Swallowing the Stars: Cultivate to Become Stronger.

Chapter 101 Luo Feng: My inner universe is burning!

Congratulations everyone!

Suddenly, a faint voice rang out, reaching the ears of the 1000 geniuses below who had secured core memberships in the Virtual Universe Company. The figure of the Nine Swords Venerable appeared before them, his gaze calm, and he said, "You are the most outstanding geniuses of this year's Genius Battle, the most outstanding talents of the entire human race. The company will dedicate its full efforts to nurturing you!"

"However, competition will never cease in the universe!"

"The company cannot provide you with the same treatment and training resources. If you want better training and better resources, you need to perform well and compete!"

"The strong will always be strong! The better your performance, the more resources the company will allocate to you!"

The Nine Swords Venerable smiled and said, "Among the 1000 people present, those ranked 101st to 1000th will receive a reward of 10 Primordial Chaos Units, qualifying them to enter the Initial Universe for comprehension and access the core layer, the 'Apocalyptic Secret Realm'!"

"Rankings 11th to 100th will receive a bonus of 100 Primordial Units, qualifying them for initial universe comprehension and allowing them to join the core layer of my virtual universe company, 'Heaven and Earth Secret Realm'!"

"Third to tenth place winners will receive a prize of 1000 Primordial Units, entry into the Initial Universe for enlightenment, and the opportunity to join the core layer of my Virtual Universe Company, the 'Primordial Secret Realm'!"

"The first and second place winners will receive a prize of 10,000 Primordial Units, qualifying them to enter the Initial Universe for enlightenment and join the core layer of my Virtual Universe Company, the 'Primordial Secret Realm'!"

At this point, the Nine Swords Venerable paused for a moment.

Everyone present instinctively looked at Luo Shen and Bo Lan in the crowd.

Many well-informed geniuses are well aware of this.

In each edition of the Genius Battle, the Virtual Universe Company's Original Secret Realm would only accept one member. However, this year, the rules were suddenly changed to accept two members, which was clearly a change made for these two individuals.

After all, everyone knows that.

These two are on a completely different level from the others. Whether it is Bolan who broke into the seventh trial tower or Luo Shen who cleared all seven trial towers, they are far beyond what the others can reach!

The Nine Swords Master continued, "The Rules of the Final Battle."

"Buzz~"

The wristwatches of all 1000 geniuses present vibrated simultaneously as they all looked at their wrist screens, at the battle rules that had just been transmitted to them—

"The 900 geniuses who finally obtained the spots will be selected based on their performance in the trial space and the three rounds of elimination battles. The top 100 will then compete one-on-one against the top 100 in the trial space, for a total of 200 people!"

The winner will be qualified to enter the "Heaven and Earth Secret Realm", while the rest will enter the Doomsday Secret Realm!

Of the 100 winners, the top 20 will be selected to compete in one-on-one battles, and the top ten will be determined. The top ten will be qualified to enter the Primordial Secret Realm!

The top two finishers from the final selection will enter the Primal Secret Realm!

Many people were stunned when they saw this rule.

Choose the best option!?

That means that the vast majority of them will not even be qualified to fight and will be directly eliminated and sent to the apocalyptic secret realm. Even if they are lucky enough to participate in the battle, they will not be able to participate in the subsequent battles if they perform poorly.

"How could this happen!"

"How come we don't even have the right to fight? I refuse to accept this!"

"We refuse to accept this! Venerable One, at least give us one chance to fight! We're not even given a chance to fight! We're not reconciled!"

Many geniuses shouted out.

In particular, one of the men, a lean, three-eyed man who was over five meters tall, craned his neck and shouted loudly, hoping to persuade the Virtual Universe Company to "change its mind" and give them a chance to fight against Luo Shen and the others.

However, the Nine Swords Venerable's aura swept across the crowd, forcing all the noisy geniuses to kneel down.

"If you have any objections to the final battle rules of the Virtual Universe System, you may choose not to join my Virtual Universe Company. My Virtual Universe Company will not force anyone to participate!"

They had absolutely no intention of giving them any face.

For Virtual Universe Company, so-called geniuses are nothing to mention, because they recruit a batch of geniuses every ten thousand years, plus geniuses recruited through other channels, making the number countless.

Even with so many geniuses, very few of them actually manage to grow into successful individuals!

Even a super genius like Luo Shen, who appears only once every million years, could perish midway through his journey. Let alone ordinary geniuses with less talent than him, they wouldn't care at all if they didn't want to join.

Seeing that all the noisy geniuses had fallen silent.

The Nine Swords Venerable immediately waved his sleeve, and 100 huge arenas appeared directly in the central square. Each arena was covered by a black net above its edge, and Luo Shen, Bo Lan and other selected geniuses were directly teleported into the arena.

Luo Shen's first opponent was a minotaur named "Opatra," who was over three meters tall, wore animal armor, and wielded a giant axe.

"Luo Shen, I admit I'm no match for you, but I will not easily admit defeat in this battle!"

The minotaur brandished his gleaming battle axe.

"Enough with the nonsense, let's get straight to it!" Luo Shen didn't bother with pleasantries at all. If he couldn't win a battle of this level, he might as well just buy a block of tofu and smash his head against it!

"snort!"

The minotaur let out a low groan and transformed into a streak of earthy yellow light, flying towards Luo Shen.

"what?"

Seeing his opponent's figure split in two, creating two illusory bodies, Luo Shen couldn't help but let out a soft exclamation. He hadn't expected this minotaur to have such strength. His understanding of the fundamental laws of space was definitely among the top twenty in this year's genius battle!

If the opponent were someone else, instead of him, he might actually have had a chance to break into the secret realm of heaven and earth.

Unfortunately, this year's talent competition is full of stars.

Many people possess the strength to rank first in previous years, such as Luo Feng, Rong Jun, and Gu Siluo. However, this year, Bo Lan emerged first, and then someone even more monstrous like himself appeared, meaning that these people are destined to compete only for the Primordial Secret Realm.

"drink!"

The minotaur's two illusory forms simultaneously raised their battle axes, the axe light directly blocking all of Luo Shen's paths.

In response, Luo Shen merely moved, instantly tracing a mysterious path, dodging directly from the intersecting axe lights of the two illusory figures. The battle blade in his hand instantly shone, transforming into a fiery red light.

The minotaur Opatira felt a sudden flash of light before his eyes, and then he was plunged into endless darkness.

Luo Shen wins!

One-on-one combat in the ring posed no challenge for Luo Shen.

After all, apart from Bolan, no one else, including the greatly strengthened Luo Feng, has the strength to fight him, at least not in the short term.

Luo Shen turned his gaze to a fighting ring not far away.

That was the arena where Luo Feng was.

At this moment, he was fighting against his opponent, Utvisk. As the third-ranked player in the universe and having mastered the "Nine-Line Flow" combat technique, Luo Feng's control over combat had reached a level of perfection.

After only three to five rounds of fighting, he had already defeated his opponent!

However, Luo Feng was clearly not satisfied with such an opponent, especially after learning that Luo Shen had cleared all seven trial towers, his fighting spirit had risen infinitely.

"If I can't beat Ah Shen, and I can't beat Bo Lan, then surely I can beat the rest of you?"

Luo Feng silently made a decision in his heart.

Defeat everyone except Luo Shen and Bo Lan, and become the strongest under them!

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Ugh, my computer broke down today. It's so frustrating! I spent half the day trying to fix it, and I was supposed to be able to update earlier.

There will be another update later.

P.S.: I'll update another chapter if I can make it in time; otherwise, I'll update it early tomorrow morning. Over!

(End of this chapter)