Swallowing the Stars: Starting with the Battle of Geniuses.

Chapter 55 The Final Simulation

As Berlan launched his massive purge of the Second World region, the punitive expedition team continued to move closer to Berlan's location.

Even as the procession moved, Hunzhen continued to meditate.

In the final moments before the operation was about to begin, he organized his many thoughts, his mind racing.

First, let's look at the damage-dealing methods he can currently employ.

The fire-based "Flowing Blade Like Fire" has been perfectly replaced by "World Destroyer Blade".

This sword technique manual contains only four moves.

The first move, Blazing Flame Slashes the Robe, is a technique primarily focused on defense, maneuvering, and continuous attacks. It doesn't quite fit with Hunzhen's fighting style, hence it's the lowest level.

The second move, "Fire Meteor Shatters Mountains and Rivers," is a powerful area-of-effect attack focused on explosive power and lethality.

The third move, "Purple Sun Cuts Through Dawn and Dusk," is the technique that Hunzhen uses most frequently in this scroll of sword techniques. It is the ultimate compression of the power of flames, less powerful than the second move, "Fire Meteor Shatters Mountains and Rivers," but the fastest, not even much slower than the wind-based sword technique "Ninefold Blazing Wind," which is even more adept at speed.

The fourth move, also the final move, shares the same name as the sword technique: the World-Destroying Heaven-Burning Blade. This is a secret technique for unleashing a domain burst, using primal force, soul, and body to unleash an extremely powerful attack. Unfortunately, Hunzhen's collection of secret manuals is incomplete; currently, the power of this move is only slightly stronger than the Fire Meteor Breaking Mountains and Rivers technique, but the energy consumption is dozens of times greater, making it only something to look at but not use.

To break through Berlan's defenses, only the second and third moves will be effective. As for the first move, due to the vast difference in strength between oneself and the opponent, even if one uses the defensive move "Blazing Blaze Robe," it will be instantly broken and one will die.

Following closely behind the "World-Destroying Heaven-Burning Blade" is the "Meteor Fire Divine Weapon," a divine weapon wielded by its user.

The secret technique for wielding the Meteor Fire Divine Weapon is beyond his current capabilities, but relying solely on his third-order cosmic-level consciousness strength and psychic power amplitude, its overall power far surpasses that of the "World-Destroying Heaven-Burning Blade".

However, through several meditations, Hunzhen had already reached a conclusion.

If you try to use the Meteorite Divine Weapon as your main weapon, you won't even last a few seconds, let alone break through its defenses. Once you unleash the Scorching Hell, you'll be instantly killed by Berlan.

Only by combining the techniques of a mentalist and a martial artist in close combat can one have a chance of winning.

Using the Meteorite Divine Weapon to create a scorching hell as a defensive barrier, he provoked close combat. He used the "Myriad Threads Flow" technique to achieve the four illusionary bodies and the Blazing Slash Robe, which was slightly less specialized than the other two moves, to get through the most difficult distance and invade within a hundred meters of Bolan's territory. Then he used the Purple Sun Cutting Dawn or the Fire Meteor Breaking Mountains and Rivers to deliver the final blow and cause damage!

Besides the two main damage dealers, there is actually another wind-based sword technique called "Ninefold Gale," which can barely be considered as having combat power.

only……

Since Hunzhen's current understanding of the Law of Wind is far behind his understanding of the Law of Fire, the boost to his strength is not as great as that of the Law of Space, which has not yet reached the threshold of the Law of Wind.

The only situation where it might be effective is when they break through Beran's defenses, but then don't even have time to use Ziyang to cut through the darkness and dawn to inflict damage.

It requires unleashing the seven fierce wind marks that Hunzhen can currently store, bringing a speed that surpasses Ziyang's cutting through dawn and dusk in an instant.

However, the situation where the difference is so small that a wind-based sword technique needs to be slightly faster to finish off the opponent is theoretically impossible.

If you use Ziyang's Divide of Dusk and Dawn to create a line of fire, there's practically no margin for error; it's basically game over.

Knowing yourself and the enemy is the only way to survive a hundred battles.

After reviewing his own combat strength, Hunzhen looked back at the information he had gathered about his teammates over the past half day.

Establishing authority and exchanging pleasantries are all for the purpose of facilitating the collection of this intelligence.

This is the only way to maximize the accuracy of mental simulation warfare.

Hunzhen began his first meditation.

Thousands surrounded Berlan, while the punitive expedition secretly observed them and finally found an opening to launch an attack.

The previous steps had become nearly identical after countless meditations, but things changed when the expeditionary force entered the scene.

The strength of the expeditionary force was far greater than Hunzhen had anticipated, which increased the chances of his plan succeeding.

The simulation went much more smoothly than any of the previous calculations.

Hunzhen blocked Bolan's first attack with his scorching hell and invaded Bolan's territory!

With the invasion of Hunzhen, the offensive of the punitive expedition suddenly intensified.

Berlan's first reaction was not to shrink the territory, but to continue the previous offensive.

Hunzhen was a level above the rest of the expedition team.

But in Bolan's eyes, Hunzhen was no different from the other three hundred or so people.

It is easy to shrink a territory but difficult to expand it. In a one-to-many situation, when facing an ordinary raider, it is only natural not to shrink the territory that has already been expanded.

Hunzhen used his first move to sever several strands of sword energy in succession, quickly closing in on Bolan within a hundred meters.

Bolan finally turned his firepower around, intending to kill Hunzhen as soon as possible.

Amidst the spatial turbulence, Hunzhen manifested four figures, launching attacks simultaneously from four directions!

Just like in countless simulations before, the space suddenly froze, revealing the true form, who died under a sword aura!

"call……"

Still not working?

Hunzhen's gaze dimmed slightly.

This is theoretically the best-case scenario, a simulated battle with the highest success rate after all the advantages have been factored in.

In reality, things rarely go so smoothly.

Even so, it still failed.

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"No, there's still hope. It's too early to give up until the moment of true failure!"

Hunzhen shook his head, his gaze sweeping over the fighting spirit of the expeditionary force, and the flames of war reignited in his eyes.

He suddenly raised his head and looked at the distant horizon.

A slight spatial ripple spread outwards.

Hunzhen suddenly spoke up: "Death is right there."

Suddenly, waves of spiritual energy rose up, and an invisible veil enveloped everyone.

This illusionary veil was created by nearly a hundred genius mentalists working together. Even Berlan, in the midst of a fierce battle, could not have detected it immediately.

"go ahead!"

Luo Yang gave a deep shout, holding his golden sword, and led the way at the front.

The assassin-like force, shrouded in an illusionary veil, advanced at high speed.

The fluctuations of the battle could be directly detected by Hunzhen, and the distance between the two sides was already very close.

And indeed, just three minutes later, they burst into the battlefield where Berlan and the other contestants were fighting.

When they saw many geniuses whose strength was not much weaker than theirs being killed like insects by Bolan with a casual swing of his sword, and the scene of countless contestants' corpses falling like a torrential downpour...

Even though they had taken psychological precautions, many people still changed their expressions on the spot.

Only one person...

The divine light in Hunzhen's eyes was more intense than ever before.

Just now, after witnessing Berlan's power with his own eyes and obtaining firsthand information, he used up his simulation attempts for the day without hesitation.

His defeat is still recorded in the qualifying record.

However, the narrative language is somewhat different from that of the past.

Just a hair's breadth away, you lamented your lack of skill, failing to inflict any damage on Berlan, thus ending your qualifying journey.

(End of this chapter)