Chapter 302
The initial success of the nationwide martial arts movement is evident; the long-term pl
Hongmeng Space-Time.
Ancient Origin Star, a vast and boundless void.
A spatial vortex, tens of thousands of kilometers in diameter and filled with dreamlike colors, floats in the void.
boom! boom! boom!
A silver-white spaceship, constructed entirely of F9-grade metal "Ancient God Gold" and shaped like an ancient sword, slowly flew by.
"Is this... the headquarters of the Hongmeng Dojo?"
"It is said that beyond this spatial vortex lies the legendary Five Elements Secret Realm, which even the ancestor of my Qin family never visited."
"I, Li Gousheng, will definitely become a towering figure in the universe!"
……
Inside the spaceship's main hall.
Tens of thousands of young, innocent-looking teenagers, looking at the incredibly awe-inspiring scene outside the spaceship, had many thoughts running through their minds.
Each of them is one of the most talented geniuses selected from the Hongmeng Dojo in the past ten thousand years.
"Time flies so fast."
"Unbeknownst to us, another Hongmeng Grand Competition has begun."
In the spaceship's main control room, Venerable Wan Jian stood with his hands behind his back, calmly gazing at the vast void before him.
"Yes."
"Of those from our graduating class, probably only a few old guys are still alive."
A burly man, dressed in heavy black armor and with a black, curved horn on his forehead, stood behind the Venerable Ten Thousand Swords, grinning with a gaping maw.
The Great Competition of Hongmeng is held once every three thousand years.
It is a grand event hosted by the Hongmeng Dojo, similar to the Cosmic Genius Battle.
The difference is that the Hongmeng Grand Competition selects 10,000 peerless geniuses from the various Hongmeng Dojo branches through a series of selections and sends them to the headquarters for training.
"You're in charge of this year's HarmonyOS competition. Have you found any promising talents yet?"
A faint smile played on the lips of Venerable Ten Thousand Swords.
He and the Dragon King were both powerful figures who emerged from the same Hongmeng Grand Competition more than six million years ago, so they had a fairly good relationship.
The Hongmeng Grand Competition is held once every three thousand years, and each competition selects ten thousand geniuses.
Although the number of people may seem large, over millions of years, only a few have truly transformed into powerful beings, while the vast majority have perished along the way.
This is the cruelty of the path to becoming a strong person.
"There are a few promising talents."
"This time, both the Qianwu branch and the Wilderness branch have produced an unparalleled genius, who is not much weaker than you were back then."
The Dragon King nodded, a slight smile appearing on his face.
"Oh?"
A hint of surprise flashed across Wan Jianzun's face, but he was not offended by the Dragon King's words.
After all, having talent is one thing, but being able to realize that talent is another.
There is a very long road to travel between being a peerless genius and becoming a peerless expert; not everyone can succeed.
The Venerable Swordsman had seen many geniuses with even greater talent than himself, but now he was a Universe Venerable, while that even more brilliant genius had long since vanished into the river of time.
“Normally, there might only be one or two geniuses of this caliber every few hundred years.”
"But now there are two in one class, haha, I'm really lucky."
The Dragon King laughed heartily, clearly in a very good mood.
"It's not a matter of luck."
The Venerable Ten Thousand Swords clearly saw further than him, saying, "It is because over these hundreds of millions of years, the cultivation system of my Hongmeng Daoist Temple has become more and more perfect."
The Hongmeng Dojo promotes martial arts for all and strives for a prosperous era where everyone can become a dragon.
The characteristic of martial arts for all is that it requires a huge initial investment and takes an extremely long time to see results.
In just one hundred million years since its establishment, the Hongmeng Daoist Temple has cultivated thousands of immortal kings and hundreds of cosmic venerables.
Such terrifying efficiency is built upon a massive "martial arts for all" system.
Looking across the 1011 universes of humankind, almost 30% of the planets have branches of the Hongmeng Daoist Academy at various levels.
What is this concept?
Take the Qianwu Universe Kingdom as an example.
The Qianwu Universe Kingdom has more than 13,000 star domains, which vary in size. On average, each star domain contains 15,000 star systems.
On average, a galaxy contains 500,000 habitable planets.
Based on this calculation, the Qianwu Universe Kingdom has approximately one hundred trillion inhabited planets.
If the coverage rate exceeds 30%, it means that there are more than 30 trillion Hongmeng Daoist temple branches in the Qianwu Universe Kingdom.
This number alone is enough to show just how enormous the Hongmeng Dojo is.
The investment is huge, and the return on investment takes a long time...
This also means that once the "martial arts for all" system is completed, the benefits will be unimaginably huge.
Of course, the reason why the five top forces, including Virtual Universe Company, did not initially pursue "martial arts for all" was not because they were short-sighted.
After all, in the long run, martial arts for all is definitely more advantageous.
In reality, it's not that they don't want to do it, but rather that they lack the necessary conditions.
The biggest reason is that before the establishment of the Hongmeng Daoist Temple, the human race did not have an absolute ability to defend its territory.
The vast territory of a human-made cosmic nation (1011) is absolutely unimaginable.
Even traveling at the speed of light, it would take an extremely long time to traverse the territory of humankind.
With such a vast territory, it is simply impossible to defend every part of it.
This means that the human race has spent a huge amount of money to develop "martial arts for all" on every planet, and it would be easy for alien cosmic lords to destroy it if they broke into human territory.
Even if the human race has a virtual universe, they can react immediately.
However, by the time the high-ranking humans teleported over, the alien universe lord had already left.
With the power of the Lord of the Universe, destroying a galaxy would be an extremely easy task.
They can fire a shot and move to another location; the human universe's master simply cannot stop them.
As for the human universe master retaliating in the same way, the alien powerhouses simply don't care.
They're just ordinary life-bearing planets anyway, so destroying them won't hurt at all.
On the other hand, the human race invests heavily in the construction of every life-bearing planet, and it is simply not worth it to exchange injuries for injuries.
This is why, in the eyes of the higher-ups of each race, only those above the Immortal level are considered the foundation of their race. In the event of a full-scale war between races, the first priority is to transfer all Immortals to the miniature universe of the strongest being in the universe.
As for the large number of ordinary life forms, they are often given a relatively low priority.
Firstly, there are simply too many ordinary life forms to transfer them all;
Secondly, given the rate of human population reproduction, a massive population can naturally grow in just a few tens or hundreds of thousands of years.
In short, only Ye Xingkong, with his cheat-like abilities, dares to try something like martial arts for everyone; other forces don't have the resources to do so.
boom! boom! boom!
The spaceship roared to life, its massive hull slowly disappearing into a dazzling vortex of space.
The next second, the world changed.
In the spaceship's main hall, the tens of thousands of unparalleled geniuses at the stellar level, who had been quite quiet, suddenly widened their eyes, their faces showing shock.
"How can this be?"
"The fluctuations of the fundamental laws of the universe are so clear; no wonder it is the legendary Five Elements Secret Realm!"
"To comprehend the laws here, one day is equivalent to thirty years outside."
The exceptional geniuses were all shocked.
They were able to stand out from countless stellar-level geniuses in the universe, having at least crossed the threshold of the fundamental laws of the universe and being able to clearly sense the rhythm of these fundamental laws.
brush!brush!brush!
Immediately, one after another, peerless geniuses sat cross-legged, closed their eyes, and began to comprehend the teachings.
Seeing this, the Dragon King and the Venerable of Ten Thousand Swords exchanged a glance and smiled. "When we first entered the Five Elements Secret Realm, we were even worse off than them."
The Dragon King said with a chuckle.
"I remember that as soon as I came in, I went straight into a state of enlightenment."
The Venerable of Ten Thousand Swords said.
The Dragon King nodded, letting the spaceship hover in the void, not in a hurry.
This is actually a "long-standing tradition" of every HarmonyOS competition.
Each batch of peerless geniuses who have just entered the Five Elements Secret Realm will experience a sudden enlightenment upon sensing the fluctuations of the primordial laws, which are tens of thousands of times clearer.
This state of sudden enlightenment is something that can only be encountered by chance and cannot be sought after, so it should not be easily interrupted.
"Dragon, I won't wait any longer, I'll go first."
The Venerable of Ten Thousand Swords said with a smile.
The time it takes for these geniuses to have an epiphany is unpredictable, ranging from a few days to several years. He can't possibly wait here indefinitely.
"That's fine."
The Dragon King nodded.
"correct."
Just as Venerable Wanjian was about to teleport away, he suddenly stopped and said, "Keep an eye on that little guy from the Qianwu branch for me."
"What, are you starting to like me?"
The Dragon King asked with a smile.
Venerable Wan Jian nodded and said, "If he can pass the tenth level of the Tower of Babel within a hundred years in the Five Elements Secret Realm, I will personally take him as my disciple."
"The tenth floor of the Tower of Babel has reached the level of understanding of the laws of immortal gods!"
The Dragon King glared at him, and asked in great shock, "Isn't the request a bit too much?"
"not tall."
The Venerable Swordsman calmly shook his head.
A hundred years of cultivation in the Five Elements Secret Realm is equivalent to a million years of cultivation in the outside world.
If one cannot reach the level of an immortal god even after a million years of understanding the laws, then one is not qualified to be his disciple.
After all, as a dignified cosmic master, his standards for accepting disciples certainly cannot be too low.
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primordial universe.
In the primordial universe, on the ancient star, beneath the Enlightenment Tree.
Ye Xingkong sat cross-legged, intently studying the black and white chess game before him.
Behind him stood a handsome young man in plain clothes with striking eyebrows and bright eyes.
"How much of this game of chess did you understand?"
Ye Xingkong didn't turn his head, placed another piece on the chessboard, and asked calmly.
"I didn't understand a single step."
Ye Xiao spoke respectfully and very honestly.
"lie!"
Ye Xingkong chuckled and scolded, placing a piece on the board and saying with a smile, "Are you wondering why I made this move on the ninth step?"
"Grandpa's eyes are truly discerning; he couldn't hide anything from you."
Ye Xiao nodded and chuckled.
He had already fully grasped the eighth move of the game, but he just couldn't figure out the ninth move no matter what.
"If you could comprehend the Ninth Hand, you wouldn't be unable to break through to the level of the Lord of the Universe."
Ye Xingkong threw the chess piece back into the chess basket, stood up, and stretched.
"Think about it carefully."
"Come find me in the Hongmeng Temple after you have fully comprehended this ninth technique."
Ye Xingkong left only one sentence, and the divine power clone immediately dissipated.
Ye Xiao stood there alone, staring wide-eyed at the chessboard in front of him.
This is an endgame with few pieces; White has only made thirteen moves.
This simple chess game seemed to have endless variations in his eyes.
Wow~
A gust of wind blew by, and thousands of branches of the majestic and ancient Enlightenment Tree drooped down, with wisps of primordial purple energy dissipating.
One by one, the leaves of the Enlightenment Tree fell around Ye Xiao, like a green rain.
In an instant, Ye Xiao felt that his comprehension had improved slightly.
"This Enlightenment Tree... though it hasn't developed any intelligence yet, it's almost become a spirit."
Inside the Hongmeng Divine Palace, Ye Xingkong's gaze traversed through layers of space, and a smile involuntarily appeared on the corner of his mouth.
If judged by realm, the Enlightenment Tree is a life form at the level of a universe master, only it has no combat power.
The Lord of the Universe... even if he lacks sentience, he still possesses some simple emotions.
Perhaps the Enlightenment Tree sensed that Ye Xingkong's grandson was sitting under it, so it gave up many leaves to help Ye Xiao.
"After tens of thousands of years of planning, it's about time to reap the rewards."
Ye Xingkong's eyes were deep, and a faint smile appeared on his lips.
He began planning against the demon race after the last Hongmeng Conference, and tens of thousands of years have passed since then.
Over the past tens of thousands of years, the battles between the strongest members of the human race on the battlefields beyond the realms have become more intense and frenzied than ever before.
To the powerful races such as the demon race, the insect race, and the mechanical race, this action was seen as the human race's revenge for the "fall of the Lord of Ice and Fire".
The end of this Hongmeng Order does not mean the end of the decisive battle in the extraterritorial battlefield, but rather that there is no need to continue it.
Having been ravaged on the battlefields beyond the realms for tens of thousands of years and paid a heavy price, the powerful members of the three-race allied forces have clearly learned their lesson.
I definitely can't win in a fight, so I'll just stay home and not come out!
I'm hiding in the barracks base, you can't really come knocking on my door, can you?
Faced with this situation, even the powerful figures of the Hongmeng Dojo were helpless.
They wanted to kill the enemy and earn merit, but the three-race allied forces didn't give them that opportunity at all.
Upon seeing this, the higher-ups at the Hongmeng Dojo simply ended the Hongmeng Order.
After all, the three-race allied forces had become cowards, and there was no point in continuing the stalemate.
More importantly, the other side's plan against the demon race is ready to be rolled out.
In the end, the gains and losses on the battlefield outside the domain are nothing more than the consumption of some resources of the various races.
It can hurt, but it can't break you.
However, if the demon race loses one of the strongest beings in the universe, it would truly be like having its backbone broken.
"Owner."
The voice of the Lord of Poison Dragons echoed in the void.
"Poison Dragon, how are your preparations going?"
Ye Xingkong asked with his hands behind his back and a nonchalant expression.
"I am currently in the dangerous place 'Aurora Valley' within the Inner Domain of the Peak Realm."
"It can proceed as planned at any time."
The Lord of Poison Dragons said in a hoarse voice.
He roamed the cosmic sea for tens of thousands of years, without hiding his identity like the Lord of Ice and Fire. After experiencing one great battle after another, he made quite a name for himself.
All the major powers in the cosmic sea already know that a newly promoted Universe Lord of the Demon Race has achieved the strength of a fourth-tier Universe Lord in just over a hundred million years of cultivation. (End of this chapter)