Chương 274: The new Overlord Genius

Long Feng's victory wasn't a surprise to the spectators. It would have been weird if he had lost. The fights continued without pause. The third level had just sixteen battle stages which meant it would take much longer for each person to fight thrice. And it was getting harder as well. More geniuses were being eliminated as they advanced. This third level already had no rank seven spirit realm warriors, just rank eights upward or those who had combat power equivalent to those levels like Long Feng and Li Yue'er.

Huang Fang Hao was still undoubtedly the most leisure among them all. He didn't even move from his spot, yet he kept advancing. Not even the overlords wished to face him at all, as the strength he had revealed was beyond all of them combined. When the geniuses finally began reaching the fourth level, they were absolutely the strongest among them all. Only about half of the three hundred geniuses had the strength to reach the fourth level.

The top hundred would already be decided here, as anyone who could reach the fourth level had the strength nearing that of a top hundred genius. Huang Fang Hao and the seven overlords had no issue at this stage, as their only opponents were the other overlords. Especially for Huang Fang Hao, who had no opponent at all. Long Feng took his time to observe each of the other overlords as well as Huang Fang Hao whenever he wasn't fighting.

Unfortunately, Huang Fang Hao hadn't stepped into the battle stage even once, so no one could assess his strength further. But Long Feng observed the other overlords and estimated each of their strengths and weaknesses.

"I think that Lei Jie is the strongest after Huang Fang Hao. His cultivation should be rank four Imperial realm, and his lightning Dao is at rank nine and his offense and movement skills are even above me. I'm not sure how I'll fare against him, but it's likely that I'm not his match. Dong Fang as well, his cultivation should be rank four Imperial realm as well. He should be roughly equal to Lei Jie and he uses dual swords. His sword concept is also rank nine. I'm not able to fight him now as well.

The most I can do against those two is to force a draw between us." Lei Jie and Dong Fang were the only other overlords who gave Long Feng this suppression feeling. His chances against them would probably be twenty or thirty in a hundred. But that was better than his chances against Huang Fang Hao which he calculated to be absolutely zero.

"Then Mei Ling and Ping Ran… they're both rank three Imperial realm masters but they should be a bit stronger than Jin Bao, but nothing great. I can't accurately say who will win between them and I. Probably fifty percent chance. There's Jin Bao, I've already defeated him, but that doesn't mean he is weak. His overall strength should be above that of Wang Qiang. But these are just my view. I could be wrong or they might have kept some trump cards hidden."

Long Feng himself had his trump card, the Heaven Firmament Sword strike which he had barely scratched upon. While he observed them, the other overlords were similarly assessing his strength. They already knew each other's depths, and there was hardly anything new amongst them, but Long Feng was a variable. He was a new overlord. That meant he was completely mysterious to them. They didn't know his true strength, his skills, his way of battle and other things.

It was imperative that they understood his strength and weaknesses in case they had to fight him, after all it would be a shame to lose to an opponent due to lack of understanding and preparation. The fifth level was a watershed in the final round. From the current situation, the top hundred would be decided here. Anyone who could reach this level absolutely had the strength of the top hundred. The man floating in the sky also spoke at this moment.

"The fifth level will be the deciding point of the top hundred geniuses. The rules remain the same, but only a first hundred geniuses to rise to the fifth level. The others will have to remain below and fight to decide the order of their ranks below the hundred top geniuses." The narrative has been taken without authorization; if you see it on Amazon, report the incident. His words caused the geniuses to fall into a frenzy.

The top hundred was a honor that could follow one's entire clan or sect for generations to come. It was a great honor for every genius in the continent zone. Not to mention the rewards. Only the top hundred were qualified to receive the rewards, and in past hundred continent meeting, even the reward for the person ranked hundred place was not to be scoffed at. The higher your rank, the greater your reward. So many genius were giving it their all just for a chance to squeeze into the top hundred.

Even the final hundredth place was more than welcome. As the fights got fiercer, the geniuses finally began to reach the fifth level. It was a close call for many geniuses. Some of them barely won three fights after a few losses. Only the Imperial realm geniuses could still barely keep up their progress without much losses, and even then, they didn't have it easy.

They would have to admit defeat should they run into an overlord genius, and if they met other Imperial realm geniuses, even if they were from the same continent, they still went all out as they fought. There were a few exciting fights between the Imperial realm geniuses of the seven Overlord Continents. Even the rank two Imperials were faced against each other, causing them to fight with all their strength to decide a winner. They were truly the geniuses just below the overlords.

Their power was immense, inferior only to the overlord geniuses. What left everyone shocked was a genius in the Desolate Continent after Huang Fang Hao. It was a rank three imperial realm genius, the same cultivation realm as some of the overlords! It was unimaginable that the Desolate Continent had two overlord level geniuses, and one of them was even beyond the overlords.

And the youth had managed to stay completely hidden throughout the previous two rounds, revealing himself at a very critical moment; a fight against Wang Qiang! In the clash between the new youth and Wang Qiang, everyone had assumed that there was no suspense. Wang Qiang was going to win within a few moves, but it all changed when the youth revealed the aura of a rank three Imperial realm master.

They both had the same cultivation level, leading to what should have been a swift fight to become an extremely fierce one. And at the end, the youth actually won by a slight difference! The crowd was beside themselves with their excitement as they roared and discussed the fight. Wang Qiang was certainly strong, but he would probably lose to Jin Bao. He was already known as the weakest among the seven even before Long Feng joined them.

Although Long Feng was mistakenly assumed to be the actual weakest, that had changed with his continuous wins. Most of the times, his opponent would freeze with a thin sword wound bleeding on any vital part of their body; the neck, the chest, the head, leaving them all terrified. And so the title of weakest overlord returned to it's rightful owner, Wang Qiang. His loss against the new youth further solidified that.

The overlords rose to eight in numbers with the addition of the new youth, and if Huang Fang Hao was included, then the overlord geniuses were nine! Nine overlord geniuses was something that hadn't happened in a long time. In some hundred continent meeting, the overlord geniuses could actually be just rank one imperial realm masters, and just a few of them. This Hundred continent meeting could be considered the one with the most geniuses in over a hundred years.

"Nine overlord geniuses… this generation is truly something else. During my time, overlord geniuses were still only peak spirit realm warriors and they were the peak of the continent zone's younger generation then" an extremely old man sighed with a shake of his head. The aura that seeped out of his body surpassed the Imperial realm, signaling that he was a deity!

"Indeed. The world is changing. I heard that the Mainland is the same. Their geniuses has been advancing at a pace beyond our imaginations. I find it hard to fathom how a kid not even twenty years old would have reached the Dao realm that I've been chasing in the few hundred years of my life." Said another deity realm old man.

"Change… it may be a good thing or a bad thing. Let's hope it's not a disastrous thing." With nine overlord geniuses, this hundred continent meeting has reached a peak that none had ever attained in over a hundred years. Long Feng also won his second and third battles with relative ease. He advanced to the fifth level, officially stepping into the top hundred geniuses.

This used to be his goal before he was this strong, and when he remembered how he wanted to make the top hundred with his Yang realm cultivation, he couldn't help but chuckle at his ignorance. His combat power was wholly insignificant back then; rank four or five spirit realm. Here, they couldn't even make it past the second round. But now… his goal was far beyond just the top hundred.

Since he had revealed his strength, them he would go all out to gain a sufficient backing from the mainland, otherwise he didn't doubt that just leaving this continent alive would prove to be the greatest challenge of his life. And on the off chance that he somehow left alive, then the Yihua continent would suffer for his sake, probably annihilated completely. So both his future, his survival and that of the Yihua continent entirely rested on the outcome of this continent meeting.

For most others, it was honor and a fortuitous encounter. For him, it was survival. That was the difference. Yet he didn't regret revealing his strength for a second. Otherwise he would have had to hide his strength and be satisfied with the top three hundred, probably the hundredth place or so and hope that some Mainland's envoy would notice him? He cleared these thoughts and focused on Li Yue'er's progress.

She was also at the fourth level, and with her strength, she could pass easily or lose horribly depending on her luck. But evidently, she didn't lack that. She had only lost one fight, against an Imperial realm genius. And she had simply admitted defeat before they fought to prevent wasting her strength in vain. And now she was fighting her final battle against a peak spirit realm warrior. Li Yue'er's performance had undoubtedly drawn much attention as well.

She had used her rank five spirit realm cultivation to reach the final round, even the fourth level and she was evidently not satisfied. She wanted to rush into the top hundred geniuses! Many envoys were already paying attention to her, preparing to take her in as a disciple as well. The mainland certainly wasn't lacking in Ice and water Dao sects. And the spectators similarly dug into her background and were speechless to see the name 'Yihua Continent' again.

Many people were beginning to doubt whether this Yihua continent was really just a low ranked continent. It might be a secluded mid or high ranked continent that was only revealing it's depths here. But all investigations pointed to one thing; The Yihua continent was an insignificant low ranked continent. The Great Elder was already shaken by the several powerful perceptions that swept through his group trying to see through them.

More people gathered around them and inquired about the continent, the powerhouses there and more such questions, but the answers left them surprised. This Yihua continent was clearly even more backwater than normal low ranked continents. It's strongest cultivators were two rank five Imperial realm masters that secluded themselves in the Yihua clan. Compared to low ranked continents that had peak Imperial realm masters, this wasn't anything great.

For example, Huang Fang Hao could reduce the Yihua clan to complete ashes without any aid. That was just how weak the Yihua clan was.