“The next step will be to transmit the rules of the finals to you. You can find the detailed rules on your wrist screens.”

The Nine Sword Ancestor said calmly with his hands behind his back.

The geniuses immediately lowered their heads and looked at the screens on their wrists, carefully studying the rules.

“Why is it like this?”

“Don’t we have any chance?”

“I have confidence in being in the top 100. Why won’t they let me fight?”

The geniuses exclaimed in shock, and many of them expressed their dissatisfaction.

“These rules are really outrageous!”

Luo Feng looked at the detailed rules on the screen and couldn’t help but be amazed.

It was clearly stated that the virtual universe would directly select 100 people from among the 900, and these 100 people would compete one-on-one with the top 100 in the trial space. The remaining 800 people would be eliminated directly!

Those people had fought all the way to this point, but they weren’t even given a chance to fight. They were directly eliminated and became one of the last, sent to the lowest end of the end-world secret realm. How could they accept this?

“Outrageous!”

“Foolish!”

“Do you think you can teach the virtual universe how to do things?”

“If it were Xu Zong or Bolan, it would be understandable. But you ordinary geniuses have no right to speak!”

Seeing those geniuses shouting recklessly, some immortals became angry and released their immortal pressure, pressing those people to the ground.

Bolan had the potential to become a king, and Xu Zong at least had the potential to become a venerable. Both of them would definitely become important figures in the virtual universe company. Even though they were only star-level now, their words carried weight.

You ordinary geniuses should be grateful if you can become immortals in the future. Do you even have the qualifications to teach the virtual universe company?

Xu Zong glanced around and noticed that most of them were from those immortal cosmic countries.

The Qianwu Cosmic Country didn’t have anyone causing trouble. Thirteen was sitting there peacefully, drinking wine and enjoying himself.

“If you don’t want to enter the virtual universe company, you can leave now.”

The Nine Sword Ancestor calmly glanced at the group of people, showing no signs of being provoked. He didn’t take them seriously.

No one spoke again. The troublemaker who had spoken earlier buried his head in the ground in fear.

Xu Zong and the others continued to watch the rules on the screen.

After the 200 people had competed one-on-one, the losers would directly enter the defeated group and enter the end-world secret realm with the other 800 people.

Then, among the victorious 100 people, the virtual universe would select another 20 people to compete one-on-one again, determining the top ten. The ten losers and the remaining 80 people would all enter the heaven and earth secret realm.

Finally, the top ten would compete one-on-one to determine the top five. These five would participate in a round-robin tournament, and the three with the highest scores would enter the original secret realm, while the remaining seven would enter the primordial secret realm.

“Hmm?”

Xu Zong suddenly felt a gaze.

Following that gaze, Xu Zong locked eyes with Bolan, who was dressed in a white robe and held a blood sword.

“A decisive battle!”

Bolan’s eyes showed such determination and strength.

Xu Zong nodded silently.

When they were climbing the trial tower, almost all the geniuses had exerted their full strength. Bolan couldn’t be unaware of the difference in strength between the two sides, but he probably wasn’t willing to accept it, so he wanted to determine the outcome on the arena.

Xu Zong didn’t think he was overestimating himself. This unwillingness was also an important part of becoming stronger, so he naturally nodded in response.

Another day passed.

All 1,000 geniuses gathered in the square.

Xu Zong silently opened the live broadcast room in his mind, and a strange wave of fluctuations covered the surrounding hundred meters. In an instant, Xu Zong and the other Xu Zongs appeared one after another in the live broadcast room.

“The finals are starting?”

“Here we go!”

“This should be the most exciting day of the genius battle, right?”

The phantom Xu Zongs ran around, cheering and waiting for the start of the competition.

The Nine Sword Ancestor appeared again.

“This genius battle will come to an end today. I hope each and every one of you will perform well.”

After he finished speaking, the Nine Sword Ancestor waved his hand.

Including Xu Zong, the 200 people disappeared instantly, while the remaining 800 people sat in various places in the square, watching the 100 battle screens in the air.

Xu Zong’s vision blurred, and he suddenly found himself in an arena space.

The arena was entirely silver-white and was ten kilometers in diameter. It was surrounded by a black silk net. According to the rules, the arena would shrink to one meter within ten minutes, so the victory or defeat had to be determined within that time.

The phantoms of Xu Zong from various worlds also appeared around him, curiously looking around.

“What bad luck, why did I encounter this guy!”

Facing Xu Zong was a minotaur warrior. He nervously held two large hammers and looked at Xu Zong with a grim expression.”I, the Pure Love Warrior, will explode the Minotaur!”

At the moment the match started, Xu Zong shouted in the live broadcast room. With one step forward, his spear followed him like a shadow and stabbed the Minotaur at an extremely fast speed.

The Minotaur was startled and quickly placed his hammer in front of him, trying to block the spear.

But with a flash of the spear tip, it directly pierced through his hammer and pierced through his chest!

The Minotaur warrior was first shocked, then smiled bitterly, and then his figure faded and disappeared in the arena space.

Xu Zong waited in place for a few minutes, and the first round of the battle ended.

“Congratulations to you 100 little guys, you have qualified to enter the Secret Realm of my Virtual Universe Company. Next, we will select the top 20 among you.”

The voice of the Nine Sword Venerable echoed in the arena space.

Soon, among the 100 winners, 80 were directly moved out of the arena space, leaving only 20 people in the large arena space.

Then, the number of arenas in this space decreased one after another, and soon there were only 10 left.

Among these 10 arenas, they were paired up to fight each other.

“Look, Apatra is in a bad situation, he actually encountered Xu Zong!”

“That Blood Axe is also unlucky, he encountered Bolan!”

“This match is between Gusiluo and Rong Jun, both of them are very powerful!”

“On this side, Galexi is against Luo Feng, this match is also very eye-catching!”

Outside, in the square space, the remaining 980 geniuses gathered here, looking at the 10 screens in the air, pointing and discussing, some even gloating.

Among the remaining 20 people, 19 of them comprehended the dual rules.

The only exception was a muscular warrior wearing a helmet with bull horns, wearing heavy armor, and wielding a terrifying giant axe. His comprehension of the earth rule was deep, and his defense was astonishing.

“It’s strange, how did Long Yun get in?”

“The top 100 in the trial space should all have the level of comprehending dual rules. To become one of the last 20, he must have dual rules. Why hasn’t he shown his second rule?”

“Could it be that he was just lucky to become one of the top 20?”

It seemed that no one paid attention to this person named Long Yun. He had been operating in the blind spot of everyone’s attention and unknowingly entered the top 20. Everyone obviously doubted his strength.

In the arena space.

After another half an hour of rest, Xu Zong faced Apatra. The other party had a tense face, looking very unlucky, obviously not wanting to encounter Xu Zong.

Xu Zong didn’t have much impression of this person. Even in the original work, he was only one of the two extras among the ten people.

“The match begins!”

“The match ends.”

At the moment the match started, Xu Zong instantly defeated Apatra.

“Damn, can’t you let the opponent perform a bit?”

“He’s not a girl, why would I want to see him perform?”

“Forget it then.”

The other Xu Zong rolled their eyes at each other.

On the other arenas, Bolan also defeated Blood Axe in an instant. Luo Feng unsurprisingly withstood Galexi’s illusion and defeated him. Rong Jun fought fiercely with Gusiluo for a long time, and finally burst out with an amazing sword technique, cutting Gusiluo in half with one slash.

“Secret technique?”

“It’s quite immature, it seems to be self-created.”

“It’s too early to self-create a secret technique at this stage. Obviously, the focus should be on comprehending the rules.”

“I don’t think so. Self-creating a secret technique is also beneficial for comprehending the rules.”

The immortals were slightly surprised for a moment, and then they no longer cared.

This Rong Jun could only form an illusionary body. This level of depth in the rules was only the top 20 in this genius battle. With this secret technique, he could only compete for the third position.

In fact, there were many people in this genius battle who had the potential to be in the top three, such as the Illusion Demon Galexi and the Madman Luo Feng, who were not inferior to Rong Jun. Unfortunately, Galexi encountered Luo Feng and couldn’t even enter the top ten.

A few minutes later, all ten arena matches ended.

“Xu Zong, Bolan, Qianshui, Luo Feng, Jiang Mo, Lansiluo, Wuka, Aichen, Long Yun, Rong Jun, congratulations to you ten. You will have the opportunity to enter the Primordial Secret Realm.”

The voice of the Nine Sword Venerable once again drifted into the arena space, entering the ears of the ten people like a bell.

“Later, the top five will be selected from you ten, and the top three will be determined from the top five. As for the grouping of you ten, according to the rules set by the Virtual Universe System, the fastest winner among you will compete against the slowest, the second fastest against the second slowest, and so on.”

At this point, the original match table had been completely torn apart.

Based on the current speed of victory–

Xu Zong against Rong Jun!

Bolan against Long Yun!

Qianshui against Aichen!

Luo Feng against Wuka!

Jiang Mo against Lansiluo!”Poor Rong Jun! He could have fought for the third place, but he ran into Xu Zong!”

“It’s over, Rong Jun is destined to miss the Primitive Secret Realm.”

In the square, many geniuses silently mourned for Rong Jun.

In this Genius Battle, Xu Zong was undoubtedly the most terrifying one. He had even broken through all seven Trial Towers. No matter who faced him, even if it was Bo Lan, the result was bound to be defeat!

It could only be said that Rong Jun was really unlucky.

If he had known that the top five were determined by the speed of victory, Rong Jun could have quickly unleashed his self-created Secret Technique to defeat Gu Si Luo, perhaps he could have avoided this outcome and made it into the top five! With his strength, which was enough to rank third, he could have possibly entered the Primitive Secret Realm.

(End of the chapter)