Chapter 502: Day Seven! The Slaughter Begins!

"One contestant is worth 1 point. Killing a contestant grants you half of their points."

These rules are pretty much the same as the survival match rules of the National Collegiate League.

Only here there are no fierce beasts—every single one is an ability user."

After a moment's thought, Xu Jingming continued reading.

'Competition Zone 73 is a modern urban terrain, with a total area of one thousand square kilometers.

When the selection match reaches its final day, the entire zone will gradually shrink, only stopping once it reaches 100 kilometers.

All contestants, please pay attention to the remaining time and the changes in the map's area.'

"Competition Zone 73 is only a thousand square kilometers?" Xu Jingming was somewhat surprised.

A thousand square kilometers would absolutely be an extremely vast area for a million ordinary people.

But now, most of those in the zone are ability users whose burst speed exceeds several dozen meters per second.

An area of a thousand kilometers really can't be considered very large.

"But then again, if the area were too large, once a contestant killed enough opponents and racked up a large number of points,

then found some remote spot to hide in—wouldn't the selection match just turn into a game of hide-and-seek?"

Such behavior would absolutely go against the original intent of the selection match.

This much can be seen from the fact that on the match's final day, the zone's area shrinks.

"In the early stage of the match, killing one contestant basically only nets you 1 base point—the efficiency is too low.

Better to use this time to get familiar with the coordinated use of the Flowing Cloud Liuyun Jin Feng Qiang and the Extreme Glory Jiyao Jiyao Lei Huan."

With a grasp in the void, a two-meter-one-long Flowing Cloud Liuyun Jin Feng Qiang suddenly appeared in Xu Jingming's right hand.

Behind his head, a resplendent golden thunder ring slowly materialized.

From the time he obtained the Extreme Glory Jiyao Jiyao Lei Huan to the start of the Global Genius Exchange Match, less than a single day had passed.

His coordinated use of the two weapons couldn't yet be called especially proficient.

"But before that, let's clear out this building first—Doushen Shenlei!"

Crackle-crackle—

Resplendent golden thunder suddenly erupted from Xu Jingming's body, spreading outward from the living room to the floors above and below.

10th floor, 11th floor, 12th floor......

8th floor, 7th floor, 6th floor......

The thunder spared no floor, piercing straight through every one of them!

Seen from the outside,

the entire twenty-plus-story building had directly transformed into a resplendent golden thunder pillar!

The ability-user contestants who had just been teleported into the same building hadn't even had time to make a move

before they were ruthlessly devoured by the thunder, ground to ash, and eliminated from the match.

"What terrifying thunder!"

"There's definitely a sixth-rank lightning-system ability user in that building!"

"Run! Whoever's in there can't be provoked!"

"......"

The ability users who had just been teleported near the building stared at the terrifying golden thunder,

their faces suddenly changing as they scattered in all directions.

In a single competition zone, a sixth-rank ability user is someone who is absolutely guaranteed to advance.

No one was willing to provoke such a contestant right from the start.

'Name: Xu Jingming (Great Xia)

Competition Zone: Zone 73

Points: 43

Ranking: 547

Time Remaining: 9 days, 23 hours, 58 minutes

......'

Xu Jingming's point ranking suddenly changed, jumping straight into the top thousand of his zone.

"Although each competition zone has a million contestants, the vast majority are just weak, low-rank ability users......"

The instant he was teleported over, Xu Jingming's Heart Net had already locked onto the other 43 contestants inside the building.

Of those 43, 19 were merely Awakeners, and the rest were all just first-rank or second-rank ability users.

Only one person had reached the fifth rank.

A fifth-rank ability user might very well stand out from the selection match's million contestants and advance to the second stage.

But unfortunately, he ran into Xu Jingming.

His combat techniques and abilities never even had a chance to be displayed—in an instant, he was eliminated from the match.

This is the hallmark of the Genius Match: without sufficiently strong power,

a single burst of ability from a strong contestant is enough to eliminate you......

"With this, for the short term, no one should come disturb my practice with the elemental weapons."

Xu Jingming's gaze sharpened slightly, and he quickly immersed himself in training.

The Global Genius Exchange Match has the whole world's attention.

Especially the massive selection-match ranking board hanging in the sky above the virtual world—various powers have assigned dedicated personnel to monitor it around the clock.

The moment a prodigy whose ranking climbs rapidly appears, their name is immediately recorded.

Waiting until the selection tournament ends before recruiting is also a standard practice in previous Genius Competitions.

After all, lone-wolf prodigies who cultivate on their own without backing from any faction are rare, but not nonexistent.

Once there's a chance to recruit them in, it greatly benefits one's own faction.

As for prodigies like Xu Jingming, who already had a certain reputation before the Genius Competition began,

many factions are paying attention — among them factions from Great Xia, as well as factions from abroad.

In fact, the attention from foreign factions is even higher.

And Xu Jingming, apart from entering the top 1000 on the first day of the selection tournament,

in the following days his points barely changed at all, and his ranking rapidly dropped to a position near the very bottom.

Regarding this point, many of the people watching Xu Jingming didn't find it surprising.

Right at the start of the competition, the points gained from killing contestants are too low.

Many contestants who are confident in their own strength choose to make their move only after the competition reaches its later stages.

However,

this kind of approach also risks backfiring.

The ability users who survive to the later stages are basically all strong ones.

If you make your move at this time and get eliminated because your strength isn't enough, half your points will be plundered.

The remaining half of your points may well not be enough to enter the top 100 of your division, causing you to fail to advance.

Therefore, the most reliable method is still to strike right at the very start of the selection tournament.

Time rapidly slipped by, and soon the selection tournament had reached its seventh day.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!......

Inside the spacious room, the golden halo behind Xu Jingming's head spun.

The Doushen Shenlei, amplified through the Extreme Glory Thunder Halo, surged out in a continuous stream.

Coating his tall, slender frame with a layer of fierce, powerful Lei Ting electric web.

As his spear danced, sonic booms rang out one after another, as if one could hear the air itself wailing!

Hiss—

The spear was suddenly withdrawn, and a look of satisfaction appeared on Xu Jingming's resolute, rugged face.

After seven consecutive days of practice, his mastery of the Extreme Glory Thunder Halo — this lightning-element exclusive weapon — had already reached the point of perfect, effortless skill.

"Today is the seventh day of the selection tournament; the low-tier ability users should have mostly been eliminated by now.

The people who've survived until now basically all have a large amount of points on them.

In that case, it's time for me to make my move — and conveniently, just a few hundred meters away, there happen to be a few fifth-tier ability users......"

Stowing the Extreme Glory Thunder Halo and the Flowing Liu Yun Liuyun Jin Feng Qiang back into his spatial ring, Xu Jingming walked over to the window.

His knees bent slightly, then he suddenly exerted force!

Boom!

His entire body, like a leopard, leapt down from the ninth floor!