"And the moment you go out to gain experience, the Alien Races will hunt you down without fail!"
Yan Ning nodded. He agreed completely. He truly couldn't stay on Redbud Island forever.
Becoming a true powerhouse—someone like a Universe Overlord or Universe Venerable—wasn't something one could achieve through secluded cultivation alone.
If one stayed in the same place and cultivated in silence, one might never break through in an entire lifetime.
That applied even to him!
Except for those naturally born Beast Gods.
The Universe Overlords throughout the history of the Primal Universe had all possessed heaven-defying opportunities.
And they had continued to break through their limits amid countless trials of blood and fire
Every one of them had stepped over endless piles of corpses!
Naturally, he would have to go through the same thing.
It was just that Golden Feather Venerable didn't know he had the Chaos Bell, or that he was carrying so many Treasures.
And with the system, his safety was completely guaranteed.
As long as he didn't encounter an existence beyond the norm, no one could possibly kill him.
Even if he did run into such an existence, he was confident he could escape—or self-destruct!
After all, his clone was still deep within Human Territory.
"Don't worry, Teacher. You know how good I am at staying alive. And if I go out to gain experience, I'll conceal my identity. I won't let the Alien Races discover me easily."
Golden Feather Venerable nodded. He knew Yan Ning had his own ideas.
"Good. Even so, you still need to be extremely careful. If things become impossible, just self-destruct. The race will bring you back to life afterward."
"Got it."
Meanwhile.
To kill Yan Ning, the Demon Clan, Zerg Clan, and Mechanical Clan had formed an unusual alliance.
"Demon Flame King, the human, has now entered the Fourth Layer of the Inheritance. That means he's come a very long way along the Beast God Path. He's probably not far from becoming a Universe Venerable. We can't keep wasting time like this. Once he becomes a Universe Venerable, killing him will cost us even more!"
"What should we do? If he keeps hiding on Redbud Island and refuses to come out, how are we supposed to kill him?"
"We can only wait until he goes out to gain experience, then kill him!"
"No need to rush. The reason he advanced so quickly through the Third Layer was his accumulation over hundreds of millions of years. The Fourth Layer won't be so easy!"
"When he reaches a bottleneck, he'll have no choice but to go out and temper himself!"
They all knew that Demon Flame King wouldn't stay on Redbud Island forever, not if he wanted to keep making breakthroughs!
And given his current strength, there weren't many places that could provide the trials he needed.
The Outer Domain Battlefield was unlikely.
That meant he would most likely choose a secret realm belonging to the Ancestral God Sect, or some other Cosmic Secret Realm.
For now, all they could do was wait for him to come out and leave Redbud Island!
In the blink of an eye, twenty thousand years passed. During all that time, Yan Ning showed no sign of leaving Redbud Island. He kept cultivating there.
One day.
The doors to Yan Ning's residence finally opened after a long time, immediately drawing the attention of the three clans' watchers.
"Look, Demon Flame King is out! Good grief, he stayed in his residence for five thousand years this time!"
"Was he really not planning to go out?"
In several of the countless palace residences on Redbud Island.
Several Undying experts from the Alien Races stared intently at his figure.
Only after Yan Ning entered the Fountain Water Curtain and disappeared did they look away.
Then they quickly reported the information they had gathered to their clans' leaders.
To be honest, they were getting a little anxious.
For more than twenty thousand years, Demon Flame King had rarely even visited the Inheritance Land.
He came out only once every few thousand years.
In other words, Demon Flame King had been comprehending the inheritance the entire time!
After receiving their subordinates' report, Sky Wolf Lord and several other Universe Overlords from the Zerg Clan and Mechanical Clan smiled. "He has so many Glory Points, yet he waits this long between visits to the inheritance!"
"I refuse to believe you can stay hidden forever. The moment you appear in the universe will be the day you die!"
Their guess was right. Yan Ning's rate of comprehension had slowed considerably.
Going out to gain experience had practically become inevitable.
He opened the system.
The task system had refreshed long ago.
But he'd been occupied with receiving the Ancestral God Sect's inheritance, so he hadn't had a chance to complete the task.
Now that his rate of comprehension had slowed, this was the perfect opportunity to take care of it.
"Sign-in task: Go to the Sky Dome Secret Realm and obtain the Falling Cloud Secret Realm Core."
A set of coordinates for the Sky Dome Secret Realm followed.
After the task appeared.
Yan Ning carefully checked the records in the human Virtual Universe, but found no information about this secret realm.
Worried he might not have sufficient access, Yan Ning even went out of his way to ask his teacher, Golden Feather Venerable. The answer was that there truly was no information about the secret realm.
That meant it was very likely a secret realm that had yet to be discovered.
That made things a little difficult.
Because it meant the secret realm was most likely outside Human Territory.
It might even be outside the territories of all the major peak races.
After all, the Primal Universe was so vast that no one could explore every corner of it.
Half a month later.
Inside Yan Ning's residence.
Divine Kingdom Teleportation!
Whoosh!
Yan Ning vanished from where he stood.
When he appeared again, he was already in outer space.
After careful investigation, he confirmed that the secret realm's coordinates were indeed outside the territories of the major races.
The location he had teleported to was already the closest possible point.
"Before I set out, I should replenish my divine body."
Although he had a Black Hole Divine Body a million kilometers across with him, it still didn't feel safe enough.
So he decided to go back and bring a few more!
Whoosh!
His figure disappeared once more.
This time, he appeared near his Black Hole Clone, which was located within Human Territory.
Before him lay a sight that shook the soul.
A supermassive black hole with a diameter of more than seventy billion kilometers stretched across the void. Its event horizon could easily swallow the entire Solar System.
It wasn't like an ordinary black hole, just a dark spot. Instead, it resembled an endless sea of darkness, swallowing the entire starry sky.
Around this terrifying celestial body, the gravitational pull tore at the remnants of billions of planets, forming a field of cosmic debris that stretched for hundreds of billions of kilometers.
Before falling into the black hole, these fragments were first torn apart by tidal forces into elementary particles. Then, as they approached the event horizon, they accelerated to nearly the speed of light, forming a brilliant ring of plasma around the black hole.
Even from several light-years away, Yan Ning could feel a faint tremor in space.
His robes snapped in the ripples of space, and even the light visibly warped at that distance.
"Tsk, tsk. After tens of thousands of years of development, my Black Hole Clone has grown to more than seventy billion kilometers across. That's terrifying, to say the least."
Yan Ning reckoned that even a Universe Overlord might not gain the upper hand in the region where this Black Hole Clone was.
With a wave of his hand, more than a thousand World Rings appeared before him in an instant.
The next moment, the supermassive black hole, seven hundred billion kilometers across, gave a slight tremor. The Law Secret Patterns on its surface twisted and writhed like living creatures.
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