Within the boundless void of the Dark Universe, aboard a yellow saucer-shaped spacecraft, Hundred Ape Marquis hid in the lounge, his face filled with terror.
After escaping from Su Heng, he did not even dare remain in the Guangluo Shattered Star Belt. As for where he would go after leaving?
In any case, he would never return to this Shattered Star Belt again!
He did not even want to stay on the Seventh Battlefield for long. After losing 20% of his divine body, his strength had fallen severalfold.
And it was not as though he had no enemies.
Guangluo Shattered Star Belt.
After seeing Hundred Ape Marquis flee, Su Heng put away the Star-Eating Grass and his clone, then swiftly left the area.
On the Extraterritorial Battlefield, once a battle broke out, it had to be resolved quickly. After all, one never knew how many people nearby might hear the disturbance and come to investigate.
Strictly speaking, Su Heng had already spent quite a long time on this battlefield. First, he had fought the Man-Bull Tribe squad, then he had fiercely battled Hundred Ape Marquis for some time.
The reason no one else had come for so long was mainly because their battle had been far too intense, while there were no particularly powerful experts around the outskirts of the Shattered Star Belt.
However, since too much time had been spent, Su Heng could not guarantee that Marquis-level Immortals from the central region had not arrived. That was why he intended to withdraw quickly.
After leaving that stretch of void by a sufficient distance, Su Heng chose an area where more human squads were gathered.
Inside a fragment of a shattered star, Su Heng first took out the spoils he had obtained from the Man-Bull Tribe squad and sorted through them.
Top-Grade Probe, Immortal Battle Armor, divine weapons, resources.
Four Immortals and six World Lord Generals had brought him nearly seven million Primal Chaos Units.
That was a fortune comparable to a low-level Marquis, and that was after much of the loot had been lost!
"Not bad, not bad. This probe can be given to Little An. He should be nearing the time for his life-and-death trials as well."
After categorizing the spoils and storing them in a World Ring, Su Heng looked at the exceptionally fine probe.
This single probe alone accounted for more than half the value of the spoils.
Although it was inferior to the probe he had exchanged for, this was already the standard of probe used by most Marquis-level experts.
After sorting through the loot, Su Heng began considering his own strength.
First was his main body, the body of the Luoheng Clan.
After the enhancement of his destiny, his body's genetic level had now reached 110 times.
Furthermore, his past experiences in the Blood Luo World had made him a Blood Warrior who had fused eight Blood Luo Crystals. At the genetic level, this brought another nearly fourfold increase.
That amounted to 440 times the power of a World Lord!
Moreover, over these ten million years, Su Heng had not only brought his physical exertion to the hundredfold limit, but had also cultivated an ultimate secret technique capable of amplifying his body.
The secret technique had five levels. The first increased amplification by three times, the second by six times, the third by twelve times, all the way up to the final level's forty-eightfold body amplification.
Su Heng had now cultivated it to the second level, granting him sixfold body amplification.
With all these factors stacked together, his full-strength attacks could now reach roughly 2,640 times the power of a World Lord, nearing the high Marquis level!
If he added the use of his ultimate techniques, he would hold a certain advantage even against ordinary high-level Marquises!
His only shortcoming was that he still possessed merely a World Lord body. He could not burn Immortal divine power, and his body's defenses were also inferior to a Marquis's undying body.
Under the influence of all these conditions, his true level should be that of an ordinary high-level Marquis.
Of course, if his clone and Immortal plant were included, that would be another matter entirely.
The Four-Silver Clone was itself a Special Lifeform, born with a genetic level 126 times greater than normal. After its destiny enhancement, it gained another hundredfold increase, reaching a genetic level of 226 times.
Because its innate genetic level was so high, the Four-Silver Clone could fuse far more Blood Luo Crystals than Su Heng's main body. It had fused a total of forty-seven.
If Domain Lords had been able to enter the Blood Luo World again, then under the refinement of baleful energy, the Four-Silver Clone might even have been able to perfectly fuse one hundred Blood Luo Crystals!
Even so, when the Four-Silver Clone fully mobilized Blood Luo Power, it could gain an additional fifteenfold increase in physical strength!
The body-amplification secret technique was not particularly compatible with the Four-Silver Clan, however. Even now, the Four-Silver Clone had only cultivated it to the first level and could only achieve threefold amplification.
With everything stacked together, the Four-Silver Clone's full-powered strike could reach roughly 10,170 times the power of a World Lord—solidly at the threshold of King-level!
And all of this was merely the initial enhancement of his destiny!
If he raised his secret techniques to the pinnacle level, then cultivated the amplification secret technique to the third or fourth level, just how far would his strength grow?
Just thinking about it made Su Heng excited. Before gaining his destiny, he could at most have been called a genius seen once in a hundred thousand epochs.
For a World Lord to contend against a Marquis was already the limit!
"Hmm? An email from the Virtual Universe Company?"
Just then, a notification from his intelligent lifeform interrupted Su Heng's thoughts.
Immersing a portion of his consciousness into the Virtual Universe, Su Heng opened the email.
"Core member Su Heng of the Primal Secret Realm:
Through the Virtual Universe's assessment, your strength has already reached the Immortal King level. By rights, you should have been directly admitted into humanity's supreme ranks.
However, because your lifespan is approaching its limit, we cannot guarantee whether you will break through to the Immortal realm within these ten epochs.
Therefore, based on your present circumstances, we have proposed the following options.
First, leave the Extraterritorial Battlefield immediately and proceed to the Initial Universe. We have arranged for a Space Honored One to instruct you in secret techniques for ten epochs.
Second, abandon your current body and transform into a suitable Special Lifeform. Given your current comprehension of the laws, you have roughly a 70% chance of breaking through to the Immortal realm.
Third, continue your journey on the Extraterritorial Battlefield. If you require any resources, they may be exchanged for at a discounted price.
No matter which path you choose, we hope that you will successfully break through to the Immortal realm and add another pillar to the foundation of our human race.
Virtual Universe Company."
"Even the Virtual Universe Company sent an email? Could Teacher have intervened somehow, or perhaps some Universe Lord?"
Seeing this email, Su Heng found it extremely surprising. After all, the Virtual Universe Company's cultivation of core members was essentially raising venomous insects, and in some respects it was even more brutal than that!
Still, becoming a core member of the Virtual Universe Company had been a voluntary choice from the start.
The Virtual Universe Company rarely interfered with the choices of its core members. Take Bolan from the original story, for example.
Even though he had chosen a Chaos Tablet unsuited to him, even though he was a genius seen only once in several hundred thousand epochs, not a single high-ranking figure interfered with his choice.
Otherwise, if Lord of Chaos City had directly ordered him to choose the Nine Universe Chaos Tablet, do you think Bolan would have refused?
There is one more chapter, later.
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