The Influence of the Ganwu Secret Realm!

Chen Yi had already mastered a Fourth-Level Domain, so passing the Ganwu Trial was quite easy. He soon killed the monster guarding the sixth level.

After clearing the trial,

he reappeared in the Ganwu Dojo.

At a glance, he saw World Lord Xuanyu and Luo Feng standing with an ape-man. From where the ape-man stood, he was clearly of higher status than World Lord Xuanyu.

Chen Yi immediately guessed the ape-man's identity.

Is this ape-man an expert from the Ganwu Secret Realm?

"Hello, my name is Tong Man. I'm an Immortal instructor from the Ganwu Secret Realm, and I've come to invite you and Luo Feng to join us. Luo Feng has already agreed. What about you, Chen Yi?" Tong Man said in a booming voice.

Chen Yi naturally did not hesitate. Joining the Ganwu Secret Realm was his goal, and he agreed at once. "I choose to join the Ganwu Secret Realm too."

"Very good." Tong Man smiled.

Both of these promising talents had the potential to become Immortals. If they were nurtured well and cultivated for a few hundred years, they should have a chance of reaching a level where they could fight their way to first place in the Universe Country's Genius Battle.

What a pity...

They had been born at the wrong time!

Tong Man explained a few things.

"Leave us your Virtual Universe identification numbers. Our Ganwu Secret Realm personnel will contact you later and grant you access to 'Virtual Universe-Ganwu Secret Realm.' Your nationality will also be changed directly to 'Ganwu Universe Country.'"

"You'll be under the protection of the Ganwu Universe Country."

"If you want to visit the actual Ganwu Secret Realm, the address will be sent to your mailboxes. You can also request a spaceship to pick you up. Here in the Ganwu Secret Realm, the spaceships are escorted by powerful Domain Lords."

Hearing this... Chen Yi could not help feeling delighted.

Even their personal transport came with Domain Lord escorts. It seemed that the treatment Ganwu Secret Realm members received was close to what someone of World Lord status enjoyed!

But Chen Yi also remembered that getting into the Ganwu Secret Realm was quite difficult.

In the original story, those invited to join the Ganwu Secret Realm during the Genius Battle had all crossed the threshold of the Origin of Laws while still at the Star Level.

The fact that he and Luo Feng had been invited was largely because they had cultivated for such a short time. Ordinarily, clearing the Ganwu Trial only earned someone a chance to have their potential assessed; they would only be allowed into the Ganwu Secret Realm after further confirmation...

Now... is Nuolanshan still a threat?

Chen Yi no longer feared Nuolanshan.

Tong Man departed.

World Lord Xuanyu chatted privately with Chen Yi and Luo Feng for a while, and even gave each of them a sum of money as a gift.

That sum was one hundred million Universe Coins!

One Universe Coin was currently worth more than three thousand Ganwu Coins, so one hundred million Universe Coins came to more than three hundred billion Ganwu Coins, roughly thirty-odd times the assets Hu Yanbo had left in his Star Level account.

Luo Feng was quite astounded by World Lord Xuanyu's generosity.

Chen Yi was comparatively calm, since he knew more about a World Lord's wealth. An ordinary World Lord's net worth was around ten Hunyuan Units.

One Hunyuan Unit was one trillion Universe Coins.

Ten Hunyuan Units came to ten trillion Universe Coins.

Giving away two hundred million Universe Coins really was just a small investment.

Even so, Chen Yi was very grateful. At this early stage of cultivation, funds were still relatively scarce. The money World Lord Xuanyu had given them at this early stage could buy batch after batch of Universe Level slaves. It was like sending charcoal in the snow.

The Black Dragon Mountain Spaceship was still flying toward Earth.

Inside the cabin, Chen Yi and Luo Feng opened their eyes at the same time. Both their eyes were full of joy; what they had gained this time had come as a pleasant surprise.

"Chen Yi, Babata, you were right. Joining a faction feels so much better than fighting alone... Now getting a good ranking in the Genius Battle will be easier too," Luo Feng said over the communication channel in his mind.

He had heard Babata's reminder.

His account now had an extra hundred million Universe Coins in it, and there was the Ganwu Secret Realm's future training as well. As for treasures, the training available in the Ganwu Secret Realm did not offer as many as his late teacher Hu Yanbo had been able to leave behind.

But as for inheritances and training methods, they were certainly better than Hu Yanbo's inheritance. Those were things money could not buy.

Thunder God saw the smiles on their faces and could not help asking curiously, "Chen Yi, Luo Feng, what good news have you found?"

Hearing Thunder God, Chen Yi suddenly remembered... Hong and Thunder God were actually quite capable too. They had both mastered domains of their own, and if he taught them the Star Torch Body-Burning Record, they could each master another level of domain.

Perhaps they would have a chance to enter the Ganwu Secret Realm as well...

So Chen Yi also taught the Star Torch Body-Burning Record to Hong and Thunder God. With a new level of domain to study, he believed they would progress quickly too.

However...

There was certainly no hope for them in the Genius Battle.

Chen Yi had only recently gained the Starry Firmament Hibernation One's doubled comprehension ability and the Golden Horned Beast's affinity for the Law of Metal. His rate of improvement would continue to rise extremely rapidly.

The "born at the wrong time" situation the Immortal ape-man Tong Man had mentioned would not happen to him.

Hong and Thunder God, however, fit Tong Man's description of being born at the wrong time.

They had great potential, but they had actually cultivated for only a short time too. A Star Level cultivator had a lifespan of ten thousand years. If they held out for five thousand years and entered the next Genius Battle, getting a good ranking would certainly be easy.

But it was certainly impossible in this one.

They did not have talent for the laws as great as the Golden Horned Beast's.

In Law Comprehension, the gap between them and Luo Feng would also grow wider and wider, just as it had for other Genius Battle competitors such as Bolan and Rong Jun... in Chaos City.

But there's no need to rush. Increasing the rate at which my remotely nurtured targets earn points only depends on their cultivation level. Hong's Law Comprehension being a little weaker because he hasn't cultivated for long doesn't matter, as long as his cultivation level can keep up.

They all have good potential. I can help them out.

The days went by.

Now that he had a large amount of money on hand, Luo Feng also began increasing the proportion of metal his Golden Horned Beast devoured, and bought a warehouse on Bailan Star near Earth.

As for the minerals on Mars,

Chen Yi and Luo Feng took them away in their spare time... With the help of the Blood of Ten Thousand Beasts, Hong also stepped into the Star Level.

Before breaking through to the Star Level, Hong demonstrated his aptitude at the Ganwu Dojo. At the Planetary Eighth Rank, he used the Star Torch Body-Burning Record to unleash a Triple Domain. Because he had cultivated for such a short time, the Ganwu Secret Realm likewise took notice of him.

But... Hong had ultimately spent several decades longer cultivating than Chen Yi and Luo Feng-several times as long, to be precise.

As a result, the Ganwu Secret Realm's assessment of his potential fell far short of Chen Yi's and Luo Feng's.

Hong was therefore among those members who had only barely earned an invitation. This was actually partly because Hong's cultivation resources and environment had been rather poor in his early years, and because his true talent lay in his state of mind, which he had not displayed.

The original story had not described the Ganwu Secret Realm in much detail. In fact, the forbidden Ganwu Secret Realm was tremendously influential within the Ganwu Universe Country.

In the Genius Battle,

only those who had crossed the threshold of the laws would be invited into the Ganwu Secret Realm. Chen Yi, Luo Feng, and Hong had only received the opportunity because they had cultivated for such a short time.

For the Ganwu Universe Country as a whole,

the Ganwu Secret Realm was like Earth's Elite Training Camp. Whenever a new member joined, every party would do its utmost to investigate their identity and background.

When the emperor of Black Dragon Mountain learned that three geniuses from the Ganwu Secret Realm had emerged within his empire's territory, he sent a party to offer congratulations in the Virtual Universe. The Black Dragon Mountain authorities also directly registered ownership of Earth under the name of Chen Yi, its strongest person.

It had not cost them anything.

Beyond Earth,

the Black Dragon Mountain Spaceship carried Chen Yi, Luo Feng, and Hong.

They had officially set off for Bailan Star,

where they would wait for the Domain Lord staff member from the Ganwu Secret Realm to pick them up.

The pickup address they had entered was "Bailan Star."

Thunder God alone was left behind to guard Earth. The Ganwu Secret Realm had not considered his potential sufficient to warrant a direct invitation, so he could only wait another two and a half years and see whether he could join through the normal assessment, or display greater potential.

Of course,

Chen Yi's Starry Firmament Hibernation One Clone and Luo Feng's Golden Horned Beast body had also remained on Earth.

In this timeline, even if the Nuolanshan Family discovers Earth, they won't dare make trouble, will they?

Chen Yi was still recalling

how respectful those Black Dragon Mountain Empire officials had been when they brought them ownership of Earth in the Virtual Universe a few days ago.

It was nothing like what had been shown in the original story. When Luo Feng wanted to register Earth in the original story, he had to wait a long time, and only managed to complete the process ahead of the Nuolanshan Family fleet's arrival after spending money to smooth things over.

Now things were completely different.

Not only had they charged no fee, they had even brought it to them of their own accord.

After all, being able to enter the Ganwu Secret Realm meant they were highly likely to become World Lords in the future, and even had some hope of becoming Immortal Experts!

As for the Black Dragon Mountain Empire's imperial family, their God Lord was merely an Immortal.

Bailan Star.

A spaceship emerged from the Dark Universe and arrived outside Bailan Star. A blue-bearded old man came out of the spaceship.

Hong, Chen Yi, and Luo Feng flew out of their spaceship.

The blue-bearded old man did not put on airs because he was a Domain Lord. Instead, he bowed respectfully to the three of them and called out:

"Gentlemen, please come aboard the spaceship."

Chen Yi and the other two entered the spaceship.

Seeing even a Domain Lord show him such respect, he could not help but reflect inwardly:

In this universe, it really is only the strong and the geniuses

who can live comfortably!