Chapter 00067: An Unbelievable Outcome
# An Unbelievable Outcome
Chapter 67
Novel: Abandon The Universe
Chapter 67: An Unbelievable Outcome
As Mu Zeji descended, a door revealed itself.
The voice of the broadcast echoed from above the square, "Level-2 Technological Civilization Planet, Rebellious Wolf Star, entering the passage for selection…"
As the broadcast concluded, over a hundred people emerged from the crowd. They surrounded five men tightly and slowly entered through the great door, ultimately vanishing from sight. It could be inferred that these five men were the elite competitors representing Rebellious Wolf Star, or rather, the geniuses of Rebellious Wolf Star.
Once all the participants from Rebellious Wolf Star had entered, the broadcast voice rang out again, "Level-1 Technological Civilization Planet, Rainbow Wall Star."
The first to emerge were two men and one woman, followed by fifty guards who surrounded the trio.
After the representatives from Rainbow Wall Star entered, it was the turn of Level-3 Technological Civilization Planet, Sea God Star. The elite geniuses participating from Sea God Star numbered ten, with a protective detail of up to two hundred guards.
As representatives from various planets continued to enter, Lan Xiaobu gradually understood the pattern: for Level-1 Technological Civilization Planets, usually three geniuses participated, with fifty guards; for Level-2, five participants and one hundred guards; while for Level-3, ten participants and two hundred guards.
When it came to Level-4 Technological Civilization Planet, he heard that Sheye Star had twenty participants and four hundred guards. Unfortunately, Lan Xiaobu did not catch the details for the Level-5 Technological Civilization Planet before it was already the turn of True Promise Star.
True Promise Star, being a Level-2 Technological Civilization Planet, was supposed to have five participants and one hundred guards. However, only sixty-one guards appeared, plus a pet that resembled either a wolf or a dog.
The previously serious and somewhat solemn atmosphere of the selection site was broken when the group from True Promise Star appeared, and someone finally couldn't help but laugh, easing the tension significantly.
Commander Tai cast a cold glance at Lan Xiaobu, knowing that the chances of True Promise Star passing were nearly zero. Each time the internal selection for the Jade Dawn Star system took place, few geniuses from Level-1 Technological Civilization Planets were seen. Why was that? Wasn't it because the geniuses from Level-1 were hard-pressed to pass the first round of selections?
Now, with only sixty-one guards, how was this any different from a Level-1 Technological Civilization Planet?
Lan Xiaobu completely ignored Commander Tai's attitude, only pondering whether his divine sense could block this kind of brainwave attack.
Along with Commander Tai and the others, Lan Xiaobu entered the passage. Commander Tai's group stood in the center, surrounded by the sixty-one guards.
The passage was dark yet spacious. As soon as everyone entered, they felt a slight tremor beneath their feet.
Although visibility was nonexistent, Lan Xiaobu's divine sense clearly perceived that the ground beneath them was shifting. Just like during the third round of assessments on True Promise Star, once they entered the assessment room, it could move.
Before Lan Xiaobu could ponder the scale of the pit they had dug beneath, a series of wave-like pulses, sharp as needles, surged into his mind, growing increasingly intense.
Lan Xiaobu quickly extended his divine sense, but it couldn't perceive the fluctuations nor block the terrifying electromagnetic wave attack.
Screams of agony echoed, and in a short span, he witnessed over ten people collapse. Even the ancient path trembled, emitting a low roar.
Lan Xiaobu understood that while this might not affect him much, for ordinary people, such a mental attack was lethal.
Unable to directly counter the mental assault, Lan Xiaobu immediately used the Soul Thorn technique. In the next moment, he realized the Soul Thorn was effective; it could scatter this mental electromagnetic wave attack. Once the attack was dispersed, its impact on the brain diminished to nearly nothing.
However, the defensive range of the Soul Thorn was too small. Lan Xiaobu quickly protected Ke'er and the ancient path, anxiously thinking about how to expand the protective area. Additionally, he couldn't continuously use the Soul Thorn; with his current divine sense strength, it wouldn't last more than a few minutes.
With that thought, Lan Xiaobu began to deploy the Soul Thorn while simultaneously activating the Spirit Refining Technique. Soon, he felt joy, as it seemed this mental attack's power could be absorbed and transformed into a boost for his cultivation, much like how rich spiritual qi could enhance his inner qi.
As he continued to absorb this electromagnetic power while cultivating the Spirit Refining Technique, Lan Xiaobu clearly sensed that the surrounding people were feeling much more at ease. He immersed himself in cultivation, attempting to modify the Soul Thorn technique. Now, the Soul Thorn had gathered his divine sense into a needle-like form, greatly enhancing its attack capability. Lan Xiaobu tried to flatten the Soul Thorn into a thin shield to block the mental attacks on the others.
Everything follows a principle; once you understand one, you can understand them all. Lan Xiaobu effortlessly developed a new method for using his divine sense: the Soul Shield.
If the Soul Thorn gathered divine sense for maximum attack, then the Soul Shield transformed divine sense into the strongest form of defense.
Indeed, divine sense was a wonderful thing. Lan Xiaobu felt elated as he expanded the protective range of the Soul Shield while continuing to refine his Spirit Refining Technique.
With a loud "boom!" Lan Xiaobu felt as if he had absorbed an immense amount of this attack, and suddenly his mind expanded. His divine sense surged to a fifty-meter radius, allowing him to detect even the faintest changes around him, including the electromagnetic wave patterns attacking everyone's mental will.
Lan Xiaobu clenched his fist; the Spirit Refining Technique, which he had struggled to break through, unexpectedly jumped from the first tier to the second tier today.
Thinking that he could soon step into the Innate Realm and successfully establish his foundation, Lan Xiaobu could hardly contain the joy within.
Since leaving Earth and entering the universe, he had been striving hard, and today his efforts finally bore fruit. Although the breakthrough was instantaneous, Lan Xiaobu understood that it was related to his usual diligence in seizing every moment for cultivation. Even if he relaxed slightly during his training, he might not have been able to achieve this breakthrough today.
With the Spirit Refining Technique reaching the second tier, his divine sense's coverage expanded to fifty meters, allowing Lan Xiaobu's divine sense shield to easily encompass everyone. However, he did not completely block the mental attacks but occasionally let some of them pass through, impacting the will of the guards.
After a few minutes, Lan Xiaobu's divine sense sensed that the ground beneath them was moving again and that the mental attacks were weakening. Without hesitation, he retracted his divine sense shield and ceased refining the Spirit Refining Technique.
In the next moment, everyone was dazzled as they found themselves in a bright room.
Lan Xiaobu's divine sense scanned the area and soon recognized that the other planetary competitors who had entered earlier were nearby. However, each planet's representatives were isolated in their own bright rooms, unable to see the outside situation. Unless someone possessed a divine sense, like Lan Xiaobu, which served as a cheat.
Among the sixty-one guards from True Promise Star, along with the ancient path and the five elite geniuses participating in the selection, only thirty guards remained. As for the five elite competitors, none had been lost.
Lan Xiaobu also scanned the selection results of the other planets. Generally, for Level-1 Technological Civilization Planets, having two or three people remaining was considered good. Some Level-1 planets even faced total loss. For Level-2 planets, typically seven to eight guards remained, with one or two elite geniuses lost in the selection process. Level-3 planets usually had around ten guards left, with most elite geniuses still intact, or losing one or two.
For Level-4 planets, the guards typically numbered around twenty to thirty, with an average of fourteen or fifteen elite geniuses remaining. This kind of loss clearly indicated that having more people didn't mean fewer losses. On the contrary, the more people there were, the greater the losses.
The Level-5 Technological Civilization Planet had yet to emerge, but judging by their loss numbers, Lan Xiaobu knew that True Promise Star should be considered outstanding.
"Did we actually still have thirty guards remaining?" Commander Tai, who had initially been despondent, now looked at the remaining guards and the five elite competitors without any losses, questioning whether he was seeing things.
"Brother Tai, could it be that there was an issue with the testing area…" Pasia also looked shocked, clearly aware of the brutality of the first-round planetary selections. Even if a hundred guards remained intact, having seven or eight guards emerge would be considered exceptionally lucky, and one or two losses among their five would be expected. Now, thirty guards had come out, and all five of them were unscathed.
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