Jiang Shu, I've Come to Kill You!

As Tenth Order Experts, they knew the difficulty of the Genius Trial Tower like the backs of their hands.

It could be said that even when they had still been Ninth Order, reaching the Sixth Layer had been their limit.

Defeating eight Ninth Order Peak Star Beasts of different species and charging into the Seventh Layer was a difficulty fully comparable to fighting ten opponents of the same realm alone.

Yet even such geniuses would only have a chance of reaching the Third Layer of the Eternal Tower in the Inner Area of the Star Ruins Realm, where the time ratio was eight to one.

"I hope the Merchant Alliance's investment this time hasn't been in vain. If even one of these geniuses can step into the Eleventh Order within a hundred years, then it will have been worth putting aside our cultivation to keep watch day and night."

A Tenth Order Expert could not help but sigh.

Compared to the vast Cosmos, the Star Ruins Realm was where true powerhouses gathered. Weak factions could only survive on the fringes of the Outer Area.

Factions such as the Black Abyss Alliance, Tuoba City, and Star Cosmos City could only cluster around the Black Iron Desert. They could not venture deeper in and occupy better Secret Lands.

That was because they had one—and only one—Eleventh Order Venerable.

Their Nine Universes Merchant Alliance, though it possessed as many as nine, still had to face the fact that new powerhouses could emerge in the Star Ruins Realm at any time. Some factions unable to survive in the Inner Area were sometimes forced back into the Outer Area, where a new round of slaughter would begin.

They had to remain vigilant at all times.

Not to mention that the Nine Universes Merchant Alliance had