Leaving Chaos City

"Detected: Muxuan has passed the World Lord Level Primordial Tongtian Mountain. The 1 billion points reward has been credited. Points balance: 1,079,293,000."

Ye Muxuan paused for a moment, then was overjoyed.

More than a billion points—this was a figure that not only the people who had signed an agreement with him back then couldn't have imagined, but one he himself hadn't expected either. He had improved so quickly over these three thousand years. At first, he had merely planned to hold something back, figuring that he could pass the Sixteenth Layer before leaving Chaos City, and that he might be able to try the Seventeenth. But thanks to Senior Brother Heavenly Feather King's guidance, he had made considerable progress and had passed the Eighteenth Layer outright.

In fact, a full billion of those points had been awarded for passing the Primordial Tongtian Mountain. Since he was now a World Lord, the points had been credited directly to his account.

At the World Lord stage, passing the Heaven and Earth Tongtian Mountain earned a hundred million points, while passing the Primordial Tongtian Mountain earned a billion. Passing the Primal Tongtian Mountain would earn a full hundred billion points! Generally speaking, any World Lord who could pass the Primal Tongtian Mountain had already made it through the Twentieth Layer of the Heavenly Bridge and was only half a step away from becoming a Venerable. Once World Lords of this caliber became Immortals, they could easily reach the Limit King Level, or even the Invincible King Rank. It was well worth spending a hundred billion points to cultivate such a genius.

More than a billion points seemed like a lot, but Ye Muxuan had plenty of things to spend them on. This amount was barely a drop in the bucket.

He had comprehended the sixth volume of Miscellaneous Theories of Clear Shadows and was not far from mastering it completely. The seventh volume would cost a billion points, the eighth ten billion, and the complete set a trillion! Then there were the movement techniques he would need to buy when he started studying the Treading Wind battle boots. Anything worth his attention would cost at least a million points. Not to mention his two Plant Lifeforms, Cloud-Touching Vine and Sword Leaf Grass. Both were already at World Lord Level, Ninth Order, and helping them break through to become Immortals would cost a fortune!

So, in two hundred years, he had to make it into the Primal Secret Realm! For one thing, exchanging for Secret Techniques would cost ten percent less there. For something like the seventh volume of Miscellaneous Theories of Clear Shadows, that meant saving a hundred million points outright.

With that thought, Ye Muxuan searched for the points needed to cultivate his Cloud-Touching Vine, which had 108 main vines, into the strongest form with 360 main vines. Nine Phoenix dutifully listed the points required for all the various materials, and after taking one look, Ye Muxuan quietly changed his plans.

Well, cultivating it to 256 main vines would be much easier. As for 360...perhaps he should wait. There was no rush, right?

After all, the Cloud-Touching Vine had fought alongside him for tens of thousands of years. It had failed to evolve into an Immortal because it had always lacked resources. The best way to help the Cloud-Touching Vine with 108 main vines evolve into an Immortal would be to spend 18.1 million points on the materials. Even then, the success rate would only be 80 percent.

Besides, he had another idea: cultivate the World Lord-level Cloud-Touching Vine to 360 main vines first, then evolve it into the strongest Cloud-Touching Vine. That would require just over ten billion points' worth of materials. If he let the Cloud-Touching Vine with 108 main vines evolve into an Immortal first, then increased it to 360 main vines, it would cost over a trillion points!

Starting with a disadvantage meant having to spend dozens, or even hundreds, of times as many resources to catch up later!

For now, he would just increase it to 256 main vines. After the twenty-percent discount, it would cost only 486,000 points, which he could afford.

As for Sword Leaf Grass...thanks to the Locke Divine Water he had received after completing that assignment, it had become the strongest form of 81-Leaf Sword Leaf Grass over the past three thousand years. But evolving it into an Immortal would require 46.9 billion points just for the rare materials!

By comparison, evolving a World Lord-level Cloud-Touching Vine with 360 main vines into an Immortal would cost only around 11.6 billion points!

But regardless of which one he chose, Ye Muxuan didn't need to worry about spending over ten billion points just yet. Auxiliary Plant Lifeforms really weren't something ordinary people could afford to raise.

Should he sell some of the Locke Divine Water? Even after cultivating the Sword Leaf Grass to its strongest form of 81 leaves, he had used less of the Locke Divine Water in that small token world than he had expected—or rather, he had more Locke Divine Water than he had thought.

But after considering it, he decided against it. He could always do that if he really needed to later. After all, he still had many clansmen back home. If he had Locke Divine Water to spare, he could use it to cultivate some Plant Lifeforms to protect them.

And besides Auxiliary Plant Lifeforms, there were also spaceships and Auxiliary Metal Lifeforms, better War Blades to commission, better scanners and battle armor to buy, and so on. It looked like even these points would be tight.

The next day, a spaceship departing from Chaos City appeared overhead. A thousand meters long, it looked like a fish, its "tail" swaying slightly. It was astonishingly lifelike!

This time, Kingdom Lord Mingyou wasn't seeing them off. Spaceships traveled in and out of the Initial Universe at regular intervals, and this was one such occasion.

Ye Muxuan looked up, his eyes narrowing slightly!

It was a spaceship fused with a Metal Lifeform of the Immortal level. Not only could it repair itself, it also possessed some of the traits of a "living being," giving it the potential to "evolve."

Even some King-level Immortals couldn't afford a spaceship like this. Take Senior Brother Heavenly Feather King, for example—he certainly couldn't afford one right now! It wasn't that he lacked the wealth. As a Peak King Level, he could afford to buy one, but he couldn't purchase a spaceship at the expense of improving his own strength.

Secret Techniques, weapons, battle armor, spaceships, Auxiliary Plant Lifeforms, auxiliary research treasures—all of these were part of one's assets. A good spaceship was only one part of one's overall strength.

When the spaceship arrived, the Immortals and World Lords who had received the news gathered beneath it, gazing up at the craft above.

Quite a few people looked straight at Ye Muxuan, as if he were some kind of monster!

During their three thousand years in Chaos City, Zhendan and Kong Yan had improved from the Twelfth Layer to the Fourteenth Layer. That alone made them geniuses! Apart from the freak Ye Muxuan, none of the more than a thousand World Lords who had come to the Initial Universe had made it past the Fifteenth Layer. Even among the Immortals, only one had barely passed the Eighteenth Layer and successfully reached King Rank!

"You were incredible this time. You went straight through the Eighteenth Layer. Are you going to leave any of us alive?" Li Zheng said, slapping Ye Muxuan on the shoulder.

"Sure enough, you're a monster," Zhendan rumbled, his voice like thunder.

"Impressive," Kong Yan said, his eyes glinting.

"I just got a head start. You'll catch up eventually," Ye Muxuan said with a slight nod, then exchanged a few words with them.