Swallowing the Stars: Starting with the Battle of Geniuses

Chapter 70 Berlan's Fighting Spirit

The outside world is very excited, with many different opinions and endless discussions.

Hunzhen, however, was calm and serene.

He even felt a little ashamed if he didn't rank in that position.

It's really...

Everyone else was experiencing the Trial Space for the first time, but he had over a thousand Trial Space experiences!

Some people may need to adapt to the assessment methods of the trial space and plan to conserve energy, mental power, and physical strength in order to ensure their final ranking as much as possible.

But he had no such concerns at all.

The experience of the simulated human is already ingrained in its soul. It does not need to think; its instinctive reaction is to choose the option that uses energy most efficiently and has the lowest probability of damage.

Furthermore, the trial space is inherently suitable for the controller to exert their abilities.

With these two buffs, plus the fact that his four and a half years of accumulation are still behind others, he might as well just kill himself.

After summarizing, pay attention back to the 10,000 Blood-haired Mammoths on the first floor of the fourth trial tower.

Each time you advance to the next trial tower, the enemies inside, who look the same, become exponentially stronger.

While it's possible to clear the third Trial Tower without taking damage using only a piece of meteorite iron from the Meteorite Divine Weapon, starting from the fourth Trial Tower, maintaining both "no damage" and "speedrun" is no longer possible with just that.

As he summoned three pieces of meteorite iron, which circled around him, he glanced at his watch: "Second place is not enough to satisfy me. In the original story, Berlan's true breakthrough came later on."

Hunzhen's lips curled into a wicked smile as he rubbed his chin: "If we take first place now, will this guy be able to hold back from unleashing his full power at the end?"

Even without the original work, after a brief encounter with Berlan, Hunzhen already knew just how strong the competitive spirit of this man nicknamed "Death" was.

Even without unleashing his full power, Berlan in the original story was still far ahead of everyone else.

Conserving strength serves two purposes: firstly, it eliminates the pressure of being overtaken and instills confidence in not being caught up; secondly, it allows for the skillful use of time to hone one's experience in fighting against other races.

That's why he broke through after about a year, when most others had been eliminated and had been tempered enough, reaching the seventh trial tower and launching the final challenge.

However, if a scene that never happened in the original story occurs, and he loses first place, it happens prematurely in the trial space...

"Given Berlan's personality, he would definitely take back first place without hesitation."

Thinking of this, Hunzhen suddenly smiled broadly.

The top 100 is practically guaranteed, and it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that the top 10 is a sure thing.

More than the unexpected drop out of the top three, imagining Berlan's breakdown excited him.

At present, Hunzhen no longer hesitates to prioritize "efficiency".

Whoosh—.

Eighty-one meteorites flew together, forming groups of nine, greatly enhancing the fire elemental law power connecting the main body of the Flame Sword, forming nine heat vortexes that flew around it.

This is the second level of the Meteor Flame Divine Weapon—the Flame Star Vortex.

If the previous "sweep" was merely an adjective used to describe the progress of others, the current situation is a true sweep.

Every time the heat vortex swept through, at least dozens or even hundreds of blood-haired mammoths were reduced to ashes and perished.

The sweeping speed is more than ten times faster than when it was in the first form of the Meteorite Divine Weapon.

In less than an hour, the first floor of the fourth trial tower was completely cleared out by Hunzhen.

Then came the second layer, the third layer, the fourth layer...

After crushing all before him, when Hunzhen stepped onto the fifth trial tower, he had already climbed to the top of the rankings.

Looking at the rankings, Hunzhen chuckled to himself, "Bolan, this time, it's your turn to chase me."

……

"I've fallen to second place?"

Like Hunzhen, Bolan only checks his ranking when he steps into a new trial tower. However, when he arrived at the fifth trial tower this time, he was shocked to find that he had quietly lost his first place.

Berlan frowned, the image of the cold-faced man on the stairs flashing through his mind: "It was him?"

For no apparent reason, a fighting spirit surged in Berlan's eyes.

He wouldn't care if it were someone else.

But it was precisely Hunzhen, this man who seemed to be a mirror image of himself and possessed an extraordinary talent for time that he himself did not have, who could ignite his fighting spirit.

"Did you catch up?"

Berlan didn't even consider the possibility of others emerging as dark horses before he decided who would take his place.

He mentally scanned his wristwatch, and the person he was thinking of was right there at the top of the list.

"Alright, I accept your challenge."

In an instant, a blue aura swept across the first floor of the Fifth Trial Tower.

Thousands of white-clad figures simultaneously unleashed their sword energy, and the blood-haired mammoths were instantly crushed as if by a millstone of flesh and blood.

Unlike Hunzhen, who could overwhelm mammoths with sheer force and wipe out a large number of them with a single move, Bolan did not.

But every one of his sword strikes was extremely fast and extremely precise!

With a single strike, a mammoth's life will surely be taken!

Soon after, the turbulent space calmed down, and the world returned to peace, except for the continued falling of blood rain.

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Berlan, who was supposed to unleash his full potential only in the seventh trial tower, went all out in the fifth trial tower!

On the fourth level, Bolan finally caught up and surpassed Hunzhen's score, regaining first place!

Not long after, Hunzhen, with his richer combat experience, killed all one thousand flying beasts on the fourth level and broke into the fifth level!

Bolan followed closely behind and regained first place on the seventh floor, but Hunzhen quickly took it back and went straight to the sixth trial tower!

This time, Berlan failed to catch up!

Hunzhen always has one more level of points than Bolan!

"crazy!"

"That's insane!"

"These two!"

The immortals were all shocked.

Leaving everyone else far behind, the two geniuses ranked first and second in the universe engaged in such a fierce competition without exchanging a single word!

Although there were no scenes of direct confrontation, they still felt the bloodshed of the battle, as if they had witnessed flesh and blood grinding and bones breaking apart!

However, every immortal knows that this competition is finally coming to an end.

Hunzhen's momentum was too strong, and he inevitably began to be injured on the second floor of the sixth tower.

What followed was more like a last gasp, a desperate attempt to increase kill efficiency by disregarding injuries and energy depletion.

Finally, when Berlan caught up with him on the fifth floor, he was blasted apart by a mechanical puppet and died!

……

"call."

"Maintaining the Hundred Lines Flow dodge while also keeping the Fiery Star Vortex fully active is indeed quite taxing."

"If we play it safe, getting through the fifth floor shouldn't be a problem, and we can kill half of them on the sixth floor as well. But... that's enough."

Hunzhen smiled as he looked at the ranking, which was fixed at "2".

In my memory, the second trial space in the original work was at the level of the first floor of the sixth trial tower.

Hunzhen could no longer be satisfied with his current achievements based solely on his spatial perception and the meteorite weapon.

From the very beginning, Hunzhen did not intend to use the Law of Time in the trial space, but rather to test his current level of understanding of the Law of Space.

This goal has now been achieved.

"My trial in the Trial Space has ended."

"There are still six months left."

Hunzhen's spatial comprehension, far surpassing that of the other top ten contestants, gave him confidence that he could win second place and qualify for entry into the Primal Secret Realm.

But that's clearly not what he's focused on right now.

The pinnacle of genius is within reach.

(End of this chapter)