Forty-Six: Over 70 Billion Kilometers

"Once you go out to train, you will absolutely be hunted by the alien races!"

Yan Ning nodded, deeply agreeing with this. He truly couldn't stay on Redbud Island forever.

To become a true powerhouse, like a Universe Master or Universe Venerable, one couldn't break through by secluded cultivation alone.

If he stubbornly stayed in one place silently training, he wouldn't break through even in a lifetime.

Even he was no exception!

Except for those innate Beast Gods.

Every Universe Master in the history of the original universe had achieved their status with heaven-defying opportunities.

And through countless tempering in blood and fire, they constantly pushed past their limits.

Each one stood atop endless bones!

He naturally couldn't skip this step either.

But Golden Feather Venerable didn't know he had the Chaos Bell, nor did he know about his full set of treasures.

Or the system. His safety was completely guaranteed.

As long as it wasn't an existence beyond the norm, none could take his life.

Even against such existences, he had confidence he could escape or self-destruct!

After all, his clone was still deep within human territory.

"Rest assured, Teacher, you know my survival abilities. And if I go out to train, I'll conceal my identity so the alien races won't easily discover me."

Golden Feather Venerable nodded. He knew Yan Ning had his own thoughts.

"Good, but even so, be careful in everything. If things become untenable, just self-destruct. The race will revive you then."

"Got it."

On the other side.

The three major races—the Demon Clan, the Zerg Clan, and the Mechanical Clan—had rarely united to kill Yan Ning.

"Human Demon Flame King has already entered the Fourth Inheritance. This means his Beast God Path has advanced very far. He's likely not far from breaking through to Universe Venerable. We can't waste time like this. Once he becomes a Universe Venerable, the cost to kill him will be much greater!"

"What should we do? If he keeps hiding on Redbud Island, how can we kill him?"

"We can only kill him when he comes out to train!"

"No rush. The reason he cultivated the Third Inheritance so fast was his billions of years of accumulation. The Fourth Inheritance won't be so simple!"

"When he hits a bottleneck, he'll have to come out and train!"

They all understood that Demon Flame King couldn't stay on Redbud Island forever, as long as he still wanted to break through.

And with his current strength, there weren't many places suitable for his training.

The Outer Domain Battlefield was unlikely.

In other words, he would most likely choose the Ancestral God Sect's secret realms or other universe secret realms.

Now they just had to wait, wait for him to come out and leave Redbud Island!

Time passed in the blink of an eye for twenty thousand years. During these twenty thousand years, Yan Ning showed no intention of leaving Redbud Island at all, training here the whole time.

This day.

The gates of Yan Ning's mansion finally opened after a long time, immediately drawing the attention of the three races' monitors.

"Look, Demon Flame King is out. Damn, he stayed in his mansion for five thousand years this time!"

"Is he really not planning to leave?"

In several of the countless palaces and mansions on Redbud Island.

A few alien Undyings stared fixedly at his figure.

Only after Yan Ning entered the Fountain Water Curtain and disappeared did they withdraw their gazes.

Then, they quickly reported the gathered information to their race's high-level members.

To be honest, they were getting a bit anxious.

For over twenty thousand years, Demon Flame King had rarely even gone to the Inheritance Land.

He only came out once every few thousand years.

That meant Demon Flame King had been in seclusion the whole time!

Receiving the information reported by their subordinates, Sky Wolf Lord and the other Universe Masters from the Zerg and Mechanical Clans all showed smiles: "With so many Glory Points, yet he waits so long to go to the Inheritance!"

"I don't believe you can stay inside forever. The moment you appear in the universe will be your death!"

Their guess was correct. Yan Ning's comprehension speed had already slowed significantly.

Going out to train was almost inevitable.

He opened the system.

The mission system had already refreshed.

The only reason he hadn't done this task before was that he'd been stuck receiving an inheritance in the Ancestral God Sect.

Now that his comprehension speed had slowed down, it was the perfect time to go take care of it.

"Task check-in: Head to the Sky Dome Secret Realm to obtain the Falling Cloud Secret Realm Core."

Attached was a coordinate for the Sky Dome Secret Realm.

After this task refreshed, Yan Ning had carefully looked into it. In the records of the human Virtual Universe, there was no information about this secret realm.

Worried that his authority might be insufficient, he even specifically asked his teacher, Golden Feather Venerable. The final result was that there really was no information on this secret realm.

That meant this secret realm was very likely one that hadn't been discovered yet.

That made things quite a bit harder.

Because it meant this secret realm probably wasn't within human territory.

It might not even be within the territories of any of the peak races.

After all, the Primordial Universe was so vast that no one could explore every inch of it.

Half a month later.

Inside Yan Ning's estate.

Divine Kingdom Teleportation!

Whoosh!

The next moment, Yan Ning's figure vanished from where he stood.

When he reappeared, he was already in outer space.

After careful study, the coordinates of this secret realm were indeed outside the territories of several races.

The spot he'd teleported to was already the closest possible location.

"Before I set out, I should replenish my Divine Body first."

Even though he had a Black Hole Clone with a million-kilometer Divine Body on him, he still felt it wasn't safe enough.

Forget it, he'd go back and grab a few more!

Swish!

His figure vanished again.

This time, he appeared near the Black Hole Clone located within human territory.

Looking out, what unfolded before him was a cosmic scene that shook the soul.

A supermassive black hole, over seventy billion kilometers in diameter, hung across the void. Its event horizon could easily swallow the entire solar system.

It wasn't just a dark speck like an ordinary black hole. Instead, it was like a boundless sea of darkness, devouring the entire starfield.

Around this terrifying celestial body, the wreckage of billions of stars was torn apart by gravity, forming a nebula of rubble stretching hundreds of billions of kilometers.

Before these fragments fell into the black hole, they were first ripped into elementary particles by tidal forces, then accelerated to near light speed as they approached the event horizon, forming a dazzling ring of plasma around the black hole.

Standing several light-years away, Yan Ning could still feel the faint tremors transmitted through space.

His robes rustled loudly in the spatial ripples, and even light visibly bent at this distance.

"Tsk tsk, after tens of thousands of years of development, the Black Hole Clone has now reached a diameter of over seventy billion kilometers. That's truly terrifying."

Yan Ning estimated that even a Universe Overlord might not necessarily gain the upper hand within the domain occupied by this Black Hole Clone.

With a wave of his hand, thousands of World Rings appeared before him in an instant.

The next moment, the supermassive black hole, seven hundred billion kilometers in diameter, began to tremble gently. The law patterns on the black hole's surface writhed and twisted like living things.