Swallowing the Stars: 100x Return for Teaching Apprentices

Chapter 190 The Human Race's Universe Lords (Part 2)

"An ordinary member of the human race."

Upon hearing Qi Yuan's words, the Chaos City Lord's majestic gaze flickered slightly.

A moment later, a faint, almost imperceptible smile appeared in his eyes.

"That's right, you and I are just ordinary members of the human race!"

The moment he spoke, it was as if the solid ice melted.

Qi Yuan felt the air around him loosen, and the faint sense of oppression on his soul quickly receded.

Before his eyes, the endless killing intent emanating from the Chaos City Lord gradually subsided, becoming incredibly gentle and calm.

"Your sudden emergence has certainly caused quite a stir..."

The Lord of Chaos City smiled faintly and continued speaking.
"Even I, who had been paying attention to you for a long time and knew that you would definitely achieve something great in the future, really did not expect that you could do such an outrageous thing in such a short period of time."

His tone was no longer as tense as before, but rather like a casual chat between friends.

"Has the Lord of Chaos City been paying attention to me all along?"

Hearing the words of the Chaos City Lord, Qi Yuan suddenly understood.
"Was it the city lord who ordered you to disguise and conceal my identity back then?"

"Yes, I gave the order."

Upon hearing his question, the Lord of Chaos City nodded with a faint smile.
"Back then, your breakthrough in front of the cosmic passage at headquarters caused such a commotion that it attracted a lot of attention. At that time, your identity information level was not high. Anyone with a keen eye could easily find out about your past. From the clues you showed in the past, it was easy to judge that you were carrying an incredibly amazing opportunity."

"A member of a branch of a virtual universe company with a relatively low status has an incredibly amazing opportunity. You are well aware of the consequences."

The Lord of Chaos City said,

“I was attracted by your special clones and your extremely high level of life genes. In addition, you have reached the level of King-level in your understanding of the laws in a short period of time. I believe that you have the potential to become an extremely powerful cosmic venerable or even a cosmic overlord of my human race in the future.”

“You grew up freely, never appearing in the sight of major powers or alien spies, giving you a natural advantage in concealing your identity. So I made some arrangements to make your growth smoother.”

As the Lord of Chaos spoke, a hint of melancholy crept into his voice.

"However, I never expected that your achievements and your growth rate would reach a level that even surprised and shocked me."

After listening to the introduction from the Lord of Chaos City, Qi Yuan's gaze flickered slightly.

Unexpectedly, he had attracted the attention of the Chaos City Lord at that time.

Moreover, even the act of concealing his identity was arranged behind the scenes by the Lord of Chaos City.
In fact, this arrangement saved him a lot of trouble.

After all, just as the Lord of Chaos City said, his information level was extremely low at that time, and as long as he was willing to investigate, it would be easy to discover some of his secrets.

Driven by self-interest, some greedy individuals will inevitably plot against you in secret.

In particular, if he were to be targeted by those lurking alien spies and treated as some elite genius secretly cultivated by humanity, his life would be anything but peaceful...

"So that's how it is... Thank you for your past help, City Lord!"

Qi Yuan expressed his heartfelt gratitude.

"It's just my duty."

The Lord of Chaos City smiled faintly, and finally got to the main topic of the conversation.

"Leaving aside other matters for now, you have now broken through to the level of the Lord of the Universe, and there are many things you need to do next."

"But before that, let me take you to meet the other universe lords of our human race. They are all very curious about you now."

"Other universe lords of the human race..."

Qi Yuan's eyes flickered slightly upon hearing this.

Nearly five thousand years have passed since he traveled to this world.

Over five thousand years, he has risen from a stellar-level native slave who was bought and sold at will to a figure who can now sit alongside some of the most powerful beings in the universe.

All of this gave him a vague sense of unreal fantasy.
"Let's move on to an advanced virtual universe."

The Lord of Chaos smiled and offered a reminder.
"I have granted you teleportation access to the Temple of the Giant Axe. The others who know about you are already anxiously waiting there. Come with me."

……

In the endless darkness, faint starlight flickers in the distance.

A simple temple is suspended in mid-air.

There is a long stone table in the not too big open space in front of the temple. There is only a stone chair on the main seat of the long stone table, but there are rows of stone chairs on both sides. At this moment, towering figures are already sitting on these stone chairs. figure.

"Haha, I never expected this! I never expected that such a cosmic ruler would emerge from among my human race without a sound!"

"Indeed, it was already unbelievable enough that the race had produced a top-tier cosmic overlord, but the news from Chaos is even more outrageous!"

"But how exactly did this newly crowned ruler of the universe appear out of nowhere? Why have we never heard any news about him?"

"Everyone, don't be too happy yet. Someone who has secretly grown to become the Lord of the Universe but has never taken the initiative to contact us may not truly care about our human race. I suggest that we carefully investigate him before truly accepting him."

"Heh, Huang Jian, that's a universe lord. How do you plan to investigate him? Aren't you just forcing him to harbor resentment towards his clan?"

"Hmph, if he really harbors resentment towards the clan over such a trivial matter, it shows that he is also an extremely self-centered person. It would be better to expel him as soon as possible to prevent him from becoming a scourge to our human race in the future. Everyone, do not forget that Yan Emperor!"

"Huang Jian, your thinking is far too extreme. Besides, Chaos hasn't arrived yet. Just because we don't know something doesn't mean Chaos doesn't know it. Do you think his judgment could be wrong?"

"Hmph, I was only thinking of the clan..."

The Masters of the Universe talk to each other.

They were divided into several factions, so it was natural for them to make fun of each other.

Swish!Swish!
Two figures appeared almost simultaneously; they were the Lord of Chaos City and Qi Yuan. "Chaos."

"Chaos, you're here."

"chaos."

The cosmic lords who had arrived earlier almost all addressed the Chaos City Lord first, since within the human race, the highest-ranking figure was undoubtedly the Giant Axe Founder and the Primordial Ancestor who was permanently suppressed by the origin of the universe!

Besides these two, the 'Chaos City Lord' who permanently guards the initial universe is next in line and naturally receives respect.

After greeting the Lord of Chaos City, all the Lords of the Universe turned their gazes to the black-haired youth standing beside him.

"Is this the owner of the Qiyuan Pavilion?"

"That face... it really is that little guy who was made a king! How is that possible? He's only been an immortal for a short time!"

"Over 3000 years, from just breaking through to immortality to becoming the master of the universe... Let alone in the history of my human race, in the entire history of the primordial universe, has any life form ever achieved this?"

……

The lords of the universe secretly discussed among themselves.

Meanwhile, the Lord of Chaos City had already led Qi Yuan forward.

"chaos."

"Senior brother."

"Uncle."

On one side of the long table, four figures stood to greet them.

Four figures, one of whom was a burly man in golden armor with a dragon tail extending from the lower edge of his armor;

One was a cold man with graying temples and ancient armor stained with blood;

One was a sinister figure in a black robe with skin as white as jade, a bald head, and extremely strange and complex black patterns on his head;
The last one was a tall, thin young man with three menacing eyes and a sickle-like horn pointing upwards on each ear.

"These are the Dragon Lord, Ice Peak Lord, Dark Lord, and Netherworld Lord from my Virtual Universe Company lineage."

The Lord of Chaos City smiled and introduced Qi Yuan.

"Greetings, everyone." Qi Yuan smiled and gestured to the group.

"Master of the Strange Fate Pavilion".

"A serendipitous encounter".

Several universe masters from the Virtual Universe Company lineage also nodded in response to him.

They had already received a brief message from the Lord of Chaos City and knew some general information about Qi Yuan.

"Please sit down next to Lord Youhou."

The Lord of Chaos gave a reminder, and then, with him at the head, the six Universe Lords of the Virtual Universe Company lineage sat down in turn.

As soon as Qi Yuan sat down, his gaze swept over the other universe lords of the human race present, and each of them looked back at him.

"The Void Gold Master of the Giant Axe Arena, the Desolate Mirror Master of the Cosmic Mercenary Alliance, the Qingdong Master of the Cosmic First Bank, the Penggong Master of the Cosmic Galaxy Bank..."

As Qi Yuan observed, he also used his newly enhanced privileges to match each of the universe lords in front of him with the descriptions in the data.

After learning about this, he couldn't help but be subtly shocked by the immense power of these universe masters of the human race.

The strength of a master of the universe can be roughly divided into several levels: 'beginner', 'ordinary', 'peak', and 'top'.

"Entry into the realm of the universe" refers to a universe master who has just entered the realm of the universe master, whose life gene level is one hundred times higher, and who has not yet had time to create the ultimate secret technique of the universe master.

Generally, these kinds of cosmic masters rarely show themselves; they prefer to live in seclusion and focus on improving themselves.

"Ordinary" refers to expending some resources to reach a level of life's genetic level that is temporarily difficult to improve, such as a thousand-fold increase in life's genetic level, creating the ultimate secret technique of the Lord of the Universe, and obtaining some valuable treasures.

The peak is achieved by obtaining a heaven-defying treasure, creating the strongest secret technique, or reaching a life gene level that is approximately ten thousand times higher. If one of these conditions is met, and the other two levels are also close, then it can be considered the peak.

As for the top level, one needs to reach an extremely high level in terms of life level, supreme treasures, and secret techniques to be considered top-tier!

Of course, the strength of the Lord of Chaos City, the Lord of Darkness, and the Lord of Peng Gong is already among the top of the top!
Aside from lacking the ultimate treasure, their strength has almost reached the pinnacle of the Universe Lord stage!

Excluding Qi Yuan, the original number of human universe lords was 18.

Among these 18 Universe Lords, even the youngest, Lord Youhou, and a few others possess combat power at the peak Universe Lord level.

Among them, the most powerful Chaos City Lord, Lord Peng Gong, and others are among the strongest, ranking at the very top of all the universe lords.

Compared to them, Qi Yuan's current strength is basically at the bottom.

"Even among the human race's universe lords, almost every single one is stronger than me, not to mention the large number of universe lords from the first and second reincarnation eras in the cosmic sea!"

"It seems that even after breaking through to the level of the Lord of the Universe, one still cannot relax!"

Qi Yuan sighed silently.

At the same time, a strong fighting spirit was rapidly growing and spreading in his heart.

Now that he has broken through to the realm of the Lord of the Universe and has the Three Pure Ones clones, as long as he leaves one body in Chaos City, he hardly needs to worry about perishing anymore.

So naturally, he would then have higher aspirations.

In such a magnificent and powerful world of devouring, what could be more worthwhile than stepping to the end of that great path and witnessing the breathtaking scenery at the pinnacle?
With the incredible opportunity of the return system, whose existence remains incomprehensible to this day, he will surely have a smoother path on the road to pursuing the ultimate goal than anyone else!

(End of this chapter)