After the battles ended, the ten victors had all been decided.
"Bolan, Qian Shui, Luo Feng, Jiang Mo, Wu Ka, Ai Chen, Long Yun, Opatra, Rong Jun, Bai Yue—congratulations to the ten of you."
"In a moment, the top five will be selected from among you ten. Then first and second place will be chosen from those five," Nine Swords Venerable said with a smile.
"As for how you ten will be paired, according to the rules established earlier by the Virtual Universe system, your previous victories came at different speeds. The fastest victor will face the slowest, the second fastest will face the second slowest... and so on!"
A stir went through the crowd!
The 1,008 powerful immortals were all taken aback, the 990 observing geniuses were stunned, and even the ten peerless geniuses about to fight were dumbfounded.
Because this meant that the two strongest competitors, "Heavenly Emperor" Bai Yue and "Death God" Bolan, would face each other. There was no revival mechanism in the arena matches, meaning one of them would fall in this duel.
This Genius Battle had originally offered two spots in the Primeval Secret Realm. Though no one said it aloud, everyone had already guessed who those two spots would go to. Now, the outcome had become uncertain.
When they heard the battle rules, Luo Feng and Yi Feng, who had just fought Bai Yue, both came to a realization. Bai Yue had done this deliberately!
Seeing Luo Feng's questioning gaze, Bai Yue nodded, confirming his thoughts. He had done it on purpose. In order to face Bolan, he had deliberately dragged out his arena match until the very end.
In the original story, Bolan had possessed the greatest talent of their generation, yet he took the wrong path in the end, slowing his