After repeatedly confirming it, Lian Luo could finally be certain. His predecessor's great Universe Nation Lord teacher had indeed fallen!
Moreover, Lian Luo discovered something troubling.
The great Universe Nation Lord teacher his predecessor had acknowledged was named "Qian Wu Universe Master"... No, "Dry Witch Universe Master"!
The moment he realized this, Lian Luo felt as though the sky had collapsed!
Who had not heard of the Dry Witch Universe Master's reputation as the "Chief Debtor"?
Over endless ages, the Dry Witch Universe Master had fallen three times, and each time, he had been revived through time reversal. But the price of resurrection... was enormous.
With every death, his supreme treasures were lost. Even if the race resurrected him, he still had to pay an astronomical price!
According to what he himself said in the original story, he owed six Universe Venerables as well as the race. Altogether, he owed 3.8 Treasure Points. Those 3.8 Treasure Points could be exchanged for two or three Ordinary Supreme Treasures, which was about the entire fortune of an ordinary Universe Overlord.
As a High Venerable, he owed an amount equal to the entire fortune of a Universe Overlord!
If he had not later gotten lucky and latched onto Luo Feng, he probably would not have paid off his debts even by the end of this Reincarnation Era!
Although Lian Luo was miserable, he was still better off than the Dry Witch Universe Master's Teacher. He was currently penniless and had barely any wealth, but likewise, he had no debts!
Debt-free, body light!
"Ah! Teacher can barely protect himself and has become a poor bastard. It looks like there's no point hoping for him to help me!" Lian Luo sighed. "Forget it, I'm giving up. Luo Feng hasn't risen yet. I'll head to Ganwu Universe Country early and scout things out. Once he enters the universe, I'll latch onto him and wait for City Lord Luo to carry me!"
There was nothing shameful about latching onto someone powerful!
Latching onto City Lord Luo was something countless people could only dream of!
"Latch on well, live well!"
"City Lord Luo, take me to conquer the Origin Continent!"
"Ding-dong, you have a new email. Please check it!"
Just as Lian Luo was letting his imagination run wild, the Virtual Universe Assistant's prompt interrupted his beautiful dream and brought him back to reality.
"Who sent me an email?" Lian Luo wondered.
After one fell, one could not receive emails. The moment he returned after resurrection, someone had sent him one. It was probably someone close to his predecessor!
Lian Luo silently guessed, then directly opened his mailbox. Sure enough, a new email was quietly lying there.
Lian Luo did not think much of it and casually opened the email. But as he read on, his expression darkened.
"Lian Luo: For this resurrection, the race will charge a fee of 2 Treasure Points. Please pay promptly!"
It was a debt-collection email from the race!
"Damn it, 2 Treasure Points are equivalent to two ordinary heavy treasures. That's about the entire fortune of an ordinary Venerable! What am I supposed to use to repay it? Giving up, giving up..." Lian Luo decided to become a deadbeat like the Dry Witch Universe Master.
Unlike the other King Level Immortals who had been resurrected, Lian Luo did not hurriedly leave Chaos City. Instead, he quietly remained there and cultivated bitterly. Although he had inherited his predecessor's body and power, he still had to personally sift through the memories for that person's Law Comprehension and ultimate techniques.
It was a complicated task that could not be completed in a short time. Lian Luo was not in a hurry. Immortal Gods had infinite lifespans, and in any case, no one was urging him to leave Chaos City.
Of course, recovering his strength by obtaining all of his predecessor's insights, ultimate techniques, and memories was one reason.
The other reason was that Lian Luo wanted to wait for his teacher, the Dry Witch Universe Master.
Universe Venerables, especially High Venerables such as the Dry Witch Universe Master, were the backbone of a race. They were immensely useful to the race, and as long as they lived, they could contribute to it at every moment.
Therefore, once a Venerable fell, the race's experts would soon resurrect them. The Dry Witch Universe Master was a High Venerable and presided over Ganwu Universe Country, so his status was even higher than that of an ordinary Universe Venerable.
Before long, Lord of Chaos City would resurrect him!
If Lian Luo waited in Chaos City for a while, he could leave together with the Dry Witch Universe Master after his resurrection.
The Dry Witch Universe Master was indeed the Chief Debtor and a deadbeat, but he was still the Universe Nation Lord governing a high-level Universe Nation. A starving camel was still bigger than a horse. Lian Luo was still counting on living off him and getting his first pot of gold after returning from resurrection!
(Dry Witch Universe Master: I'm already this miserable, and someone still wants to loot my gold?)
Time passed bit by bit, and in the blink of an eye, a thousand years had gone by.
Over those thousand years, with the terrifying deductive abilities of an Immortal God and his powerful Immortal Divine Power, Lian Luo finally digested and absorbed all of his predecessor's Law Comprehension, ultimate techniques, memories, and more. He had become the true Blood-Robed Marquis, Lian Luo!
"When I entered Chaos City to cultivate, I chose the Nine Universes Chaos Tablet and began down the path of analyzing the essence of space. Back when I was a World Master, I analyzed all 108 essences of the Space Law. Then, while training in the Outer Domain Battlefield, I successfully comprehended a trace of Beast God artistic conception and began studying the Path of the Fire-Void Beast God!"
Lian Luo nodded slightly. "In other words, my current realm is that of a Marquis Immortal cultivating the Space Law, while the path I cultivate is the Path of the Fire-Void Beast God! No wonder I was resurrected after entering the Way of the Beast God!"
As for secret techniques, Lian Luo mainly cultivated the Star Prison Demonic Codex. Among the Human race's three top-tier Universe Overlords, the Star Prison Demon Lord followed the Path of the Fire-Void Beast God, and he was only half a step away from the ultimate realm of "becoming the Beast God"!
His Star Prison Demonic Codex was the best guide for cultivating the Path of the Fire-Void Beast God.
The so-called Way of the Beast God was, in truth, the path of fused laws.
In the world of Swallowed Starry Sky, orthodox law cultivation was divided into two lineages.
The space lineage had space as its superior law, with metal, wood, water, fire, and earth as inferior laws.
The time lineage had time as its superior law, with lightning, wind, and light as inferior laws.
One who completely comprehended the Space Law became a Space Venerable.
One who completely comprehended the Time Law became a Time Venerable.
And one who completely comprehended both time and space, truly controlled spacetime, and possessed incredible supreme abilities such as time-space reversal... was a Universe Master.
Beyond that, there were also the fused-law paths of the Eight Beast Gods.
That was, the eight fused laws of "Fire-Void," "Gold-Space"... and "Lightning-Time." Once fully comprehended, they could likewise allow one to become a Universe Master!
Of course, as the Star Prison Demon Lord's proudest work, the Star Prison Demonic Codex contained not only guidance for Law Comprehension, but also numerous combat and support secret techniques suited to every level of Law Comprehension.
The divine body amplification secret technique, Star Prison Demonic Body!
The movement technique, Star River Straight Line!
The attack secret technique, Starfall!
As a top-tier Universe Overlord, the Star Prison Demon Lord no longer merely imitated the Beast Gods like Xiloduo. Instead, he studied the Way of the Beast God in a direction more suited to himself. Once he became a Universe Master, his strength might well surpass even those innate Beast Gods!
Therefore, although the secret techniques he created belonged to the Path of the Fire-Void Beast God, they no longer bore the Beast God's name!
The Star Prison Demonic Body had seven levels in total.
The first level amplified one's body by 2 times.
The second level amplified one's body by 4 times.
The third level amplified one's body by 8 times.
The sixth level amplified one's body by 64 times!
The final seventh level allowed divine body amplification to reach the universe's limit of 100 times!
Lian Luo had only cultivated the first level of the Star Prison Demonic Body, and his divine body amplification was a pitiful 2 times!
Star River Straight Line was an ultimate secret technique for escaping with one's life.
As for the attack secret technique Starfall, his predecessor had not learned it. After stepping into immortality, he had chosen to create his own secret technique.
It was a sword technique capable of cleaving apart a galaxy. Of course, before his predecessor fell, that sword technique had only been in a half-finished state.
Trying to create a peak immortal sword technique with the Law Comprehension of the first level of the Star Prison Demonic Codex was still a little too forced.
The sword technique would likely only be truly perfected after he became King Level.
Just as Lian Luo was familiarizing himself with his current condition,
within Chaos City, inside the City Lord's Residence, in a grand and vast hall, a towering figure stepped out from the boundless Chaos energy flow under the mighty power of Lord of Chaos City's time reversal.
His expression first froze, then he respectfully looked toward Lord of Chaos City above. He slowly spoke with a complicated expression. "Thank you, Lord of Chaos City, for resurrecting me!"
"Dry Witch, this is already the third time you have been resurrected!" Lord of Chaos City's voice boomed like thunder, though his aura was much weaker than before.
Resurrecting a High Venerable like the Dry Witch Universe Master caused a more severe backlash than resurrecting over a thousand King Level experts at once a thousand years earlier.
Looking at Dry Witch before him, Lord of Chaos City was also somewhat helpless. The Human race's 1008 Universe Nations had all been established in ancient times, and those capable of serving as the lord of a Universe Nation were all extremely ancient Universe Venerables.
Every one of them held an extremely high status within the Human race. Calling them the pillars of the Human race would not be an exaggeration!
But Dry Witch had refused to properly serve as a Universe Nation Lord and instead ran to the Original Star to seize treasures. After dying once, he had lost his head from gambling. Before he had even paid off his previous debts, he borrowed supreme treasures to take more risks, only to die twice more in succession.
Not only had all the supreme treasures and heavy treasure sets he borrowed been lost, but the race had resurrected him, leaving him with an enormous debt to the race as well!
A perfectly good Universe Nation Lord and High Venerable had ended up becoming the Human race's Chief Debtor!
Lord of Chaos City kindly reminded him, "Dry Witch, you should first pay off your debts before going out on adventures again! Do not borrow supreme treasures again!"
Dry Witch Universe Master: "..."
"The heavy treasure set I borrowed was lost too when I was resurrected this time!" As the Dry Witch Universe Master walked out of the City Lord's Residence, he felt no joy at having been resurrected. He could only sigh endlessly in his heart. The debt I owe the race is manageable. At worst, I can default on it for now. But the debts I owe those friends...
At the thought of those friends, the Dry Witch Universe Master developed another headache.
"Teacher! I missed you so much!" Just as Dry Witch was nursing his headache, a figure in a blood-red robe suddenly dashed before him and shouted excitedly.
Dry Witch raised his head and looked closely before recognizing him as the disciple who had fallen in a secret realm hundreds of millions of years ago.
Marquis Immortal Blood-Robed Marquis Lian Luo!
"Disciple, you were resurrected too!" Once he recognized the newcomer, joy appeared on Dry Witch's face.
That night, inside a building in Chaos City.
"Teacher, all my heavy treasures are gone, and I owe the race 2 Treasure Points!" Lian Luo looked at the Dry Witch Universe Master with hopeful anticipation.
The Dry Witch Universe Master shook his head and sighed. "As for your teacher, I owe 4.1 Treasure Points. I'm far worse off than you..."
In the original story, the 3.8 Treasure Points was the amount he owed after paying debts for endless ages.
Master and disciple looked into each other's eyes, nearly unable to stop themselves from bursting into tears together.
It seemed as though the sound of the erhu piece Moon Reflected on Second Spring drifted through the air.
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