"Welcome to the Cosmic Human Race Genius Selection Contest organized by the Eternal Star Alliance.
Your identity information has been verified. Registration successful.
You are in the Star Torch Empire. The entire Star Torch Empire has a total of 1.0021 trillion registered participants."
The first sentence of the official Genius Battle announcement left Xu Jingming and the others stunned.
A single Cosmic Nation had over a trillion participants!
"The entire Cosmic Human Race has 10,800 High-level Cosmic Nations.
By that calculation, wouldn't the total number of competitors exceed ten quadrillion?"
Ling Shuang drew in a sharp breath.
After all, Blue Star's current total population was only ten billion.
And there were fewer than twenty Star Brilliance Tier experts.
"The Universe Realm is vast. Among the 10,800 High-level Cosmic Nations, there are countless Life Planets.
The Genius Battle is also a grand event held once every five thousand years, so this number of participants is perfectly normal."
The little loli Eva spoke leisurely:
"I participated in the Genius Battle back then as well. Our Elf Race had even more participants than a High-Level Civilization Universe Nation—1.5 trillion in total. I wonder how many there will be this time."
Although the Elf Race was a special branch of the Human Race and accounted for only a small proportion of the ordinary Human Race's population,
it was, in fact, comparable in scale to a High-Level Civilization Universe Nation.
"This number really is terrifying."
Xu Jingming could not help but marvel at the vastness of the Universe Realm again before continuing to read.
"This Genius Selection Contest consists of two stages.
The first stage will be held within the High-level Cosmic Nations, where one thousand competitors will be selected.
The 10,800 High-Level Civilization Universe Nations will select a total of over ten million competitors.