Heaven and Earth Secret Realm

However, he had a full three thousand years in Chaos City, and he was currently using the Jinghong Chaos Stele to comprehensively organize his insights into the laws. The factions he was joining and the teachers he would need to apprentice under could provide exactly the assistance he needed for this. Therefore, there was no rush to challenge the Heavenly Bridge; it would not be too late to contemplate the Chaos Stele after he had fully absorbed his current insights.

Beneath the small gray-white building, a black-robed messenger walked over slowly. The next moment, Ye Muxuan, who was sitting on the rooftop contemplating the law secret patterns, heard the reminder from the building's AI. Ye Muxuan looked down and saw the black-robed messenger on the street.

In the quiet room on the second floor of the small building, Ye Muxuan looked at the large pile of video and text materials floating before him, reading through them quietly.

What the black-robed messenger had delivered was, in fact, an authorization, granting Ye Muxuan the clearance to query these materials. Even for a World Lord General like Ye Muxuan, who had spent over a hundred thousand years slaughtering in the Outer Battlefield, there were many things in the Virtual Universe that he did not have the clearance to access. Not to mention ordinary people; the information they could access was either restricted—meaning they simply couldn't find it—or it consisted of things that had already been "filtered."

Ye Muxuan flipped through the dense, detailed information before him. Finally, a wisp of his consciousness connected to the Virtual Universe, entered the lakeside cottage, and sent an email.

About an hour later, three purple-robed messengers entered the small building.

On some rooftops, certain beings who had been watching from afar—those who were the most dazzling among this batch of new World Lord recruits from the Outer Battlefield—realized at this moment that this newcomer named "Muxuan," a cosmic warrior who had fought in the Outer Battlefield for over a hundred thousand years and a super World Lord who had once killed an alien Immortal head-on, had ultimately joined the Virtual Universe Company, become a core member, and officially entered the Heaven and Earth Secret Realm.

From this day on, the core layer of the Virtual Universe Company, the Heaven and Earth Secret Realm, added another World Lord rank member, rising from 8,464 to 8,465!

Moreover, the next "World Lord" qualification battle for the core layer of the Virtual Universe Company was still over ten thousand years away, which happened to be just over two hundred years after they were scheduled to leave Chaos City!

Among this batch of newcomers, of the eleven new World Lord recruits who had cleared the eleventh floor or higher of the Heavenly Bridge, three had joined the Virtual Universe Company, four had joined the Giant Axe Dojo, two had joined the Cosmic Mercenary Alliance, and the remaining two had joined the Cosmic Galaxy Bank and the Cosmic First Bank respectively. Muxuan was the only one among them who had cleared the thirteenth floor!

Just as Kong Yan and Zhendan had said before, Ye Muxuan signed an agreement with the Virtual Universe Company to join its core layer, becoming an official member of the Heaven and Earth Secret Realm with the authority and status of a core member. He also received a reward of 100,000 points and a free quota of 100 million points to purchase secret techniques from the company's internal treasury; only the portion exceeding this amount would require him to pay with his own points. The company promised to dispatch at least a Peak King Level Immortal powerhouse as his mentor. During his three thousand years of contemplation in Chaos City, if he cleared the fourteenth floor of the Heavenly Bridge, he would be rewarded with 100,000 points; clearing the fifteenth floor would grant another 100,000 points, and so on!

They were not afraid of him not challenging it; as long as Ye Muxuan could clear them, no matter how many floors he reached, the Virtual Universe Company's reward points would be credited instantly without a single point missing!

There were many other miscellaneous items, but Ye Muxuan glanced over them without much concern; these things were much the same as what Kong Yan and Zhendan had described.

In addition to signing the agreement with Ye Muxuan on behalf of the Virtual Universe Company, the purple-robed messengers also brought information on several masters of the "Jinghong" lineage currently in Chaos City.

These were King Level super-powerhouses who were only qualified to establish their own sects after reaching at least the eighteenth floor of the Heavenly Bridge in the Jinghong lineage. There were currently six King Level masters of the "Jinghong" lineage still giving lectures in Chaos City. As for whether a Venerable of the Jinghong lineage would come to give lectures, Ye Muxuan had not received any news of it, at least not yet.

The materials specifically reminded him that if Ye Muxuan had the intention to apprentice under any of the masters, it was best to choose that master for his very first lecture.

Yunmeng Lake, lakeside cottage, third-floor quiet room. After roughly browsing through the materials before him, Ye Muxuan looked at the new teleportation point on the screen in front of him.

Rain Phase Mountain, Heavenly Region!

Rain Phase Mountain was the residence of the core members of the Virtual Universe Company within the Virtual Universe. The Primal Region was an estate over a thousand kilometers in diameter, practically a kingdom; the Taichu Region was also an estate, though much smaller than the Primal Region; the Heavenly Region was a villa; and the End Times District was a set of rooms assigned to each member within high-rise buildings!

In the Heavenly Region, Villa No. 009726, the white light that had shrouded the villa for thousands of years without any movement suddenly lit up at a certain moment, finally turning blue.

Villa No. 009726 was inhabited once again!

Entering the core layer of the five major powers and becoming an official core member did not guarantee one would not die! Especially after reaching the World Lord rank, the "Highnesses" of the five major powers were required to undergo a World Lord level "life-and-death trial," choosing between the Outer Battlefield and the Universe Secret Region.

It could be said that among the core members of the five major powers, there were many geniuses who broke through from World Lord to Immortal. After reaching the Immortal rank, many geniuses also grew very quickly, becoming Marquis or King Level powerhouses much faster than World Lords within a Universe Kingdom, but the level of danger also rose countless times over!

However, joining the five major powers did not guarantee a breakthrough to the Immortal rank. Admittedly, in terms of talent, core members of the five major powers did not lack the aptitude to reach the Immortal rank, but breaking through to the Immortal rank required more than just talent. Various dangers did not just come from the Outer Battlefield and the Universe Secret Region. Therefore, even among the core members of the five major powers, only the first three secret regions would be at full capacity immediately after a qualification battle.

Taking the core layer of the Virtual Universe Company as an example, there were 100 World Lords, 10 Domain Lords, and 3 Universe Rank members in the Primal Region. The Taichu Region had 1,000 World Lords, 100 Domain Lords, and 30 Universe Rank members. The Heavenly Region had 10,000 World Lords, 1,000 Domain Lords, and 300 Universe Rank members!

Of course, this was the full capacity. As for the End Times District... all members who failed in the qualification battles were eliminated layer by layer, and in the end, they were all relegated to the End Times District!

In reality, the members of the first three secret regions were only at full capacity after a qualification battle. Just like the Heavenly Region where Ye Muxuan was now, of the original 10,000 World Lords, only 8,464 remained, and Ye Muxuan was the 8,465th!

During the interval, unless a Domain Lord in the Heavenly Region broke through to the World Lord rank and directly obtained a Heavenly Region World Lord slot, or a World Lord level genius from the End Times District managed to clear the Heaven and Earth Tongtian Mountain and was promoted directly to the Heavenly Region, the only other path was the special channel Ye Muxuan had used. Otherwise, the number of World Lords in the Heavenly Region would only decrease as the hundred-thousand-year interval between qualification battles progressed! For instance, nearly ninety thousand years had already passed in the hundred-thousand-year interval of this qualification battle, and over 1,500 World Lords in the Heavenly Region had already fallen!