Chapter 123: Trial's End

Over a million participants, looking from afar at the central plaza's screens, there are now only four screens.

Because only four people are still continuing the trial.

The four screens correspond respectively to: the "Death God" Bo Lan of the Noah Universe Country, the "Blood Edge" Kandi Ta of the Nine Flames Universe Country, the "Sword of Life" Yifeng of the Ancient Wheel Universe Country, and the "Madman" Luo Feng of the Qian Wu Universe Country.

The Virtual Universe Company's official website even produced a promotional video specifically for the four of them. As the guaranteed first‑place contender of this trial, Xiao Yu's promotional video naturally remains at the very top of the homepage.

However, the video is merely a clip of Xiao Yu's battle when he passed the first floor of the seventh tower.

For the utmost geniuses, appropriate publicity while keeping information confidential is what the Virtual Universe Company has always done.

……

Citizens far away in the Qian Wu Universe Country have already boiled with excitement, and the Black Dragon Mountain Empire is even more frantic!

This time the Virtual Universe Company is recruiting core members; among the 1,008 universe nations of humanity, there are only 1,000 slots in total, so each nation doesn't even get one.

Yet the Black Dragon Mountain Empire, a medium‑level civilization, manages to have at least two people with slots each time—what an honor!

"Xiao Yu!"

"Xiao Yu, the eternal god!"

"Madman Luo Feng!"

"They are ours of the Black Dragon Mountain Empire!"

"Luo Feng rushes into the top ten!"

……

In the center of the plaza, over a million geniuses gather, staring at the battle scenes on the four screens.

The Death God Bo Lan breezed through the seventh floor of the sixth tower, looking quite relaxed.

"I wonder if he'll make it through."

"The blood‑haired mammoths of the seventh trial tower are unbelievably strong! Ten thousand of them, each one far stronger than me!" Hong exclaimed.

"Hmm, the seventh tower is designed only for the rare geniuses of the billion‑year era," Xiao Yu said with a smile.

"Then you still created a miracle and became a legend!" Ye Ren Rong Jun whispered.

After many days of contact, Xiao Yu gradually came to understand Ye Ren Rong Jun, and the two slowly began to become friends.

"Bo Lan is injured!"

Someone shouted, and Xiao Yu, Hong and the others' gazes all shifted to the Death God Bo Lan's battle footage.

On the screen.

Amid the sky‑covering onslaught and trampling of countless raging blood‑haired mammoths, a thousand white‑robed youths instantly materialized, each incredibly lifelike, with cyan aura spreading within a certain radius around them.

That cyan aura forms an absolute domain for the white‑robed youths, allowing them to draw swords from any point.

Sword Light is icy!

Each sword slash seems to slice the very space!

Each slash pierces the vital heads of the blood‑haired mammoths, blood splattering again and again.

Suddenly, a tusk of a blood‑haired mammoth pierces the Death God Bo Lan's arm, blood spraying, and all the phantasmal bodies vanish.

As the fight continued, Bo Lan's injuries grew heavier, and after slaying 5,612 blood‑haired mammoths, he was trampled to death.

"What a pity!"

"Perhaps if he were more careful, he could pass this first floor."

The Death God Bo Lan halted at the first floor of the seventh trial tower.

Shortly after, Blood Edge Kandi Ta also stopped at the fifth floor of the fifth trial tower.

Then Yifeng from the Ancient Wheel Universe Country, having grasped the Fundamental Laws of Wood and Wind, after slaying 100 Mechanical Puppets on the fifth floor of the fifth trial tower, was teleported to the sixth floor, where he faced the Starlit Beast Cang that had entered the Fundamental Law of Gold; after killing three Cang, Yifeng was defeated.

"Only Luo Feng remains!"

"Look, Luo Feng has already slain ten Starlit Beasts Cang on the sixth floor of the five towers. He has teleported into the seventh floor."

……

Trial space.

The seventh floor of the fifth trial tower.

Life‑or‑death moment!

Luo Feng faces the sky‑covering, frenzied onslaught of Insect Race from all directions, as if witnessing himself being devoured into mush.

Twenty minutes have passed; of the original 3,000 green mantises, only 483 remain.

"Bad, they're blood mantises!"

These blood mantises are far more ferocious than the green mantises of the Insect Race, not even the same tier; this time the Insect Tribe Mother Nest released 100 blood mantises.

These blood mantises are not only powerful but also possess leadership; 583 Insect Race individuals quickly form 100 insect squads, coordinating together.

Luo Feng steps on a dark‑cloud shuttle, instantly becoming eight phantasms, wielding nine golden short swords at the limit of his mental force, battling the leading insect squads of 100 blood mantises with reckless ferocity.

In just five minutes, Luo Feng's right arm is severed, his complexion turns pale, and his mental force consumption is enormous.

In a life‑or‑death crisis.

Luo Feng senses a familiar Origin spatial fluctuation, detecting a square domain forming within a certain radius, like a nine‑grid, and the ninth phantasm appears around him!

The nine phantasms arrange in a nine‑grid pattern, instantly boosting efficiency more than tenfold.

"Nine‑Line Flow, ha ha, Nine‑Line Flow! It's finally formed!"

Luo Feng feels exhilarated, his movements become bizarrely swift, the golden phantom swords turn inscrutable, each blade razor‑sharp; he quickly slays nearly all the Insect Race, then lightning‑fast cleaves the Insect Tribe Mother Nest, grievously wounding the Insect Queen, rests a half a day to recover, and then directly kills the queen!

"Next trial tower!"

……

In the central plaza, a million geniuses look up at Luo Feng's battle footage on the screen.

"Breakthrough in combat! Luo Feng's battle talent is excellent!"

He actually grasped the Nine‑Line Flow; this Luo Feng is definitely a strong opponent.

This year, Qian Wu Universe Country produced so many talents!

The difficulty of this sixth tower spiked, and Luo Feng can only stop here.

In the end, Luo Feng killed 7,992 blood‑furred mammoths, and, like the previous third‑place—seventh‑place contestant, stopped at the first floor of the sixth Trial Tower, ranking third overall, after Death God Bo Lan.

Through spatial translocation, Luo Feng appeared in the plaza.

"Fourth, over here," Hong shouted loudly.

Luo Feng saw Hong and Xiao Yu at the edge of the plaza and hurried over.

"Luo Feng, congratulations!"

"Congratulations!"

Suddenly.

"Xiao Yu, Luo Feng, Rong Jun, follow me." A deep voice sounded in the ear, and a scale‑armored battle‑robe giant instantly arrived at the Qian Wu Talent Team, simultaneously shouting, "Everyone return to your quarters."

One thousand eight talent squads, under the guidance of the Immortal, returned to their respective quarters.

First floor of Building No. 0825.

One thousand talents of Qian Wu Universe Country stood in the lobby; the scale‑armored battle‑robe giant loomed above, exuding pressure, and each talent dared not speak.

"This time, our Qian Wu Universe Country team performed excellently, and the Nation Lord is very pleased!" The scale‑armored battle‑robe giant's voice echoed throughout the first‑floor hall, "Besides Xiao Yu, Luo Feng, and Rong Jun, who ranked within the top 100 and directly earned qualification for the core layer of Virtual Universe Company, Hong and three others also placed within the top 7,300, qualifying them to compete for the final 900 slots."

"Except for these seven, all of you, the Peak Talent War ends here," the thirteenth scale‑armored battle‑robe giant said, "Xiao Yu, Luo Feng, you seven follow me."

……

When the entire universe boiled for Xiao Yu, the whole Qian Wu Universe Country went crazy for Xiao Yu, Luo Feng, and Rong Jun.

The Emperor of Black Dragon Mountain Empire personally announced: Xiao Yu, Luo Feng, and Hong all hail from Black Dragon Mountain Empire; I have decided to officially grant the Galaxy Star System to Xiao Yu, the Valley Wind Thunder Star System to Luo Feng, and the Heavenly Splendor Horn Star System to Hong.

This news sparked a strong reaction throughout Qian Wu Universe Country, and many factions were moved by the Emperor of Black Dragon Mountain Empire's grand gesture.

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