Rolando said, "There's another way to leave the Stellar Training Camp: enter the Molten Secret Realm!
"The Molten Secret Realm is the Molten Empire's foremost genius training ground. It has produced quite a few geniuses who participated in the Universe Peak Genius Battle, even super geniuses who made it into the universe's top ten thousand!"
"To enter the Molten Secret Realm, you must first pass through the Stellar Training Camp, even if you're only going through the motions. That's why families from the Molten Empire and more than a dozen surrounding mid-level cosmic nations are so eager to send their members into the Stellar Training Camp."
At this point, Rolando looked at Li Qi. "Didn't your family send you to the Stellar Training Camp so you could enter the Molten Secret Realm?"
"A Planetary Level domain genius like you will definitely be able to enter the Molten Secret Realm, as long as you don't die during the Stellar Training Camp's trial missions!"
Rolando thinks I'm a member of some great family?
Li Qi raised his brows. "If one can enter the Molten Secret Realm, I don't think anyone would refuse."
Rolando shrugged noncommittally. "Of course."
"Continue. Finish telling me about the final hunting mission."
Li Qi set aside the topic of the Molten Secret Realm and had Rolando continue explaining the hunting missions.
"Hunting missions are divided into three types."
Rolando said, "They are exterminating space pirates, pursuing fugitives, and Planet Hunting Missions.
"You can tell from their names that none of these three missions are easy, because the enemies they face are all vicious people with blood on their hands!"
"Exterminating space pirates."
He began explaining in detail. "This trial mission requires cooperation with the imperial military to attack the lair of interstellar pirates. The trainees serve as spearhead assault teams, so the death rate is very high. However, such missions are relatively rare because of the limited number of space pirates."
"Pursuing fugitives has the lowest death rate among the hunting missions. Trainees complete it alone or in teams depending on the number of fugitives. The empire only provides intelligence support, but quite a few trainees still fail and die because of intelligence issues."
"The final type, planetary hunting, is the most common hunting mission. The empire places criminals sentenced to severe punishment or even death on a planet, then sends trainees onto that planet to hunt them down.
"It may seem as though the trainees are hunting the criminals, but in reality, the criminals are hunting the trainees as well. Every trainee they kill earns them a reduced sentence. What's even more troublesome is that they can form teams of up to four."
"Individually, these criminals may not be very strong, but they'll stop at nothing to achieve their goals! Sometimes, they won't hesitate to use a severely wounded companion as bait, even if that companion ends up being killed by a trainee!"
Rolando said, "My previous hunting mission was planetary hunting. Many trainees were hunted down by criminals because they acted alone."
Li Qi frowned in thought. Of the three trial mission types, hunting missions are the most dangerous and have the highest death rate. And hunting missions take place during the third trial mission.
The opponents in hunting missions are all people. Whether space pirates or criminals, if the Stellar Training Camp uses them as mission targets, they must possess a certain level of strength and methods.
Planet Hunting Missions in particular are the most troublesome. Criminals who will stop at nothing have no bottom line!
Then his brows relaxed considerably. Planetary Level domain geniuses still receive preferential treatment. The Blood Blade Cone is issued after the second trial mission. This is meant to increase my strength before the hunting mission and improve my ability to survive and fight.
"Is there anything else you want to ask?"
Seeing the changes in Li Qi's expression, Rolando understood how he felt. He had been much the same when he first learned about the hunting missions.
My life gene level is thirty-two times higher. At the same realm, I can fight enemies four levels above me. Raising my Gene Origin Energy level is a good way to increase my strength.
Thinking this, Li Qi asked, "Can points be exchanged for Nutrient Fluid enhancements?"
"Of course."
Rolando replied, "Rising from Planetary Level to Planetary Level Ninth-Order only requires ten points. But at the Stellar Level, the initial enhancement costs twenty points, and the required points double with every level.
"In other words, advancing from Stellar Level First-Order to Second-Order requires twenty points, Second-Order to Third-Order requires forty points, and so on. Advancing from Stellar Level Eighth-Order to Ninth-Order requires 2,560 points!
"Because there is such a huge gap in the points needed to increase strength, trainees entering the Stellar Training Camp cannot be above Stellar Level Fifth-Order."
After saying that, Rolando could not help asking, "May I ask you a question?"
Li Qi was slightly stunned. "Go ahead."
"Why are you a Planetary Level domain genius, yet only Planetary Level Eighth-Order?"
Rolando had really wanted to know, because if Li Qi had been Planetary Level Ninth-Order, he would never have dared to gamble such a large amount as fifty points!
Li Qi brought out the explanation he had prepared. "Because I wasn't a Planetary Level domain genius before. I only comprehended a domain while traveling to the Stellar Training Camp."
"So that's how it is..."
Rolando was somewhat speechless. He felt that he was truly unlucky to have run into something like this.
After mocking himself inwardly, he shook his head and asked, "Is there anything else you want to know?"
Li Qi thought for a moment, then asked, "Can points be used to exchange for secret manuals in the Stellar Training Camp? If so, what level are those manuals?"
"You can exchange points for secret manuals."
Rolando replied, "But most of them are fairly ordinary, and they are common manuals among the surrounding cosmic nations. Domain Lord-level families with even slightly stronger foundations generally have them."
The manuals are ordinary? Then the profound ones must be in the Molten Secret Realm.
Li Qi nodded to show that he understood. "I have nothing else to ask. If you have nothing more to say, I'll admit defeat."
Looking at Li Qi's somewhat youthful face, Rolando decided to offer him a reminder and build a good relationship.
"You've only just entered the Stellar Training Camp and don't have many points. I suggest that you exchange them for a first-order Force Battle Armor to improve your ability to survive, along with some flying knives made of B-grade metal to use as Mental Force Weapons."
I don't have many points, but I should have enough to exchange for one more first-order Mental Force Weapon.
Li Qi muttered inwardly. Seeing Rolando's well-intentioned reminder, he smiled. "Thank you for the advice."
With a thought from him, a light screen appeared before him, asking whether he wished to admit defeat.
Li Qi tapped confirm with a finger and turned into a streak of white light, disappearing from the grassland.
As Li Qi left, a light screen popped up before Rolando, stating that he had won the wager and received twenty points.
Looking at the light screen before him, Rolando muttered, "A domain! I'm so jealous!"
His techniques had long since reached the Perfection Level, but without comprehending Artistic Conception, he was ultimately fated to miss out on a domain.
Though the Stellar Training Camp had many trainees, with two or three thousand in a single camp, very few had comprehended a domain—at most, only one percent!
Even if geniuses of this caliber did not enter the Molten Secret Realm, they would have no shortage of opportunities after leaving the Stellar Training Camp. Many factions would compete to recruit them!
After Li Qi admitted defeat and withdrew from the battle space, he logged off and left the Virtual Universe...
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