In the Virtual Universe, in the Chaos City Lord's private dimension, Xue Xi was visiting for the first time. When the City Lord's true body had left, he had opened a teleportation access point for her, so she had been able to come straight here.
They said this dimension was the virtual realm closest to the core layer of the Virtual Universe. A strand of the Chaos City Lord's consciousness was stationed here year-round, guarding against the Machine Race's designs on the Human Race's Virtual Universe.
Although the Virtual Universe's ability to cover the entire universe relied mostly on Original Ancestor's Innate Secret Technique, the Machine Race were the real experts at manipulating virtual data. That was something they couldn't afford to overlook.
Xue Xi walked cautiously through the dimension, which was like a fairyland, and came to an enormous stone chair. A red, scaled creature sat on it, eyes closed. The chair was hundreds of meters tall, and the creature was the Chaos City Lord's main Slaughter Clone.
The Chaos City Lord opened his eyes and looked down at the tiny figure on the ground, barely five feet tall. "Ah, Shopkeeper Xue. What can I do for you?"
His voice rang out from high above. Xue Xi tilted her head back at a forty-five-degree angle. The blood-red light in those scarlet eyes made a murderous frenzy rise within her for no reason, and she quickly looked away, unable to bear the sight of those dreadful eyes.
She told the Chaos City Lord about the effects of several dishes she had recently "developed," explained that she would promote them widely throughout the Virtual Universe, and asked whether the Initial Universe could withstand the alien powerhouses if they were driven to desperation.
The Chaos City Lord was silent for a few