After obtaining the God King high-grade Divine Sword and the Chess Sword Sea, Chen Ao's strength increased once more.
"I can absolutely take on an intermediate-level Chaos Master head-on!"
Chen Ao assessed his strength. All he could say was that the E Skill was a truly divine skill. True Damage simply defied reason.
With no resources on hand and no way to improve his secret techniques in the short term, Chen Ao looked south, where a city stood.
"Dark Nether City!"
He first took a teleportation array to the edge of the Haotian Sect's territory, then teleported southwest.
Having traveled this route before, he found the return journey much easier.
Still, it would not save him much time.
About fifteen hundred years later, Chen Ao arrived at Dark Nether City.
"Most other people probably wouldn't come back for revenge. But unfortunately for you, I'm Chen Ao!"
Carrying his greatsword, Chen Ao teleported straight into Dark Nether City.
Dark Nether City was only an Eternal Level power, after all. The surrounding land was so barren that no God King or Chaos Master wanted it. Otherwise, the Dark Nether City Lord would never have had the chance to rule it.
On the Origin Continent, buffer zones like these lay between the various God King forces. They prevented direct contact between territories and the conflicts that might follow, and they were also lands of little consequence.
They produced few resources and were not worth the effort of occupying.
To occupy a region, God King forces also needed experts at the Eternal True God level or above to build cities and ensure their safety.
Moreover, if another God King force was right next door, the city lord had to be a Chaos Master. An Eternal True God could not keep things under control.
But