#160 - Why run so far?

In the central square.

Regardless of what the watching geniuses below the stage thought, Yang Wu had already defeated Bolan, becoming the champion of this year's peak genius battle. With the battle concluded, Yang Wu and Bolan entered the Original Secret Realm as first and second respectively. Moments later, 1000 geniuses and over a thousand immortals stood in the central square, quietly listening to Venerable Nine Swords speak.

"First and second place."

"Third to tenth place."

"Eleventh to hundredth place."

"One hundred and first to one thousandth place."

"The geniuses for these four secret realms have all been selected. The Universe Human Peak Genius Selection Battle has come to a perfect end today."

Venerable Nine Swords smiled and said, "This year's genius battle is exceptionally outstanding. I believe that after dozens or hundreds of epochs, many of you will become famous throughout the universe."

"Later, a specialist from my Virtual Universe Company will contact you and take you to the Universe Headquarters of my Virtual Universe Company. You will gather there and then proceed to the Initial Universe."

"From now on, your path is no longer ordinary. Whether you become a super existence famous throughout the universe, an ordinary powerhouse, or perish along the way, it all depends on yourselves!"

"Work hard, little ones. Your path to becoming strong has just begun!"

The gentle voice of Venerable Nine Swords echoed in everyone's mind.

This year's genius battle officially concluded!

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With the genius battle over, both the esteemed Venerable Nine Swords and the 1008 powerful immortals departed.

For them, their task was completed once the genius battle reached this point!

However, before leaving, Scale Armor Thirteen, who led the team from the Ganwu Universe Country, specifically sought out Yang Wu.

"Haha, Yang Wu, well done!"

"Now that you've won first place, the Lord will definitely reward you. Give me your address in the real world, and I'll have it sent to you when I get back!"

Hearing about the reward, Yang Wu's eyes lit up immediately. He had fought so hard to grab "first place" precisely for the surprise promised by the Ganwu Country Lord.

"Ganwu Universe Country, Li Star Region, Yu Star."

Yang Wu immediately told Scale Armor Thirteen his location in the real world.

"Why did you run so far?"

Scale Armor Thirteen looked strange. The Li Star Region was in the heartland of the Ganwu Universe Country, quite a distance from the Black Dragon Mountain Starfield.

"I opened up ten times the speed of light in the dark universe and flew continuously for several years!"

After obtaining Yang Wu's real-world location, Scale Armor Thirteen also left directly. Leading the team in this year's peak genius battle was truly a rewarding experience.

The Ganwu Universe Country accounted for two of the top three in the entire universe, with two entering the Primal Secret Realm and one entering the Original Secret Realm.

A complete victory!

After the numerous powerhouses left, the 1000 geniuses were left in the central square, waiting for contact from the Virtual Universe Company.

A moment later.

A staff member took all 1000 geniuses to the second-floor conference room of the Central Square's No. 2 Restaurant.

The staff asked them to fill out their addresses to facilitate the Virtual Universe Company's arrangement of ships to personally pick them up and take them to the Virtual Universe Company headquarters.

Yang Wu picked up a pen and paper and, without much hesitation, quickly filled in the address.

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"Yang-ge, where exactly did you run off to!"

Luo Feng turned his head and couldn't help but ask when he saw the string of unfamiliar addresses Yang Wu had filled in on his paper.

"Ran into the heartland of the Ganwu Universe Country!"

Luo Feng rolled his eyes, picked up the pen and paper in front of him, and began to write: "Ganwu Universe Country, Black Dragon Mountain Starfield, Milky Way, Bailan Star."

Once everyone's address information was collected, the Virtual Universe System immediately calculated the best pick-up plan, determining that the entire pick-up process would take about 3 years.

And the speed of the dispatched ships reached a terrifying fifty times the speed of light.

Thousands of F-class ships with fifty times the speed of light were directly arranged at once, just to pick up these core members.

Worthy of being the Virtual Universe Company!

Extremely wealthy!

After arranging the pick-up plan, the staff then distributed the bonuses that Yang Wu and the others had earned in the genius battle one by one.

Among them, Yang Wu, as a member of the Original Secret Realm, received a bonus of 10,000 Chaos Units, and his consciousness-linked bank account was directly upgraded to a four-star customer.

Luo Feng, as a member of the Primal Secret Realm, received a bonus of 1,000 Chaos Units.

With everything arranged, people began to disappear from the conference room one after another, and everyone left one by one.

In the dark universe, a pyramid ship was traveling at 10 times the speed of light.

In the magnificent command room, Yang Wu opened his eyes.

'Hong Ling, locate Yu Star.'

'Yu Star located. Estimated arrival in three days!'

On the screen in front, Hong Ling's somewhat cute and serious face appeared.

"After arriving, directly traverse the dark universe!"

"Yes, Master!"

Ganwu Universe Country, a very ordinary life planet, 'Varo Planet'.

Varo Planet, inside an underground base.

"Team leader, we are responsible for monitoring the peak genius battle held by humans and have obtained important intelligence." A bald, three-eyed man in a silver uniform said respectfully.

"Peak genius battle?"

Another bald, three-eyed man in a black uniform asked indifferently, "Did some remarkable genius emerge from this peak genius battle?"

Under normal circumstances, the geniuses that emerge from this kind of genius battle are not worth their attention.

Because a session is held every 5000 years, and the quality of each session is basically not very good.

Immediately, the screen in front of him changed, and detailed information appeared.

It was information about Yang Wu.

The bald, three-eyed man in the silver uniform introduced, "This is the first place winner of this year's genius battle. He passed the 7th trial tower in the trial space and defeated Bolan, who is known to be an existence of tens of thousands of epochs, in the arena duel. I think this is at least a genius that appears once every tens of thousands of epochs."

The bald, three-eyed man in the black uniform glanced coldly at the bald, three-eyed man in the silver uniform upon hearing this, and then continued to look at Yang Wu's information.

"Just appearing once every tens of thousands of epochs is completely not worth us using our lurking forces."

"Moreover, the opponent is already a member of the Original Secret Realm. If we want to kill him at this time, we must at least use Marquis-level power."

"Every time we act in the 1008 universe countries of humans, it means sacrifice, and paying a price like a Marquis-level."

"He is not worth it!"

"Furthermore, how did you investigate? You didn't even find out his specific information. The location is even in terms of universe countries. What difference is there from not investigating!"

"Order the Seventh Squad to launch an investigation as soon as possible and collect all of his information. Even if the target is not worth it for the time being, we must prepare in advance."

The bald, three-eyed man in the black uniform's eyes shot out a cold light, and he instructed, "Yes."

The subordinate in the silver uniform responded respectfully.

Soon, the quiet underground base returned to calm once again.