In an inn, Mu Feng sat silently at the window, sipping the tea brought by the waiter, occasionally picking up pieces of pastries and chewing them slowly, while looking through the window sill at the endless flow of people on the street outside.
In the flow of people on the streets outside, there will always be some strange-looking people, such as lizard men covered in scales, humanoids with human heads and snake bodies, bull heads and horse faces, etc.
These are demons, not humans. Although there are not many of them, they are walking around in human cities as if nothing happened. Some demons even bargain when buying things in human shops.
Mu Feng is still not used to this weird phenomenon.
He never expected that in the Holy Yuan Continent, the human and demon races could actually coexist, and they seemed to get along quite harmoniously.
This is completely different from the confrontation between human beings and monsters on Shenjian Continent.
Mu Feng glanced at the other wine tables on the first floor of the inn. He even saw a few humans and monsters having a drink together and talking about some major events that had happened in Yunzhou recently.
There was even a demon race who spoke loudly, but his voice was a little loud, but the surrounding humans were not surprised.
"Master Mu Feng, are you still not used to it?"
At this time, Hong Yuanxun, who had returned from outside, walked in and sat across from Mu Feng. Seeing the doubts still in Mu Feng's eyes, he couldn't help laughing.
Mu Feng nodded and said: "It's true that I'm not used to it. After staying in the Shenjian Continent for a long time, my concept has always been that humans and demons are incompatible. Either he dies or I die! But I never thought that the human race and the demon race could actually be together.
We can coexist and even get along so harmoniously!”
Hong Yuanxun smiled and said: "In fact, in ancient times, the human race and the demon race in Shengyuan Continent were also opposed to each other, and they fought countless times. But later, due to the heavy casualties and the fact that the humans and demons were evenly matched, the top leaders of both sides decided
It’s an armistice negotiation.”
"The negotiations lasted for decades, and finally the two tribes reached an agreement, which was to divide the Holy Yuan Continent into nine states, and use nine tripods to determine the nine states! The division of the nine states was based on the competition between the representatives sent by the humans and monsters.
It depends!”
"The human race and the demon race competed in nine games. The human race won six games, while the demon race won three games. According to the agreement, the human race won six states, while the demon race won three states! Since then, there has been no war between humans and monsters, of course.
Small wars with local friction still exist!”
"The long-term peace has caused the two races to gradually forget the grudges of the past, or in other words, the grudges have gradually disappeared. With the opening up of trade in various states, human beings and monsters have begun to exchange their needs. Gradually, the coexistence of human beings and monsters has become a consensus and a habit.
,until now!"
Hearing this, Mu Feng said with emotion: "No wonder Shengyuan Continent has become the number one continent in the mortal world. Such unity and development has eliminated internal conflicts in wars. It's hard not to be number one!"
Having said this, Mu Feng looked at Hong Yuanxun and said, "By the way, Brother Hong, how are your inquiries about that genius event going?"
Hong Yuanxun smiled and said: "Mr. Mu, you are quite lucky. I found out that it has been four years since the last genius event, and it will only be one year before the next genius event starts!"
"oh?
One year!”
Mu Feng's eyes lit up, and he was quite surprised.
He came here just to find an opportunity to become a saint, and if he wanted to become a saint, the fastest way was to join the six major forces.
The Genius Gala is a grand gathering for the six major forces to select geniuses. Naturally, he hopes that the sooner the better.
"But..." Hong Yuanxun said hesitantly.
"But what?"
Mu Feng asked.
Hong Yuanxun said solemnly: "The Genius Festival is a gluttonous feast for the young generation of the entire Shengyuan Continent. It naturally brings together all kinds of powerful young talents from Kyushu, including the demon geniuses from Xuezhou, Hanzhou and Yuzhou.
!”
"However, a state has a vast territory, and the number of young people is as large as a crucian carp crossing a river! Before the genius event, each state will be screened and the best will be selected, and then this batch will be selected.
Geniuses, represent their states at the Genius Gala!”
Mu Feng glanced at Hong Yuanxun and said calmly: "I understand what you mean, that is, if I want to participate in the genius event, I must pre-select within the state!"
"Muda people are smart!"
Hong Yuanxun nodded.
“So how do you participate in the state caucuses?”
Mu Feng looked at Hong Yuanxun and asked.
"Master Mu, please come with me. I will take you to see something. Once you see it, you will understand!"
Hong Yuanxun stood up and said deliberately to whet his appetite.
Mu Feng shook his head, but still followed Hong Yuanxun and left the inn.
Along the main street, Hong Yuanxun took Mu Feng to the central area of Tianhai City, where there was a vast square.
The square is very lively. There are many stalls around, selling all kinds of things, including elixirs, medicinal materials, occult books, weapons and armor, etc.
But Mu Feng discovered that the most popular place in the square was not these street stalls, but a huge rectangular stone pillar in the center of the square.
This stone pillar is pitch black, square and shiny, with a shiny surface and densely packed writings on it.
There were many people surrounding the stone pillar. Some of them were whispering to each other, and some of them looked up to observe. Most of the people's attention was focused on this stone pillar.
Mu Feng walked in and took a look, and found that the words that appeared on the front of the stone pillar were actually names, arranged from top to bottom.
"The first place is Wu Zeyu, the second place is Rong Yuankui, the third place is Chao Yuanqing..." Mu Feng recited the names above softly, knowing in his heart that this stone pillar should record the combat power of the younger generation in Yunzhou.
Ranking.
"Muda! This is the Yunzhou Ranking, one of the Nine Provinces Rankings. It records the specific rankings of the younger generation in Yunzhou! If nothing else happens, in this genius event, the Grand Administrator should choose the ranking from the Yunzhou Ranking.
Some of the former geniuses participate in the Genius Festival!”
Hong Yuanxun explained.
"In other words, as long as you can break into the Yunzhou Ranking and rank high, you are basically qualified to participate in the Genius Festival?"
Mu Feng looked at Hong Yuanxun and said.
Hong Yuanxun nodded and continued: "The ranking records on the Yunzhou Ranking are very long, with as many as ten thousand names, and those who can appear on this stone pillar are actually only the top one hundred! According to the information I have found,
There are a total of 10,000 places for the Genius Festival, and they are evenly distributed among the nine states, so each state has more than 1,100 places!"
"In other words, as long as you break into the top 1,000 in the Yunzhou rankings, you are basically qualified?"
Mu Feng nodded.
Mu Feng knew that the territory of Shengyuan Continent was not smaller than that of Shenjian Continent, or even larger, and the martial arts here were prosperous. Therefore, the territory of each state in Jiuzhou was extremely vast, and the population base of each state was also extremely large.
There are hundreds of millions.
With such a huge population base, naturally a lot of geniuses will be born. Therefore, there are as many as 10,000 people on the Yunzhou list. It seems that the number of people is very large, but the proportion of them in the Yunzhou population is extremely low.
These tens of thousands of geniuses on the list are all real geniuses, and they are all well-known top geniuses in many cities in Yunzhou.