Chapter Summaries

On the fifth day of the Genius Competition, Ling Yangxu seized first place in the Second Forbidden Zone, while Gant and Leng Qianxue led the Third and Fifth Forbidden Zones. Great Qian Academy celebrated Ling Yangxu but criticized Wang Teng’s slower-rising rankings, leaving Pei Tianzhou silently watching Wang Teng’s five clones.

• The Imperial Son’s score reached 65,450, more than thirty thousand points ahead of the other competitors.
• Ling Yangxu slaughtered a horde of over five hundred Star Beasts and rose to first place in the Second Forbidden Zone with 38,120 points.
• Baldwin, Qi Yunxia, and Pei Tianzhou praised Ling Yangxu, then Baldwin and Qi Yunxia criticized Wang Teng’s rankings and blamed the Military Department for his lack of progress.
• Gant killed Poison-type Star Beasts with his poison abilities and held first place in the Third Forbidden Zone.
• Leng Qianxue walked barefoot through the snow, froze nearby Star Beasts, and held first place in the Fifth Forbidden Zone.

Wang Teng used his clones to gather attributes across the forbidden zones while his main body hunted in the First Forbidden Zone. In the Seventh Forbidden Zone, he forced a Parax Family martial warrior to concede, then defeated the Wind Condors and rose to tenth place.

• The Sixth Prince grew angry at Leng Qianxue’s lead and charged at a herd of Ice Element Star Beasts to raise his ranking.
• Berkta smashed the stone Star Beasts in the Sixth Forbidden Zone, frightening the other martial warriors into avoiding him.
• Wang Teng absorbed attribute bubbles collected by his four clones, raising his wind, thunder, ice, and poison powers and improving his domains.
• Wang Teng encountered a Parax Family martial warrior surrounded by Wind Condors and secretly helped the beasts attack him while stealing his kills.
• The injured Parax Family martial warrior conceded, and Wang Teng wiped out the remaining Wind Condors, jumping from several hundredth place to tenth.

Wang Teng’s Seventh Forbidden Zone clone climbed to sixth place, and his rankings in four other zones rose as well, drawing widespread attention. On the twentieth day of the elimination battle, all five of his rankings were still improving, while the reason his clones had begun racing across their zones remained unclear.

• Wang Teng’s Seventh Forbidden Zone clone used points gained after Parax Family’s Number One martial artist conceded to rise from 621st place to 10th, pushing Wilder Perez out of the top ten.
• Parax Family’s Number One martial artist was eliminated and blamed Wang Teng, while the Raging Flame World Lord angrily called him a coward for conceding after Wang Teng bluffed about another flock of wind eagles.
• Wang Teng received attribute bubbles from his Seventh Forbidden Zone clone, raising his Wind Starry Sky Source Power to the eighth level of the Stellar Level.
• Wang Teng sent an idea to his clones in the Second, Third, and Fifth Forbidden Zones, prompting them to speed off while continuing to hunt Star Beasts along the way.
• By the twentieth day, Wang Teng had reached 36th place in the First Forbidden Zone, 56th in the Second, 48th in the Third, 42nd in the Fifth, and 6th in the Seventh.

Wang Teng comprehended and fused the Heavy Water Domain with his existing water insights, creating the Yellow Springs Domain before hunting a powerful seabed Star Beast. He left the Great Sea Trench unexplored for now and demonstrated that a Middle Emperor-Level beast could not withstand one strike from him.

• Wang Teng collected Heavy Water Domain insights on the seabed and spent five hours fusing them with his Domain of Water and Yellow Springs Weak Water.
• Pei Tianzhou and other spectators recognized Wang Teng’s domain power, while the Parax Family grew more determined to eliminate him.
• Wang Teng raised his water domain to the fourth rank and named the enhanced domain the Yellow Springs Domain.
• Wang Teng avoided entering the Great Sea Trench after sensing powerful Star Beasts below and flew toward another area.
• Wang Teng killed a hidden Middle Emperor-Level marine Star Beast with a single sword strike.

Wang Teng slaughtered seabed Star Beasts in the First Forbidden Zone, rapidly climbing to twenty-fourth place. Meanwhile, his clone followed Parax Family Martial Warrior Number Two in the Third Forbidden Zone and discovered a Poison Python Nest, leaving him poised to use it against the unsuspecting warrior.

• Wang Teng used his concealment talent to ambush and kill dozens of seabed Star Beasts, rising to twenty-fourth place in the rankings.
• Wang Teng's clone secretly followed Parax Family Martial Warrior Number Two, hoping to exploit him to hunt Star Beasts.
• A Middle Emperor-Level poison python ambushed Parax Family Martial Warrior Number Two, while Wang Teng used the distraction to circle behind it.
• Wang Teng discovered a Poison Python Nest packed with pythons and smiled as he considered how to use it against Parax Family Martial Warrior Number Two.

Wang Teng used Snake Delight Grass to drive a swarm of venomous pythons into a frenzy, then turned them against the Parax Family warrior, No. 2, and harvested the resulting points. After No. 2 conceded and was eliminated, Wang Teng killed the remaining pythons and rose to first place in the Third Forbidden Zone.

• Wang Teng refined Snake Delight Grass into a powder and scattered it among the venomous pythons to provoke them.
• Wang Teng used black vines to seize female pythons and draw the enraged swarm toward the Parax Family warrior, No. 2.
• Wang Teng secretly blocked No. 2's escape while the pythons attacked him, then revealed himself and taunted him.
• No. 2, injured and exhausted, conceded and vanished from the Third Forbidden Zone as he vowed revenge against Wang Teng.
• Wang Teng killed the remaining venomous pythons and climbed to first place in the Third Forbidden Zone.

Wang Teng seized first place in the Third Forbidden Zone and climbed the rankings in several other zones while pursuing a Parax Family contestant. In the Fifth Forbidden Zone, he postponed his plan after Leng Qianxue appeared and swiftly killed a group of Long-haired Ice Pigs.

• Gant dropped to second place when Wang Teng's points put him in first, then threw himself into hunting Star Beasts to catch up.
• Wang Teng's rankings rose across multiple Forbidden Zones, and he spotted the third Parax Family warrior hunting Long-haired Ice Pigs in the Fifth Forbidden Zone.
• Wang Teng hid nearby and planned to use broad flames to draw the whole herd toward the Parax Family warrior.
• Leng Qianxue arrived, and Wang Teng paused his plan to observe her while she searched the snowy mountain for Star Beasts.
• Leng Qianxue collapsed a snow cave, drew out more than a dozen Long-haired Ice Pigs, and killed them with ice spikes.

Wang Teng sabotaged Number Three and Leng Qianxue’s hunt by setting the mountain ablaze, then secretly stole the points from the beasts they killed. After Leng Qianxue exposed him and broke free, she fled while Wang Teng called after her.

• Leng Qianxue outpaced Number Three in hunting Long-haired Ice Pigs, prompting Wang Teng to intervene.
• Wang Teng used a fire attack to draw out the mountain’s Long-haired Ice Pigs, then secretly claimed the points as Leng Qianxue and Number Three fought them.
• Leng Qianxue realized an invisible attacker was delivering the killing blows and traced Wang Teng’s Mental Power to find him.
• Wang Teng escaped Leng Qianxue’s ice cage, blocked Number Three’s attempts to flee, and kept both hunters surrounded by the beasts.
• Leng Qianxue shot at Wang Teng with ice arrows, then used the distraction to escape; Wang Teng called out, asking whether her bare feet were cold.

Wang Teng’s clones harvested Leng Qianxue’s ice physique and archery talent, then drove Number Three from the Fifth Forbidden Zone and seized first place there. The contest shifted toward the Second Forbidden Zone, where Wang Teng’s clone challenged Ling Yangxu’s lead and spectators began betting on the outcome.

• Leng Qianxue left the Fifth Forbidden Zone, and Wang Teng collected her Icy Sacred Body, Saint-level Archery Talent, and other attributes, raising his ice source power and archery talent.
• Wang Teng’s clone watched as the Long-haired Ice Pigs overwhelmed Number Three, who admitted defeat and left the forbidden zone.
• Wang Teng used Raging Beast Flame to hunt the remaining Long-haired Ice Pigs and rose to first place in the Fifth Forbidden Zone.
• Spectators celebrated Wang Teng’s rankings across the forbidden zones and argued over whether his clone could overtake Ling Yangxu in the Second Forbidden Zone.
• The Virtual Universe Company opened a betting pool favoring Ling Yangxu, while Baldwin insisted Yangxu would hold first place and the others worried Wang Teng might win.

As viewers and the Kalandis Family bet on Wang Teng, his clone took first place in the Seventh Forbidden Zone while Wang Teng remained behind Ling Yangxu in the Second. Ling Yangxu then used a Thunder Horn Antelope herd’s attack to eliminate a Parax Family Martial Warrior, leaving the rivalry unresolved as the Elimination Battle neared its end.

• Viewers blamed the Parax Family for Wang Teng’s points and their members grew angrier at him.
• Di Qi, Olia, Bora Gu, Dubois, and Letizia placed bets on Wang Teng, while Wu Xingyun, Old Han, and Lin Chuhan also wagered their money on his victory.
• Wang Teng’s clone overtook Carpenter for first place in the Seventh Forbidden Zone, upsetting the Rogriddes Royal Family.
• Five days before the Elimination Battle ended, Wang Teng ranked thirteenth in the Second Forbidden Zone while Ling Yangxu remained first.
• Ling Yangxu and a third-ranked Parax Family Martial Warrior targeted the same Thunder Horn Antelope herd.
• Ling Yangxu’s lightning attack trapped the Parax Family Martial Warrior between the herd’s counterattack and his own strike, forcing him to admit defeat.

Wang Teng reached Ling Yangxu in the Second Forbidden Zone and secretly stole points from the Thunder Horn Antelopes he hunted. Ling Yangxu discovered him but, unable to attack without violating the elimination rules, abandoned the herd and left, while Wang Teng followed after him.

• Wang Teng found Ling Yangxu hunting Thunder Horn Antelopes and concealed himself to collect points from the beasts Ling Yangxu injured.
• Ling Yangxu noticed his points were rising less than expected, then exposed Wang Teng when he caught him finishing off wounded antelopes.
• Wang Teng admitted his name and challenged Ling Yangxu’s claim to the herd, but neither attacked because the elimination rules forbade fighting competitors.
• Ling Yangxu tried to keep hunting, but Wang Teng continued intercepting the wounded antelopes and stealing the points.
• Frustrated, Ling Yangxu abandoned the herd and left, and Wang Teng followed him, shouting for him to take him along.

Wang Teng kept exploiting Ling Yangxu’s Star Beast hunts to climb the Second Forbidden Zone rankings, while Ling Yangxu struggled to escape him. As Ling Yangxu tried to lure Wang Teng into danger in a mountain range, he awakened a powerful Thunder-element beast and was struck by its giant hand.

• Wang Teng chased Ling Yangxu and persuaded him to keep hunting Star Beasts, causing Wang Teng’s ranking to rise from twelfth to fourth.
• Ling Yangxu failed to shake Wang Teng, while viewers and Great Qian Academy’s officials reacted to the mounting contest between them.
• Ling Yangxu led Wang Teng into a thunderous mountain range, hoping stronger Star Beasts would hold Wang Teng back.
• Ling Yangxu’s attack on a mountain awakened a giant Thunder-element creature that struck him and sent him flying.
• The creature reached for Ling Yangxu again, but he transformed into a streak of lightning and escaped.

A Thunder Giant emerged from beneath a mountain in the Second Forbidden Zone, revealing an ancient bloodline and terrifying strength. As experts and viewers recognized the rare creature, Wang Teng and Ling Yangxu faced growing danger.

• A gigantic hand struck Ling Yangxu, who escaped tens of thousands of meters away as viewers and experts feared an Upper Emperor-Level Star Beast had appeared.
• The mountain and forest rose as a colossal, hunched creature emerged and fixed its violet-tinged gaze on Wang Teng and Ling Yangxu.
• Pei Tianzhou identified the creature as a Thunder Giant and explained that it carried an ancient race's bloodline and could rival Starry Sky Beasts in combat.
• Experts and viewers across the broadcast recognized the Thunder Giant and worried that Wang Teng and Ling Yangxu were in danger.

The Seven Great Starry Sky Academies offered fifty thousand points for capturing the Thunder Giant, drawing contestants toward the powerful Upper Emperor-Level creature. After Ling Yangxu failed to defeat it and conceded, Wang Teng attacked and unleashed a massive Thunder Storm against it.

• The Seven Great Starry Sky Academies announced a mission to capture the Thunder Giant for fifty thousand points, and contestants rushed toward its location.
• Ling Yangxu fought the Thunder Giant using his Thunder Domain, but he was overwhelmed and conceded before it could attack him again.
• Wang Teng struck the Thunder Giant with powerful kicks, staggering it and drawing its fury away from Ling Yangxu.
• Wang Teng evaded the Thunder Giant's attacks with Space Blink and fused Wind Source Power with Thunder Element Power to create a vast Thunder Storm.
• Wang Teng sent the Thunder Storm crashing into the charging Thunder Giant, whose eyes showed fear as the storm engulfed the area.

Wang Teng used a Thunder Storm infused with thunder and wind domains to defeat the Upper Emperor-Level Thunder Giant, shocking spectators and powerful factions across the empire. He gained fifty thousand points, moved into first place in the Second Forbidden Zone, and widened his lead over Ling Yangxu by more than forty thousand points.

• Wang Teng trapped the Thunder Giant in a Thunder Storm strengthened by his Thunder Domain and Domain of Wind, severely wounding it.
• Spectators and the Parax brothers watched in fear as the attack revealed Wang Teng’s power, while Pei Tianzhou and the Immortal experts recognized that he had fused two domains into a potentially self-created technique.
• The Parax Family’s leaders reconsidered Wang Teng as a threat, while Olia’s family supported her feelings for him and other factions began considering ways to win him over.
• The Thunder Giant collapsed after the storm dissipated, and Wang Teng received an additional fifty thousand points.
• Wang Teng rose to first place in the Second Forbidden Zone, more than forty thousand points ahead of Ling Yangxu.

After Wang Teng defeated Ling Yangxu and helped capture the Thunder Giant, he absorbed the battle’s attribute bubbles and began comprehending the Thunder Spear Domain in the Second Forbidden Zone. With two days left in the competition, attention shifted to Wang Teng’s true body in the First Forbidden Zone, where he had climbed to tenth place but still faced a vast gap to first.

• The Seven Great Starry Sky Academies captured the weakened Thunder Giant, while Wang Teng’s victory secured him a commanding lead in the Second Forbidden Zone.
• Ling Yangxu entered enlightenment after watching the battle, and Great Qian Academy’s observers hoped his domain power would improve.
• Wang Teng absorbed attribute bubbles that raised his Thunder Element Starry Sky Source Power to the ninth layer and advanced his Thunder talent and Spearmanship talent to Saint-level.
• Wang Teng learned the Thunder Battle Spear and improved his Thunder Domain, then sat atop a mountain to cultivate the Thunder Spear Domain for the remaining two days.
• Spectators debated whether Wang Teng could challenge the Imperial Son, while Wang Teng’s true body held tenth place in the First Forbidden Zone, more than 180,000 points behind first.

Wang Teng followed Ji Tiankuang and the Ji Clan Royal Family geniuses into the Great Sea Trench, where he secretly stole the points they earned from killing Star Beasts. After an hour of fruitless searching, Ji Tiankuang’s group remained unable to find him or recover any points.

• Wang Teng encountered Ji Tiankuang at the trench and refused to leave when Ji Tiankuang claimed the area for the Ji Clan Royal Family.
• Ji Tiankuang led his group into the Great Sea Trench, while Wang Teng followed behind them.
• Ji Yujie killed a Middle Emperor-Level Star Beast, but her points did not increase, and the group could not sense anyone nearby.
• The group killed five more Star Beasts and again received no points, confirming that someone was stealing them.
• Ji Tiankuang attacked the surrounding area in an attempt to flush out the thief, but he only killed small fish and shrimp.
• After an hour of hunting, the Ji Clan Royal Family geniuses had earned no points and still had not found Wang Teng.

Wang Teng followed the Ji Clan Royal Family to a battle beneath the Great Sea Trench, where the Third Prince and others were fighting three powerful Vast Sea Unicorn Whales. After learning the Third Prince wanted the adult whale’s valuable horn, Wang Teng decided to take it for himself.

• Ji Yujie noticed Wang Teng had risen to ninth place, unsettling Ji Tiankuang and the other Ji Clan Royal Family members.
• A battle’s noise drew Ji Tiankuang and his group toward the depths of the Great Sea Trench, while Wang Teng followed them in concealment.
• The group found the Third Prince, Stretche, Landon, and others battling three Vast Sea Unicorn Whales, including an Upper Emperor-Level adult with a valuable horn.
• The Third Prince asked Ji Tiankuang to help kill the whales, and Ji Tiankuang agreed while warning his companions to avoid serious danger.
• Wang Teng learned that the adult whale’s horn could be used to forge an Immortal Level weapon and decided that he would take it from the Third Prince.

Ji Haochen, Stretche, Xiahou Zun, and the Third Prince attacked the Vast Sea Unicorn Whale, but its counterattack overwhelmed them and eliminated the Third Prince. As the survivors withdrew, Wang Teng disappeared from the broadcast, while the whale swam away with its injured companions.

• Ji Haochen revealed his ten-percent-perfected Water Profound Meaning and wounded the Vast Sea Unicorn Whale with his sword.
• Stretche and Xiahou Zun struck the whale, then the Third Prince used a World Lord-level sword and a golden sword domain to attack it.
• The whale unleashed a mental shockwave and a powerful blue beam, forcing the royal-family martial warriors to flee or surrender and knocking the Third Prince out of the elimination battle.
• Ji Haochen, Xiahou Zun, Stretche, and Landon abandoned the hunt as the wounded whale left with the two smaller whales.
• Spectators noticed Wang Teng was missing from the broadcast, and the eliminated Third Prince watched the whale with lingering frustration.

Wang Teng harvested attributes from the Third Prince and the royal families while inside the Vast Sea Unicorn Whale, gaining Golden Sword Domain, a third-tier Dragon Blood Battle Body, and Mu Kui Flame. He killed the whale from within, emerging before eight Fiendish Sea Demon Tiger Sharks as the spectators realized what he had done and the Third Prince grew resentful.

• Wang Teng absorbed the Golden Sword Domain attributes dropped by the Third Prince and gained a second-tier domain.
• Wang Teng raised his Dragon Blood Battle Body to the third tier and acquired Mu Kui Flame from the other fighters' Attribute Bubbles.
• Wang Teng decided to kill the Vast Sea Unicorn Whale from inside its stomach.
• Eight Fiendish Sea Demon Tiger Sharks confronted the wounded whale, but Wang Teng pierced its heart with a thunder attack from within and killed it.
• Wang Teng appeared on the whale's back, and spectators recognized that he had killed it from the inside.
• The Third Prince realized that Wang Teng's feat could eclipse his own reputation and clenched his fists in anger.