Clearly, the Chaos City Lord had not cared whether Chen Ao left the Inner Mansion of Chaos City. Or perhaps he had tacitly allowed Chen Ao to keep living there.
This made Chen Ao very happy.
"At least my teacher, the Chaos City Lord, probably won't mind if I stay here for ten thousand years!"
Actually, ten thousand years was too short. He hoped he could push for a hundred million eras!
Of course, a World Lord like him could not live that long, so he would settle for nine million nine hundred thousand years!
"Breaking through to Undying wouldn't be a problem, either. But then my teacher wouldn't pay attention to me anymore!"
A genius World Lord and a genius Undying were two different things. If Chen Ao could not demonstrate sufficient talent after his breakthrough, the Chaos City Lord would naturally give up on him.
"I'll cultivate for ten thousand years first. By then, Luo Feng should have risen to prominence, too!"
Next, Chen Ao planned to focus on cultivating in Chaos City.
"Your Highness Chen Ao, because you cleared the Primal Heavenly Mountain at both the Universe Level and the Domain Lord level, you are entitled to a reward of 3.1 billion points upon breaking through to the World Lord level!"
Chen Ao's account soon held 3.1 billion points again.
As for his previous two billion points, he had already spent them on nurturing his Sunken Water Vine clone.
The Sunken Water Vine absorbed dark energy quickly, but these points could raise the upper limits of his Sunken Water Vine clone.
For example, the Sunken Water Vine had already grown to eight million kilometers in size.
In the future, it would grow even larger!
That was plant life for you-enormous in size.
Now that he had received 3.1 billion points, he once again spent three billion on nurturing his Sunken Water Vine clone.
He wanted to make the Sunken Water Vine stronger.
Several decades passed in a flash as Chen Ao continually studied his Sunken Water Vine clone's innate secret technique.
Since he could use Strangulation, studying it yielded only half the results for twice the effort. Moreover, his understanding of the Water, Wood, and Space Laws had all received acknowledgment from the origin laws, allowing him to fuse them to some extent and attempt to create secret techniques, making it easier to comprehend the laws.
As for the innate secret technique bestowed upon him for attaining perfect genes, it required the origin law of gold. He could neither understand nor use it, making it too difficult to study. He could only leave it for later.
These two secret techniques were on the same level. When unleashed at full power, both were among the strongest fusion secret techniques of Universe Masters, so studying just one was already enough.
Soon, Chen Ao sought out the Chaos City Lord in the Virtual Universe.
"Teacher, your disciple wishes to continue cultivating the Wood-Space Beast God Path, but I lack the secret techniques..." As Chen Ao spoke, he rubbed his head, looking a little embarrassed.
The Chaos City Lord looked at his disciple with a smile, feeling both pleased and unsure whether to laugh or cry.
This disciple was very talented. The progress he had shown in comprehending the laws during this time was highly satisfying, but his temperament was simply too flighty.
Now he was actually asking him for secret techniques outright!
Still, on second thought, that made sense. Giving his disciple some secret techniques was only right.
Even the first three volumes of the Wood-Space Beast God cost two billion points.
Without concerning himself with the three billion points Chen Ao had earned by clearing Tongtian Mountain, the Chaos City Lord directly approved several secret techniques for him.
They were all related to the Wood-Space Law.
Their total value was probably no less than fifty billion points.
Frankly, secret techniques were just a means of encouragement. As long as the geniuses could grasp them, the Virtual Universe did not mind giving them away for free.
Chen Ao was clearly one of those who could, so naturally, no one minded.
With the secret techniques in hand, Chen Ao began studying the second volume of the Wood Beast God Path.
Suddenly, Luo Feng urgently sought out Chen Ao.
"Senior! Senior!" Luo Feng's face was full of anxiety. The moment he saw Chen Ao, he began calling out loudly.
Seeing Luo Feng's anxious expression, Chen Ao opened his eyes.
Has it finally come?
An event significant enough to change Luo Feng's entire life had arrived.
Chen Ao had originally not wanted to get involved, but after some thought, he decided to do so both to spur Luo Feng on and to secure better rights for Earth.
He had been waiting all along!
Earth is my home, too!
Looking at Luo Feng, Chen Ao asked softly, "What's wrong, Luo Feng?"
"Senior, something terrible has happened! A King Rank expert suddenly arrived on Earth and said he wanted to buy it!" Luo Feng said anxiously.
At this point, Luo Feng's horizons were still limited. Demon Hand King, who had killed his teacher Hu Yanbo, was already an important figure in his eyes.
But this time, the visitor was Yanzhu King, someone even stronger than Demon Hand King. Luo Feng had no means of resisting him.
He wanted to call upon his teacher and Venerable Nine Swords.
However, he was clearly closer to Chen Ao, and Chen Ao was an Earthling as well.
In his eyes, Chen Ao had always been mysterious. Perhaps he would have a solution!
Chen Ao nodded. "I already know about this. Go back. I'll come find you soon!"
Luo Feng froze. You'll come find me? Aren't you in Chaos City?
He had stayed in contact with Chen Ao and knew that he was cultivating in Chaos City.
"Silly, I have a clone!" Chen Ao said with a smile.
"Ah!"
Luo Feng exclaimed in surprise. So his senior had a clone, too.
But even if he had a clone, what difference would that make?
Those were King-level Immortals, and there was more than one of them!
"But... but, Senior, the people who came are King-level Immortals! With just a thought, they could instantly reduce our Earth to dust!"
"Don't worry. They can't destroy Earth!" Chen Ao remained seated, seemingly unconcerned. "Go on. My clone will come find you!"
Half convinced and half doubtful, Luo Feng returned.
At the same time, Yanzhu King stared fixedly at Luo Feng. "Luo Feng, have you made up your mind? I'm not going to waste my time here with you. If you refuse, I'll have an Immortal Servant kill you, then kill that Immortal Servant myself. That way, no one will be able to find any evidence that I did it!"
"Once you're dead, this Earth of yours will still be mine!"
Listening to Yanzhu King's naked threats, Luo Feng felt a chill run through his entire body. For the first time, he realized just how pitiful it was to be weak.
Even when someone openly said they would kill you and take your home, you had no power to resist.
Luo Feng's face turned pale, and he immediately wanted to contact True Yan King and Venerable Nine Swords.
But Chen Ao had told him to wait for him.
"Luo Feng, don't think you can get through this by keeping quiet. I'll give you three minutes. If you don't agree to sell Earth to me, I'll make my move!"
Luo Feng remained silent.
Just as the atmosphere turned deathly still, a burly man who looked a full ten meters tall walked in.
Seeing the burly man, Luo Feng was a little stunned. Who is this? Senior's clone?
Yanzhu King's expression turned icy. His attention had been entirely focused on Luo Feng, and he had actually failed to notice Chen Ao approaching.
"A mere World Lord? Now that you've sensed my aura, why haven't you scrammed?" Yanzhu King said coldly.
A World Lord?
Luo Feng was dumbfounded. Senior Chen Ao's clone is a World Lord?
His own Golden Horned Beast was only a Domain Lord. So that was it. No wonder his senior was so powerful-his clone was a World Lord.
But what difference would being a World Lord make?
His opponent was a powerful King-level Immortal!
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