Devouring the Stars: The Master of Metaphysics

Yuxiangshan Primitive Area, Manor Study.

Swish!

A white light flashed, and Li Qi, who appeared in the study, took two steps back and sat on the sofa.

"Xiao Xi, apply to watch the live broadcast of the Peak Genius Battle." He called softly.

With Li Qi's current authority level, he is comparable to the peak immortal of the King, and has the authority to watch the live broadcast of the Peak Genius Battle.

As his voice fell, Xiao Xi, a little elf who was only more than 20 centimeters tall, appeared in the study out of thin air with slightly glowing eyes.

"Applying..." Xiao Xi's pleasant voice sounded, "The application to watch the live broadcast of the Peak Genius Battle has been approved."

Buzz!

A light curtain unfolded in front of Li Qi, and the picture that appeared in the light curtain was a paragraph of text explaining the rules of the 'Battle Arena Preliminary' of this Peak Genius Battle.

...

Genius Battle Space, Beautiful Square.

The tiger man Jin Mu Zun, wearing dazzling golden armor, was suspended in the sky of the square.

Although he appeared in this space, he seemed to be independent of this space and out of tune with the entire space.

In the square below, there are millions of geniuses from 1004 universe countries, and 1004 immortal gods leading the teams.

Boom!

An extremely terrifying pressure suddenly emerged, with Venerable Jinmu in the sky as the center, spreading to the entire square below. The terrifying pressure makes people feel terrified.

Not to mention the millions of star-level geniuses, even the immortal gods leading the teams are under great pressure, after all, the level of this genius battle is too poor.

"Geniuses from the 1004 universe countries, welcome to the peak genius battle held by my giant axe fighting arena."

At this moment, the Venerable Jinmu, who stood in the sky as if independent of this space, said: "Although each of you has fought out from the countless geniuses of your respective universe countries, the total number of geniuses in the 1004 universe countries exceeds one million."

"And my giant axe fighting arena will only absorb strong people, so only 1,000 of you can stand out and enter the core layer of my giant axe fighting arena for training."

"First of all, there will be a preliminary selection. Only 6,100 of you out of one million can enter the next stage of the competition."

"The preliminary selection rules are as follows."

"You will enter a 'trial space' later. My giant axe fighting arena has prepared more than one million trial spaces for you, one for each person."

...

"There are five fighting arenas, each with ten waves of enemies attacking. After killing one wave of enemies, the next wave of enemies will appear."

In the study room of the manor, Li Qi sat on the sofa and stared at the light screen in front of him, muttering softly: "If the current wave of enemies has not been killed within five days, the next wave of enemies will appear after the five days expire and attack the trialists together."

"Except for the changes in enemies and some rules, the current peak genius battle held by the Giant Axe Arena is generally similar to the pre-selection rules of the previous trial tower."

"You can get 1,000 points after clearing each wave of enemies in the first arena, and the points of each arena thereafter will be 10 times that of the previous arena."

"The total points ranking 1st to 100th will directly enter the top 1,000 in the universe, and the remaining 101st to 6100th will participate in the subsequent reincarnation battle."

Seeing this, Li Qi shook his head slightly, "Compared with the previous peak genius battle, this genius battle held by the Giant Axe Arena likes to use reincarnation battles to select strong people."

The last genius battle was selected by the virtual universe system to select the best duel and the strongest candidates.

This time, the Giant Axe Arena prefers reincarnation battles, perhaps in their opinion, this is the only way to select geniuses with strong comprehensive strength.

"Well... the arena preliminaries have begun."

When Li Qi was still thinking, the picture on the light screen suddenly changed.

The text that explained the preliminaries disappeared, replaced by multiple options and points ranking interface.

In addition, there are eight live screens, playing the trial space live broadcasts of eight contestants.

"Extra projection, play the trial live broadcasts of Eric Royce, Gerry Royce, and Arthur Royce."

As Li Qi spoke, the picture on the light screen changed, and three more light screens were projected.

These three newly appeared light screens played the trial space live broadcasts of the eldest brother, Thirteen, and Nineteen.

Li Qi was doing three things at the same time, watching the three light screens at the same time, "Oh... have you solved the first wave of enemies?"

Watching Nineteen use double swords, while quickly killing the enemy, he used the body technique "Thousand Illusion Body" to dodge attacks and leave an illusory shadow to deceive the enemy.

He praised: "Nineteen's double swords are used well, and the first level of 'Thousand Illusionary Body' has been entered. His talent for the law of time seems to be good."

"Hmm?" Then, Li Qi showed a look of surprise, "Big brother's swordsmanship and body skills?"

"It shouldn't be... Big brother's swordsmanship and body skills should be about the same level as Thirteen?"

He was a little confused, "Otherwise, when the two of them competed, they wouldn't have won and lost half."

In the light curtain.

Eric, holding a big sword, is extremely powerful!

Wherever his big sword passes, the space seems to be burning with flames, and at the same time, his body skills are like flames dancing with the wind. He is unscathed under the siege of dozens of monsters, and will fight back when avoiding damage.

"If I'm not mistaken, Big Brother hides his strength... He should be afraid that Thirteen will be hit."

Li Qi's face showed a look of understanding, "Accordingly, Thirteen, who has taken over the body of the Exploding Blazing Beast, should have the highest talent among the three of them, but it turns out that he is the weakest among the three."

"When did eldest brother realize the law of origin of fire? After entering the lava secret realm, or before?"

He thought for a while and murmured: "Perhaps he realized the law of the origin of fire longer than I thought."

From his perspective, his eldest brother Eric's current understanding of the law may be that he has stepped into the threshold of the original law of fire and is qualified to compete for the top 1,000 in the universe, or even a higher ranking!

Li Qi sighed softly, "Brother has hidden it deeply enough!"

…

Geniuses fight in space, in the beautiful square.

The 1,004 immortal gods who led the team sat in twos and threes on the seats in the corner of the square, chatting and watching the live broadcast of the genius battle.

"Kou Ji, your Ganwu Universe Kingdom has been hidden deep enough!"

"Yes, Kou Ji. I didn't expect that in your Qianwu Universe Kingdom, besides Arthur Royce, there would be one person who understood the law and stepped onto the threshold of the law."

"Kou Ji has made a lot of money in the past ten thousand years. The last one had Li Qi, a peerless genius. Although there are no evil geniuses of the same level this time, there are two geniuses who can enter the core level of the Giant Ax Fighting Arena."

After seeing the performance of their eldest brother Eric, the immortal gods sighed and congratulated the leader of the Kouji Army for his upcoming reward as the leader of the Ganwu Kingdom.

"I didn't expect that among these 1,000 little guys, I would actually be fooled."

Listening to the words of the immortal gods, Lord Kouji smiled and nodded, with a hint of astonishment in his eyes, "Hey... isn't this Li Qi's brother, Eric Royce? How can he be so powerful?"

At this moment, Lord Kouji was quite confused. He had paid attention to Li Qi's three brothers, but the only one who could really catch his eye was Arthur Royce, who understood the law of time. Although the other two people have realized the law of the origin of fire, they can only realize it to a certain level.

With this level of law understanding, there are more than 400 contestants in Ganwu Universe Country's current genius competition.

"What's his number plate...No. 2?"

Commander Kou Ji thought about it for a moment, and felt a little enlightened, "In this genius battle, except for the No. 1 number plate, which was assigned by me, the others seemed to be automatically assigned by the virtual universe system."

"Is there a possibility?"

Thinking of this, Lord Kouji was shocked, "The strength of Eric Royce..."

suddenly.

An immortal god said: "Kou Ji, this genius hidden in your Ganwu Universe Kingdom seems to be Li Qi's brother, right?"

One stone stirred up a thousand waves.

"Li Qi's brother? No, right?"

"It's true! He is Li Qi's brother - Eric Royce."

"What a boy, a little-known family actually gave birth to three geniuses who can enter the five giants within ten thousand years!"

"It seems that the rise of the Royce family is unstoppable. So many geniuses have been born. In the future, they will become an immortal family."

When the immortal god's words fell, the other immortal gods watched carefully and couldn't help but comment and sigh.

It would be enough for them to be very happy to have one person in their family enter the core level of the five giants, and it would be worthy of national celebration in the primary or secondary universe.

But now a little-known family has given birth to so many geniuses, which makes them sigh with envy in their hearts.

"I'm not very sure either..."

After the immortal gods sighed, Lord Kou Ji shook his head slightly helplessly and said: "Eric Royce should have improved in the eight years since he passed the preliminary selection of the Universe Kingdom."

Hearing this, an immortal god nodded slightly and said, "Yes, if he had such strength early on, then we would definitely collect information about him."

"That's not necessarily true. What if he hides his strength?" Another immortal god said in disapproval.

"Who would hide their strength for nothing? The stage of genius battle is to show strength. Only in this way will more forces and strong people pay attention."

"That's impossible to say..."

The two immortal gods argued for a few words, and then chatted with other immortal gods.

…

"Judging from the current strength shown by Big Brother and Nineteenth, it is basically stable for them to enter the 6100th place, and there is even hope of reaching the top 100 points."

In the study, Li Qi was concentrating on three things, watching the live broadcast of the trial space in the three light curtains.

"Thirteen, there is no chance to enter the next stage of the reincarnation battle."

When he saw Thirteen's live broadcast light screen, he sighed: "His secret technique is fine in attack, but it has many shortcomings in body technique."

"The first two fighting arenas are okay. The enemy is very weak and the shortcomings of his body skills will not be exposed too much."

Li Qi commented softly: "Starting from the third fighting arena, the strength of each wave of enemies has greatly improved. 90% of the contestants who passed the first two fighting arenas will be defeated by the first wave of enemies in the third fighting arena. "

Just as he expected, when Thirteen passed the second fighting arena and entered the third fighting arena, he faced the first wave of thousands of blue-eyed wolves.

After he tried his best to kill hundreds of blue-eyed wolves, he was injured due to his lack of physical skills. Soon the green-eyed wolves swarmed and eliminated them.

"Thirteen is not strong enough. There is nothing we can do about being eliminated in the first wave of the third fighting arena."

Li Qi shook his head slightly and sighed: "Although Thirteen cannot enter the core level of the Giant Ax Battle Arena, he can still enter the secret realm of Ganwu Universe Kingdom, and he will still have the hope of becoming an immortal god in the future."

Li Qi is very confident that Thirteen will become an immortal god, not only because of his talent for understanding the laws after taking over the body of the Explosive Beast, but also because the lifespan of the Starry Sky Beast is ten times that of ordinary life!

Even if his soul cannot support a lifespan of 100 million years, he has a lifespan of 10 million years like a normal realm master, which should be enough for him to understand the lower laws.

With the treasures that Li Qi will give him in the future, his chances of breaking through to an immortal god will increase greatly. If he still cannot break through to become immortal under such circumstances, can he only say that it is his fate?

Li Qi remembered that the stupid son of the Eclipse Fire Venerable, the Nightmare Candle King, in the original work, may not be as talented as Thirteen, but he also successfully broke through to immortality with the help of his father's treasure.

Moreover, once he becomes immortal, he will become a marquis immortal, and later he will become a king immortal, and he will also become one of the five managers of the Garbage Star Domain.

"Thirteen has been eliminated, and it will depend on Big Brother and Nineteen next."

As the light curtain that broadcast Thirteen's fight in the martial arts arena closed, Li Qi immediately set his sights on the remaining two light curtains.

Compared with Thirteen, the eldest brother Eric and Nineteen had an easier time when they broke into the third fighting arena.

Now, both of them have reached the seventh wave of the third fighting arena.

Facing the attack of the seventh wave of 100 mechanical puppets, the two used their own methods to fight the mechanical puppets and did not show any signs of decline.

"With their strength, it is estimated that they can break into the fourth fighting arena. As for how many waves they can break into, it depends on the difficulty of the first fighting arena."

"Fortunately, after killing the enemy in each wave, the state of the trialer will be directly restored to the best. Otherwise, if they deal with the next wave of opponents in a non-perfect state, it is estimated that no one can break into the fourth fighting arena."

Li Qi continued to watch. As time passed, the two finally successfully passed the tenth wave of the third fighting arena.

Then, Nineteen entered the fourth fighting arena first.

In the first wave of the fourth fighting arena, 1,000 blue-eyed wolves were very powerful, stronger than the blood-haired mammoths on the first floor of the five trial towers in the previous session.

Rumble!

1,000 blue-eyed wolves each have their own territory. They jump and run, pouring into the arena from all entrances.

Although the arena is very large, the blue-eyed wolves pouring in from all directions surrounded Nineteen.

Even though he fought hard and used his body skills to dodge, he was still quickly overwhelmed by the wolves.

After Nineteen was eliminated, Li Qi felt sorry, "It's a pity that Nineteen failed to enter the top 100 and needs to go through another round of reincarnation battles."

Nineteen is currently ranked 131st, very close to the top 100, of course this is only a temporary ranking.

Afterwards, the eldest brother Eric also entered the fourth arena, but his strength was stronger than Nineteen. After killing all the blue-eyed wolves, he successfully passed the first wave.

Although he was eliminated in the third wave, his points were enough to allow him to enter the top 100 without having to go through the first round of reincarnation battles.

"It's over."

After the eldest brother Eric was eliminated, Li Qi said softly: "Next, whether Nineteen can enter the core layer of the Giant Axe Arena depends on his performance in the first round of the reincarnation battle."