About a year later, Chen Ao was utterly dumbfounded.
He had never expected that a little deliberate scheming would net him so many treasures.
Yes, an absolutely ridiculous number of treasures.
Aside from the humans among the nine major factions, even the Zerg and the Demon Race had sent him Supreme Treasures.
The Demon Race was the stingiest, giving him a sword worth about three Supreme Treasure points.
The most generous was the Zerg Alliance, which actually gave him a suit of High-grade Supreme Treasure armor.
"Holy crap! Acting cute in front of a crowd really pays better than doing it in front of one person!"
He had acted cute and played the innocent youngster in every way he could before the Ancestral God, and even with his talent on display, he had only gotten treasures worth sixty-four Supreme Treasure points.
Yet the nine major factions, along with some lesser powers like the Thorn Ring Alliance and the Nine Domains Alliance, had given him treasures worth a full seventy-nine Supreme Treasure points just because of his idiotic line, "We'll be allies from now on."
"Tsk, tsk. These factions are so easy to fool. Still, I might have made my move too early!"
If he had waited until he became a Universe Venerable with the combat strength of a Top Universe Overlord, perhaps his haul would have been dozens of times greater?
After all, what he had now was mostly potential. It could not compare to the actual strength he would possess as a Top Universe Overlord after becoming a Venerable.
"Still, I should quit while I'm ahead. Right now, those factions will hate me at most. If I pulled this scam after becoming a Universe Overlord, the haul might be bigger, but I'd probably make mortal enemies of them!"
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