“Brother, don’t I know you already?” Thunder God laughed. “Do you remember during the Great Nirvana era, when both of us were young, facing one crisis after another, seemingly in desperate situations, yet you always managed to turn the impossible into the possible!”
“Don’t flatter me,” Hong replied.
“Unleash your power, brother. Let them see the combat skills of Earthlings,” Thunder God urged. Luo Feng also looked at Hong with anticipation.
Hong glanced at Thunder God, then turned his gaze toward Luo Feng.
“We’ve got no choice but to go all out,” Hong said with a slight smile.
…
The three representatives from the Black Dragon Mountain Empire passed the preliminary selection. However, during the arena melee battle, Nabini was defeated and eliminated! It must be known that this melee battle was broadcast live. Billions of people across the Black Dragon Mountain star region witnessed this battle. Who knows how many angrily smashed their wine bottles, and how many shouted in frustration and rage?
“That guy from the Proxima star sector was too underhanded—he actually ambushed Nabini!”
“That bastard!”
“Nabini’s loss was so unfair!”
“He should have advanced into the top ten thousand!”
“In today’s arena battle, our Black Dragon Mountain Empire still has ‘Hong.’ Hong will definitely win and advance into the top ten thousand of the Qianwu Cosmic Nation.”
“Brother, Hong barely passed the preliminary selection with the lowest ranking. It will be very difficult for him to survive in the arena. I think… Luo Feng has a better chance.”
“Luo Feng will definitely pass! As for Hong, he will pass too! Perhaps Hong deliberately held back his strength during the preliminary selection.”
…
In the virtual universe, in Battle Arena No. 10389.
Roughly three hours after watching Nabini’s arena melee battle, the 161st arena battle was about to begin in this No. 10389 Battle Arena. The entire arena echoed with cheers, and a beautiful announcer was introducing the brief profiles of the hundred geniuses participating in this battle.
“Number 93, Hong, from the Black Dragon Mountain Empire, ranked 982nd in the 72nd World District during the preliminary selection.” The announcer was equally attractive.
“Hong!”
“Hong!”
“Hong!”
In one section of the audience, millions of spectators from the Black Dragon Mountain star region shouted loudly, as if declaring—Hong, the genius, belonged to their Black Dragon Mountain Empire!
Meanwhile, Luo Feng and Thunder God, within the cheering crowd, had furrowed brows.
“We’re in big trouble,” Thunder God whispered. “I didn’t expect that ‘Savage’ to be here too.”
“Yeah,” Luo Feng held his breath in anticipation, deeply concerned for his elder brother. Every participant in this arena battle was extraordinary. Especially in Hong’s group, there was even the ‘Savage’ who had once killed their second brother.
Soon—
With the countdown echoing, the battle arena roared, and one hundred absolute elites appeared within the arena.
“Brother,” Luo Feng immediately spotted Hong.
…
Inside the battle arena.
Hong held a silver spear, cautiously scanning his surroundings. The combat space of this melee battle was a circular area with a diameter of thirty kilometers. During the battle, the combat space would continuously shrink, forcing those with fast flight abilities to stay within, until eventually, in about fifteen minutes, the thirty-kilometer diameter would shrink down to merely one meter!
Therefore…
A melee battle would last no more than fifteen minutes.
“One hundred participants—’Savage’ must be the strongest,” Hong thought as he quickly reviewed the information he had gathered about the other 99 competitors. “There are also three others who are very strong.”
“First, engage in the melee with the weaker ones to survive temporarily.”
“Then fight hard.”
Hong quickly formulated a strategy. He knew clearly that if he fled at the beginning, he would surely become a target for some extremely powerful geniuses. It was better to charge straight into the melee crowd. Hong was quite confident in his ability to survive in such chaotic battles.
“Battle—Begin!” A deep, majestic voice echoed through the minds of every participant in the arena.
The thirty-kilometer diameter combat space began to slowly shrink, destined to become a mere one-meter diameter in fifteen minutes.
“Boom!”
“Boom!”
Violent air currents erupted chaotically as the 100 genius warriors in the arena swiftly launched into fierce combat!
“Take this strike!” A tall, wild-haired youth roared, stepping forward barefoot and instantly appearing hundreds of meters away. His sharp blade slashed directly toward a psychokineticist. The psychokineticist seemed unprepared for his speed, shocked and trying to dodge while manipulating his mental weapon to block.
“Clang!”
The short blade slashed down—irresistible!
As if a mountain had crushed down!
The mental weapon was knocked aside, and the short blade cleaved straight into the psychokineticist’s head, splitting it cleanly in two.
“Ha! Ha! Ha!” The tall brute laughed loudly, barefoot and sprinting, each step propelling him far forward. His acceleration was faster than many psychokineticists’ flying speeds.
“Surround and kill him!”
“Let’s team up and take him down first!” someone shouted.
“Whoosh!” “Whoosh!”
Two mental weapons shot toward him.
“Clang!” “Clang!” The short blade casually swung around his body, effortlessly blocking the two mental weapons and sending them flying.
“Surround me?”
The wild youth moved with ghostly steps, weaving through the melee crowd, making it impossible for the more than ten opponents trying to surround him to actually corner him. Instead, the wild brute quickly eliminated half of them. As the ‘Savage’ passed through the battlefield… it was like a massacre. Although all one hundred participants were extraordinary geniuses, none could stand against the ‘Savage.’
…
In this melee battle, the most dazzling figure was undoubtedly the ‘Savage.’
However, besides the ‘Savage,’ there was also a woman who performed exceptionally well. She was a fierce, armored woman! One could only determine her gender from her figure—a seductive beauty. Yet, the killing aura she exuded, the ferocity in her eyes, and the clean, ruthless way she killed made it hard for anyone to associate her with femininity.
…
“Shhh~” Holding a silver spear, Hong fought amidst the group of genius warriors. One by one, the geniuses fell dead.
Yet Hong strangely remained alive!
“Roar!”
The spear moved like lightning!
Swiftly striking from behind, it pierced straight through a genius’s head. After killing one, Hong’s expression remained unchanged. Amidst the chaos, he wielded his spear, seemingly ordinary, yet many mental weapons could not even breach his defense.
Time passed, and the death count climbed to 60, 61, 62…
With fewer people, the melee became less intense.
“Hmm?” The fierce female warrior immediately locked onto ‘Hong.’ In the universe, many warriors used spears as weapons.
However, those who chose spears generally opted for ones with extreme hardness.
But Hong’s spear was different—it was flexible, and when swung, it moved like a large snake, incredibly strange and unpredictable.
“Fascinating,” the fierce female warrior thought, gripping her twin blades and flying straight toward Hong.
“Not good,” Hong’s expression changed.
While fighting in the melee, he had already secretly observed and determined… in this group, this fierce female warrior was definitely among the top three, with only the ‘Savage’ being slightly stronger than her. He hadn’t expected her to target him. However—since she had already come to kill him and escape was impossible, he had no choice but to fight!
“Roar!”
The spear twisted and turned like a slippery eel in water, moving swiftly and directly thrusting toward the charging female warrior!
“Fascinating, fascinating,” the female warrior’s eyes gleamed with excitement. Green currents surrounded her body, swirling around her twin blades. She swung her curved blades, which struck the edge of Hong’s spearhead, transmitting an invisible, strange rotational force into the spear.
“Hmm?”
Hong’s expression changed. He immediately yanked the spear back, then roared loudly, raising his spear high as if wielding an axe, and smashed it powerfully toward the female warrior.
“Boom!”
The female warrior transformed into a surging stream of water. One of her curved blades merely touched the spear, instantly dissipating the immense impact force. Then, she furiously surrounded Hong with relentless attacks. In an instant, Hong felt as though he had been trapped in a whirlpool of floodwaters, unable to escape.
“This female warrior has already grasped some of the essence of water’s fundamental laws. This is a serious problem,” Hong thought anxiously.
In ancient Chinese culture, the five elements—metal, wood, water, fire, and earth—were highly valued. Although Hong followed the path of ‘Light Domain,’ he clearly understood the female warrior’s strength… understanding was one thing; being able to defeat her was another.
“She flows like water, so I shall become an unshakable rock!” Hong gritted his teeth, twisted the surrounding light, and suddenly became dazzlingly radiant.
His spear speed immediately surged to a higher level.
The spear danced like a turtle shell, impenetrable from any angle.
“Clang!” “Clang!” “Clang!” Each curved blade strike from the female warrior, infused with the fundamental laws of water, was overwhelmingly heavy and surging, making Hong feel as though he was on the verge of collapse.
“Without stepping into the threshold of the laws, I’m still powerless,” Hong instantly understood this truth.
…
“Hong!”
“Hong!”
Among the billions of spectators in the battle arena, many from the Black Dragon Mountain star region were eagerly anticipating the fight.
Yet, even more people were watching through live broadcasts.
In the virtual universe, above the Black Dragon Mountain Island, there was a floating island. Only those at the Cosmic level or higher could reside on this floating island. Within a vast, seemingly simple manor on the floating island…
A man wearing a deep red robe sat on one side. There was a lightning mark on his forehead. This man was none other than Jiang Tianchen—one of the most powerful Sovereigns of the Black Dragon Mountain Empire. Beside him sat an elderly man with white hair, appearing kind and gentle.
“This young man in black is from our Black Dragon Mountain Empire?” the old man asked with interest. “Judging by his Light Domain, it’s only at the sixth-tier level. But he’s truly a combat genius… wielding a flexible spear, he’s managed to bring his Light Domain to such a level. He’s even comparable to those with eighth-tier Domains.”
An eighth-tier Domain wasn’t necessarily stronger than a seventh-tier.
It all depended on how well one could utilize their Domain.
The same principle applied.
Perhaps one had grasped some fundamental laws, but how effectively one could apply those insights into battle determined their combat power! For example, Luo Feng, when using the Runaway Shuttle versus the Divine Soul Armament, displayed completely different levels of strength. This was because the Divine Soul Armament allowed him to fully unleash the fundamental laws he had grasped.
“Yes, Commander, he is from our Empire,” Jiang Tianchen respectfully replied.
“Oh,” the old man smiled.
Commander…
This title would shock any other Sovereigns in the Black Dragon Mountain Empire if they heard it.
In the Three-Axe Mountain organization, the title for Sovereigns was uniformly ‘General.’
The Three-Axe Mountain organization had three founders, and only those three founders were entitled to be called ‘Commander.’
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