"Qian Wu, you old fossil, crawl back to Human Territory and focus on raising the next generation for your race instead of making a nuisance of yourself on the Primal Star!" Venerable Jue Nian sneered.
"Consider that slash a warning. Know your place, you pauper."
Venerable Jue Nian had no means of preventing his escape and had merely struck casually as a warning. After all, fighting mindlessly when no treasure had appeared would only waste divine power. Better to conserve his strength and unleash everything when it was time to fight over a treasure.
"Mixed Jade Fang, time for you to shine!" Yang Hao ignored the mockery.
Shing!
An ancient-looking spear appeared in Qian Wu's hand, radiating a faint purple glow.
"Oh? Still not leaving? Are you planning to die here, Qian Wu?" Venerable Jue Nian's eyes widened. "In that case, prepare to be resurrected again!"
"Divine Power Burning!"
Yang Hao immediately burned his divine power, unleashing his strongest attack in the Mixed Jade Fang's very first battle.
"Fervor!"
"Judgment!"
"Termination!"
Burning divine power poured into the Mixed Jade Fang, activating its engraved secret patterns and making it blaze with light!
The ultimate secret technique created by the Qian Wu Country Lord consisted of three attacks. They were unleashed in extremely rapid succession, each more powerful than the last, before all three struck the target simultaneously to inflict tremendous damage!
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
The Mixed Jade Fang flashed like lightning, its three blindingly fast attacks striking Venerable Jue Nian simultaneously.
The savage assault tore tiny spatial rifts even in the Primal Star's exceptionally stable space.
"You're courting death!" Venerable Jue Nian had never expected Qian Wu to attack first and immediately launched an attack of his own.
As a Prison Race powerhouse, he had grown up amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. No matter how unwilling he was to fight, faced with such provocation, he had to fight to the death today.
Boom!
"What a powerful attack!" Venerable Jue Nian's expression changed. He had suffered a crushing loss in this exchange.
How... how is Qian Wu this strong? Venerable Jue Nian could not understand it. In that single exchange, just three spear thrusts had annihilated thirty percent of his divine power! Even if Qian Wu was wielding a Supreme Treasure, it should not have possessed such power. But he clearly had no time to ponder it.
Run!
Run now!
Venerable Jue Nian's expression changed drastically. His earlier casual arrogance and mockery were nowhere to be seen.
Although he possessed a soul-type treasure, Yang Hao's attacks were purely physical. A soul-type treasure could do nothing to help him.
"Where do you think you're going?" Once Yang Hao struck, how could he let his opponent escape so easily?
Only an instant after his previous attack, he activated the secret patterns on the Mixed Jade Fang again!
"Fervor!"
"Judgment!"
"Termination!"
The attacks came like a raging storm, raining down on Venerable Jue Nian.
Neither of their divine bodies was particularly large, and they were fighting at almost point-blank range. Both volleys of Yang Hao's ultimate secret technique struck Venerable Jue Nian directly!
"No!" Venerable Jue Nian roared. Another thirty percent of his divine body had been annihilated.
Only forty percent of his divine body remained, which already affected his combat strength. No matter how resolute his will was, his current combat strength was less than a third of what it had been.
"Human! You'll pay for this!"
Boom!
Boundless energy surged as though the world were ending.
Venerable Jue Nian had self-destructed, detonating all his remaining divine power in that instant. The explosion, more violent than a supernova, battered the entire surrounding space.
This is bad! Yang Hao was horrified, but it was already too late to escape. He could only withstand the attack head-on!
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Endless explosive shock waves hammered him. Even caught by only a fraction of the blast, Yang Hao could barely withstand it.
Crack!
The ordinary heavy treasure armor he wore could no longer withstand the attack and shattered.
"Whew..."
"Thank goodness the explosion ended. Any longer, and I would've died again!" Yang Hao felt both shaken and relieved.
Dying again would have meant a tremendous loss.
After all, resurrection came at an enormous price. Moreover, he had borrowed the Mixed Jade Fang from the Chaos City Lord. A quick calculation told him that he would have piled up yet another bad debt!
"Ah, ordinary defensive heavy treasures are far too ineffective in battles at my level." Yang Hao shook his head. Heavy Treasure Armor could not withstand Universe Overlord-level attacks and would be destroyed.
When Venerable Jue Nian self-destructed, he had possessed only forty percent of his divine power, and his divine body was not large. Yet he had still produced such tremendous power.
"Whatever the case, this was quite a haul!" With a sweep of his hand, Yang Hao collected the transparent crystal orb and savage-looking blade that had survived the explosion.
"I have less than fifty percent of my divine power left, and my combat strength is less than half of what it is at my peak. I need to leave the Primal Star immediately!" After putting away the Supreme Treasures, Yang Hao looked toward the passage in the sky and flew straight into it to return to the outside world.
Qian Wu Secret Realm
"Haha, I suffered heavy losses this time, but the rewards were tremendous!" Recalling the battle, Yang Hao could not help laughing.
In his first exchange with Venerable Jue Nian, he had cost his opponent thirty percent of his divine power while losing five percent himself. Later, the explosion had annihilated roughly another fifty percent of his divine power.
If he relied on absorbing cosmic energy himself to replenish such a huge loss, the Primal Star would have been closed for who knew how long before he finished.
"I acquired an ordinary offensive Supreme Treasure, the Ancient Desolation Blade. It's probably worth about one Supreme Treasure point." Yang Hao examined the large blade in his hand. It was clearly Venerable Jue Nian's weapon.
"Rumor had it that Venerable Jue Nian possessed a soul-type treasure. I thought it was a Top-Tier Heavy Treasure, but it turned out to be an Ordinary Supreme Treasure!"
Yang Hao smiled. Soul-defense Supreme Treasures were extremely valuable. Even an ordinary soul-defense Supreme Treasure was worth somewhat more than a high-grade offensive Supreme Treasure.
In the original story, when Luo Feng went to exchange Supreme Treasures, high-grade Soul-type Supreme Treasures were worth more than typical Top-tier Supreme Treasure weapons.
Top-tier Supreme Treasure battle blades and similar weapons could generally be obtained for eighty Supreme Treasure points.
But high-grade Soul-type Supreme Treasures cost at least two or three hundred Supreme Treasure points... Yuxiang, an exceptional treasure among them, was worth a full 620 Supreme Treasure points.
That showed just how valuable Soul-type Supreme Treasures were.
"Playing the sneaky bastard this time was a little reckless, and I nearly got myself killed. But how can you get high returns without taking high risks?"
Thinking back on the battle, Yang Hao was quite satisfied with his combat strength. With the enhancement from his 300-fold life gene level and the ordinary Supreme Treasure Mixed Jade Fang in hand, his attack power was roughly on par with a Universe Overlord's.
That Venerable Jue Nian still thought I was Qian Wu, a pauper who had exhausted his potential-the universe's greatest debtor, risking a trip to the Primal Star to scrounge up treasures and pay off his debts.
He had been rather lucky. Targets that were both valuable and easy to kill were scarce. With his Supreme Treasure weapon, Venerable Jue Nian's attack power had nearly reached the Universe Overlord level. His unruly arrogance had led him to roam the Primal Star alone, never imagining that a sneaky bastard like Yang Hao would lure him to his death.
"Hehe, one Soul-type Supreme Treasure is enough to repay my debts, with plenty left over!"
Suppressing his excitement, Yang Hao hurried into the Initial Universe.
Chaos City, the Chaos City Lord's Mansion.
Yang Hao submitted a request to contribute Supreme Treasures to his race. Only after it was approved could he enter the side hall where such contributions were made.
The bronze doors opened, and Yang Hao stepped inside.
Hmm? Why is Qian Wu here to contribute Supreme Treasures again? the Chaos City Lord could not help wondering.
Did he really manage to trap someone?
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