230: Hedgehog Chen Feng

In the second stage of the challenge tournament, three-quarters of the participants advance in each round. It takes 24 rounds to determine the top 100 million.

In each round, half the people advance first, then the losers face off in random matches to determine the winners who will also advance.

In other words, each round of the second stage takes 20 minutes, and 24 rounds will take a full two days.

The second stage selects the top 100 million, and since 5 billion clans are participating in this trial, on average, only one person per clan can enter the third stage of the competition.

According to the matchups between clans of various levels in the first two rounds, Low Martial Race Groups only have 5 million advancement spots.

Generally speaking, 99.999% of these 5 million advancement spots are taken by the Child of Destiny from each of these 5 million Low Martial Race Groups.

However, there was a slight error this time around. Under the leadership of Huang Chen, the Huaxia Clan currently has a bone structure that is already more than ten times higher than other Low Martial Race Groups. Among them, the core members of the Forbidden City have a bone structure about 0.5 times higher than ordinary Huaxia People because they often go with Huang Chen to get the first kill on bosses.

With an attribute advantage of ten to twenty times, as long as they don't encounter an overly powerful cheat, these core members have a chance to enter the top 100 million.

And after entering the top 100 million, it is very likely that they will face off against Middle or High Martial Race Groups.

How far they can go then will depend on them.

Soon, the second stage of the competition began. Huang Chen was teleported to the arena again, and this time, a female Metal Element Users Trial Taker in full level 50 Diamond equipment appeared opposite him. When she saw Huang Chen, her face fell.

"Damn it, President... To be randomly matched with you out of 5 billion, my luck is truly one of a kind."

The female Trial Taker complained, then greeted Huang Chen. After waiting for the countdown to end, she directly conceded; it was better to save some mental energy for the additional matches.

Huang Chen was about to concede, but he didn't expect the young woman to concede first.

The probability of winning the additional matches was almost 100%. If he conceded, he could have guaranteed her advancement to the next round.

He smiled speechlessly and looked up at the deep sky.

Is Star Abyss messing with me? 5 billion Low Martial Race Groups entered the second stage, and the number of participants from the Forbidden City is only two or three million, yet it could still match me with her.

For the next several consecutive rounds, Huang Chen didn't even encounter a Child of Destiny. His opponents were either taken out by a single Poison Sand Palm or conceded immediately upon seeing his name.

Therefore, he had plenty of time each round to browse other arenas.

Similarly, the Harem and core members of the Forbidden City also passed the first few rounds without any dangerous incidents.

Just after Huang Chen finished insta-killing his ninth-round opponent and appeared outside, he discovered that Li Ruo had actually appeared in the room faster than him, and she looked unhappy.

"Huh? How are you faster than me?" Huang Chen instantly teleported to Li Ruo's side, tugged on her two braided pigtails, and asked with a smile.

"I've heard that men have some misunderstandings about the two units of time and length..."

Li Ruo looked unhappy, glanced at Huang Chen indifferently, and continued: "Others misunderstand that their time is long, but you think you are short..."

"Alright! You actually dare to tease your husband!"

As the dirty-minded king, Huang Chen immediately grasped the meaning behind Li Ruo's words. He reached out with a large hand, grabbed her weak point, and said fiercely: "See how I deal with you!!"

"Ah~" Li Ruo exclaimed: "Husband, no!! There's not enough time, I still have to fight the additional matches!!"

"Hmm?" Huang Chen asked suspiciously: "You... fighting additional matches? You could actually lose?"

As one of the first people to follow Huang Chen, Li Ruo participated in almost every group activity, and her bone structure and equipment were top-tier.

Even if she encountered a Child of Destiny, it was impossible for her to lose. She also had an Epic Grade Elite Thunder Sub-Dragon over level 50... Moreover, looking at this speed, it was highly likely that she had been insta-killed by her opponent.

"Sigh!!"

Li Ruo sighed, her face full of bitterness, "I met a hedgehog. If I had known, I would have let my little dragon come out and roast him to death!! It makes me so mad!"

"A hedgehog?"

Upon hearing this, Huang Chen understood. Li Ruo must have encountered a Child of Destiny from some Low Martial Race Group.

And the other party's "cheat" must belong to the reflection type.

However, with Li Ruo's bone structure and equipment, her HP was at least twenty or thirty times that of an ordinary Trial Taker. If she could be reflected to death in one hit, how strong must the opponent's reflection be?

Could it be that she encountered that online game protagonist with "I have 100x damage reflection"?

"Do you have a recording? Let me see!" Huang Chen asked.

Afterwards, Li Ruo sent a video to Huang Chen's communication panel.

In the video, standing opposite Li Ruo was a bald middle-aged man, about 40 years old, with a kind face. Especially the way his hands were pressed together instantly reminded Huang Chen of a profession from the modern era—a "monk".

As the countdown ended, the "monk" remained standing in place without even raising his head.

Li Ruo initiated the attack first, and in an instant, Karma Fire Burns the City landed on the "monk".

Subsequently, a damage value of -32125 appeared above the monk's head.

In contrast, a damage value of -442122 appeared directly above Li Ruo's head, and her HP was instantly emptied.

"Hahaha!!" Huang Chen laughed out loud while watching the video, "It really is that old bald donkey!!"

The monk in the video was quite famous in the previous life. Huang Chen had heard from rumors that the monk's profession before the arrival of Star Abyss was indeed a monk.

Before the arrival, when he was playing a game with random talents in their universe, he rolled the 100x damage reflection talent and then slaughtered everyone in the game.

Unexpectedly, after the arrival of Star Abyss, he became the Child of Destiny for their clan, and the "cheat" given to him by Star Abyss was also 100x damage reflection.

Huang Chen remembered that in the previous life, this monk named Chen Feng even made it to the final eight before being worn down to death by a Trial Taker with an ant queen battle pet.

Just as Huang Chen was watching the video, Tie Shengnan, Xie Chunyan, and the other members of the Harem also finished their fights and appeared.

Huang Chen shared the video with All the women and asked: "This person's talent is 100x damage reflection. Think about it, if you encounter him, how would you fight him?"

As soon as the video finished, Tie Shengnan spoke first: "If we know in advance that the opponent has 100x damage reflection, we can just let the battle pet attack, right? Even a level 50 Blazing Winged Fire Dragon now has over 10 million HP. Currently, the HP of people in ordinary Low Martial worlds won't exceed 100,000. Just let the little dragon breathe fire a few times, right? Anyway, in the arena, even battle pets won't truly die."

Huang Chen and All the women nodded after hearing this. The Trial Taker from the High Martial World who defeated Chen Feng in the previous life used an ant queen type battle pet.

Or it could be said that when the arena tournament reached the top 100, all the top 100 contenders started looking for these bee queen or ant queen battle pets to deal with Chen Feng.

"If you don't have a battle pet, do you have a way to defeat the opponent?" Huang Chen threw another difficult problem to everyone.

"Without a battle pet..." Upon hearing this, All the women fell into deep thought.

If there were no battle pets, unless one's own HP was 100 times that of the opponent, facing them would definitely result in injuring the enemy by 1,000 but losing 100,000 oneself.

Seeing that everyone was lost in deep thought, and Li Ruo's additional match was about to start, Huang Chen immediately stopped holding back.

In the previous life, everyone who could make it to the final rounds had basically been analyzed down to every cell by the hundred trillion Trial Takers.

As for how to face Chen Feng's reflection, naturally, capable people had summarized a set of methods.

In Star Abyss, besides one's own skills, there are actually many items that can deal damage to monsters, such as bombs, source energy bombs, formations...

Attacks through these items cannot be reflected back onto the Trial Taker.

Therefore, besides battle pets, there is only one other way to deal with Chen Feng, and that is to throw money!! Throw money ruthlessly...