Whether held by the Giant Axe Battle Arena or the Virtual Universe Company, the Peak Genius Battle bore almost no differences in its process.
First came the ultra-scale first round of preliminary melee battles, filtering out those participants with superior talent, state of mind, and comprehension from the vast ocean of entrants.
In this preliminary tournament, the Ganwu Universe Country division alone screened over eight hundred billion contestants down to merely around one hundred thousand, making the cruelty of its sifting through sand quite imaginable.
After completing the first round of preliminaries, there were still several more rounds of the genius tournament. The competition system could be described as striving for perfection, eliminating a large swath of geniuses at each step.
Until finally, only those who secured the top 1,000 in the universe-wide finals were considered true victors, obtaining the qualification to join the core tier of major factions.
Calculated from the number of humanity's 1,000 and 8 universe countries, among every small trillion of geniuses in each universe country, the highest probability was that merely the top one or two possessed the possibility of entering the core layer.
Regarding this, one had to marvel at the convenience of the Virtual Universe. It was precisely because humanity possessed this facility that they could maintain the rhythm of holding a genius battle every ten thousand years, highly efficiently siphoning those top geniuses from across the entire universe.
While over eight hundred billion Stellar Level geniuses of the Ganwu Universe Country fought to the death within 100 World Districts, Li Che was seated loftily upon the towering throne within the Rong Bing Branch of the Giant Axe Battle Arena, overlooking everything from a transcendent posture.
Ever since the World District preliminary matches began, almost every single minute saw Stellar Level geniuses slain amidst battles, becoming stepping stones for stronger geniuses to display their own power.
Beside Li Che, most of those ancient and powerful Undying Deities also maintained silence, the brilliance of origin laws flashing within each person's eyes as they stared fixedly at the geniuses fighting to the death in the various World Districts.
Until the first round of preliminaries, lasting a full 15 days, completely ended did these Undying Deities from the Giant Axe Battle Arena slowly withdraw their gazes.
And within their hands, a stack of illusory paper sheets from the Ganwu Branch of the Giant Axe Battle Arena gradually materialized.
That was the list of geniuses ranked in the top 1,001 within each of the 100 World Districts.
Adding up to over one hundred thousand people, these were considered the victors of the first round of the Peak Genius Battle, having acquired the qualification to participate in the second round.
"Hm, the standards of this session are all right. There are indeed a few somewhat dazzling little fellows who might have a chance to make a charge for the top 1,000 of this session's entire universe."
"Comparing this to past several thousand sessions of the genius battles, this time is merely a level a bit higher than the average line."
" ordinary."
The Undying Deities reviewed them one by one.
Every single one of them was an undying existence who had lived for long, ancient years. The Peak Genius Battle, held once every 5,000 years, was hard to come by for Stellar Level little fellows, but to them, it was merely a routine process watched countless times.
"Based on everyone's experience, how many people among these eight hundred billion can achieve Undying?"
Li Che was not a member of the Giant Axe Battle Arena. He looked toward Army Master Yanpo, and that Undying Deity of the fire-origin law very warmly handed all 100 lists into Li Che's hands.
His question instantly captured the attention of the Undying Deities present.
"Achieve Undying, huh... Speaking conventionally, out of over eight hundred billion people, it'll be pretty good if ten Undying Deities are born," that Undying whose entire body flickered with violent lightning whipped the long tail behind his back and spoke.
"Army Master Ranting's number is a bit optimistic. Perhaps after 1,000 epochs, these over eight hundred billion people will have all reached their lifespan limits, perishing completely just like that," another female Undying Deity clad in silver-white snake-scale battle armor said, shaking her head.
"World Master of Guixu should know that even those little fellows who joined the core tier of the battle arena find it hard to guarantee becoming Undying. Their innate talent is stronger, and their accumulation at the World Lord level is deeper, but at the same time, the difficulty of breaking through to Undying is correspondingly higher."
"Indeed, many years ago it seemed someone did similar statistical data processing. Compared to the youths in the core layers of the two giants, it was conversely those secondary-tier geniuses absorbed into the Ganwu Secret Realm who had a higher proportion breaking through to Undying. Of course, most of them were merely the most ordinary Undying..."
The other Undying Deities also voiced their own viewpoints.
Even a genius who comprehended origin laws at the Stellar Level might die in a seemingly ordinary adventure.
Quite a few people believed that after a thousand epochs, perhaps those little fellows nurtured by the battle arena or the Ganwu Secret Realm would all be dead, while some little fellows with ordinary initial rankings would achieve deityhood due to fortuitous encounters. There were simply too many unknowns.
Amidst the idle chatter of the various Undying Deities, news of the genius battles from other universe countries also arrived successively through the Virtual Universe network. The efficiency of the Giant Axe Battle Arena was very high, having already inventoried the sufficiently excellent little fellows in this session's genius battle according to their performance in the first round.
The one evaluated by the core intelligence of the Giant Axe Battle Arena as the most outstanding of this session was a mentalist Stellar Level who comprehended two major origin laws of wind and time. He was already capable of executing the second heavy of the God-Splitting Weapon-one of the nine major divine weapons of mentalist controllers-and was judged to have a probability of seizing the championship of this entire universe.
A Stellar Level executing the second heavy of the God-Splitting Weapon-this seemed about on par with Luo Feng's level in the later stages of the genius battle.
Li Che glanced at the age of that mentalist genius youngster.
Hm, 1,575 years old.
As expected, a Peak Genius Battle of quite ordinary standards.
Following the memories obtained from the Mountain Sea Realm Li Che, Li Che also possessed a certain evaluation.
Sighing inwardly, Li Che exchanged a few casual words of idle chat with the Undying Deities and continued to watch the second round of battles for this Peak Genius Battle.
The second round of the genius battle used the method of arena melee battles to once again screen those geniuses who secured the top one thousand within the major World Districts during the first round, directly eliminating 90% of them and leaving only the 10,000 most outstanding ones.
It was worth mentioning that the little fellow from the Rongbing Empire who received personal guidance from Li Che stopped right at the arena melee battle. Although he grasped the eighth layer of domain and excelled at combat, he still could not withstand those stronger geniuses who had mastered lower-tier laws.
In the third round of the genius battle that followed, 90% of the remaining participants would likewise be screened out, with only the 1,000 most outstanding among them possessing the qualification to participate in the universe-wide decisive battle of the genius battle.
Until the genius battle progressed to the third round did Li Che finally raise some interest. He and the Undying Deities beside him discussed some of the more brilliant battles among them. Even though those battles appeared extremely crude in their eyes, for a Stellar Level to reach this tier was indeed very astonishing.
"Speaking of which, it's actually quite interesting. Among these little fellows capable of participating in the third round of the genius battle, the victors will join the Ganwu Secret Realm and the battle arena, whereas the losers are not entirely stripped of hope either. Many Undying Deities who have not joined any major factions are willing to pick disciples from among those losers, and among them, fortunate ones who become Undying are not lacking."
"Just like in a certain genius battle of over two thousand sessions ago, the solitary Undying Marquis Rongyu took in such a 'loser' as a disciple. That little fellow has now also become Undying, and I've heard he's already gained some small renown in the second Extraterrestrial Battlefield..."
Upon the massive throne of the Rong Bing Branch of the Giant Axe Battle Arena, Army Master Yanpo was recounting some secret anecdotes of past genius battles to Li Che.
One could only say that the universe was vast, and it never lacked miracles or fortunate individuals.
"Beep, beep, beep!"
Just as Li Che was silently sighing, his smart assistant Bai Yue suddenly manifested within the Virtual Universe, delivering a virtual email before Li Che.
Catching sight of the sender of that email, Li Che instantly perged up in his entirety.
Because the signature of the email was unexpectedly that Venerable Luan Mo who had once met with Li Che in person.
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