Swallowing the Stars: 100x Return for Teaching Apprentices

Chapter 161 Asking for information
While exploring the battle, Qi Yuan continued to delve deeper into the Time-Space Prison.

Ten years passed quickly.

The virtual universe, Hongmeng City in the starry sky.

In the outer city of Hongmeng City, more than three million immortal kings live in various residential communities, each with an open-air bar plaza for residents to socialize.

In the open-air plaza of one of the top three residential areas in the outer city, hundreds of people who had been granted titles of nobility were casually gathered and chatting.

When Qi Yuan strolled into the square, he immediately attracted the attention of many people.

"The King of Extraordinary Fate"

"The King of Miracles is here."

Along the way, many immortal kings greeted Qi Yuan warmly.

The residents of Hongmeng City are divided into seven-star residents based on their strength.

One- to three-star residents live in the outer city, four- to six-star residents can live in the inner city, and overlords of seven stars and above live in the most central Hongmeng Hall.

When Qi Yuan first joined Hongmeng, he was just an initial one-star resident.

However, as he demonstrated his strength in battles on the extraterritorial battlefield, the virtual universe system automatically captured and judged his abilities, and quickly upgraded his status level to three stars.

Samsung signifies that he is among the strongest of the more than three million residents of the outer city, naturally earning him considerable respect.

Qi Yuan casually nodded to some of the immortal kings, but finally sat down at a table where three figures were gathered.

"Haha, Qiyuan, you've arrived."

"The King of Extraordinary Fate"

The three figures sitting at the table all greeted Qi Yuan with smiles.

Three figures: one was a burly man with a triangular head; another was an immortal alien with purple skin and a silver scalp; and the third was a man in a blue battle robe with short, golden hair and golden eyes.

"King Xuanming, King Qingcang, King Xuejian."

Qi Yuan smiled and greeted the three of them.

During the ten years or so he spent venturing into the Time-Space Prison, he would often go to Hongmeng City to deal with some spoils of war or to gather information. Over time, he also got to know some Kings and Immortals.

These three are three of his closest friends in this neighborhood.

All three of them have reached the limit of the King level. Among them, King Xuanming and King Xuejian are human, while King Qingcang is an immortal of the Hongmeng alien race.

"Haha, Qiyuan, who are you trying to find out about this time?"

The burly man with triangular hair on his head, Xuanming Wang, poured Qi Yuan a cup of wine and asked with a smile.

Xuanming Wang has an extremely wide circle of friends. In the more than 300 residential areas outside Hongmeng City, he has many acquaintances in almost every one of them.

Qi Yuan became acquainted with him gradually because he often came to this square to inquire about news.

"Can't I just chat with you guys if there's nothing wrong?"

Qi Yuan clinked glasses with him, then smiled and said, "I heard that the demon race has recently caused quite a stir with a 'Blood Glass King.' Do you have any information about it?"

With his current authority, he can naturally find a lot of news about alien races being crowned kings, but the information he finds in the virtual universe network is relatively brief and has a great delay.

If you want to find out the latest news, it's more reliable to ask a powerful figure like King Xuanming, who acts as a "village intelligence station".

"Blood Glass King? That demon king who recently rose to prominence in the Time-Space Prison? Why are you eyeing him again?" Xuanming King asked with a smile.

"I heard that he recently found a treasure of the natives deep in the Time Prison of the Ninth Battlefield. I'm curious, let's find out more."

Qi Yuan casually offered an explanation.

"curious?"

Xuanming Wang exchanged glances with the other two, their faces revealing meaningful smiles.

"Your curiosity is truly remarkable."

Xuanming King shook his head and laughed.
"Over the past ten years or so, you must have asked me about nearly a hundred powerful alien races out of 'curiosity,' right?"

"Of these nearly one hundred people, I know for certain that more than thirty have already perished, and of the rest, more than half have not made a public appearance for a long time. Don't tell me this has nothing to do with you?"

King Xuanming shook his enormous head, which was topped with three sharp horns, and said jokingly,

"Do you know what those two call you in private—'King of Death'! Anyone who gets your 'curiosity's' eye on never ends well!"

"The Death-Slaying King is getting 'curious' again. It seems that the Blood Glass King is in for a bad time!"

King Qingcang and King Xuejian, who were standing to the side, also laughed and cheered.

"You three really have a lot of free time!"

Qi Yuan looked at the three of them helplessly.

"I guess those alien races were just unlucky."

He put down his wine glass and said with a faint smile, "This has nothing to do with me. I am currently focusing on my cultivation in Chaos City and teaching my disciples."

"Yes, yes, it has nothing to do with you. You even put up the famous weapons and armor of those fallen people for sale. It really has nothing to do with you!" Xuanming King and the other two teased.

"Hehe, I was just helping a friend with some things," Qi Yuan said with a faint smile.

Now that he has broken through to immortality, he doesn't care too much about whether his clone is exposed or not.

After all, while the ability to create clones is coveted, since possession can only be performed on lives before they break through to immortality, it doesn't have much of an impact even if people know he has the ability to create clones now.

However, despite saying that, he didn't need to admit anything.

"You oh you"

Prince Xuanming smiled and pointed at him, but didn't delve into the topic further, only offering a seemingly casual reminder.
"I heard that among those fallen alien races, one was the junior brother of the 'Heavenly King' of the Mechanical Race. It seems that the 'Heavenly King' has been inquiring about the news of his junior brother's death recently. Hopefully, the human king who killed the Heavenly King's junior brother will be more careful."

"King Tianyu!"

Whether it was Qi Yuan, or the two King Qing Cang and King Xue Jian, they all became slightly serious when they heard this title.

Within each race, there are some Immortal Kings who are far more powerful than ordinary Immortal Kings.

These kings are either like the immortal-level Zerg hive, relying on legion warfare and claiming to be invincible below the cosmic lords, or they rely on powerful treasures to unleash combat power far exceeding that of their peers.

These immortals may be slightly inferior to true invincible kings like King Juekun and King Zhenyan, but they can definitely be called 'pseudo-invincible kings'. They may just be slightly inferior in creating their own secret techniques.

And this 'Heavenly King' is a 'pseudo-King Invincible' active in the Ninth Battlefield of the Mechanical Race!
However, Qi Yuan was also somewhat expectant as he spoke.

"These guys are always elusive on the battlefields outside the domain. They're usually impossible to find, so it would be a good thing if we could run into one of them during this opportunity."

Fortunately, the Xuanming King and the others were unaware of his thoughts, otherwise they would have been thoroughly shocked.

"You just asked about the Blood King?"

At this moment, King Xuanming had already changed the subject.
"Speaking of which, it is a lucky guy. Not long ago, it was just an ordinary peak-level King. But I heard that about three years ago, it was lucky enough to find a native spaceship that drifted up from the deep core of the Time and Space Prison in the sixth level of the Time and Space Prison."

"Shortly after that, its strength increased dramatically. In a recent battle, it even directly killed a Zerg King Limit Immortal."

But then his tone suddenly changed:
"However, the Blood Glass King has not been having an easy time lately. Its strength has increased so much in such a short period of time. Anyone can guess that it obtained a lot of treasures from that spaceship. Therefore, many King Limit Limit members from the opposing camps have recently made it their target and are preparing to form teams to hunt it down."

"Oh? Do you know where it was last seen?" Qi Yuan asked.

"The seventh level of the Time-Space Prison, world N0.54261, is where it fought two Limit-Edge Kings. However, that happened more than a month ago, so the exact location is hard to say."

King Xuanming asked with a smile, "What, do you want to get involved too?"

"Haha, I'm just curious, that's all."

Qi Yuan smiled, raised his wine glass to the three of them, and then drank it all in one gulp.

"Gentlemen, I have other matters to attend to, so I'll be leaving now."

As he spoke, his figure vanished instantly, clearly having left the virtual universe.

"This guy was enthusiastic when he was asking for information, but he ran away as soon as he heard it!" King Xuanming shook his head with a smile.

Blood Sword King sighed, "Unless Blood Glass King leaves the extraterrestrial battlefield, he's probably in for a rough time."

"Haha, it's not a good time. Being targeted by the 'King of Death' is bound to end badly."

King Qingcang chimed in, but after speaking, he asked curiously,

"Gentlemen, is this King of Extraordinary Fate a disciple of one of your human race's super-strong experts? How come we've never heard of him before? It's like this powerful figure suddenly appeared out of nowhere."
If our guess is correct, in just the last few years, he has killed nearly twenty kings at the pinnacle of their power. If this record were to spread, it would rival even the likes of that so-called 'Heavenly King'!

Upon hearing this, King Xuanming and King Xuejian exchanged a glance and shook their heads in unison.

"We don't know much about it either. It seems they've been cultivating in a small universe for a while and only recently ventured out."

King Xuanming spoke with a slightly solemn tone, giving his instructions.
"Qing Cang, Xue Jian, although King Qiyuan did not request anything, I hope you will keep his usual inquiries about the alien races' conferment of kingship a secret, so as not to cause him any unnecessary trouble."

Upon hearing this, King Qingcang knew that it was mainly addressed to him, since he was the only immortal of the alien race among the three.

"Rest assured, King Xuanming, you two and King Qiyuan treat me as a friend, which is why you didn't hide these things from me. I will naturally keep your secrets and won't reveal them casually!" he solemnly assured them.

"Haha, that's right, we're all friends, let's drink, let's drink!" King Xuanming shouted with a laugh.

Extraterritorial battlefield, the seventh level of the Time-Space Prison.

Although the temporal turbulence of the Time-Space Prison is chaotic, it generally becomes more violent towards the center.

Based on the intensity of the temporal and spatial tides and the convergence of those bubble worlds, the immortal powerhouses who ventured here roughly divided the Temporal and Spatial Prison into nine regions.

The first three regions have relatively calm time-space tides, making them ideal places for those in the early stages of becoming kings to venture out.

The fourth to sixth levels are where high-ranking kings and some peak kings gather.

The seventh level is only accessible to those at the peak of the King-level realm and some relatively powerful peak King-level beings.

As for the final eighth and ninth levels, those are absolutely certain death grounds for any King-level Immortal. Even the dozen or so top-tier King-level Immortals dare not enter them casually!
In the seventh region of the Time-Space Prison, there is a bubble world with a diameter of only tens of millions of kilometers.

Qi Yuan looked at the news he had just received, and a slight smile appeared on his lips.

"World No. 0.54261? Heh, it's not far from here. Let's try our luck!"

(End of this chapter)