Chapter 138: Surrounded on All Sides, You Don't Think Ye Bai Can Take First, Do You?

At the same time.

In all cities within the Jiangnan Prefecture, such as Beicheng and Ningcheng.

The students of the Genius Camp had also arrived early.

Waiting for the arrival of this Ladder Tournament!

And it is worth mentioning.

In the Genius Camps of Haicheng and Shengcheng, almost no one mentioned Ye Bai.

They felt that someone who only took first place in the second round of the Ranking Tournament by luck was not qualified to be compared with the King-level Prodigies of their cities.

But Ye Bai's name was mentioned much more frequently in the Genius Camps of cities like Beicheng and Ningcheng...

"Are you all clear on what you need to do for this Ladder Tournament?"

"I will repeat this one last time: at all costs, secure a top-five spot and fight for the top three—that is what you must do in this Ladder Tournament! How our city fares in the next ten years depends on the ranking you achieve this time!"

"Also, if you encounter Ye Bai from Jiangcheng during the Ladder Tournament, you must seize the opportunity to defeat him!"

"Ye Bai of Jiangcheng has great fame, but I am sure everyone knows that his fame is greatly inflated. By defeating him, you can step on his reputation and instantly become famous throughout the entire Jiangnan Prefecture!"

This was what the Instructor said after the students of the Beicheng Genius Camp gathered!

In cities like Ningcheng and Tiancheng, the Instructors' speeches expressed the same meaning!

The fact that Ye Bai created a miracle had already become known to everyone after eight days of fermentation!

Not only were the people of Haicheng and Shengcheng shocked, but many in other cities were also horrified by Ye Bai's terrifying rate of point growth and his final heaven-defying point total.

Then, the Instructors of the Genius Camps in various cities specifically studied Ye Bai and learned the "truth" behind how Ye Bai obtained his terrifying points!

Furthermore, although the specific rules of the Ladder Tournament had not yet been announced, it was obvious that there would inevitably be a segment where prodigies from different cities competed head-on.

Therefore, even though Ye Bai had never been to other cities, and 99 percent of people did not even know what Ye Bai looked like.

Ye Bai was still targeted by countless prodigies before the Ladder Tournament even began!

Targeted from all sides, surrounded by enemies on all fronts!

In such an atmosphere.

The Ladder Tournament, which would determine the resource allocation of Jiangnan Prefecture for the next ten years and also represented massive resources, officially arrived soon!

"Boom, boom!"

Unlike the Ranking Tournament.

The Genius Camp Instructors of each city did not take their students to any Dimensional Gate, but simply waited quietly inside the Genius Camp.

When the hour hand turned to the start time of the Ladder Tournament, eight o'clock in the morning.

A heaven-shaking roar suddenly erupted within the Genius Camp of every city!

In the central open space, a portal appeared out of thin air that looked incredibly similar to a Dimensional Gate, but its patterns were golden, and dragon-shaped reliefs were carved on both sides!

A Secret Realm!

Or rather, a Dimensional Gate controlled by humans!

A Different Space that human powerhouses had completely conquered, preventing the Three Great Alien Races from coming through the teleportation to the space inside this Dimensional Gate, and which had been modified by Martial Artists with spatial talents in cooperation with psychokinetic Martial Artists, allowing it to be fully controlled by humans!

Different Secret Realms have different functions based on their planning before construction.

Some are artificially created with various extreme environments to help students comprehend certain special Martial Techniques.

Some integrate the Martial Dao insights of multiple Grandmasters, allowing students to experience the wonders of the Grandmaster Realm at close range.

The Ladder Tournament of Jiangnan Prefecture was held within one such Secret Realm.

It was a Secret Realm jointly built by all the Martial Universities in Jiangnan Prefecture, capable of opening portals in all cities of Jiangnan Prefecture simultaneously, allowing prodigies from all over to gather in one place to compete and vie for victory!

"Now, everyone, put on your Bracelets and enter the Secret Realm!"

"Remember, the moment you enter the Secret Realm, this Ladder Tournament has officially begun!"

"No matter what the rules of this Ladder Tournament are, remember not to trust anyone from other cities! If you can, group up as much as possible! Unity is strength!"

The Genius Camp Instructors announced loudly.

The students of the Genius Camps in all cities stepped into the Secret Realm at the same time!

"Is this the rule for this Ladder Tournament?"

As the First Genius of Haicheng, Shangguan Yijian was naturally the first to enter the Secret Realm.

Carrying two long swords on his back, he smiled the moment he entered the Secret Realm.

His Bracelet had popped up with the specific rules of the Ladder Tournament, which no one had known before this.

The competition was divided into two stages.

There was nothing to say about the second stage.

It was a one-on-one arena battle where everyone had three chances to challenge; the winner would receive a win count, and the final ranking would be based on the number of wins and losses.

The key was the first stage of the Ladder Tournament, which adopted a point system!

Killing the Alien Race members that had been placed into the realm by the various Martial Universities in advance would grant points!

Those whose final point ranking reached the top fifty would be eligible to participate in the second stage!

It seemed very similar to the rules of the Ranking Tournament.

"But the difference is that in this first stage of the Ladder Tournament, not only can you plunder others' points, but you can even gift all your points to other students without any loss..."

The reason Shangguan Yijian smiled after reading the rules was simple.

If the rules were the same as the Ranking Tournament, he would worry that Ye Bai could show off again.

But being able to plunder and gift points without loss meant that he could not only have others from Haicheng help him gain points—since the final ranking of a city was based on the strongest prodigy of that city, with the rankings of other prodigies from that city excluded anyway.

He could even wait for Ye Bai's points to rise, find him, and directly plunder all his points!

"You, I'm talking to you, go hunt the Alien Race immediately, right now, and then give the points to me!"

As luck would have it, after Shangguan Yijian entered, there was no one around him; it was clear that everyone was randomly teleported to different locations upon entering the Secret Realm.

However, Shangguan Yijian had only walked a few hundred meters forward when he saw a prodigy from Haicheng!

"What do you mean by not speaking? Don't forget, your girlfriend is my woman now!"

"If you want me to go easier on her next time, then obediently ensure I reach first place!"

Even more coincidentally, the first Haicheng prodigy Shangguan Yijian encountered was the boyfriend of one of the school beauties...

For his own amusement, he had specifically ordered that school beauty not to break up with her boyfriend...

"Shangguan Yijian points: 60"

Just two minutes had passed, and Shangguan Yijian's points had already reached 60.

Directly ranking first!

"Shangguan Yijian points: 300"

In less than five minutes, because of his good luck, Shangguan Yijian found another Haicheng prodigy and was already at 300 points!

At the same time.

"Xuanyuan Mu points: 130"

Xuanyuan Mu only had 130 points!

"Ye Bai points: 100"

Ye Bai had one hundred points.

As for the others, many had not yet figured out the rules, or because this Secret Realm space was more than ten times larger than the space inside a normal Dimensional Gate, they were still at 0 points!

And it is worth mentioning.

Whenever each city holds a Ranking Tournament, it is broadcast live in its entirety.

This major event, which concerns the resource allocation of all cities for the next ten years, is of course also broadcast live in its entirety.

Moreover, this broadcast does not just display one Leaderboard!

At the same time the Ladder Tournament began, the Ladder Tournament live stream started simultaneously on the Martial Artist Association app of every city.

One could see that the screen was currently divided into hundreds of sections.

Each section displayed in real-time the environment where a participating prodigy was located!

The top right corner also displayed the number of Alien Race they had killed, as well as their current points!

"It's here, it's here, the Ladder Tournament we've waited so long for is finally here!"

"I'm here to cheer for the little hero Ye Bai!"

"Go little hero Ye Bai!"

"Little hero Ye Bai will definitely be able to take first place just like in the last Ranking Tournament!"

And the audience that flooded into the live stream the fastest were undoubtedly the people of Jiangcheng...

With the ID Fatty, the kind who is the first to post a bullet comment!

"Heh, no way, no way, surely no one actually thinks that Ye Bai from Jiangcheng can still take first place this time, right?"