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“Raise the stakes to twelve drops of Divine Phoenix Essence! Xu Ming, do you… dare to accept?”

Huang Yu’s arrogant voice echoed in the First Battle Stage of the Secret Realm. The look in his eyes towards Xu Ming was filled with an aura of looking down on everything.

“Huh?” Xu Ming could hardly believe his ears.

“What!?” The surrounding geniuses watching the battle also looked at Huang Yu as if he were an idiot.

Seriously!

I’ve seen stupid people, but I’ve never seen anyone as stupid as Huang Yu! Losing five drops of Divine Phoenix Essence wasn’t enough; he just had to lose twelve drops… Why is he so determined to court disaster?

Although Huang Yu sensed that the gazes around him seemed a bit strange, he didn't think much of it; after all, even if he racked his brains, he couldn't imagine that Xu Ming, who had just participated in the Myriad Domain Genius Battle, could be even stronger than him!

At this moment, Huang Yu was immersed in a beautiful fantasy: “If Xu Ming dares to raise the stakes, then I can earn twelve drops of Divine Phoenix Essence! After deducting the four drops that were forcibly borrowed and can’t be retrieved, I can still make a net profit of eight drops!”

Eight drops of Divine Phoenix Essence was already an enormous number, enough to take Huang Yu’s strength to the next level!

“Xu Ming!” Thinking of this, Huang Yu couldn’t help but urge, “The stakes are raised to twelve drops of Divine Phoenix Essence, do you dare to accept it or not? If you don’t dare to accept it, then forget it, let’s just stick to five drops of Divine Phoenix Essence!”

“Accept!” Xu Ming said without hesitation.

Of course, he had to accept!

Why would he refuse Divine Phoenix Essence that was being given away for free?

“It’s just…” Xu Ming couldn’t help but ask doubtfully, “Do you have that much Divine Phoenix Essence on you?”

Xu Ming had already heard that within the Chaos Secret Realm, very few people had more than ten drops of Divine Phoenix Essence in their “savings”.

“That’s none of your concern!” Huang Yu sneered, “It’s not like I’m going to lose! —Are you going to say, ‘What if I lose’?”

However, Xu Ming glanced at the expressions of the other geniuses below the Battle Stage and could basically confirm that Huang Yu was right.

“Then…” Xu Ming couldn’t help but ask, “Why not raise the stakes a bit more? For example… raise it to twenty drops?”

“It’s to leave you a way out!” Huang Yu sneered, “Do you think… having the Battle Stage Spirit help pay for the Divine Phoenix Essence comes without a price? I’m leaving you a way out, so I won’t continue to raise the stakes!”

“Ha!” Xu Ming couldn’t help but laugh.

He didn’t realize that Huang Yu still had a bit of conscience! —Since that’s the case, Xu Ming would also leave the other party a way out and wouldn’t continue to raise the stakes.

“Twelve drops of Divine Phoenix Essence, then twelve drops of Divine Phoenix Essence!” Xu Ming said loudly, “Please, Battle Stage Spirit, bear witness!”

Huang Yu also said: “Please, Battle Stage Spirit, bear witness!”

A strange wave swept across the Battle Stage; both Xu Ming and Huang Yu felt it—this was confirmation from the Battle Stage Spirit.

“Hahahaha…” Having received confirmation from the Battle Stage Spirit, Huang Yu couldn’t help but laugh loudly, “Xu Ming, ah, Xu Ming! I really don’t know where your confidence comes from, daring to raise the stakes to twelve drops of Divine Phoenix Essence! Hahahaha…”

Huang Yu was extremely pleased.

Xu Ming, as well as the area around the Battle Stage, fell into an awkward silence. Everyone was looking at Huang Yu with strange eyes—the eyes of onlookers watching an idiot.

Finally, Xu Ming couldn’t help but say: “You… don’t know?”

“Know what?” Huang Yu stopped laughing and said.

“Huang Yu!” At this moment, Cheng Xuan, who was below the Battle Stage, finally spoke, “Xu Ming went to challenge the Divine Phoenix Tower!”

“Challenge the Divine Phoenix Tower?” Huang Yu was stunned, then looked at Xu Ming and said, “You, going to challenge the Divine Phoenix Tower? Isn’t that just wasting Divine Phoenix Essence? —Before the battle officially starts, tell me, which level did you pass? Twenty levels? Thirty levels?”

Xu Ming remained silent.

The other geniuses also didn’t speak, watching Huang Yu make a fool of himself.

“Hmm?” Huang Yu sensed that the atmosphere was a bit strange and couldn’t help but be surprised, “Could it be… you’ve already passed fifty levels!?”

Although Huang Yu had heard that Xu Ming likely possessed the strength of a fifth or sixth-stage Profound Yellow Realm cultivator, he had always thought that this was just hearsay, exaggerating Xu Ming’s strength! However, looking at the expressions around him now, Huang Yu suddenly felt that Xu Ming might really have passed fifty levels!

“Hmph! Even if you’ve passed fifty levels, in my eyes, you’re still vulnerable!” Although Huang Yu thought this, he couldn’t help but feel a trace of fear towards Xu Ming in his heart—what he feared wasn’t Xu Ming’s strength, but Xu Ming’s potential!

Having only arrived at the Chaos Secret Realm for a little over a hundred years, yet he had already passed fifty levels of the Divine Phoenix Tower! With such talent, such potential, Huang Yu could almost be certain that Xu Ming would probably surpass him very soon.

However, Huang Yu wasn’t very concerned: “Even if he becomes stronger than me in the future! However, if he loses the duel, he won’t have anything to say!”

But then, Huang Yu noticed again that the gazes around him were still very strange!

These strange gazes made Huang Yu feel inexplicably confused.

Cheng Xuan looked at Huang Yu with pity and shook his head, saying: “Xu Ming’s twelve drops of Divine Phoenix Essence don’t belong to anyone else; they were all earned by him in the Divine Phoenix Tower!”

“What!?” Huang Yu was dumbfounded—how was this possible!?

“Xu Ming should have already used one drop of Divine Phoenix Essence, right? Then he should still have nine drops of Divine Phoenix Essence left…” Huang Yu muttered, “Nine drops of Divine Phoenix Essence, wanting to turn into twelve drops in the Divine Phoenix Tower, that would require… passing one hundred and twenty levels!”

“Brother Cheng Xuan!” Huang Yu laughed, “Are you deliberately teasing me? How could Xu Ming possibly pass one hundred and twenty levels of the Divine Phoenix Tower?”

Cheng Xuan said calmly: “When Xu Ming was challenging the Divine Phoenix Tower, I was watching outside the tower!”

Cheng Xuan still clearly remembered the shock in his heart at that time.

“As you said…” Cheng Xuan continued, “The number of levels Xu Ming passed is precisely… one hundred and twenty levels!!”

“That’s right!”

“Cheng Xuan’s words are true!”

At this time, the other geniuses around also spoke one after another.

“Impossible! This is impossible!” Huang Yu roared—he couldn’t even pass the one hundred and tenth level of the Divine Phoenix Tower! Yet Xu Ming had passed one hundred and twenty levels!?

How was this possible!?

“Whether it’s possible or not, you’ll know after the duel ends, when you go to the Divine Phoenix Tower and see for yourself!”

“Huang Yu, we have no need to deceive you!”

In the voices of the geniuses, there was mockery and schadenfreude.

“You… why didn’t you tell me earlier?” Huang Yu almost wanted to vomit blood—he had just raised the stakes to twelve drops of Divine Phoenix Essence!

“We already sent messages to tell you! It’s just… you blocked all our messages; what could we do?”

“I…” Huang Yu was about to go crazy, “I don’t believe it! I don’t believe it! This is impossible!! —Xu Ming, take this!!”

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