Second Round (Final)

As he thought, other two participants targeted Yuan Tao, thinking he was just good at running away. Both of them attacked him fiercely, using different martial arts, but no matter what type of attack or how many times they struck, he easily evaded all attacks with his weird movement techniques.

"Damm! Are you going to only run away like this?"

One of them shouted as they were unable to touch a single hair of him.

Hmm! With a smirk, Yuan Tao finally attacked them with the weird technique "Shadow Bind."

"What!"

They were powerless as their feet seemed to stick to the earth, and then Yuan Tao casually punched the two of them, sending them flying out of the arena and winning it.

The crowd looked at Yuan Tao, who, with ease, defeated the two martial artists, finally understanding that it was not just luck that he had made it this far.

He is a really strong and well-deserved winner.

On the other side, Owen took a sigh of relief and felt lucky as he was able to become one of three in this group. Although he was strong but not overwhelmingly strong like Yu Tianhao or Ye Feng, even these two were effortlessly defeated by Yuan Tao, who could be trouble for him.

Kong Shiyao also saw everything, felt the strength, and believed that this person was going to be one of his opponents in the next final round.

With that, this group melee ended with these three winners. And then, the next group of 100 participants continued the battle.

One after another, the melee continued, and new young martial artists continued to emerge and show their strength in front of the world. This shocked many, and many have already started to call this the golden age of martial artists.

This year's talent surpassed all expectations and was the strongest in the spiritual kingdom's history.

In the Ninth group, it was Ji Ning's turn, which again attracted everyone's attention as an 'Empyrean Celestial Sect' disciple, and like the expectations, he destroyed his opponents using a single finger and effortlessly cleared this round of melee.

The storm brought by the 'Empyrean Celestial Sect' did not end as one after another disciples from the sect showed their strength and defeated their opponents.

And when it was the thirty-fourth group turn, an interesting thing happened, as there were two disciples of the empyrean celestial sect in this same round, one named Ye Feng and the other named Hong Lie.

This group had quite a few strong martial artists, and if Hong Lie were alone, he would surely be eliminated, but 'Ye Feng', with his strength alone, defeated seven or eight powerful martial artists, clearing the way for Hong Lie to join the final round.

Following this, the remaining group came to the arena, and the melee proceeded with intense battles. At last, all the group melee battles ended with one hundred fifty best martial artists, who were going to battle in the final round to select the thirty geniuses who would represent the kingdom in the domain battle.

But the most unbelievable thing was that all ten disciples of the 'Empyrean Celestial Sect' managed to qualify for the final round. It means that out of one hundred fifty; ten martial artists, ten belong to the single sect that was just established a few months ago, leaving every sect and clan miles behind.

Even Jiang Chen himself was surprised when all the disciples from his sect passed this round. He had to say that today really was a lucky day for his disciples.

Out of ten, he believed that only five would be able to move on to the last round, but because of the strength shown by Ye Feng and Yu Tianhao, many were afraid, as few people challenged them.

His sect disciples were also smart, and did not try stupid things or challenge many martial artists, and lastly, because of luck, they were able to become the top three in different groups.

As this age group trial ended, the next age group melee battle started, which was for between twenty-five and fifty. There were fewer people, so this did not take much time.

The battle for this age group was intense, but there were not many surprises. Still, there were some hidden talents and late bloomers in it.

As for the third and final age group, from fifty to hundred, they did not face any more trials as there were already quite a few martial artists in this group, and the selection could be done in the final ring battle.

When this age group battle ended, everybody was given time to rest, and from tomorrow on, the final battle for the strongest genius will begin.

The next morning, all the martial artists of the spiritual kingdom take their seats to watch the final round of this genius selection.

This round was as simple as having one hundred fifty disciples battle each other to determine the strongest among them.

Each of them would have to fight 149 battles, which would test their strength, endurance, and mental fortitude.

The draw for the matches will be at random, so the crowd should expect some surprises. Several arenas were constructed to hold numerous simultaneous battles.

This battle will truly determine who is the best. Not only did the martial artist need to be strong, but also calm and composed, and he needed to understand himself and his opponents.

Any injuries he gets in the battle will also affect his future battles, so he needs to be careful.

Slowly, all the one hundred fifty young geniuses came to the arena and waited for the final round to start.