Chapter 296 - The Genius Destined To Be Number One
Chapter 296: The Genius Destined To Be Number One
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Di Jiu suppressed his urge to continue asking and followed the other participating cultivators onto the platform in the center of the square.
There were 1,000 to 2,000 tables and chairs on the platform. They were not numbered, so everyone just sat down randomly. Di Jiu didn’t understand why there was a need for tables and chairs at the True Dominion Genius Tournament. Did they have to take any written exams? Were the competitions in the Cultivation World not direct battles based on one’s skills?
After all the participants had sat down, the middle-aged man said, “I am the City Lord of the Immortal Ascension City, Xigu Boyang. I will be hosting this True Dominion Genius Tournament. This time, there are 1,200 participants. Before the first round of the competition starts, please admit if you are more than 200 years old and leave the competition. You have 10 seconds to do so.”
Di Jiu, who noticed Gu Jue among the crowd, believed that his Spiritual Force wouldn’t be wrong. Gu Jue should possess two Principal Spirits, including one that was older than 200 years old. Di Jiu wanted to see if Gu Jue would be caught.
“Ten. Nine. Eight. Seven…”
Xigu Boyang, who counted very quickly, finished counting in no time.
Nobody had left. Just as Di Jiu thought that there wouldn’t be anybody older than 200 years old, as everybody knew the rules of the tournament, two shadows leaped into the sky.
Di Jiu had been checking the surroundings with his Spiritual Force. The two shadows belonged to two genius participants who had been sitting in chairs. They suddenly exploded a few hundred feet in the air and their bloody mists soon disappeared.
Di Jiu’s Spiritual Force immediately landed on the chair underneath him. However, he didn’t notice anything wrong. Unfortunately, he quickly realized that the Dharma Array wasn’t engraved on the chair, but on the protruding floor underneath him.
Nobody in the True Dominion had dared provoke Mei Bashan ever since he had renamed the First Kun Protectorate to First Plum Protectorate. If the possession of the Immortal Ascension Array had not been agreed upon earlier on, he might have declared it as his.
“The winner of this True Dominion Genius Tournament will surely be Mei Zhiyun from the First Plum Protectorate, Protectorate Lord Mei,” said Bai Hong, who was from the Interstellar Protectorate, which was one of the Five Major Protectorates as well.
“Ha ha ha!” Mei Bashan laughed loudly as his horse-like face vibrated. Then, he said, “You are too humble, Protectorate Lord Bai. Bai Shaoxiang from the Interstellar Protectorate possesses heaven-defying potential and even came across an awesome opportunity in the Small Central Planet not too long ago. He has the ability to compete for the top spot too!”
Although he said so, everyone could clearly tell that he hadn’t denied Bai Hong’s prediction. Actually, he had already had his eyes set on the top spot. His son, Mei Zhiyun, was a seventh-stage True Form Realm expert. Anyone who participated in such genius tournaments would already be considered a top-notch genius if they were at the Life Tribulation Realm. There would have been three or less True Form Realm experts at the tournament if the Small Central Planet had not opened up prior to the tournament.
In Mei Zhiyun’s opinion, Bai Shaoxiang was nobody he had to be wary of, as he was only at the second-stage True Form Realm.
Mei Bashan felt very proud that everyone had thought that Mei Zhiyun would emerge as the winner. He was already at the ninth-stage Domain Realm and no longer had any room for improvement in the True Dominion. Therefore, he had been planning on going to the Immortal World after this tournament.
“Do you hold a different view, Skygold Protectorate Lord?” Bai Hong had long harbored some buried grudges against Skygold Protectorate Lord Huan Changzhu. Therefore, when he saw that Huan Changzhu didn’t speak while everybody else was praising Mei Zhiyun, he took the chance to implicate him.
Even Mei Bashan, who had been basking in pride, turned to look at Huan Changzhu. He didn’t respect the Skygold Protectorate Lord, as the Skygold Protectorate only ranked at Number Four among the Five Major Protectorates of the True Dominion. If Huan Changzhu had anything against the First Plum Protectorate, then Mei Bashan would definitely kill him after he went to the Immortal World.
Huan Changzhu laughed as he said, “I also think that Zhiyun stands an excellent chance of emerging as the winner. However, I urge everybody to pay some attention to one person participating in this tournament. Although this person is not as good as Zhiyun, he also stands a small chance of becoming Number One.”
“Who?” asked Mei Bashan immediately. He didn’t think that Huan Changzhu would lie to him about such a matter.
“Di Jiu, who is also known as Young Master Red Embellishment in the Small Central World. His Dharma treasure is a long saber that he carries on him all the time,” said Huan Changzhu solemnly.
Huan Changzhu, who had thought that Di Jiu wouldn’t qualify to take part in the True Dominion Genius Tournament, had realized that he had been wrong when he had seen Di Jiu sitting on the competition platform. Di Jiu wasn’t even 200 years old. This was indeed a shocking revelation for him.
“Di Jiu?” Mei Bashan frowned. He didn’t seem to have even heard of this name before.
The Skygold Protectorate Lord pointed at Bai Hong and said, “I believe that nobody here knows Di Jiu better than the Interstellar Protectorate Lord. Di Jiu’s friend killed his son on the Small Central Planet. I wouldn’t have been as magnanimous as him. He actually allowed Di Jiu to take part in the tournament.”