Swallowing the Stars: Starting with the Battle of Geniuses

Chapter 146 Joining the Hongmeng, a distress signal

"Beep—".

Far away, on a base of the Mech Race, opposite the human AAA God Base, a piercing buzzing sound suddenly emanated from one of their bases on Battlefield One.

"W-This is...!?"

A member of the mechanical race who was exchanging supplies looked up in horror: "Just now, a king registered at this base died?"

At this moment, the entire base was mourning Zaku.

Countless mechanical soldiers quickly received this news.

With the computing power of the machine race's AI, the information that Zaku transmitted before his death was quickly read by the group of machine race immortals on the outer battlefield.

"The human realm's master, 'Star Luo,' wields string-based telekinetic weapons in battle."

"Preliminary observations suggest that Xingluo possesses the ultimate combat power of a King-level expert, with top-tier speed and lethality."

"Listed as a top threat target."

"Listed as the number one wanted person in the joint campaign against the three ethnic groups."

Each message was intelligently listed by the military merit system of the extraterritorial battlefield.

Finally, it issued a special command to a specific battlefield zone outside the main battlefield.

"The Supreme Conscription Order of the Extraterritorial Battlefield hereby orders the Purple Thunder Clan, Ming Shui Clan, Black Rock Clan, and other clans currently fighting in the Star Tower War Zone to transfer to the Blood Sacrifice Continent to participate in the hunting mission of the human world lord 'Xing Luo'."

Without a doubt, "Xingluo," who displayed what appeared to be the ultimate power of a king while holding the title of world lord, was regarded by the machine race as the most likely persona of "Hunzhen," a human genius who was hiding in disguise.

Even if Xingluo isn't a Hunzhen, he's definitely a peerless genius secretly cultivated by humanity.

Furthermore, it is obvious that the Zerg and the Demon race will soon receive a message from the Machine race.

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"To reach the first level of immortality and be granted the title of King, one needs to accumulate ten trillion military merits. One must also kill more than ninety such King-level immortals to accumulate ten trillion military merits."

"The task is arduous and the road ahead is long."

Having just emerged from the Dark Universe, Hunzhen was unaware of the storm that his killing of Zaku had stirred up among the Machine Race.

Even if they knew, they wouldn't be particularly surprised unless it involved the "joint punitive order" that the three races were subtly implementing.

After all, when he killed Zaku, he had already guessed that his information would inevitably be exposed.

As the most advanced race after humans in terms of information technology, if he were to kill a Mech King, this matter would not remain a secret for long.

Unless the other party is subjected to soul control the moment they are first encountered, the information is likely uploaded during the battle.

But he doesn't regret it.

Although as the news spreads, it will inevitably make it much more difficult to kill the Immortal Army Lord or even the Immortal Lord who is granted the title of Marquis.

After all, they're not stupid. They know your suppression is so strong. During this period, when these alien races have detected someone who is suspected to be the human realm lord from afar, they probably wouldn't dare to show their heads and would stay far away.

The more likely scenario is that they will avoid the limelight for a while, hide away, and let the high-end combat forces on the Blood Sacrifice Continent fight each other and probe each other's strengths.

Once most of the mystery surrounding him has dissipated, allowing us to guess his behavior and the limits of some of his abilities, we can better evade him before continuing the previous battle.

He had originally planned to first wipe out a wave of small fry with low-ranking titles and plunder some battle merits before making any further plans, but this idea can be said to have been completely thwarted.

However, as long as he wants to train on the Blood Sacrifice Continent, his strength can't be hidden for long; it's only a matter of time before it's exposed.

Killing one low-level King is worth as much as killing one thousand low-level Marquis.

Such a fortunate encounter with a lone individual being granted the title of King, given the scale of the blood sacrifice across the continent, is a rare occurrence, perhaps only happening once every few decades.

And it's not necessarily like this Zaku, who cooperated perfectly all the way into the net.

Hunzhen weighed the options briefly and, with almost no hesitation, decided to kill.

"Once the news has spread completely, the only teams you'll likely encounter on the Blood Sacrifice Continent will be those with the strength of a King."

"Since we've already gone through this, let's take advantage of this time to kill as many people as possible and accumulate military merits as soon as possible."

Hunzhen was unaware of how highly the Machine Race had assessed his strength after obtaining his intelligence.

He killed Zagu almost instantly, even though Zagu had already suffered a significant loss of divine power beforehand. To do this, one must at least possess the combat strength of a peak-level King.

Even if assessed as having the ultimate combat strength to be crowned a king, it is not impossible.

As for confirming the truth that he was comparable to the "invincible combat power of a king"?

The sample size is too small, the opponents are too weak, and the performance of "Claiming the King's Limit" and "Claiming the King's Invincibility" is not much different.

The fact that a human realm lord possesses invincible combat power worthy of a king is too shocking and completely unbelievable.

Under this premise, no one would make such an exaggerated judgment.

"Even if their assessment is based on the ultimate combat strength of a king."

"This means that in order to hunt me, the number of experts with combat power at the peak of the King level or above on this battlefield will increase dramatically in a short period of time. Even if a few more experts at the limit of the King level appear, it will not be unexpected."

Thinking of this, Hunzhen licked his lips, his eyes burning with fierce fighting spirit.

Come on, everyone come on.

"Be my whetstone, become the stepping stones to my summit!"

"Inhumans!"

Hunzhen set the spaceship's course and sped towards the center of the Blood Sacrifice Continent.

In the blink of an eye, a century has passed.

On a floating continental island, the entire structure is undergoing repairs.

"There are no longer any lone immortals below the rank of Marquis."

He gazed at the Milky Way and sighed silently.

In fact, after he killed Zaku, his first ten years of clearing out "low-level immortals" went relatively smoothly.

After that, the frequency of ordinary Immortal Lord-level beings appearing began to decrease sharply.

The rest were mostly scouts, similar to his squad, who were sent to explore.

This also means that after the number of lone Marquis Immortals decreased sharply, he has reaped the lion's share of military merits over the past century.

Hunzhen's plan was to accumulate ten quadrillion military merits within five hundred years. Not counting the first hundred years, he earned three quadrillion military merits in the last hundred years alone.

However, one-third of them were earned by hunting down those who had been granted the title of Marquis and Immortal during the first ten years.

For Hunzhen, the difficulty of hunting down an Immortal Army Lord and becoming an Immortal Marquis is about the same, but the rewards are a thousand times different.

In addition, the number of alien kings who united to try to hunt him down was far greater than imagined.

Even in the daily simulation records of the original body, there were many instances where the person transformed into the identity of "Xingluo" and died directly, forcing him to temporarily disappear during the years when he was ambushed.

Hunzhen was unaware of the existence of the joint punitive order of the three races.

Under the subtle manipulation of the three races, the benefits of hunting him far exceed those of ordinary hunting.

Even if ten people share the spoils of the hunt, each person can obtain a top-tier treasure. If one kills the enemy alone and takes all the spoils, one can receive an even greater treasure as a reward. How could this not make those who have been granted the title of king envious and crazy?

Ke Hunzhen was puzzled, and so were those who had been granted the title of king.

It was as if the human world's lord, Star Luo, had planted a mole among them. Whenever they gathered together to plan a near-perfect hunt, this guy would quietly disappear without a trace.

It seems like it was just a coincidence that I was able to digest my experiences and insights?

Now, both sides are at a disadvantage and dissatisfied.

Otherwise, Hunzhen was confident that the military achievements he had made over the past century would have yielded tens of billions or even trillions more.

It is worth mentioning that over the past century, both the original Hunzhen and his avatar from the extraterrestrial battlefield have joined the Hongmeng.

The former killed three novice-level Kings sent by Venerable Yuluo in front of the Ancestral God Sect, repelled two ultimate-level Kings, and caused them to be shot to death by the Five-Colored Aurora Lake.

The latter then directly killed the Mechanical Race King in the outer battlefield.

Both achievements have been confirmed, and both naturally qualify for entry into the Hongmeng Alliance.

The latter has not yet achieved any "famous achievements" that are enough to solidify their reputation and are widely known, and their official titles have not yet been confirmed.

It seems that only a truly evenly matched, king-level battle record would be required to grant the title of Hunzhen. Otherwise, like other kings, they would have to wait many more years before receiving the title.

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On the other hand, the real person, bearing the appearance of Milirat, also has a rising star, the sycophant of the Cosmic Venerable, "Niu Feiyang," whose fame has spread far and wide.

In addition, his ability to defeat countless kings in the world of Glory has earned him the great respect of many kings for his strength.

With both fame and ability, titles have become a priority.

After such a long period of fermentation and settling, based on his mastery of the laws of time as the main characteristic, coupled with his background as the leader of the Abyss royal family, he was given the title—King of Time Abyss.

He is a member of the Hongmeng Samsung Group.

"Xingluo" was classified as a two-star member based on his achievements in killing Zaku alone, hunting numerous Marquis-level Immortals in the extraterrestrial battlefield for a hundred years, and escaping from a hunt by a King-level joint team.

The general standard for evaluating three-star members is the ultimate combat power of a king, while the standard for evaluating two-star members is that they are strong among kings, between the high and peak levels of kings.

Clearly, the Hongmeng highly recognized the strength shown by Hunzhen.

"A century has passed, and I have been able to defeat more than 3200 of the opponents that Master Chaos City Lord set for me."

"Although 'Time and Space Strings' is still far from reaching the level of the pinnacle secret technique, it is already among the top combat secret techniques of the immortal level."

"A hundred years ago, the limit of my string sword domain was only a few thousand kilometers, but now it can extend to a hundred thousand kilometers! My combat capabilities have been greatly enhanced!"

After immortals have mastered teleportation, their maximum teleportation distance can typically reach one light-year.

This is due to their different understandings of spatial laws and differences in their ability to perceive space.

Of course, the gravity and binding power of the Blood Sacrifice Continent are incomparable to those of ordinary planets and continents, and the spatial perception ability of the immortals is reduced accordingly.

But even if one hasn't mastered teleportation, as long as an immortal has some understanding of the laws of space, the difference between a thousand kilometers and a hundred thousand kilometers is actually not that significant.

The biggest difference lies in the difficulty of breaking free from the realm of the bow and sword.

Within a radius of one thousand kilometers, the String Sword Domain can be exemplified by Zagu, who was killed by Hunzhen a hundred years ago.

Before Hunzhen fully integrated the power of his avatars to reach the power of a single avatar, if Zagu hadn't already consumed a lot of divine power, he would have been fully capable of breaking free from the 1,000-kilometer (500-kilometer radius) area and escaping.

It can expand from 1,000 kilometers to 100,000 kilometers, making it a hundred times more difficult to break free. One must move a distance a hundred times greater than before in an instant to break free of the String Sword Domain.

It's no exaggeration to say that for Hunzhen now, if it were a single target at the peak of the King-level, he would be confident in forcibly keeping the opponent in place and slowly wearing them down.

It's not that even at the peak of the Kinghood level, burning divine power couldn't break free from the String Sword Domain.

However, when the opponent tries to move or escape, Hunzhen himself is not unable to move.

Even with the strength of a peak-level King, burning divine power would not be enough to instantly destroy the entire domain, so Hunzhen could continuously maintain the existence of the domain.

By increasing energy output and moving the domain along with the opponent, as long as the power is not exhausted, the opponent can be imprisoned in a cage forever.

On this day, on the battlefield outside the domain, Hunzhen immersed most of his consciousness into a virtual device, discussing the recent dangerous changes on the battlefield outside the domain with a group of kings in the Hongmeng community.

"For the past hundred years, those three worthless alliances on the extraterritorial battlefields have been relentlessly targeting my Hong Alliance, I don't know if they've lost their minds!"

"Are you taking advantage of our current weakness and thinking we're easy to bully?"

A king with a monkey head on his head angrily recounted his frustrating experiences on the battlefield outside the territory, which resonated with many people.

The four dominant races are hostile to each other, but during this period, the three alien alliances that are hostile to the human race have been particularly attentive to the members of the Hong Alliance.

As a result, the human race showed signs of continuous defeat on the battlefield.

Many of the weaker soldiers retreated back to the divine base, their efficiency in gaining military merits dropped significantly, and they were unwilling to show themselves easily.

With the number of lower-ranking warriors drastically reduced, the immortals at the higher levels have essentially lost countless eyes. It's like a tower defense game without true vision; all they see is the fog of war, and they can only rely on the individual vision of the heroes to fight on the battlefield.

It's only natural that they were at a disadvantage.

This gradually created a vicious cycle.

Hunzhen listened to the stories told by the kings and frowned silently.

Even if he were slow to realize it, he would have already noticed that the situation on the extraterritorial battlefield was clearly different from the original story.

Limited by his own perspective, he can only attribute it to the butterfly effect for now.

"Especially the first battlefield."

Another king shook his head and sighed, "The distress signals over there are flashing non-stop. Even a Marquis or an Immortal could easily perish."

One of them turned to look at Hunzhen: "Xingluo, I remember you're from that place, right? The highest-level battlefield, 'Blood Sacrifice Continent'. Some time ago, some of our Hongmeng brothers got stuck there, apparently trying to rescue their disciples, but in the end, they didn't even have a chance to get out themselves."

In the human world, it is not uncommon for people to take on apprentices once their talent reaches a certain level.

Especially in virtual universe companies, the practice of "mentoring new employees" is naturally indispensable.

Compared to the fiercely competitive and bloody Giant Axe Arena, most geniuses come from the Doomsday Secret Realm to the Primordial Secret Realm. Those from the two lower secret realms are alright, but those from the Primordial Secret Realm and above basically all have immortal-level teachers.

Realm Lords who can enter the Primordial Secret Realm not only have Marquis-level Immortals personally guiding them, but most of them are also personal disciples of King-level Immortals, and a very small number even become disciples of Universe Venerables.

But at the level of immortality, it's easier to talk about ordinary immortal military lords and marquis immortals.

Those who rise to the rank of king rarely lack a teacher of the rank of king or higher to guide them; in fact, most of them become disciples of cosmic venerable ones.

Once one transcends the level of immortality, even master and disciple will each have their own lives, and unless they have a particularly close relationship, they won't worry about each other too much.

But the realm lord level is like a child who hasn't grown up yet.

Especially with the unexpected changes in the battlefield outside the region, many teachers naturally tried to personally intervene or ask for favors to help people get out of trouble.

However, the turbulent undercurrents beneath this current upheaval have exceeded the imagination of the immortals.

Even powerful kings who are involved risk their lives if they are caught up in it.

"Hmm?" Hunzhen suddenly frowned.

"What's wrong, Xingluo?"

Hunzhen shook his head and said, "I received a distress signal. I'm nearby, so I'll go and rescue them."

After saying that, he went offline.

(End of this chapter)