Zhutian: Start from Devouring the Stars and Becoming a God

Chapter 222 Straitch
Time keeps flowing by, and in the blink of an eye, more than 100,000 years have passed.

In the beginning of the universe, spatial rifts could be seen everywhere in the sky, and crystalline threads flowed through the rift openings, constantly repairing these rifts.

Repaired again and again, cracked again and again, endlessly...

In the core region of this primordial universe stands a majestic and imposing ancient city, the City of Chaos.

"Boom!"

With a roar, an oval-shaped spaceship quickly came to a stop above Chaos City.

Wow!

The hatch opened, and figures from various races of the human race filed out, including one figure wearing purple armor.

This figure in purple armor was merely a domain lord, blending in unnoticed among them.

After all these people left the spaceship, a streak of light suddenly flew out from the Chaos City below.

When the black light stopped in front of them, it quickly revealed the figure of a man with purple scales on his face and wearing a black robe.

The man in black robes quickly grinned and said, "Gentlemen, I am the reception envoy of Chaos City! Many of you have been to Chaos City before!"

"Those who have been to Chaos City before and are familiar with its rules are free to act as they please. I believe you should know what to do! As for those who are visiting Chaos City for the first time, please follow me!"

Whoosh!Whoosh!Whoosh!
Dozens of figures quickly flew towards the black-robed guide from the crowd, while the others swooped down towards Chaos City below, including the figure in purple armor.

"More than two thousand years!"

"After more than two thousand years, I, Streich, have finally returned to this Chaos City!"

Streich, clad in purple armor, stood on a wide street in Chaos City and looked around. In the distance, he saw cultivators sitting cross-legged on the rooftops of various cultivation residences. Apart from a few domain lords and world lords, most of them were immortal gods.

"Chaos City, a sacred place for human cultivation."

Streich thought to himself, "I hope that this trip to Chaos City will allow me to successfully become a disciple of a King-level Immortal!"

More than two thousand years ago, Streich joined the Primordial Secret Realm, the core layer of the Virtual Universe Company, after ranking ninth in the Peak Genius Battle, thus gaining thirty years of initial universe cultivation time.

After entering the initial universe, he quickly chose the Heavenly Thunder Chaos Tablet that best suited him, thus embarking on a new cultivation journey.

Unfortunately, during his cultivation in Chaos City, he failed to pass the third level of the Heavenly Thunder Bridge, and thus did not even have the opportunity to attend classes under the many masters of the Heavenly Thunder lineage, let alone become an apprentice.

After leaving Chaos City, he became a cosmic-level member within the Primordial Secret Realm.

But in the first cosmic-level qualification battle a century later, he was kicked into the Heavenly Secret Realm;

Two hundred years later, in the second cosmic-level qualification battle, although he successfully passed the third level of the Heavenly Thunder Bridge, he was still kicked into the Doomsday Secret Realm.

After all, among the universe-level members of the Heaven and Earth Secret Realm, the weakest had passed the fourth level of the Bridge to Heaven, and the strongest had passed the sixth level!

Of course, his situation is not an isolated case!
All the super geniuses who were in the same year as him in the Genius Battle were kicked out of the core secret realm they were in during the first universe-level qualification battle, except for the members of the Doomsday Secret Realm. Even the number one genius in the Primal Secret Realm was no exception.

The second qualifying battle was the same. The champion of the Genius Battle was once again kicked into the Heaven and Earth Secret Realm, while three of the top ten in the Genius Battle successfully stayed in the Heaven and Earth Secret Realm. As for the others who were still alive, they all went to the Doomsday Secret Realm!
In just two qualifying rounds, the member of the Primordial Secret Realm who ranked first in the Genius Battle was relegated to the Heaven and Earth Secret Realm, while most of the members of the Primordial Secret Realm were also relegated to the Apocalypse Secret Realm...

Such a huge gap is unacceptable to many people, and even their cultivation has been greatly affected.

But Straitch didn't!
Although he was ranked among the top ten in the Peak Genius Battle, Streich always knew that his talent was nothing in the universe. So even when he was kicked into the Apocalypse Secret Realm, he was not discouraged at all, but continued to work hard to cultivate.

230 years after leaving Chaos City, he successfully passed the fourth level of the Bridge to Heaven, thus returning to the Secret Realm of Heaven and Earth during the third qualifying battle!

After returning to the Heavenly Secret Realm, he began to cultivate even more diligently.

It turns out that he was not strong enough and only dared to accept safe-level missions with a zero mortality rate and ordinary-level missions with a 10% mortality rate.

But after returning to the Secret Realm of Heaven and Earth, he finally began to take on difficult missions with a mortality rate of 20%!

Although the death rate for difficult missions is much higher, the rewards for completing them are also greater!
With the help of these rewards, he spent over three hundred years finally making it to the fifth level of the Bridge to Heaven!

Although his strength is not enough to allow him to return to the Primordial Secret Realm, he has already reached the forefront compared to the other members of the same batch of geniuses.

After all, of the geniuses from his batch, only a little over 500 are still alive, and the genius who ranked first in the Genius Battle back then had only passed the fifth level of the Bridge to Heaven!

In the days that followed, Streich trained even harder.

In the thousand years since he left Chaos City, he finally began to feel that the cultivation mission with a 20% mortality rate was no longer enough to pose any danger to him.

After much deliberation, he decided to take on a dangerous mission to hone his skills.

Of course, the mortality rate for dangerous missions is as high as 50%, and the slightest mistake can lead to death, so he naturally had to be prepared.

And so, Strange spent over two hundred years preparing before finally accepting the 'Blood World' mission, which he had overheard about by chance in a public lecture and which was extremely beneficial to cultivation.

The cultivation tasks within the Blood Luo World are divided into two categories:

The first is to obtain a Blood Crystal; the second is to become a Blood Warrior.

Even obtaining a single Blood Crystal is an incredibly difficult task.

After entering the Blood Luo Continent, Strange discovered that most of the Blood Luo Crystals were controlled by Domain Lords or even World Lords.

Although he had acquired the ability to deal with domain lord-level powerhouses through various means, he dared not act rashly.

After all, the natives of the Blood Continent were very hostile towards him, an outsider from another world.

Once his information is exposed, even realm lords or immortal gods might take action against him.

Thus, after more than ten years of planning in the Blood Luo World, Straitch finally managed to seize a Blood Luo Crystal from a third-level Domain Lord, thus completing his first mission!
However, he was not satisfied with this and tried to fuse with the Blood Crystal in order to complete the second task of becoming a Blood Warrior (which requires fusing three Blood Crystals).

He had thought becoming a Blood Warrior would be difficult, but to his surprise, the process of fusing with Blood Crystals was quite simple, and he easily fused with the first Blood Crystal.

So he began to plot for a second, or even a third, Blood Crystal!

Thus, he spent nearly a hundred years plotting in the Blood Luo Continent before finally obtaining the fourth Blood Luo Crystal and successfully fusing the first three, becoming a Blood Warrior.

After obtaining the fourth Blood Crystal, Streich originally planned to continue fusing with it to see if he had a chance to become the legendary Black Warrior of the Blood Continent.

Unfortunately, obtaining Blood Crystals is extremely difficult.

In order to obtain the fourth Blood Crystal, he had already used up all the treasures he had accumulated before heading to the Blood Continent.

If you want to acquire new Blood Crystals, you will not only have to spend a lot of time planning, but you may also encounter even greater dangers!
Furthermore, since there were no rewards for becoming a Black Warrior in the cultivation mission, he did not choose to continue fusing the fourth Blood Luo Crystal, but instead left the Blood Luo Continent directly.

After completing the cultivation mission on the Blood Continent, Streich successfully received a reward of 110,000 points, far exceeding all the rewards he had earned from completing missions over the years.

With the help of these 110,000 points, and the fact that his understanding of various origins had doubled after becoming a Blood Warrior, he quickly passed the sixth level of the Heavenly Thunder Bridge, and was not much slower than the champion of the peak genius battle back then!
At this time, Streich also began to attract the attention of other powerful figures, and even several Marquis-level Immortals appeared, wanting to take him as their disciple.

However, Streich always harbored a desire to become a disciple of a King-level Immortal, so he ultimately politely declined the offers of those Marquis-level Immortals who wanted to take him on as a student.

Strach originally planned to break through the seventh level of the Heavenly Thunder Bridge at the cosmic level, and then rush into the Primal Secret Realm, thereby attracting the attention of some King-level Immortals.

Just as he was about to try to take on a challenging training mission to hone his skills, Priestley, the first-place winner of the same year's Genius Battle and who had crossed the sixth level of the Sky Bridge faster than him, perished in a challenging training mission.

Priestley's demise was a wake-up call for him, quickly dispelling his idea of ​​taking on a Desperate mission.

After all, a dangerous mission with a 50% mortality rate was already extremely dangerous for him. If he were to accept a perilous mission with a 90% mortality rate, wouldn't that be courting death?
After cultivating for several hundred years, Streich discovered that he was still some distance away from passing the seventh level of the Heavenly Thunder Bridge.

But he was no longer willing to wait and decided to break through to the Domain Lord level.

After all, once he breaks through to the Domain Lord level, his cultivation speed will definitely increase significantly.

However, to avoid being kicked out of the Primordial Secret Realm again after breaking through to the Domain Lord level, he waited until the next Domain Lord level qualification battle ended before breaking through to the Domain Lord level. After breaking through to the Domain Lord level, Straich did not choose to immediately go to the universe country to take up a post, but directly applied to go to Chaos City for secluded cultivation, and then successfully arrived in Chaos City.

"According to company regulations, core members at the Domain Lord level are allowed to cultivate within Chaos City for three hundred years!"

Streich quickly found a vacant cultivation residence, then sat in the living room and seriously considered his next plan: "I hope that these three hundred years of cultivation will allow my strength to improve further, so that I will be safer after I am assigned to a post outside the capital!"

"It would be best if I could become a disciple of a grandmaster in my Heavenly Thunder lineage, so that even if I were to be assigned to a post in the universe, no one would dare to look down on me!"

"Back in Chaos City, I couldn't even get past the third level of the Heavenly Thunder Bridge, so I had no way to attend classes under a Grandmaster!"

"However, according to the information I learned before, if you want to become a disciple of a master, you must choose to attend the first class as a sign of respect, and then find a way to become his disciple!"

"As long as this grandmaster is willing to accept a disciple, then the apprenticeship is considered successful!"

Upon seeing this, Streich quickly opened the information on the many grandmasters of the Thunder lineage in Chaos City.

"Currently, there are 19 Grandmasters in my Heavenly Thunder lineage within Chaos City, but only three belong to my Virtual Universe Company lineage!"

After reading the messages from so many grandmasters, Streich was slightly taken aback.

It should be understood that although there is no distinction between the five major forces of the human race, in fact, the Virtual Universe Company and the Giant Axe Arena are the two main factions!
Normally, the Virtual Universe Company and the Giant Axe Arena lineage have more Grandmasters than the other three major forces, but now...

"Forget it, why think so much? I should first decide which master I should study under!" Streich thought to himself.

……

Virtual universe, halfway up Thunder Island.

Inside the training ground of the luxurious mansion where Venerable Yaoguang resides.

At this moment, the scene inside the training ground has been transformed into a vast mountain forest. In this vast mountain forest, a figure wearing purple-gold armor is facing off against a figure that is over a hundred meters tall and looks like a gorilla.

These two figures were the berserk giant apes that Lu Qingshan and Venerable Yaoguang had set up for him as an opponent for his self-created third sword technique.

"Roar!!"

The berserk giant ape, bathed in endless lightning, roared, then landed on all fours and charged toward Lu Qingshan.

"Heaven-Burial Slash!"

Numerous threads of law instantly emanated from the purple longsword in Lu Qingshan's hand, then converged in the void in front of him, forming a giant sword phantom.

This sword technique is the third sword technique created by Lu Qingshan based on 'time stop', called 'Burial Sky Slash'!
"Roar!!"

The berserk giant ape, not far away, flashed across tens of thousands of kilometers in an instant, and then attacked Lu Qingshan directly. Its giant fist, covered with black scales, seemed to carry the power of heaven and earth.

"Kill me!"

With a thought, Lu Qingshan unleashed the massive, now incredibly solid, sword phantom towards the berserk giant ape.

boom!
The giant sword phantom and the berserk giant ape's giant fist collided fiercely in an instant.

In the past, although the berserk giant ape would be blasted away, the giant sword phantom created by Lu Qingshan would also collapse.

This time, however, as the berserk giant ape flew backward, the giant sword phantom that Lu Qingshan had conjured not only did not collapse as before, but instead slashed at the berserk giant ape's neck at a strange angle.

"Roar!"

The berserk giant ape clenched its fists horizontally, trying to block Lu Qingshan's strange attack.

However, the giant sword phantom was extremely fast and its angle was very tricky.

Wow!

The phantom of the giant sword instantly swept across the neck of the berserk giant ape.

Then...

Just like tofu being sliced ​​by a knife, the raging giant ape was instantly decapitated and completely lost its life.

"Hahaha!"

Seeing that he had killed the berserk giant ape, Lu Qingshan quickly smiled: "This level has been stuck for me for decades, but I've finally made it through!"

After Lu Qingshan had rested for a while, a new opponent soon appeared before him.

This time, the opponent was the Destroyer Beast, one of the twelve peak bloodlines of the Starry Sky Beasts. It was very difficult to deal with, so after fighting with it for a while, Lu Qingshan decisively gave up.

"With my current swordsmanship, I estimate I'll need to hone my skills for a while longer before I can defeat this behemoth!"

With this in mind, Lu Qingshan immediately left Venerable Yaoguang's residence.

Just then, the voice of the intelligent life form Deep Blue suddenly echoed in his mind: "Master, it's time for you to give a lecture in Chaos City again today!"

"Oh? It's time again?"

Lu Qingshan had a sudden thought, but quickly returned to reality and began preparing to give the lecture.

Yes!

During his time cultivating in seclusion within Chaos City, Lu Qingshan also began teaching within the city, just like other grandmasters.

With his current strength and understanding of the Heavenly Thunder Chaos Stele, he is naturally qualified.

Moreover, "reviewing the old to learn the new" and teaching within Chaos City can also be considered a form of cultivation for Lu Qingshan.

……

Half a day later, inside Chaos City.

"That's it!"

Streich walked to the gate of a mansion, a sense of unease beginning to creep into his heart: "I wonder if the King of All Realms would be willing to accept me as his disciple!"

Among the many grandmasters of the Heavenly Thunder lineage, the King of Myriad Realms has cultivated for the shortest time, but his strength is the strongest.

It was for this reason that Streich decided to become Lu Qingshan's disciple after researching the information of many masters.

After all, everyone wants to be apprenticed under a strong person, and the other grandmasters of the Heavenly Thunder lineage would certainly not admit that the King of Myriad Realms was the strongest unless they believed that their strength was inferior to that of the King of Myriad Realms.

"Today, the King of Myriad Realms is giving a lecture, and I heard that he is explaining the first to third illustrations of the 'Heavenly Thunder Chaos Stele'."

"That's right! Although I've already started to comprehend the fourth diagram of the Heavenly Thunder Chaos Stele, I still gain something every time I listen to the King of Myriad Realms explain these basic concepts!"

"Me too!"

"A grandmaster is indeed a grandmaster!"

"If only I could become a disciple of the King of All Realms!"

"Stop dreaming! The King of All Realms is incredibly powerful. I've heard he can easily kill even the Immortal-level Zerg Queen. Many Universe Venerables are willing to befriend him. How could he possibly look down on us?"

One cultivator after another entered the mansion, exchanging ideas as they went.

After hearing the conversation between these powerful figures, Streich became even more determined in his mind. Even if he ultimately failed to become a disciple of the King of All Realms, he was determined to give it a try.

(End of this chapter)