I Picked Up Talents in the Interstellar Battlefield

“Hello everyone, and welcome to today’s Qingmu Star Domain Talent Battle. I’m your host, Zhao Wenmo.”
On the luxurious stage, the handsome host in a suit smiled.
“I’m your host, Jin Xiaojia.”
Another sweet-looking girl said with a smile.
On the largest live streaming website in the Qingmu Star Region, the screen was flooded with a tsunami of bullet comments.
“It’s starting, it’s starting! I’ve been waiting forever.”
“Brother is so handsome, he truly is a host who became famous for his looks.”
“Wow, this stage is so white, and this microphone is so long.”
The highly anticipated Qingmu Star Domain Talent Battle finally officially opened today.
The two attractive hosts quickly stirred up the atmosphere, and then, the large screen behind them began to play video introductions of the star contestants.
“My name is Fu Ning, I’m from Taichu Star, and I am a Fifth-Order Six-Star Spiritual Energy User—”
A heroic-looking young man appeared on the big screen. Silver light illuminated the sharp features of his profile, and a heavy Xuan Tie sword, accompanied by a dragon's roar, broke through the air.
The moment the blade touched the river surface, the entire river seemed to be torn apart by an invisible giant hand, and the azure water exploded into thousands of ice crystals. The bottom of the severed riverbed revealed greenish-blue stones, and the reversing waves solidified into a silver curtain in mid-air, reflecting the golden sword qi emanating from the young man, as if the chaos of the world's dawn was being split open anew.
“Fu Ning!”
“Fu Ning!”
The folks from Taichu Star began to flood the screen for their local genius, and Fu Ning’s handsomeness and elegance immediately captured the hearts of many young girls.
In the professional institution's rating, Fu Ning was the first contestant to be rated as a five-star talent. He was not only a Fifth-Order Six-Star Spiritual Energy User but also the new generation successor of the Golden-tier family, the Fu Family of Heavenly Profound Sword Body.
Immediately after, the video of the second star contestant appeared.
It was a tall, burly man with shoulders as broad as mountains. He wasn't particularly handsome but had a strong masculine aura. In the video, he introduced himself in a deep voice.
“Hello everyone, my name is Yue Shenghe, I’m from Houtu Star, a Fifth-Order Five-Star Spiritual Energy User—”
Facing a hill dozens of meters high, the earthy yellow dragon Texture wrapped around Yue Shenghe's right arm suddenly awakened as psychic energy flowed. As his right fist filled with dark golden light, the ground beneath his feet groaned under the immense pressure. Then, he unleashed a punch at the hill.

In an instant, the punch wind, accompanied by the roar of shattering metal and stone, tore through the air. Sand and dust from several kilometers around converged wildly like living things, erupting in a roar louder than thunder when the fist collided with the hill.
The surface of the hill's earth and rock surged like boiling magma, and the dark golden fist print sank into the mountain at a visible speed. Spiderweb-like cracks spread along the fist print, like an ancient seal split open by a giant axe. The next second, the entire hill exploded, and countless shattered stones, wrapped in earthy yellow energy waves, shot into the sky.
“Yue Shenghe!”
“Yue Shenghe!”
The bullet comments were flooded by the new contestant, as viewers from Houtu Star cheered for their genius.
Yue Shenghe, a Golden-tier Bloodline successor, whose bloodline is called—Unmoving Dragon Battle Body. Then, the third star contestant appeared: “Hello everyone, my name is Wu Ziyan, I’m from Tianhuo Star, a Fifth-Order Five-Star Psychic Mage.”
The crimson-gold edged fire lotus dress of the young girl swirled as she spun, and the dark embroidered red lotus pattern on the hem suddenly burst forth with dazzling light.
She lightly tapped the ruby at the tip of her staff, and in an instant, the sky was torn open by a blood-red crack, transforming the clear sky into a burning furnace.
Rolling red clouds, like boiling magma, poured down with sharp explosions. Thousands of fireballs, trailing blazing tails, streaked across the sky, twisting the air into crimson vortices wherever they passed.
The young girl looked up and chuckled in the center of the fire rain, the gilded hairpins swaying in her hair sparking, making the cinnabar at the corner of her eyes even more vibrant, as if an elf born from lava was painting a canvas of destruction and splendor intertwined across the heavens and earth with flames as her brush.
“Wu Ziyan!”
“Wu Ziyan!!!”
Beautiful girls always have an exceptional number of fans; the tsunami of bullet comments was comparable to an opening ceremony.
Wu Ziyan, successor of the Golden-tier Starfire Family.
Subsequently, videos of the top ten star contestants appeared on the big screen. Without exception, all of them were Golden-tier Bloodline Spiritual Energy Users of Fifth-Order Four-Star and above.
When the videos finished playing, these ten most popular star contestants took to the stage, immediately causing another surge of bullet comments.
Next, contestants appeared one after another. When the hosts announced their names, their supporters would immediately flood the bullet comments.
All one hundred geniuses took to the stage, and then, the hosts finally revealed the trial grounds for this Talent Battle.
“The trial grounds for this event are—Yingmu Star, Shuiyue New City!”
Boom!
When the venue was announced, both the live audience and the bullet comments erupted in enthusiastic reactions.
“Yingmu Star! The construction of Yingmu Star is finally complete!”
“Haha, the Oriental Family is too amazing. They actually transformed a satellite unsuitable for human habitation into a place suitable for human life.”
“I can’t afford a house on Qingmu Star, but I can definitely try for one on Yingmu Star.”
Yingmu Star is one of the ten satellites orbiting Qingmu Star in space. Previously, it served as a temporary docking point for the space fleet, primarily used for near-Earth observation and protection missions.
However, the satellite itself was not suitable for human habitation due to its harsh environment and thin atmosphere.
Nevertheless, in recent decades, the empire has made significant progress in planetary atmospheric technology. At the same time, the Oriental Family, relying on various spiritual plants, carried out a comprehensive environmental transformation of Yingmu Star, finally completing this major project this year.
Clearly, the Oriental Family was preparing to use the popularity of the Talent Battle to promote Yingmu Star and attract capital investment for the planet's early construction.
Yingmu Star, Shuiyue New City. The hundred geniuses were also surprised by the trial location. Previous trial locations were within Qingmu Star, but now, the location had been changed to a near-Earth satellite, which meant that spaceships would soon arrive to transport them to Yingmu Star.
Sure enough, the hosts spoke, “Next, the Warhawk One, developed by Deville Spaceship Company, will transport our geniuses to Yingmu Star. Look,
the spaceship has already arrived.”
At this moment, a wave of complaints immediately appeared on the bullet comments.
“Damn, I knew they’d pull a stunt like this.”
“Deville Company, boycott!”
“Garbage company, everyone, don’t ride their spaceships.”
A shadow was cast upon the ground as a falcon-shaped spaceship broke through the clouds and slowly descended into mid-air.
Swish!
A thick beam of white light fell onto the stage, enveloping all the geniuses.
Immediately after, the geniuses disappeared from the audience’s sight.
On the large screen, the interior of the spaceship appeared.
These hundred geniuses were directly transferred inside the spaceship.
“This is spatial transfer technology!”
“Damn, even this small spaceship is equipped with this technology.”
“I love it, I’m going to order one now.”
On the bullet comments, the sentiment immediately shifted, and the screen was filled with praise for the Warhawk One.
The spaceship carried the geniuses through the atmosphere, accelerating in space, and arrived at Shuiyue New City on Yingmu Star in less than fifteen minutes. Over the next hour, the geniuses needed to follow instructions and wait at ✧ NоvеIight ✧ (Original source) different locations, which was also to prevent early competition among the contestants.
An hour later, as a voice echoed above the city,
the Qingmu Star Domain Talent Battle officially began.