Three Gains in One Stroke

With a thought, Marquis Glorious Light took a dark silver, multifaceted crystal about half a person's height out of his World Ring.

The crystal hovered silently in midair. Countless sharply defined facets of varying sizes formed its surface, making it look like an enormous diamond sculpted by nature.

Marquis Rock looked at the crystal, which seemed unremarkable aside from its unusual shape, and a trace of puzzlement appeared in her eyes.

Even Hu Yanbo, probing it carefully with his High King perception, failed to detect any unusual energy fluctuations on its surface.

"This is it?" Marquis Rock could not help asking in confusion. "It doesn't seem... special at all?"

Marquis Glorious Light turned to Hu Yanbo. "Hu Yanbo, try sending your divine power inside it. Then you'll understand!"

Upon hearing this, Hu Yanbo sent a wisp of immortal divine power into the crystal.

Buzzz!!!

A sudden change erupted!

The previously silent, inert dark silver crystal began to tremble violently!

Riiip-!

In an instant, visible spatial ripples surged like boiling tides for several kilometers around the crystal. Countless tiny silver-gray spatial fissures flickered in and out of existence!

Hiss, hiss, hiss~~~

Amid the violently warping space and proliferating fissures, densely packed, extraordinarily complex mysterious characters suddenly began appearing on the dark silver crystal's countless smooth facets!

Hu Yanbo's gaze was instantly drawn to the characters. His pupils contracted slightly as he did his utmost to memorize and analyze their structure, trying to understand their meaning.

Yet even with his High King cultivation and profound understanding of Space Law, he could not decipher so much as a sliver of their meaning!

"What... what kind of writing is this?" Beside him, Marquis Rock was even more bewildered by the dazzling display.

Marquis Glorious Light shook his head blankly as well. Earlier, he had only triggered the crystal's transformation while trying to send his divine power inside it.

But the phenomenon had told him instinctively that this was no ordinary object and was very likely the reason he had been hunted. That was why he had taken it out.

Hu Yanbo, however, merely furrowed his brows for a moment before immediately regaining his composure.

"No matter. With the Virtual Universe at my disposal and my current access privileges, looking up a translation of this unknown writing shouldn't be difficult."

An ordinary King-level Immortal might only be able to search the databases publicly available within the Human Race.

But Hu Yanbo was the personal disciple of Yuan Huang-the fourth-ranking figure in the Universe Mercenary Alliance!

The Virtual Universe access privileges that status granted him far exceeded those of an ordinary King Rank!

He could even access some peripheral information concerning the universe's most mysterious and ancient organization-the Ancestral God School!

Let alone a form of writing!

With a thought, Hu Yanbo scanned and uploaded the mysterious characters before him, simultaneously sending an [Unknown Script Translation Search] request to the Virtual Universe System.

The Virtual Universe System connected nearly every database belonging to the Human Race and its vast network of allies, making it extremely efficient at retrieving information about an unknown script.

Buzz!

Almost a second after he submitted the search request, a clear translation into the common human language and detailed explanations appeared in Hu Yanbo's mind:

This is the Inheritance Crystal of the Rift-Splitting Divine Envoy. Any World Lord Level life-form possessing a soul may receive the complete inheritance of the Rift-Splitting Divine Envoy.

After receiving the inheritance, you may begin cultivating the Space-Rending Divine Envoy Secret Technique.

Upon mastering the entire secret technique to perfection, you will become a Divine Envoy Candidate. A Divine Envoy Candidate may then fuse this Inheritance Crystal into their body. If successful... they will become the next Rift-Splitting Divine Envoy.

In the vast universe, there is only one Rift-Splitting Divine Envoy.

If the current Rift-Splitting Divine Envoy still holds the position, other inheritors who achieve complete mastery can only become Space-Rending Divine Envoy Candidates. Only after the current Rift-Splitting Divine Envoy falls will a new Rift-Splitting Divine Envoy emerge from among the Space-Rending Divine Envoy Candidates.

The Inheritance Crystal can bestow its inheritance once every 10,081 epochs. This Inheritance Crystal last bestowed its inheritance 10,061 epochs ago. Approximately 20 more epochs must pass... before it can bestow its next inheritance.

Hu Yanbo's consciousness swept rapidly through the information, and towering waves instantly surged through his heart!

A Divine Envoy Inheritance Crystal!

It was actually this!

I take back what I said! Hu Yanbo delivered the harshest possible rebuke to his own earlier, casual assumptions.

Who cared whether there was any treasure? A so-called treasure from an ordinary Cosmic Secret Realm, something worth fighting over for Initial King Immortals, probably wouldn't be of much use to me!

Those thoughts had been utterly wrong!

Absurdly wrong!

A treasure fought over by Initial King Immortals could make even much stronger experts covet it!

An ordinary Divine Envoy Inheritance might produce an inheritor once every long stretch of time. Though precious, it was not unique.

But this Sky-Splitting Divine Envoy Inheritance Crystal before him represented the key to becoming the universe's one and only Rift-Splitting Divine Envoy!

More importantly...

An even more astonishing thought flashed through Hu Yanbo's mind like lightning, making his breath catch!

He suddenly recalled that, in the original story, the Chaos City Lord had given Luo Feng two options regarding the Dream Light Divine Envoy.

One of those options was to exchange it for an opportunity to receive a Divine General Inheritance!

If I tell my teacher about this Sky-Splitting Divine Envoy Inheritance Crystal...

Hu Yanbo's heartbeat abruptly quickened, and his blood seemed to boil!

With my teacher Yuan Huang's status in the Hongmeng Alliance, he surely has both the connections and the ability to obtain an opportunity for me to receive a suitable Divine General Inheritance in exchange!

The possibility instantly brought blazing clarity to Hu Yanbo's thoughts!

Receiving a Divine General Inheritance would spare him one future use of prepayment!

That was far better than his plan to take an Amplitude Secret Technique in advance, break through the King Rank limit, and then struggle to repay it!

The Prepayment System's repayment conditions would not always be as easy to fulfill as before.

This time, for instance, repaying his advance to High King required him to dance on a knife's edge.

He could avoid a life-or-death gamble while dramatically increasing his strength!

If he could exchange this Inheritance Crystal for a safe inheritance opportunity with potentially even better results, it would undoubtedly be an enormous windfall that achieved two goals at once!

After all, King Rank experts normally fell into just three tiers: Initial King, High King, and Peak King.

Only the rare few who possessed body amplitude or soul amplitude secret techniques, had created their own Peak Secret Technique, or had enjoyed some special encounter could unleash combat power at the King Rank limit.

And beyond that!

Only a combination of numerous fortuitous encounters, personal ability, and other factors could produce a King Rank expert who rivaled an ordinary Universe Venerable, such as True Yan King.

Thus, every expert who reached the King Rank limit had gone to considerable lengths to do so.

Yet he had gained this opportunity merely by saving an old friend.

This trip truly had brought three gains in one stroke!