Chương 266: The shrinking mystic realm

Jin Bao struggled to his feet with a pale expression and Long Feng could only stare speechlessly as the wound on his chest slowly stopped bleeding. This body was a tad too much right? Jin Bao stared at Long Feng with a blank look on his face"Long Feng right? I'll remember you." He spat, trying to retain the pieces of his dignity as he walked away.

"You don't think you can just leave do you? You can't come whenever you please and leave when you want to." Long Feng slowly said. Jin Bao paused, his aura beginning to stir again, them he suppressed it with a shake if his head, or his injuries were more severe than he made it look like. He moved his arm and threw something at Long Feng without turning around, then walked away slowly. He didn't even open his mouth to speak a single word. Long Feng caught the item and saw that it was a token; Jin Bao's token!.

He stared at Jin Bao's moving back and slowly, a bright smile lit up his face.

"I guess I'm an Overlord as well from now on." He clenched his fist and shattered Jin Bao's token to pieces. His own token instantly glowed with a bright golden glow for an instant. When he checked his points, he was shocked. His points had surpassed ten thousand from the former three thousand. And this was merely from taking half of Jin Bao's points!

"These overlords… they truly went all out in this round!" Looking around, their little fight had completely destroyed the landscape around them. Craters fro Jin Bao's fists filled everywhere and dozens of beasts corpse pieces laid scattered around, killed by the aftermath of their fight.

The outside was completely silent. Only a single word could perfectly describe the expressions on everyone's faces; Colourful! They all had extremely colourful expressions at this moment. A good portion of those who worshipped Jin Bao didn't even believe that this was real. This had to be another illusion. Gulp! Someone swallowed heavily, the sound finally breaking the ice.

"Heavens! D-did you see what just happened?"

"That kid defeated The Berserk Wolf Jin Bao!"

"Bleh! Great job genius for figuring that out. We're not blind!"

"N-no! no! no! This is a fluke! This can't be real!"

"Exactly! Jin Bao must have been holding back. That's the truth. Jin Bao lost intentionally!" A fervent admirer of Jin Bao, a lady at that shouted loudly.

"Holding back you say? Idiots. Keep deluding yourselves!" Someone spat mockingly, his eyes shining as he stared at Long Feng through the screen.

"Who is he? He definitely can't be an unknown person!"

"Who knows who he is? I'm willing to give anything!" Many people immediately swung into action trying to uncover everything about Long Feng. And it wasn't particularly a secret. No one's background was hidden in the hundred continent meeting. It didn't take long for people to begin to know everything about Long Feng. But that only sparked widespread disbelief and a greater uproar.

"Impossible! This can't be real! Low ranked continent?" An old deity exclaimed in disbelief.

"Yihua Continent? Who has heard of that continent?"

"It's a low ranked continent located in the west of the continent zone. According to what I heard, their overlord is a Yihua clan, and the strongest beings there are weak Imperials…?" Unauthorized reproduction: this story has been taken without approval. Report sightings.

"This must be a joke. A low ranked continent's genius? How in the heavens did he face Jin Bao? Are you sure this isn't fake?" A different peak Imperial realm old man asked the speaker.

"It's not. The thunder sky continent recorded his arrival. But you have no idea what's even more shocking."

"What could be more shocking than this?" Asked the old man with interest.

"He is a rank one spirit realm warrior. That is his appears to be his actual cultivation""Get lost! You want me to believe that shit? Do I look that dumb to you?" The man's expression turned sour as he spat coldly.

"Wha…? I'm speaking the truth!"

"Scram for me! What a joke. I don't even believe that he is truly from a low ranked continent. Even high ranked continents can't birth a genius that can stand toe to toe with the Overlords" The man added with a snort. Almost everyone were filled with the same disbelief and doubt at the news. But when it became clear that everything was true, this became an entirely different story. If Long Feng had really hidden his cultivation, then he could probably be an Imperial master as well. But…

He was actually a mere spirit realm warrior? And the weakest one among them at that? A rank one spirit realm warrior wouldn't amount to shit before the powerhouses gathered here. Even deities could be found in the dozens. But without exception, everyone was stumped by Long Feng's feat. At the center of the thunder sky sect, the envoys and the continent zone's rulers all had the same surprised expressions.

"Spectacular! It appears a true genius has appeared in this continent zone!" A four star clan's envoy remarked with bright eyes.

"Indeed. He truly appears to be a rank one spirit realm warrior. Although I don't particularly think highly of that Jin Bao - no offense, Wolf Alliance Master" someone began and nodded at a huge man that was nearly twice the size of normal men. This was the famous Alliance Master of the Wolf Alliance.

The Alliance Master nodded back with a bitter smile and the man continued, "It's still a shocking feat for a rank one spirit realm warrior to skip a full realm and some levels to defeat a rank three Imperial body temperer."

"He is a sword cultivator. Our Searing Sword Sect is the best place for him. I'll be grateful if fellow cultivators leave him to us" The envoy of a four star sect, the Searing Sword Sect stood up and said loudly. He emanated a powerful aura that would stun even peak deities. What met his words were several mocking laughters.

"Sit down. Your four star sect has no place to speak here. You think you can train such a genius? You'll be wasting his potential!" Someone mocked.

"What a joke. You're a sword sect and so you think you can train him? It seems like your searing sword sect doesn't put the Heavenly Sword Sect in your eyes again!" These words caused the envoy's expression to change.

"I- I never said such a thing! My searing sword sect naturally wouldn't dare to compete with the Heavenly Sword Sect!" He hurriedly explained himself.

"Forget it. But this kid truly piqued my interest. I'm curious as to what kind of fortuitous encounter he obtained to gain such a high combat power." Someone interfered and disrupted the tension. The Searing Sword Sect's envoy sat back down with some sweat dotting his forehead.

"We'll decide who gets him later. You all shouldn't forget your place!" And old envoy spoke calmly, gazing at the three Central figures. The palace instantly fell silent again and all eyes settled on those three. They were all just realizing that all three of them had opened their eyes! The lady by the right, the icy beauty slowly closed her hazy blue eyes again with a soft sigh.

"He isn't suitable for the Ice Dao" she muttered inaudibly. The man by the left stared past the great distance and fixed his gaze on the sky screen, staring at Long Feng.

"He is perfect. I could take him back to the sect with me so I wouldn't have made a wasted trip. But…" the man thought, then his gaze strayed to the middle aged man sitting in the center. The air itself stilled as almost every gaze was focused on the middle aged man sitting Indifferently as though he didn't notice anything. His gaze made distance to be completely irrelevant. He wasn't merely staring through the sky screen. He was staring right into the supreme heaven mystic realm and assessing Long Feng directly.

A faint smile slowly danced on his lips.

"Kid, you're making me more and more interested in you. I definitely sensed a third Dao energy after your sword and demon energies earlier. Three Daos… that is a rare feat. But the chaotic feeling worsened at that moment. What exactly…" He thought.

"I'm taking the kid" He opened his mouth and spoke calmly. His voice held no commanding tone or authority, yet no one, absolutely no one dared to even speak. The man by his left seemed to want to say something but held his tongue at the end after further considerations and sighed, closing his eyes. The palace remained engulfed in that stifling silence for a long time with no one having the guts to break the silence. One could almost sense the palpable fear and respect they had for the middle aged Man.

Back inside the supreme heaven mystic realm, Long Feng quickly left that area and returned to the Northwest City. He was currently in a weak state with no spirit energy left to defend himself. What made him relieved was that he was able to jump over the city walls this time. It was as though since he had entered it once, he was no longer restricted from jumping in without using the gate.

As he silently returned to the city and hid there to recover his spirit energy, the people outside were slowly recovering from the shock he caused and they quickly noticed something.

"Look! The mystic realm… it's smaller than before!" Someone exclaimed, drawing everyone's attention to the borders of the sky screen. Indeed, it had reduced by a fifth compared to before, and when they focused, they could see that it was slowly but steadily shrinking further.

"It's getting smaller. The geniuses are being gathered towards the center without even noticing!"

"Hey isn't Huang Fang Hao moving from the center?"

"Can't you see? He's waiting. Waiting for the realm to shrink enough!"

"At this rate, by tomorrow, they'll all be delivered right to his front!" Many people were only just realizing Huang Fang Hao's plan and they were all astounded. The confidence and courage required to boldly face all the geniuses in the mystic realm was mind-blowing.

"He's insane! Does he think he can face them all?"

"I think he is amazing. I mean, he must be fully confident in his strength to do that!"

"Hmph. The seven overlords are all there! And there's that new kid, the new overlord genius as well. He could defeat The berserk wolf. His strength must be among the top as well. Huang Fang Hao has lost his mind!" Many people began to argue as they discussed what could happen soon excitedly. They didn't expect Huang Fang Hao to be so bold. He was staging a showdown between the Overlords when before the final round. And he wasn't going after them. He was waiting for them to be brought to him.

Everyone had to admit that Huang Fang Hao definitely had an aura unique to that of a leader in his generation. Many of the envoys were beginning to reconsider if they should compete against the Heavenly Spear Pavilion for him. After all, the best talent, Long Feng had already been taken. They might as well settle for the second best. The day slowly passed and might approached, signalling the end of the second day. By now, the wild beasts were very powerful.

A rank six Imperial level beasts was rumoured to have appeared, but it merely guarded its territory without stepping out otherwise it would have been a catastrophe for almost all the geniuses in the mystic realm. And the geniuses also slowly observed something; the world was getting smaller. The cities were suddenly very close to each other and an outline of the other seven cities could be seen from any of the eight cities.

And most importantly, they could see the outline of a huge sky reaching mountain in the center of this realm. And this mountain seemed to be getting clearer and closer by the minute. They ran into others much more frequently, the beasts were nearly everywhere with little space to move… They soon realized that they were slowly being hoarded to the center. An by then, they could probably all meet.

The mystic realm remained bustling even through the night, with many geniuses trapped outside the cities, unable to breakthrough the ridiculously strong beasts army guarding each city. They could only form groups and teams to fight off the wild beasts around and give each other some breathing space, otherwise the top three hundred would have already been decided.

But even now, only a bit over three hundred geniuses were left in the mystic realm, and each of them were the absolute best in the continent zone, each comparable to at least a rank six spirit realm warrior. The night passed rapidly, and dawn arrived, signalling a new day that heralded a huge incoming storm.