Peak Genius Competition

With stuffing-style cultivation treasures, a maximum reward multiplier of 100,000 times, and over a dozen Universe Level tools working in tandem, Tang Ping successfully compressed what would have taken others thousands or even tens of thousands of years of normal cultivation into less than a day.

"Universe Level 9. Next, it's time to break through to the Domain Lord Level." Giving his fist a slight squeeze and feeling the exceptionally abundant power within his body, the corners of Tang Ping's mouth curled upward involuntarily.

However, the Domain Lord Level was not as simple as the Universe Level, because the prerequisite for breaking through to the Domain Lord Level was the necessity of first comprehending a domain.

Don't be fooled by the fact that Tang Ping and his brothers, along with Hong and Thunder God, all possessed domains while at the Planetary Level; in reality, there were a vast number of Universe Level individuals in the universe who lacked domains. In fact, one could say that the vast majority of Universe Level beings had no domain at all.

A Universe Level individual who possessed a domain could already be considered quite a genius among their peers.

Naturally, it was impossible for the slave market to have slaves who had comprehended a domain. Even if they did, Tang Ping and his brothers wouldn't be able to afford them.

However, this wasn't a difficult task for Tang Ping. He could just make use of the system's new changes that had triggered upon his breakthrough to the Universe Level. He pulled up the system panel, set those two Universe Level 9 slave tools to exclusively reward domain comprehension, adjusted their allocation ratio to the maximum, and then instructed them to begin focusing entirely on comprehending a domain from that moment on.

"A maximum reward multiplier of 100,000 times—if you still can't comprehend a domain with this, then you truly are idiots." Even with a 100,000-fold reward multiplier, domain comprehension likely wouldn't be a matter of a day or two, so Tang Ping exited his seclusion after making these arrangements.

"What should I do next? Oh... right, I still need to remind Luo Feng and the others not to break through to the Universe Level just yet. Although the Peak Genius Competition of the Human Race doesn't have much use for me, they still really need the training provided by the Virtual Universe Company." Tang Ping punched his palm, suddenly remembering something he needed to do.

He himself didn't need to cultivate at all, relying entirely on lying flat, but his other brothers still needed to. Even with the high-multiplier bonuses from his system, the influence of their cultivation environment remained significant.

The gap between cultivating on Earth and cultivating in the Initial Universe, combined with treasures like the Chaos Stele, was likely far greater than 100,000 times, because sometimes quantitative changes cannot trigger qualitative ones.

If you can't even access good cultivation secret techniques, no matter how much you cultivate, it's often just a waste of time.

Take Earth before the Grand Nirvana, for example. Without cultivation techniques, no matter how gifted or how hard one trained, one would ultimately remain an ordinary person.

Thinking of it, he did it. Tang Ping went out directly to find Luo Feng. This guy was the closest to the Universe Level right now, and he didn't want him to accidentally break through.

Upon arriving at Luo Feng's home, he found that both brothers, Luo Feng and Luo Hua, were indeed cultivating in the cultivation room. Luo Hongguo and his wife received Tang Ping.

Since the two families were relatives, and Tang Ping had previously done them a great favor, Luo Hongguo and his wife were very polite to him. Knowing he was looking for Luo Feng, they led him directly to the door of the cultivation room.

Since Luo Feng hadn't given instructions not to be disturbed before going in, Luo Hongguo simply rang the doorbell at the entrance of the cultivation room.

Soon, the door to the cultivation room opened. Luo Feng didn't rush to ask why Tang Ping had come to find him, but instead led him into the lounge of the cultivation room. Luo Hongguo didn't follow them in; he simply closed the door for them and returned.

"Cousin, are you here for something, or are you just bored again?" After pouring a cup of tea for Tang Ping, Luo Feng sat down opposite him and asked.

The reason Luo Feng reacted this way was that this situation had happened many times over the past few years. Because Tang Ping didn't need to cultivate himself, he was always bored and would go looking for his brothers who were diligently cultivating to go out and have fun.

However, in Luo Feng's view, since everyone had just returned from the universe not long ago and there was now the virtual universe to pass the time, Tang Ping shouldn't be coming to find him just out of boredom.

"Hehe... I accidentally heard about a major event while browsing the virtual universe, so I came specifically to tell you all." Tang Ping said with a chuckle.

Before coming, he had already decided that to avoid his brothers digging into how he knew about things that would happen years later, he would push everything onto the omnipotent virtual universe. Who knew which insider might have accidentally leaked it? In any case, it had nothing to do with him.

"What major event?" Luo Feng asked curiously, as expected.

"The Peak Genius Competition of the Human Race!" Tang Ping smiled mysteriously, then explained, "It's a grand selection tournament where all the geniuses from every universe country within the entire human territory participate. As long as you rank at the top, you can basically say your path of cultivation will be smooth and unobstructed."

"Peak Genius Competition? All human universe countries together?" Luo Feng's eyes lit up, and the combative factors in his body began to awaken.

"Yes!" Tang Ping answered affirmatively, then added, "However, there is a level requirement. Only Star Level humans can participate."

"Star Level? So... you're here to remind me not to break through to the Universe Level?" Luo Feng nodded in realization.

"Yes, but your Golden Horned Behemoth clone can safely break through; that won't affect anything. As long as your human clone is at the Star Level, you can still participate in that genius competition when the time comes." Tang Ping thought for a moment and added.

He was afraid that if he didn't make it clear, Luo Feng wouldn't even dare to let his Golden Horned Behemoth clone break through, which would greatly delay his speed of becoming stronger.

In any case, in the original work, the City Lord of Chaos didn't say anything even after discovering his Golden Horned Behemoth body was at the Universe Level. Naturally, it would be the same now; to someone at the level of the City Lord of Chaos, such a small matter was not worth mentioning.

"Oh, okay, I understand." Luo Feng nodded and replied, but then asked with some confusion, "Cousin, your aura?"

Luo Feng's own strength was currently at Star Level 8, and Tang Ping's previous strength had been Star Level 9. Although Tang Ping's aura was much stronger than his due to his gene level, it shouldn't have been this obvious.

"Oh... this? I've broken through to the Universe Level." Tang Ping replied very casually.

"Then you..." Luo Feng didn't quite know how to ask.

"Yes, I can't participate in that Peak Genius Competition with you all." Tang Ping deliberately expressed a hint of annoyance and said, "But there's nothing that can be done about it. I found out about this too late, or rather, if I hadn't broken through to the Universe Level, I might not have even been able to access this kind of information."

Hearing this, Luo Feng felt even more sympathetic.

"Haha... a blessing in disguise, who knows? Maybe not being able to participate in this genius competition will allow me to rise even faster." Deceiving his brother like this made Tang Ping feel a bit embarrassed, but since he had secrets he couldn't reveal, this was the only way. However, he still secretly leaked a little bit at the end; as for whether Luo Feng could pick up on it, that was out of his hands.