Qian Yu's Past

Five-Thousand-Five-Hundredfold Gene Level!

What kind of concept was that?

Throughout the entire Primordial Universe, every Special Lifeform capable of reaching such a Gene Level was a terrifying existence born of heaven and earth, with heaven-defying strength and potential.

Yet this little fellow, as a human, possessed such a clone.

It was truly unimaginably heaven-defying.

Of course, aside from shock, the Chaos City Lord had no other thoughts.

He did not harbor the slightest covetous intent.

At his level, treasures and fortuitous encounters had long ceased to matter to him.

The only thing he cared about was the future of the entire Human Race.

And with a single glance, he could determine that this little fellow before him was one of the Human Race's future hopes.

Leaving everything else aside, Qian Yu's Five-Thousand-Five-Hundredfold Gene Level Special Life Clone alone guaranteed that, so long as he could grow, he would absolutely become a powerful overlord renowned across the universe.

There was even a slight possibility that he might reach the Chaos City Lord's current level.

How could he possibly harbor ill intentions toward such a gifted human junior?

He was the Chaos City Lord.

The guardian of the Human Race.

The only thing he was curious about now was how Qian Yu had broken through the Gene Level limit.

"How exactly did he do it?"

The Chaos City Lord muttered to himself, then shifted his thoughts.

He began examining everything in Qian Yu's past through the Virtual Universe. Before long, Qian Yu's life records appeared before him like flowing water.

He read through them one by one, growing more shocked the further he went.

The first thing that caught his eye was Qian Yu's background.

A slave.

A slave implanted with a Slave Chip and sold as merchandise.

The Chaos City Lord's brows furrowed slightly.

This background could not merely be called ordinary. It could only be described as utterly terrible.

In the vast Primordial Universe, slaves were the lowliest of existences, with no rights and no future.

Their fates were determined from the moment the chip was implanted.

Qian Yu had been such a slave.

The records of his early years were completely blank, containing only his slave number and the Slave Organization he belonged to.

The Chaos City Lord continued reading.

He broke through to the Cosmic Level and escaped the Slave Planet.

This had been the first turning point in Qian Yu's life.

In such a desperate environment, he had actually broken through to the Cosmic Level, then destroyed the Slave Chip by destroying his brain and escaped that planet that held countless slaves captive.

"Destroyed the Slave Chip..."

A glint flashed through the Chaos City Lord's eyes.

That meant he had already obtained that clone by then!

The Chaos City Lord continued reading.

After cultivating for a hundred years, he became a Domain Lord.

This speed was not among the best in the Primordial Universe, where geniuses gathered in droves, but it was certainly not slow either.

Considering that Qian Yu had started as a slave, with no resources and no guidance, such speed was already astonishing.

After that, Qian Yu immediately returned to that Slave Planet and killed the leader of the Slave Organization that had once enslaved him.

The Chaos City Lord nodded slightly.

He repaid kindness and avenged grievances. Such a disposition was not bad.

Then, Qian Yu purchased 512 cubic kilometers of Locke Divine Water.

The Chaos City Lord raised a brow.

Locke Divine Water was an exceedingly precious cultivation resource used specifically to nurture plant lifeforms.

512 cubic kilometers was an amount that even many Immortals could not afford.

Qian Yu, a Domain Lord who had only just broken through...

He must have obtained it from that slave trader.

He continued reading.

The later records were relatively ordinary.

Until his final participation in the auction and entry into Chaos City—those were all plainly visible.

The Chaos City Lord fell into deep thought.

Qian Yu being able to destroy the Slave Chip and escape indicated that his Special Life Clone had already been conceived by then.

Otherwise, a Cosmic Level expert destroying his own head would undoubtedly die.

So when had he obtained this clone?

The Chaos City Lord turned his attention to Qian Yu's even earlier life.

But that section was almost entirely blank.

The records from his time as a slave were pitifully scarce.

There were only simple dates, identification numbers, and records of several resales.

As for what he had experienced or encountered on those planets, there was no record whatsoever.

The Chaos City Lord fell silent.

He could almost certainly conclude that Qian Yu had obtained that heaven-defying fortuitous encounter at some point while he was still a slave.

Perhaps it had been some kind of cosmic miracle that even he could not comprehend...

Whatever it was, that encounter had completely changed Qian Yu's fate.

"He truly is an unfortunate yet fortunate little fellow..."

The Chaos City Lord sighed softly.

He had been unfortunate to be born a slave, struggling to survive at the very bottom.

But he had been fortunate enough to seize that sliver of life amid despair, soaring into the skies from then on.

He withdrew his gaze, a trace of gratification flashing through his eyes.

The Human Race had gained another seed with limitless potential.

As for how Qian Yu had broken through the Gene Level limit, he would not investigate further.

Everyone had secrets. As long as Qian Yu was human, and as long as his heart was with humanity, that was enough.

This little fellow was worth nurturing.

But before that, he wanted to see Qian Yu's performance in cultivation.

With a thought, he pulled up Qian Yu's records in Chaos City—especially his results in challenging the Heavenly Bridge.

As the ruler of Chaos City, he could review every cultivator's Heavenly Bridge challenge records at any time.

Soon, the information appeared before him.

"Nine Universe Chaos Stele... His first challenge of the Heavenly Bridge, and he directly cleared the Tenth Floor..."

The Chaos City Lord raised a brow slightly.

Was it particularly remarkable for a Realm Lord to reach the Tenth Floor of the Heavenly Bridge?

Of course it was.

One had to know that the Tenth Floor of the Heavenly Bridge corresponded to the level of law comprehension of an ordinary Immortal.

For a Realm Lord to reach such a level, he was already a minor genius.

But what truly caught the Chaos City Lord's attention was not the result itself, but the time Qian Yu had taken to achieve it.

It had only been a little over a hundred years since Qian Yu broke through to the Cosmic Level and escaped the Slave Planet.

A little over a hundred years ago, he had merely been a slave struggling amid despair, without even the most basic cultivation resources, let alone any profound guidance.

A little over a hundred years later, he was already a Realm Lord, and his law comprehension had reached the Immortal level.

What did that mean?

It meant that Qian Yu's cultivation over the past hundred-odd years had almost entirely been the result of his own exploration!

He had no famous teacher, no systematic cultivation framework, no massive supply of resources—only a heaven-defying clone and a heart unwilling to sink into obscurity.

Yet he had stumbled forward step by step until reaching where he was today.

A trace of shock flashed through the Chaos City Lord's eyes.

"This little fellow's talent... is far from as simple as what he has displayed so far."

He sighed softly.

If Qian Yu had received systematic training from childhood, if he had entered a core force such as the Virtual Universe Company early on, then with his talent and fortuitous encounters, what heights would he have reached by now?

The Chaos City Lord could not imagine it.

But he knew that he absolutely could not miss out on such a human junior.

"Qian Yu, from the Ganwu Universe Country... He obtained a place to comprehend the Initial Universe through an auction at the Ganwu Auction House... He only has three thousand years of comprehension time, and once the time is up, he will leave..."