The City Lord Summons

"Whether to head to the Outer-Region Battlefield or a Universe Secret Region is indeed a question," Blood Blade King said.

"In my opinion, given your current strength, there is no rush to head to a Universe Secret Region. How long have you been cultivating? You have plenty of time to explore those regions filled with opportunities. Furthermore, the dangers within Universe Secret Regions are completely uncontrollable; no one knows what kind of powerhouses might be lurking inside them."

"Take me for example. In the Outer-Region Battlefield, I can sweep away all opponents; there is almost nothing that makes me feel threatened. But Universe Secret Regions are different, especially the high-level ones. Venerables often appear there. Even if you encounter precious treasures, they are almost always snatched away by those Venerables. The only things that truly fall into my hands are common resources, and in most cases, I could earn those just by going to the Outer-Region Battlefield."

"Unfortunately, except during certain special periods, the Outer-Region Battlefield does not allow Immortals of my level—an invincible King—to enter. At most, it allows those at the limit of the King level."

"You are different. Although you have cleared the eighteenth level of the Sky Bridge and your comprehension of laws is comparable to a King, you are still a World Lord. Your combat power is far too lacking. In the Outer-Region Battlefield, as long as you don't run into the battlefields of King-level Immortals, you will almost never encounter a life-or-death crisis."

"You can perfectly well fight slowly within the Marquis-level battlefields, hone your secret techniques, improve your comprehension of laws, and then, when the time is right, it won't be too late to go to a Universe Secret Region."

"By the way, let me tell you, the powerhouses in the Outer-Region Battlefield come from the entire universe. If you are lucky enough to encounter a Divine General Inheritance Token, a Divine Envoy Inheritance Token, or some other special and rare items, selling one could net you billions or even tens of billions of Hunyuan Units. You would make a fortune."

"Just like your senior brother here, I once encountered a special treasure in the Outer-Region Battlefield. That time, I sold it for several hundred billion Hunyuan Units. I even encountered a Heavy Treasure emerging once, and I earned even more that time," Blood Blade King laughed, explaining everything about the Outer-Region Battlefield to Qin Cang while also recounting the opportunities he had encountered there in the past.

Hearing Blood Blade King's analysis, Qin Cang realized that it was indeed better for him to go to the Outer-Region Battlefield for now. Not only was the danger controllable, but it would also be of great benefit for honing his unique skills.

As long as he didn't court death or actively go out of his way to provoke those King-level powerhouses, he would almost never be in mortal danger.

Besides, what if he did provoke one? With the Crowned Python Clone in hand, he had nothing to fear, even when facing a peak King-level powerhouse. A divine body of sixty thousand kilometers—aside from special life forms, even the largest Starry Sky Behemoths were only ten thousand kilometers or so.

The human race's divine bodies were small, but it wasn't as if only human powerhouses had small divine bodies. In the universe, the number of races that truly possessed massive divine bodies was, generally speaking, not that large.

Precisely because of this, Qin Cang's choice for his second clone had only one requirement: size. The bigger, the better. Of course, if he could get his hands on the seawater of the Lord of Nine Serenities' prince, that would be even better. When it came to body size, who could be larger than the Lord of Nine Serenities?

However, none of these were things he needed to consider right now.

This was because the Chaos City Lord had sent someone to summon him. When he last met the Chaos City Lord, he had said that once he left Chaos City, he should pay another visit to the Chaos Ruins.

Having been given such specific instructions by the Chaos City Lord, Qin Cang had already guessed the City Lord's intentions.

Therefore, over these past few days, Qin Cang had been counting the days, waiting for the summons from the Chaos City Lord. If the summons didn't come, he would just head to the City Lord Mansion himself. The City Lord was a man of his word; he wouldn't just refuse to see him, would he?

As it turned out, only on the second day after his residence was built, an envoy from the City Lord Mansion arrived to notify him to pay a visit to the Chaos City Lord.

Walking along the road, Qin Cang felt the vastness and grandeur of Chaos City. He had been cultivating for less than ten thousand years, yet this time he had stayed in Chaos City for three thousand years, and he didn't even know how much longer he would stay here in the future.

This place could be called his second home.

Before long, Qin Cang entered the City Lord Mansion. No one dared to stop him, but what struck Qin Cang as strange this time was that he did not see the Unity Venerable.

He guessed that he was either in seclusion or out exploring a secret region. After all, given the personality of the Chaos City Lord, he wouldn't provide him with a full set of supreme treasures; everything had to be earned through his own efforts. Otherwise, the Unity Venerable, a dignified Universe Overlord, would not have been without his own soul-type supreme treasure by the time of Luo Feng's era.

"Greetings, City Lord." Qin Cang bowed respectfully. He had always held the Chaos City Lord in high regard.

"Not bad. I didn't expect that in a mere three thousand years, you would be able to clear two more levels of the Sky Bridge. This speed of cultivation is considered extremely fast, even in the entire history of our human race," the Chaos City Lord laughed. He was becoming more and more satisfied with Qin Cang, wishing he could take him as a disciple immediately. Unfortunately, the Demon Venerable had beaten him to it, and he couldn't very well snatch a disciple from such a veteran Overlord who could address his own teacher, the Original Ancestor, as a brother.

"If not for the clone ability granted by the race and the Sky Canopy Python clone, this disciple would never have been able to clear the eighteenth level of the Sky Bridge. It can be said that any success I have today is entirely due to the cultivation of the race," Qin Cang replied respectfully, full of gratitude toward the race. Of course, this was the truth; the law talent brought by the Crowned Python Clone had greatly accelerated his cultivation speed.

When the Chaos City Lord heard this, he was ten thousand percent satisfied. As long as he had this mindset, the race's resources were not being wasted. Furthermore, for such a genius to have such a sense of belonging to the race was a great thing. Cultivating someone loyal to the race was far better than cultivating an ungrateful wretch.

In that case, it wasn't in vain that I went to such lengths to secure this treasure for him, the Chaos City Lord thought to himself. For true geniuses, the race had a reward system, and this time, he had represented the race in applying for a treasure for Qin Cang. At first, those few fellows hadn't agreed, only relenting after Qin Cang successfully gestured the Sky Canopy Python.

And having cleared the eighteenth level of the Sky Bridge and created three peak secret techniques after only ten thousand years of cultivation had made that group completely shut their mouths.

Hearing Qin Cang's words, the bad mood the Chaos City Lord had felt from arguing with those fellows was swept away. If the human race had more geniuses like this, why worry about not dominating the universe?

The five major internal forces each had their own agendas. Although, on the whole, they were all willing to sacrifice their lives for the human race at any moment, they were constantly arguing over trivial matters, each liking to scheme for benefits for their own subordinates.

The Giant Axe Founder basically didn't want to deal with these things, so he handed the work of balancing the five major factions of the human race to Chaos, and even matters that required mobilizing the powerhouses of the entire race were handled by the Chaos City Lord.

After countless years, even the Chaos City Lord, a fifth-tier Universe Master, could not help but feel exhausted.

But whenever he thought of his teacher's instructions and saw the younger generation of the human race rising one after another, he was filled with fighting spirit again.

There was no help for it. With strength second only to the Giant Axe Founder and possessing three clones, whether in terms of seniority, personality, or strength, there was no one more suitable for this job than Chaos. He was truly born with a life of toil.