Doomsday Secret Realm

Chapter 1: Starting in the Doomsday Secret Realm

In the vast dark universe, a blood-red triangular spaceship hundreds of meters long streaked past at a constant speed of thirty times the speed of light, steadily advancing toward the Virtual Universe Company's headquarters across the entire universe.

Inside the spaceship, a black-clad young man with short hair sat cross-legged.

His name was Feng Hui.

Months earlier, when Feng Hui first regained consciousness, a shrill voice had suddenly exploded in his ears: "Virtual Universe Company!"

Dazed, Feng Hui turned his head instinctively and saw, among the crowd, a youth over six meters tall with a golden body and a single black horn on his head. His face was twisted with fury, madness blazing in his eyes as he shrieked:

"I have a hundred percent certainty of breaking into the top 100 of the Genius Battle, even the top twenty!

Why, why was I directly excluded by the Virtual Universe System?

Why was I cast straight into the worst Doomsday Secret Realm? I won't accept this! I won't!!!"

"Virtual Universe Company? Genius Battle? Doomsday Secret Realm?"

The familiar words seemed to trigger something. Feng Hui felt a sharp pain as countless fragments of memory flooded his mind.

It turned out that he had just bought a jade pendant at an antique market on Blue Star. As he walked out of the market, he accidentally dropped the pendant. When he picked it up, he saw a crack running through its center. The moment he held it in his hand, the world spun around him, and his body disintegrated into nothingness. A trace of his true spirit was carried away by a purple light that shot out from the jade pendant, tearing through space and time.

The pendant carried him through the void for an unknown span of time. The crack deepened until the pendant could no longer hold itself together, splitting cleanly in two. Feng Hui's true spirit was torn apart as well—one half fell into a vast world with half the pendant, while the other half, along with the remaining piece, dropped into a small sphere orbiting that immense world.

The original owner of the body he had transmigrated into was also named Feng Hui. He was a human stellar-level peerless genius from the Yuanchen Universe Country, participating in the Virtual Universe Company's "Peak Genius Battle of Cosmic Humanity."

He had distinguished himself in the universe country selection battles and ranked 237th in the final trial of the peak showdown.

He had just won three consecutive matches in the arena elimination rounds, earning the qualification to enter the Virtual Universe Company's core layer.

However, the Virtual Universe System judged that he was not among the top one hundred of the nine hundred geniuses selected through the three elimination rounds. He didn't even qualify for the final arena battle and was directly relegated to the worst of the four secret realms—the Doomsday Secret Realm.

In the midst of his indignation, Feng Hui, who had come from Blue Star, was transported here by the jade pendant.

The information in his memories merged with the scene before him, sending a storm raging through Feng Hui's heart.

Wasn't this—wasn't this the world of Swallowing Starry Sky?

Feng Hui had been an avid reader in his past life. He had read Swallowing Starry Sky many times because he enjoyed it. But he had never imagined that a jade pendant would carry him into this world. In this world, there were undying gods with endless lifespans who could never die; universe masters who governed entire universe countries and commanded countless star systems; universe overlords who could reverse time and space, resurrecting the dead; and even the greatest beings known as the supreme existences of the cosmos, whose words became law.

But for now, none of that had anything to do with him. Feng Hui smiled bitterly. The legendary Peak Genius Battle—by the time he had transmigrated here, the outcome was already sealed. The die was cast. He had no choice but to accept his fate and enter the Doomsday Secret Realm. Among the four secret realms of the Virtual Universe Company's core layer, the Doomsday Secret Realm was the outermost. Core members of the Doomsday Secret Realm were required to address members of the three higher secret realms as "Your Highness" if the latter were below the undying level.

In fact, the names of the four secret realms were easy to understand. Imagine the evolution of a world: first, it is a primordial whole—that is "Primordial." Then it gradually takes shape and enters "Primeval." Finally, it forms a vast heaven and earth—that is "Heaven and Earth." When it is about to decline and perish, it naturally becomes "Doomsday." Primordial, Primeval, Heaven and Earth, Doomsday—this was the process of a world's evolution, and it also reflected one's status within the Virtual Universe Company.

Still, members of the Doomsday Secret Realm were part of the core layer after all. They could still enter the initial universe to comprehend the laws. In the future, they might achieve even greater accomplishments.

For now, they were merely stellar-level geniuses. The path of a powerhouse had only just begun. Taking the lead at one step did not mean staying ahead at every step.

But regardless, Feng Hui's Genius Battle journey had ended here.

Although there were still arena battles for the qualifications to enter the Primordial, Primeval, and Heaven and Earth secret realms, he didn't even have the chance to step onto the stage. He could only watch as a spectator. His Peak Genius Battle was over.

At the same time, from the information in his memories, Feng Hui could confirm that this Genius Battle was not the one in which the original novel's protagonist, Luo Feng, had participated.

Because the top scorer in this Genius Battle's trial was not Bolan, but a genius from the ape race named Guge.

However, Feng Hui couldn't yet determine whether the current timeline was before or after Luo Feng's era.

"Haah," Feng Hui let out a deep breath. It didn't matter. Whether the timeline was before or after Luo Feng, as long as he walked far enough on the path of a powerhouse, he would eventually meet Luo Feng at the heights.

Some geniuses were still protesting, shouting about unfairness, as if they thought their collective outcry as peerless prodigies would make the Virtual Universe Company compromise. But Feng Hui, having read the original work, knew this was nothing but wishful thinking on their part.

The Virtual Universe Company, as one of the five major powers of the human race in the original universe, had no shortage of geniuses.

After all, the Virtual Universe Company held a "Stellar-level" Genius Battle once every ten thousand years across the entire universe, as well as a "Cosmic-level" Warrior Battle. Over the countless years, it had absorbed untumbers of heaven's favored sons and supreme geniuses. It could be said that they had countless prodigies and powerhouses as numerous as clouds.

Under such circumstances, some little brats who hadn't even grown yet, whose talent only qualified them for the outermost layer of the core, wanted the Virtual Universe Company to change the battle rules? That could only be called self-righteous delusion.

At that moment, it seemed the dissatisfied geniuses had stirred up too much trouble. Among the 1008 powerful undying beings in the distance, many let out angry roars. At the same time, their terrifying mental pressure spread out, directly bearing down on the 800 who had lost their qualification for the final battle. This included Feng Hui and the other young geniuses from various races, whose faces turned pale, their bodies trembling slightly, their legs shaking uncontrollably.

"Damn it, I just transmigrated and I'm already getting a show of force!"

Feng Hui clenched his fists, veins bulging and twisting like earthworms as he struggled to resist the terrifying mental pressure of the undying powerhouses, silently roaring in his heart.

Just as Feng Hui was barely holding on against the mental pressure, the half of the jade pendant in his sea of consciousness suddenly began to glow.

"That's right—this pendant brought me here. It must be an extraordinary treasure. Could this be my golden finger?"

As the light of the jade pendant grew brighter and brighter, a strange, chaotic heaven and earth appeared in Feng Hui's consciousness.

"Hm? It seems... I'm inside an egg?"