Chapter 276: Yangyuan Emperor Was Laughed at Again

Mute was utterly shocked.

Not far away, Long Zhan, Huo Lie, and the others also watched Li Yang, clenching their fists.

"The fifth step, and I’m only on the second..."

A three-step difference—the gap felt insurmountable!

"So many people," Li Yang said, looking around.

When he had first come to test his strength, there wasn’t a single person here.

Less than ten minutes later, he came out to find the place suddenly packed with people. The dense crowd of geniuses, nearly three thousand of them, had almost all arrived.

Only Mixed Void and Lan Yu hadn’t come.

Hearing Mute’s words, Li Yang smiled and said, "I just trained normally, and I passed."

"Damn, I’ve been training nonstop too! I haven’t wasted a single moment, not even to eat. How am I only on the second step?" Mute replied, speechless at Li Yang’s answer.

"Alright, I’ve got to go..." After exchanging a few more words with Mute, Li Yang prepared to leave.

He was overjoyed.

He had passed four steps on the Path of the Deities in a row, directly earning him four inheritance opportunities. He was about to enter the inheritance palace.

Under everyone’s watchful eyes, Li Yang logged out of the Virtual World.

"Li Yang is such a monster."

"The fifth step of the Path of the Deities... at this rate of progress, he might not even be inferior to Lan Yu."

"Unbelievable."

The remaining geniuses were still in shock.

At this moment, Li Yang had undoubtedly become the center of everyone’s attention.

"The fifth step of the Path of the Deities... how is that possible?" In the crowd, Dilunxi clenched his fists, noticed by few.

An hour ago, he had been the one receiving admiring glances, the focus of everyone’s attention.

But an hour later, he was completely overshadowed by the even more dazzling Li Yang.

Suddenly, Dilunxi felt incredibly frustrated.

He could accept Mixed Void and Lan Yu surpassing him; their training environments were superior, so there was nothing he could do about it.

But Li Yang... his training environment was the same as his, if not worse. After all, he had an Emperor Level master, while Li Yang had no master at all.

After logging out of the Virtual World, Dilunxi found he couldn’t focus on comprehending the laws.

The thought of Li Yang surpassing him was truly agonizing.

"Dilunxi."

Just then, a voice suddenly rang out in Dilunxi’s mind.

Startled by the voice, Dilunxi immediately responded with the utmost respect, "Master."

A middle-aged man in a black robe appeared before him.

This man was none other than Dilunxi’s master, Ancient Cloud Emperor.

"What’s wrong? Is your heart in turmoil because Li Yang’s progress has far surpassed yours?" Ancient Cloud Emperor asked, looking at his disciple.

His disciple possessed immense Talent, but his temperament was extremely arrogant, believing himself to be second to none.

Such a nature had its pros and cons.

The upside was his firm belief that he was the best, giving him absolute confidence to break through any bottleneck. This conviction helped him progress faster and reach greater heights!

But the downside was just as obvious.

When someone else surpassed him, he would be greatly affected.

Hearing Ancient Cloud Emperor’s words, Dilunxi wanted to deny it, but in the end, he simply nodded and said, "Yes."

"Hmph! In the entire history of our Human Race, countless geniuses have emerged. Even someone like Mixed Void would barely rank in the top one hundred among them, with over ninety others who are even more talented. No one can claim to be the number one genius. Before you know it, another dazzling, peerless prodigy might appear. In the Cosmos, anything is possible."

Ancient Cloud Emperor looked at his disciple and said in a heavy tone, "You’ve merely been overtaken by one genius. What you should do is catch up, using it as your motivation, not letting your mind run wild. You’re like this after just one genius surpasses you? What if a second, and then a third, surpasses you? Will you lose all confidence and just give up on training entirely?"

His words struck Dilunxi’s heart like the heavy tolling of a great bell.

He had long wanted to correct this flaw in his disciple. He had tried using Mixed Void and Lan Yu as examples before, but his disciple had paid them no mind, always insisting that he couldn’t catch up only because their training environments were better.

But this time, Li Yang had appeared. In terms of training environment, Li Yang’s was even worse than Dilunxi’s. This time, Dilunxi had absolutely no excuses.

Hearing Ancient Cloud Emperor’s words, Dilunxi clenched his fists. The lesson was finally starting to sink in a little.

He clenched his fists and said, "Master, I won’t be like this anymore. Li Yang has surpassed me for now. What I need to do is train hard and surpass him in return."

Clenching his fists, his face was filled with determination.

"Good." Ancient Cloud Emperor nodded. "That is the correct way to think. There is no end to comprehending the laws. You are all just at the very beginning; the future is what you should be striving for."

Ancient Cloud Emperor didn’t know if Dilunxi’s mindset had truly changed, but at least he now admitted that there was a genius stronger than him.

He would have to find another opportunity to teach Dilunxi later, and then find some trials to properly temper his mentality.

He hadn’t expected to change his disciple with just a few words.

"Alright, I will demonstrate the fourth form of the spear technique you are studying. Observe it carefully and try to comprehend it."

Ancient Cloud Emperor began to instruct Dilunxi.

After the demonstration, Dilunxi focused on his comprehension while Ancient Cloud Emperor waited to the side for him to finish and ask questions.

Meanwhile, Ancient Cloud Emperor was thinking to himself, ’Incredible. This year’s genius selection not only produced peerless geniuses like Mixed Void and Lan Yu, but now a Li Yang has suddenly appeared out of nowhere. Even if the Talent Li Yang has shown isn’t quite on par with Lan Yu’s, it can’t be far off. He’s definitely another one of those peerless geniuses that only appears once every few billion years! One who ranks in the top hundred of our Human Race’s history, and two who appear once every few billion years... The quality of this genius selection is so high that it could rank among the top three in the history of our race!’

Li Yang’s sudden burst of progress had not only shaken the many Deities but had even attracted the attention of Emperors like themselves.

A peerless genius who only appeared once in several billion years... a talent like that could easily become a powerful Deity, and might even have the chance to become an Emperor, standing among them as an equal!

For a long time, the Human Race hadn’t seen such powerful geniuses, and now so many had appeared at once.

At this time, the Emperor Level experts of the Human Race were indeed paying attention to Li Yang.

"This Li Yang’s Talent can actually rival Lan Yu’s! I didn’t expect this at all."

"I just made a special inquiry. Li Yang’s training time up to this point is actually shorter than Dilunxi’s."

"Haha, the more geniuses the better. This is how our Human Race will grow stronger."

"Yangyuan, this Li Yang wasn’t recruited by your Yangyuan Empire beforehand, was he?"

The Emperor Level experts were all discussing this, with some even joking with the Yangyuan Emperor.