The human race's core territory, the Initial Universe!
Above the ancient, majestic Chaos City, wisps of Chaos energy flow lingered. A towering figure emerged from the depths of the Chaos energy flow. His eyes were like stars, and he wore an incomparably intricate, ancient Dark red battle armor. Battle boots covered his feet, while a scaled tail extended from beneath his battle skirt.
He merely stood there, yet anyone who saw him felt as though they were seeing the endless universe itself.
Deep, vast, powerful!
"Begin!"
The great being slowly closed his eyes, naturally taking control of this region of spacetime within Chaos City. Time and space here were both affected by him.
"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh~~~"
Heaven and earth trembled. Within the region of spacetime controlled by that great being, time began rapidly flowing backward!
It was like a movie being rewound, except it was rewinding at an incredible speed. Scene after scene within Chaos City appeared and rolled back. Groups of geniuses and powerful beings came here, then departed. Many figures emitted auras capable of destroying stars...
"Freeze!" Suddenly, a figure from a certain era was directly locked in place.
Time continued to rewind, and the surrounding scenes constantly changed, but that figure remained motionless.
"Freeze!" Another figure was locked in place.
"Freeze!"
"Freeze!"
One figure after another was locked in place. They had all kinds of appearances and radiated terrifying auras. Over a thousand figures stood there motionlessly, like statues.
"Spacetime Reversal." The rewinding spacetime began rapidly returning to normal. The backlash of the universe's powerful operating laws continuously surged toward the towering figure above Chaos City, yet he did not move in the slightest.
However, his aura fluctuated between strong and weak, as though even this backlash placed immense pressure upon him.
After a long while, everything returned to calm, and the towering figure vanished as well!
Throughout the Chaos City below.
The thousand-plus figures all regained consciousness. They looked at one another in shock, and soon, their memories returned.
"Wasn't I dead?"
"I was ambushed by the Ice Fox King of the Demon Race and self-destructed!"
Among the thousand-plus figures, the vast majority were King Level existences of the human race. There were also some Marquis Immortal geniuses with extraordinary potential!
"What the hell? I transmigrated? Where did I transmigrate to?" Amid the group of King Level beings, Lin Luo could not help feeling dumbfounded. He had been happily playing games at home. He had merely gone to sleep—how had he woken up in this place?
"Everyone!"
As the thousand-plus figures discussed things among themselves, a bald man wearing a fiery red battle robe walked over from afar with a smile.
A faint smile rested on his face, and his entire bearing was exceptionally tranquil. Just looking at the bald man... Lin Luo could not help but calm down, vaguely feeling as though he had merged into the vast, tranquil cosmic starry sky.
Everything around him seemed to disappear, leaving only the bald man standing there.
"Hm?" Lin Luo shuddered and woke up.
The other figures were the same. They all looked toward the bald man and respectfully saluted him. "Greetings, Venerable!"
Lin Luo hurriedly copied the others and saluted as well, though a strange sense of familiarity arose within him. "Venerable?"
"I am Venerable Guiyi. Just now, all of you were resurrected through spacetime reversal by my teacher, the great Lord of Chaos City." The bald man smiled, and even his smile carried a power that could affect the heart.
"Next, you may cultivate in Chaos City, or you may take a spacecraft and leave Chaos City to venture outside!" said the bald man who called himself Venerable Guiyi.
Suddenly, his expression turned solemn, and the smile vanished from his face. "But remember, all of you have already died once!"
Venerable Guiyi departed, leaving behind over a thousand King Level beings and Marquis Immortal geniuses who continued discussing among themselves.
Lin Luo walked off alone to one side, his expression complicated.
Lord of Chaos City, Venerable Guiyi, spacetime reversal... With those words put together, how could he not realize that he had transmigrated into the world of Swallowed Starry Sky?
"Since Venerable Guiyi said I can cultivate in Chaos City, I'll stay here for a while first and figure out my identity, as well as... familiarize myself with my power!" Lin Luo chose an empty building, claimed ownership of it, and entered.
As far as Lin Luo knew, among the human race, the weakest people qualified to be resurrected through spacetime reversal were King-level Immortals!
Transmigration was not exactly great, but transmigrating directly into a powerful being in the vast starry sky? That was incredible!
On the rooftop of the building, Lin Luo sat cross-legged.
"My name is Lian Luo. I ranked first overall in the Genius Battle and was selected for the Primal Secret Realm. I chose the Nine Universes Chaos Tablet. After tens of thousands of years of bitter cultivation, I created 'Drifting Blood,' one of the absolute strongest foundational secret techniques of the Nine Universes Chaos Tablet. After becoming Immortal, I was directly granted the title of Blood-Robed Marquis..."
The other's memories slowly emerged within Lin Luo's mind.
"So I transmigrated into Lian Luo..." A trace of ancient weariness flashed through Lin Luo's eyes.
Lian Luo had lived for less than a hundred thousand years before perishing in a Cosmic Secret Realm. Among Immortal Gods, he had been considered short-lived.
Although Lian Luo had spent most of those less than one hundred thousand years in dull cultivation, compared with Lin Luo's few decades of memories, Lian Luo's memories were still unimaginably vast!
Accepting Lian Luo's memories felt as though Lin Luo himself had lived for a hundred thousand years.
Cultivation, taking a master, battles, death...
After a long time, Lin Luo slowly opened his eyes. There was a trace of... delight in them.
Compared to the dull, meaningless life of a corporate slave on Earth in his previous life, the world of Swallowed Starry Sky was far more exciting. And the moment he transmigrated, he became a lofty Marquis Immortal God, inheriting Lian Luo's cultivation, realm, and assets. This was simply amazing!
"From now on, I am Lian Luo!"
"Right, my assets!"
Although he had been resurrected, Lord of Chaos City had only resurrected him. The precious treasures, treasures, and Immortal plant lifeforms he had carried before his death were all gone. He was now a penniless pauper.
Of course, although the wealth he had carried was gone, his points within the Virtual Universe Company and the Cosmic currency deposited in the two super-giant banks remained.
Those were the assets Lian Luo intended to inspect now.
Following the knowledge in his memories, Lian Luo connected his consciousness to the Virtual Universe. His figure immediately appeared within a palace on Thunder Island in the Virtual Universe.
Thunder Island was a grand plane and also the location of the palaces belonging to the Virtual Universe faction's experts above the Immortal God level.
The countless palaces on Thunder Island belonged to Immortals. The palaces halfway up the central mountain range housed Universe Venerables, while the palaces at the summit housed Universe Masters. Some exceptionally powerful Universe Overlords also resided at the summit.
Lian Luo's palace was located on Thunder Island, near the central mountain range.
Within the palace, Lian Luo sat cross-legged. The first thing he checked was his points within the Virtual Universe Company.
"I still have around 120,000 points!"
Then he quickly opened his bank account. His bank was Cosmic Star River Bank, and his remaining Cosmic currency balance was zero!
"Why don't I have a single cent left?!" Lian Luo could not help going berserk. But after checking carefully, he understood that all the wealth deposited in Cosmic Star River Bank had been withdrawn by someone named Bai Zhi.
From his memories, Lian Luo also figured out that person's identity!
"She is Lian Luo's wife!"
After Lian Luo died, his property had naturally been inherited by his wife and children. Over the long years, they had withdrawn all the money in the account. However, only the account holder could use the Virtual Universe Company's internal points, so his points remained.
"Bai Zhi!" Lian Luo searched through his contact list, but he could not find her Virtual Universe ID at all.
Next, he searched for the Virtual Universe IDs of the original owner's children, but he could not find them either.
Only a few dozen friends remained in his contact list!
All the other Virtual Universe IDs had been deactivated!
Within the palace, Lian Luo sighed softly. The death of a human King Level being was actually very rare. Perhaps only one would perish over tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of years, and the human race's Universe Masters could not possibly resurrect them immediately.
After all, the Universe Masters needed to cultivate and explore as well!
They would only gather a sufficiently large group before resurrecting them all at once, just as Lord of Chaos City had done earlier.
Thus, no one knew how many hundreds of millions of years had passed since the era in which Lian Luo had died. Across such an immense span of time, anyone who had not become Immortal would not even have ashes left!
Clearly, Lian Luo's wife and children had not become Immortal, and the same was true of most of his friends!
The Virtual Universe held a Genius Battle once every ten thousand years, selecting one thousand people from humanity across the universe to enter the four great secret realms for training!
Among the human race's 1,008 Universe Nations, they selected the thousand most talented Star level geniuses of the past five thousand years. Every ten thousand years, the Virtual Universe Company and Giant Axe Arena each held one such event.
What kind of concept was that? Even heaven's favored children were not enough to describe them!
Yet among those thousand selected geniuses, only a tiny few would ultimately become Immortal! This showed just how difficult it was to become Immortal. It was perfectly normal that Lian Luo's wife and children had failed to become Immortal and vanished into the river of time!
Therefore, to the powerful beings of the universe, the relationship between master and disciple was the most steadfast relationship!
Over the long years, friends and family who failed to break through to Immortality would all die. But the genius disciples they took in could become Immortal, allowing master and disciple alike to become Eternal existences!
As for descendants, those bonds were even more fragile. They might never meet their own ancestor in their entire lives. During a single period of secluded cultivation by that ancestor, the family might have already passed through countless generations.
"The original owner had a teacher too!" Lian Luo searched through the complicated memories and gradually found scenes related to that teacher.
Not long after the original owner entered the Virtual Universe Company's Primal Secret Realm with first place in the Genius Battle, he had been accepted as a disciple by an ancient, great Universe Nation Lord.
When the original owner became a World Master and went to gain experience on the Outer Domain Battlefield, that great Universe Nation Lord had even bestowed upon him a precious treasure, the Cold Star Sword.
Unfortunately, that precious treasure had been lost along with him when he died.
But it did not matter. With his teacher's help, he would quickly rise again in the universe!
Lian Luo opened his contact list and searched for his teacher's Virtual Universe ID. Soon, he found the user marked "Teacher" as he wished. Yet when he tried to contact his teacher, he discovered that the call could not connect at all.
His expression stiffened. "Teacher... perished too???"
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