Swallowing the Stars: Starting with the Battle of Geniuses

Faced with the confrontation provoked by the Celestial Venerable of Longevity, how could Hunzhen possibly back down?

His eyes blazed with fighting spirit, and he met the attack head-on without hesitation.

A phantom suddenly descended and overlapped with Hunzhen's body. In just a moment, Hunzhen entered a triple-overlapping state.

The Time-Severing Demon Blade let out a frantic hiss as it slashed forward.

That strike, which once existed only in the concept of Hunzhen and whose endless echoes overlapped, was finally able to be unleashed after he mastered the principle of the string.

It is also a perfect fusion of combat secrets and the power of reason. It is the strongest killing move that uses the triple superposition of the Dao to leverage endless parallel spacetime and superimpose multiple parallel universes!

Dimensions reduced to nothingness!

boom!

At this moment, both attacks touched the realm of the God-Lord. The forces of the same level interfered with each other and rose to their extremes. The forces of Tao and reason collided and stirred each other, causing the void to tremble, shatter, and then recover again, in an endless cycle!

The clash between two supreme God-Kings seemed to be obliterating even the Great Dao itself...

Whoosh—.

Their auras both plummeted, and they separated the moment they touched.

Once again, the overlapping and separating phenomenon appeared on Hunzhen's body. Moreover, the forced triple stacking earlier caused the consumption of this attack to far exceed the normal range, and his peak duration dropped significantly.

On the other side, the Celestial Venerable of Immortality was equally disheveled, his body ablaze with eerie white flames. Only by using the power of reason could he heal his injuries. This, however, would also cause him to reach his limit even sooner.

However, even though both players were in poor form, neither gave an inch and they clashed fiercely once again.

Whenever the Flames of Life and Death scorch Hunzhen or the killing move unleashed by the Celestial Venerable of Longevity through the Divine Weapon hits Hunzhen, Hunzhen has no choice but to temporarily avoid the attack and recover.

The same was true for the Celestial Venerable of Longevity, who was grazed by the Hunzhen Killing Move.

Despite the seemingly evenly matched battle, the Changsheng Tianzun's expression gradually grew serious...

He had already noticed that the time it took for Hunzhen to recover the double superposition each time was getting shorter.

at last……

The Celestial Venerable of Immortality once again wielded his divine weapon, unleashing the Flame Extinction Reincarnation Spear, but feinted a move, using the Flame of Life and Death to strike Hunzhen...

The illusory image that was being pulled away completely disappeared.

The two suddenly stopped fighting and looked at each other.

"Hehehe."

Hunzhen smiled and assumed a fighting stance, holding his sword. He said calmly, "Chang Sheng Tian Zun, thanks to your help, I have mastered it."

In the process of continuously transferring damage, Hunzhen finally managed to transfer the damage not to the simulated humans that were stacked with him, but to other random simulated humans.

To bear the losses incurred by "living" in the Sim's good brother, one must naturally compensate with a one-day withdrawal amount equivalent to the other's life.

However, if you casually toss it to a stranger in another parallel universe, the other party will be unable to "collect the debt".

By paying an additional "postage" that is more than what would be entrusted to a Sim buddy temporarily in the same time and space, the cost can be greatly reduced.

However, transferring to other parallel universes is still a bit difficult for Hunzhen at present. The damage is not "instant death" and the extra postage may be greater than the cost of healing his brother, so it is not worth Hunzhen using such an operation.

The Celestial Venerable of Longevity narrowed his gaze slightly.

Even though he had anticipated this, he still felt somewhat heavy-hearted.

He already knew that, unlike himself, Hunzhen was still in a period of rapid growth, and the tempering in battle would easily allow him to discover his own shortcomings.

However, he never expected that Hunzhen would be able to quickly fill in the gaps in the battle as soon as he discovered them.

What an amazing talent!

Even as an opponent, the Celestial Venerable of Immortality couldn't help but admire him.

But the next moment, the fighting spirit in his eyes burned even hotter.

"If you, a junior, can improve, why can't I?!"

The Celestial Venerable of Immortality raised his spear once more and launched a charge.

As it turns out... it really couldn't.

The fierce battle lasted for a month.

Hunzhen, who was still in complete control, suddenly put down the Time-Sorrow Demon Blade, looked at the Changsheng Heavenly Venerable with a calm expression, and smiled: "Changsheng Heavenly Venerable, let's end our sparring here."

The Celestial Venerable of Immortality: "..."

The Celestial Venerable of Immortality fell silent, and then put away his spear.

Even his enemies could see that he was running out of energy. If he continued to fight, it might actually damage his inner world. Did he really want to keep fighting despite his exhaustion?

He couldn't help but sigh softly, saying bitterly, "You won. I remember your title was 'Strongest Below the God-King'?"

He shook his head, staring intently at Hunzhen: "You should be the strongest below the God-Lord. Those Saint-level beings and even some God-Kings may not know, but you and I do... To be able to defeat me head-on, you are undoubtedly the number one person below the God-Lord!"

Hunzhen grinned: "Oh? Looks like I've completely convinced you've been beaten to a pulp?"

"snort."

The Celestial Venerable of Immortality turned his head away: "I will explain your situation to my father. From now on, the Crow's Nest Realm will treat you as a God-King. I hope you will settle the matter of the Food Kingdom as soon as possible and leave the Crow's Nest Realm! Farewell!"

Neither Hunzhen nor Changsheng Tianzun had ever considered killing the other before the fight began.

Defeating someone is one thing, killing them is another.

For powerhouses like them who are at the pinnacle of the God-King level, probably only a true God-Lord level powerhouse could capture them; otherwise, they would be able to escape during the battle.

On the other hand, Hunzhen represents the God of Luohe, a fact that the Goddess of Destiny cannot deny, and the Celestial Venerable of Longevity would not truly choose to kill him.

Hunzhen did not want to kill the offspring of the Lord of Wuchao, thus incurring the hatred of one of the Twelve Lords.

And so... a storm that swept through the food kingdom vanished without a trace.

After that, with the help of Hunzhen and others, Luo Feng and Zuoshanke successfully occupied the Shi Kingdom and renamed it the Jin Kingdom.

After the domestic situation stabilized, Hunzhen bid farewell to the people of Jin.

Luo Feng did not join the Luohe Realm with Hunzhen. One reason was that although Hunzhen had established an alliance with the Luohe God Lord, he had no intention of working for the Luohe God Lord or helping him recruit talent.

Moreover, when it comes to the interdimensional war stage, he will probably already be a twelve-god lord or even a higher level of combat power, so it doesn't matter to him at all.

Although the Food Kingdom lost three rulers, it gained another God-King and a peerless genius like Luo Feng, who could at least rank in the top ten among this year's titled prodigies. The Crow Nest Realm actually made a huge profit.

Considering that the Lord of the Luo River had previously mentioned that "the Luo River Realm is the weakest and will not cause trouble," Hunzhen felt that this should at least ease the relationship between the two realms...

If anything really happens, he can teleport there directly to save the day.

Then, time passed.

The Hunyuan Heavenly Ranking was filled, and the day when all 100,000 honorary titles were collected finally arrived.

"The battle for the title, the Primordial Heavenly Road... with each Great Evolution Era, countless top forces will devote all their efforts to participate. This is a grand event for geniuses! In a sense, this is the strongest battle of geniuses that sweeps across three thousand-dimensional universes and the Origin Continent!"

"Its scale is so vast that it cannot be compared to the peak genius battle held once every ten thousand years by a single race in one of the three thousand-dimensional universes."

Hunzhen looked at the Hunyuan Heavenly Ranking, which shone brightly in the sky and continuously issued guidance, and sighed softly in his heart.

"However, compared to the excitement of the peak genius battle, I am now completely unmoved and do not feel nervous or excited at all when facing this even grander 'genius battle'."

"My life in this world can be said to have started with the goal of winning the battle of the ultimate geniuses."

"Perhaps it wouldn't be bad to start with another battle of geniuses?"

A smile appeared on Hunzhen's face.

With a thought, he transformed into a stream of light and entered the Hunyuan Heavenly Ranking.

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The world buried under the vast yellow sand is the trial ground of the first stage of the Hunyuan Heavenly Road, the battlefield of gods and demons.

Legend has it that countless powerful creatures from beyond the Origin Continent, from a realm that only supreme beings can set foot in, are buried in this desert.

Those beings at the top of these powerful creatures are called—gods and demons.

Gods and demons are dead, but their bodies are immortal under the rules of the God-Demon Battlefield. They will be reborn every time the Chaos Origin Heavenly Road opens.

Even if one is defeated and reduced to ashes by a titled prodigy during the opening of the Chaos Origin Heavenly Road, one will be reborn when the Heavenly Road opens again.

For the prodigies with titles, the battlefield of gods and demons is both a perilous testing ground and a place of opportunity.

The method to unlock the second stage of the Hunyuan Heavenly Road is very simple: when the number of remaining titled geniuses in the God and Demon Battlefield drops below 10,000, the second stage will be entered naturally.

In this survival battle royale, the prodigies not only have to compete and fight each other, but also have to be wary of facing powerful gods and demons.

As time goes by, the gods and demons that appear in the later stages become increasingly powerful.

The gods and demons that first appeared were usually only at the Saint level. However, as the timeline approached the million-year limit, a large number of gods and demons at the God King level appeared, hunting down the geniuses who participated in the Heavenly Road.

Some prodigies with titles who are aware of their own limitations will often judge the limits of their abilities and retreat voluntarily.

They will return to their original positions when they entered the Hunyuan Heavenly Road through the Hunyuan Heavenly Ranking.

The Hunyuan Heavenly Road is ultimately a place for cultivating geniuses, so the mortality rate is not extremely high.

Of course, this does not mean that no one will die on the battlefield between gods and demons.

For example, a Divine Prince with only the strength of a Void True God could be instantly killed by other geniuses or suddenly appearing gods and demons if he wasn't careful. That's why he didn't enter the Chaotic Origin Heavenly Road in the first place.

There have been instances in history where, like the Divine Prince, someone refused to enter the Chaotic Origin Heavenly Road, it was impossible to gather enough 100,000 titled prodigies. In such cases, the remaining individuals would be sent into the Chaotic Origin Heavenly Road at the beginning of the last minor era of the Great Evolution Era.

The duration of the battle between gods and demons is one hundred eras, roughly one million years.

As a place extremely close to the Great Source, this place is exceptionally suitable for comprehending the laws and principles of the world.

Therefore, even if they know they have no hope of entering the second stage, the titled prodigies will try their best to persist until the time limit before leaving the battlefield of gods and demons.

Moreover, in the battlefield of gods and demons, in addition to the resurrected gods and demons, there are also heroic spirits born after the death of some heroes.

The weakest of these heroic spirits before their deaths reached the level of a God-King, and there was even a very small chance that a heroic spirit before their deaths would reach the level of a God-Lord. Many of the prodigies with titles gained the recognition of ancient heroic spirits in the battlefield of gods and demons and received part of their inheritance.

Here, it can be said that the longer you stay, the greater your gains. Ancient records indicate that those who have stayed for over 100,000 years have the potential to become holy kings.

However, when the battlefield of gods and demons opened 100,000 years ago, a large number of Saint King-level gods and demons had been resurrected, and a small number of God King-level gods and demons had begun to be resurrected.

The pursuit and encirclement by gods, demons, and hostile prodigies meant that most of the titled prodigies wouldn't last until then.

Theoretically, it is indeed possible for more than 10,000 prodigies to survive for a million years. The most likely way to limit this timeframe is for all the prodigies to gather together, with the goal of continuously staying in the God-Demon Battlefield and engaging in cooperative survival activities.

However, when the God-Demon Battlefield reaches its time limit, instead of selecting 10,000 people to enter the second stage based on talent evaluation or something similar, 10,000 people are randomly selected from the remaining people.

This essentially eliminates the possibility of large-scale, centralized collaboration among top talents.

With the opening of the God-Demon Battlefield, 100,000 prodigies were randomly deployed into the battlefield.

Most of the titled prodigies chose to cultivate in place, but some seemed unconcerned about battlefield benefits and began to choose targets to hunt.

Besides these, there were also some who considered themselves weak and chose to conceal their presence, like ninja turtles. Most of these people knew they lacked strength but had good survival skills, hoping to use this to survive until the second stage.

But it is precisely because of the existence of these people that some people have begun to aggressively hunt other geniuses, in order to enter the second stage before the 100,000-year deadline of the God-Demon Battlefield is reached—they know that in terms of survival skills, they are definitely no match for those who are good at surviving.

Those who cultivate in place are basically people who are extremely confident in their own strength and believe that they can survive to the end no matter what the situation is. They are also top-tier figures among the titled geniuses.

The power struggle among these exceptional individuals has already begun, driven by their own interests.

The ability to automatically recognize a person's name through their life force still exists, and there are still comical instances where people relentlessly pursue their targets, only to flee the moment they discover the other party's presence.

at the same time……

"Hmm, I have already sensed the location of His Highness the Divine Prince's Precious Chessboard markings."

A simple-minded young man with a dull expression looked in one direction, then suddenly turned his head: "Anyway, let's rejoin our companions first?"

Luo Feng turned and looked back at the direction the honest young man had initially been gazing into the distance, as if sensing something.

"Is he the titled prodigy of the Crow's Nest Dominion?"

Luo Feng's divine sense swept over the exquisite chessboard stored within his body, and over the alchemical puppets that had become chess pieces on it. His expression tightened slightly: "Teacher Zuoshanke said that these alchemical puppet chess pieces are actually heroes from the Jin Kingdom who cultivated the 'Divine Eye Secret Technique' to the Saint level..."

Before being refined into its current form by the God Lord of Wuchao, the Zhenlong Chessboard was a special treasure of will that required at least tens of thousands of beings who had cultivated the same will technique to the Saint level, plus a million beings who had cultivated the same will technique to the Eternal True God level, to work together to activate it.

The Mountain-Sitting Guest once intended to use this method to push the secret art of will to its extreme through the treasure-refining technique, so as to rival the peak God-King.

Unexpectedly... they were betrayed by the Shiguo, and these martyrs also met such an end.

Among the millions of chess pieces, the most precious perfect Saint-level chess pieces all belong to people from the ancient Jin Kingdom.

"The Lord of Wuchao sees me as a trial and test for that divine prince, but has he ever considered...?"

A sharp glint flashed in Luo Feng's eyes: "Even the Twelve Divine Lords will one day fall?" (End of Chapter)