Devouring Stars, becoming Luo Feng's golden finger

"Good, good! I didn't expect to have this surprise while hosting the genius battle this time."

The purple-scaled man, 'Nine Swords Venerable,' laughed heartily, and then his figure instantly disappeared.

Inside the central restaurant of the virtual world created specifically for the genius battle.

The atmosphere among the thousand or so Marquis-level immortal leaders was silent for a short while before it became lively again.

"Thirteen, congratulations, congratulations." An immortal with gray dragon scales resembling dragon horns congratulated Thirteen with envy.

Among the other immortals, those who had a better relationship with Thirteen also offered their congratulations.

Thirteen's cold, death god-like face, after these days of 'melting,' and Luo Feng's amazing outburst at the last moment, couldn't stop smiling.

"Haha, I didn't expect that little guy Luo Feng would suddenly explode with such strength."

"Luo Feng?" Some immortals were puzzled, but they quickly realized that this 'Huang' was probably just an alias.

No one cared about this, after all, it was just a name. The youngest of the immortal gods present had lived for millions of years. Who hadn't used other names while wandering the universe?

Whoosh!

A figure in ordinary clothes and of unremarkable stature appeared in the restaurant.

The immortals noticed the arrival and stood up one after another, bowing respectfully, "Venerable."

"You may dispense with the formalities." Nine Swords Venerable, who already loved to laugh, looked radiant at this moment, smiling and telling the group of immortals to rise.

"Did the Venerable come for that 'Huang'?" An immortal asked curiously.

"That's right, I came for him." Nine Swords Venerable smiled slightly, his eyes looking through the restaurant and towards the huge square below, accurately locating Luo Feng's figure, a trace of gentleness flashing in his eyes.

"The standards set by these seven trial towers offer almost no hope for the little guys to pass. But throughout endless years, there have always been some heaven-defying geniuses who broke this standard. Haha, I didn't expect my luck to be so good this time, Nine Swords."

Compared to most other universe venerables, Nine Swords Venerable's personality was relatively more approachable, without such a great air, which was also related to the fact that he had not broken through to become a universe venerable for a long time.

Hundreds of thousands of epochs... one epoch is 10,081 years, which is billions of years ago. Nine Swords Venerable was only at the Star level at that time, and he also participated in the genius battle, eventually winning first place in that session.

The talent shown by Nine Swords Venerable at that time was not inferior to that of Bolan today, and he was also a genius of ten thousand epoch level.

However...

"This little guy Luo Feng has much stronger talent than I did back then. According to the Virtual Universe Company's evaluation, he is estimated to be rated as a peerless genius who appears once every hundred thousand or even hundreds of thousands of epochs," Nine Swords Venerable thought to himself. After Luo Feng revealed his talent, he checked all of his information and learned Luo Feng's real name.

The difficulty of the seven trial towers is not much different from that of Tongtian Mountain, and the standards for passing are very perverted and exaggerated.

However, the implied value represented by the two is very different, and there are also different levels of Tongtian Mountain.

First of all, there are three Tongtian Mountains in total, from weak to strong, divided into Heaven and Earth Tongtian Mountain, Primordial Tongtian Mountain, and Original Tongtian Mountain. If a member of the Doomsday Secret Realm passes the 'Heaven and Earth Tongtian Mountain', they can directly advance to the Heaven and Earth Secret Realm, and so on for the other two Tongtian Mountains. But being able to pass the Tongtian Mountain essentially means that their strength has far exceeded the secret realm they are in, so the Tongtian Mountain is more meaningful in setting up a 'benchmark' for geniuses, rather than actually letting them break through.

Secondly, according to different strengths, Tongtian Mountain is also divided into 'Universe Level Tongtian Mountain', 'Domain Lord Level Tongtian Mountain', and 'World Lord Level Tongtian Mountain'.

And the one with the highest difficulty and implied value is undoubtedly—'World Lord Level Original Tongtian Mountain'!

Those who can pass are almost all monstrous freaks who appear once every tens of millions of epochs.

"If Luo Feng can maintain this talent at the Universe level, Domain Lord level, and World Lord level, it will not be difficult to become a King in the future, and there is even a chance to become a Universe Venerable," Nine Swords Venerable thought to himself.

Yes, only a chance.

Because talent is not absolute. Throughout the endless years of the human race, there have been 'geniuses who appear once every tens of millions of epochs' who have been trapped in immortality for a long time due to setbacks or other reasons, and their potential has been exhausted.

In addition, there are also human race geniuses who suddenly fell and died completely on the road to growth, such as Kedi, a monster-level genius who was rated as appearing once every hundreds of millions of epochs, who possessed strength comparable to a King at the peak of the World Lord level, and even had a record of killing a Marquis immortal.

Kedi died at the peak of the World Lord level due to alien schemes, and even his teacher, City Lord Chaos, could not revive him.

Otherwise, after accumulating for countless years, wouldn't each Universe Venerable have thousands or tens of thousands of personal disciples?

That way, the treasures and cultivation resources given would make the Universe Venerables feel heartache.

...Thirteen noticed the affection that Nine Swords Venerable showed for Luo Feng, and his heart skipped a beat. Could it be...

No, I have to inform the Lord of the Country.

Under the nose of Nine Swords Venerable, Thirteen secretly sent an email to the Lord of the Qianwu Country.

The content was roughly: Nine Swords Venerable showed his love for Luo Feng, and seemed to intend to take him as a disciple!

Less than a second after the email was sent, Nine Swords Venerable raised his eyebrows, and then his figure disappeared in the restaurant.

Virtual Universe, Qianwu Continent, inside a towering palace with the universe and stars as the background.

The figure of the purple-scaled man 'Nine Swords Venerable' appeared here, and he saw at a glance the giant sitting on the main seat above, wearing a star robe, with a smile on his lips.

"Qianwu, what do you want from me suddenly?"

"Haha, it's not a big deal. I heard that you, Nine Swords, are hosting this genius battle, so I asked what kind of dazzling geniuses have appeared in this genius battle," Qianwu said with a light smile.

Nine Swords Venerable gave Qianwu a strange look. Although he was a 'junior,' they were both existences of the same level, so he naturally knew the 'specialness' of the Lord of the Qianwu Country.

Who doesn't know that he is heavily in debt and has been working for the race to cultivate geniuses for more than a billion epochs?

Among the Universe Venerables who care most about the genius battle, Qianwu is second, and no one dares to say first.

Does he need to explain?

It's as if Qianwu himself doesn't have the authority to watch the genius battle... Wait, that Luo Feng came from the Qianwu Universe Country, could it be...

Nine Swords Venerable felt a little bad in his heart, looked at the Lord of the Qianwu Country, and wanted to see what the other party wanted to do, and replied with a smile, "There are two, one is called Bolan, his spatial talent is okay, he can use nearly a thousand spatial illusions at the Star level, and the other is called Luo Feng...

He has a deep understanding of the Law of Gold, and his understanding of the Law of Space is also very powerful, reaching hundreds of spatial illusions. Also, this little guy can actually create a Law of Gold secret technique with such a high degree of perfection. For his age... it is very rare. The other one is called Rong Jun, a genius who can impact the top ten. Although he also created a secret technique combining earth and space, its perfection is very ordinary, not comparable to Luo Feng's."

Luo Feng's talent is reflected in all aspects. In a single aspect, such as understanding of the Law of Space, he is still quite a bit worse than Bolan.

However, his understanding of the Law of Gold is extremely deep, completely comparable to, or even surpassing, the Law of Space. In addition, his combat awareness is also excellent, and he is extremely calm and focused during combat.

He is strong in spiritual mind power, and even stronger in close combat.

His will is also not bad.

At least at the Star level, he is almost perfect, and even Nine Swords Venerable can't find too many faults.

"Haha." When the Lord of the Qianwu Country heard Nine Swords Venerable praise his disciple so much, he couldn't help but show a proud smile. He said leisurely,

"Although my disciple's talent is okay, he is only at the Star level now, and it is difficult to say what his future achievements will be."

Disciple?

Nine Swords Venerable's eyelids twitched, and he cursed the old ghost Qianwu in his heart. Sure enough, he said why this old guy suddenly contacted him. The two of them don't usually interact much.

However, Nine Swords Venerable was also very surprised, because the Lord of the Qianwu Country had not accepted a disciple for a long, long time. Moreover, why hasn't the news of accepting Luo Feng as a disciple spread?

The matter of a Universe Venerable accepting a disciple is much more important than the genius battle that is held every five thousand years, and it can be regarded as a grand event in the human race. Even if other Universe Venerables are not invited to hold a disciple acceptance ceremony, at least the other Universe Venerables will be informed.

The underlying meaning is: This is my disciple, you let your subordinates not commit taboos, and if there is a conflict, so as not to make everyone's faces look bad, or even create hatred.

The Lord of the Qianwu Country saw Nine Swords Venerable's meaning at a glance, so he explained,

"Luo Feng is only my nominal disciple now. It will not be too late to accept him as a personal disciple when he passes my assessment, so I have not notified you with great fanfare."

As for what assessment? The Lord of the Qianwu Country actually didn't think it through himself, and didn't tell his disciple Luo Feng... In short, it was waiting for Luo Feng to make him feel very satisfied, and when he was ready to give the treasures to be bestowed...

Thinking of the treasures to be bestowed, the Lord of the Qianwu Country felt a little headache.

With his identity, the treasures bestowed on his personal disciples must be at least Heavy Treasure level, and they can't be too bad. If they are too bad, it will be a disgrace to his Universe Venerable's face.

The most ordinary attack-type Heavy Treasure can be exchanged for 0.5 to 1.5 Heavy Treasure points by offering it to the race. If it is exchanged from the race, the price will be even more expensive.

Some of the most top-level Heavy Treasures and set Heavy Treasures can even be worth several Supreme Treasure points, and 1 Supreme Treasure point can be exchanged for 3000 to 4000 Heavy Treasure points in the human race, which means that the most top-level Heavy Treasure can even be worth ten to twenty thousand Heavy Treasure points.

This level of Heavy Treasure is generally used by Universe Venerables, and even many domain-type and palace-type Heavy Treasures used by Universe Overlords are only top-level Heavy Treasure level, not reaching the Supreme Treasure level.

And the Lord of the Qianwu Country... he himself is a Universe High Venerable, and also a very ancient Universe Venerable. Normally speaking, it would not be an exaggeration to have one or two ordinary Supreme Treasures, but after three falls, let alone Supreme Treasures, even ordinary top-level Heavy Treasures worth two to three thousand Heavy Treasure points are difficult for him to take out.

Because once Qianwu accumulates some wealth, or accidentally obtains a Heavy Treasure, he will pay off his debts first.

Priority is given to repaying friends, and then the race.

After repaying for so many years, the Lord of the Qianwu Country still owes about 1.6 Supreme Treasure points to six friends, and 2.2 Supreme Treasure points to the race, a total of 3.8 Supreme Treasure points, equivalent to the wealth of a normal Universe Overlord.

"Difficult, difficult, difficult!" The Lord of the Qianwu Country was exhausted.

He even muttered in his heart, this Nine Swords Venerable seems to have a little interest in Luo Feng, why not 'sell' Luo Feng out and exchange for a Heavy Treasure?

Of course, this idea only flashed through Qianwu's mind. He didn't have the face to that extent. If this kind of thing were to spread, how would Qianwu see people?

He is so poor that only face and dignity are left. This is the bottom line, and it must not be lost.

"...I see." After Nine Swords Venerable heard the explanation from the Lord of the Qianwu Country, he felt a little regret in his heart, but this emotion came and went quickly. He said with a smile,

"Although this Luo Feng has become your nominal disciple, Qianwu, after all, he is a genius discovered when I hosted the genius battle, so he can also be considered to be from my 'Nine Swords' lineage. You can't deny this."

"Naturally." The Lord of the Qianwu Country also smiled. He understood what Nine Swords Venerable meant. This was the old tradition of the genius battle, but he didn't care, after all, the master-disciple relationship was the closest, and everything else had to stand aside.

The two super existences in the universe talked and laughed, and outside, the news that Luo Feng had passed the seven trial towers had almost spread throughout the high-level management of the Virtual Universe Company.

Many immortal powerhouses were amazed that the quality of this genius battle was particularly high, and two peerless geniuses had emerged, one of whom was even more monstrous.

Some Universe Venerables and Country Lords also cast their gazes slightly, but most of them had no fluctuations in their hearts. These eternal and immortal super existences had seen too many geniuses and monsters, most of whom had fallen before immortality or returned to mediocrity, so there was nothing to care about.

Individual weaker and less established Universe Venerables had a little thought about taking Luo Feng as a disciple or nominal disciple, but after contacting Nine Swords Venerable, they were informed by Nine Swords Venerable that Luo Feng had been accepted as a nominal disciple by the Lord of the Qianwu Country, and they also gave up this idea.

After passing the trial tower, Luo Feng continued to retreat and cultivate, waiting for everyone to be eliminated from the trial tower, and then to carry out the final arena battle.

Time passed, and half a year later, as the last genius who was stuck in time was unwillingly eliminated from the trial tower, the final stage of the genius battle also arrived.