Swallowing the Stars: I, the New Master of Babata

"I know that someone as steady as you wouldn't say that, but I'll make you say it in front of the whole world."

Lei Lei understands Dong Qing's prudent nature, but she doesn't agree with his humility. She believes that Dong Qing should prove himself to a certain extent.

Since Dongqing has the ability to surpass his father, Thor.

Therefore, it is only natural that he surpasses Hong to become the world's number one.

This isn't just Lei Lei spouting nonsense.

That was her true thought.

As the saying goes.

There is no first place in literature, but there is a second place in martial arts. Since Dongqing has proven with his own strength that he is stronger than Thor, who is second in the world, and has surpassed the second place in the world, it is natural that people will compare him with the number one in the world.

This is not a problem that Dong Qing can avoid at will. Even if Dong Qing doesn't care about empty fame, Hong himself will find a way to compete with Dong Qing to see who is the number one, thereby confirming his position as the world's strongest person.

........

At the crossroads of Eurasia, in Hongning Base City, lies the headquarters of the Extreme Martial Arts Academy.

"Master, the results from the Indian Ocean are in. Thor lost, and Azure Emperor won. The world's third and second place have swapped positions."

Hong had three personal guards in total. After Dong Qing poached one of them, he still had two personal guards left: Beast and Iceberg.

Unlike the alluring woman, she is a strong woman.

Beasts and icebergs represent male powerhouses.

In terms of strength.

Both the beast and the iceberg are a cut above the enchanting one, belonging to the elite among planetary-level powerhouses.

However, since Yao Rao was poached by Dong Qing, her own strength has also entered a period of rapid improvement.

After all, wild beasts and icebergs don't possess natural treasures like the Wood Crystal, which contains powerful vitality, and they have no one to help them tap into its potential.

Given time, even a newly emerging powerhouse like the Moon Witch Jiang Fang, at the planetary level, could surpass the veteran powerhouses, Beast and Iceberg.

"I'm not surprised Dong Qing won; I'm just curious whether he used psychic powers!"

Even Hong, the world's strongest, harbored a deep-seated apprehension towards Dong Qing, the world's third strongest, the Azure Emperor, a trait he could not share with outsiders.

That was Dongqing's mental power, which was truly terrifying, a kind of terrifying power that made people wary. Its strength and resilience were unmatched by other mentalists.

"Master, it's confirmed. The Azure Emperor used his mental power to condense an invisible giant sword, which defeated the Thunder God with a single strike."

"At the same time, it used powerful mental energy to suppress the tides near the Indian Ocean, which were enough to submerge several base cities around the area."

When the beasts were reporting the news.

My body trembled slightly.

Because not only the five major countries have global life energy monitoring centers, but they also monitor the movements of global king-level monsters in real time, and incidentally observe the whereabouts of planetary-level powerhouses.

The headquarters of the Ultimate Martial Arts Academy possesses an almost complete alien spaceship. Although it cannot take off for the time being, its technological strength is definitely the strongest on Earth at present.

When Dongqing and Thor started fighting.

The Ultimate Martial Arts School was the first to be discovered.

"Master, if we're talking about energy levels alone, the energy level that the Azure Emperor is exhibiting has already surpassed yours."

"However, before this, Thor's energy level was also stronger than the gym leader's, but Thor was still no match for the gym leader."

Iceberg's expression appeared calm.

However, his tone wasn't very confident.

Because the energy level observed by the Ultimate Martial Arts Academy was too high.

The total number of nuclear weapons ever produced by mankind is less than that of the East China Sea.

Before this.

Dongqing's energy level is below Hong and Leishen, neither strong nor weak, which is consistent with Dongqing's status as the third strongest in the world.

But Dongqing's current strength is too much, even surpassing the combined energy level of Hong and Thor.

"The Yangtze River's back waves push the front waves, and new talents emerge in every generation. You don't need to worry about me. So what if I give him the world's number one spot? As long as he has the ability to take it from me."

Hong patted the shoulders of the beast and the iceberg, showing no jealousy, no resentment, and no panic that might take away his position as the world's strongest. Instead, he remained as calm as ever.

He wouldn't feel unbalanced just because Dong Qing might surpass him.

He had anticipated this from the day Dongqing rose to power.

He and Thor, after all, went through the fierce battles of the Great Rebirth period before they grew rapidly and became the world's number one and number two.

Ke Dongqing relied purely on his talent, showing early promise in his teens, joining a global elite training camp, and becoming the world's third-best shortly after graduation.

It is undeniable.

In terms of the temperament of a genius in peacetime, he cannot compare to a genius in wartime, but talent is a difficult thing to define, especially given Dongqing's stable personality.

Hong He knew very well that he and Thor had both pushed their potential to the limit in the face of life and death to rise to prominence in a short period of time, but Dong Qing had grown by relentlessly working on his talent.

It sounds like there's no difference.

Hong and Thor aren't without talent.

They all have talent.

Who is worse than whom?

But the important thing is not talent.

The most terrifying part of Dongqing's body.

In fact, Dong Qing had never experienced the pressure of life and death. Despite his extraordinary talent, he had never pushed his potential to its limits in the face of life and death.

Just like the phenomenal anime that many people on Earth have watched before, Dragon Ball, Frieza, the cosmic emperor who has never been trained, has endless potential.

But this is not the fault of Hong and Thor.

Because they had no other choice.

None of them could push Dongqing to the brink of death.

This forces Dongqing to push himself to the limit in a life-or-death situation.

........

The next morning.

Thunder Martial Arts School Branch in Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan Base City.

The branches of the Ultimate Martial Arts School and the Thunder Martial Arts School are located all over the world. Except for the headquarters of the Ultimate Martial Arts School and the Thunder Martial Arts School, as well as the Hongning Base City and Thunder Base City where they are located, there are branches of each other in other base cities.

Dong Qing, who concurrently serves as the inspector of both the Limitless Martial Arts Academy and the Thunder Martial Arts Academy, is visited by Lei Lei, the head of the Thunder Martial Arts Academy headquarters, every now and then. He spends an entire evening reporting on his work and cooperating with Lei Lei's efforts.

No one else would dare to order Dongqing around.

Lei Lei's status and position speak for themselves.

Due to certain reasons.

Dong Qing found it difficult to refuse.

"Junior, you smell so good!"

Lei Lei was wearing a nightgown, her clothes half-exposed, her jade-like shoulders smooth and silky. Through the barely perceptible gap above her chest, one could vaguely see towering snow-capped mountains trembling under immense pressure.

No one knows how the work report lasted all night, but what is certain is that Lei Lei is a workaholic who didn't sleep all night and listened attentively to Dong Qing's report.

"Senior Lei, the hormones I naturally exude are nothing more than a trap set by my genes."

Dong Qing's tone was somewhat helpless. He didn't want to be a "fragrant man," but genes are a very complex thing.

From the perspective of the human body's underlying genes.

Approximately 98.5% of genes are useless.

The genes that actually encode human proteins only account for 1.5% of all human DNA.

Yet, this chaotic human genome has created a living, jumping human being.

Dongqing was unaware that there was something wrong with his own genetic code.

Once his hormone levels rise to a certain point, he will have a natural body odor.

"I know, it was taught in junior high biology class that the human genome is a mountain of shit code, and everyone stands on a chaotic and disordered mountain of shit code, but that also maintains everyone's independence."

Although Lei Lei is Thor's daughter, she is not an uneducated person. In particular, she is more serious about biology than anyone else. In terms of professional knowledge, she is even comparable to a traditional biology PhD.