(TL/N: I decided to throw 2 chapters daily until chapter 104 which is the end of this fanfic.)
[Three months later.]
[Joke City.]
[In a massive city capable of holding millions, the place was already packed with people.]
[Along the streets, laughter and cheerful voices could be heard everywhere.]
[At the very center of the city, within an enormous plaza spanning tens of thousands of feet, stood an arena dozens of feet tall.]
[Ye Hao and the challenger stood facing each other.]
[All around them, countless discussions reached Ye Hao's ears.]
["Haha, we really came at the right time. A peak joke technique battle between such young geniuses is something rarely seen in a hundred years!"]
["I still think Ye Hao will win this match. His growth is obvious to everyone!"]
["No, no, I believe the challenger will take the final victory."]
["Stop arguing, the match is about to begin."]
...
[A middle-aged man stepped onto the stage and loudly announced: Everyone, I will serve as the referee for this match. The rules are simple. We will use a round-based system to determine the winner.]
[Whoever can, within each round, make the opponent or the audience laugh in the shortest time and cause the Joke Qi pillar to light up green will win that round.]
[If the opponent does not laugh and only the audience laughs, it will be judged as a loss.]
[With the referee's command, the challenger took the initiative to begin.]
[The challenger, Yue Peng, immediately put on props and began frantically using joke techniques to make Ye Hao laugh.]
[Hahaha…]
[Hehehe…]
[The audience burst into laughter at Yue Peng's performance.]
[Even the referee couldn't help but grin.]
[But in your eyes, his joke techniques might work on a three-and-a-half-year-old child at best.]
[You… did not find any part of it funny.]
[Until the end of the round, your expression remained completely unchanged.]
[Yue Peng was dumbfounded.]
[He wiped the sweat from his forehead and looked at you in disbelief. This was a high-level joke technique he had specially learned overseas: clown performance!]
[And you were completely unmoved??]
[The audience below also felt puzzled and surprised.]
Ye Hao: "Using clown acting to make people laugh? This… feels more like self-humiliation!"
Just twisting his waist and shaking his hips, how funny could that be?
[Second round, it was your turn.]
[You did not use any props.]
[Because you had already figured out their sense of humor, you simply said calmly: One day, a fish said to water, 'I cannot cry because you cannot see my tears.' Water replied, 'I can see them because you are in my heart.' Then the pot said, 'You're about to be cooked, and you're still talking so much.']
[As soon as you finished speaking, thunderous laughter erupted across the plaza.]
[Hahahahaha…]
[Everyone burst into uncontrollable laughter, bending over from laughing too hard.]
[The referee laughed so hard he collapsed onto the ground, pounding the arena floor wildly.]
[Your opponent Yue Peng gritted his teeth, even biting his lips until they bled, tears welling up in his eyes as he tried to hold it in.]
[In the end, he couldn't endure it and burst out laughing.]
Ye Hao: "Damn, their sense of humor really is pretty low!"
If jokes at this level could cause this reaction, then if you brought out something like comedic skits or cross-talk performances, wouldn't they go completely insane?
Well, they were already going insane.
[You won this round.]
[You won every round that followed.]
[Yue Peng knelt before you, begging you to take him as a disciple and teach him the most authentic methods of joke techniques.]
[He desperately wanted to improve.]
Ye Hao: "What a pity. He doesn't know cross-talk or skit comedy. Otherwise, some kind of combined joke technique would be explosively effective!"
[Five years passed in the blink of an eye.]
[Another Joke Technique Tournament began registration.]
[You registered in the nearest city.]
[You were exceptionally allowed to directly participate in the finals.]
[In the finals, you defeated all opponents with ease, advancing to the grand finals without even showing other joke techniques.]
[Your opponent was still Yue Peng.]
[This time, he was full of confidence, having gone to other empires to learn more joke techniques.]
[However, the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment.]
[You won again!]
[The entire crowd shouted "Joke God!" The sound shook the sky, deafening to the ears, as if the ground itself trembled.]
Ye Hao: "..."
Setting aside how easy the victory was.
This title "Joke God"…
Isn't it a bit too casual?
[Boom!]
[Thunderclouds rolled across the sky as a beam of golden light poured down.]
[At the top of the light pillar, a golden gate bathed in radiance slowly opened, and a heavenly ladder extended downward.]
[You discovered that these steps were actually condensed from the Joke Qi of the world.]
[Under the envious and worshipful gazes of the crowd, you ascended step by step.]
[Standing before the golden gate, you looked inside, but saw only a vast golden ocean, nothing else.]
[After hesitating for a moment, you stepped inside.]
Ye Hao was very curious. Where did this golden gate lead? What was hidden within that golden ocean?
Could it be another higher plane?
Or perhaps…
[However, once you entered the golden gate, what appeared before your eyes was no longer golden…]
[As far as the eye could see, everything was gray and dim.]
[A nauseating stench filled the air, like being inside a slaughterhouse, violently invading your nose and senses.]
[You were shocked to find that these odors were rapidly corroding the energy within your body.]
[You tried releasing some energy, only to discover that this terrifying energy carried an extremely dreadful power of pollution and erosion!]
[You realized that this area was not merely a passage, but more like a pool of evil contamination.]
[Anyone who passed through it, regardless of what kind of energy they possessed, would be eroded and assimilated.]
[After passing through eighteen gates, you arrived in a completely new region.]
[Countless figures in black robes were kneeling and worshipping a massive stone statue. On its chest, forehead, and palms were nine eyes emitting black energy.]
[Hearing your footsteps, they all turned to look at you in unison.]
[Their faces were almost identical to humans, except for two golden lines on their jaws.]
[There was also a crimson bloodline running along the bridge of their noses.]
["Greetings, Lord Nine-Eyes."]
Ye Hao: "Lord Nine-Eyes…?"
Who is that?
That doesn't sound like a good person at all!
["Please, my lord, take a seat."]
[An elderly man at the front spoke respectfully.]
["My lord, we have prepared for hundreds of years. Tens of thousands of years ago, the Yemo Clan launched an invasion on a place called Tianxuan Continent, but even now, they have not succeeded."]
["As for us, we are fully prepared. With just one command from you, our great army will immediately assemble and await your orders!"]
[The old man looked at you with anticipation, waiting for your response.]
[The others were also filled with excitement.]
Ye Hao: "Yemo Clan??"
Where the hell did I end up?
Did I just become part of the Extraterritorial Evil God clan of the Great Thousand World??