The World Zone's Number One!

Kasolo Island, Lanhui City.

Inside a massive estate, tens of thousands of people crowded onto the grass, looking up at a huge screen displaying a scene of countless star-level beings locked in a bloody battle within a valley.

"Bancha is having some bad luck. In this kind of large-scale battle, one careless move could lead to him being surrounded and killed."

"Yes, this 51st World Area is all mountains and valleys, with very few places to hide. If only Bancha had entered a World Zone with a complex structure that made it easier to hide..."

"Many times it's all about luck. With his eighth-level Bancha power and Bloodline Divine Ability, he can unleash strength close to the ninth level of the domain. Ranking in the top 1000 of the World Zone is definitely not a problem. If he's lucky, he might even make it into the top 500. But if he's unlucky and encounters a strong opponent early on, or gets caught up in a group battle like this, then it's hard to say."

"The key issue is that he doesn't have enough points yet. He's only ranked 785th right now. The Preliminary Elimination Tournament are still a long way off. If it were now... sigh, he wouldn't be able to hold onto a top-1000 ranking at all."

The Preliminary Elimination Tournament are not officially streamed. After all, with 100 vast World Zone and trillions of participants, it's impossible to stream them live. It's not feasible to follow every single participant's live stream.

However, watching live is quite expensive, and not everyone can afford it.

Of course, the Lingtong Race has a deep foundation and is capable of organizing a large-scale on-site viewing event. However, with the current intense battle with the Four Sacred Lands, all resources must be invested in the war effort, so they naturally won't spend money to organize stellar-level or cosmic-level personnel to watch the elimination matches on-site.

Even if you can't watch it live, you can still watch the broadcast.

Many high-ranking members of the Lingtong Race specifically go to watch battles in World Zone where Lingtong Race geniuses are located, especially those seeded players who have a good chance of achieving good results.

The spaceship chartered by the Lingtong Race can also broadcast the scene to the Lingtong Race's settlement in Lanhui City.

In reality, most factions do this. Even the wealthiest factions are unlikely to spend money to have all their members or disciples watch the battle live. However, in order to enhance the sense of belonging and honor among their lower-ranking disciples, they will broadcast videos of their own geniuses participating in the battle live to their lower-ranking disciples.

Of course, if you watch live, you can watch whatever you want, but if you watch a live broadcast, you can only watch what the other person filmed.

In addition, everyone can view the real-time rankings for each World Zone.

At this moment, in this manor where the Lingtong Race lives, many Lingtong Race are watching the battle of their genius through a live video broadcast.

The huge screen was divided into hundreds of video frames, all showing the battle scenes of the Lingtong Race geniuses who had not yet been eliminated. Some World Zone had more complex structures and more hidden objects, making it impossible to see the battle scenes, while others had flat terrain and were completely unobstructed.

The largest video frame, taking up almost half the screen, is the battle video of Bancha, currently the highest-ranked contestant among the Lingtong Race's participating geniuses.

For hundreds of years, although Jiang Yao had been taken as a disciple by His Majesty Kasolo, the Lingtong Race still did not allow all the stellar-level geniuses who were preparing for the Peak Battle to break through to the cosmic level. They still kept a small number of people to concentrate resources on training and prepare for the Genius Tournament.

Although it's impossible to enter the Guluo Secret Realm, ranking in the top 10,000 or top 1,000 in the World Zone would attract the attention of many powerful forces.

Within the Lanhui Star Sector, the war between the Four Sacred Lands and the Lingtong Race is raging. However, outside the starfield, especially in the heart of the Xuanshang Universe Country, no one cares about the battles taking place in this starfield. No force would hesitate to recruit the Lingtong Race's geniuses out of concern for Yinhu Island.

These people are the seeds of the Lingtong Race. Even if the Lingtong Race eventually loses all power and its territory is invaded and fragmented, these disciples absorbed by the major powers in the Xuanshang Universe Country are the hope for the future revitalization of the Lingtong Race.

"Ouch, watch out!"

"How is it? How is it?"

"Sigh, what else can we do? Who can withstand an attack from hundreds of people? This Bancha focused on improving his domain, his speed is just too slow... His ranking has dropped to 898... There's still more than half a month left until the end of the elimination rounds..."

"This kind of group battle is a points-harvesting machine for true powerhouses, and a nightmare for mid-level powerhouses..."

A heavy atmosphere hung over everyone. Those present were mostly geniuses who had prepared for the Peak Battle back then. In order to compete with the Four Sacred Lands, they had been nurtured with massive resources within their clans and had all become cosmic-level talents.

Although it was foreseeable that the Lingtong Race would not perform well in this Genius Tournament, their most promising seeded player was unlucky and died in a group battle. Now, the Lingtong Race probably has no hope of entering the top 1,000 in the World Zone.

The top 1,000 in the World Zone and the top 100,000 in the Xuanshang Universe Country are the hard criteria for many powerful forces in the Universe Country to recruit geniuses. Of course, being in the top 10,000 in the World Zone does not mean one cannot be favored, but even if such a force is stronger than the Lingtong Race, it is probably not much stronger.

"Sigh, let's cheer up. The rotation will be in a few days. Those scum from the Four Sacred Lands don't even rest during the Genius Tournament. Sigh, I wonder how many of our brothers will come back alive this time."

"Damn it! If I hadn't broken through to the cosmic level back then and received so many resources, I definitely wouldn't have been eliminated so early..."

"You may be faster than Bancha, but are you stronger in your area of expertise? What's the use of making it to the end if you don't rank high?"

"Stop arguing! How come there's suddenly another video window?"

"The 27th World Area... Weren't all the Lingtong Race contestants in the 27th World Zone eliminated? Why are they broadcasting it again?"

"Holy crap! One person fighting dozens of people, what kind of monster is that?"

"Is that... that person Jiang Yao? They look exactly the same!"

"That can't be! Wasn't it said that he perished during some trial? Even the Elder of the clan have tacitly accepted it..."

"'Jiang Yao (Kasolo Empire)'... Our Kasolo Empire can actually have a second ranking—71!?"

"It's definitely him! I've watched the video of the clan selection competition at least a hundred times! It's definitely Jiang Yao!"

"Good heavens, could the news that he died in the trial be a smokescreen?"

"That's hard to say. Haven't you heard that Yinhu Island once sent Domain Lord expert to intercept and kill Jiang Yao? Do you think Yinhu Island can rest easy if such a peerless genius who has crossed the threshold of the Origin Law is allowed to grow unchecked? Maybe it's just to lull Yinhu Island into a false sense of security..."

"Hahaha! Ranked 71st, it's risen again, 65th! Hahaha, how could that Abbott from Yinhu Island compare to the unparalleled genius of my Lingtong Race?"

"Is that the Sui Divine Weapon? It's practically invincible!"

"This World Zone seems perfect for hunters; it's too easy to hide and ambush. But against the Sui Divine Weapon, none of that matters."

On the top of a huge tree canopy, Jiang Yao was being besieged by dozens of people.

Leading the group was a man about three meters tall, dressed in dark gold battle armor, his bare skin covered with patterns—a genuine member of the Xuanshang Royal Clan.

"Although you killed Wuka in the Trial God Kingdom, I did it not to avenge him. I should thank you for taking down that fool, which eliminated one of my competitors. However, you killed more than a dozen geniuses of my clan in the God Kingdom Trial. If I don't get my revenge, wouldn't I be unworthy of being the number one genius of the Xuanshang Royal Clan this generation?"

Jiang Yao raised an eyebrow. The person in front of him, Li Xiao, a member of the Xuanshang Royal Clan, was the person with the highest score he had seen so far, ranking first in the World Zone.

At the same time, they have crossed the threshold of the Origin Law and Mental Master Controller, and perhaps also Illusionist, since the Soul Path is a talent of the Xuanshang Royal Clan.

Inheritance Tower of the Trial God Kingdom, because it cannot connect to the Virtual Universe, no one knows what happens inside.

However, outside the Inheritance Tower, when Jiang Yao killed those dozen or so Xuanshang Royal Clan at the Stellar level, the news had naturally already been transmitted.

Jiang Yao's nine Chongming Blades, which had previously been invincible, were now being blocked one by one by the Xuanshang Royal Clan before him.

Forty-eight black armor plates seemed to be drawn together by a thread, forming a shield that spun rapidly, creating a massive phantom of a tortoise shell that loomed over dozens of people. The nine Chongming Blades that struck, sliced, or slashed at the tortoise shell were utterly ineffective against it.

Li Xiao had clearly mastered his Fifth-Order Psionic Weapon to an extremely high level.

Even when Li Xiao smiled, his Li Xiao, covered in wrinkles, it looked somewhat ferocious. The young man in front of him, nicknamed "God of Slaughter," had almost shattered two islands with the Sui Divine Weapon, and was undoubtedly his greatest opponent in this World Zone.

Li Xiao absolutely must become number one in the World Zone in order to secure his position as the number one star-level genius of the royal family in this generation, and only then can he maintain the supply of resources in the future.

However, facing an opponent who could wield the Controller Divine Weapon with agility, he might not be able to defeat him alone. He did not want to take the risk, so he gathered a number of powerful individuals who did not want to be eliminated so early and were afraid that the "God of Slaughter" would also be a terrifying killer who slaughtered his way through the island like on the previous one, to deal with Jiang Yao.

However, Jiang Yao's own speed was also Extreme Point fast. He took one step forward and one step back, and dodged their attacks in a strange and seemingly effortless manner.

This created a stalemate: Jiang Yao couldn't get his hands on Li Xiao shell, and the others couldn't do anything about Jiang Yao either.

"Soul Attack!"

Protected by the phantom of the tortoise shell, dozens of powerful figures seized the opportunity when Jiang Yao dodged a black scythe, and at the same time launched an invisible mental attack that pierced into Jiang Yao's sea of consciousness.

Jiang Yao seemed caught off guard by the dozens of Soul Attack, and suddenly lost his focus for a moment.

In that instant of distraction, hundreds of martial artists and hunters suddenly sprang out from under the tree canopy, unleashing hundreds of attacks towards Jiang Yao.

Li Xiao, inside the tortoise shell phantom, also directed everyone to use Telepathic Weapon for ranged attacks!

The patterns on Li Xiao's face seemed to radiate a dark golden light due to excitement, and the image of Jiang Yao being torn apart was already playing out in his mind.

Suddenly his smile froze.

"We've been waiting for you!" This time, Jiang Yao's face showed excitement.

The structure of this World Zone is perfect for concealment. Killing is inefficient; it's much faster to lure a large number of powerful individuals into a trap than to search for hiding opponents one by one.

The 81 points of dazzling starlight transformed into countless silver needles of light, which, like a celestial maiden scattering flowers, fell among the hundreds of people attacking from below, causing screams to resound through the sky.

"Star-Shattering Needle! Xing Divine Weapon!" Li Xiao and his dozens of companions were stunned for a moment, then their eyes widened in disbelief.

Nine crystal-clear Chongming Blade suddenly came together, their threads and secret patterns intertwining, instantly forming a warm and lustrous jade blade with ancient patterns on its surface, red and white—the second form of the Sui Divine Weapon, the Poyuan Blade!

The Poyuan Blade transformed into a streak of Flowing Light, piercing through the illusory tortoise shell as if piercing through a layer of paper, and reaped lives one by one like a tiger descending a mountain.

"Poyuan Blade! Damn it!" Li Xiao no longer cared about his companions' lives, shielded his body with his shield, and fled frantically forward!

He actually set his sights on this pervert!

You could unleash the second form of the Sui Divine Weapon, why didn't you say so earlier! How did he end up encountering such a top-tier genius, even in the 1008 Universe Country? How did he get assigned to this World Zone?

With a soft thud, a warm light enveloped him, and a head flew high into the air.

Jiang Yao excitedly looked down at the Armguard Screen.

Participant: Jiang Yao (Kasolo Empire)

Integral:

Rank: 1

World Zone: 27th World Area