Chapter 103: Brazen

Xiao Yu lowered his head to look at the wrist‑armguard screen; this screen automatically receives numerous messages transmitted by the Virtual Universe Company.

The screen displayed Xiao Yu's ranking and points.

Participant: Xiao Yu (Black Dragon Mountain Empire)

Points: 0

Ranking: None

World Zone: World Zone 88

Time: The preliminary elimination lasts 30 days; when time is up, the preliminaries end, and the victor is decided by the points ranking at the final moment.

Points rule: Killing a contestant earns one point, and also half of the opponent's points!

Leaderboard rule: As long as you have points you have a rank; the dead may still rank within the top 1001.

A detailed leaderboard follows.

Xiao Yu did not check the subsequent leaderboard, but instead seized the moment and went to the rooftop balcony of the building.

It was a bustling city, with tower after tower, even more astonishing skyscrapers; the whole city was silent, devoid of any crowd.

Suddenly, a huge roar came from afar; Xiao Yu hurriedly looked, and a distant skyscraper's windows were shattered by two silhouettes, and those two people were floating in the air, fighting.

Now, compared with those who have just grasped a domain, or barely sensed a hint of a law, he was bullying juniors.

"Killing them one by one like this is so inefficient!" Xiao Yu lowered his head, pondering how to earn points faster.

Points: 15612

Ranking: 1862

World Zone: World Zone 88

"One point in hand!" Xiao Yu smiled faintly, "Although body quality and mind‑force are the same, the body's vibration differs; even without using a domain, the gap in law perception is huge."

In these five years of cultivation, Xiao Yu's progress was great, especially after reaching the Yuan Soul First Rank; the speed of grasping laws increased by thousands of times, and the essence of the Law of the Origin of Thunder was already understood about half; if he hadn't later focused on the Space Origin Law and the Time Origin Law, he would probably have already comprehended more than half of their essence.

The battle ended quickly; a man in black won, and as Xiao Yu turned to find his opponent, he saw a hulking strong man fly over from the neighboring rooftop balcony, his whole body clad in Force Armor forming a suit, helmet, and combat boots, each hand gripping an axe.

For an entire morning, Xiao Yu cleared an entire district, and only killed just over ten thousand people.

"No domain at all, yet so eager to strike!" Xiao Yu delightedly critiqued.

Participant: Xiao Yu (Black Dragon Mountain Empire)

"Ha ha!" Xiao Yu laughed, a three‑tier Force Weapon Sky Thunder Blade materialized in his hand, his body surged forward, a half‑meter‑wide hole appeared on the rooftop floor, and the Force Sword traced an arc, tearing the air; a blood line appeared on the hulking man's neck in mid‑air, and he fell.

Inside a single cabin of a spaceship, Xiao Dingguo, Xu Jingyi, Xiao Guoxuan and others, as well as two Xiao Rong and Xiao Ping, were watching the live broadcast.

In fact, the truly fast method is to kill those with high rankings, but the preliminaries have just begun, and even high‑ranked contestants have few points.

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In World Zone 88, all participants can fly up to nine thousand meters above ground; beyond that, an invisible membrane blocks further ascent.

To allow the world's environment to sustain for a month, all materials in the world—including cups, house doors and windows—were upgraded to B9 Level, yet Xiao Yu still stomped a huge hole through them.

"You're the first!" the hulking man laughed broadly.

Xiao Yu continuously scanned the city for any movement; any opponent he saw was instantly slain.

Above the membrane, ships drifted by slowly.

"Brother, amazing, we're already in the top thousand!" Xiao Rong exclaimed excitedly.

The eyes in the fallen hulking man's skull still held disbelief and shock.

"How many points do you have now?" Xiao Yu lowered his head to glance at his wrist‑armguard screen, which now displayed his current points.

"Brother is the strongest! The strongest in the world!" Xiao Ping said while jumping.

"Lei Shen is also strong; now he's entered the top hundred thousand," Xiao Guoxuan said, staring at the Earth six‑person leaderboard, "Hong and Luo Feng's rankings keep dropping, probably biding their time."

"What about big sister? Why can't I see big sister's ranking?" Xiao Ping asked concernedly.

"Your big sister's strength is lacking, so her ranking is lower," Xiao Guoxuan laughed.

"With so many strong ones, lasting a day is already pretty good," Xiao Dingguo said.

……

Xiao Yu fought his way to the tallest skyscraper at the city's center, the tower's summit standing 3,800 meters high.

From the Space Ring, Xiao Yu took out a massive‑power speaker; its sound could cover thousands of kilometers, enveloping the entire city.

"A bunch of trash!"

"You in City No. 103, you're all trash, only know to hide and crawl, not a single spark of a strong‑person's heart!"

"If you don't admit you're trash, come to the center of City No. 103, the highest building, to challenge me; I'll be waiting at the 3,800‑meter‑high rooftop!"

"As long as you dare to come, I'll admit you're not trash!"

The speaker broadcasted the message over and over.

This was the best way Xiao Yu could think of to lure monsters, commonly called taunting.

Surely these people could become star‑level, their minds were still steady enough not to be easily provoked by such words, but the population of City No. 103 exceeds ten million, so some would surely come to check.

"Who's this, so arrogant!" inside the skyscraper, a temporary nine‑person squad, a dark‑skinned, lean teen sneered.

"Leader, whoever it is, we'll go meet him." One of the nine, a youth clad in black Force Armor of ambiguous gender, spoke.

The nine swept away their previous caution, shattered the glass window, flew out, heading for the rooftop balcony.

At the same time, men and women who heard the shout rushed toward the city center.

Standing on the high rise, wearing a Golden Eye Mask, dressed in Blue Force Armor, each hand holding a Force Sword that constantly emitted strands of lightning from its blade, Xiao Yu watched the masters he had drawn.

"Ha ha, this is just too funny!"

Xiao Yu did not act proactively, fearing he might scare away the incoming opponents.

Soon the first arriving nine‑person squad reached the rooftop.

"Friend, such words are a bit excessive!" the lean teen shouted, then launched a Psychic Attack; the floating Mind‑force Weapon behind him turned silver and flew toward Xiao Yu.

The eight people behind him also launched their attacks almost simultaneously.

Xiao Yu moved, and the Nine-layer Domain instantly unfolded; the speed of those inside the Domain greatly decreased, while Xiao Yu almost instantly reached extreme speed.

"Domain!"

"Domain-level expert!"

Under the Nine-layer Thunder Electric Domain, and with the Sky Thunder Blade itself being based on the Thunder Origin Law, Xiao Yu easily avoided the attacks of the nine people, and the battle sword in his hand effortlessly slashed across their necks, leaving nine headless corpses.

Xiao Yu's figure did not linger, but flew toward the thousands of people in the distance who were enveloped by the Domain.

Bolts of lightning swept over thousands of figures, leaving thousands of silhouettes in free fall.

(End of chapter)