279: Chapter 279 Filled with righteous indignation, the preliminary round begins!

That's right.

Many geniuses from the Outer Domains were now claiming on the forums that they would crush the ten billion prodigies of the Wushan Seat and seize those two immortal inheritances.

If they had been a bit more humble, the public might have tolerated it; after all, there were only a hundred thousand of them, which numerically didn't seem like it would cause much of an impact.

But since they weren't humble at all and were acting so arrogantly,

the public absolutely could not hold back.

For a time,

the comment sections of every post made by Outer Domain Prodigies containing provocative remarks were filled with the curses of the Wushan Seat Group Members.

However, it seemed these Outer Domain Prodigies were already mentally prepared for the verbal abuse, so few of them were bothered by it.

Instead, it only made their words even more wild.

This undoubtedly whipped up even higher waves on the forum.

"Damn! How can these Outer Domain brats act so pretentious?"

"What are they even showing off for? Although our Wushan Seat's overall situation isn't as good as theirs, it's not some tiny speck of land either. How dare they talk big about crushing our domain's ten billion prodigies?"

"How did the Cosmic Cloud officials think to let these people participate in our domain's Inheritance Competition? Which brain-dead planner thought of this?"

"Looking at the situation, the officials don't plan to retract this announcement. Since these brats are barking so happily, we'll see them at the Inheritance Competition!"

"I hope our domain's geniuses give them a lesson tomorrow and wake them up!"

"Go for it! Good luck! Eliminate all these Outer Domain brats tomorrow!"

...

For a time,

the fermentation of public opinion on the forum was exceptionally intense.

Many citizens even began launching personal attacks against the officials.

However, the Cosmic Cloud Company still offered no response.

No matter how heated the public became,

the Cosmic Cloud Company completely ignored them.

So the public could only vent their grievances and talk tough on the internet.

In contrast to the general public,

many major powers in the Wushan Seat felt no anger whatsoever toward the words of these Outer Domain Prodigies.

They were young people, after all.

If they weren't a bit arrogant and wild, could they even be called young?

If it were their own prodigies going to an Outer Domain, they would also encourage them to make high-profile declarations of war.

Whether they could win wasn't important.

What mattered was the momentum!

And of course,

returning to the young people themselves—

these experienced elders didn't have much emotion, but the young geniuses participating in the Inheritance Competition couldn't stand it.

Like most of the general public, the young geniuses of the Wushan Seat were currently filled with indignation and fury. Many young geniuses even went straight onto the forums to declare war on those Outer Domain geniuses, fully participating in this flame war.

However, naturally, no one would accept these declarations of war.

Tomorrow was the Inheritance Competition.

Who would have the spare time to waste energy on private duels?

...

"These Outer Domain guys really are arrogant!"

"Once we're on the field, I want to see exactly how much ability you have."

Inside the manor, Peng Song was also looking at the forum, a hint of anger visible on his face.

Indeed.

Peng Song had also been provoked by the taunting words of those Outer Domain geniuses.

And it wasn't just Peng Song.

Many New Students from the academies, such as Luo Ling and Duan Linger, felt the same way.

They had known for a long time that Outer Domain Prodigies would participate, and they knew that among these prodigies were top-tier existences from other academies.

But coming onto the forums to provoke and mock—that was a bit unreasonable, wasn't it?

By his side,

seeing Peng Song like this, Li Fan couldn't help but find it somewhat amusing.

Relatively speaking, Li Fan was much more composed.

So, he wasn't affected by such remarks.

In his view, these provocations were basically like children playing house—utterly boring.

For him, unless it was a one-on-one target and a face-to-face provocation, he wouldn't mind showing a bit of emotion.

But as for this kind of online trash talk, he categorized it all as empty boasting and didn't bother to pay it any mind at all.

...

Soon,

as time passed,

it was the next day in the blink of an eye—the day the Inheritance Competition officially began.

On the forum, as public opinion continued to ferment,

the tone of the forum

had shifted from the initial competition between star domains to a struggle between the Wushan Seat and the Outer Domains.

The unified stance on the forum was to "present a united front against outsiders first, then settle internal issues later."

The situation for online viewing was the same.

Whenever someone was randomly matched against an Outer Domain Prodigy, the audience would unconditionally support their own genius.

Within the virtual network private space,

Li Fan did not enter the competition immediately.

Instead, he exchanged pleasantries with his friends.

Indeed.

Now that the Inheritance Competition had officially begun,

old friends like Lu Qilai, Ma Xiu, Ning Zhenzhen, Bo Jun, and Gu Quan had all come over, preparing to watch the matches together with Gu Ling, Li Daguo, and Huang Lan.

The reason they came, aside from watching Li Fan, was partly because they were influenced by the comments on the forum and wanted to see Li Fan beat up those Outer Domain geniuses.

As for why Li Fan hadn't started his first battle yet,

it was mainly because Li Fan had used one of the five advancement opportunities from his Golden Invitation.

That's right; with Li Fan's strength, he had long been able to obtain a Golden Invitation.

Five opportunities to rest—no point in letting them go to waste!

Using one advancement opportunity allowed one to skip a round of combat and accumulate one victory.

For Contestants with a Golden Invitation, this was equivalent to getting five free victories, which counted as a bit of a head start.

Of course, a mere five victories were truly a drop in the bucket for the rankings.

Because in the preliminary rounds of the Inheritance Competition, except for the very first match which required following the official pairing for a duel,

for the rest of the time, whether to engage in random matching duels was entirely up to the Contestants' own will.

According to the rules, if someone stayed on a winning streak, they could even continue matching without interruption.

However, if one suffered a losing streak that accumulated to ten matches, there would be a half-month cooling-off period.

Within that half-month, the contestant would be unable to match again.

In other words,

you could lose, even several times in a row, but you absolutely could not suffer a ten-match losing streak!

A full half-month cooling-off period was basically no different from being directly eliminated.

In the blink of an eye,

half a day had passed while Li Fan chatted with Lu Qilai and the others.

Half a day had also passed in the Inheritance Competition.

Opening the leaderboard,

the person in first place had already accumulated five hundred and sixty consecutive wins, which could be said to be quite exaggerated!

And that particular prodigy happened to be from an Outer Domain.

This undoubtedly made the already fierce forum flame war even more intense.

Once the pleasantries were over,

Li Fan was finally officially ready to begin his journey in the Inheritance Competition.

Leaving his personal space,

Li Fan directly logged into the Inheritance Competition page.

"Wushan Seat, Tianlan Star Domain, Li Fan, Wins: 1, Current Rank: ..."

Just before matching was about to begin, his basic information appeared before Li Fan's eyes.

Currently, his win count was one.

His rank was positioned directly after the ten billion mark.

Li Fan didn't pay much attention to this.

Taking a breath, Li Fan began his first battle!