The Initial Universe was the Human Race's home base, and spaceships often traveled back and forth through the Cosmic Passage. Qin Cang had cultivated here for three thousand years and was about to leave Chaos City.
As he walked along the streets of Chaos City, Qin Cang took one last look around the ancient city. It looked no different from the last few times he'd visited, but somehow it felt different to him. He couldn't say why.
After Pato made some inquiries, they decided that Qin Cang would leave Chaos City today aboard a spaceship, passing through the Cosmic Passage.
On the way to the Cosmic Passage, Qin Cang spotted a reception envoy leading a group of young Universe Level cultivators toward the City Lord Mansion.
"Is it time for the Genius Battle to end again? The company has taken in another batch of new recruits."
He didn't pay them any more attention. Qin Cang knew that, for now, none of this had anything to do with him. His task was to make billions of races across the universe tremble at the mention of his name.
"Let's go. I'll make the whole universe remember the name Qin Cang!"
Qin Cang boarded the spaceship.
Beep!
The hatch shut. With a rumble, the spaceship surged into the depths of the chaotic flow.
Primal Secret Region, Wuchen Spacetime, Manor No. 101.
Qin Cang collected the equipment he'd purchased. The Virtual Universe Company's efficiency was truly impressive.
He had only just left the Initial Universe, and in less than three days, the equipment he needed had already been delivered to the manor. It included a large and a small detector, along with a G-grade claw-type Origin Force weapon.
During those three days, Qin Cang had been cultivating in the Virtual Universe's Killing Field, practicing the two claw techniques, Shattered Shadow and Seven Kills of Burning Sky. Shattered Shadow was based purely on the Space Law, so Qin Cang found it easy to pick up.
Moreover, after trying out the claw-type weapon, he felt that although it didn't suit him as well as a spear, it was still quite comfortable to use. For the Yan God Clan, who preferred close-quarters combat, claw-type weapons would definitely be a good choice in the future.
Unfortunately, the Human Race didn't have many great claw-technique experts. The Demon Race had the most powerful practitioners skilled in claw techniques. After all, when they were weak, the best weapons were naturally parts of their own bodies: claws, fangs, horns, wings, and so on.
The Human Race, on the other hand, had developed weapons like sabers, swords, spears, halberds, hammers, and axes much more extensively. They even had a Chaos Stele devoted to saber techniques: the Heart Trace Chaos Stele, which expounded on laws through saber techniques with profound intricacy. Blood Blade King was one of the grandmasters of its lineage.
As for axes, there was no need to say more. Giant Axe Founder and the Giant Axe Coliseum alone were enough to show how popular axes were among the Human Race.
Yet fist and claw weapons had never really caught on among the Human Race, and no notable experts had emerged who used them. At least, among the Venerables Qin Cang knew of, none used fists or claws as their primary weapons.
Even the two claw techniques, Shattered Shadow and Seven Kills of Burning Sky, clearly weren't created by Venerables, judging by their price alone. They were secret techniques created by two King-level Experts, and according to the ranking system for secret techniques, they were merely peak-tier.
Still, Qin Cang didn't mind. He had no intention of using claw-type weapons for the long term anyway. He simply didn't want the Heavy Treasure Huangyan Claw to go to waste.
Qin Cang still didn't understand why they had given him the Huangyan Battle Armor, a Heavy Treasure set, and why its weapon was the Huangyan Claw, a claw-type weapon he wasn't familiar with. Wasn't there anything else in the Human Race Treasury that suited him?
But they'd already given it to him, and free things were worth taking. It was just a claw technique; he only needed to learn it. It wasn't as if there were no benefits.
Once he entered the Outer-Region Battlefield, using claw techniques might even help him disguise his identity.
After all, why would someone who normally used a spear suddenly switch to claws?
Since their creators were only King-level Experts, neither claw technique was particularly difficult for Qin Cang. But that didn't mean he could master them completely in a short time.
Of course, no matter how profound a secret technique was, the ultimate goal was to create one's own. Only a technique created by oneself was truly suited to oneself and could bring out one's strength to the fullest.
To Qin Cang, these two claw techniques were merely a starting point. The most important thing was to find his own path in claw techniques, just as he had when learning spear techniques.
"Seven Kills of Burning Sky may not be as intricate as Shattered Shadow, but it contains traces of the Beast God's aura. Or rather, it's a secret technique created by a King-level Expert based on his insights into the Fire-Space Beast God."
After imitating and studying the technique over and over, Qin Cang finally noticed something strange: Seven Kills of Burning Sky actually contained the Beast God's artistic conception.
Although that artistic conception was faint, it was unmistakably the pure Beast God's artistic conception he had been searching for.
Ever since he had transmigrated into this world, Qin Cang had known of the Path of the Beast God. He wasn't qualified to judge whether the Path of the Beast God or the Path of Time and Space was stronger. After all, in his view, all the myriad Great Paths led to the same destination. The Path of the Beast God had produced many powerful figures, and the Path of Time and Space had likewise given rise to a host of mighty figures who shook the universe.
Yet the most important thing in pursuing the Path of the Beast God was imitating the Beast God's artistic conception. And how did one do that? By studying the Beast God's actions or by observing Beast God statues and trying to copy them again and again.
Back then, Luo Feng had made rapid progress along the Path of the Beast God by repeatedly imitating the Beast God statue he had obtained from Xueluo World, along with the Sacred Stele left behind by Shirodo and the giant Beast God statue.
When Qin Cang had pursued the Path of the Beast God, he too had struggled because he couldn't find any guidance on that path. In the end, he had set it aside for the time being and focused entirely on exploring the Space Law and spear techniques.
"Could it be that, when I sparred with Senior Brother back then, I revealed a trace of talent for the Fusion Law? Is that why the race ultimately gave me the Huangyan Battle Armor and a claw-type weapon I'd hardly ever used, forcing me to find this secret technique, Seven Kills of Burning Sky, and discover the Path of the Beast God?"
Qin Cang suddenly felt he'd found the answer. The race believed he had a talent for the Path of the Beast God but didn't want him to give up on it, so they had given him this Heavy Treasure to push him into seeking secret techniques related to that path again.
Qin Cang couldn't help laughing wryly. He didn't know how many members of the race cultivated the Path of the Beast God, but he could be sure they were exceedingly rare. And there were eight different paths within it, making practitioners of each individual path even rarer. If he clung to this elusive Path of the Beast God instead of studying the Space Law, which would let him progress fastest, wouldn't that be losing sight of the greater good?
He could study the Path of the Beast God anytime. He could always wait until he became an Immortal or even a Venerable before pursuing the Beast God's path.
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