482: Chapter 482: Tournament Rules Announced, Holy Mountain!

"In this grand event, we might actually encounter geniuses from an Alien Universe? Is this for real? To achieve that, one would have to penetrate the barrier between two universes; the difficulty is immense."

"Could it be that an eternal divine artifact was used, or did some spatial powerhouse take action?"

"Not sure. Anyway, the word came from the Supreme Council, but they didn't give a definitive confirmation. They just told us to pass on the possibility to the Students."

"Tsk tsk, honestly, this event is being handled with such a sense of mystery that even I'm starting to look forward to it!"

In a corner of the spaceship.

Several lead mentors were gathered together discussing, their expressions quite animated.

From their words, it was clear.

In fact, the information they knew wasn't much more than what the Students knew.

"Alright, you're all at this age, and yet you're still so gossipy?"

"Sense of mystery? The grand event starts in a few days; there's no need for any mystery anymore."

At this moment, Tai Fang, who had finished announcing the news, walked in. He had heard the few people talking from a distance.

As soon as Tai Fang said this, the others all shrugged and smiled, not saying anything more.

Tai Fang was right.

They were all in the Immortal Realm.

Being so gossipy at their age was indeed somewhat improper.

Immediately after, Tai Fang frowned and said indifferently,

"Actually, I have some inside information here too, but it's not guaranteed to be true..."

...

Three days passed in a flash.

There was less than a day left before arriving at the event location.

Inside the Cosmic Cloud Company's spaceship.

During these three days,

The news of Li Fan, Han Luo, Yun Yang, and Sang Yuening forming a team had already spread among the Students.

Regarding this, the Students were all incredibly surprised.

These four were the strongest among them. Logically, they were usually rivals, so why did they choose to team up now?

But with a little thought, it was actually very reasonable—a union of the strong!

And perhaps because the four-person team stimulated everyone,

Soon, the other Students also began to form teams one after another.

Three days passed.

The matter of teaming up had basically come to an end; those who could find a team had already done so, and those who couldn't, wouldn't be able to anymore.

Now,

The time for the grand event to begin was close at hand.

The Students' attention was no longer on teaming up at all, but on the tournament rules this time.

According to the usual practice for tournaments,

The rules should be announced today.

And it wasn't just the geniuses on the Cosmic Cloud side; the geniuses from all the other major powers were the same.

Their eyes were basically all focused on the Supreme Council's bulletin board.

...

Li Fan's lounge.

On the Bizarre Planet.

Li Fan was currently exercising.

There was no other way; since he had been idle with nothing to do for the past few days, Li Fan simply decided to slightly increase his stats.

After finishing this set of exercises,

Li Fan checked the time. With less than a day until they arrived at the event location, it was about time to go out and see if the tournament rules had been released.

He took a hot shower.

Li Fan lay on the sofa and immediately logged into the virtual network to find the Supreme Council's bulletin board.

"It still hasn't been announced?"

Seeing the blank space on the bulletin board, Li Fan frowned slightly, somewhat surprised.

It's about to start, and the rules still aren't out. This is a bit suspicious of trying to build suspense, isn't it?

Just as Li Fan refreshed it a few more times and was prepared to log off to chat with Golden Flash Bear and the others,

A brand new announcement suddenly refreshed on the bulletin board in front of him.

That's right.

This was exactly the tournament rules that Li Fan and the geniuses of all the major powers were currently anticipating!

[The rules for this Genius Zone Grand Event are as follows:

This event will take place in a modified star sector, which contains fierce beasts, or rather, beast tides.

Killing fierce beasts will earn corresponding points. When the accumulated points reach 500,000, one can choose to consume these 500,000 points to go to the Sacred Mountain Projection at the center of the star sector and initiate a Sacred Mountain Challenge.

Leaving a record in the Sacred Mountain will earn points on the scale of ten million. The better the record, the more points. If a record is broken, one will directly receive 100 million points. (Note: Although it is only a Sacred Mountain Projection, the results will be synchronized to the original Sacred Mountain.)

Conversely, if one cannot leave a record on the Sacred Mountain, they will not receive any rewards. Of course, there will be no punishment either, except that the 500,000 points previously consumed will be deducted. To initiate the Sacred Mountain Challenge again, one must continue to kill beasts to earn points!

One can choose to continue killing fierce beasts, or choose to seize points from other Contestants!

Ultimately, the rankings will be determined based on the final total points!

The rules for the World Lord Zone Grand Event are as follows:

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Li Fan looked at this announcement.

His brow couldn't help but furrow slightly.

Killing beasts to earn points was a very old-fashioned tournament format.

But the only difference was the addition of the Sacred Mountain Projection!

However,

Li Fan knew absolutely nothing about the Sacred Mountain Projection mentioned in the announcement.

After reading the entire announcement, the only thing that made him feel okay was that he could snatch other people's points.

Of course, the Sacred Mountain Challenge part was also quite good.

The only problem was that he didn't understand the situation with this Sacred Mountain.

Immediately after,

Li Fan began to look up information regarding this Sacred Mountain.

When Li Fan finished reading the introduction about the Sacred Mountain,

His expression instantly became animated.

This Sacred Mountain was a very famous and strange mountain located in the Cosmic Abyss. Its origin was unknown, and it had been standing there for an unknown amount of time.

On this Sacred Mountain, there were supreme restrictions. Upon entering a certain range of the Sacred Mountain, everyone's realm would be suppressed or raised to the Domain Lord First Order.

And near the foot of the Sacred Mountain, there was a chance to trigger a challenge and then choose the corresponding challenge content.

If one's score could be ranked among the top ten of all challengers who had ever attempted that project throughout history, they could leave their name on it until they were pushed off by a successor.

If one could surpass all predecessors who had challenged the project, they would unlock the achievement of breaking a record!

In other words,

If one could leave their name on the Sacred Mountain, it was enough to prove their talent, and it was even equivalent to competing with previous sages across the river of time!

Therefore, as long as the Sacred Mountain opened, countless geniuses would want to go and try.

Of course,

Aside from allowing people to leave their names, the Sacred Mountain had no other divine properties and offered no rewards.

But that didn't diminish its brilliance.

Being able to leave one's name in history and compete across time with those geniuses who might have already disappeared into the long river of history was already attractive enough.