The Monster Race's leaders took a simple approach: they ordered this High Venerable to launch an attack on Humanity's SSS-Class God Base No. 0718.
It was the God Base guarded by Venerable Yanxin.
And it wasn't just the Monster Ancestor!
The other two of the four major factions had also issued orders to launch an all-out assault on it.
In an instant, the atmosphere across the entire Outer-Domain Battlefield plunged to freezing point.
"Yes, Lord of Thunderlight! I'll do everything in my power to protect the Human Race!"
Inside God Base No. 0718, Venerable Yanxin spoke to Lord of Thunderlight through the Virtual Universe. The latter was on his way to reinforce him.
"Your first priority is to stay alive!" Lord of Thunderlight said.
"I know..." Venerable Yanxin replied, but his eyes were filled with despondency.
An SSS-Class God Base sounded like something grand and impressive, but in reality, it was just a mobile supply station comparable to a Supreme Treasure.
With Noah and Lord of Wisdom Light Hikari's intervention, this sort of thing wasn't valuable to the Human Race.
But Venerable Yanxin was different. He had advanced to Universe Venerable through his insights into the path of space.
His title alone showed how profound his insights into the Law of Fire and the Law of Gold were.
His strength had reached the very top level among Universe Overlords. He was only one Ordinary Supreme Treasure away from becoming a Top Universe Overlord.
Yet someone like him was now trapped in this tiny supply station... For the Human Race, this was an absolutely unbearable loss!
Seeing Venerable Yanxin's expression, Lord of Thunderlight felt no better. Even so, he said, "Light Ancestor has fallen, and Original Ancestor is now suppressed by the Primal Universe. With your strength... hold on. I'll be there soon!"
"I know."
Venerable Yanxin replied.
It wasn't that Lord of Thunderlight didn't want to get there quickly. The problem was that the three races had gone too far.
They had destroyed all of Humanity's God Kingdom Teleportation anchors within several hundred light-years of the Outer-Domain Battlefield.
That meant the Human Race would have to cross hundreds of light-years through space to reach the battlefield.
Even with Lord of Thunderlight's top-tier Palace Supreme Treasure, Thunderlight Palace, it would still take him quite some time to arrive.
And Venerable Yanxin wasn't the only one trapped on the Outer-Domain Battlefield.
Of the nine Outer-Domain Battlefields, more than a thousand Universe Venerables from the Human side—including the Hong Alliance—were now surrounded.
Universe Overlords alone made up seventy percent of them. The rest were all outstanding figures among the High Universe Venerables.
Even Lord of Ganwu, whom later readers would jokingly call "the universe's most indebted man," was among them.
Unlike in the original story, however, Lord of Ganwu was now a Universe Overlord.
Although he wasn't as strong as Venerable Yanxin, he still had Overlord-level combat strength.
But now, all these super-strong members of the Human Race were trapped in one God Base after another.
The situation was extremely perilous!
Meanwhile, elsewhere, in the Time Secret Realm of the Land of Light,
Noah's true body sat cross-legged at the top of the Plasma Spark Tower.
At that moment, he was still comprehending the inheritance carried by the Plasma Spark Tower.
Of course, that didn't mean he knew nothing about what was happening outside.
On the contrary, as a powerful leader on the same level as Original Ancestor, who had guided the Human Race toward glory, he had extremely high authority in the Virtual Universe.
He knew all about Chaos City Lord's arrangements for Humanity.
And from time to time, he would quietly refine any arrangements that had minor oversights.
"Teacher!"
A young human with the appearance of an Earthling came before Noah.
"Tiga?" Noah opened his eyes. A trace of surprise showed in them as he recognized the figure.
The newcomer was none other than Noah's first and foremost disciple, the Human Race's hidden Fifth-Order Universe Master, Shining True Lord Tiga!
Unlike Peak and Woz, who had been transformed into members of the Light Clan by the energy of the Plasma Spark Tower,
Tiga was simply Tiga—a complete human!
That wasn't to say the other two weren't human. They were members of the Ultra Clan to begin with.
Tiga, on the other hand, had relied entirely on his own efforts to become the first person to gain an Ultraman form through the cultivation path of the Giant of Light that Noah had developed.
He was also the most talented of Noah's disciples.
"Weren't you supposed to be exploring the Universe Sea with Darkness and the others? Why are you back?"
Noah sounded puzzled.
According to his plans, Tiga and his three clones should all have been exploring the Universe Sea, concealing their identities as members of the Human Race just as Lord of Darkness had in the original story.
But now...
"Teacher, I came back this time to break through to True God!"
Tiga said.
At those words, Noah's face darkened. He couldn't help scolding him.
"You fool! Do you have any idea how much effort I went to in order to find you an inheritance for cultivating the divine power path?
"Your Gene Level has only just reached seventy thousand times. You're still a long way from the hundred-thousand-times threshold.
"Once you reach the limit, you'll become an absolute powerhouse among the True Gods the moment you break through, with strength rivaling a Void True God.
"And you... Are you trying to anger me to death?"
That was right. In addition to helping elevate his divine body's energy through the cultivation path of the Giant of Light,
Tiga's path of cultivation also included the divine power path, and he had already made considerable progress along it.
If he wished, he could become a True God-level powerhouse at any time.
But in pursuit of an absolute hundred-thousand-times divine body, he had kept himself at the Fifth-Order Universe Master level for thousands of eras.
"But..."
Tiga's face showed clear hesitation.
"I know what you're worried about, but aren't I alive and well?
"What's more... my Darkness clone has also reached True God level. Even if all the True Gods in the entire Universe Sea joined forces, they still wouldn't be a match for me.
"What are you still worried about?"
Noah said. He knew exactly what his disciple was thinking, but...
Back then, after reaching True God level, he had sensed a mysterious inheritance within the Plasma Spark Tower, one that seemed to come from somewhere unknown.
After discussing it with Original Ancestor, and since he had already made a great name for himself, Noah had simply faked his death and withdrawn to this secret realm to study the inheritance.
Very few people knew about this. Only the absolute upper echelons of the Human Race knew a little.
The consciousness of the Universe Origin Law also knew, but it never discussed such matters with other races.
So no one else knew that Noah was still alive.
His Darkness clone, however, was a True God-level clone technique he had comprehended from studying the inheritance, and it had earned him a great reputation in the Universe Sea.
"But what about your plan with Senior Yuan?"
"I'll need about a million more eras to finish sorting out the last scattered pieces of this inheritance. When that's done, there'll be nowhere in the vast universe that your teacher can't go.
"And besides, do you think Peak and the others are just sitting around doing nothing?
"Under the protection of Original Ancestor and me, the Human Race has almost lost its will to strive as it developed. That's not a good thing for a race.
"Let this incident serve as a trial for the race. That goes for you and the other youngsters, too.
"All of you will stay put in the Universe Sea. Without my instructions, you are not to return to the Primal Universe!"
"Understood!" Tiga said, and his figure gradually faded away.
"Hmph, brat!"
Seeing this, Noah naturally knew that it was only one of Tiga's clones.
Though it was also formed from divine power, it was lifelike enough to pass for the real thing.
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