Chapter 606: Clear Peak Secret Realm Opens! The Goddess Ruins Space!

The super-city of Moben is broadly divided into five districts.

Four city districts to the east, south, west, and north, plus the central district right in the middle.

Among them, the central district is the most prosperous, with the East District coming second.

Caesar Square is one of the most bustling scenic spots in the East District.

It wasn't even seven in the morning yet, and there were already some tourists who had come to sightsee.

And among the crowd sitting on the benches around Caesar Square, one girl stood out the most.

The girl had delicate features, a head of smooth golden long hair, and emerald-green eyes as clear as spring water.

She wore simple casual clothes, and beneath her shorts a pair of slender long legs, white enough to dazzle the eye.

Bathed in sunlight, her whole being radiated a faint, sacred aura.

Making passersby nearby turn their heads again and again.

This girl was none other than Catherine, whom Xu Jingming had seen in the virtual world just last night.

"Hm? She's come to Moben too?" Xu Jingming was a little surprised.

But honestly, Catherine without her preaching really was sacred and beautiful.

He thought it over — they'd be getting on the plane together later anyway — so he went over and said hello.

"Xu Jingming?"

Seeing Xu Jingming suddenly appear before her, Catherine was first stunned, then her eyes lit up at once.

She sprang up from the bench with a whoosh, her legs ramrod straight:

"May the Holy Light——"

Halfway through her words, she suddenly recalled Xu Jingming's decisive rejection last night, and forced herself to stop.

But she and Xu Jingming weren't all that close, and once she stopped, she didn't know what to say.

Her rosy little mouth parted slightly, but she just stared blankly at Xu Jingming, unable to speak.

Xu Jingming found it amusing.

This girl looked proud and aloof on the surface, but in reality she was not only chuunibyou, but also a bit adorably dim.

He wondered if it was because she'd stayed at the North Pole for so long.

"Yo, my lord the Goddess, not going to keep preaching this time?" Xu Jingming teased.

After the Genius Tournament, Catherine had displayed a twelve-winged angel form.

In the public's way of addressing her, she had already been promoted from Saint to Goddess.

"Plain preaching is meaningless to you. Once I think of some other way, I'll come find you to preach again."

Catherine said with a light sniff.

She had already given up originally, but since Xu Jingming was also here on Dayangzhou,

she'd have plenty of chances later to think of other ways.

"Is that so? Then I'm actually looking forward to it." Xu Jingming took the cue and sat down on the bench.

Catherine glanced at Xu Jingming, and for the moment couldn't find anything to say either, so she sat down beside him as well.

Xu Jingming had originally thought there shouldn't be many people here on Dayangzhou.

But half an hour later, quite a number of people had actually gathered, one after another.

"Ming-ge! Good morning!"

"Lin-jie! Good morning to you too."

These people had also spotted Xu Jingming and Catherine, and one by one greeted them, some in Daxia language, some in English.

By the time the Obsidian-grade fighter jet sent to pick them up landed on the square, twelve people were already waiting here.

"Looks like coming to Dayangzhou for training really is the unanimous choice of the prodigies."

Xu Jingming said silently to himself.

Only he didn't see Su Yu or Andrey among these people.

"Come on up. We still need to pick up a few more people in Nixi."

To ensure the prodigies' safety as much as possible, the pilot of the Obsidian-grade fighter jet was a ninth-tier ability user.

Once Xu Jingming and the others had all boarded the jet, it flew toward another super-city, Nixi.

After picking up four more people, it then continued flying toward the Kingdom of Maidan in the European Union.

By the time it arrived in Maidan, it was already 10 p. m. local time.

Denmark was originally an island nation, and the place where Xu Jingming landed was even more so a small island called "Stone Island."

When the group stepped off the fighter jet, every single one of them was stunned by the beautiful scenery before them.

In the night sky, a bright moon hung suspended, its clear, cool moonlight spilling across the sea.

The rippling seawater shimmered with silver light, the reflected moonlight playing off one another in dazzling harmony.

The sea breeze blew over from afar, bringing with it a faint scent of salt water; everything was so peaceful, so lovely.

"How wonderful." Stepping off the jet, Xu Jingming couldn't help but sigh softly in admiration.

It wasn't that he had never seen the sea — last time, when he took a warship to Sakura Country, he had already seen more than enough.

But a sea this beautiful, he was seeing for the first time.

More crucially, beneath the seawater, not a single shadow of a fierce beast could be seen!

That was truly rare and precious.

"There are large sulfur trenches beneath the Kingdom of Maidan. The sulfur that seeps out makes fierce beasts unwilling to approach this area.

Otherwise, the Kingdom of Maidan would have fallen in the early stages of the beast-tide invasion.

And you wouldn't have been able to see this kind of calm sea surface that only existed before the fierce beasts invaded."

The ninth-rank powerhouse who stepped down from the obsidian-class warplane said with a smile:

"Your lodgings are over there. The room numbers have already been sent to each of your smart wristbands.

Tomorrow morning at 9 a. m., the Clear Peak Secret Realm will open on this beach. Just arrive a little early."

"Yes." Xu Jingming and the others all nodded.

Right behind them stood a building over a hundred meters tall, with lights on in most of its rooms.

Xu Jingming entered his room, washed up, and immediately went to bed to rest.

This time he would be staying in the Clear Peak Secret Realm for a full month, so he had to be well-rested.

The next day, Xu Jingming put on all his equipment and arrived at the beach early.

The remaining top-100 prodigies also arrived one after another, tacitly grouping themselves by nation.

The Great Xia side had twenty-one people in total, led by Xu Jingming and Su Yu.

The American side had twenty-four people, led by Catherine.

Some prodigies from smaller, friendlier nations — like Sakuragi Rin — stood alongside them as well.

As the time neared nine o'clock, Norton, who had once appeared in the virtual world, walked over from afar.

Behind him followed three additional ninth-rank ability users.

Although all were ninth-rank, it was plainly obvious that they all took the S-rank Norton as their leader.

Their figures flickered, and in just a few breaths they had crossed several hundred meters to stand before the crowd.

Norton, at their head, spoke: "Everyone! The rewards for this Clear Peak Secret Realm span a full month.

Besides the three great opportunities I mentioned, the Clear Peak Secret Realm also holds dangers.

A large number of fierce beasts live throughout the entire secret realm.

However, unlike the fierce beasts outside, these ones will not actively attack human ability users.

Of course, if you choose to hunt them, they will resist as well.

Any injuries or deaths during this period are not the responsibility of the official Genius Tournament organizers. All prodigies, please act with caution once you enter the Clear Peak Secret Realm."

If the fierce beasts don't even attack, and you still get hurt — or even die — then you really have only yourself to blame.

"Then next, the Clear Peak Secret Realm officially opens!"

A stone was taken out by Norton from his spatial ring, and the entire stone immediately radiated astonishing spatial power!

Whoosh—

The space above the sea churned violently, and in just a moment a vision emerged, hazy, like another world entirely.

At that moment, Eva's voice suddenly sounded in Xu Jingming's heart:

"Oh? S-rank... this place looks like the remains of the Flower God!"