Two Centuries Later, Earth, Happiness Residential Complex, Apartment 606
Two hundred years later, on Earth, in room 606 of the Happiness Residential Complex.
Inside the room, the baby's cries rose and fell, sometimes sharp and piercing, sometimes whimpering.
Who would have thought that after arriving on Earth, they would finally figure out the Soul Hall's vicious tactics? The Soul Hall only prepaid a year's rent for them, and afterwards they would either have to pay for the renewal themselves or be deported.
However, once they leave Earth, they will immediately be locked onto by the Soul Hall's monitoring devices: if they are lucky, they may escape, but the price is that their relatives left behind in the Blood Fiend Secret Realm will have to endure the Soul Hall's wrath;
If you're unlucky, you'll be captured and taken back to the secret realm, with no chance of recovery.
What's even more suffocating is the current cost of living on Earth.
The rent for a single person is as high as 20 million Ganwu Coin per year. When you add property management fees, energy maintenance fees and other miscellaneous expenses, the annual expenses for six people will approach 200 Ganwu Coin.
If they want to continue cultivating, the consumption of cultivation resources is astronomical. Even if they do their best to squeeze every last drop out of their own World Lord World, the resources they obtain are just a drop in the ocean.
Even more stringent are their regulations on Earth's inhabitants, which explicitly state that if no new life is born within a century, those who fail to live will be forcibly evicted.
Desperate, they relied on their World Lord Rank cultivation and went to great lengths to establish connections and finally meet Luo Ping, the Luo Family's representative on Earth.
In the virtual meeting room, Luo Ping, dressed in a silver-gray suit, had a gentle expression.
Before Tang An could finish explaining his request for help, he apologized, "Mr. Tang An, I understand your situation, but your entanglement with the Soul Hall involves an ancient contract, an alliance signed between the Cosmic Galaxy Bank and the Luo Family years ago, which no one can change."
"An alliance? What kind of alliance could make the Luo Family sit idly by?" Tang Yiyi couldn't help but ask. "Our Tang Family and the Luo Family's elders used to be close friends. Are we really going to disregard even this small amount of friendship?"
Luo Ping said helplessly, "It's not that I'm unwilling to help, but that I'm powerless to do so. The contract clearly states that when the stipulated time limit is reached, King Anle will personally handle the relevant matters, and even the Luo Family has no right to interfere."
He pointed to the virtual screen, where a figure appeared. "You all should have seen the image of King Anle, right?"
Everyone nodded. The figure on the screen had skin as white as mutton fat jade, but fine blood-red threads ran under his skin, outlining strange patterns. Despite his handsome appearance, he exuded an inhuman, eerie and bizarre aura.
Luo Ping said in a deep voice, "This King Anle is Special Lifeform with unfathomable strength. You should understand if you look at the current state of Earth. Those pregnant women from families of King Rank and Venerable, bringing their children here to give birth and receive early education, aren't they all incredibly obedient?"
"If they weren't afraid of King Anle, how could those families, with their powerful backgrounds, be so restrained?"
Tang An Anqi said earnestly, "Master Luo, we ask for nothing more than to rescue our relatives trapped in the Blood Fiend Secret Realm. As long as the Luo Family is willing to lend a helping hand, we are willing to pay any price!"
Luo Ping paused for a moment before saying, "Out of consideration for the past relationship between our two families, I can use the Luo Family's resources and spend a great deal of money to send you to the Virtual Universe Company Headquarters for refuge. But rescuing your relatives—unless my father returns."
"Lord Luo Feng? When will he be back?" Tang Guo asked anxiously.
"A long way off." Luo Ping's answer shattered their last hope. "Dad is currently cultivating in the Cosmic Secret Realm. It could take anywhere from a thousand to tens or hundreds of thousands of years. If you can wait, you might still have a chance; if you can't—"
Leaving the Luo Family's virtual meeting room, the six people felt their hearts sink to the bottom.
After much deliberation, they placed their hopes on the Marquis Justice. They pulled countless strings to finally secure a meeting with him.
When Tang An mentioned the words "Soul Hall," the previously indifferent Marquis Justice glanced at them in surprise.
"I can't and won't get involved in this matter." Before they could finish speaking, Marquis Justice waved his hand to interrupt, his tone icy. "You'd better watch yourselves and don't bother me again."
Having said that, before anyone could react, he activated his power and sent them out of the mansion.
The moment they were forcibly expelled, the last glimmer of light in the hearts of Tang An and the other six was completely extinguished.
They finally understood what the Soul Hall member had said with his Jie-Jie Monster before leaving: the world of Human Race was truly dark! So-called justice and friendship were utterly vulnerable in the face of absolute power and self-interest.
With no other options, they had no choice but to accept another suggestion from the Luo Family: to have a child.
According to the Soul Hall agreement, as long as they have offspring, their stay on Earth can be extended. The Luo Family will also promise to take the child away and send him to a completely safe place to be raised.
They never wanted to experience the horrors of the Blood Fiend Secret Realm again, so they clung to this one last straw.
To their surprise, it is extremely difficult for World Lord Rank powerhouses to have offspring, but these six people have given birth to twenty children in just one hundred years!
If it weren't for the domestic robots provided by the Luo Family, they would have been driven crazy by these children long ago. Just trimming their nails alone requires trimming hundreds at a time; feeding, soothing to sleep, and changing diapers are non-stop, day and night.
In the cramped room, if one child starts crying, it will immediately trigger a chain reaction. If twenty children cry together, the noise is comparable to a landslide or a tsunami, making people's eardrums hurt.
They also considered multi-threaded care robots, which have multiple flexible tentacles and can care for multiple children at once.
But looking at those cold tentacles, they worried that their child would be frightened, or even develop cognitive biases, mistaking the tentacle monster for their mother. In the end, they could only grit their teeth and buy three humanoid housekeeping robots.
They had originally planned to delay the process by having a child while focusing on their cultivation to improve their strength.
But reality dealt them a heavy blow. Since having children, let alone secluded meditation, even a moment of spiritual practice has become a luxury. Even if one partner goes to the Virtual Universe to reply to a message or hides in the bathroom to catch their breath, the other will feel that the other is "enjoying life."
Almost every moment, their energy is drained by the child, leaving them no time to even cultivate. This child truly takes care of one child at a time without making a sound!
Listening to the sounds of crying rising and falling in the room, Tang An leaned against the wall and closed his eyes wearily.
He's really going crazy!
He was even considering going to the Blood Fiend Secret Realm to continue his life-or-death training, which would be much more comfortable than raising the child himself.
Damn, why are people online all showing off their happy and heartwarming stories of raising children?
Lies!
The Virtual Universe Company Headquarters is located 10 light-years away in the surrounding void, but it actually hides layers upon layers of Space Interlayer.
This Space Interlayer is originally a vast and boundless whole. The closer it gets to the Original Universe, the finer the Space Fragment become; the deeper one explores, the larger the fragments become.
In the outer region, even World Lord Rank can barely stand; further in, even Immortal God must proceed with extreme caution; as for the deepest, most perilous places, even powerful Cosmic Venerable would perish if they were not careful!
Deep within this spatial turbulence, on a Space Fragment spanning trillions of kilometers, lies a vast and boundless Divine Power Ocean.
This deep blue ocean surges with immense Divine Power day and night, and two spectacular sights unfold day after day.
First, there was a figure standing on the shore. It was a strange and Special Lifeform form that, day after day and year after year, would take out pieces of various priceless creatures and treasures from the Space Ring at its waist and casually toss them into the Nether Sea.
The fragments dissolved instantly upon contact with the seawater.
Secondly, there is the scene of "rebirth" of this Nether Sea.
Every so often, thousands of enormous, strange creatures would suddenly appear on the sea. Their skin was as white as mutton fat jade, but beneath it, fine, blood-red threads crisscrossed, outlining eerie and bizarre patterns.
What is most terrifying is their size; they are often nearly a million kilometers in size. As soon as they appear, they are like ancient demon gods, looking down on the entire Nether Sea.
These strange life forms, after being born, do not make any movements; they simply float silently on the surface of the sea.
At that very moment, a mysterious Supreme Treasure will slowly rise from the surface of the sea in the very center of the Nether Sea. It is a silver ring with dense golden patterns engraved on its surface.
The moment the silver ring appeared, it suddenly expanded, reaching a size of a million kilometers in an instant. In that instant, a terrifying wave, far surpassing that of Cosmic Venerable, spread out from the ring, and then directly connected with the supreme Time Origin!
Endless Universe Origin Energy, like an inverted celestial river, poured down along the silver ring and surged into the Nether Sea. In just a few days, it was able to completely replenish the enormous Divine Power consumed by the birth of the strange life form.
Once the Nether Sea returns to its original state, those strange, suspended life forms will transform into streams of Flowing Light and re-enter this azure Divine Power Ocean. With each such cycle, the area of this Nether Sea will quietly expand.
After more than a thousand years of accumulation, this Nether Sea has expanded to a scale of 500 billion kilometers!
This silver ring, capable of connecting to the Origin Land of the Universe, is Human Race's most treasured possession: Supreme Treasure of the Time Origin!
This is, of course, a temporary loan from the clan to Tang Ping, which he must return after he has finished using it.
The term "primordial Supreme Treasure" does not refer to a single treasure, but rather to a collective term for primordial Supreme Treasure, which are among the most supreme Supreme Treasure in the universe!
Among the countless powerful beings in the universe, there is only one chance in their lifetime: the moment they break through from the realm lord to immortality. They use their own will to manipulate the Sea of Laws in the Origin Land of the Universe, drawing upon endless Origin Energy to cleanse their bodies and transform their physical bodies into Immortal Divine Body.
After that, even though the powerful individuals improved their strength, they could still use their will to manipulate the Sea of Laws and absorb Origin Energy to temper their divine bodies, but the absorption speed became extremely slow.
Fortunately, the cultivation path of powerful beings in the universe is extremely long, often taking millions or even hundreds of millions of years to break through a single realm. This slow absorption rate is enough for the divine body to steadily grow stronger.
But once you're involved in a life-or-death struggle, the situation changes completely!
In true clashes of the highest order, burning Divine Power is commonplace. Even a powerful being who has stored up Divine Power for billions of years can often lose more than half of it in a fierce battle. And to recover that enormous amount of Divine Power often requires a long period of time.
Fortunately, the universe contains all sorts of rare and precious materials that can be transformed into Divine Power to help the strong recover quickly.
However, if one reaches the level of Universe Master, in an epic war between races, if more than half of the divine bodies are lost, the price is simply terrifying! Even for a peak race like humanity, if the Chaos City Lord loses even one of his avatars, the resulting loss would be enough to cause the race's high-ranking members great distress.
Once someone reaches the level of Universe Master, treasures that can help them recover their strength in a short time are extremely rare, and are far beyond the reach of ordinary races.
This is why the Primal Supreme Treasure has become a coveted Supreme Treasure among the Cosmic Overlord and Universe Master!
Once you possess a primordial Supreme Treasure, the speed at which you can draw upon Origin Energy can increase by a thousand times, ten thousand times, or even a million times! As for the specific increase, it all depends on the level of this primordial Supreme Treasure.
A top-tier primordial Supreme Treasure is enough to compress the recovery time of a critically injured and dying Universe Master from millions of years to a mere ten years! For Universe Master whose time is measured in hundreds of millions of years, ten years is nothing more than a blink of an eye.
Possessing the ultimate Supreme Treasure means that one no longer needs to be timid or hesitant in battle.
Even if a tenth of one's divine body is burned away, so what? With the Primal Supreme Treasure within, one can recover to full strength in a short time. This confidence is the most heaven-defying value of the Primal Supreme Treasure!
The main materials of these Supreme Treasure were all born in the extreme environment at the beginning of the universe and took hundreds of millions of years to form. Their rarity far exceeds imagination.
Throughout the universe, the core materials of primordial Supreme Treasure are also strictly classified into different levels:
Lower-grade materials correspond to the eight fundamental laws of metal, wood, water, fire, earth, wind, lightning, and light.
Advanced materials correspond to the two Supreme Law time and space;
As for top-tier materials, they are things that combine the laws of metal and void, wood and void, and there are even legendary supreme divine objects that can encompass all the laws of the universe, whose names are known but whose forms have never been seen.
The Time Ring that Tang Ping is currently using is Supreme Treasure forged based on the Time Law. With his current realm as Time Venerable, he can fully unleash its power.
Unfortunately, once Tang Ping breaks through the shackles and Control of Space-Time the two Supreme Law of time and space, transforming his divine Divine Power into time and space attributes, this Time Ring will be of little use.
Therefore, he plans to wait until his divine body reaches its limit before breaking through to the realm of the Lord of Cosmic Judgment.
As for when he would break through, Tang Ping glanced at his Divine Power Path: 5000/10081.
According to the Virtual Universe Company's speculation, based on his performance at the immortal level, his current divine body limit is trillions of kilometers.
Of course, he just smiled and didn't say anything, after all, his Gene Multiplier was only a thousand times when he was at the Immortal level before.
Now comes the moment for Human Race to witness a miracle!