The Yan God Clan, Yan Ning

Human territory.

An unknown secret realm, within it nothing but emptiness.

In this void, a fiery red figure drifted.

This figure was enormous, standing four to five hundred meters tall, with a single horn on its forehead, a fiery red body, and clad in armor.

He floated through this space, unsure how long he had been drifting.

Suddenly, the figure's eyelids twitched, then slowly opened.

"Where... am I?"

The voice came from the giant's mouth; he seemed still somewhat dazed, not yet fully aware.

"Didn't I die? How am I here, and where... is this?"

Instinctively looking around, Yan Ning felt at a loss. He clearly remembered that a second ago, he seemed to have been hit by a car. How did it feel like he had just taken a nap?

And now he was in this sunless place.

"Could this be the legendary underworld?"

Yan Ning muttered unconsciously.

The next moment, an immensely vast memory surged into his mind.

He instinctively covered his head and closed his eyes.

This memory was incredibly vast, as if spanning endless epochs, making him momentarily uncomfortable.

After a while, he fully absorbed this enormous flood of memories.

"So... I've transmigrated?"

Yan Ning finally realized—he had crossed over.

Human race, Virtual Universe Company, number one in the Genius War, Yan God Clan!

Good heavens, he had actually transmigrated into a member of the Yan God Clan.

But it seemed that at this moment, the Yan God Clan had not yet broken away from the human race.

He carefully sorted through his thoughts.

To put it simply, the body he had crossed into was also named Yan Ning, a genius of the Yan God Clan. Back then, he had been the number one in that year's Virtual Universe Company Genius War.

He entered the Original Secret Realm, cultivated for tens of thousands of years, broke through to immortality, and came to the Outer Domain Battlefield to make his name.

As a genius of the Yan God Clan, as soon as he broke through, he became a King-level Immortal, combined with the Yan God Clan's innate talent.

Which was essentially their bodies.

After crossing over, through a deep analysis of his memories.

He was surprised to discover that the Yan God Clan's bodies seemed different from ordinary lifeforms of the Original Universe.

The Yan God Clan's genes could evolve as they themselves grew stronger.

And the original owner, the former Yan Ning, was a super genius who had already evolved five times.

His gene level was 48 times that of an ordinary universal lifeform!

This evolvable gene naturally reminded him of the Nine Tribulations Secret Codex.

A secret technique that only one person in the Original Universe could cultivate!

In the original story, Luo Feng's success was largely due to the Nine Tribulations Secret Codex.

And the Yan God Clan's talent was strikingly similar to the Nine Tribulations Secret Codex!

No wonder—the Yan God Clan was a race created by Sitting Mountain Guest. How could they lack special talents?

The original story made it very clear: the Earth lineage excelled in souls, while the Yan God Clan excelled in bodies!

So that was what it meant.

Born with a natural Nine Tribulations Secret Codex!

On this point alone, the Yan God Clan could be called one of the strongest races in the Original Universe!

Of course, not every Yan God Clan member could continuously evolve their genes; that depended on talent.

In the original owner's memories, aside from the Yan Emperor, no one in the Yan God Clan had broken through the hundred-fold gene limit.

That is, evolving seven times, with gene multiples breaking through 192 times.

Most people spent their entire lives unable to evolve even to the third time.

The original owner could evolve five times—no wonder he was called a genius among the Yan God Clan.

The original Yan Ning had just broken through to immortality and directly reached the King level. With the ten thousand times peak Sector Lord power provided by his General-class armor, plus the Blood Luo Force!

His combat power was close to the King-level limit!

But his luck was truly terrible.

Not long after arriving at the Outer Domain Battlefield, he ran into a Demon Clan King-level Invincible.

The original host was directly struck into severe injury, burning divine power as he desperately fled to escape.

But because of the excessive strain on his body, he fell into a deep slumber.

When he woke up again, it was now—he had become the present Yan Ning.

Still... this wasn't bad!

He had long grown tired of the miserable wage-slave life on Earth day after day; crossing over into this world was, for him, an absolute thrill.

Not to mention his starting hand—calling it a heavenly opening wouldn't be an exaggeration.

Right off the bat, he was a Marquis-level Immortal! With endless life!

If he didn't want to die, he could live straight until the original universe was destroyed!

"Alright, then let's head out now. I wonder where I've drifted to. Is this place still within human territory?"

His consciousness connected to his divine kingdom, and the next moment, the divine kingdom—who knows how many light-years away—responded, a gate of light opening before him.

He stepped into it.

Activating divine kingdom teleportation.

He planned to teleport directly to human territory. So many years had passed—he didn't know how things were.

Divine kingdom teleportation—this technique was a gift from the original universe to all who broke through to become undying beings.

No matter the distance, as long as a divine kingdom coordinate remained, one could teleport directly there.

It was an unbeatable choice for long-distance travel.

Of course, using divine kingdom teleportation came with considerable consumption, but for Yan Ning, whose divine body now stood five hundred meters tall, that consumption was negligible.

Yan Ning's figure stepped out of the divine kingdom teleportation passage. Around him stretched endless starry space, with distant stars dotting the dark universe with their light.

"This place... is the Noah Universe Kingdom?"

He looked around, quickly retrieving the original host's memories to confirm his location.

The Noah Universe Kingdom—one of the 1,008 high-level universe kingdoms within human territory, not too far from the Virtual Universe Company headquarters, the "Original Universe."

"Good, still within human territory."

Yan Ning breathed a sigh of relief.

Though his current condition had recovered somewhat, he had been severely wounded by the pinnacle-level demon king of the demon race, his divine power heavily depleted, and he needed time to recover.

Moreover, his current identity was still a member of the Virtual Universe Company's Original Secret Realm. Since he had returned to human territory, he naturally had to report in first.

"First, contact the Virtual Universe Company."

With a thought, Yan Ning's consciousness connected to the virtual universe network.

Virtual universe, Rain Phase Mountain, Original District.

As the former champion of the genius battle, Yan Ning held extremely high authority within the Virtual Universe Company. As soon as he logged in, he received a massive backlog of emails and messages.

"Hm? So many emails and messages. Just how long has it been?"

Yan Ning frowned slightly.

It seemed the time he had spent in slumber was longer than he had imagined.

"The Virtual Universe Company didn't even judge me as dead?"

He was a bit surprised.

Generally, if an Immortal went missing for a long time, the Virtual Universe Company would default them as fallen and revoke some privileges.

But Yan Ning's account still retained his Original Secret Realm membership qualifications, and there were even a few emails urging him to return.

"Looks like the Virtual Universe Company values me quite a bit."

A faint smile curled at the corner of Yan Ning's mouth.

He casually opened a few emails, one of which came from the Virtual Universe Company's upper echelons.

"Yan Ning, if you are still alive, return to the company immediately for a debriefing. The Yan God Clan lineage has recently shown unusual movements. The Yan Emperor is suspected of contacting the Mechanical Clan. The company needs your intelligence."

"The Yan Emperor?"

Yan Ning's gaze sharpened.

In the original story, the Yan Emperor later betrayed humanity, leading the Yan God Clan to break away from the human race and establish their own faction.

Could it be...

He immediately began checking information through the virtual universe.

Sure enough, he couldn't find it!

Could it be that during the years he had been asleep, the Yan God Clan had already broken away from humanity?