Chaos City, Dongguan's Cultivation Residence.
In the first-floor hall, Dongguan and Luo Feng sat on a sofa.
"Brother Guan, are you really confident you can reach the Universe Venerable level in twenty epochs?" Luo Feng asked doubtfully.
"I believe I can. And even if I can't, don't we still have you?" Dongguan smiled, picked up the teapot, and poured a cup each for himself and Luo Feng.
"Me?" Luo Feng nodded, then shook his head. "In twenty epochs, I can definitely become an Immortal, and a King-level Immortal at that. But a Universe Venerable? That's too little time."
It wasn't that he lacked confidence, but he also understood the enormous gulf between an Immortal and a Universe Venerable.
The Human Race's King-level Immortals numbered in the millions, while its Universe Venerables numbered only in the thousands, and that was with a great many King-level Immortals having fallen without being revived.
Luo Feng was confident he could become a Universe Venerable, but cultivation still had to follow some basic rules. Given several million or tens of millions of years, he might become a Universe Venerable, but twenty epochs was simply too short.
In the original story, he had only become a Universe Venerable after cultivating for two hundred million years in the Beast God Realm, though those two hundred million years had not been spent comprehending laws.
"It's nothing. Since I said that, I naturally have my reasons. There's just one thing I need to remind you of.
"Although the Chaos City Lord promised us twenty epochs, Earth holds a tremendous secret. If something really is discovered, it isn't impossible that he'll break his promise. So work hard to grow stronger. Whatever level you reach, the stronger you are, the easier it will be to face a crisis."
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