Chapter 180 - 179: Elimination match involving a 30 billion strong!

Chapter 180: Chapter 179: Elimination match involving a 30 billion strong!

Translator: 549690339

The candidates in the open auditions are generally of stellar level, but a regular pattern emerges once the knockout contest starts.

The freshmen of Sky Pride Academy are basically at the cosmic level.

And sophomores? They are mostly at domain lord level!

This is because most freshmen are still under five thousand years old. If they haven’t broken through to the domain lord level ahead of time, they can participate in the knockout contest again as sophomores in the next academic year.

After seventeen days of cultivating, Du Gang finally left Wuzheng Tower and returned to his dormitory.

“What? A competition involving 10,000 medium cosmic nations?”

Du Gang was somewhat surprised. As soon as he returned to the dormitory, he heard this explosive news.

Ba La La nodded, “That’s right, this news came out a week ago. However, since you were cultivating back then, I didn’t disturb you...”

“It used to be separate. Why are they all competing together all of a sudden?”

Du Gang furrowed his brows, suspecting that something was not quite right, so he immediately called Principal Tang Ren.

After he expressed his concern, Tang Ren shook his head bitterly, sighing, “Du Gang, I was too careless. Do you remember Ning Peng?”

“I remember, what happened?”

He was the student who entered the secret realm with him. Not much time had passed since then, so he still remembered.

Tang Ren shook his head, “Before you started cultivating, I detected that Ning Peng disobeyed the academy’s orders and leaked your affairs to the members of his family...”

“At that time, I was only thinking that the Ning family would plot on their own. Who knew they had contacts in the center of the universe and ultimately revealed a secret!”

“Leaked a secret? You mean, the Jiang family at the center of the universe knows about me?”

Tang Ren nodded, “Yes, they already know about you there. This change in the knockout contest is due to their influence...”

“From what I can see, they accelerated the pace of the knockout contest!”

Du Gang frowned, puzzled, “Are they so sure I can make it through the knockout contest?”

Tang Ren shook his head, “After discussing with Luo Shan, we concluded that the Jiang family’s actions suggest two possibilities!”

“First, if you go forward, the Jiang family will have forces from the Pangu

Continent act against you, knowing that their power is stronger there...”

That was the truth. In front of a top-level universal family like the Jiang family, medium cosmic nations don’t even bother to develop, which is why most of the Jiang family’s branches are in the high cosmic nations.

“Second, even if you don’t advance, once the Peak Genius Race leaves the Qiankun Continent, they can send people to trouble you without attracting the attention of other forces...”

“In Qiankun Continent, the Jiang family’s power is extremely weak. They can only incentivise other families to work for them...”

“As far as I know, the Jiang family has already contacted many families. So, it’s best for you not to leave the academy!”

After hanging up the phone, Du Gang’s mood became rather solemn. Unexpectedly, he was suddenly targeted by such a colossal entity.

“Ning Peng!”

He gritted his teeth and said: “Ba La La, where is Ning Peng? Find him for me!”

Soon, Ba La La shook his head, “Du Gang, Ning Peng left the academy half a month ago...”

“Not just him, all the senior students from the Ning Family have left the academy.”

The Ning family did have self-awareness, having their descendants leave in advance.

“I better not run into him!”

Du Gang snorted, suppressing his chaotic thoughts, he asked, “Ba La La, what are the rules for the competition this time?”

Ba La La quickly responded, “This time the competition rules are very simple. 10,000 medium cosmic nations, a total of nearly 300 billion competitors, are randomly placed on a hundred planets...”

“Within a month, for each opponent killed you score one point, and at the same time, you can earn half of the opponent’s points...”

“In the end, the top hundred contestants on each planet will advance, meaning a total of 10,000 people from the hundred planets will advance!”

After listening, Du Gang nodded, “A month, in the top 10,000 in terms of points, huh...”

Ba La La continued, “This time since we’re competing against competitors from other medium cosmic nations in advance, apart from the rewards of the Peak Genius Race, those who manage to advance to the qualifying contest on the Qiankun Continent will be rewarded with a chance to enter the Qiankun Secret Realm!”

“Qiankun Secret Realm!”

Du Gang’s eyes instantly lit up.

Didn’t he challenge Wuzheng Tower just for those few contribution points, to get the qualification to enter the Qiankun Secret Realm?

Now, if I rank in the top 10,000, I can enter the Qiankun Secret Realm. This is indeed good news.

However, the difficulty is extremely high. It’s almost like indirectly getting first place in the Qiankun Continent!

After all, this is a competition in which 10,000 medium cosmic nations participate!

Quickly, reminded by Ba La La, Du Gang swiftly drew the lots. “[Du Gang from Qiankun Universe Country, Planet No.100!]” This time, by sheer coincidence, he drew the last number.

“There are more than 300 billion competitors, which means that every competing planet has over 300 million participants!!”

Meanwhile, their White Dragon Mountain class group was buzzing non-stop.

“Which competing planet are you all on?” Chen Feng: “I’m on Planet No.33!”

Qiao Jin: “I’m on Planet No.6!”

After looking around, Du Gang realized no one from his class received the same planet.

Suddenly he understood, they were once again divided among different planets, following the same pattern as before.

Not long after, to Du Gang’s surprise, Wu Tao sent him a message saying he was on Planet No.22.

So, Du Gang replied to him, “I’m on Planet No.100!”

Wu Tao heaved a sigh of relief. Losing to Du Gang had given him considerable pressure. Not being on the same competing planet as Du Gang was better for him!

Soon after, the organizing committee sent a notice instructing the competitors to enter the virtual universe.

Upon seeing this, Du Gang retrieved his Ancient Divine Spear, adjusted it to the right proportion, and quickly entered the virtual universe.

Just like before, the moment he entered, he was teleported to the outer space of Planet No. 100.

This competing planet was a simulation of the most massive planet, visually the size of Earth.

But Du Gang knew its gravity could be millions or even tens of millions of times stronger than Earth’s!

After all, the weakest participants were Stellar Level, and the strongest even reached Domain Lord Level. They all had the power to easily destroy planets. The parameters had to be set high, or otherwise, they might accidentally blow up the planet.

In the starry sky, there was still a large countdown timer.

More and more people floating in the universe appeared as the countdown progressed.

Finally, when the countdown reached the last second, all participants were teleported inside Planet No.100.

Upon arrival, Du Gang felt a sudden heaviness and his feet sank into the mud.

“Ten million times Earth’s gravity?

Just by sensing the pressure, he quickly estimated the planet’s gravity.

Under such gravity, his body was suppressed to the extent that he couldn’t fly at all.

“Everyone should be in the same situation, right?!”

Only then did he have time to observe his surroundings.

He was in a garden, and in the distance, there was a city filled with a modern sense of life.

Suddenly, a message was projected in front of him.

“This competition planet is Planet No 100 , number of contestants:

“There are a total of 120 cities within the planet, all competitors are randomly distributed within these 120 cities...”

120 cities?

Du Gang frowned. There were only 100 advancement slots for the entire planet, but there were 120 cities.

This meant, even if one was the strongest in a city, advancement wasn’t guaranteed. They had to go to other cities to battle for a spot!

While he was deep in thought, suddenly, a man started sprinting towards him from a location about 10,000 meters away.

Despite bearing the weight of ten million times Earth’s gravity, the man was still running at a fast pace on the ground. In just a few seconds, he had covered half the distance.

Seeing this, Du Gang immediately focused, uninterested in the projection’s messages. He took his Ancient Divine Spear and rushed towards the man.

During his sprint, he tried to expand his domain. He found that the domain, which generally spread to a range of a kilometer, was now clinging to his body, covering less than ten centimeters.

Apart from providing a bit of amplification to his body, his domain couldn’t be used to restrict opponents. For Du Gang, this was actually a good situation.

“Boom!”

In a few seconds, the two of them collided.

“Bang bang bang!”

With three consecutive strikes, Du Gang quickly killed his opponent after realizing he was just an ordinary sixth realm competitor.

[Ding, you have killed a competitor and gained one point!] [Competitor Du Gang, Score: 1 point!]

[Ranking: Has Not Entered the Top 100 on this Planet!]

[Note: A time limit is adopted in this battle. Every day, the Domain Suppression decreases by 10%. After ten days, the domains of all contestants are completely restored.]

Breathing a sigh of relief when he saw the explanation about ranking, Du Gang was afraid he himself might not even Imow if he had advanced or not.

As for the matter of domains being restored after ten days, he didn’t care about it. After all, everyone was in the same state of being without a domain, and when the domains are restored, everyone would have theirs back, so it doesn’t really matter.

Fortunately!

“Boom!” “Boom!” “Boom!” “Boom!” “Boom!”

Right at this moment, battles erupted in every corner of the city.

“I don’t care anymore, let’s just kill first!”

Listening to the sounds of the distant battles, Du Gang’s fighting spirit was ignited instantly, and he quickly ran towards the place where the sound was closest.

At the same time, he suddenly stopped while passing by a wall, and stabbed the Ancient Divine Spear directly out.

“Plop! ”

In an instant, the spear pierced the wall and directly hit someone.

“How did you know I was here!”

The opponent only had time to be surprised before he quickly began to fight with Du Gang.

However, his strength was only at the fifth level of the domain, far from being Du Gang’s match. He was killed instantly in just three moves.

Looking at the player disappearing into the white light,

When he started running just now, Du Gang tried to spread his mental power outward, and found that just like his physical body, his mental power was also restricted.

However, even with the restriction, his mental power had an observational range of over a hundred meters.

At the same time, Du Gang’s hand pressed on the wall and he pushed hard, but he couldn’t knock it down.

“Is it this hard?”

Just now, when Du Gang thrust the spear into the wall, he felt a tremendous defensive force. If he wasn’t a user of the Gold Element Laws, and possessed a specialized armor-piercing mystery, he might not even have been able to penetrate the wall.

“Bang!”

At this moment, a large piece of rock flew over from a distance.

Upon seeing this, Du Gang quickly raised his spear to shatter it with one blow.

So, he planned to catch up and kill him to steal his points.

After all, upon killing an opponent, in addition to gaining basic points, one also acquires half of the opponent’s points!

“Boom!”

As he was running at high speed, suddenly, a flash of lightning came slashing at him with the speed of sound.

“Bang!”

Du Gang hit the brakes hard, stomping on the ground, leaving behind a spider web-like crack. He then quickly backed off.

“Smack!”

Just at that moment of his retreat, a large blue knife struck where he was just a second before.

If his reaction had been a bit slower, he might have already been decapitated!

Looking at the figure that suddenly appeared in front of him, Du Gang asked in surprise, “How did you not appear in my mental perception?”

After asking the question, he felt stupid. Even he had a secret domain that allowed him to hide his figure, so naturally, others would have similar domains.

But to his surprise, the man wielding the lightning knife answered him, “You can project your mental power at this level, indicating that your mental power is very strong. Don’t you know there’s such a thing as mental power shielding?”

The man spoke while laughing: “Among all opponents I have encountered, you are the first to dodge my attack. Are you also in the Seventh Realm?”

From these words, Du Gang was able to infer that his opponent was a practitioner of the Seventh Realm.

“A Seventh Realm practitioner shouldn’t be a nobody. I’m Ba Dao, and you are?”

“Du Gang!”

Ba Dao nodded and laughed: “If we duel now, it would be too early. Either one of us could get eliminated prematurely, which would be regrettable. Why don’t we separate for now? When there are no more people left in this city, we can have our duel?”

He surmised from Du Gang’s lightning-fast reaction that his opponent would not be easy to defeat, hence he doesn’t want to waste time battling a strong opponent so early.

However, Du Gang too perceived from that attack that the enemy was incredibly powerful and wouldn’t go down quickly.

Therefore, he nodded and said: “Alright, in that case, let’s temporarily separate. Once this city is virtually empty, we will have our duel!

Even though he was confident in his own strength, he didn’t feel entirely certain he could win without using a stored-force strike from his Ancient Divine Spear.

Because, he felt that the enemy was extremely confident, which likely meant he still had a trump card up his sleeve.

“You go east, and I go west!”

Du Gang shook his head: “No, I’ll take the east, you go west!”

Ba Dao’s mouth twitched slightly, he nodded and said: “Okay, let it be so!” Without further ado, he swiftly left the area with his knife.

As for Du Gang, after making sure Ba Dao had left by several hundred meters, he swiftly ran eastward.

After the ambush from Ba Dao, Du Gang shelved his prior arrogance, starting to be more cautious.

After all, one could never be sure if they might encounter someone else who could conceal their presence and launch a sneaky attack.

So, he decided to play safe. Every time he came to a corner or a building, he would slow down his speed, and then speed up after passing by.

As for the inside of the buildings, he had never entered them even once!

Because, once before, he chased a Fifth Realm contender into a building, only to run into an assassin.

At that moment, a dagger was just 0.05 millimeters away from his neck. If he hadn’t reacted swiftly and grabbed the dagger in time, he would have been killed and eliminated right there.

So, in the end, Du Gang became afraid to even enter the buildings.

As Du Gang grew more cautious, the increase in his points slowed down.

But luckily, the situation was similar for others, so the fluctuations in the rankings were not significant. He still managed to maintain a position within the top thirty in internal ranking for the hundred participating stars and within the top five thousand in the overall ranking.

The first day of the competition finally came to an end.

[Unlock Domain, 10% Mental Power Suppression!]

With the sound of the system notification echoing, Du Gang felt relieved. His mental power instantly reached thousands of kilometers away.

Simultaneously, his domain also expanded at this moment, reaching a range of one hundred meters.

With this unlocking, the whole city erupted into chaos once again in an instant.

“Boom!” “Boom!” “Boom!” “Boom!” “Boom!”

Within moments, countless people from various places resumed battling again.

Meanwhile, Du Gang noticed a man holding a long sword flying towards him at high speed from hundred kilometers away.

It took only a few seconds for the man to reach him.

“Blood Armor Gold Spear? Bring it on!”

The swordsman was clearly aware of Du Gang’s nickname and called out from afar, then launched his domain towards Du Gang, ready to kill.

“Seventh Realm!”

Du Gang’s expression hardened as he quickly raised his spear to combat.

The moment they crossed hands, he was in a disadvantage!

Just as he could combat opponents of a higher rank, so could his opponents!

And, unlike his Fifth Realm, his opponent was already in the Seventh Realm!

Into the microscopic! Into the microscopic!

The next second, Du Gang wields the mysterious power of the Into the Microscopic Realm law!

“Ha!”

The swordsman sneered and likewise displayed the Into the Microscopic technique, instantly suppressing Du Gang.

Damn it!

Du Gang realized that he had been too abrupt. He thought he was invincible after being invincible in the first year.

These second-year students, not only were they at the Domain Lord Level Ninth Rank, but they had also cultivated their domain to the Seventh Realm and even had the Into the Microscopic Realm technique. Their strength was far superior to his.

Run!

Du Gang quickly assessed the strengths of the two sides and, after a move to repel the opponent, swiftly deployed his Third Transformation to escape.

Who would have thought, the man with the long sword was also fast. Even under the enhancement of the Seventh Realm, his speed was even faster than Du Gang’s!

“Boom! Boom! Boom!”

As both flew away, the buildings they passed were demolished one after another!

With the commotion, he could already see through his mental power that several ferocious Seventh Realm contenders were advancing towards his position!

Shit!

Du Gang knew that, this time, he had to use his hidden skills!

Mysterious Light, activate!

“Whoosh!”

The moment Mysterious Light was used, the man with the long sword instinctively covered his eyes while retreating at an even faster speed.

It was not because Du Gang had ambushed him, but because his own escape speed, suddenly encountering the flashing white light, made the man with the long sword panic.

Utilizing this opportunity, Du Gang swiftly activated the Secret Domain, enveloping himself and completely disappearing from everyone’s sight and mental power coverage.

GO!

Taking advantage of the moment before the approaching Seventh Realm contenders arrived, Du Gang quickly fled the scene.

Qiankun Cosmos Nation.

To the surprise of the students from the Tianjiao Academy, Wu Tao was eliminated!

The man who had fought evenly against Du Gang was surprisingly the first to be knocked out.

“How is this possible? Wu Tao actually stalemated Du Gang!” “Yes, Du Gang is now in the top 10,000. How could Wu Tao be eliminated?!” Looking at these comments, Wu Tao was speechless.

Indeed, he encountered a seventh realm fighter, but not the regular kind he usually defeated. This combatant was in the same microscopic realm as him, but even more powerful.

With hardly any resistance, he was completely wiped out!

“Looks like the competition still belongs to the second-year students!”

Originally, he had hoped to compete with these second-year students. However, it seems he was being too naive.

Among the second-year students, there were those who could sweep opponents of the same rank, or even higher. Moreover, they had been practicing for five thousand more years than the first-year students!

As for Du Gang’s high ranking, Wu Tao had a hunch. It must be due to Du Gang’s impressive physical strength, which gave him an advantage on the first day, enabling him to score many points.

Just like him, due to his racial talent, he thoroughly enjoyed the invincible feeling on the first day.

However, this illusion of physical strength led him to recklessly challenge a seventh realm fighter after the first day. The result was clear—he was crushed and out of the game!

Online, there were also those who could see the reality and started posting.

“Trust me, Du Gang just took advantage of the situation. Within one day, he will drop out of the top 10,000!”

“Indeed, in our second year alone, we have more than 10,000 people who have reached the seventh realm...”

“Perhaps you don’t know, but Hu Tu has been through the eighth level of the medium tower!”

“What, the eighth level?”

“That’s right, Hu Tu is just one level away from completely clearing the medium tower!”

Everyone was shocked. After all, only a little over 10,000 people have cleared the medium tower in the many years of Tianjiao Academy’s history. And Hu Tu was very close!

“Forget about the eighth level. Among the second -year students, there are many who have broken through the seventh level of the medium tower. I know of more than a hundred!”

Some second-year students, who had long been displeased with Du Gang’s constant stealing of their limelight, making them seem useless, stood up.

The first-year students on the scene were immediately shocked.

Since the medium tower is not expensive, some of them had tried it, but the final result was disappointing, with none of them making it to even the third level.

Of course, this was because they didn’t know that Du Gang had cleared the sixth level and reached the seventh, otherwise they would be even more stunned.

“Think about it, our Qiankun Cosmic Nation alone has Hu Tu, who reached the ninth level of the medium tower, and over a hundred seventh realm fighters who have broken through the eighth level of the medium tower. Imagine how many strong fighters there are in ten thousand cosmic nations combined?”

“You surely don’t think that other medium cosmic nations are inferior to our Qiankun Continent, right?!”

Everyone pondered and realized the logic. Considering only ten thousand spots were available for ten thousand cosmic nations.

Only participants with the realm and strength of Hu Tu were qualified to advance, indicating that the final top 10,000 competitors must have a base strength of ninth rank domain lord level, be above the seventh realm, and possess at least two mysteries!

Du Gang’s rank was now only a ninth rank stellar level, his domain was only at the fifth level, and his mystery had only reached the microscopic level in three ways.

With this deduction, his strength wasn’t really formidable!

“Phew!”

At this moment, Du Gang was in the middle of a mysterious realm in a building, completely hiding himself away, constantly reviewing the previous battles.

“The longsword man’s capability is, at most, microscopic realm, but his domain is at the seventh level...”

“Besides, he didn’t seem as intimidating as Ba Dao. Could Ba Dao possibly be at the knowing microscopic domain?”

If his opponent had not reached the microscopic realm, he might have a chance to win by fighting against the seventh realm with his fifth realm. But now, he could only escape!

Unless he continues to improve the microscopic level or upgrade the realm level.

“Let’s level up the realm!”

Du Gang shook his head and finally decided to hide for a while, and improve his domain level.

In the last seventeen days, using the golden Wuzheng Tower, he had cultivated to an impressive 88% progress on his sixth mystery, nearly reaching perfection.

So, instead of being franticly hunted outside, it’s better to hide and perfect this sixth mystery, comprehend the sixth realm. That way, he would have a chance to win against opponents like the longsword man, and at least be able to run when encountering Ba Dao!

Soon, Du Gang began cultivating the sixth mystery, waiting for the moment he emerges.. By then he would be able to kill some high-scoring participants, which should be a chance for him to advance!