"Ancient Wheel Sacred Hall?"
Jiang Luo looked puzzled. "I thought you'd suggest I join one of the giants, like the Giant Axe Arena or the Virtual Universe Company."
Wu He scoffed. "Keep dreaming. The Gulun Universe Kingdom is managed by the Giant Axe Arena. The other four giants, including the Virtual Universe Company, basically only recruit Universe Level powerhouses or above at their Huanming Star Sector branches.
"And even if you got in, most people would only become Outer Members of a branch. That wouldn't be enough to deter the Obsidian Company.
"The Giant Axe Arena is even more selective. It never openly recruits geniuses. They wouldn't even look twice at someone who'd earned the title of 'Universe Level Giant Axe Warrior'—a title held by only a handful across an entire Domain.
"The Giant Axe Arena recruits either through the Cosmic Humans' Peak Genius Tournament and Strong Ones Battle, or by directly absorbing geniuses from the Ancient Wheel Sacred Hall.
"Speaking of which, the Virtual Universe Company held the Genius Battle a few thousand years ago. This time, it should be the Giant Axe Arena's turn to hold the Peak Warrior Battle.
"By my count, it's only a few decades away. You definitely won't make it in time. They select Universe Level fighters.
"Other than that, you'd have to earn a Sector Lord Level Giant Axe Warrior title like my master did before the Giant Axe Arena might make an exception.
"Alas, if my master had joined the Giant Axe Arena back then, perhaps he wouldn't have fallen so easily..."
Jiang Luo thought, That's not necessarily true. If he'd joined the Giant Axe Arena, he might have died even sooner.
The Virtual Universe Company's training for geniuses was already brutal, with a shocking death rate.
Given the Giant Axe Arena's penchant for organizing life-or-death battles, it could only be even more brutal.
"There's no time to waste." Wu He grew serious. "You need to join the Ancient Wheel Sacred Hall as soon as possible. The Obsidian Company's people may already be on their way to investigate."
Jiang Luo immediately issued orders, telling the Alliance government to prepare a secluded place where he could cultivate without interruption.
"Well, would you look at that! They dug out a shelter this deep?"
Jiang Luo followed the passageway to an underground shelter thousands of meters below the surface.
It was supposedly built to defend against aliens.
After this incident, the Alliance government realized that it had vastly underestimated how terrifying aliens were.
The weapons Luo Planet People had could deal with Martial Saints, but they were useless against Planetary Level fighters, let alone Star Level fighters.
Even a nuclear bomb had to actually hit its target to be of any use.
A Star Level spiritual force user could even render Luo Planet People powerless with a single mental assault.
That was why the Alliance government treated Jiang Luo with such deference. Faced with the alien threat, the technology on Luo Planet was no longer any use.
Virtual Universe, Gulun Continent, Huanming Domain.
Amid the crowds on the broad street, Jiang Luo was logging into the Virtual Universe Network for the first time.
The reason he'd gone looking for Wu He's spaceship as soon as he reached Planetary Level was, in fact, the Virtual Universe Network.
Since the Huanming Domain was a territory directly under the Gulun Universe Kingdom, rather than an affiliated nation, Jiang Luo didn't appear on an island at the edge of the continent after logging in. Instead, he appeared right on the boundless Gulun Continent.
"What are you looking up? Hurry up and head to the Huanming Branch Hall of the Ancient Wheel Sacred Hall!" Wu He urged him from his shoulder, where he'd transformed into a "Virtual Assistant Sprite."
After finishing his search, Jiang Luo lowered his eyes, his gaze flickering. I can't believe I'm five thousand years younger than Luo Feng...
The first thing he'd done after logging into the Virtual Universe was look up information on the Ganwu Universe Kingdom and past Genius Battles.
He'd immediately found information about Luo Feng's record in the Genius Battle.
The Cosmic Humans' Peak Genius Tournament that Luo Feng had entered had taken place five thousand years ago!
No, actually, I've already lived for several thousand years. If I do the math, Luo Feng and I aren't that far apart in age...
Jiang Luo lamented inwardly, How embarrassing. Luo Feng might already be in the Outer-Region Battlefield, while I'm only Planetary Level.
But he didn't really care whether he could catch up to Luo Feng.
Jiang Luo set aside his thoughts and followed Wu He's directions to a teleportation point.
The Huanming Domain covered an immense area, encompassing the Universe Citizens of seventeen thousand star sectors in the Huanming Star Sector.
To reach a distant destination quickly, he had to use a teleportation point.
Although they hadn't obtained Flint Star Sector Lord's inheritance, Wu He had a Level One account with the Galaxy Bank and a few thousand Gulun Coins in savings. To an ordinary Universe Citizen, that was already a vast fortune.
The teleportation fee was only 100 Huanming Coins, a negligible sum to him.
When Jiang Luo reappeared, the broad, crowded street was gone.
Before him stood an enormous, magnificent building—the Huanming Branch Hall of the Ancient Wheel Sacred Hall.
One figure after another entered and left the immense structure.
Though almost everyone in the Virtual Universe had the physical fitness of an Apprentice Level Four, it was obvious that these people were completely different from the Universe Citizens on the street.
"At least Star Level... and not ordinary Star Level, either." Jiang Luo's expression shifted.
The Huanming Branch Hall of the Ancient Wheel Sacred Hall had no doors. Instead, a row of magnificent stone pillars supported the grand structure.
"Huh?"
As soon as Jiang Luo stepped past the pillars, his body suddenly changed.
In an instant, his physical fitness rose from Apprentice Level Four to Planetary Level Nine, and his body began to radiate waves of genetic Origin Energy.
Wu He laughed. "Heh, everyone who enters the Huanming Branch Hall has their physical fitness raised to the peak of the major realm they've reached in reality.
"After all, a lot of the tests are held here."
The change surprised not only Jiang Luo but everyone else in the Huanming Hall, too. They all turned to stare at him.
"Planetary Level?"
"What's a Planetary Level fighter doing here?"
"Yeah. Our Huanming Hall doesn't accept Planetary Level fighters..."
"It's not that they don't. The Sacred Hall seems to accept Planetary Level fighters, but only at the Hall of Myriad Laws."
"Tsk! Did he get lost and wander in here?"
"Heh, he probably just wanted to see what our Huanming Hall was like. Most people never get the chance to join."
Wu He transmitted to him from his shoulder, "Ignore them. These people are mostly Outer Members of the Huanming Branch Hall. Technically, they aren't true members of the Ancient Wheel Sacred Hall."
Jiang Luo nodded.
Before they'd set out, Wu He had given him an overview of the Ancient Wheel Sacred Hall.
At its core, the Ancient Wheel Sacred Hall was a bit like the Ganwu Secret Realm: it gathered only the most elite geniuses in the Universe Kingdom.
Strictly speaking, its so-called Outer Members belonged to the branches in various star sectors, not to the Ancient Wheel Sacred Hall itself.
The branches were essentially organizations that used some of the Sacred Hall's resources to cultivate geniuses for the mid-level civilizations in their respective star sectors.
In other words, these people were geniuses whom Marquis Huanming, the lord of the Huanming Star Sector, cultivated in his own territory.
Put simply, it was like those junior colleges or third-rate colleges affiliated with prestigious universities that Jiang Luo had known about in his previous life.
The Ancient Wheel Sacred Hall was a prestigious university, while the Outer Members of the Huanming Branch Hall were students at one of its independent affiliated colleges.
At the end of the hall, an old man with silver-white skin and a deeply wrinkled face sat in a chair. He looked at Jiang Luo and frowned. "The Huanming Hall doesn't accept Planetary Level fighters. Come back when you reach Star Level."
There wasn't a trace of energy fluctuation coming from him, yet Jiang Luo felt as though he were facing a prehistoric beast.
The old man was clearly at least Domain Lord Level.
Jiang Luo respectfully said, "Greetings, sir. I'd like to join the Ancient Wheel Sacred Hall."
"What?"
The silver-skinned old man wasn't the only one taken aback. Quite a few Star Level and Universe Level geniuses in the hall were stunned, too.
In the entire Huanming Star Sector, fewer than a hundred people had truly joined the Ancient Wheel Sacred Hall as full members.
Every one of them was an unparalleled genius.
And this Planetary Level fighter actually thought he could join?
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