Chapter 785 - 239: Qin Feng Emerges, the Great War Zone’s Undisputed Top Combat Power
Chapter 785: Chapter 239: Qin Feng Emerges, the Great War Zone’s Undisputed Top Combat Power
"Let me see..."
Caesar pulled up the macro data for the tournament. "Total number of participants, current remainder... ten point three billion."
"Only ten billion left?"
Even with Qin Feng’s current temperament, he couldn’t help but be slightly stunned when he heard this number.
The word "only" was no exaggeration.
One had to remember that when the Cosmic Genius Battle had just begun, the total number of geniuses gathered here from the five major Star Zones was as high as five trillion!
From five trillion down to ten point three billion.
This meant that over the course of the 862-year competition, the elimination rate had reached a staggering 99.8 percent!
The vast majority of these Martial Artists were swept out of the competition after the mandatory elimination mission was issued in the 800th year of the tournament.
"If we hadn’t chosen to stay with the alliance after the elimination mission was announced, and had instead left immediately to pursue those Star System Level Resources..."
Qin Feng’s tone was hypothetical.
Caesar immediately chimed in, "The result would have been beyond doubt. Our hundred million-plus Martial Artists, who had just broken through to the Constant Star level, would have had almost no chance of completing the mission independently against those powerful Mechanical Race members, who casually wielded power equivalent to Indestructible Projections spanning millions of light-years.
"In the end, at least eighty percent of them would have been eliminated."
And that was the truth of the matter.
The snowball effect was on full display in such a brutal elimination tournament.
Falling behind once could mean falling behind at every step, until there was no hope of recovery.
The decapitation strike that Qin Feng and Caesar had carried out, slaying the Mechanical Race, had in fact bought all the members of the alliance a crucial "buffer period."
First, they had provided a massive amount of resources, allowing the Infinite Sea-level alliance members to struggle through to the Constant Star level.
Then, they had personally entered the field and slaughtered all the most powerful Mechanical Race members within the territory, forcibly reducing the "Hell difficulty" elimination mission to "normal difficulty."
It was precisely these fifty years of protection that allowed those hundred million-plus Alliance Warriors to struggle to survive and have a chance to complete the elimination round.
This debt of gratitude was ultimately repaid with a collective farewell from over a hundred million Constant Star-level Powerhouses.
After a brief moment of reflection, the two returned their focus to the situation at hand.
"Let’s look at the specific resource distribution."
Caesar displayed a three-dimensional star chart before them. "Currently, there are over fifty-three hundred confirmed Star System Level Resource Points in this core region, and this number is still rapidly increasing by several dozen per day."
"All of these Resource Points, as we just discussed, operate on an open-ended competitive model, similar to the Heaven-Reaching Vine and the Barbaric Beast Graveyard.
"Vast resources are just sitting there for the taking, available to whoever has the ability to seize them."
A confident smile touched the corner of Caesar’s lips. "However, we’ll stick to the original plan and start our activities in the outer regions first.
"Because according to intelligence analysis from the forums, the most central and richest top-tier Resource Points are now basically being targeted by the absolute cream of the crop, the Ten Thousand Races’ Celestial Pride.
"Once those guys latch onto you, they’re like a persistent rash you can’t get rid of. It would seriously slow down our development pace, and it’s just nasty."
"Understood."
Qin Feng had no objections.
A lion uses its full strength even when hunting a rabbit.
They were confident, but never arrogant.
Before they had a clearer understanding of the rules and top predators in this "new hunting ground," making steady progress by starting from the periphery was undoubtedly the wisest choice.
The two exchanged a glance, their Mental Power sweeping rapidly across the star chart. They soon locked onto a mutual target.
It was a Resource Point called the "Starry Sky Iron Tree," located on the edge of the core region. It was massive in scale and had a stable output.
Although there were many contenders there at present, no one from the top 100 on the Combat Power rankings had appeared, nor had it attracted the attention of the Ten Thousand Races’ Celestial Pride.
"That’s the one."
With their target set, the two no longer hesitated.
With a flash, they once again activated Subspace Teleportation, heading toward that brand-new Land of Opportunity.
...
When Qin Feng and Caesar opened their eyes again, they were already in a strange, starry expanse.
The sight before them was enough to inspire a deep, visceral shock in anyone seeing it for the first time.
An ancient tree, so immense it defied description, stood silently in the center of the Cosmos.
It wasn’t made of flesh or rock, but of a strange, metallic substance that shimmered. Its trunk was so thick it seemed capable of piercing the Star River, and each of its boughs was like an endless mountain range.
The entire tree’s scale encompassed the area of almost three to four standard solar systems. Dotted upon it were countless enormous leaves, each one larger than an ordinary planet.
This was the Starry Sky Iron Tree.
This tree bloomed once every ten thousand years.
And right now, it was in the midst of its once-in-ten-millennia blooming period.
On those boughs that resembled metallic mountain ranges, dazzling flowers bloomed one after another.
These flowers varied in form—some were as sacred as lotuses, others as regal as peonies. Each one flowed with a visible halo of energy, a convergence of pure life force and Mental Power.
At this very moment, countless points of light were zipping around the incomparably massive iron tree.
Each point of light represented a powerful Constant Star Martial Artist.
They were frantically rushing toward the blooming flowers, trying to be the first to pluck them.
Battles were breaking out constantly.
Just as one streak of light approached an Iron Tree Flower, several attacks would simultaneously blast out from the side, forcing it back or even heavily wounding it.