Open up and break into another world

When Huanggu Guang said these words, his face was somewhat distorted—the closer he got to the second stage, the more Huanggu Guang realized that he had no confidence in surviving the second stage! Knowing that he was almost certain to die, he couldn't help but curse Xu Ming.

“If Xu Ming dies with me, then I will die content!” Huanggu Guang thought hatefully.

“I’m going to die?” Xu Ming glanced at Huanggu Guang with pity.

In fact, Xu Ming had given Huanggu Guang a chance to live—he had kindly offered to give Huanggu Guang some pointers; if Huanggu Guang had accepted his guidance, he might not have been able to survive the second stage!

Unfortunately, Huanggu Guang took Xu Ming's kindness for granted, so he missed the opportunity to rapidly increase his strength! Now, approaching the second stage, Huanggu Guang had the feeling of going to the execution ground.

“I won’t die!” Xu Ming shook his head and sneered, “Because… I don’t need to enter this ‘one in ten thousand’ meat grinder like you do!”

“What!?” Huanggu Guang's face changed drastically.

Xu Ming said lightly: “Don’t you know that the second stage is divided into three parts! The ‘one in ten thousand’ meat grinder is just one of them! —And the top ten geniuses on the ‘Ten Great Divine Weapons’ ranking don’t need to enter the meat grinder!”

“You…” Huanggu Guang's face turned ashen, feeling like he had lost his last hope.

Huanggu Guang naturally knew that the second stage was divided into three parts.

The first part is the “one in ten thousand” meat grinder. In this part, ten thousand geniuses are randomly teleported into a world, and only one can survive.

The second part is the ranking battle for the remaining ten thousand geniuses! —From the second part onwards, there will be no danger! Because the remaining ten thousand geniuses have gathered too much luck; even the Divine Phoenix Realm Master would be reluctant to let these ten thousand geniuses die.

The third part is the top ten vying for the crown!

Huanggu Guang only knew that there were three parts, but he didn't know that the geniuses on the “Ten Great Divine Weapons” ranking didn't need to enter the “one in ten thousand” meat grinder.

“This is unfair! This is unfair!” Huanggu Guang looked ferocious, “Why don’t you have to enter the meat grinder!!”

Xu Ming shook his head, sneered, and was too lazy to pay attention to the pitiful Huanggu Guang—unfair? Then you should also enter the “Ten Great Divine Weapons” ranking!

…

When Domain Lord Tianwen led Xu Ming and the other geniuses into the second stage of the competition… countless gazes were cast towards Xu Ming.

“Look! That’s Xu Ming! Blood Sword ‘Flying Blood’ once challenged him to a duel! However, Xu Ming didn’t show up to accept the challenge, but instead a Tieguo Gang member with no reputation defeated Flying Blood!”

“I heard… that Xu Ming disdained to accept the challenge!”

“Disdained to accept the challenge? Heh… who knows whether it’s disdained to accept the challenge, or whether he’s not confident in defeating Flying Blood! Maybe he wasn’t confident, so he let someone else fight in his place!”

Most of the geniuses who came to participate in the second stage of the Myriad Domain Genius Battle had already broken through to the Profound Yellow Realm.

If one's strength was very strong in the Chaos Realm, it didn't necessarily mean that they would be just as strong in the Profound Yellow Realm!

After Xu Ming came to the Origin Land, he hadn't publicly displayed his strength, so many geniuses and great powers were still skeptical about whether Xu Ming could defeat Flying Blood. Some people even thought that Xu Ming deliberately let someone else fight in his place because he wasn't confident in defeating Flying Blood!

Xu Ming was calm and indifferent to these questioning gazes, and didn't care. He knew very well that all doubts would melt like ice and snow the moment he made a move.

“Xu Ming!” At some point, Flying Blood came near Xu Ming; he stared at Xu Ming and questioned, “Why didn’t you come to accept the challenge!”

“Xu Ming, you can’t avoid this battle between you and me!” Flying Blood said coldly, “You avoided the battle on the Divine Phoenix Battle Stage; then come and fight me in the Myriad Domain Genius Battle!”

When Flying Blood said these words, Sword Old happened to be leading Jian Feng into the arena.

Jian Feng looked at Flying Blood with the eyes of an idiot, and thought to himself: “Is this person an idiot? He’s not even my opponent, yet he dares to provoke Brother Ming!”

Jian Feng's contemptuous gaze happened to attract Flying Blood's attention.

Flying Blood subconsciously looked in the direction of Jian Feng, and his face suddenly changed: “That’s… Sword Old?”

Sword Old can be called the number one swordsmanship expert in the Chaos Realm!

In the endless Chaos, countless swordsmanship practitioners take Sword Old as their goal; and Flying Blood is one of them! Therefore, when he saw Sword Old, Flying Blood didn't even have the mind to pay attention to Xu Ming anymore.

“Jian Feng is actually with Sword Old? Could it be… that his swordsmanship was taught by Sword Old? No wonder! No wonder his swordsmanship is so fierce!” Flying Blood thought to himself, it’s not wrong for me to lose to Jian Feng.

After a brief shock, Flying Blood took three steps in two, quickly rushed in front of Sword Old, and knelt down: “Blood Sword Flying Blood, willing to take Sword Old as my teacher, and serve Sword Old from now on! I hope Sword Old will take me in!”

“Hmm?” Sword Old was originally looking at Flying Blood with the eyes of an idiot—after all, even Sword Old himself had been slapped away by Xu Ming; isn’t it stupid that this Flying Blood still dares to provoke Xu Ming?

Then, Sword Old saw that this idiot knelt in front of him, wanting to become his disciple.

Will Sword Old accept an idiot as a disciple?

Of course not!

However… seeing Flying Blood’s expectant, pious, and persistent gaze, Sword Old couldn’t bear to directly refuse and “hurt” him.

After thinking about it, Sword Old said: “Blood Sword Flying Blood? I’ve heard of you, your talent is not bad!”

Flying Blood's eyes lit up, almost bursting with substantial light.

“It’s just…” Sword Old pondered again, “If you want to become a disciple, you still need to prove your strength!”

Flying Blood's eyes were burning, full of expectation: “Please, Master, how should I prove it?”

“Don’t call me Master yet!” Sword Old looked in Xu Ming's direction and said lightly, “If you can defeat Xu Ming in the Myriad Domain Genius Battle, I will accept you as a disciple!”

Defeat Xu Ming?

Even if Sword Old didn't say it, this was what Flying Blood wanted to do! Now, with Sword Old's words, Flying Blood must defeat Xu Ming!

“Yes!” In Flying Blood's eyes, there was strong confidence, “I will definitely defeat Xu Ming!”

“Hmm!” Sword Old stroked his white beard, with the expression of a lonely master, as if encouraging Flying Blood—I have high hopes for you!

…

In the distance, Xu Ming was speechless: “This old man… clearly doesn’t want to accept a disciple, so he throws the trouble to me and wants me to help him solve it…”

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