Lord Luhai did not answer Li Che's questions about the inheritance of Manhu’s Artifact Refining Compendium himself. Instead, he took Li Che straight into the Virtual Universe to meet the Lord of Void Gold.
To his surprise, the Lord of Void Gold seemed to have anticipated everything and had set aside a sliver of his consciousness specifically to await their arrival.
In fact, before Li Che had gone to the Lü Hai Cosmic Secret Realm to challenge his senior brother, the Lord of Void Gold had already wanted to have another proper talk with him.
"Lü Hai, how strong is this junior brother of yours?"
At that moment, the Lord of Void Gold stood in an independent plane within the Virtual Universe, looking at his oldest disciple and his youngest with a faint smile.
He had already watched the entire battle between Li Che and Lord Luhai through the Virtual Universe. His question now was mostly meant to tease Lord Luhai.
"Our Human Race's fourth fighter at the Top Universe Overlord level. I concede!" Lord Luhai could only smile ruefully.
Never mind the Human Race-even within the Hongmeng Alliance, there were very few Top Universe Overlords, only a dozen or so. There were even fewer of them than Universe Masters.
This was a disadvantage of races that could reproduce. It was not limited to humans; races such as the Zerg and the Demon Race faced the same problem.
By contrast, alliances such as the Northern Border Alliance and the Thorn Ring Alliance were more loosely organized overall but had large concentrations of Special Lifeforms. They had at least several times as many Top Universe Overlords as the Hongmeng Alliance or the Zerg Alliance.
"Don't underestimate your junior brother. He likes to keep something in reserve. He might not even have