As time passed, the vast territory of the Eighty-Third Battlefield shrank by nearly ten thousand times, and it was still contracting rapidly.
That meant there wasn't a single place on the battlefield where a fight wasn't taking place. Plenty of people had fallen and been eliminated over the past few months.
But now, on the drastically shrunken battlefield, the survivors stood out like beacons.
In this frozen world, the Universe Level Ninth Rank fighters were impossible to miss.
As soon as their origin energy fluctuations spread, the figures around them shone like lights in the dark.
The powerful auras around them were the most enticing bait, drawing one another into battle after battle.
From high above, one could see that there wasn't a single place in this boundless, snow-covered world where a battle wasn't raging.
Surges of tremendous energy spread in every direction, setting the entire world ablaze with activity.
Compared with the Peak Genius Battle for Cosmic Humans, the Universe-Level Warrior Tournament was far more intense.
Only the truly powerful could survive here. There was no room for the weak.
The Virtual Universe Company wanted the strongest among geniuses. That was the reason behind the Universe-Level Warrior Tournament.
At that moment, the Eighty-Third Preliminary World could be called a paradise for the strong—and Huang Wuye was undoubtedly one of its mightiest.
Huang Wuye held a silver-white spear. His white robe billowed in the wind, his red hair streaming freely, and his razor-sharp aura pierced the heavens.
From a distance, he looked like a divine spear thrust straight into the clouds.
The Fire Origin Law swirled around him as he strode through the battle-filled space, like a traveler through the void.
From time to time, he swept his spear, and several blazing figures would appear in the distance.
At that moment, he seemed like an exalted ruler, erasing the dust of the world with a wave of his hand.
Even with the same physical strength, origin energy, and Spiritual Force as everyone else, his Law Comprehension far surpassed theirs, widening the gap between him and ordinary Universe Level fighters until it was like the distance between heaven and earth.
Among the billions of Universe Level fighters competing, only a handful could hope to compare with him.
The rapid progress he'd made over the past dozen years had given him confidence. He was strong—unfathomably strong.
"Is this the power of the laws? If I'm already this powerful, what must Immortal Gods who have mastered even more of the laws be like? And what about beings above them, the Venerables?"
Feeling the power enhanced by the laws, Huang Wuye fell into deep thought. In this world, where the strong ruled over everything, it was truly wondrous.
Time and death seemed within reach. It was time to put an end to this farce.
Huang Wuye unleashed his full speed. His figure flickered, and in an instant, countless copies of him appeared across the thousands of kilometers of battlefield—far more than ten thousand.
As those figures appeared, the fighters battling around him either turned into blazing lights or dissolved into countless phantoms that scattered on the wind.
They hadn't even had time to make out their attacker's face. That was what it meant to be weak: helpless. Though they were usually people others looked up to, at that moment they were no different from ants.
As the figures vanished, Huang Wuye's points skyrocketed at an astonishing rate, leaving the surviving contestants' eyes wide with disbelief.
With Huang Wuye finally unleashing his full power, the competition in the Eighty-Third World Zone gradually drew to a close.
On Giant Wood Planet, roars echoed without end across the Ten Thousand Beast Mountain Range, punctuated by especially piercing, agonized shrieks.
Following the source of the cries, one could see more than a hundred strangely shaped beasts.
They were a bizarre species, their bodies covered in countless long, slender mouths. Thorn-tipped tentacles, sharp as bayonets, stretched out from them, gleaming with a cold light.
Wherever those tentacles pierced, whether through hard stone, strange metal, or towering trees that blocked out the sky, they passed through as easily as through tofu, meeting no resistance.
These monsters were called God-Devouring Beasts. Nearly a thousand meters long, every one of them was a violent, bloodthirsty killer—a natural weapon of war.
They were purple all over and ranked among the most powerful rulers of the God-Slaying Mountain Range.
God-Devouring Beasts were powerful individually, but they preferred to move in packs. Wherever they went, nothing remained alive. Even giant beasts on par with World Lord Level beings could be surrounded and killed, and their incredible speed ensured that no prey they targeted could escape.
They were an exceptionally savage species and one of Huang Wuye's hunting assignments on Giant Wood Planet.
But now, they were fleeing, letting out agonized shrieks from time to time like desperate fugitives on the verge of collapse.
The one driving them to such frantic flight was the figure behind them, holding a great spear in one hand. It was Huang Wuye's Night Emperor Clone.
The spear flashed in his hand, and God-Devouring Beasts fell one after another. As the only Special Lifeform with a life gene multiplier of 8,100, he couldn't bring his full strength to bear at the moment, but slaughtering these beasts was still effortless.
Before long, every God-Devouring Beast was dead. Only their enormous corpses and the wreckage of the forest remained as proof.
The Night Emperor Clone gestured, and the Spiritual Force surrounding the God-Devouring Beasts' corpses carried them into his World Ring.
"Whew, that's all the hunting assignments completed."
Now it was time to look for opportunities on Giant Wood Planet.
With that, he took off from the Ten Thousand Beast Mountain Range and headed straight for the base on Giant Wood Planet.
Before long, he arrived at the familiar base. The shield opened.
He landed, and the ground shook as an enormous figure appeared before him.
"Thud! Thud! Thud!"
It was Dragon Owl, whom he hadn't seen in a long time. Dragon Owl had grown more than ten times taller and had officially reached World Lord Level.
After eating the Life Fruit, his intelligence had undergone a transformation.
With the cultivation manual Huang Wuye had prepared for him, he had now officially advanced to World Lord Level.
Upon reaching World Lord Level, his body had grown explosively. He now stood a hundred thousand meters tall. Standing before the Night Emperor Clone, who had adjusted his own size, he was like a cloud hanging from the sky.
His head reached into the clouds, and every inch of his powerful muscles was like ancient stone, as if he'd been weathered by the elements for millennia.
Looking at the giant before him, the Night Emperor Clone couldn't help but marvel. He still couldn't compare to him, but he was exceptionally gifted.
"All right, General Mighty. Come out with me."
The Night Emperor Clone had returned to find the giant. The search ahead would surely be difficult, so he planned to find himself a mount.
Now that General Mighty had reached World Lord Level, he was undoubtedly the best choice.
In the dozen years since reaching World Lord Level, General Mighty had comprehended the Space Origin Law.
His already impressive speed had grown even greater, making him an excellent mount.
After giving General Mighty a few instructions, he set off with him across Giant Wood Planet.
He wasn't in a hurry. As he searched for anything unusual, he also admired the strange scenery of Giant Wood Planet.
Though he'd been here for a long time, he'd never properly looked around. Now he intended to take in the planet's magnificent landscapes.
On Giant Wood Planet, the two of them could naturally go wherever they pleased. And so, time passed slowly.
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