All-Heavens Game, the Strongest Player

Chapter 376 The Star Lord Alliance's Coup
If the Hegemon Forum is somewhat feared by the Star Lord Alliance because of its profound history, especially the fact that some of its members are still alive from before the last Great Annihilation, and because it is not hostile to the Star Lord Alliance due to its strong ideological inclusiveness, then the Hegemon Forum is a different story.

The Transcendence Conference is a natural enemy, as it is opposed to the Star Lord Alliance's ideology.

The Transcendence Conference believes that "the mark is the foundation of everything," and that only by obtaining the ninth mark, the "Transcendence Mark," can one enter the nineteenth tier and open up the Eternal Server.

The Star Lord Alliance, however, believes that the mark is merely an external object, and that true power must be concentrated in one person.

The former possesses most of the "Nine-Tier Eight-Mark" existences in the River of Time, while the latter possesses the largest number of Eighteen-Tier among all forces in the River of Time, as well as the only Nineteen-Tier.

Often, ideological clashes are more terrifying than clashes of interests.

After Star Nineteen successfully advanced, the first thing the Star Lord Alliance did was to "correct the wrongs" and define the "mark" as an evil path, and urge the ninth-ranked members of the conference to advance quickly and stop waiting for the transcendence mark.

Only in this way can a large number of level 18 players be generated, and level 18 matches continue to be opened.

A new nineteenth order is born.

Those who are waiting to transcend and obtain the mark are seen as ruining their future—players of that level can easily reach level eighteen if they are willing to level up.

There are thousands of ninth-tier eighth-level marks, enough to hold ten eighteenth-tier matches.

If you're lucky, you can produce twenty or thirty 19th-level beings.

Why hold it in?
As for their attitude, the organizer of the conference, the "chairman," chose to remain silent, only saying, "The choice is yours," before disappearing without a trace.

It seems they've completely given up on asking questions.

Since how to run dungeons was none of the Long River Travelers' business, they didn't concern themselves with it. However, the appearance of the 19th level disrupted the balance, and they became less enthusiastic about cultivating "potential players" to obtain the Transcendence Mark.

Otherwise, Xing Shijiu wouldn't have been allowed to take Hui Wannian away so easily.

This led to the Star Lord Alliance suddenly becoming so powerful that it almost overshadowed the entire River of Time.

There's even a voice calling for unifying the River of Time, merging the Hegemon Forum, the Star Lord Alliance, and the Transcendence Conference into a single force.

The network coverage of the Hegemon Forum extends throughout the entire river of time, serving as its foundation.

The rulers of each planet, who are governed by the Star Lords, all join the alliance to form the middle layer.

Then, the high-level transcendence conference formed the "Transcendence Council," composed of the eighteenth-level "quasi-transcendencers" and the nineteenth-level "transcendence players," which governed the entire River of Time.

The sound spread further and further.

But no one has clarified it, as if it were not a rumor, but a trend!
"I know everyone is doing this for the good of all players, but I hope you can understand that the River of Time is about to be extinguished, and we don't have much time left!" The "First Star Lord" of the Star Lord Alliance stood at the entrance of the Transcendence Conference and said to the six Transcendence Conference elders who were welcoming him.

Those six elders were all of the eighteenth rank and eight marks.

It is in the strongest tier below the nineteenth level.

The so-called "First Star Lord" is just an eighteenth-level being without any mark. Normally, let alone these six, even Li Changhe could kill him with a single slap.

It sounds nice to say that one possesses immense power.

In reality, it's just an excuse for not being able to obtain the mark—the mark of the heavens is the ultimate reward of the dungeon, and since it's a product of a higher difficulty, how could it be bad?

Can someone who climbs to the eighteenth level on their own possibly be stronger than someone with eight marks at the eighteenth level?
Totally impossible.

Zhou Wushang has already proven that players can reach the "19th level" through cultivation; once their strength reaches that level, their level will automatically increase. Theoretically, the Long River Traveler can also reach that level through cultivation!
Therefore, the so-called "First Star Lord" is just an old stubborn man who insists on enduring hardship.

In the past, he would never have dared to put on airs in front of the elders of the Transcendence Conference, but now it's different. He has nurtured the first level 19 player in the All-Heavens Game, which is an achievement.

His disciple advanced to the nineteenth rank, which is both a sign of status and strength.

The Star Lord Alliance now wants to annex the Transcendence Conference.

We want to completely shatter the idea that marks are paramount!
"Let's be polite first, then resort to force. It's alright for us to talk this time because it was me. But when my disciple Xing Shijiu comes next time, things will be much more difficult!" the First Star Lord added.

Upon hearing this, the six elders of the Transcendence Assembly looked at each other.

They were all caught in a dilemma.

In the past, if another path had given rise to the nineteenth level, while the path to transcendence was nowhere in sight, they wouldn't have persisted and would have "joined" long ago.

Because they simply couldn't beat a level 19 player.

But the problem is, there also needs to be some results: Hui Wannian has arrived with the conditions for unlocking the Transcendence Manual and the method for cultivating mental power, which will have a significant impact on the Transcendence Conference.

Currently, there are over 2,700 players being matched.

It will take at most a few months to gather enough people.

Furthermore, even if the entire Primordial Realm fails and all three thousand people are forced to advance to the tenth rank, as long as the "Mind Secret Technique" remains, they can continue to cultivate ninth-rank, eight-mark players.

In just a few years, it can be reopened!
Sooner or later, I will receive the "Transcendence Mark".

They persisted their whole lives and really didn't want to give up.

Some people might say that in so many years of time, there are only more than two thousand ninth-order eighth-level imprints, so how come it only takes a few years later?
It was because Zhou Wushang's "Mind Technique" was too powerful.

If one can cultivate an ultimate mind, then obtaining the eighth mark is inevitable; quantity and time are not issues.

The external time is one month, while the instance time can be a thousand years or ten thousand years.

If we're talking about what takes up time, the process of a generation reproducing and growing up is perhaps the biggest time-waster, because you can't play games before you're eighteen.

"Preserving the Star Lord Alliance and maintaining player diversity was a consensus we reached back then, and it's also the reason why Star 19 was able to break through!" an elder said. "Now, we still want to preserve diversity and cultivate 19th-tier players in another way. Please forgive us, but we cannot grant your request!"

"Player diversity must be preserved!"

"The Transcendence arc is about to begin; we cannot stop now!"

The six elders ultimately chose not to join, opting instead to orchestrate a battle beyond the original realm in an attempt to obtain the "Transcendence Mark".

Not for oneself, but for one's obsession.

I didn't get it myself, so now I hope someone else can!
"Stubborn to the end!" the First Star Lord sneered.

Then he turned to leave—he had no choice but to leave, because if it really came down to a fight, any one of them could sweep away all the Star Lord Alliance members except for Star Nineteen!
For players without markings, aren't they as easy targets as marked players of the same level?
He didn't want to humiliate himself.

But just as he was about to turn and leave, a group of people blocked his way. The leader said calmly, "It was your Star Lord Alliance who took away Hui Wannian?"

(End of this chapter)