Ross

"It's me!"

"Purple Radiance." Ross nodded slightly, then said in surprise, "I didn't expect that after millions of years apart, you too would break through and become an immortal god, Brother Qingshan!"

Back then, Lu Qingshan had been his final opponent in his charge into the Virtual Universe Company's core tier, and their battle had been extraordinarily fierce.

Although Ross had won in the end, it had not been an easy victory in the slightest.

So after the Genius Battle ended, Ross had gathered some information about Lu Qingshan.

But after reading those materials, Ross lost all interest in Lu Qingshan, who had nearly defeated him.

The records showed that Lu Qingshan had already cultivated for over six thousand years during the Genius Battle, while Ross himself had cultivated for only a little over three hundred years. This showed an extremely obvious gap between them in talent and comprehension, so naturally, he no longer paid attention to Lu Qingshan.

Ross had thought that he and Lu Qingshan would never cross paths again, yet after millions of years had passed, Lu Qingshan had actually broken through to become an immortal god as well!

Although Lu Qingshan's current strength was likely inferior to his own, becoming immortal meant possessing an eternal lifespan in the future. The gap between the two of them was therefore not all that great.

"I was just a little luckier," Lu Qingshan said with a smile.

"Luck is part of strength too!"

Ross quickly greeted him warmly. "Come, come, let's go inside and talk!"

Seeing this, Lu Qingshan immediately instructed the two World Master-level experts from the logistics department behind him, "All right, this mission can now be considered complete. You may return and report back."

"Yes, sir!" the two World Master-level experts answered respectfully before turning and leaving at once.

After the two World Masters departed, Lu Qingshan soon followed Ross into the living room of the luxurious villa.

"Brother Qingshan, come taste the fine wine I have here!"

After the two sat down, Ross waved a hand, and all kinds of fine wines and delicacies immediately appeared before Lu Qingshan. "This bottle of Divine Spirit Drunk cost me thirty million military merits to exchange from the military system. If I hadn't run into you, I definitely wouldn't be willing to take it out!"

"Thirty million military merits?" Lu Qingshan's heart stirred.

On the Extraterritorial Battlefield, every hundred thousand military merits could be exchanged for one chaos element unit, or one point!

Thirty million military merits amounted to three hundred chaos element units!

Spending three hundred chaos element units on a single bottle of wine was something even most immortal gods would be far too reluctant to do!

Lu Qingshan then drained the wine in his cup in one gulp, feeling his very soul tremble.

"Good wine!"

Lu Qingshan could not help but exclaim, "This Divine Spirit Drunk truly lives up to its name. It even has a nourishing effect on my immortal divine body! If I hadn't met you today, Ross, who knows how long it would have taken before I got to drink such fine wine in reality!"

"Hahaha, it's nothing! If you like this wine, Brother Qingshan, I'll exchange for another bottle later and give it to you!"

Ross smiled and said, "By the way, Brother Qingshan, when did you break through to become an immortal god?"

"I only broke through not long ago."

Lu Qingshan smiled. "Previously, I bought a World Master-level Initial Universe enlightenment slot and cultivated in the Initial Universe for three hundred years before successfully breaking through to the immortal realm. After that, I directly joined the Virtual Universe Company's transportation department!"

"Then I rested for a thousand years before officially taking up my post at the company headquarters. I didn't expect my first mission after joining to be delivering supplies to you, Ross!"

"What a coincidence!"

After hearing Lu Qingshan's words, Ross could not help but smile. "But that also shows that you and I are fated, Brother Qingshan!"

"Speaking of which, I rather envy you, Brother Qingshan."

Perhaps because it was rare for him to meet an old acquaintance, Ross gradually became more talkative. "After I joined the Virtual Universe Company back then, I constantly carried out all kinds of tempering missions according to the company's arrangements!"

"As a Universe-level cultivator, I was always adventuring in the various secret realms. As a Domain Lord, I returned to the branch of my universe country and held authority over an entire region. Once I broke through to the World Master level, I finally managed to enter the Heaven and Earth Secret Realm, only to still have to come to this Extraterritorial Battlefield for life-and-death tempering!"

"Isn't that pretty good?"

Lu Qingshan said with a smile, "With the Virtual Universe Company's tempering, your strength has improved far faster than mine. You should have already stepped into the marquis level by now, right?"

"Not really!"

Ross could not help shaking his head. "After breaking through to become an immortal god this time, I can barely be considered to possess marquis-level combat power because I cultivated an amplification secret technique that suits me extremely well. But my comprehension of the spatial origin laws is only at the level of the fourteenth floor of the Heavenward Bridge. I'm still some distance away from mastering the undying body, which is most important for a marquis-level powerhouse!"

"That's already incredibly impressive!"

Lu Qingshan could not help sighing. "My comprehension of the time origin laws is currently only comparable to the seventh floor of the Heavenward Bridge. If I hadn't comprehended the complete lightning origin laws, it would have been impossible for me to break through into the immortal realm!"

Hearing Lu Qingshan's words, Ross secretly nodded.

This was precisely the difference between geniuses like them, who had always been carefully cultivated by the five great powers, and ordinary outside cultivators after breaking through to become immortal gods.

From the very beginning, geniuses carefully nurtured by the five great powers pursued becoming superpowerhouses among immortals. Thus, while comprehending lower origin laws, they also spent more time and energy comprehending the more difficult higher origin laws.

Take Ross himself, for example. If he had focused wholeheartedly on comprehending the fire origin laws back then, he likely would have broken through to the immortal realm in less than a million years. The reason he had remained at the World Master level for millions of years was to use that opportunity to comprehend more of the spatial origin laws.

But in order to break through into the immortal realm, Lu Qingshan had needed to focus entirely on comprehending the lightning origin laws. He had not dared waste much time on the time origin laws at all.

The gap between the two of them was not the difference between the tenth floor of the Heavenward Bridge in lightning origin laws and the fourteenth floor in spatial origin laws. It was the difference between the seventh floor in time origin laws and the fourteenth floor in spatial origin laws!

Thus, for an immortal god like Lu Qingshan to improve his strength in the future, he would at the very least need to raise his comprehension of the time origin laws from the seventh floor of the Heavenward Bridge to the eleventh floor.

After breaking through to become immortal gods, comprehending origin laws was far more difficult than it had been at the World Master stage. So even if they experienced incomparably long years, they would likely find it difficult to make even the slightest progress.

But what Ross did not know was that before Lu Qingshan had broken through into the immortal realm, his comprehension of the time origin laws had only been comparable to the fifth floor of the Heavenward Bridge.

In other words, in just a thousand short years, Lu Qingshan had raised his comprehension of the time origin laws by two whole levels, even crossing the major threshold from the sixth floor to the seventh!

Such a rate of progress had already surpassed Ross's own rate of progress back then. More importantly, Lu Qingshan had already broken through into the immortal realm!

If Lu Qingshan were still at the World Master stage, just how astonishing would his rate of progress be?

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