Chapter 251: Top of the Overall Rankings!
"E-Eighth-level True Intent?" Muyang's voice was trembling.
He was a genius from a super civilization, and it took him more than a decade to raise his True Intent of Fire to 7th level 85%, leaving quite a distance from breaking through to the eighth level.
After True Intent is raised to 7th level 99.99%, it is considered a threshold, and many people will be trapped at this threshold.
Even he was no exception.
If he wanted to raise his True Intent of Fire to the 8th level, it would still take him at least a year or two.
Unless he could be allowed to comprehend the True Intent of Fire inheritance stele for a long time, or even be provided with a massive amount of enlightenment points and enlightenment treasures.
Otherwise, it would be impossible to raise the True Intent of Fire to the 8th level in a short period of time.
Yet the bumpkin in front of him, who came from a weak civilization, was actually able to raise his True Intent of Thunder above the 8th level.
You must know that even in the Lieyang Civilization, for someone of the younger generation to raise True Intentabove the 8th level, they would belong to the absolute top geniuses.
This completely shattered his worldview!
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Streaks of Blood Gods Eye poured down toward Muyangat an extremely fast speed.
"This is impossible!"
Muyang let out a roar, took out a large handful of green medicinal pills and swallowed them, doing his utmost to release all his flame power in an attempt to resist.
However, the thunder power carried by the Blood Gods Eye was like a peerless divine weapon, easily shattering the flame power surrounding Muyang.
Streaks of thunder power penetrated the spirit-grade battle armor on his body, continuously destroying the vitality within him.
At the same time, gentle forces of life were constantly released inside his body, replenishing his vital energy.
This was the healing effect brought by the large handful of green medicinal pills he had just swallowed.
"No... I cannot be eliminated here." Muyang's eyes were filled with unwillingness.
If he had known earlier that Su Yu possessed 8th-level True Intent, he wouldn't have come to look for trouble with Su Yu even if it killed him.
After all, with his strength, as long as he entered the main competition, securing a spot in the top fifty would simply be a piece of cake.
How could he be reconciled to being eliminated during the preliminary stage?
Swish!
Muyang's figure instantly disappeared, reappearing a dozen kilometers away.
Boom!
Carrying the True Intent of Thunder, the Blood Gods Eyestuck like a maggot on a rotting bone, hitting Muyang a dozen kilometers away once again.
Enduring the excruciating pain in his body, Muyangactivated his teleportation skill once more, disappearing on the spot.
When his figure reappeared, another Blood Gods Eyecarrying the True Intent of Thunder hit him.
After several consecutive times, Muyang found that he simply couldn't shake off Su Yu.
He had teleportation skills, and Su Yu also had teleportation skills. Moreover, Su Yu's attack methods were extremely bizarre, making it completely impossible for him to dodge.
If there were two more times, he really wouldn't be able to hold on.
Boom!
Another Blood Gods Eye carrying the True Intent of Thunder crushed toward Muyang.
"Puff!" Muyang spat out a large mouthful of blood again; he had already felt an aura of death.
"I admit defeat."
Muyang hesitated no longer and decisively chose to admit defeat. No matter what, life was the most important thing.
Before disappearing, he cast an extremely unwilling glance at Su Yu. He had never imagined that he would actually lose in the hands of a trialer from a weak civilization.
[Congratulations on defeating a Trialer, you have obtained 25.88 million trial points.]
The moment the system prompt sounded, the thunder light around Su Yu slowly receded.
Looking at the place where Muyang disappeared, his tone was calm: "The foundation of a super civilization? Nothing much."
...
Eternal Realm, Beiyun Star Domain spectator space.
"It exploded! Did I read it wrong? Muyang actually admitted defeat?"
"Muyang from a super civilization is actually not Yu Huang's opponent? Yu Huang actually comes from a newborn civilization; just how terrifying must his talent be."
"Eighth-level True Intent! Definitely eighth-level True Intent!"
"Yes, if Yu Huang hadn't mastered eighth-level True Intent, even if Muyang wasn't his match, he could still leave smoothly and would definitely not admit defeat."
"First on the overall rankings! Yu Huang has reached the top of the overall rankings!"
"This is simply incredible. A trialer from a newborn civilization can actually reach the top of the overall rankings. This is definitely the most badass trialer from a newborn civilization in history."
"That trash Muyang was actually eliminated directly in the preliminaries. He really screwed me over to death!"
"Yu Huang's talent is simply too terrifying. To be able to grow to such a stage in a resource-scarce place like a newborn civilization, if he can enter the Eternal Holy Landin the future, wouldn't he soar straight into the sky!"
"It seems the Blue Star Civilization is about to rise. With Yu Huang's talent, he can definitely enter the Eternal Holy Land. With the protection of the Eternal Holy Land, the Blue Star Civilization becoming a hegemon civilization is just around the corner."
Countless high-tier Professionals were completely boiling over, and their voices almost flipped the entire spectator space upside down.
All those who previously thought Muyang would win fell silent at this moment, their faces filled with shock and disbelief.
"What did I say? Yu Huang really won!" Many people who previously strongly supported Su Yu were flushed with excitement.
"This... This talent is probably even more terrifying than Divine Lord Lieyang back then," someone muttered, their voice filled with shock.
"A newborn civilization actually produced a Third-turn Professional who mastered eighth-level True Intent... If word of this gets out, I'm afraid the entire Beiyun Star Domain will be shaken!"
"The three major super factions of the Beiyun Star Domainare probably unable to sit still anymore. Whoever can recruit Yu Huang will be able to gain an advantage in the upcoming Eternal Ancient Realm."
Discussions were abuzz in the Beiyun Star Domainspectator space, and countless gazes converged on the name sitting high at the top of the overall rankings.
...
In Trial World No. 996.
"The trial points I currently possess have already exceeded 70 million. I wonder if I can secure first place on the overall rankings." Su Yu looked thoughtfully at the number of points on the leaderboard.
After he successively defeated Golden Bone and Muyang, Bailan, who was currently ranked second on the leaderboard, only had a little over six million trial points.
It was only about a tenth of his.
The trial points he possessed alone accounted for almost a third of all trial points.
It could be said to be an extremely terrifying proportion.
"Let's continue. In order to secure first place on the overall rankings, I must go all out!" A flash of sharp light crossed Su Yu's eyes.
After the preliminaries ended, the Heavenly Dao would issue rewards to all trialers who entered the main competition based on the overall rankings.
The higher the ranking, the more bountiful the issued rewards would be.
Moreover, according to the statement of the City Lord of Tianyuan, the rewards issued by the Heavenly Dao were not specific resources, but things similar to reputation.
All trialers could freely exchange for the resources they needed in the exchange store provided by the Heavenly Dao.
There wouldn't be a situation where they were rewarded with a bunch of high-tier resources, yet couldn't use them.
Furthermore, before officially opening the second stage, the Heavenly Dao would deliberately set aside three days of time for all trialers to recover their states and digest these resources.
This guaranteed that everyone could enter the second stage in their absolute peak state.
The second stage tested true hard power, unlike the first stage which still had a certain element of luck.
The trialer who could take first place in the second stage would be the well-deserved number one.
Chapter 252: The Preliminary Selection Ends!
In the independent spectator space belonging to Lieyang Palace in the Eternal Realm,
"To be able to make Muyang concede defeat in the Trial World, Yu Huang's strength definitely qualifies him to impact the top five of the main tournament." A sharp glint flashed through Luo Yan's eyes.
He had a very good understanding of Muyang's strength. If Yu Huang could make Muyang concede defeat in the Trial World, it meant that Yu Huang's True Intent level had definitely reached Level 8.
Even considering that Yu Huang came from a nascent civilization with scarce resources and his life level might not be very high, calculated this way, his True Intent level would not be considered low even among Level 8.
Being able to possess such a high True Intent level could be considered top-tier genius even within the Lieyang Civilization.
Currently, the strongest Third-turn Professional of the new generation in the Lieyang Civilization had only elevated the True Intent of Fire to Level 9.
Everyone else was stuck at Level 8 without exception.
This time, among the geniuses sent by the Lieyang Civilization into the Civilization Arena, only two possessed Level 8 True Intent of Fire.
The Lixing Civilization and Youlan Civilization were about the same.
For the three super civilizations, the Civilization Arena was small-scale trifling, and there was no need to send too many top-tier geniuses to waste time inside.
After all, the only rewards in the Civilization Arena that could catch their eyes were those for the top three of the main tournament.
From the preliminary selection to the end of the main tournament, the Civilization Arena would take at least half a month.
For the top-tier geniuses, under the blessing of various enlightenment resources, this half a month or so might allow them to break through bottlenecks and elevate their strength by another notch.
The Eternal Ancient Realm was about to open, and everyone had to seize the time to improve their strength.
If they could obtain some great opportunities in the Eternal Ancient Realm, there wouldn't be too many bottlenecks in proving Dao to become a Divine Lord in the future.
"Go find Muyang and understand Yu Huang's detailed information thoroughly, then give me a report later." Luo Yan said to a red-robed man behind him.
"Yes, Elder Luo." The red-robed man respectfully accepted the order, and then disappeared on the spot.
"If Yu Huang is willing to join Lieyang Palace, that would be fine, but if he is unwilling, then don't blame us for being ruthless." Luo Yan muttered to himself.
The strength Yu Huang currently displayed had already reached the level of top-tier geniuses.
Currently, among the Third-turn Professionals of the new generation, Lieyang Palace had the strongest comprehensive strength.
If Yu Huang joined Lixing Hall, that would be fine; at most, it would just elevate Lixing Hall's comprehensive strength to be about the same as Lieyang Palace's.
But if Yu Huang joined Youlan Palace, that was absolutely unacceptable.
The comprehensive strength of Youlan Palace's new generation of Third-turn Professionals was not weak to begin with. With Yu Huang joining, it would likely pose a huge threat to Lieyang Palace.
In the independent spectator space belonging to Lixing Hall,
"It seems Yu Huang's talent is even more terrifying than I imagined." Elder Mu's eyes flashed with a sharp glint.
In her view, being able to grow to such strength in a place lacking resources like a nascent civilization, Su Yu's talent could completely be called the number one person of the new generation in the Beiyun Star Domain.
If those top-tier geniuses among the three super factions were thrown into a nascent civilization, it really wasn't certain whether they could elevate their True Intent above Level 8 right now.
From this perspective, Su Yu's talent definitely far surpassed theirs.
Of course, she felt that Su Yu likely had his own opportunities, but being able to obtain such opportunities in a nascent civilization was enough to show how strong Su Yu's fortune was.
"You go prepare three sets of recruitment proposals, from low to high. The lowest set must also offer the usage duration of the True Intent Inheritance Stele and the Enlightenment Pagoda."
"Recruiting Yu Huang, I am determined to win!" Elder Musaid in a deep voice.
"Elder Mu, what if he refuses?" The purple-robed woman behind her asked cautiously.
Elder Mu's eyes flashed with a chill: "Refuses? Then find a way to make him unable to refuse!"
"If it really doesn't work..."
She paused: "Then let no one else get him either. An existence that can break the existing pattern must either be used by us or destroyed."
"What my Lixing Hall cannot get, no one else should even think about getting."
In the independent spectator space belonging to Youlan Palace,
Elder Chen was dressed in blood-colored armor, standing in the center like a god of slaughter. The light screen in front of him displayed the overall ranking list, with Yu Huang's name firmly at the top.
"Number one on the overall list? Interesting, I didn't expect such a powerful super dark horse to emerge this year!" The corners of Elder Chen's mouth curled up slightly.
"Yu Huang, my Youlan Palace is determined to have him!"
"With his talent, as long as he is nurtured a little, it will be enough for us to completely suppress Lieyang Palace in the Eternal Ancient Realm."
"If recruitment fails..."
Elder Chen's voice suddenly turned cold: "Then find a way to make him completely disappear in the Eternal Ancient City."
No one could interfere with anything inside the Civilization Arena.
But after the Civilization Arena ended, the top 128 of the main tournament would gain the qualification to enter the Eternal Ancient Realm, and these 128 people would be teleported into the Eternal Ancient City first.
Although the Eternal Ancient City had rules forbidding combat, as long as one was willing to pay a sufficient price, there was still a chance to kill a Third-turn Professional.
However, there was only a momentary chance. If the assassination failed, the rule power of the Eternal Ancient City would shroud the target at all times to prevent accidents from happening again.
"Understood." A woman behind Elder Chen said respectfully.
Undercurrents surged on all three sides, and each understood the other without spelling it out.
A Third-turn Professional from a nascent civilization actually caused the three super factions of the Beiyun Star Domain to simultaneously harbor murderous intentions and thoughts of recruitment.
And the initiator of all this, Su Yu, was currently in Trial World No. 996, completely unaware that a storm outside was brewing.
Time flew by, and the last day or so flashed past in a blink.
The final moment of the preliminary selection stage finally arrived, and a system prompt sounded in the ears of all trialists.
[The first stage preliminary selection of the Civilization Arena has ended. All trialists who entered the main tournament and climbed onto the overall list will be teleported to the reward settlement space in three seconds.
Other trialists will be teleported to the starting position before entering the Waiting Plaza in three seconds.]
In Trial World No. 996,
Su Yu listened to the system prompt in his ear and opened the leaderboard. At this time, his trial points had reached 82.55 million, firmly securing the first place.
As for the runner-up, it was still Bailan. Her points had not changed at all compared to a little over a day ago.
Obviously, during this last day or so, she had been hiding somewhere and didn't come out.
"These people hide way too deeply." Su Yu shook his head helplessly.
In this last day or so, he only harvested a little over ten million trial points in total, with extremely low efficiency.
Almost the vast majority of people hid themselves. In order to find them, Su Yu also expended a tremendous amount of effort.
His soul power swept out frantically, almost draining himself dry.
Even so, he only found a little over a hundred trialists and gained over ten million trial points.
It was mainly because the area of the Trial World was too vast, and the efficiency of sweeping with soul power was too low.
"However, the others should have the same trouble as me. I hope over eighty million trial points can allow me to take first place on the overall list." Su Yu silently prayed.
Suddenly, a beam of white light descended from the sky, and his figure instantly disappeared on the spot.
Chapter 253: The Reward for First Place on the Overall Rankings!
Eternal Realm, Beiyun Star Domain Spectating Space.
"First place on the overall rankings! Yu Huang really defended the first place on the overall rankings!"
"Oh my god, we have witnessed history! A trialist from a newly-born civilization actually secured first place on the preliminary overall rankings of the Civilization Arena. This is an unprecedented first in the history of the entire Heavens and Myriad Realms!"
"Mu Xuan, who is ranked second, is only a little over one million trial points away from catching up to Yu Huang. His luck is still a bit lacking."
"I'm afraid the three major super factions have already prepared plans to recruit Yu Huang, right? Who wouldn't want a monster with this kind of talent?"
"We can bet on the rankings of the main tournament in a bit. What rank are you guys planning to bet Yu Huang at?"
"Yu Huang was able to defeat Muyang, so entering the top sixteen of the main tournament should be no problem, right?"
"More than that, Yu Huang being able to defeat Muyang in the Trial World has a much higher gold content than defeating Muyang in the arena match."
"Indeed, the arena's area is limited, and a result must be decided. But in the Trial World, if you can't beat them, you can still escape. Yu Huang was able to make Muyangconcede defeat, so his strength definitely far exceeds Muyang's. I think it should not be a big problem for him to enter the top five of the main tournament."
"I'm preparing to bet on Yu Huang taking first place! Hehe, in the last round, I bet on Yu Huang entering the overall rankings, and as a result, I earned over one million Eternal Coins. In this round, I'm going to directly use half of the profits to play."
"Damn, I'm envious. You brat are so lucky, in the last round I lost a fortune."
Countless high-tier Professionals discussed among themselves, and for a time Su Yu almost became the center of the topic.
It wasn't that there were no peerless powerhouses hailing from newly-born civilizations, but without exception, they all gradually exerted their strength only in the later stages.
Someone as dazzling in the early stages as Su Yu had never appeared in the entire Heavens and Myriad Realms.
...
Civilization Arena Reward Settlement Space.
Hum!
Along with a distortion of space, Su Yu arrived in a white, hazy space.
This space was almost identical to the Heavens Battlefieldpersonal space.
If Su Yu hadn't known that he had come to the Civilization Arena reward settlement space, he would have truly thought he had arrived at the Heavens Battlefield personal space.
Following closely, a system prompt sounded in Su Yu's ear.
[Congratulations on obtaining first place on the preliminary overall rankings of the Civilization Arena. Detected that you possess a Heavenly Dao Spirit, you can choose any one of the following rewards:]
[1. 1 million heavenly dao points.]
[2. 5 million preliminary exchange points.]
[Hint: The value of both is basically the same. The preliminary exchange points will become unusable after leaving the reward settlement space.]
"First place on the overall rankings!" The joy in Su Yu's eyes was about to overflow.
During these seven days, he could be said to have had almost no rest, constantly searching for trialists and acquiring trial points every single second.
Fortunately, heaven does not disappoint those who try, and it finally allowed him to secure first place on the overall rankings!
"Reward choice between two? If I didn't have a Heavenly Dao Spirit, the default would probably only be 5 million preliminary exchange points." Su Yu thought thoughtfully.
According to the prompted information, the value of 1 million heavenly dao points and 5 million preliminary exchange points was basically the same.
The only difference was probably the resources in the exchange shop.
"Let me first check what resources are in the Civilization Arena preliminary exchange shop before deciding which reward to choose," Su Yu thought to himself.
With a thought, he directly communicated with the rules of the reward settlement space, and a light screen materialized before his eyes.
A moment later, he had a general understanding of the resources in the Civilization Arena preliminary exchange shop.
"The resources in the Civilization Arena preliminary exchange shop seem to be about the same as the resources in the Star Grade Heavens Battlefield exchange shop," Su Yu quickly concluded.
Among the resources in the Civilization Arena preliminary exchange shop, the highest grade was the divine grade.
Common divine-grade resources, such as god-grade talent flower, life divine water, and soul divine crystal, were all available inside.
These three resources were also the ones Su Yu currently needed the most.
Not to mention the god-grade talent flower; Su Yu wanted as many as he could get. With one Super-God Level Talentand one God-tier Talent, they were all crying out for nourishment.
In addition, life divine water and soul divine crystal were also resources Su Yu currently urgently needed.
life divine water could elevate his life level up to a maximum of Level 20, and the soul divine crystal could elevate his soul level up to a maximum of Level 10.
"Let's choose the 1 million heavenly dao points instead," Su Yu quickly made a decision.
With these 1 million heavenly dao points, he could upgrade Xiaoyu's tier to advanced.
After Xiaoyu's tier was upgraded to advanced, not only could she unlock the advanced Heavenly Dao Shop, but she could also unlock more game database information.
The advanced Heavenly Dao Shop contained Legendary-Grade resources and some divine-grade resources.
Su Yu wanted to take a gamble, betting that the advanced Heavenly Dao Shop contained the three common divine-grade resources: god-grade talent flower, life divine water, and soul divine crystal.
For him, this would be the most perfect ending.
Of course, even if none of these three divine-grade resources were there, Su Yu could accept it. Anyway, heavenly dao points wouldn't disappear; if worst came to worst, he would just wait until unlocking the special-grade Heavenly Dao Shop to use them.
What he valued more was still the game database information newly unlocked by Xiaoyu.
Knowledge is power. Only by understanding enough game database information could he make better decisions in the future.
Just like the spirit-grade equipment Muyang mentioned earlier, he had completely never heard of it.
Although he could inquire about some information from other people's mouths, it couldn't be completely guaranteed to be true. Only the game database information unlocked by Xiaoyu was the most authentic.
Thinking of this, Su Yu hesitated no longer and directly chose the reward of 1 million heavenly dao points.
[Congratulations on obtaining heavenly dao points + 1 million.]
"Xiaoyu, consume 50,000 heavenly dao points to upgrade your tier to advanced, and then unlock the advanced paid database information," Su Yu said in a deep voice.
"Yay, thank you, Master! I didn't expect Xiaoyu to be able to advance to advanced so quickly," Xiaoyu's cheerful voice sounded in Su Yu's mind.
A moment later, a system prompt sounded in Su Yu's ear.
[Congratulations on your Heavenly Dao Spirit 'Xiaoyu' upgrading to advanced. The advanced free game database and the advanced Heavenly Dao Shop have been unlocked.]
[Congratulations on consuming 5 million gold coins to unlock the advanced paid game database.]
Following closely, Xiaoyu's crisp voice sounded in Su Yu's ear.
"Master, the advanced paid game database has been unlocked. Do you have anything you want to ask right now?"
Su Yu shook his head: "Let's talk about it later. First, let's see if there are any god-grade talent flower, life divine water, and soul divine crystal available for exchange in the advanced Heavenly Dao Shop."
"Master, Xiaoyu took a look. The god-grade talent flower, life divine water, and soul divine crystal can all be exchanged in the advanced Heavenly Dao Shop."
"Exchanging for one god-grade talent flower requires 50,000 heavenly dao points, or 500 million gold coins."
"Exchanging for one portion of life divine water requires 60,000 heavenly dao points, or 600 million gold coins."
"Exchanging for one soul divine crystal requires 100,000 heavenly dao points and cannot be exchanged using gold coins."
"It seems I guessed right." Su Yu nodded with satisfaction.
As long as these three divine-grade resources could be exchanged, the advanced Heavenly Dao Shop would temporarily satisfy all his needs.
As for whether future needs could be met, that could be discussed later.
Chapter 254: Claiming Rewards!
Just as Su Yu was communicating with Xiaoyu, in another reward settlement space of the Civilization Arena.
"What? How am I only second on the overall leaderboard?" a man wearing golden armor said in disbelief.
You must know that his trial points had already broken through eighty million; according to past experience, he should have safely secured first place on the overall leaderboard.
In previous years, it was already good if the first place on the overall leaderboard had over seventy million trial points.
He had good luck this time, directly breaking through eighty million trial points. Logically speaking, securing first place on the overall leaderboard should have been a sure victory.
"Could first place on the overall leaderboard have been taken by Ziyue or Mosha?"
As he thought this, he took out a crimson token engraved with the two characters 'Muxuan' from his inventory.
This was his identity token. Aside from the identity verification function, it also possessed communication capabilities within the star region.
In the Trial World, not only could the friend system not be used, but other means of communicating with the outside world were also sealed off.
However, in the reward settlement space, there was no such restriction.
However, the friend system could only contact friends who were in the same world. To contact across worlds, one could only use other communication methods.
The identity tokens of major factions generally integrated communication capabilities within the star region to facilitate contact for everyone.
Of course, this was only for Professionals below Tier 5.
Professionals of Tier 5 and above could enter the Eternal Realm. As long as they were not staying in some extremely special places, they could log into the Eternal Realm at any time to contact others.
A moment later, Muxuan extracted many messages left for him from his identity token.
"What! The one who took first place on the overall leaderboard is actually some bumpkin from a newly born civilization?" Muxuan widened his eyes, even doubting whether he had received fake news.
Originally, he thought the one who would take first place on the overall leaderboard would be Ziyue of the Lixing Civilization or Mosha of the Youlan Civilization.
As a result, he didn't expect that it was neither of them!
Being surpassed by a bumpkin from a newly born civilization made this truly unacceptable to him.
Muxuan continued reading downwards. Suddenly, a trace of anger flashed in his eyes: "Good! Very good!"
"Yu Huang, I remember you, this bumpkin from a newly born civilization!"
Muxuan did not expect that Yu Huang had stepped on his own biological younger brother to ascend to first place on the overall leaderboard. Muyang was his biological younger brother, and the two were only one year apart in age.
It was one thing for Yu Huang to steal his first place on the overall leaderboard, but he had actually eliminated his biological younger brother as well.
You must know that with Muyang's strength, if he entered the main competition, he could easily enter the top 128 and secure the qualification to enter the Eternal Ancient Realm.
Although Muyang would still have the opportunity to enter the Eternal Ancient Realm next, this required their family to pay a huge price.
Yu Huang could be said to have completely offended their Mu family.
You must know that their father was the head of the Mu family. Now that Yu Huang had offended both of them at the same time, there was fundamentally no difference from directly offending the Mu family.
The Lieyang Civilization had one imperial clan and seven royal clans, and their Mu family was the strongest among the seven royal clans.
Yu Huang dared to offend their Mu family; he certainly had a lot of nerve.
"I hope you don't encounter me too early in the main competition, otherwise..." A hint of coldness flashed through Muxuan's eyes.
The first stage of the main competition was breaking through the Tongtian Pagoda to select the top 128.
The second stage was the arena match among the top 128. In this stage, once any tester encountered a life-and-death crisis, a light of protection would descend.
However, he possessed an extremely powerful divine-grade fire poison talent. Under the blessing of the True Intent of Fire, it could continuously inflict massive damage on the target for several days.
According to the information transmitted by Muyang, Su Yu's True Intent level was probably around Level 8 20%, making it completely impossible to dispel this divine-grade fire poison talent.
The light of protection could only ensure that he was not instantly killed and lock his health value.
If Su Yu remained in this state, it meant that in all subsequent battles, he would directly lose to his opponent.
After all, his health value hit rock bottom as soon as he stepped onto the field; how could he still win?
Thinking of this, Muxuan's mood inexplicably improved a bit, as if he saw Su Yu's miserable state of coming in last.
As many testers entered the reward settlement space, they also recovered their communication capabilities with the outside world.
The news of Su Yu ascending to first place on the overall leaderboard also instantly spread among them.
A tester from a newly born civilization had actually broken the history of the Heavens and Myriad Realms to ascend to first place on the overall leaderboard.
This shocked their hearts immensely, and they even doubted for a moment whether they had heard wrong.
Blue Star Civilization, Initial Continent.
As the preliminary selection of the Civilization Arenaended, a succession of six announcements rang in the ears of all players and NPCs on Blue Star.
[Blue Star Civilization Announcement: Congratulations to the Holy Dragon Empire player Yu Huang for achieving the excellent result of first place overall in the preliminary selection of the Civilization Arena. Special rewards are as follows: Civilization Points + 100,000;
Free attribute points for all players of the Blue Star Civilization + 100, skill points + 10;
Free attribute points for all players of the Holy Dragon Empire + 200, skill points + 50;
Free attribute points for all players of Tianyuan City + 500, skill points + 100.] X3
[Blue Star Civilization Announcement: Congratulations to the Blue Star Civilization for making it onto the star region civilization leaderboard. The star region civilization leaderboard is officially open! All civilizations on the star region civilization leaderboard will receive corresponding rewards based on their rankings after the end of each calendar year.] X3
"Holy crap! What big news did the great boss Yu Huangstir up again?"
"Thank you for the gift from the great boss Yu Huang! Hahaha, from now on, I am a living person of Tianyuan Cityand a ghost of Tianyuan City upon death!"
"Hahaha, the great boss Yu Huang's thighs are too thick; this feels so damn good!"
"Damn, I also want to switch jobs to Tianyuan City. This is too damn awesome, harvesting 800 free attribute points and 160 skill points all at once."
"Brother, Tianyuan City isn't a place you can just come to whenever you want now. The slots in Tianyuan City are almost full. Yesterday, my brother wanted to switch over, and he was told that only talents above the king rank are allowed to join Tianyuan City."
"Regret! I truly regret it! When choosing the main city back then, I was this close to choosing Tianyuan City."
"Hurry up and check the star region civilization leaderboard. Turns out the world of the game Immortalityis so vast. We are currently ranked over 5,000 on the star region civilization leaderboard."
"Hiss! How terrifying! There are 10,000 civilizations recorded on the star region civilization leaderboard alone. Just how many civilizations must there be in a single star region?"
"The Dark Moon Star Region is where our Blue Star Civilization is located. Then how many star regions are there in the entire game of Immortality?"
"Unimaginable. It seems the waters of the game Immortality are truly too deep."
"If the great boss Yu Huang could take first place overall in the preliminary selection of the Civilization Arena, just how terrifying must his strength be?"
"Terrifying to this extent! I see that the great boss Yu Huang's level is still stuck at Level 100. This Civilization Arena he participated in probably involves all civilizations in the Dark Moon Star Region. In other words, the great boss Yu Huang can rank first among all Level 100 players of every civilization in the Dark Moon Star Region. What does everyone think of my analysis?"
"Awesome, the great boss Yu Huang is truly too strong. We are still playing house on the Initial Continent, and he has already gone to compete with aliens."
"Alas, the great boss Yu Huang is carrying the weight forward for our entire Blue Star Civilization!"
Countless players of the Holy Dragon Empire discussed spiritedly, and messages frantically flooded the national chat channel.
They did not expect that after Su Yu had been dormant for over a month, his very first move would be earth-shattering.
Tianyuan City, City Lord's Mansion.
"Hahaha, I indeed did not misjudge little friend Yu Huang. With his speed of strength improvement, I'm afraid it won't be long before he surpasses me." The City Lord of Tianyuan City was all smiles.
Originally, according to his expectations, it would already be very good if Su Yu could finally enter the top one hundred, but he didn't expect Su Yu to directly take first place overall in the preliminary selection.
This was probably the very first time in the history of the Heavens and Myriad Realms!
"With little friend Yu Huang's current strength, no matter what, he should have the qualification to enter the top ten of the main competition, right?" The City Lord of TianyuanCity was deep in thought.
Being able to take first place overall in the preliminary selection, although it couldn't represent that his strength was definitely the strongest, at least it wasn't weak.
Securing the top ten in the main competition should still be extremely hopeful!
"It seems that when little friend Yu Huang returns, at least several million Tianyuan City contribution values can be rewarded to him. By then, there shouldn't be any problem raising his Tianyuan City income dividend ratio to the limit of 10%." The City Lord of Tianyuan City thought to himself.
"I also have to find a way to poach some more experts over to strengthen Tianyuan City, so as not to hold back little friend Yu Huang."
The City Lord of Tianyuan City poured himself a cup of tea, took a gentle sip, and pondered how to strengthen Tianyuan City next.
In the reward settlement space of the Civilization Arena.
"Xiaoyu, about how much soul level can a soul divine crystal increase?" Su Yu said in a deep voice.
Xiaoyu immediately replied, "Master, under normal circumstances, absorbing one soul divine crystal can roughly increase the soul level by 0.5."
Su Yu nodded thoughtfully.
He had Taoties Stomach and Devouring True Intent, which did not fall under normal circumstances. As for how much additional soul level could be enhanced, he would have to try it to find out.
Under normal circumstances, wanting to raise the soul level from level 5 to level 10 required a full 1 million heavenly dao points.
Previously, when he absorbed the soul pearl, Taoties Stomach and Devouring True Intent had boosted the effect by 30%.
If absorbing soul divine crystals could also boost the effect by 30%, then he could save at least 200,000 heavenly dao points.
200,000 heavenly dao points could completely allow him to raise his life level to level 20.
"It seems I can raise both my life level and soul level in one go to the upper limit that divine-grade resources can provide." Su Yu nodded with satisfaction.
His life level had already reached 17.98, and it was just a little over 2 levels away from reaching the upper limit of what divine-grade resources could elevate, which was level 20.
He had used life divine water many times before.
One portion of life divine water had three drops, and each drop could increase the life level by 0.32. He only needed to absorb seven more drops of life divine water to raise his life level to level 20.
It was a pity that life divine water could only be bought one portion at a time, otherwise he could have saved quite a few heavenly dao points.
However, it was not a big deal; he could sell those two extra drops of life divine water when the time came.
Resources capable of elevating life levels and soul levels were hot commodities across the entire Heavens and Myriad Realms, so there was no need to worry about not being able to sell them.
"Xiaoyu, help me exchange for three portions of life divine water and one soul divine crystal," Su Yu said in a deep voice.
This was his first time using a soul divine crystal, so he would exchange for one first and see the effect before deciding.
"Alright." Xiaoyu's voice rang in Su Yu's mind.
A moment later, two system prompt sounds rang in Su Yu's ears.
[Congratulations on obtaining life divine water * 3.]
[Congratulations on obtaining soul divine crystal * 1.]
"It spent 280,000 heavenly dao points just like that. Truly, spending money is easy while earning it is hard." Su Yusighed with some emotion.
Divine-grade resources alone were already this expensive, so ultra divine-grade resources must be even more incredible.
According to Xiaoyu's previous statement, a 1-star ultra divine-grade resource was worth nearly ten times that of a divine-grade resource.
Then how great of a price would he have to pay if he wanted to raise his life level above level 20 and his soul level above level 10?
"Forget it, I won't think about that much for now. I'll naturally find out when the time comes."
Su Yu shook his head, reined in his thoughts, and took out the bottle containing life divine water from his backpack.
He poured out a single drop, and wrapped in soul power, it sank into his mouth.
Roughly twenty minutes later.
Su Yu slowly opened his eyes, a smile curling up the corners of his mouth.
After completely digesting and absorbing all seven drops of life divine water, his life level smoothly rose from 17.98 to level 20.
Because his overall attributes were already in a state of massive overflow, after his life level reached level 20, his attribute stars also directly reached 20.
Su Yu could clearly sense that his physical body had grown significantly stronger.
Of course, more importantly, Su Yu discovered that he could mobilize even more of the world's power much more easily.
The core reason why True Intent was so powerful was that it allowed Professionals to mobilize the world's power.
Compared to the world and heaven-earth, an individual's power was insignificant.
Even if one could only mobilize a trace of the world's power, it could inflict a dimensional reduction strike on those unable to invoke it.
Once True Intent was mastered, one stepped into an entirely brand new world.
"My life level has temporarily reached its limit; next is time to elevate my soul level." Su Yu thought to himself.
The higher the soul level, the faster the thinking speed ran, which would be of immense help for his upcoming comprehension of True Intent.
Of course, besides this point, there were many other benefits.
For example, soul perception ability would become stronger, soul attack and soul defense would also strengthen, and the recovery speed of soul power would speed up. In short, there were plenty of benefits.
With a thought in his mind, Su Yu directly took out the soul divine crystal from his backpack.
This was an ordinary-looking grayish-white rhombus crystal with an unpretentious appearance. Had he not known in advance, tossing it on the ground probably wouldn't make anyone glance at it twice.
Su Yu held the soul divine crystal in his mouth; it felt icy and cool, numbing his tongue slightly.
The next instant, extremely strange streams of power surged out from the soul divine crystal, pouring deep into his brain.
Taoties Stomach and Devouring True Intent instantly took effect, accelerating the digestion and absorption of the strange energy deep within his brain.
A full half hour later, Su Yu finally completely digested and absorbed the soul divine crystal.
He slowly opened his eyes, opened his attribute panel, and checked the changes in his soul level.
"My soul level actually went straight to level 5.72." Su Yucouldn't help but his eyes light up.
Under normal circumstances, a single soul divine crystal could only increase the soul level by 0.5.
But under the blessing of Taoties Stomach and Devouring True Intent, he gained over 40% additional effect, raising his soul level by a full 0.72.
This meant that as long as he exchanged for six more soul divine crystals, he could elevate his soul level to level 10.
This was equivalent to saving a full 300,000 heavenly dao points.
Su Yu only wanted to say two words: "Awesome!"
Even if an ordinary person spent a massive amount of skill points to elevate Taoties Stomach to max level 90, they still couldn't reach Su Yu's level.
Su Yu had the Infinite Growth talent, which allowed him to break through the skill level upper limit and directly raise Taoties Stomach to level 400, turning the miraculous into something even more miraculous!
"Let's upgrade Taoties Stomach for another wave and see if over 40% is the limit for the soul divine crystal." Su Yusmiled and said.
If Taoties Stomach could additionally boost the effect of soul divine crystals by over 70%, then he could save another 100,000 heavenly dao points.
However, Su Yu did not hold too much hope.
In his view, it didn't matter even if he couldn't save any more heavenly dao points; upgrading Taoties Stomachwasn't a loss anyway.
In the future when he absorbed ultra divine-grade resources, he would definitely need a higher-level Taoties Stomach to perfectly absorb the power within them, so upgrading early or late made no difference.
Without any hesitation, Su Yu instantly spent a little over 400,000 skill points to raise Taoties Stomach from level 400 to level 500.
After Taoties Stomach was elevated to level 500, it not only enhanced his digestion and absorption capabilities, but even more so improved his compatibility with Devouring True Intent.
This would make it even easier for him when he wanted to raise the level of Devouring True Intent in the future.
Subsequently, Su Yu had Xiaoyu exchange for another soul divine crystal and began to absorb it earnestly.
Roughly a dozen minutes later.
Su Yu slowly opened his eyes and checked the attribute panel once more.
"Alright, it still increased the soul level by 0.72." Su Yushook his head slightly.
It seemed that increasing the soul level by 0.72 was the limit of a single soul divine crystal.
However, upgrading Taoties Stomach to level 500 wasn't completely without benefits; at least the speed of digesting and absorbing soul divine crystals was faster.
After determining the limit effect of the soul divine crystal, Su Yu hesitated no longer and directly had Xiaoyu exchange for five more soul divine crystals in one go.
The 1 million heavenly dao points he had just gotten only had 120,000 left in the blink of an eye.
Added to the over 10,000 heavenly dao points he previously obtained in the Endless Sea, he currently possessed a total of over 130,000 heavenly dao points.
"Let's elevate the soul level to level 10 in one go." A sharp glint flashed through Su Yu's eyes.
It wouldn't take long before both his life level and soul level could reach the limits that divine-grade resources could elevate them to.
By this point, compared to other peerless geniuses, his life level and soul level shouldn't have any shortcomings.
Even many slightly weaker geniuses might not necessarily have a soul level as high as his.
After all, under normal circumstances, wanting to raise both the life level and soul level completely to the limits that divine-grade resources could provide would require at least around 2 million heavenly dao points.
Besides this, they would also need a massive amount of skill points and enlightenment points, all of which required spending resources.
Even geniuses within a super civilization couldn't possibly have such a large resource quota for everyone.
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Chapter 255: Spirit-grade Equipment!
Over an hour later.
Su Yu slowly opened his eyes, a smile curving the corners of his lips.
After absorbing the five soul divine crystals, his soul level successfully reached level ten.
Now he could clearly feel that his thought processing speed was faster, and his perception of the surrounding environment had become much sharper.
"Hiss! My soul perception range has actually directly reached fifty kilometers." Su Yu was quite shocked inside.
Previously, his soul perception range was only two or three kilometers, but now it had increased by nearly twentyfold.
Soul perception was an omnidirectional perception with no dead angles, and in many situations, it was more useful than eyes.
Although Su Yu had the blessing of the Blood Gods Eyeand exceptionally good vision, he could see things clearly even tens or hundreds of kilometers away.
But the premise was that his line of sight was not blocked.
If the line of sight was blocked, he wouldn't be able to see even if there was just a wall in between.
At times like this, soul perception could come in handy.
As long as the target was within his own soul perception range, no matter where they were hiding, they could be clearly perceived.
Of course, if he encountered someone skilled in disguise who could merge themselves with the surrounding environment, soul perception might also misjudge.
However, the higher the soul level, the stronger the soul power, and the lower the probability of misjudgment.
"Fortunately, I didn't miss the Civilization Arena, otherwise how could I have so quickly pushed my life level and soul level to the limit that divine-level resources can elevate them to." Su Yu nodded with satisfaction.
Just the first phase had brought him such huge gains, so the upcoming second phase would presumably have even more generous rewards.
This made Su Yu wish the second phase would start right away.
Unfortunately, he could only think about it; after the first phase ended, he needed to wait another three days before the second phase would begin.
These three days were mainly for all trial-takers to recover their states and digest resources.
For many trial-takers, these seven days of the first phase could be said to have been hugely exhausting both mentally and physically.
Even just hiding consumed a tremendous amount, as they not only needed to maintain their disguise but also could not relax their minds in the slightest.
For Su Yu, what consumed the most over these seven days was probably soul power.
He constantly searched for trial-takers, sweeping with his soul power frantically, which consumed a great deal.
However, earlier during the process of upgrading his soul level, his soul power had long since been fully restored, and even his originally somewhat tired spirit had become radiant and energetic.
It could be said that at this moment, his state in all aspects had reached its peak, better than ever before.
"Let's use the next two-plus days to properly comprehend Slaughter True Intent." Su Yu thought to himself.
The continuous battles over these seven days had given him a deeper understanding of Slaughter True Intent.
Even without intentionally stopping to meditate on Slaughter True Intent, it had still boosted his progress by a full 2%.
Now his Slaughter True Intent was very close to level seven.
Now that his soul level had risen to level 10, coupled with the blessings of the enlightenment futon and enlightenment points, it presumably wouldn't take long to catch up with the progress of the True Intent of Thunder.
Once Slaughter True Intent reached the tenth-level perfection, he could begin attempting to fuse the two True Intents.
He possessed the inheritance of the Slaughter-Thunder Fusion True Intent; as long as he comprehended it step-by-step, sooner or later he would be able to elevate the Slaughter-Thunder Fusion True Intent to tenth-level perfection.
As for going further up, wanting to break the limits of True Intent, he could only rely on himself.
All the True Intent inheritances stopped at tenth-level perfection. Without the guidance of True Intent inheritance, even for Su Yu, wanting to break the limits of True Intentwas extremely difficult.
However, his goal right now was not to break the limits of True Intent, but to elevate the two Fused True Intents to tenth-level perfection and complete the sixth stage of the Shadow God Archer Professional advancement quest.
Moreover, the might of Fused True Intent was extremely powerful. Even if it was only elevated to tenth-level perfection, it was equivalent to ordinary True Intent limit-breaking or laws.
It could be said that Fused True Intent was inherently born for cross-realm battles.
"However, before comprehending Slaughter True Intent, let's first find Xiaoyu to learn about the important information in the advanced game database." Su Yuthought to himself.
Knowledge was power; his understanding of the Heavens and Myriad Realms was still far too little, and he had to make up for this shortcoming.
Just like the Spirit-grade equipment Muyang mentioned earlier, he had never heard of it.
He only knew that above divine-grade equipment was super-divine-grade equipment, and the two legacy equipment pieces, shadow fang and shadow armor, possessed the potential to be promoted to super-divine-grade equipment.
There was no mention of Spirit-grade equipment in here at all, which made him extremely puzzled.
Thinking of this, Su Yu no longer hesitated, directly communicating with Xiaoyu via consciousness. He wanted to make up for his shortcomings in vision as much as possible.
About half an hour later.
Su Yu ended his communication with Xiaoyu, gently closing his eyes to quietly digest the content of the conversation just now.
The information in the advanced game database was extremely vast, giving him a deeper understanding of the Heavens and Myriad Realms.
The Heavens and Myriad Realms divided equipment into Mortal-grade, Spirit-grade, Profound-grade, and Supreme Treasures.
Mortal-grade equipment referred to divine-grade equipment and below.
If viewed using the Inspection skill inherent to Professionals, Spirit-grade, Profound-grade, and Supreme Treasures would all be displayed as super-divine-grade.
But in reality, the gap between them was immense, not things on the same level at all.
Taking Spirit-grade armor as an example, Spirit-grade armor could absorb material attack damage below the law level, with the general absorption ratio between 50% and 99.99%.
If one wore top-tier Spirit-grade armor, it would be equivalent to oneself only suffering one-ten-thousandth of the material attack damage.
Of course, Spirit-grade armor could only absorb material attack damage below the law level.
If it was material attack damage at the law level, although Spirit-grade armor could also absorb it, the absorbed damage had a limit.
Unless one was a peerless genius, generally one had to advance to the sixth tier before having the opportunity to transform True Intent into laws.
It could be said that Spirit-grade armor could still come in handy even at the sixth-tier stage.