Chapter 631 — Glory Challenge

She realized she had completely underestimated Shi Jin before. In a little over two years' time, this fellow had gone from the strongest quasi-god to the top echelon of god-tier. It was absurd.

...

The affair of the Afterglow Starfield was sealed off by the Universe Overlord's Legion.

After all, it involved a Transcendent within their own ranks, and a Transcendent clan. Until there was a final resolution, it was not fit to be made public, nor fit to let rumors spread on their own.

In its place, another great event overshadowed the Epoch ruin of the Afterglow Starfield.

After many years, someone was finally undertaking the Glory Challenge again.

Compared with ruin archaeology, which only a niche audience followed, the matter of a super genius from the Overlord Territory challenging the deterrent will of the Universe Overlord was obviously far more sensational.

And this time's challenger both did and did not surprise the various powers of the Overlord Territory.

What did not surprise them was that the challenger was indeed Ting Yu, the beast-tamer genius who currently commanded the highest attention in the Overlord Territory.

Ting Yu came from the Ting clan. As the descendant of a Transcendent, her talent was astonishing. The moment she was born, without any meditation, she possessed a seventh-rank beast-taming space, and could, with an infant's body, contract an overlord-rank pet beast.

With the slightest meditation, before she was even grown, she had already broken through to god-tier.

After entering god-tier, she advanced with triumphant momentum; her meditation speed was several times that of other geniuses, and she soon reached Emberfrost Peak.

And if all that was still nothing much, then backed by her formidable talent, the strength of her pet beasts was also absurdly great.

An Epoch God!

Under the blessing of the Divine Contract and supported by her powerful innate potential, Ting Yu, through the Divine Contract, had raised an Epoch god-tier pet beast—and in the process had even slain a Transcendent above her own level.

She herself had also successfully broken through the limit of the tenth heaven of god-tier, reaching the eleventh heaven.

And if all of this was still not enough to prove Ting Yu's strength, then her age would surely astonish everyone, for this heaven-favored daughter was not yet thirty, and together with that Epoch god-tier pet beast, whose age was likewise under thirty, she was truly young and accomplished, her future beyond measure.

Looking across the whole universe, some powers of the Overlord Territory also regarded this woman as an invincible existence of her generation.

Even figures like Kahn of the Realm King Star and Minggu were considerably outshone beside Ting Yu. Even if the former were to grow up in the future and had a great chance of becoming a Transcendent, that was nothing much. For people like Ting Yu, Transcendent was merely a starting point; Xuanxiao Peak and even universe-tier were what they pursued.

It was people like Ting Yu who were the most gifted, the most promising, the most terrifying prodigies in all the starfields. But such people were, for the most part, slumbering away, dodging tribulation lightning, waiting for the emergence of a transcendent origin. Ting Yu was only active in the Overlord's Domain because she was young, and it was precisely because she had missed crossing paths with those other monstrous prodigies that she had carved out her invincible reputation there.

That she would undertake the Glory Challenge surprised no one; she was fully entitled to it.

What did surprise people was that this Glory Challenge had two participants, not just Ting Yu. The other had been utterly unknown, but a matter of this magnitude could no longer conceal Shi Jin's identity.

"Have you heard? The Glory Challenge opens in half a year. Besides Ting Yu, heir of the Ting clan, there's a beast tamer from King's World, name of Shi Jin, they say."

"Shi Jin?? Never heard of him. From King's World, I have heard of a Wang Kong, and a god-tier beast tamer called Lin Feng—the two of them together once assassinated a superdivine. Though compared to Lady Ting Yu, they're still far behind."

"That's ancient history. Shi Jin is the newest super-prodigy to rise from King's World. Put it this way: the Environmental Army of the Cosmic Sea is right now locked in a great war with the Dark King Legion of the Polluted Land—a war involving nearly twenty superdivine powerhouses."

"The way it stands, the Environmental Army has a huge advantage. Know why?"

"Because of this Shi Jin!"

"As everyone knows, superdivines in war are like suns in the sky—nowhere to hide, and each side's surest trump card. So the Environmental Army sent out a god-tier assassin—this Shi Jin—and had him cut a lone path straight into the Dark King Legion's territory."

"And then? This Shi Jin, all by himself, hunted down and killed a Transcendence 2 abyssal superdivine. He blew a massive gap in the war for the Environmental Army and laid the groundwork for victory."

"Holy shit... what kind of monster is that? Sounds like he's even tougher than Lady Ting Yu."

"Not quite. Word is there were countering factors—he has a purifying star-spirit beast that's a hard counter to the abyssal element. Still, that's plenty strong."

"Hold on, you said the Environmental Army... then how'd he end up in the Cosmic Overlord Legion?"

"You're asking me? The Environmental Army has always worked with the Cosmic Overlord Legion—I don't think members are barred from joining it."

Distant as it was, Shi Jin's feat of slaying an abyssal superdivine in the Polluted Land still spread to these parts.

In an instant, Shi Ying's fame soared as well, and people paid even closer attention to the outcome of the Glory Challenge between Ting Yu and Shi Jin.

Especially since Shi Jin came from the Cosmic Sea—the powers of the Overlord's Domain wanted to know whose prodigies were stronger: the Overlord's Domain's, or the Cosmic Sea's...

The Afterglow Starfield, Tianluo Star.

At this very moment, Shi You had just returned.

"Where have you been for half a month??"

The moment Shi Jin returned, Captain Zijian demanded at once.

If she hadn't still been able to reach Shi Jin through the Overlord Network, she'd have gone out of her mind.

Through the Overlord Network she had asked whether Shi Jin could take part in the Glory Challenge in half a year. Shi Jin agreed—and then simply stayed out there a full half month before coming back.

Over those two weeks, the name Shi Jin had gradually spread through the Overlord's Domain, yet Shi Jin refused to return to Tianluo Star. Zijian had genuinely feared that the announcement was already out and Shi Jin had gone missing, standing up the Glory Challenge.

If that had happened, she, the sponsor, would have been beaten to death.

"Didn't I say? I had a little insight and went off to break through," Shi Yan said. What's the rush?

"Of course there's a rush. Get ready—we set out within half a month. We need to arrive some time early," Zijian said.

"Right now half the Overlord's Domain's powerhouses are discussing you and Ting Yu. How does it feel?"

Captain Zijian looked at the Shi Jin before her and asked.

"Doesn't feel like much..." Shi Li said. "What I care about more is how formidable the Cosmic Overlord's deterrence really is."

"That Ting Yu, though—she's impressive. I saw her file recently. Truly spectacular. It must have been a very, very long time since King's World produced a prodigy of that caliber."

Apart from him, the most recent human prodigy in the Cosmic Sea to break through the god-tier limit and reach the Eleventh Heaven was probably a hundred thousand years ago—slumbering who knew how long by now.

Not like this girl, bursting with energy, picking fights all over the place.

As expected of the Cosmic Boss's territory...

"Mm, I've met her once. That girl really is formidable," Zijian said.