Wang Teng's four clones had delivered an astonishing performance. Reaching the top thousand was no easy achievement.
More than three hundred billion people were participating in the Genius Competition. With ten forbidden zones, each zone contained at least thirty billion people, making the density extremely high.
The number of people in the ten forbidden zones was basically kept even. The light screens emitted by those ten stone monuments were actually a form of restriction, limiting the number of people who could enter each forbidden zone.
After all, if one forbidden zone had too many people, it would be unfair to the others.
There had to be some sort of balancing mechanism.
That was precisely why, at the very beginning, so many people had rushed toward their chosen forbidden zones.
They feared that if they arrived even a step too late, they would be unable to enter their chosen zone.
For many martial artists, choosing a forbidden zone was extremely important. For instance, some Fire Element Martial Artists would choose the Icy Land in the Fifth Forbidden Zone.
The natural elemental restraint gave those Fire Element Martial Artists an enormous advantage. Naturally, they would choose it first, allowing them to earn more points.
In the end, everyone wanted to place themselves higher in the rankings.
Better to be the head of a chicken than the tail of a phoenix!
Even in lower-ranked forbidden zones such as the Tenth and Ninth Forbidden Zones, as long as one could enter the top ten—
No, even making the top hundred, or even the top thousand, would attract tremendous attention.
Take Yuan Hong, who ranked first in the Fourth Forbidden Zone. He had either remained silent or made a shocking entrance. His popularity had already risen directly to twentieth place on the rankings, not much