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Chapter 793 begins

Everyone present was extremely excited, because they felt very fortunate to be able to participate in this battle of geniuses, and to stand out from their own universe and become the successors of the universe's rulers. Only those who have truly experienced it know the hardships involved.

Moreover, among those watching the battle, they were all important figures from various forces in this independent universe who had come here to observe the fight. Among them were some powerful families or dynasties. Of course, the most powerful force was the Luo Tian Sect, since such a battle of geniuses was organized by this super power.

Moreover, most of the geniuses who eventually emerge will be selected and taken away by the Luo Tian Sect. Only a small number of those who are eliminated will have the chance to be recruited by the aristocratic families and dynasties. As for those so-called geniuses who don't even have the chance to be recruited, they can only be considered as ordinary strongmen.

After all, there are no conditions required for everyone to gather here. However, it is quite difficult to stand out from so many participants and achieve corresponding results. But for most of these geniuses from less privileged backgrounds who come to participate in the battle, this is the only and best way for them to get rid of their current status.

It is even their only way, because in this world everything depends on strength. There is no other way except for this promotion system. For Luo Yuan and the other inheritors who came here to understand the entire universe and even to obtain relevant information and resources, this is the only way.

They weren't actually that interested in such battles between geniuses; they just wanted to use the opportunity to learn about the strength of the super geniuses in the universe, to see what level they had reached, and perhaps even to gain a corresponding status and more information.

Another point is that all the inheritors present are eager to improve themselves through this battle. After all, they are two universes of the same level, so the various cultivation systems that have evolved here must be very powerful. In particular, because this universe has lost a ruler-level powerhouse, the universe rules that are usually difficult to detect can be clearly revealed.

The advantage of this is that it allows these inheritors to more intuitively understand the runic structure of the rules between different universes. They can learn and comprehend by comparing it with the inheritance they possess, which can enhance their control over the inheritance they have. In any independent universe under normal circumstances, they have powerful rulers and many universe controllers, who are usually responsible for protecting the safety of the entire universe.

Of course, their power comes from the power borrowed from the rules of the universe, and they can even control them. But once these rights and responsibilities disappear, these rules of the universe basically become ownerless. When there is no super strong person to actively control these rules of the universe, they will directly manifest themselves, that is, return to the most primitive state of an independent universe.

In fact, this state is not only a great fortune for all the powerful beings in this independent universe, but also a great opportunity for the inheritors of the past. For all the native powerful beings living in the universe, if they can take this opportunity to comprehend and master all the rules of the universe, then they may become the new rulers.

However, reaching that level is extremely difficult for them, and with the interference of other independent universe rulers, no one has ever truly reached the ruler level so far. Luo Yuan and the others are not too concerned about these things, because they came here only to obtain more resources and improve their strength.

Therefore, what form this independent universe will take is meaningless to them. In fact, in order to become stronger, they will continue to plunder more resources in this universe. However, to these native powerhouses, Luo Yuan and the other inheritors are simply people who have come to steal their treasures.

So it's not surprising that they're being targeted by hostility. But this situation means that Luo Yuan and his group have to keep a low profile. Although those powerful high-ranking figures won't easily take action against Luo Yuan and his group, if their subordinates join forces to deal with them, the trouble that will eventually become is enormous. Even if they eventually manage to eliminate some of these inheritors...

Ultimately, no cosmic ruler will step in to avenge them, as that would only embarrass them. The current situation remains stable and balanced, and everyone is aware of this, so there's nothing to worry about.

Fortunately, after so many years of exploration, they had long since developed a tacit understanding. Moreover, Luo Yuan was well aware that there must be some beings in this independent universe who had long since been replaced by the super strong individuals in their own independent universe, but they did not usually reveal their true identities.

Furthermore, Luo Yuan believed that those powerful individuals belonging to independent universes could certainly be provided with better growth opportunities by these inheritors. Therefore, it was not possible to completely regard all the powerful individuals in the universe as the enemy. Moreover, after so many years of continuous infiltration, Luo Yuan believed that many of the higher-ups among these forces might actually be those super-powerful individuals from their own universes, and had established considerable powerful forces here.

The purpose of doing this is to better obtain more resources in this universe, and at the same time, to help these inheritors better complete their trials. Just as Luo Yuan was thinking about various issues, a huge virtual panel suddenly appeared in the void, with a dense list of names on it.

Luo Yuan knew that this was an automatic arrangement, allowing the geniuses who had come to participate in the battle to fight each other. This also meant that this battle of geniuses was about to begin, but the methods used were very similar to those in Luo Yuan's original independent universe.

Because there are too many people participating in this battle of geniuses, it is impossible to adopt a one-on-one battle mode, as this mode can only be used when there are a small number of participants. Therefore, in the initial selection, only a free-for-all mode can be adopted.

There are tens of thousands of arenas on this vast platform, and each arena can accommodate millions of geniuses to fight. This means that the first battle is to stand out from millions of geniuses and become the final victor, which is very difficult.

However, for Luo Yuan and the other inheritors who had participated in this mode before, it didn't feel strange at all. On the contrary, they found it very interesting. After all, Luo Yuan and the others were very used to this mode. Although they felt a lot of pressure at the beginning, as the battle continued, they found themselves becoming more and more at ease in the process.

On the contrary, most of the local powerhouses who came to participate in this battle of geniuses seemed a little flustered. After all, this was the first time they had participated in a battle of this scale, and it was a chaotic situation with millions of people fighting at the same time. During the battle, they had to face attacks from all directions at any time, which was extremely dangerous. One careless move could mean certain death.

Such battles of geniuses are essentially life-or-death struggles. Participants are notified beforehand that if they perish in the battle, it is only due to their own lack of strength, and there will be no compensation. Therefore, participants need to be mentally prepared and have the resolve to perish at any time before participating in the battle of geniuses; otherwise, they will not have the courage to participate.

However, Luo Yuan discovered that most of the local powerhouses here did not have much of this kind of brutal competition and battle. Even those scions of aristocratic families who had seen some great scenes felt fear. After all, it was not difficult for them to reach the current God King realm because of their innate advantages, so they lacked life-and-death trials. But it was different for inheritors like Luo Yuan.

The inheritors are basically all fighters who have fought their way up from the bottom. Their current strength is all due to their hard work and cultivation. They have gone through countless brutal battles to achieve their current status. Therefore, they can remain calm and maintain peak combat power when facing such battles. Of course, not all local strongmen are so weak. There are still some true geniuses among them.

These geniuses had actually grown to their current level through various battles. Some of the local geniuses even had combat experience comparable to their inheritors. Luo Yuan also observed them constantly during the battles, recording information about the local powerhouses who performed well, and then observing their combat methods and their level of control over the rules of the universe.

Although Luo Yuan has now comprehended most of the supreme inheritance he has obtained, it is still quite difficult for him to fully master it. After all, his realm has not yet reached that level, so he can only rely on external forces to speed up the process of mastering it. However, he found that his efficiency in mastering it in his own universe is not very high. This is because his universe is now very complete and has no obvious flaws.

But when Luo Yuan arrived in this broken, independent universe, he finally understood why he couldn't accelerate his mastery of the rules before. It was because of the suppression of the universe's rules themselves, as well as the existence of universe controllers and sovereign-level powerhouses. As long as these super powerhouses existed, the universe's rules could be hidden and suppressed.

In fact, for rulers and controllers of the universe, the rules of the universe are the source of their power. They are not willing to lend such power to other powerful beings because that would weaken their own power. If Luo Yuan and others were not their inheritors, they would not even have the qualification to comprehend the supreme rules of the universe. No matter how strong their talents are, they would not have the opportunity to control them.

However, the inheritors are only granted certain permissions so that they can use the power of the universe's rules within a limited scope. Moreover, once these inheritors pose a threat to beings above the level of universe controllers or are detrimental to them, such abilities will be immediately stripped away, because such power originally did not belong to the inheritors.

Therefore, Luo Yuan and the other inheritors cannot use the power of the rules from their original independent universe during the battle. This would be equivalent to telling all the strong people present that they are not native to this independent universe, but outsiders. Not to mention how they would be treated, they would even lose their eligibility for this genius battle.

They might be asked to leave by the native super-strong beings of this independent universe. If they encounter super-strong beings with greedy intentions, they might set traps for them, sending them to dangerous areas for adventure. Then, after these inheritors perish, they can obtain all their treasures, thus avoiding any future troubles.

Moreover, it is extremely difficult for inheritors to cross universes and utilize the power of cosmic rules, and the energy consumed is enormous. Under such circumstances, the combat power of inheritors like Luo Yuan will be limited. At their strongest, they can only unleash power comparable to the creator god, and this is only after combining various methods.

However, the inheritors are generally much stronger than most geniuses in this independent universe. Unless they encounter a true prodigy in this universe, they will face great challenges. Both the current broken independent universe and the independent universe where Luo Yuan originally lived belong to the fifth-level civilization universe, so everyone's status is the same. Therefore, it is not surprising that there are quite a few geniuses.

The difference lies in the peak combat power of the two universes. In fact, the overlap between the two universes occurred long ago, which led to the battle between the peak experts. However, in the end, the experts of the independent universe where Luo Yuan was located were stronger and thus won, which is why they occupied this independent universe and turned it into a resource universe.

If it had been Luo Yuan's universe that had failed, their fate would be no different from that of the native powerhouses in this independent universe, or even more tragic. This is because the super powerhouses in Luo Yuan's universe were relatively merciful and did not attack most of the powerhouses in this independent universe; otherwise, there would have been widespread devastation.

Luo Yuan was still fighting, but after observing, he realized that he seemed to be the only inheritor on the arena. Although these inheritors had hidden their identities, it was not difficult to find out their true identities as fellow inheritors. However, they would not reveal themselves openly, as they were all there to grab resources. How much resources they could obtain depended on their individual abilities.

However, the boy that Luo Yuan replaced was someone without any background and had not learned any powerful techniques. Therefore, Luo Yuan could not use overly powerful techniques during the battle, otherwise it would not fit the character setting. Fortunately, Luo Yuan created a lot of techniques, and he never used them in front of others.

Even if Luo Yuan were to unleash these abilities now, although it would attract the attention of the super-strong spectators, they would only think that Luo Yuan was incredibly talented and capable of creating powerful secret techniques. After all, there are many geniuses like him, so Luo Yuan's combat power would not be weakened much. However, Xu Changsheng could not unleash any overly heaven-defying methods.

Moreover, the methods Luo Yuan uses need to conform to the rules and power of the independent universe in order to exert their power; otherwise, they are just empty gestures. This requires a deep understanding and control of the rules of this independent universe. This is not difficult for Luo Yuan and other inheritors, after all, everyone has gone through this process.

During his stay in Xiaoshi Village, Luo Yuan spent most of his time comprehending and mastering the rules of this universe. Although the rules were quite different from those of Luo Yuan's own universe, the methods of mastering them were the same. Therefore, Luo Yuan mastered them very efficiently. Otherwise, the boy he replaced would have been eliminated in the very beginning of the battle.

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Chapter 794 Improvement

In fact, although there are millions of geniuses from different places on this arena, the number of them who can actually fight to the end with inheritors like Luo Yuan is very small. At least the pressure Luo Yuan felt when he participated in the genius battle organized by the universe controller was much less.

Therefore, during the battle, he still had spare time to think about various information and integrate it to arrive at the most advantageous information for himself. Moreover, Luo Yuan would pay special attention to those outstanding local geniuses, because these geniuses generally possessed very good skills and were naturally geniuses from powerful forces.

If Luo Yuan wanted to learn more detailed information about this independent universe, then these geniuses would be of great value to him. On the contrary, those geniuses from ordinary backgrounds actually knew very little information. Perhaps some of those ordinary geniuses had quite good talent and potential.

However, due to the influence of their environment, they have always found it difficult to unleash their full potential, so their growth rate is very slow. Although Luo Yuan feels a little sorry for such geniuses, he will not help them. After all, Luo Yuan has no relation to them and comes from different universes. Therefore, Luo Yuan does not pay too much attention to these people.

In the initial battles, Luo Yuan could also gain a deeper understanding of their universe by fighting alongside those local geniuses, and he could also develop a clearer understanding of the strength and methods possessed by these geniuses.

The main reason is that these are geniuses from different universes. Because their environments and the rules of the universe they live under are completely different, their cultivation systems and methods are also very different. Luo Yuan can only imitate their abilities after he understands them better.

After all, Luo Yuan didn't want to reveal his true identity. Previously, he couldn't use the various powerful forces and methods he possessed. Even some of the methods he created himself were limited to lower-level techniques.

Given Luo Yuan's current status, it would be very strange if he were to unleash inherited techniques beyond what he is capable of accessing. Moreover, even if Luo Yuan possesses excellent creative abilities and can create powerful techniques based on his own understanding, it would be problematic.

However, these methods are limited due to the difference in status. If they can only keep Luo Yuan in his normal fighting mode, it is not a problem. But it would be very difficult to defeat those geniuses with powerful methods and inheritances. They would immediately arouse the suspicion of these local super strong people.

Therefore, Luo Yuan felt that he could observe the various methods possessed by these local prodigies, master them, and integrate them into his own self-created methods to obtain even more powerful techniques. This would not only demonstrate Luo Yuan's strong creativity and comprehension abilities.

At the same time, it will also prevent all the high-ranking figures observing the battle from having too many doubts. Instead, they will attach great importance to Luo Yuan's abilities. No matter in any universe, a genius who can create and comprehend various powerful methods and transform them into powerful combat strength is far superior to those geniuses who become stronger by learning the inherited methods given by other strong individuals.

Only such geniuses can grow faster and gain more power. No matter what kind of inheritance, there is always an end to cultivation. So in the end, you still have to rely on yourself. This will show the advantage of a strong person with creative ability. Luo Yuan wants to use this method to create such a persona for himself.

Because Luo Yuan felt that as he came into contact with more and more information and powerful people, he would need to have even stronger abilities in order to continue and gain a higher status and resources. Therefore, he had to demonstrate abilities that were different from those of other powerful people.

Moreover, it is an irreplaceable and super-powerful ability, which allows him to maintain his advantage and also explains why his combat power is much stronger than that of other strong individuals of the same level. On the arena where Luo Yuan was located, as the battle continued.

The number of strong individuals who could persevere to the end was decreasing, and most of the geniuses who participated were actually people from small places. They had never witnessed such a brutal battle scene, so many were too frightened to move by the scene before them, and some were even eliminated during the battle. However, many more strong individuals chose to withdraw after noticing the situation.

Because this battle did not guarantee that these geniuses would not be in mortal danger, the result was that if they did not choose to withdraw immediately, they might perish here. In that case, they could only blame themselves for not being strong enough, and no one would stand up for them.

Since they dared to participate in the battle of geniuses, they had to be prepared for a life-or-death struggle, as they might perish at any moment. This is the danger of the genius selection battle, and it is precisely because of such rules that outstanding experts continue to emerge.

After all, any strong person can only truly grow through life-and-death trials. Only in such an environment can they develop their greatest strengths and potential. Therefore, after the number of combat geniuses decreased, in the end, there were less than a thousand left.

Moreover, these thousands of people all possessed certain skills. Regardless of their origins, it indicated that they had relevant lineages and their status was far beyond that of the geniuses from small villages. Of course, Luo Yuan felt that fighting against these geniuses with their lineages and skills would be far more interesting.

This is because it is more beneficial to his growth and allows him to understand more accurately the power contained in the rules of this universe. He can continuously integrate it and make his various combat methods stronger. When these geniuses join the battle, they will enter their relevant information into the system.

Therefore, anyone watching can check at any time and naturally know the origins of these geniuses. That's why Luo Yuan has been able to persist until now without showing any signs of weakness, and he has also been constantly learning various techniques from others and integrating them into his own cultivation system during the battle.

Moreover, he grew stronger with each battle, an ability that immediately attracted a lot of attention, and they all began to investigate Luo Yuan's background. Originally, many people thought that Luo Yuan was a genius from some super power, but after checking Luo Yuan's information, they found that Luo Yuan was just an ordinary villager from a small village, but he had already reached the cultivation level of a peak God King at such a young age.

However, the combat power displayed during the battle had definitely reached the Hunyuan level. Everyone knew that the God-King level and the Hunyuan level were completely different concepts. The difference between them was not just a difference in cultivation level, but rather a huge difference in life level and control over the rules of the universe.

It can be said that any Hunyuan level expert can easily deal with a God King level expert. However, it is very difficult for a God King level expert to turn the tables and deal with a Hunyuan level expert. This is because to improve such a method, one must have a powerful inheritance and possess excellent abilities.

If a genius from a powerful force could achieve this, it wouldn't be surprising. But if he came from an ordinary village, it would seem very strange. Therefore, many powerful figures began to suspect that Luo Yuan might have encountered some powerful opportunity, which allowed him to obtain inherited power that ordinary geniuses could not access.

However, through close observation of Luo Yuan's battles, they discovered that this was not the case. Luo Yuan deliberately only displayed the most basic combat abilities, and during the battle, he continuously incorporated the techniques that geniuses could demonstrate, thus making his combat abilities stronger and stronger. In particular, Luo Yuan's combat experience was extremely rich, far surpassing most of the geniuses present.

In fact, these aspects show that Luo Yuan is an outstanding genius. Even if the Luo Tian Sect did not make Luo Yuan its core member, the imperial forces would still try to recruit him, because the talent and ability he showed were indeed worth their efforts to win him over.

After Luo Yuan demonstrated these abilities, his original persona of an ordinary individual actually gave him more advantages. Despite the harsh environment and lack of cultivation resources and inheritance, he was able to persevere until now and become stronger and stronger, which in itself demonstrated what Luo Yuan possessed.

His talent and abilities far surpass those of so-called geniuses. If he were given the appropriate resources to nurture him, his growth rate might be even faster, and his strength might be even greater. However, it's still difficult to say what kind of achievements Luo Yuan will ultimately make based on his current combat power.

Therefore, everyone had high expectations for Luo Yuan, which made the previously unknown Luo Yuan one of the many geniuses who received attention. However, Luo Yuan was not interested in these things at all, because he was comprehending various attack methods in the process of constantly fighting with these local powerhouses.

In particular, by drawing upon the rules and power represented by this universe, one can increase their control over their own heritage more and more rapidly. If one wants to master something unfamiliar, it will be very troublesome because one needs to start from scratch to comprehend and control it.

However, if one can learn from someone of equal caliber, it will be easier to control them. This applies everywhere. That's why Luo Yuan fights with these so-called geniuses. But in his opinion, among these geniuses on the same platform as him, there are no more than two or three who can reach his level.

After all, Luo Yuan and his successors are unique beings who emerge only through constant battles in each multiverse. They are arguably more outstanding than any genius, otherwise they would not have been chosen by the universe's controllers and bestowed with powerful inheritances. However, Luo Yuan also knows that one cannot underestimate the geniuses in independent universes.

Because their universe-level existence is far more powerful than the multiverse Luo Yuan originally resided in, there are still some geniuses who are at the same level as these inheritors, but such a number is certainly not many.

However, these geniuses gathered here cannot be strictly considered as all the geniuses in the independent universe, because the Luo Tian Sect is just one force in the independent universe. Although it ranks relatively high, it cannot represent all forces.

So, it's impossible for the Luo Tian Sect to gather all the super geniuses in the entire independent universe in this genius selection battle. However, among so many geniuses, there must be some with excellent strength and talent. Luo Yuan discovered that there were indeed a few with corresponding methods. He didn't know what kind of force these geniuses came from, but they were at least weaker than the Luo Tian Sect.

Furthermore, Luo Yuan even suspected that the inheritors he had chosen might be people from the same universe who had come to train, but these people were very good at disguising themselves. For these inheritors, it would be relatively easy to adapt to the rules of this universe in a short period of time and develop some powerful methods.

If one cannot acquire extremely powerful techniques in a short period of time, then one can continuously improve one's abilities through battles with other strong individuals. Of course, if everyone gathers together, they can also gain an opportunity to improve and learn from each other through battles, since the various techniques they comprehend are still different.

Furthermore, Luo Yuan believes that the longer everyone lives in this universe, the more perfectly they will integrate, and at that time it may become truly difficult to see through each other's identities. This is also an important reason why these inheritors initially chose to use small forces or ordinary identities to begin their journey.

If you want to join a powerful force from the beginning, not only is it very difficult, but if you make your presence too obvious, your true identity may be discovered immediately by those super strong people. It's hard to say what kind of danger you will face then. If you can continuously improve and integrate your abilities from the beginning, it's better to do so.

Then, by gradually reducing the differences between yourself and the local powerhouses of this world, and even to the point of complete integration, you can perfectly conceal your identity. Once you reach that level, you can start choosing to join a powerful force.

As long as one can obtain the corresponding identity among those powerful forces and continuously improve one's status, it will be much easier to obtain what one wants. Moreover, the longer one can preserve this identity, the greater the benefits will be. Otherwise, if the local powerhouses discover from the beginning that one is an inheritor from outside, it will be much more difficult.

Then they will face all sorts of difficulties, and may even perish here. So everyone can only be more careful. The super strong beings in this universe dare not have any ability or thought to resist the ruler and controller of the universe where Luo Yuan and his group are located.

However, dealing with these inheritors from other independent universes is relatively easy. Although these inheritors possess very powerful talents, they have not yet truly grown up. Therefore, it is necessary to keep a low profile before that. Moreover, if they want to truly grow, they can only rely on themselves.

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Chapter 795 Performance

As the battle dragged on, Luo Yuan noticed that fewer and fewer strong individuals remained on the same arena as him, while his friends' strength was increasing. This was because only the strongest could persist until now; otherwise, they would have perished in the battle or simply surrendered and withdrawn.

Soon, Luo Yuan discovered that there were less than ten people left on his arena, and these people all possessed combat power similar to his own. In other words, these ten people already possessed combat power comparable to the inheritor of the Multiverse. Luo Yuan did not know how many such inheritors were on the other arenas.

However, based on the current situation, the number of inheritors among the geniuses gathered here must be no less than several hundred thousand. Of course, Luo Yuan was not particularly surprised by this situation, because according to the level of this independent universe, the number of inheritors it possesses would only be more.

However, since their rulers and universe controllers have all fallen, they no longer hold grand talent selection battles. Now it has simply become a way for various forces to select talents. Originally, a normal independent universe should have a very strict hierarchy and establish corresponding status and quotas according to the rules of the universe, so that the universe can operate normally.

However, this independent universe has been interfered with by other universes, which has caused a huge change in its operating mode. It has become a world controlled by major super powers. Some of these powerful powers can even directly control many multiverses, and there is a very strict ranking among these powers.

This is because they control different territories, so they can have different levels in the process of selecting geniuses, and naturally they can obtain corresponding resources. Therefore, the stronger their power, the more resources and geniuses they can collect, and through continuous cultivation, they can always maintain their original strength.