Swallowing the Stars: Starting with the Battle of Geniuses

Chapter 150: A Bountiful Harvest, The Name of the Sword King

Eight hundred years have passed since Hunzhen was plotted against and assassinated.

The outcome of the power struggle among the elite clans is also obvious.

Since the best opportunity to annihilate Hunzhen has already been missed, it would be somewhat counterproductive to have a powerhouse at the level of a cosmic venerable intervene.

The elite clans have an unspoken agreement that, in order to prevent irreversible or irreversible damage to their territories, Venerable-level combatants rarely take action.

Only high-end battlefields like the Primordial Star would allow Venerable-level combatants to fight freely.

Even if the Venerable One does not appear, Hunzhen's power may be able to suppress an era, but it is only a retreat of an era, and it does not harm the overall situation of the clan.

Tens of thousands of years later, when humanity has gained another top cosmic overlord, the three dominant races will naturally unite to suppress humanity due to the Nash equilibrium of their power struggle.

Unless one becomes the master of the universe, nothing will change the overall situation.

The assassinations will continue, but the key timeframe is not at this point.

Considering how powerful Hunzhen was during his time as a Realm Lord, unless the number of Immortal warriors is piled up to a terrifying level, it is unlikely that they will be able to put pressure on him.

We must create an even more oppressive situation than this assassination attempt in order to have any hope of killing him.

Now that the assassination attempt has just failed, the level of attention and protection that humanity will give to him and other human geniuses will visibly increase significantly, making it far from an opportune time for assassination.

In any case, if another assassination attempt is to be carried out, it must be treated as an existence of cosmic caliber to ensure an absolute success rate of 100%.

The assassination attempt has come to a temporary end, but the turmoil it has stirred up on the battlefields beyond the region is far from over.

Humanity seized the opportunity to eliminate many alien spies and initially regained control of some areas of the extraterritorial battlefield. They also took a significant chunk of territory from the machine race's side as a conclusion to their victory.

The reason for choosing the Mech race as the target is quite simple.

Through this assassination attempt, it's impossible that the human leadership didn't notice the clandestine collusion between the three races in this incident.

The three elite races bordering the human territory—the Machine Race, the Demon Race, and the Insect Race—are able to unite with each other.

Humanity can naturally form alliances with opposing forces and even with the three races themselves.

Between ethnic groups, there are rarely irreconcilable hatreds or unshakable stances; only eternal interests matter.

With the paper window pierced, the three races' attempt to unite against the human race was temporarily thwarted, and at least the joint punitive order could no longer be carried out.

As the main executor of the assassination plan, the invincible king of the Purple Thunder Clan, being a vassal of the Mechanical Clan, naturally had his group of ambiguous immortals under his command ultimately being considered as subordinates of the Mechanical Clan.

The human race's counterattack against the mastermind behind this assassination was justified and perfectly justified.

Regarding their "ally's" ordeal, the Zerg and the Demon races outwardly condemned it, but secretly they had already made arrangements for a deal.

Of course, the mechanical race suffered the greatest losses in this incident, without a doubt.

The compensation from the Zerg and the Demon races cannot be much. Compared to the numerous treasures, powerful vassal groups, and losses on the battlefields beyond the realm, this compensation is insignificant.

What's most infuriating is that despite the heavy losses suffered by the mechanical race, the human genius, the String Sword King, achieved an invincible reputation after that battle.

Among the immortals of various races on the battlefield outside the realm, who doesn't know that the human String Sword King turned the tables and killed the machine race's meticulously planned assassination?

Even some well-informed realm lords and domain lords probably know that the String Sword King has made a name for himself by stepping on the reputation of the Mechanical Race.

Leaving aside the Zerg and the Demon races, it's inevitable that for a long time to come, members of the Mechanical Alliance will hate humans with a passion whenever they see them on the extraterrestrial battlefield.

Hunzhen didn't care about the benefits of fame; he only cared about tangible gains.

The first thing to be affected was the ten trillion and one hundred trillion military merit targets he had agreed upon with the Lord of Chaos City.

Originally estimated to take at least a thousand or even several thousand years to complete, this goal was achieved in an instant after this battle, with Hunzhen's military merits reaching two targets and still having plenty to spare.

Given the nature of the Chaos City Lord, it was impossible for him to delay paying Hunzhen for a mere two Beast God Inheritance Tokens, so he delivered them to the Ancestral God Sect immediately.

Since Hunzhen himself had already met the military merit target, it would be somewhat redundant to replace the reward of using himself as bait with military merit.

The Lord of Chaos City was well aware of this principle, so he used the merits of this battle as an application to help Hunzhen exchange for an additional Beast God Inheritance Token.

Adding to the two that Hunzhen already possessed, that brings the total to five Beast God Inheritance Tokens.

But the true nature of things cannot be satisfied with this.

His goal is to collect all eight Beast God Inheritance Tokens and obtain the highest level of enlightenment from the Beast God Inheritance Land.

When Hunzhen inquired about ways to continue obtaining the Beast God's Inheritance Token, the Lord of Chaos City gave Hunzhen the following answer.

"The Beast God Inheritance Token is a relatively precious treasure even for a Universe Venerable. Even if one does not follow the path of the Beast God, exchanging one for a disciple who needs it might just cultivate a Universe Venerable disciple. For someone who needs it, they wouldn't trade it even for a supreme treasure."

"Besides our human race's cultivation measures for geniuses, which unconditionally grant one genius to cultivate the Path of the Beast God, what we require is contribution to the race! And with your conditions, I have already thought of the most likely way for you to collect the remaining three inheritance tokens in the near future."

"Now, based on your achievements as the String Sword King, you have been rated as a four-star member of the Hong Alliance. You can accept a one-time mission that is unique to those at the Immortal level and below: hunt down one hundred enemy alien races who are either invincible kings or among the top one hundred alien geniuses on the Hong Alliance's wanted list in the outer battlefield! Although you did not reach the four-star level of the Hong Alliance before, the number of invincible kings you killed before still accumulates, so you only need to kill ninety-nine of them."

"If we're talking about contributions to the race, the most direct way is naturally to kill powerful individuals and geniuses from rival races. There's a one-time mission at the Immortal level, and the same applies to the Venerable level. However, the requirement is only one-tenth, and it's not limited to the outer battlefields. As long as you hunt down ten Venerables from rival alien races, you'll complete this one-time mission. With your abilities, even if you can't do it now, it wouldn't be surprising if you possess the combat power of a Venerable after breaking through to Immortality. At that time, you'll have a chance to complete this mission."

"Besides hunting enemies, there are two other types of contributions that can be exchanged for a Beast God Inheritance Token upon first completion."

"The first type is to contribute a completely new, top-tier ultimate technique (at the level of Herodo's 'Seven Kills of the Beast God'). Of course, the evaluation criteria will be stricter than when contributing secret techniques to exchange for points, treasure points, or supreme treasure points. It is not required to be a pioneering work that breaks through the path of existing human secret techniques, but at least 70% of its content and effectiveness must be different from existing secret techniques."

Hunzhen suddenly understood; this simply means the plagiarism rate cannot exceed 30%.

The Chaos City Lord continued, "Besides that, there are many other indicators such as entry restrictions and difficulty of mastering the technique. If you can defeat the 4000 opponents I set for the secret technique you are currently studying, you will basically meet the requirements."

"The second way is to contribute a treasure with an estimated value of at least 10 points. Of course, you are not allowed to use the 'Traceless Pearl' I gave you for the exchange."

Upon hearing about this last resort from the Lord of Chaos, Hunzhen finally realized the Lord of Chaos's favoritism and help towards him.

The value of treasures varies. For example, the less common treasures may cost less than 1 treasure point, while rarer treasures, such as Origin Treasures or Domain Treasures, can cost hundreds of treasure points, making them more expensive than ordinary high-level treasures.

However, 10 Treasure Points are enough to exchange for a relatively common high-level Treasure.

The opportunity to exchange a treasure for a legacy token is only available once, and it is clear that the value of a legacy token is far greater than this amount.

Excluding the Beast God Inheritance Token used by the human race to cultivate geniuses, there is no doubt that the other three inheritance tokens given by the Chaos City Lord to Hunzhen involved huge "concessions".

Even the achievement of using oneself as bait to change the course of the battle in the outer battlefield is far less than a Beast God Inheritance Token, let alone a pure military merit assessment indicator.

Without exception, all of these were additional cultivations of Hunzhen by the Chaos City Lord and the human race.

Recalling the so-called demands he received after inquiring with the Lord of Chaos City that day, even with Hunzhen's carefree nature, he felt a little heavy-hearted.

"In that case, it must have been quite difficult for Niu Feiyang to help me obtain a legacy token."

"For the sake of the inheritance order, shouldn't we be a little more friendly to him?"

The moment the idea popped into Hunzhen's head, the image of Niu Feiyang's sycophantic behavior flashed into her mind, and she instinctively felt a sense of disgust.

"I think I'll pass."

"After all, they are an enemy demon race. We can order them around and tease them as we please until they come to their senses."

Thus, after earning military merits, Hunzhen's new goal was set.

The extraterritorial battlefield avatar No. 1, which met the military merit criteria, did not leave the extraterritorial battlefield, but instead went to the most advanced battlefield area - the Star Tower.

They joined the top team of the Hongmeng King-level Alliance and began hunting down invincible alien powerhouses who had achieved the King-level title.

Unfortunately, the strength of the "Invincible King" is not on the same level as the "King" below "Invincible King," and each of them possesses unique skills and has extremely strong survival abilities.

Previously, Hunzhen was able to kill the Purple Thunder Clan's King Wudi purely because the other party wanted to hunt him down. Coupled with the debuffs such as insufficient information, the desperate attempt to kill him failed and instead left his divine body severely damaged and his state extremely weak, which is why Hunzhen was able to kill him in one fell swoop.

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Now, the King of the String Sword is renowned for his power, and many of his characteristics were fully exposed after that battle.

The immortal kings on the battlefield outside the domain all know that in addition to his own great strength and the terrifying power of his string sword domain, this String Sword King also possesses a primordial treasure that can be used multiple times in a short period of time (although it is not)!

In the eyes of the other kings, the reason why Invincible King of the Purple Thunder Clan was killed by King String Sword was not only because King String Sword himself was powerful, but also because of the unknown potential of this primordial treasure.

With this primordial treasure, unless one can instantly kill the String Sword King or possess a similar powerful regenerative ability, it is virtually impossible to kill the String Sword King.

Without using the String Sword Domain, Hunzhen's strength is at most at the peak of the King-level to the limit of combat power, and he still can't unleash his divine power.

To hunt for the invincible King, one cannot hide within the String Sword Domain. Disguising one's identity after he becomes famous is also an almost impossible task.

Of course, he could certainly delve into another form of the Traceless Bead for main combat, but that would undoubtedly be putting the cart before the horse.

As a result, when adventuring in the Star Tower area, the vast majority of invincible kings would immediately burn their divine power and flee as soon as he unleashed his String Sword Domain.

So much so that even after eight hundred years, when his strength was still rapidly increasing, he only managed to kill three invincible kings through an ambush.

And since then, his reputation has only grown stronger, making it even more difficult to kill the invincible king...

The reason was simple: after that ambush, many invincible kings from various alien races were dissatisfied and joined forces with ten invincible kings to besiege and kill Hunzhen.

While it doesn't possess the extreme restrictions of a powerful treasure like the Death Curtain, it does have some slightly weaker powerful treasures.

As a result, neither side could gain the upper hand. The two sides fought fiercely for more than a month, from one end of the Star Tower battle zone to the other. However, the energy reserves of the String Sword King seemed to have no limit and could not be seen to the end.

The invincible king who besieged Hunzhen did not burn his divine power. Seeing that neither side could do anything to the other, and that continuing the fight would probably cause real and huge damage to their divine bodies, he finally called a truce.

After this battle, the reputation of the String Sword King spread throughout the Star Tower war zone.

Some stories about his character and conduct gradually spread.

To this day, everyone knows that the String Sword King roams the Star Tower area, with his sole aim being to hunt down the invincible beings among the Kings.

If a common king avoids him beforehand and doesn't run into him, he won't launch a large-scale attack.

The invincible powerhouse who is usually avoided by everyone has become the prey of the String Sword King.

The String Sword King is still at the "Invincible King" level, but is also implicitly regarded by the other Kings as an existence of a higher class. The other Kings' Invincible title is just a joke. If we're talking about invincibility, we have to look at my String Sword King!

Of course, only family members know their own situation.

Hunzhen knew that the reason those ten invincible kings retreated in that battle was not because they couldn't defeat him, but simply because they didn't intend to risk their lives and the pressure of being purged by the human race by burning their divine power to fight to the death.

While battling the Ten Invincible Kings, his growth had not yet reached a qualitative change. Once his opponents unleashed their divine power, he could only seek help from his good brothers in the Hong Alliance.

Of course, things are different now than they used to be.

Now, eight hundred years later, all three subordinate laws of the Time system have been recognized by the Origin Law, and three of the five subordinate laws of the Space system (metal, wood, water, fire, and earth) have also been recognized by the Origin Law.

Of course, the role of the inheritance order is indispensable in this process.

He exchanged the three inheritance tokens for the Lightning Inheritance Token, the Light Inheritance Token, and the Earth Inheritance Token, respectively.

After obtaining the Inheritance Token, he once again manifested his true form and entered the Inheritance Land. The three laws instantly gained the recognition of the Origin Law. Therefore, in reality, over the past eight hundred years, he only gained the recognition of the Origin Law of one additional lower-level law.

Moreover, after acquiring all three major inheritance tokens of the Time System, his Yin-Yang Laws were able to smoothly advance to the Lesser Completion stage during his subsequent visits to the Inheritance Grounds in the mortal realm. His understanding of the laws of Yin-Yang Laws alone was comparable to that of an ordinary Universe Venerable.

Consequently, the laws of Yin and Yang and the Five Elements, as well as the laws of space and time, were enhanced to varying degrees.

Hunzhen had a strong premonition.

Once he has all eight inheritance tokens, he will only need a short period of time to comprehend them, and his Yin-Yang and Five Elements laws will surpass the laws of space and time, allowing him to enter the realm of the master of the universe.

Of course, this transcendence is only temporary.

Hunzhen was perfectly clear about his own talents and path.

Yin and Yang and the Five Elements are ultimately just aids to his spacetime path. Only when spacetime is perfected and Yin and Yang and the Five Elements are integrated can he hope to glimpse the true laws of chaos.

On this day, the original form of Hunzhen, who was in the midst of enlightenment, suddenly opened his eyes.

"The Secret Technique of Time and Space Strings has finally reached the peak level of the Secret Technique."

A look of joy flashed across Hunzhen's face.

The remaining two inheritance tokens are not easy to obtain. He plans to cultivate in seclusion for a period of time after the secret method is uploaded and he obtains the inheritance token. Once all ten laws have been recognized by the original laws, he will begin to plan his final clone.

"Um?"

Suddenly, Hunzhen raised his eyebrows and a smile of great interest appeared on his face.

"What a coincidence! Luo Feng has finally become my junior brother?"

(End of this chapter)