Cosmic Genius War preliminaries.
The Star Torch Empire's hundred competition zones each advanced their top 1,000 contestants to the next round of slaughter.
The entire battle would last a month. It would be incomparably brutal, with an extremely high elimination rate.
Even galaxy-level geniuses might fail to secure a qualification spot.
But none of that had anything to do with Xu Jingming.
As the first-place contestant in his competition zone, he did not need to fight the other contestants and directly obtained a spot in the second stage.
A month of free time.
Xu Jingming abandoned his plan to continue hunting demonic beasts for Origin Points and instead accompanied Ye Lan and the other women as they traveled around the Noah Empire Homeworld.
However, many factions approached him during this time.
They hoped Xu Jingming would join them, or at least take on the nominal position of honorary elder.
Some were even factions from the Spiritual Pivot Empire and the Star Torch Empire.
Merely taking first place in a competition zone would not have granted him such influence. It was because his identity as "Blood Kill" in the Abyss Arena had been exposed.
In the Abyss Arena, fewer than two hundred Star Brilliance Tier cultivators had attained King Tier.
Although many powerful individuals did not necessarily enjoy fighting in the Abyss Arena.
Anyone who could become an Abyssal King had strength beyond question.
Xu Jingming had a high probability of ultimately entering the Universe Realm's overall top thousand.
Naturally, these factions wanted to recruit him before anyone else could.
Xu Jingming naturally would not let them disrupt his time with the women.
He disabled communications and mail in the Virtual Universe, publicly claiming that he needed to enter seclusion to prepare for the second stage.
The eighteenth day after