362: Will be trapped by talent

“This Blazing God Race Prodigy is truly strong. He will definitely have a spot in the top ten God Emperors!”

“However, the Barbarian God Race fellow is truly unlucky. To encounter such an existence right at the start, tsk tsk…”

Many people secretly muttered to themselves.

Only a few Divine Emperor Realm Prodigies had no change in their expressions. Their gazes calmly assessed the Blazing God Race Prodigy on the stage:

“I didn’t expect this Yan Jue fellow to have quietly broken through to Peak God Emperor!”

“Heh heh, even if he broke through, so what? He still can’t be my opponent…”

The burly Barbarian God Race man was heavily injured by a single punch. Feeling the terrifying aura from his opponent, he could only unwillingly step down from the stage.

He bit his teeth hard, his face pale, his eyes filled with suppressed anger.

He had originally thought he could shine brightly at this Banquet of the Gods, but he didn't expect to be instantly defeated in the very first match!

However, what good was it to be unwilling? If one's strength was inferior, one could only endure it.

On the arena, Yan Jue looked at the crowd below with high spirits, full of provocation, and said:

“Only two more people. Who wants to come up and die?”

Feeling the powerful aura emanating from him, many Divine Emperor Realm Prodigies below the stage hesitated for a moment. A Peak God Emperor Realm would require at least a Late Stage God Emperor to contend with.

And no Late Stage God Emperor Prodigy was willing to be his stepping stone.

“Hmph! What Prodigies, in my opinion, they are all a bunch of trash, they don’t even have the courage to step onto the stage!”

After a long silence, Yan Jue couldn't help but mock them again.

“Arrogant! This big guy will meet you!”

A Thunder God Clan Prodigy couldn't swallow this insult and directly rose and rushed onto the arena.

“Late Stage Divine Emperor Realm, you do have some strength. I hope you can last a little longer in my hands!”

Yan Jue sized him up. Although his eyes did not show disdain, he also did not put him in his eyes.

“Hmph!”

The Thunder God Prodigy merely snorted angrily and directly summoned his Divine Weapon, not bothering with any more words.

“Thunder God Battle Armor!”

“Annihilation Thunder Spear!”

Boom—!

The Thunder God Clan Prodigy instantly donned a dark blue battle armor exuding a powerful aura, with lightning flowing and electric flashes appearing. A dark blue long spear appeared in his hand, entwined with thunder, as if it was transformed from a Thunder Dragon.

Having summoned these two top-tier Divine Weapons, he said nothing, and the power of the Thunder Dao madly surged into the long spear in his hand, then he directly flashed and charged towards Yan Jue.

Feeling the aura bursting forth from his opponent, Yan Jue's eyes also showed a hint of solemnity.

He did not dodge again, but instead also summoned his Divine Weapon to meet him. The opponent's speed was definitely not slower than his, so dodging was not a good choice.

Boom—!!

The two instantly collided. Half of the arena was filled with a terrifying dark blue thunder field, and the other half with a terrifying crimson fire domain.

The two moved and dodged rapidly, their figures moving swiftly. The next moment, they violently collided again, erupting in terrifying energy fluctuations that swept and raged within the arena space, continuously impacting the barrier at the edge of the arena.

The terrifying aura spread through the barrier to outside the arena, causing many Prodigies below Late Stage God Emperor to frown, their eyes filled with solemnity.

As for the powerhouses above Dao Lord, most watched with keen interest. Although the strength of the two combatants was like ants to them, the collision of Divine Abilities, weapons, and the power of the Dao was quite spectacular.

Having grown tired of song and dance performances, watching a fight and martial arts competition was a change of pace.

Wu Ning was also watching the fight on the arena with interest, feeling quite moved.

It must be said that the God Race is indeed uniquely blessed.

They are naturally favored by the Dao, born with control over a trace of Dao rules, and are extremely Affinity to this Dao. Attaining God Emperor (Immortal Emperor) and advancing to the Dao Lord Realm are much easier for them than for the Human Race and other races.

Among the Human Race, if there is no Heaven-Defying Opportunity, attaining Immortal Emperor within a million years can be called a peerless Prodigy, and advancing to Dao Lord within a hundred million years can be called a Supreme Prodigy.

Both are extremely rare.

However, in the God Race, attaining Emperor within a million years is not considered rare at all. Top Prodigies in some large branch God Races can basically achieve it.

Advancing to Dao Lord within a hundred million years is much more difficult, but still much easier than for the Human Race.

If among ten thousand Prodigies of the same level, one Human Race member can advance to Dao Lord within a hundred million years, then the God Race will have at least three or more.

More critically, even among Prodigies of the same level, the probability of the Human Race giving birth to them is far lower than that of the God Race.

After all, they are naturally favored by the Heaven and Earth Dao, there's simply no comparison.

The Human Race can only rely on a population base thousands of times larger than the God Race to make up for, or even surpass, these various disparities.

Of course, the Heaven and Earth Dao is about balance. Everything has pros and cons, and the God Race cannot monopolize all the benefits.

Being favored by the Dao and naturally controlling a trace of Dao rules, this Innate talent is indeed enough to keep the God Race at an advantage before the Celestial Sovereign Realm.

But reliance on talent will also ultimately be constrained by talent.

One must know that the Cultivation in the Celestial Sovereign Realm lies in perfecting all Origin Daos, ultimately gathering thousands of Origin Daos to advance to the Chaos Sovereign Realm.

The God Race, relying on Innate talent, can relatively easily perfect one or several Daos they are favored by, progressing too smoothly and relying too much on talent.

When Cultivating and perfecting other Origin Daos, they instead find it much more difficult than other races.

Especially the Human Race, which is Innately weak, relying on their own bitter Cultivation and comprehension of the Dao, after the Celestial Sovereign Realm, they are far more adept at perfecting all other Daos than the God Race.

This is also an important reason why the Human Race can now surpass countless powerful races and become the strongest race in all the heavens.

So, from a long-term perspective, the God Race's unique Innate talent is actually a kind of shackle.

It is easy to give birth to middle and upper-level powerhouses, but more difficult to give birth to top-level Supreme powerhouses!

If not for the accumulated heritage over long years, they would not have their current top overlord status.

In contrast, the Human Race has no Innate advantages, but also no shackles. Although the starting point is difficult, they possess infinite possibilities.

…

At this moment, the outcome on the arena was already clear.

The talents of the two were nearly identical. If they had the same Cultivation, they could have fought to a draw.

But Yan Jue's Cultivation was ultimately a step higher. After tens of thousands of rounds, he finally defeated the Thunder God Clan Prodigy by virtue of his higher Cultivation Realm.

Afterward, Yan Jue once again challenged the Prodigies below the stage, but no one responded.

The Elder presiding over the competition, seeing this, allowed him to directly enter the ranking battle.

Next, Prodigies from other races successively ascended the stage to battle, determining winners who would enter the ranking battle.

Battles between Divine Emperor Realm powerhouses are often fierce and prolonged, especially when their Realms are similar; fighting for decades or even centuries is common.

Now, at the Banquet of the Gods, these Prodigies naturally knew they didn't have that much time for their battles, so each of them tried to defeat their opponents as quickly as possible.

Even so, when the Divine Emperor Realm ranking battles began, more than half a year had already passed.