111: Chapter 111 Regional Genius Battle

A star emitted a dark gold light at a stable frequency. There was no alternation of day and night in the planet's orbit; the light from the star itself was dark gold.

On the planet's surface, countless slender, tall figures stood before buildings so massive they were impossible to measure with the naked eye. Their bodies reflected the dark gold light, lustrous white and translucent.

Cang of the Tianzhi Race.

Standing at the highest point, the crystal core in the center of his forehead was slowly closing.

Just now, he had also been looking at the ranking list.

When he saw the name and race of the sixth-place ranker, his browsing perception paused for a moment.

Humanity.

A new name he had never heard of, a strange race that did not exist in the Tianzhi Race's civilization database.

They had no known special abilities, no Mental Power talents, no energy affinity, and even the radiation threshold of their living environment was pitifully low.

An adult individual's height only reached near his knees, their Physical Body density was far below the average of carbon-based life, and their lifespan was so short that they could hardly achieve any valuable accumulation of a system.

For such a race to actually rank sixth.

His gaze turned to the brief introduction about humanity and Chen Mo, reading it line by line.

Their Source Power system was self-created from scratch. Humanity's starting point was a complete blank; they had nothing they could inherit.

Cang's star-patterned pupils rotated slowly, light diffusing outward layer by layer, as if some deep calculation were running.

He did not know who Chen Mo was, nor did he know what Chen Mo looked like.

But he knew one thing: appearing on the ranking list of the Spirit Energy Universe in sixth place meant they had already entered the same arena.

And having entered the arena, they would definitely meet.

Ten million light-years.

For a civilization that could not yet perform faster-than-light travel, it was an eternally uncrossable distance.

But to a system pioneer who already stood at the peak of the region, this was not an insurmountable chasm.

Cang took one last look at that name.

A thought surfaced: Chen Mo, I will be waiting for you.

Chen Mo did not know that someone ten million light-years away was waiting for him.

He was currently checking the combat power ranking rewards.

Ranks 10 to 1: Spirit Energy Universe Communication Qualification.

The top three additionally obtain: Ability Evolution—spirit qi source fluid.

Regional First Place: Individual Special Reward.

Chen Mo read through them one by one.

The communication qualification, as the name implied, opened up the communication platform of the entire Spirit Energy Universe.

This meant being able to exchange information with countless races from over ten million other regions.

Entering the infinitely vast Universe to communicate with countless races that had stood out in their respective regions.

This meant the exchange of technology, systems, resources, and intelligence.

The value of this communication qualification itself was far more important than any individual resource reward.

Next was the reward for the top three: spirit qi source fluid.

The introduction was very brief—upon absorption, there was a probability of evolving one's own ability.

From the looks of it, even if the ability did not evolve, one's strength would still be significantly improved.

Seeing this, Chen Mo's Mental Power clearly focused a bit more.

Ability Evolution.

His ability was the Inner World.

If he absorbed the spirit qi source fluid, was it possible for his Inner World to evolve again?

If the Inner World achieved another Breakthrough, his strength could also increase significantly once more.

He had to get this reward.

Then there was the "Individual Special Reward" for the regional first place.

There was no explanation of the specific details.

But he did not need to know what it was.

The position of first place itself already proved its value.

There were still 3,600 days.

He had to improve his strength as much as possible within these 3,600 days to claim first place and take all the rewards.

One step ahead, always ahead.

One step behind, always behind.

In this evolutionary era of Spiritual Qi, falling behind was not something that could be easily made up for by catching up.

Because while you are falling behind, the frontrunners are also accelerating.

He closed the reward page and opened the communication area.

Spirit Energy Universe Region 18,460,000 Public Domain.

Endless messages rolled continuously like a tide.

Information surged as fragments of thoughts and perceptions were translated into universal information, all refreshing at high speed within the same public domain.

This public domain was open to all existences whose Mental Power standards met the requirements, allowing thousands of races to share their thoughts and observations.

The information density was extremely high.

The signals surging past in a single instant numbered in the trillions.

Every race was marveling that this Spirit Energy Universe possessed such incredible, mighty power.

An existence capable of spreading an information network across the entire Universe had already surpassed their wildest imaginations.

As he browsed, Chen Mo gradually noticed some clues.

Many weak races urgently sought methods of space travel, while those powerful groups that had already set foot in the sea of stars were exchanging insights on interstellar travel and space exploration.

The difference was extremely obvious: the weak races were asking "how to go," while the powerful races were discussing "which way to take."

Chen Mo also looked at those discussions about interstellar travel.

Some civilizations shared their own warp schemes: using resonance to trigger large-scale spatial warping to cross light-year distances within a few days.

Some civilizations proposed even stranger ideas—not taking physical paths, but projecting consciousness onto distant material carriers, abandoning the Physical Body to complete teleportation.

All these schemes far exceeded humanity's current level of technology.

But in the face of the Spirit Energy Universe, these ancient arts of crossing the sea of stars were nothing more than ordinary messages in the communication area that could be pushed down at any time.

The questions were intermittent, and the answers were casual.

No one hid their answers, and no one deliberately showed off.

The anonymous nature of this platform removed the barriers to information flow.

While browsing, a question caught his attention.

"Why does no one go forward to regions with higher Spiritual Qi?"

Below the pale font, a member of the Tianzhi Race gave a brief explanation:

"When you go to other regions, you will be directly reassigned to that region.

At that time, your competition will be against the strong experts of that region."

"If you bring the Cultivation information of that region back to your own race, the entire race will be marked as well."

"And after learning the system abilities of other regions, you can never become a system pioneer again."

The third rule was the most important one.

The status of a system pioneer was irreversible.

Once you learned an external, ready-made system, you forever lost the qualification to create your own system.

It did not mean you could not get stronger, but your path could only follow the footsteps of others.

And the Spirit Energy Universe valued pioneers far more than followers.

The combat power ranking only required pioneers.

The existence behind this was incredibly mysterious and unfathomable.

Just then, all discussions came to an abrupt halt.

All existences currently sending messages stopped at the same time.

A message emerged from the Void Realm.

[Regional Genius Tournament]

The font was pale gold, emitting a faint glow.

It seemed like some kind of notification embedded in the underlying structure of the Spirit Energy Universe.

Floating above all messages, it was visible to all communicating creatures.

The words emerged line by line:

[Scope: Spirit Energy Universe Region 18,460,000.]

[Eligibility: All lifeforms with standard Mental Power.]

[Time: 3,600 days later.]

[Rewards: ???]