Chapter 682: Chapter 676: I Choose Cangming Star!
"If you can win, perhaps you can buy some more development time."
The smile on Chi Xiao’s face grew more radiant, and his eyes became brighter: "If you lose, or refuse the game..."
"I will tell the other six Upper Rank Gods things like ’Earth is vulnerable’ and ’Ma Ran’s forces must be destroyed immediately.’
"Perhaps by that time, the Divine Court will launch a full-scale attack on Earth!"
At this point, Chi Xiao slightly furrowed his brows, his gaze falling on Ma Ran: "Even with a strong person like you around, but..."
"Once a full-scale attack is initiated, Earth will surely be destroyed."
"You should be very clear about this point."
In terms of comprehensive strength, Earth still falls far short!
Ma Ran’s demeanor remained calm as usual, responding unhurriedly: "Alright."
In fact, the proposal was exactly what Ma Ran had in mind.
He was not interested in the "competition," and agreeing was not to buy time, but to take this opportunity to put on an interesting performance.
Ma Ran could be sure that at least three Upper Rank Gods from the Divine Court were now watching his interaction with Chi Xiao.
With such a great opportunity to perform, how could he not seize it?
After receiving Ma Ran’s response, Chi Xiao laughed heartily: "Good! Good! Good!"
"There’s no better time than the present; let’s start now!"
At this point, Chi Xiao rubbed his chin: "The type of game will be decided by you."
"Just say a keyword, and I’ll set the rules."
"The choice of venue belongs to me."
"Before deciding on the venue, you can exclude one option."
"Do you have any objections?"
Chi Xiao said, waiting for Ma Ran’s rebuttal and argument.
However...
Ma Ran just raised his eyes to look at him and said in a gentle tone: "I will exclude ’Earth’ from the venue options."
Chi Xiao paused, then smiled and said: "In that case, I choose Cangming Star as the competition venue!"
"How about it? Am I not considerate?"
"Although you generously excluded your most familiar environment, I also don’t want to take advantage of you."
"A fair and just competition is the only one that can be interesting."
"By choosing Cangming Star as the competition map, you’ll have a slight geographical advantage!"
"With this, the parts of the competition rules favorable to me can be offset."
Chi Xiao, seemingly having not met someone who could engage in equal dialogue for a long time, instantly became talkative, chattering a lot.
Actually, in the Divine Court, he also has six Upper Rank God companions.
But among those people, the leader Cang Lian is taciturn and rarely speaks. Lan Xi is a die-hard fan of Cang Lian, never straying far from him, and Chi Xiao has no common topics with him.
Mo Xing is mysterious and constantly sways between hawks and doves, so unless there is official business, Chi Xiao rarely talks with Mo Xing.
Counting on friends, Chi Xiao really only has the good-natured Jin Yu, Qing Dai, and Zhu Ding.
But everyone has different aspirations and pursuits, and over time, they’ve gradually lost the sense of novelty.
Now, finally encountering a life form like Ma Ran qualified to have an equal dialogue, Chi Xiao, in his excitement, directly studied all the earthly classics.
Especially the five thousand years of history from China, Chi Xiao immersed himself in a small-scale reincarnation, reincarnating countless times as a Chinese person.
With the Power of Reincarnation, he instantly understood this civilization.
After talking for quite a while, Chi Xiao finally stopped: "Sorry, didn’t realize I said too much. So next, you propose a keyword, and I’ll decide the competition mode."
Ma Ran looked at Chi Xiao meaningfully and said without hesitation: "Reincarnation."
The two words were powerful and resonant, leaving Chi Xiao momentarily stunned.
After a brief pause, Chi Xiao snapped out of it: "Detecting the special law I possess, I’m not very surprised about that."
"But your personality..."
Chi Xiao chuckled and said: "What a tough man you are..."
"I hope your methods match your attitude!"
"If you lose to me in this competition, the consequences will be severe!"
As he spoke, Chi Xiao flicked a finger and tapped his temple lazily, saying: "Give me half an hour."
"I will patiently and specially design an interesting yet relatively fair competition rule."
Ma Ran nodded slightly: "Then I will go and bring Cangming Star."
With that, he turned around, stepped out, and vanished without a trace.
...
In the vast, cold universe.
Ma Ran used Instant Teleportation to reach a secluded, remote, barren, and quiet vacuum area.
The essence of the Strongman Paradise is part of the Secret Realm of Fake Earth, so Ma Ran always carried the Paradise with him.
After reassuring Su Qiangwei of his safety, Ma Ran silently activated Ye Fengqing’s Time Stop Domain, pausing the river of time in the surrounding area.
Not only that, he simultaneously combined the powers of the Sword Master medal and the Prophet medal to peer into the essence of all things with the Bright Star Gaze cultivated from Burning Martial, gently twisting reality, and continuously gathering the matter in the surrounding environment.
Dark shadow flames suddenly surged, accompanied by slashing sword lights, illuminating the pitch-black vacuum.
All the matter around Ma Ran was slowly pulled over by an invisible, intangible force, melted, and reshaped.
The core, crust, mantle...
The lithosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, biosphere...
A planet, under Ma Ran’s will, gradually took shape.
With Ma Ran’s current level, doing this was no difficulty.
It was even simple, like eating and drinking water.
Even creating a whole new biosphere was not difficult.
After all, with the Bright Star Gaze, Ma Ran could observe certain "source codes" of the cosmos. Before, he just couldn’t understand them.
Now, with the Prophet and Sword Master pure gold medals’ blessings, although Ma Ran hadn’t delved deep into the science of creating life, he easily crafted thousands of life forms and cast them onto this planet.
Prokaryotic organisms, protists, fungi, animals, plants...
Various life forms similar yet different from Earth’s creatures were created.
Having done this, Ma Ran snapped his fingers.
Snap!
Using Cangming Star’s settings as a blueprint, he crafted a planet suitable for habitation!
The entire process took...
Zero seconds.
Creation is an accomplishment-filled endeavor.
Ma Ran also felt a sense of joy.
He gathered his thoughts and quickly realized that the instant the planet he named "Cangming" was formed, the progress bar related to play had already skyrocketed to around forty percent—largely thanks to the Earth audience’s contributions.
Among them, a special mention to Martial God Su Qiangwei, God Gray, and Haotian Zhang Qianren.
Now, Ma Ran could clearly feel the significant contributions made by these three.
At this time...
Several sharp gazes spanned infinite distances to focus here, trying to break through the Time Stop Territory’s blockade.
The power contained in these gazes was so formidable that Ma Ran had to activate the Prophet and Sword Master medals’ powers to barely maintain this area’s time stop state.
Relying solely on Ye Fengqing’s Time Stop Territory, it was difficult to keep this place’s secret, as, by convention, it was merely future material for forming the Lord of the Red Lotus. No matter how advanced, it was just a silvery sheen, not reaching the Upper Rank God’s level.
To prevent those Upper Rank Gods from unveiling the truth of Cangming Star, Ma Ran exerted every effort!
It’s worth noting...
Ma Ran discovered that these blatant gazes did not contain any trace of the Power of Time.
This means...
The Upper Rank God named "Mo Xing" did not participate in this probing.
The Upper Rank Gods have varied temperaments and, with too little information, it’s difficult to guess their mindset.
Even not taking part doesn’t necessarily make them allies.
Lan Xi is just a special case among Upper Rank Gods.
Ma Ran gathered his thoughts and quickly noticed...
During the standoff, the progress bar of play was skyrocketing, rapidly rising.
"Very good."
A trace of a smile spread in Ma Ran’s eyes: "Just like that."
Maintaining mystique helps attract critical audience members.
