"Escaped into the Dark Universe?" King Shang Hun, clad in a black robe, was stunned upon hearing this.
Within Cosmic Secret Realms, most regions were filled with cosmic dust, making it impossible to accelerate to light speed and travel through the Dark Universe. However, the area around the Purple Splendor Star River was an exception. Nearly all the cosmic dust nearby had been absorbed by the Star River Heavy Water, forming a vacuum zone around the star river.
Therefore, as long as one left the star river's range within this region, one could travel through the Dark Universe.
King Shang Hun frowned. "This is troublesome!"
The Dark Universe allowed faster-than-light travel. That human, while burning his divine body, could directly soar to hundreds of times the speed of light. In just this short time, who knew how far he had flown?
Of course, that was not the most troublesome part. The worst part was that the coordinate distances in the Dark Universe and the original Universe were different. A distance traveled in the Dark Universe would be magnified by 10.081 million times in the original Universe. In other words, traveling one kilometer in the Dark Universe meant traveling 10.081 million kilometers upon returning to the original Universe!
So if that human accelerated through the Dark Universe for tens of millions of kilometers before slowing down and returning to the original Universe, he would already be tens of billions of kilometers away. In terms of speed, he naturally could not compare to the teleportation of peak King-level experts, but the key was that no one but himself could possibly know where he had left the Dark Universe.
So even if King Shang Hun could teleport, what use was it? To teleport after him, he still had to know where he was!
"I hope he's still in the Dark Universe. Then I still have a chance to seize that precious treasure!" King Shang Hun's thoughts raced as he said softly, "I'll enter the Dark Universe and take a look right now!"
Whoosh!
He instantly accelerated to light speed and entered the Dark Universe as well.
Then, within the Dark Universe, he activated his scanner and began investigating the surrounding area. His scanner was among the most advanced models, with a maximum detection range of two billion kilometers!
If that human was still in the Dark Universe, he should not have been able to escape such an enormous range!
Yet, to King Shang Hun's disappointment, he searched in the direction the Nine Li clone had fled but failed to find any trace of him.
"In such a short time, even at faster-than-light speeds, he couldn't possibly have flown beyond two billion kilometers. He must have left the Dark Universe after flying for some distance! If only Huan Yu had followed him in. Then we would know exactly which coordinates he used to leave the Dark Universe!" King Shang Hun pondered as he slowly reduced his speed and returned to the original Universe.
Whoosh!
He teleported back to King Huan Yu. Facing her expectant gaze, he shook his head. "That human likely left the Dark Universe after flying some distance. I didn't find him!"
Upon hearing this, King Huan Yu gritted her teeth. "What a cunning human!"
"Your divine body?" King Shang Hun sensed King Huan Yu's aura and directly took out a World Ring. Using immortal power, he sent the ring floating before her. "Although we failed to obtain the precious treasure, you burned your divine body to pursue him on my orders. Take these treasures to restore your divine body!"
King Huan Yu accepted the World Ring. Seeing the treasures within, a relieved smile appeared on her face. "Thank you, King Shang Hun!"
The Dream Demon Race was renowned for its unity throughout their cosmic territory! Thus, even though they had failed to obtain the precious treasure, King Shang Hun did not blame King Huan Yu. Instead, he gave her treasures to compensate for the divine body she had lost!
Moreover, he was a peak King-level Soul Master. Both his strength and wealth were comparable to those of a King-level Limit expert. The divine body King Huan Yu had lost was nothing to King Shang Hun!
The peak King-level and King-level Limit experts who had arrived later saw that even King Shang Hun had returned empty-handed, so they could only leave one after another!
And with their departure—
News that a precious treasure had emerged from the Purple Splendor Star River, only to be seized in the end by a human King Level expert, rapidly spread throughout the entire Ninth Battlefield.
Without question, the entire Ninth Battlefield was shaken.
Every expert battling on the Ninth Battlefield remembered this name!
Human, Jiu Li!
Countless experts attempted to find the human Jiu Li and seize the precious treasure from him!
Information on the Nine Li clone was also compiled by the alien King Level experts who had dealt with him.
"His strength is only slightly greater than that of an Early King-level expert, but he is cruel, bloodthirsty, extremely cunning, and despicable. He is suspected to possess a clone with an enormous divine body!"
That was right. The Nine Li clone had burned his divine body so recklessly, yet his aura had barely changed. Even an idiot would have guessed that he possessed a clone with an enormous divine body.
As for possessing an Origin Supreme Treasure?
No one even considered that possibility. How could a supreme treasure—especially an Origin Treasure capable of serving as a race's clan-protecting treasure—possibly be owned by a King Level expert?
It was like when an author stopped updating. Everyone would assume he was busy with something. Who would think he had been picked up by the police while getting a foot massage...
Just as the entire Ninth Battlefield was thrown into turmoil and experts from every race were gathering information about the human Jiu Li—
A Blood-colored Triangle spaceship traveled through the universe and appeared in a region not far from War Base No. 076. Inside the ship, a towering figure enveloped in a blood-colored glow sat cross-legged in the main control room. It was the Nine Li clone!
After the battle at the Purple Splendor Star River, he had first flown at several hundred times the speed of light for several seconds after entering the Dark Universe. Then he had directly left the Dark Universe, piloted his spaceship aimlessly for several months, and by then, even he himself was unclear about his exact location!
Only after estimating that those alien peak King-level and King-level Limit experts searching for him had dispersed did he travel through the Dark Universe again and return to the military camp base!
"Now that I've returned to the War Base, will those aliens still dare to come after me?" A smile appeared on the Nine Li clone's lips.
"Beep beep. Soldier Jiu Li, your spaceship is about to be taken over!"
Rumble rumble~~
The War Base, enormous as a star, had countless spaceships entering and leaving it. Among them was a Blood-colored Triangle spaceship, slowly flying inside!
"This place is nice!"
After slaughtering so many Marquis Immortals in the Purple Splendor Star River, fighting several King Level experts, and escaping safely, the Nine Li clone had undoubtedly been recognized by the Merit System as a King expert. Thus, his resting quarters were likewise located on an independent island.
"Lord Jiu Li, if you have no further orders, I shall take my leave," a War Base staff member said respectfully.
The Nine Li clone nodded. "You may leave!"
As he spoke, he had already leapt onto the island. After looking around in satisfaction, he strode directly into the villa at the center of the island.
Sitting down cross-legged, the Nine Li clone finally smiled. "It's time to take stock of my gains!"
During this Star River riot, he had not only obtained the precious treasure, the Feather Spirit Stepping Heaven Boots, but had also slaughtered twenty-one High Marquis and sixty-two Early Marquis aliens!
The military merits he had gained alone were worth 27.2 million Chaos Units.
The spoils he had obtained from those Marquis Immortals were worth close to two billion Chaos Units!
I need to find a channel to sell off all these spoils!
There had not been many spoils before, so he could directly sell them to the Virtual Universe Company through his true body. But too little time had passed now. It would not be suitable to make another sale through his true body, lest anyone connect the two.
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