I picked up attributes in Swallowing Star.

Venerable Guiyi smiled. He happened to have nothing to do today, so he patiently explained it to Luo Yuan.

It turns out that both the Divine General Inheritance and the Divine Envoy Inheritance belong to ancient inheritances, but the Divine General Inheritance is clearly a level higher than the Divine Envoy Inheritance. Even if one can cultivate the Divine Envoy Inheritance to the point of perfection, one will only have the maximum combat power of a King. If one has a Divine Envoy Inheritance Crystal, that would be amazing. After the World Lord merges with it and becomes the only Divine Envoy, one will directly possess the combat power of an ordinary Universe Venerable, comparable to the current True King.

Luo Yuan was truly astonished when he heard this. He had painstakingly cultivated and collected attributes to achieve the combat power of a mid-level Universe Venerable. However, with this Divine Envoy Inheritance Crystal, any World Lord could be fused with it and match the combat power of a True Yan King. This was simply too heaven-defying.

However, after Luo Yuan delved deeper, he realized that this Divine Envoy inheritance was somewhat useless. Whether one fused with the Divine Envoy inheritance crystal or cultivated on their own, once they reached the Great Completion stage and became a true Divine Envoy, they would be stuck forever and unable to break through to the Universe Venerable Realm. This was only suitable for those who remained at the King-Sealing Immortal Realm and could not break through to the Venerable Realm.

This single Divine Envoy Inheritance Crystal sells for 30 billion points within the Hong Alliance, and there are only 8,000 of them in the entire Hong Alliance treasury. High-level Divine General Inheritance doesn't have the drawbacks mentioned above, but it can only be obtained by challenging the Inheritance Palace. This not only requires a huge amount of points to exchange for the opportunity to receive the inheritance, but also requires waiting in line for 10081 epochs, which is approximately 120,000 years later.

Luo Yuan also understood why the powerful expert who had taken his spot was so angry. Luo Yuan was really lucky to obtain the complete inheritance of the Demonic Sound and the Frost God General. In other words, Luo Yuan's true strength was now comparable to the limit of the Universe Venerable, which meant he was a top-tier Universe Overlord.

"So I'm already this strong? A top-tier cosmic overlord? And this is only after receiving the complete inheritance of two divine generals!" Luo Yuan was somewhat incredulous.

When Venerable Guiyi saw Luo Yuan's smug expression after getting the better deal, he really had the urge to kill him. However, with his current strength, he probably couldn't even beat Luo Yuan.

After calming down, Luo Yuan couldn't help but stroke his chin and chuckle, "Second Senior Brother, what do you think would happen if I tried to snatch the spots from those who were granted the title of King and accepted the inheritance of other Divine Generals?"

Upon hearing this, Venerable Guiyi spat out a mouthful of tea. He loudly warned, "No! You will be killed by the other forces if you do this. Even if the Venerables can't beat you, the Lord of the Universe will make a move and you'll be finished. When you went to take the spots of Demon Sound and Frost God General on your own, it aroused the dissatisfaction of those Lords of the Universe. It was only because the teacher intervened and said that you had not yet joined the Hong Alliance and did not understand the rules that the matter was dropped."

Luo Yuan smiled awkwardly after hearing this. It turned out that everything had a cause and effect. He didn't expect that the Lord of Chaos City would help him resolve such a big matter. Seeing the indignant expression on Venerable Guiyi's face, Luo Yuan decided to change the subject.

"Second Senior Brother, tell me about this Hongmeng. I'm quite interested," Luo Yuan said with a smile.

Venerable Guiyi calmed himself down, took another sip of tea, put down the teacup, thought for a moment and said, “The Hongmeng is an alliance formed by the human race and a large number of other races in the universe. It is very inclusive, but of course it does not have such strong binding force on its members. It is a somewhat loose organization. However, once you join, you cannot leave or betray it, otherwise the Hongmeng will send powerful people to hunt you down.”

Luo Yuan nodded upon hearing this, signaling Venerable Guiyi to continue.

Venerable Guiyi took another sip of tea, paused for a moment, and said, "Our teacher, as well as all your senior brothers and sisters, including myself, are members of the Hong Alliance. By the way, Peilan is too. Our teacher is also one of the hall masters of the Hong Alliance, so junior brother, you must also join the Hong Alliance."

The requirement for the Hong Alliance to recruit members is that they must possess at least the combat strength of a King. Although your cultivation level hasn't reached that level, your combat strength is definitely sufficient. Almost all of humanity's King-level Immortals have joined this Hong Alliance organization. This is the true supreme governing body of the human race. Oh, the Hong Alliance's special envoy team has arrived. Quick, come with me into the virtual universe.

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Virtual universe, Luofeng Ancient Style Manor in Yuxiangshan Primitive Area.

Luo Yuan and Venerable Guiyi were receiving the special envoy team from the Hongmeng. There were ten of them, all of whom were King-level Immortal Gods. Judging from their strange appearances, they should be beings of different races. The leader was a human man who looked very much like an Earthling, except that he had a black horn on his forehead.

The unicorn-like man stepped forward and said very politely, "Your Highness Luo Yuan, we are the team sent by the Hong Alliance to grant you official membership in the Hong Alliance. I am King Blackhorn. Let's not waste any time and begin now."

Luo Yuan nodded upon hearing this; it seemed this one-horned man was quite decisive and efficient.

King Blackhorn stepped forward and solemnly asked, "Your Highness Luo Yuan, we are now proceeding with the initiation ceremony of the Hong Alliance. The Hong Alliance is the highest authority organization of humankind. Are you willing to join the Hong Alliance, dedicate yourself to the prosperity of humankind, and never betray it?"

Seeing that this situation resembled his past life when he joined that kind of thing, Luo Yuan's lips twitched, but he still nodded and said, "I'm willing!"

"Beep!" As soon as Luo Yuan finished speaking, a dazzling star suddenly appeared in the sky above the manor. Then the star shrank and fell onto his armor, becoming a small star mark. This meant that he had become a one-star member of the Hong Alliance, which was also the lowest level member. Luo Yuan felt that this was quite a ritual.

Suddenly, a human figure appeared in the sky. Luo Yuan felt that this must be a high-ranking member of the Hong Alliance. Then, this high-ranking member gave a passionate and inspiring speech, saying that he would fight for the Hong Alliance and for humanity. Luo Yuan, who was used to hearing leaders speak in his previous life, remained calm.

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Chapter 161 Extraterritorial Battlefield

After the ceremony for conferring members of the Hongmeng Alliance to Luo Yuan, King Blackhorn left with his team of divine messengers. Luo Yuan then logged into the Hongmeng Alliance account in the virtual universe to check information about the Hongmeng Alliance. He was somewhat surprised to find that the number of Kings and Immortals, led by humans, reached a staggering three million.

The headquarters of the Hongmeng Alliance is located in the highest plane of the virtual universe—the Hongmeng Space. There are Hongmeng City, outer branch city, inner city and Hongmeng Palace. Members are divided into one-star to seven-star according to their strength. The Chaos City Lord is one of the seven-star Palace Lords.

Venerable Guiyi took Luo Yuan for a stroll around Hongmeng City. Luo Yuan felt it was very prosperous. However, the weakest people in Hongmeng City were all one-star King Immortals. Trade was very developed here. You could buy the most expensive things in the Primal Universe here, as long as you had enough funds or points.

When Luo Yuan saw that a bottle of Purple Fire Ape Wine was selling for hundreds of billions of points, he could only lament that poverty limited his imagination. There were many treasures in Hongmeng City that Luo Yuan coveted, but he found that he was short of money. So he decided to send his clone to the outer battlefield to accept missions and earn military merits, because the military merit exchange system in the outer battlefield was also opened by Hongmeng, and he could buy the things he wanted there.

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The 10081 interstellar nations controlled by the human race possess eight super-large military logistics bases, one of which is the Bird Star. Its diameter reaches millions of kilometers, making it an artificially created super-large planet.

As a logistics base, this place houses troops, weapons, and supplies transported from various cosmic nations. It's like a large military fortress, with countless people coming and going. However, the weakest among the people here is at least at the cosmic level.

Luo Yuan's clone arrived here aboard an F-class Ink Meteorite spaceship, which was docked at the planet's harbor.

"My goodness, this is an F-class spaceship! It's entirely made of red mixed copper mother material, priceless! The owner of this spaceship must be someone important." The port staff exclaimed in amazement when they saw Luo Yuan's spaceship.

"Click~"

Luo Yuan's clone, dressed in the golden armor of the Yan God Clan, stepped out of the spaceship, exuding an air of nouveau riche.

"Sir, hello. I am the clerk here. Why are you here alone?" The clerk smiled respectfully. He looked Luo Yuan up and down, and was shocked. "Judging from his appearance, he should be a powerful Realm Lord. But I have never seen or heard of the golden wheel mark between his eyebrows. Could it be a mark of the Origin Law?"

"I came here voluntarily to join the extraterritorial battlefield and earn military merits. Do you know where to go to complete the procedures?" Luo Yuan asked.

"Oh, so you're a lone traveler. Please take that path specially prepared for lone travelers." The staff member pointed to a high-tech steel road in the distance. He thought Luo Yuan was probably a disciple of a powerful organization who had come to train, since he had seen many lone travelers like this before.

Thank you.

Luo Yuan smiled at the staff member and then walked towards the road. At Luo Yuan's speed, he crossed hundreds of kilometers in a flash and arrived at an extremely wide square, where tens of thousands of lone travelers like him had already gathered.

"Hello, please come over here to rest and wait," a pretty maid with cat-like ears and a tail said to Luo Yuan with a smile.

Luo Yuan nodded. He asked the maid for a glass of fruit wine, then casually found a place to sit down and wait quietly. Luo Yuan knew the rules here: only when there were 10,000 lone travelers would they be taken away in one group.

……

"Hello, are you alone?"

Suddenly, a mature and charming female voice rang in Luo Yuan's ears. Luo Yuan turned his head and saw a stunningly beautiful woman of the mature and sophisticated type. He could tell at a glance that this woman was also at the peak of the Realm Lord level.

Luo Yuan looked around and realized that out of these tens of thousands of people, there were fewer than ten who had reached the peak of the Realm Lord level. Out of politeness, Luo Yuan smiled and said, "Yes, beautiful lady, is there anything I can help you with?"

The alluring woman took a sip of red wine and laughed, "What's wrong, Demon King? Don't you recognize me?"

Luo Yuan was slightly surprised when he heard the woman suddenly call out his code name in the killing field. He quickly searched for information about her in his mind and found it. The woman's code name was Bloodthorn. She was a core member of the Giant Axe Arena, one of the five giants, and also a member of a secret realm equivalent to the Primal Secret Realm. This woman had been severely beaten by Luo Yuan in the Decisive Battle Space in order to collect attributes.

Luo Yuan could only marvel at how small this universe was, that he could even run into an acquaintance here. However, he had done something very wrong to this woman back then, and he wondered if she was here for revenge. Thinking of this, Luo Yuan frowned. Although he was incredibly powerful, he couldn't kill innocent people indiscriminately unless someone provoked him.

The alluring woman looked at Luo Yuan's expression, a sly glint in her eyes, and smiled, saying, "Remember now?"

Luo Yuan asked directly, "I came here to earn military merits and don't want to have a conflict with you. If you want to take revenge on me, I'm sorry, you're too weak."

The woman paused for a moment upon hearing this, then slowly said, "You misunderstood. I wanted to team up with you. I know you are very strong, having conquered the 20th level of the Primal Tongtian Mountain and Tongtian Bridge at the Realm Lord level, but I am not bad either. It's not easy to find someone I know, so I feel much more at ease teaming up with you."

Upon hearing this, Luo Yuan simply waved his hand and ignored the woman.

After a while, a powerful general arrived. He was an immortal god who had been granted the title of King. He immediately began to categorize the 10,000 people present. Luo Yuan naturally went to the place where the Realm Lords were. There were less than 100 Realm Lords present; the rest were all Domain Lords or Universe-level lone wolves.

Next came the authority granting ceremony, which determined one's status and authority within the military based on their performance in battles within the virtual universe network. Luo Yuan directly received the evaluation of a Realm Lord Warrior, although Luo Yuan's strength was far greater than that, but the highest evaluation here was only Realm Lord Warrior.

The iron-blooded general, who had been granted the title of Immortal King, stood on the high platform, coughed a few times, and the scene quieted down. Then came the impassioned pre-battle mobilization speech:

"The authorization ceremony is now concluded. Attention! At ease! You will be teleported to the extraterritorial battlefield shortly. My enemies are countless powerful alien races. This is not a drill, nor is it a one-on-one battle; it is war, a struggle for the survival of our race. I, the soldiers of humanity, will protect our land with your blood and flesh. I am proud of you! Charge! Fight for humanity!..."

Luo Yuan listened with great interest. This general had said this line countless times, and with his skillful use of subtle methods to influence the soul, he was truly impressive. Even Luo Yuan felt a surge of excitement. However, Luo Yuan had another goal in coming here: to obtain the second metal plate of the "Nine Tribulations Secret Manual" and, incidentally, to acquire a large amount of military merit to exchange for some good things.

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Chapter 162 Killing the Demon King

There are a total of eleven battlefields between humans and other races. Luo Yuan and his group of 10,000 were assigned to the seventh battlefield, a terrifying battlefield with a casualty rate of 96%. It ranks third in danger among the eleven battlefields. Generally, soldiers below the level of Realm Lord are given priority to be sent here, and it is also the main area for lone wolves who consider themselves strong to venture into.

As for the battlefields with the highest and lowest danger levels, only immortal-level lone wolves dare to enter and reap a lot of military merits. However, being assigned to the seventh battlefield is exactly what Luo Yuan wanted.

Luo Yuan and his 10,000 men arrived at the battlefield teleportation hall, where there were eleven spatial water curtains, each leading to one of the eleven battlefields. They filed into each of the spatial water curtains marked "7," first arriving at the Divine Kingdom transfer station, then entering the spatial passage, and finally being assigned to the No. 029 barracks base.

When Luo Yuan crossed the spatial water curtain, he felt a spatial shift, and then he arrived at the Divine Kingdom transit station. There were a large number of new recruits and many veterans. According to their realms, Luo Yuan entered the realm lord level camp through the realm lord passage. Then he saw hundreds of thousands of realm lord level soldiers, each exuding a terrifying aura.

As a realm master warrior, Luo Yuan received invitations from many powerful teams to join him, but he refused them all, as he had no desire to serve as their bodyguard.

The wars between these cosmic races are not usually the kind where two sides line up their formations and then start fighting. Instead, they choose a battlefield, deploy soldiers, and then fight each other. The various battle groups are far apart, so they usually fight in small squads. Large-scale decisive battles between two sides only occur about once every 1000 epochs.

Because Luo Yuan was alone, he had more freedom of movement, a privilege granted to him by the Chaos City Lord. After all, the 10 billion military merits required by the military were too easy for him. So he directly boarded his F-class Ink Meteorite spaceship to go to the space channel. After flying hundreds of thousands of kilometers, he finally arrived at the 029th military camp base. This was a super-large celestial body suspended in the void. All the facilities here were made of special materials, and even a powerhouse at the level of a cosmic ruler could not damage it.

Luo Yuan walked through the No. 029 military base, which was a super-modern military steel fortress. It was covered and protected by a layer of colorful energy shield, and inside were all kinds of menacing war weapons. Planet-destroying cannons were just the basic configuration. A single shot from the super-large energy cannon could destroy a star field.

The bodies and remains of other races also float in space, and machinery is being used to retrieve and process this airborne debris.

After reporting to the military base, Luo Yuan embarked on his journey alone aboard a spaceship. Standing inside the spaceship, he activated a 100% virtual simulation, opened a star map, and looked at the several brutal battlegrounds indicated on it. He directly selected an immortal-level battleground.

The spaceship's intelligent minibus actively sought out a cosmic shuttle point, then activated its light-speed mode to enter the dark universe and conduct time-space travel. Luo Yuan's clone lay on the sofa inside the spaceship and entered hibernation, while his main body was collecting law attributes from the 52 Chaos Steles in Chaos City.

a few days later.

"Beep beep, arrived at the designated location!"

With the prompt from the intelligent chin, Luo Yuan's clone suddenly opened his eyes, then stood up. The golden royal armor of the Yan God Clan immediately appeared on his body, and a divine weapon appeared on his back. He teleported directly to the outside of the spaceship, stood in the void, and then put the spaceship away. Below was a desolate piece of planetary debris, but its area was as large as tens of thousands of Earths.

Luo Yuan directly used his immense spiritual power to sweep across the planetary fragments below with unbridled force. He then discovered the alien races hidden deep within the fragments: two King-level Immortals, six Marquis-level Immortals, and over a thousand Realm Lords, all of whom were of the same race. They had the heads of dragons and the bodies of lizards, clearly belonging to the demon race. Could they be dragon-lizards?

"Boom~ Boom~ Boom~"

Eight enormous figures suddenly burst from the ground, each a thousand feet in size. Their ferocious dragon heads faced Luo Yuan in the sky, their blood-red snake eyes filled with bloodthirsty cruelty. Then, thousands of Realm Lord soldiers crawled out of a cave.

"Tch, the spiritual power he just released was so strong, it startled me. Turns out he's just a human brat at the Realm Lord level, daring to come to my Azure Dragon King's territory. The last human immortal I captured wasn't even enough to fill my teeth. Minions, take him down, he'll be your lunch today!" A golden-skinned dragon lizard shouted to a group of Realm Lord level subordinates below. Interestingly, they were speaking the universal language, so it seems they were speaking to Luo Yuan as well.

Upon receiving the order, the World Lord-level minions below immediately sent out five peak World Lord-level Flood Dragon Lizards to attack Luo Yuan. Luo Yuan stood in the air and simply snorted coldly. The heads of these five Flood Dragon Lizards exploded, and their corpses fell to the ground. This scene startled the Azure Dragon King and the other Flood Dragon Lizards, who were preparing to return to their lair.

Luo Yuan stood in the void and sneered, "You bunch of demon scum, you slaughtered a total of 106,832 of my human race, including as many as 3,000 Immortals. I sentence you to death!"

Luo Yuan directly opened the military merit system connected to the virtual universe to record the battle process, which was to be used as proof for awarding military merits.

The Azure Dragon King and the others below burst into laughter. One of the immortal dragon lizards, who had been granted the title of Marquis, used his divine power to form a giant hand that blotted out the sky and grabbed at Luo Yuan in the air. Luo Yuan simply raised his hand and shot out a sword aura, which shattered the giant hand. Then, countless small golden swords flew out from the Divine Weapon behind him.

The golden saplings instantly combined into thousands of giant swords in the air. Luo Yuan pointed downwards, and the thousands of World Lord-level soldiers were pinned to the ground. The invisible sword energy completely destroyed their inner worlds and seas of consciousness.

After clearing out the minions, Luo Yuan coldly looked down at the eight Immortal-level Flood Dragon Lizards. With a thought, the countless golden swords of his Divine Weapon immediately combined into a colossal pillar reaching the sky. One end of the pillar was only as thick as an adult's arm, which Luo Yuan held in his hand and swung around, while the other end was as large as a star. Then, the star-sized end slammed down on the planetary fragments below.

"Boom!"

Like a collision between Mars and Earth, an invisible ripple spread in all directions, causing meteorites and planetary fragments to explode upon contact. The planetary fragments where the eight immortal-level dragon lizards were located were directly smashed into dust, and their divine bodies were also blasted to pieces. However, Luo Yuan knew that immortal-level gods were not so easily killed.

"Spatial lockdown! Spatial strangulation!"

Luo Yuan clenched his fist, and the area where the eight immortal-level divine body fragments were located was directly sealed off by an invisible force. Everything inside was immobilized, and even the immortals who wanted to teleport the divine body fragments through their divine kingdoms could not do so. Then, a spatial turbulence appeared, annihilating everything within the sealed space into nothingness. All the life imprints of these eight immortal-level dragon lizards vanished.

Looking at the fragments of the planet below that no longer existed, Luo Yuan murmured, "Finally dead. This King-level Immortal God was quite difficult to kill. If it were in its true form, it would have been finished with a single punch."

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Chapter 163 Slaughtering the Zerg