"Well, you are a Godly Genius, aren't you? If you can't even finish a hundred challenges from me, you
don't deserve to be called one. Why don't you just let me eat your soul? However, I promise to give you
a corresponding reward in return if you succeed. Ha-ha!" At this point, Ricardo had already shown his
true colors. All along, his real intention was to devour Rocky's soul.
However, Rocky had already anticipated that something like this would happen. He had already
become suspicious the moment Ricardo didn't show up when he spoke to him. Moreover, based on
what he said, it seemed that he didn't have any intention of letting Rocky leave.
"Fine. What are the contents of these challenges?" Rocky asked, trying to ride along on what Ricardo
wanted while devising a way to get out of there.
"Everything under the sun. It covers all sorts of things you can ever imagine; every kind of secret skill,
things related to astronomy, geography, and even mysterious arrays used in military tactics. Once you
have given a wrong answer, you shall suffer the impact of the spiritual sense attack. The only way you
can leave is if you get everything right," Ricardo explained briefly.
"I see. Then, don't waste my time and get it going!" Rocky knew that there was no point in arguing with
Ricardo anymore. He believed that nothing would be too difficult for him if he poured all of his
determination to overcome them.
Soon enough, several shadows suddenly appeared in the previously empty palace, displaying various
moves in the air. They moved rather swiftly and simultaneously. Thus, it was actually difficult to see or
remember everything. Then, in the blink of an eye, the shadows dissipated as if they had never been
there.
"Now, display all the moves that you have just seen!" Ricardo finally issued the first challenge.
'A challenge involving my memory, huh?' Rocky had somehow known that the challenge might be
something like this. Hence, he thought carefully for a while before imitating the movements that the
shadows performed earlier.
Fortunately for Rocky, although the shadows displayed several different strokes at the same time, he
had inherited the memory of the royal king of the Shura Race. Therefore, he only needed to take a
single glance at the shadows earlier to know what kind of unique skill they used.
Upon exhibiting the movements perfectly, a lamp suddenly lit up within the palace.
Behind the lamp, Rocky could see a wall, on which a map of the Ethereal Region was inscribed.
However, at first glance, Rocky already noticed that it was incomplete. Several areas were missing
from it.
'So, now, it is to test my knowledge in geography?' Seeing this, Rocky could just shake his head while
letting out a faint smile. When he led the human army before, he had completely mastered the map of
the Ethereal Region. Hence, he knew the entire region like his own palm.
After taking a closer look, he quickly recognized that the missing part in the map in front of him was
actually an area that had been occupied by the spiritual race more than ten years ago.
Certain about his answer, Rocky used his spiritual power to draw and complete the map on the wall.
Upon finishing the last stroke, another lamp lit up. This time, he saw a vertical painting with a line of
poems written on it. However, the words used in the poem were written in the language of the Shura
Race. Although most of the letters being used by the Shura Race were a bit similar to that of the
humans, some of them were very complicated and had been used since ancient times.
'He wants me to decipher and read this poem, right?' Rocky hesitated for a while and started
deciphering the letters written.
Fortunately, since Rocky inherited the memory of the Shura Race's king, he was already quite familiar
with the ancient characters used by the Shura Race. Not long after, he was able to completely read the
line of the poem.
However, when he read out the words, he did not find a lamp that signaled the next challenge. Thus, it
meant that he still had something missing to complete this one.
'Do I need to write it in the human language?'
After thinking for a while, Rocky approached the vertical painting and condensed his spiritual power on
his fingertips. Then, he used it to write the poem on the painting.
As soon as Rocky's spiritual power touched the painting, the words he wished to write immediately
showed up.
'I was right!' After confirming that this was what the challenge demanded from him, he began to write
everything in the human language. However, he quickly noticed that with every stroke he did, a lot of
his spiritual power was consumed.
But it was not really an issue for Rocky since his spiritual power was strong and abundant enough to
overcome this. Otherwise, most of his spiritual power would have been consumed after just finishing
the line.
Then, with great effort, Rocky finally finished the translation.
'Damn it. The task is just quite simple but it is a hellish challenge! I feel like being tortured! And I still
need to do more than ninety of these!' Rocky could not help but sigh, knowing that the hard parts were
yet to come.
At this time, a lamp went on, and Rocky went in its direction to have a look.
Behind the lamp was a table, and it seemed that an unfinished chess game was placed on top of it.
'Hmm. I need to finish and win this game.' Before touching anything, Rocky stared at the chessboard
for a while, carefully studying what would be the right move. Since he also had lots of experience in
playing chess against a great master back in the Scarlet Heaven Jade, he easily beat the game.
Immediately after, another lamp was turned on.
After quite some time, Rocky had smoothly finished thirty challenges in one go.
However, after the thirtieth challenge, Rocky instantly realized that the difficulty had increased
dramatically. The challenges involved writing poems, as well as dealing with military arrays.
On the thirty-fifth challenge for example, Rocky was required to write a poem that suited for mourning
the heroic soldiers that died on the battlefield.
Then, on the thirty-eighth challenge, Rocky was tasked to break through a specific military array.
After some time, Rocky had managed to complete the first fifty challenges, meaning he was already
halfway done.
Meanwhile, on the top of a steep mountain in the Holy-Evil World, several figures were discussing in
front of a mirror on an open-air round platform. The image on the mirror actually showed Rocky, who
was still taking the test inside the Avici Palace.
"Hmm. I am actually impressed with the Godly Genius of the Ghost Fief. I did not expect that he could
complete all fifty challenges in just two hours. Moreover, he just accidentally entered the Avici Palace. It
is surprising that he could do this well without any preparation beforehand."
"Well, it seems that he really is a genius in both literature and martial arts! That is something quite
uncommon!"
"Finally, we found someone reliable among the nine Goldy Geniuses chosen by Mikayla this time.
Perhaps, he really is the chosen one with whom the Holy-Evil World can put its hope!"
"It is too early to say that. I know our situation is bad, and we are really struggling to survive in the
current Holy-Evil World. But I don't think it is wise to completely put our hopes and trust on a Godly
Genius that we barely know!"
"I know what you are feeling. However, it is still good to always have hope! That is why we are
supervising his progress. Later on, we will know if he really is capable enough."
These figures turned out to be the only remaining survivors in the Holy-Evil World, and they had been
watching everything that was happening on the whole continent all this time. Right now, they were very
familiar with Rocky since he had exhibited such a marvelous performance recently that quickly gained
their attention. Furthermore, he was able to enter the Holy-Evil World on his own through the Holy
Heaven Palace. Hence, most of them had been looking at Rocky with a brand new perspective.
Because of this, they deliberately arranged that Rocky would enter Avici Palace to further test his
potentials.
Then, at this moment, a beautiful figure descended gracefully from the sky. Upon seeing her, the
figures watching in front of the mirror were caught off guard. Before they could put away the mirror, the
beautiful figure already noticed what they were doing. It was actually Mikayla, whom Rocky had spoken
to before.
"What do you think you are doing?" The moment Mikayla saw the image reflected in the mirror, she
immediately turned towards them and questioned the deities.
On the other hand, the deities could just look at each other in silence as if they were guilty of doing
something wrong.
"How did he enter the Avici Palace? Did you guys do it?" Mikayla asked again.
"Well, didn't this guy open the entrance to the Holy-Evil World? Because of that, we discussed and
thought that he is indeed very promising. So, we wanted to make sure that he is the one we are looking
for…" a deity with a red crown and a token in his hand mustered his courage and responded.
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