90: Rune Mage

While cultivating, Lin Ye was also paying attention to the competition.

The racial duel, fought with the full strength of two races, was truly spectacular.

The number of various foreign aids was countless.

He had seen more than ten giant dragons alone.

Are giant dragons rare? Uncommon?

Well, rarity is relative to an individual; for a team competition, they are quite common.

When the battles between ability users reached the seventh rank and above, the already intense excitement soared to another level.

Seventh rank!

A stage of qualitative change.

Breaking through to the seventh rank inherently transforms the physical body.

While greatly strengthening the body, some basic physiological needs are also replaced; you don't need to breathe or eat to obtain energy, as long as you have a trace of Star Power, you can survive.

Above the seventh rank, destructive power also undergoes a qualitative change; the physical body and Star Power are ten times stronger than at the sixth rank!

They can fly, have complete professional templates, and most weaknesses are gone.

Battles above the seventh rank were set in space.

If they were on an ordinary planet, the aftermath of their battles would be no less than a missile bombardment.

Lin Ye wasn't that excited when a seventh-ranker made a move, after all, he had personally slain quite a few seventh-rankers.

Although they were all weaker ones, having killed them removed that sense of fear.

He was completely focused on the battles of the eighth and ninth ranks.

Especially Mr. Xu.

Mr. Xu's battle absolutely blew his mind.

He was also a ninth-ranker.

But the sight of him wearing Rune Armor, with countless runes surging with every movement, was truly explosive.

His opponent was a ninth-rank Oka People warrior, who had cultivated the Oka Clan's most supreme profession, Desert Emperor, to its extreme, and the terrifying sandstorm stirred up violent ripples even in space.

Even meteorites were turned into fine sand.

Countless sand dragons obscured the sky, and even the broadcast screen became blurry.

But Mr. Xu remained calm and composed, the runes around him continuously multiplying; relying on the power of overloaded rune superposition, Mr. Xu dodged while condensing runes, and for every rune that appeared on his protective shield, its defensive power increased by one point.

When accumulated to its peak, all runes lit up.

A silver pillar of light appeared in space, engulfing the Oka Clan's Desert Emperor.

When the light pillar dissipated, the Desert Emperor was already dead, his armor shattered.

Public opinion exploded.

"What kind of move is this? Why is it so cool?"

"It's my first time seeing a ninth-ranker fall. I'm filled with emotion. Are ninth-rankers so fragile?"

"Wuwuwu, our Emperor will surely return again, no one can stop the rise of the Oka Clan."

"Xu Weilai! He's terrifying!"

Mr. Xu's performance even scared the other ninth-rankers quite a bit.

They were all ninth-rankers; how could there be any weaklings?

It's like a student who gets into Tsinghua University; even if he's at the bottom of his class at Tsinghua, didn't he still score nearly seven hundred points to get in? He crushed millions of test-takers.

Ninth-rankers, those who can break through to the ninth rank, their abilities and skills won't be weak; they are all geniuses in their own right.

But the gap between geniuses could actually be so vast.

"Who else is there?" Countless human spectators cried out in their hearts, especially those from Xia Kingdom, who were practically reaching climax on the spot.

The opposing side hesitated for a good while before sending up the next contestant.

But because the contestant was not a native Oka Clan member, he valued his life and fought timidly, making it easier for Mr. Xu to deal with him.

Using the same method, when it erupted again, the opponent instantly surrendered.

There was nothing more to say after that; Mr. Xu, as if tireless, defeated the remaining five ninth-rankers one by one.

For a time, his invincible demeanor overwhelmed the Oka Clan, leaving them breathless.

"Humans are truly an astonishing and brilliant race; among them, the useless ones are not even as good as first-rank mutated beasts, but those with extraordinary talent actually possess the demeanor of top-tier geniuses in the universe," sighed an elder of the Three-Eyed Clan.

The Human Race's era of abilities only began a little over three hundred years ago; three hundred years ago, even if there were cultivators, they were extremely few.

Yet in just three hundred years, they have reached the level of the Three-Eyed Clan's hundred thousand years of glory.

Especially that Shattering Star Fist, his reputation is immense, striking fear into foreign races, making them dare not offend.

Moreover, this race is not only strong in cultivation, but their technological advancements are also breathtaking.

Many races are very specialized, just like the Oka Clan; their ability users are very strong, but their technological development is abysmal, relying entirely on the Three-Eyed Clan's big brother for assistance.

Yet the Human Race, in just over three hundred years, has achieved a great leap forward.

From initial crude imitation to continuous innovation.

"It seems that in the future, when dealing with the Human Race, we must adopt a conciliatory approach; no one knows their limits," the Three-Eyed elder thought to himself.

Mr. Xu's battle showcased the Human Race's demeanor and its level of skill.

It extinguished many of the foreign races' petty schemes.

Amidst heated discussions among netizens of various races, they couldn't help but create a racial duel genius ranking.

There were so many curious onlookers and busybodies on the internet, all making summaries.

Lin Ye's matches originally had relatively low attention.

It was like the Olympics in Lin Ye's previous life; projects that everyone liked to watch naturally had the highest popularity, and those that people didn't like naturally saw their popularity drop.

Their fifth-rank matches, among all the ability user competitions, had moderate attention; they couldn't compare to those above the seventh rank, but they were much better than those below the fourth rank.

So even though he performed invincibly, some netizens still didn't recognize him.

Now it was good; with the spontaneous promotion by the busybodies, Lin Ye's name as a genius spread widely.

Even many netizens who didn't watch match videos but liked to browse posts now knew about him.

"This Lin Ye is truly terrifying; his crushing dominance at the fifth rank is even more terrifying than Xu Weilai's prestige at the ninth rank."

"He's truly a monstrous talent; I wonder what kind of scene it will be when he reaches the ninth rank."

"I didn't expect Lin Ye to perform so outstandingly in professional matches, and to be so excellent on the grand stage of racial duels as well."

"The commenter above, Lin Ye was only fourth rank in professional matches, chasing down a group of sixth-rankers. It's perfectly reasonable for him to dominate a group of his peers at peak fifth rank, right?"

The last netizen even included a "very reasonable" meme.

Lin Ye also didn't expect this wave of popularity to come so well, so suddenly.

He was a little excited, and a little scared.

Becoming famous at a young age, gaining both fame and fortune, is a good thing; how many people can't get such an opportunity?

But assassinating enemy race geniuses is a common occurrence.

No opponent wants the enemy's genius to grow stronger.

Fortunately, he was a super homebody, and the Mohe Clan's security forces had also increased several times.

With the Cadiz Scripture, who would go out wandering?

The Cadiz Scripture was not retrieved; the Mohe Clan allowed him to use it until he left.

Accustomed to the cultivation speed of a sports car, he found it difficult to break the habit for a while, becoming uncontrollably addicted, thus becoming increasingly engrossed.

Aside from occasionally watching matches to broaden his experience, he dedicated all other time to cultivation.

He also had seventh-rank sparring partners by his side; if he had questions, he would spar with them, as nothing increases experience more than actual combat.

Although these seventh-rank Mohe Clan sparring partners were indeed a bit weak, Lin Ye could chase them down and beat them up.