Time slowly passed, and by the afternoon, all the contestants from the Universe Kingdoms had finally arrived one after another.
"All participants from the 1008 Universe Kingdoms, gather at Central Plaza."
Bai Yue, who had long since returned to his room, unconsciously stood up. He was not the only one; all the geniuses in the plaza and cafeteria rose to their feet as well.
The 1,008,000 geniuses either flew in from the sky, flew out from the residential towers, or converged toward the center from the edges of Central Plaza.
More than a million geniuses all did the same!
In just a moment, the 1,008,000 geniuses formed a neat, massive square formation in Central Plaza. Only then did the million geniuses come to their senses.
The plaza instantly became lively. Everyone was astonished by the sudden shift. To them, they had clearly been doing something else a moment ago, yet in the blink of an eye, they had been lined up in this enormous plaza.
Even Bai Yue, who had been prepared for it, failed to react in time. Controlling more than a million people at once—just how vast was the gap between them?
At that moment, 1,008 immortals stood before the formation. The pressure naturally radiating from those immortals—the pressure of more than a thousand powerful immortals—instantly silenced the million people in the formation. Not a single person dared make a sound.
"Welcome to the peak Genius Battle hosted by our Virtual Universe Company." A gentle voice entered everyone's ears.
Hearing the voice, everyone looked over in shock. In the previously empty air ahead stood a man clad in a blue battle robe, with purple scales on his head. He wore a smile... yet as he stood in midair, he seemed like an ancient God King. The faint aura