Devour: Emperor Yan

"I feel like I'm about to burst into flames!" Thor said, his breathing a little heavy.

"A grand event for all humanity in the universe, a gathering of countless celestial geniuses, happening only once every ten thousand years!" Luo Feng was also shocked.

"Such a grand event is truly unimaginable..." Hong murmured, touching the goosebumps rising on the back of his hand.

Seeing the three people's excitement and longing, Babata didn't want to dampen their enthusiasm, but in the end, he couldn't help but pour cold water on them.

"Wake up, you three! Stop dreaming. This grand event is destined to have nothing to do with you."

Babata shook his head and sighed with some regret, "It's not that I look down on you, but you were just born too late. The three of you combined are only a little over a hundred years old..."

"And the opponents you will face are mostly hundreds, or even thousands of years old!"

"The battle of geniuses will be in eight to ten years at most. The time left for the three of you is far too short."

"If you had been born a few hundred years earlier, like Lin Kun, perhaps you would have had a sliver of a chance..."

"But now, all I can say is that you should just focus on participating and not have any unrealistic expectations."

"First, focus on cultivation and reach the cosmic level. Then wait... wait for the cosmic-level powerhouse battle held at the Giant Axe Arena five thousand years from now!"

"That might be the time when the three of you truly shine."

......

That's what I meant.

"..." This silenced Luo Feng and the other two.

Participation is the most important thing?

Although Babata's words were harsh, they were true.

The three of them have only been in space for a few years; they are far too young.

Even the older Hong and Lei Shen are only in their fifties or sixties, not even a hundred years old.

Luo Feng was only in his early twenties.

They are currently only at the first or second level of the Eternal Star Realm.

And the battle of geniuses will begin in a few years.

Within ten or eight years at most?

This amount of time will pass in the blink of an eye.

......

"You three, don't listen to Babata's nonsense."

Lin Kun glanced at Babata, then smiled and said to the three silent Luo Feng, "Although time is indeed a bit tight, how can you win if you're already thinking there's no hope and that you'll lose before you even start?"

"Isn't there a saying in your hometown: 'The outcome is uncertain, and either you or I could be the dark horse'? I think that makes a lot of sense."

"There are some things in this world that we shouldn't jump to conclusions about too early."

"Just try your best, fight for it. Even if you fail in the end, it's okay, you can always try again!"

"If you don't even dare to think about it, then there is certainly no hope."

Upon hearing this, the eyes of Luo Feng and the other two lit up.

"Big brother is right, the outcome is still uncertain, and either you or I could be the dark horse!" Thor clenched his fist and shouted.

"That's right. How can you win if you don't even dare to think about it?" Hong nodded in agreement.

"Back then, we also felt hopeless and desperate when facing the Devouring Beast, but in the end, we were still the ones who won." Luo Feng took a deep breath and said in a deep voice.

"That's right. More than five years ago, during the Devouring Beasts disaster, we all felt desperate and powerless, thinking that our entire home planet was going to face mass extinction. But in that situation, we did not give up. Instead, we chose to fight desperately and fight. In the end, we were the ones who won!" Thor echoed.

The three looked at each other and smiled.

In that battle more than five years ago, they fought with the belief that they were certain of death, burning their souls, their lives, their domains, and everything else... In the end, they won.

Although there were sacrifices and the price was heavy, they dared to draw their swords and fight to the death.

They ultimately created a miracle.

Seeing this, Babata also fell silent.

Back then, when it saw the Golden Horned Beast cub, its first thought was that there was no hope, and it only thought about how to take Luo Feng away, abandon its home on Earth, and wander in the starry sky.

Indeed, there was no hope; it couldn't think of any way to help Luo Feng and his companions defeat the Golden Horned Beast.

We've tried all the methods we could think of.

There is really no way.

But Luo Feng and his group still refused to give up. Even though they knew there was no hope, they still fought desperately.

Finally, a miracle occurred: despite his belief that he was certain to die, Luo Feng won.

Moreover, he obtained an extraordinary opportunity, possessing the cub of the Golden Horned Beast. With normal growth, he will eventually become a peak Realm Lord.

"A Devouring Beast?" Lin Kun narrowed his eyes slightly.

Lin Kun strongly suspected that the egg of that golden-horned behemoth was the work of that old man, the Mountain-Sitting Guest.

Otherwise, this would be too much of a coincidence.

Is there even a one in a billion chance?

And it just so happened to land on Earth, and the timing was almost perfect.

When too many coincidences come together, they may no longer be coincidences.

......

After a moment of silence.

Babata nodded. "Perhaps you're right, and I've been too rational... Maybe only those who dare to dream and act have a chance to create miracles!"

"In that case, go all out and fight for it. Even if you lose in the end, at least you tried and won't have any regrets."

"Yes, even if we lose in the end, at least we tried our best and won't regret it!" Hong nodded with a smile.

"Haha, let's cheer each other on then." Luo Feng and Thor laughed heartily, their eyes filled with fighting spirit and determination.

"Then I'll be waiting to see your performance. I hope to see you at the All-Universe Finals."

Lin Kun smiled and held up a fist. "If I really meet you in the ring, I won't hold back. I'll do everything in my power to defeat you!"

"Haha, us too!" Luo Feng and the other two each raised a fist. "Win or lose, we must be fair and square; that's the greatest respect."

Bang!

Four fists collided.

The four men looked at each other, and a surge of pride welled up in their hearts.

......

With their four fists separated, Luo Feng and the other two began to inquire with great interest about the Genius Battle.

They had long since stopped taking the so-called trainee mercenary assessment seriously.

After all, compared to the battle of geniuses, this trainee mercenary assessment is far too childish in their eyes now.

Moreover, they are only missing a few Windstones. This assessment task is already in its later stages. All that's left is to wait another ten days or so until they have collected all the Windstones before leaving the Thunder World.

"Lin Kun, are you confident that you can enter the All-Universe Finals?" Babata asked Lin Kun with some curiosity.

"Of course."

Lin Kun nodded without hesitation, saying without a trace of modesty, "I have waited for this day for hundreds of years, and prepared for it for hundreds of years. I even paid a huge price to seize this body of the Yan God Clan..."

"If I've done all this and can't even make it to the finals of the entire universe, wouldn't that be a complete waste?"

"With your strength, entering the finals of the entire universe is indeed not difficult." Babata sat cross-legged on Luo Feng's shoulder, resting his chin on one hand, and nodded slightly.

"Based on past experience, most of those who make it to the finals have grasped a trace of the laws. Of course, if the level of a particular year is relatively low, or if the level of a certain universe nation is relatively low, then those at the eighth or ninth level of the Domain are probably enough to enter the finals."

There are 1008 universe nations, and each universe nation has 1000 slots to participate in the finals.

Each session, and between each nation in the universe, will have varying levels of skill; they cannot all be at the same level.

However, these people are generally just there to make up the numbers, because if they want to compete for a spot in the top 1,000 overall rankings, they have virtually no hope without crossing the threshold of the rules.

"Lin Kun, if I'm not mistaken, you must have comprehended a trace of both the Law of Fire and the Law of Space?" Babata stared wide-eyed at Lin Kun with some anticipation.

Luo Feng and his two companions, who were listening quietly, along with Ao Gu and Tie Nanhe, the two slave bodyguards who had remained silent, all had their eyes fixed on Lin Kun.

In this regard.

"Hehe." Lin Kun chuckled, "Why don't you be a little bolder?"

"Be bolder, you dare to challenge me?!"

Upon hearing this, Babata could no longer sit still. She abruptly stood up, grabbed a strand of Luo Feng's hair with one small hand, and screamed in utter shock, her eyes blazing with fury: "Don't tell me you've already crossed the threshold of both of these laws!?"

"That's right." Lin Kun smiled smugly and nodded in agreement.

hiss~

Babata gasped deeply, staring at Lin Kun as if he were a monster, too shocked to speak for a long time.

After a long while, he muttered, "This is... too abnormal, too outrageous... You monster, freak, you're not even a thousand years old, are you? Can you really be a genius born in a remote place like the Black Dragon Mountain Star Region?"

"That's incredible!"