Just think about it, there's nothing that can't be created!"

"Each of these random individuals seems to be close to the top 100 geniuses in the entire universe. I wonder if Aarons can break through..."

Before the man could speak, he saw Aarons's figure completely swallowed up by the black raging tide.

He had just killed 17 black behemoths when he reached the third minor level of the Divine Weapon, but then he failed.

"Shh!"

In the center of the square, a streak of light flashed, and Aarons, carrying a dark golden divine weapon, was teleported out.

However, Aarons' first reaction was to turn his head and look at the live broadcast screen.

At this moment, Yu Duan, as a martial artist, was only slightly slower than him in breaking through the barrier.

On the screen, Yu Duan had just finished killing the 10 demon wolves of the sixth level of the sixth trial tower and arrived at the last level of the sixth trial tower.

"As a martial artist, his soul defense is much weaker than that of a mentalist of the same level. Can he withstand the most dangerous first wave of illusion attacks?"

Aarons stared at the screen, at Yu Duan, who had just appeared on the seventh floor.

……

"call!"

The wind howled, whipping up sandstorms that raged across the vast desert.

In the center of the desert, a huge dark golden sphere floats in mid-air, from which countless pale green poisonous mists and venoms spread.

The instant Yu Duan's figure appeared, an extremely piercing shriek, accompanied by a terrifying illusion, erupted.

"what--!!"

The sound waves weren't fast, but the mental attack they contained shot straight at the target with terrifying speed.

This is the situation that did not occur on the seventh floor of the previous five trial towers, and it is also the most dangerous situation.

Even Aarons, a mentalist who had cultivated extremely advanced soul and mental defense techniques, was almost instantly killed.

But then, something shocking happened.

Yu Duan completely ignored the sudden illusion attack, and his white robe instantly transformed into black and white streams of light.

The crystal-clear Time Sword was pushed to its limit at this moment, with countless black and white halos rippling out like flowing nebulae, and then suddenly condensing into a giant black and white sword.

"My God, Aarons was stunned for almost a tenth of a second just now!"

"Yu Duan was completely unaffected and was even able to unleash his peak performance instantly!"

Just how strong is Yu Duan's will?

　I'm having a hypoglycemic episode; my hands are shaking as I type, it's so hard to stay focused.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)