The first battle had ended, but many more lay ahead. There were still many geniuses remaining here, and they all needed to earn higher rankings through battle to obtain benefits. Luo Yuan therefore had to keep improving his ranking in the coming battles, ideally taking first place in this Genius Selection Contest.
Only then would he truly have a chance to become a core genius member of the Luo Tian Church. He might even have an opportunity to join the upper ranks of this Super Faction and gain the corresponding status and authority, which would make it easier for him to obtain the resources and information he needed. Only by performing better could he grow faster.
He could never reach greater heights by working in isolation alone. Once his cultivation reached a certain limit, personal ability would no longer be enough to achieve a breakthrough. He would have to participate in the struggles among the various universes to earn the necessary qualifications.
The system soon assigned Luo Yuan his opponent for the second battle. This time, he found it difficult to determine whether his opponent was a native genius or an Inheritor from the same universe as himself. As they fought, Luo Yuan discovered that all the methods his opponent used were ones available only to geniuses of this universe. He could see none of the abilities an Inheritor from another universe might possess.
However, these abilities were not as powerful as Luo Yuan understood them to be. Yet his opponent brought out the maximum offensive power of every move he used. This showed that his combat talent was formidable, but he lacked a Higher Inheritance. Luo Yuan therefore judged that he was most likely a supergenius native to this universe.
Luo Yuan did not believe an Inheritor from his