Chapter 175: Amazing Harvest, the Unlucky Bai Hong Wang

"Grandmaster!"

Lu Qingshan quickly bowed again and said: "Disciple wishes to further enhance the power of his sword art and soul-attack technique; please, Grandmaster, continue to guide me!"

After Lu Qingshan created his top-tier sword art, Venerable Yao Guang began focusing on guiding his soul techniques.

At that time, Lu Qingshan also wanted to rapidly elevate his second soul-attack technique to the top tier, so he devoted most of his energy to improving his soul-attack technique.

Now that his soul-attack technique has already reached the top tier, he naturally wished to push further.

Upon hearing this, Venerable Yao Guang could not help but feel surprised.

He had assumed that after suggesting Lu Qingshan seriously study the fundamental principles of time, Lu Qingshan would temporarily set aside his self-created techniques.

After all, for a King not immortal, a top-tier technique was more than sufficient.

Moreover, in Venerable Yao Guang's eyes, given Lu Qingshan's previous pace in creating techniques, it was undoubtedly extremely difficult for him to elevate both techniques to the peak tier in the future.

And if he merely elevated the first technique to the peak tier, its power would be scarcely different from that of the top-tier second technique.

Thinking this, Venerable Yao Guang quickly spoke: "Qingshan, do you know the tiers of techniques?"

"Please, Grandmaster, guide me!" Lu Qingshan quickly bowed respectfully.

Due to his original world's knowledge, Lu Qingshan understood technique tiers quite well, but it certainly could not compare to Venerable Yao Guang, a cosmic Venerable who had personally experienced them.

Now that Venerable Yao Guang wished to guide him, he was naturally eager to learn thoroughly!

"If we simplify the tiers of techniques, they can be divided into five levels: unclassified, ordinary, top-tier, peak, and ultimate!"

Venerable Yao Guang quickly explained: "The unclassified tier is the simplest; most powerhouses below not immortals, and even some mediocre not immortals, create techniques at this level!"

"Some outstanding not immortal commanders and most Marquis not immortals create techniques that reach the ordinary tier!"

"Meanwhile, some Marquis not immortals with higher talent and longer cultivation time, certain world lord-level prodigies, and the vast majority of King not immortals create techniques belonging to the top tier — the same tier as your current self-created techniques!"

"As for the peak tier, it is generally attainable only by cosmic Venerables; a very few King not immortals, after immeasurably long cultivation, may also achieve it! Your master's 'Lei Huan Technique' has already reached the peak tier!"

"As for the ultimate tier, only those lofty cosmic lords can accomplish it; some cosmic Overlords also have a chance to create ultimate techniques!"

As he spoke, Venerable Yao Guang could not help but sigh inwardly.

Although he was now a cosmic Overlord himself, he had never created an ultimate technique befitting a cosmic Overlord; fortunately, his life gene level and protective treasures were quite strong, so his strength ranked as mid-tier among cosmic Overlords!

"I tell you this to make clear that the higher you climb in technique power, the harder it becomes!"

Venerable Yao Guang said again earnestly: "I noticed your pace in creating your second technique was not particularly fast; therefore, rather than expending great effort studying techniques, you would be better off deeply contemplating the fundamental principles of time!"

"Once you pass the Heavenly Bridge's twentieth level in the future, you can create a third top-tier technique; at that point, with your tenfold life gene level and the amplification technique, even among King limit powerhouses, you won't be weak!"

Hearing this, Lu Qingshan felt rather embarrassed.

He had been underestimated by his Grandmaster, Venerable Yao Guang!

In truth, if he had used the Enlightenment Boost function from his chat group once while creating combat techniques, his cultivation speed would have astonished the other.

But recently, he had been accumulating points for the upcoming inheritance of the Four Divine Generals, so he had used the Enlightenment Boost function only once while contemplating the Chaos Stele.

"Disciple understands!"

Lu Qingshan quickly said again: "But I still wish to continue trying, to see if I can create a peak-tier combat technique!"

"Very well! You're still young, and you have your avatar roaming the Outer Battlefield; continuing to create techniques won't waste much cultivation time!"

Venerable Yao Guang quickly said: "Although I guide you and assign suitable opponents, you will soon find that when facing ever-stronger opponents, you'll be at a loss — how to break through will ultimately depend on you alone!"

"Disciple understands!"

Lu Qingshan bowed respectfully: "Disciple is deeply grateful for your guidance!"

"Then it's settled!" Venerable Yao Guang no longer pressed further.

As one of the earliest disciples of Lord Bingfeng Zhi, he had cultivated for endless eons and naturally possessed ample patience.

"To elevate a technique to the peak tier, you must begin by gradually improving the first technique!"

Venerable Yao Guang waved his hand, and another figure appeared in the training ground: "I've arranged a suitable opponent for you; you may proceed whenever you're ready — go!"

"Yes!"

Lu Qingshan bowed respectfully, then charged toward the newly appeared opponent, while Venerable Yao Guang vanished swiftly.

……

Meanwhile, as Lu Qingshan continued refining his combat techniques, his main body, roaming the Outer Second Battlefield, once again boarded a cosmic ship to seek suitable opponents.

Inside the crimson triangular cosmic ship.

"Now that my second soul-attack technique has broken through to the top tier, it's time to find another suitable opponent to test it!"

Lu Qingshan silently thought as he used a large detector to search for opponents: "The last time I killed a King not immortal was thirteen thousand years ago; killing another now certainly won't count as frequent slaughter!"

After Lu Qingshan was killed by the Meng Yao Zu's Shi Jia Wang, he quickly came to the Outer Second Battlefield to roam.

It must be said that at the King level, especially among the native powerhouses of the Four Peak Tribes, it was extremely difficult to hide one's identity.

When Lu Qingshan first arrived at the Outer Second Battlefield, being new, no one initially recognized his identity.

But to accelerate his cultivation in creating techniques, he needed to fight many alien King not immortals!

As a result, much of his information — his favored methods, technique characteristics, and more — inevitably leaked out.

Within less than twenty thousand years of arriving at the Outer Second Battlefield, his identity as King Lingjian Wang was known to many alien powerhouses; even the Meng Yao Zu dispatched a King not immortal who had previously fought him to confirm his identity.

For King not immortals, spiritual energy signatures could not be faked; the moment the opponent saw Lu Qingshan, he confirmed he was King Lingjian Wang.

However, after arriving at the Outer Second Battlefield, he remained extremely low-key, never killing any King not immortal, and when he killed Marquis not immortals, he always used ambushes, minimizing the chance of exposure — so he escaped targeted retaliation from the Meng Yao Zu.

After all, for the Meng Yao Zu to dispatch powerhouses to kill Lu Qingshan required a certain cost.

Since Lu Qingshan had become low-key, they had no reason to continue targeting him.

For Lu Qingshan, to avoid drawing the attention of the other three factions' high-ups, he became even more cautious while roaming the Outer Battlefield.

He, a soul master rivaling a King limit powerhouse, killed foes less frequently than some King peak soul masters.

Of course, these were merely surface appearances.

Lu Qingshan roamed the Outer Battlefield not only to hone himself, but also to accumulate as much wealth as possible.

So Lu Qingshan specifically purchased a very expensive small-scale detector, and then used it to ambush small squads of exotic-race powerhouses led by Marquis-rank Undying.

With Lu Qingshan's current strength, even against a squad led by a peak Marquis-rank powerhouse, he could, under ambush, swiftly wipe out the entire squad before they could send out a distress signal.

Moreover, to avoid drawing attention, every time he killed a few squads, he would secretly switch to a different region to operate.

Coupled with the fact that Marquis-rank Undying on the Extraterritorial Battlefield were practically countless, naturally they would not receive the same level of attention as King-rank Undying.

So over the course of several million years, Lu Qingshan had openly only killed thirty-one initial King-rank, over six hundred peak Marquis-rank, as well as a portion of high Marquis-rank and initial Marquis-rank; all the military merits and spoils combined amounted to only a little over sixty billion Hunyuan units.

For a peak King-rank powerhouse, this was considered a relatively normal-to-fast rate of wealth accumulation, but compared to peak King-rank Soul Masters, or even limit King-rank powerhouses, this rate of wealth accumulation was somewhat slower.

But precisely because of this, coupled with the fact that Lu Qingshan never participated in any particularly dangerous activities—even when friends from the human faction invited him—he had never once perished in these several million years.

And besides that, when Lu Qingshan operated in secret, he had killed a full eight thousand-plus peak Marquis-rank exotic-race powerhouses; as for high Marquis-rank and initial Marquis-rank, there were even more, and among them were even two Meng Yao Zu World Lord-level geniuses.

However, because Lu Qingshan acted with extraordinary speed, and only a few had the chance to spread the news, Lu Qingshan did not attract the attention of the high echelons of the other three factions because of this.

During this period, Lu Qingshan had also encountered a World Lord-level genius of the Mechanical race, but after much deliberation, Lu Qingshan did not choose to make a move against him.

After all, the other party had no soul, so he simply could not swiftly kill him; coupled with the Mechanical race's powerful communication system, once he killed the other party, the news would inevitably leak out.

If he were to be targeted by the high echelons of the Mechanical race faction because of this, it would definitely not be worth it!

And the fall of these Marquis-level exotic-race powerhouses also brought Lu Qingshan a massive fortune of over six hundred billion Hunyuan units!

Although a fortune of over six hundred billion Hunyuan units was utterly astonishing, this was the accumulation of Lu Qingshan over several million years; averaged out, it was only a little over a billion Hunyuan units every ten thousand years.

Compared to the speed at which Lu Qingshan had previously accumulated several hundred billion Hunyuan units in just over a thousand years, this was simply not worth mentioning.

But then again, doing so was actually quite dangerous.

As far as Lu Qingshan knew, there had also been exotic-race peak King-rank Soul Masters on the Extraterritorial Battlefield who, like Lu Qingshan, wantonly slaughtered weak Marquis-rank Undying.

Even before being exposed, the other party had already killed over two hundred thousand Marquis-rank Undying.

But after being exposed, he was targeted by the high echelons of the other three factions, who even directly dispatched multiple limit King-rank powerhouses to target him, ultimately successfully enslaving his soul so that he could never turn things around again.

However, for Lu Qingshan, who possessed a clone, this kind of danger was not actually that great!

"Actually, compared to the effort of killing these Marquis-rank Undying, killing those King-rank Undying yields far greater gains!"

Lu Qingshan thought to himself: "Moreover, powerhouses who possess King-rank strength likely have precious treasures in their hands; just one encounter would surpass the accumulation of long years on the Extraterritorial Battlefield!"

Just like in the original work, when Luo Feng acknowledged the Star as his master and wantonly hunted and enslaved peak King-rank, or even limit King-rank powerhouses, he once unexpectedly obtained the treasure 'Ice Silk Net' from a high King-rank powerhouse!

And that single Ice Silk Net surpassed all his gains on the Extraterritorial Battlefield aside from the Purple Bell!

Just like that, Lu Qingshan rode a cosmic spaceship and flew on the Extraterritorial Battlefield for several decades, finally finding a suitable target.

It was an exotic-race powerhouse over four meters tall, with butterfly-like wings on his back and bulging compound eyes on his forehead.

"It's actually him!" Upon seeing this exotic-race powerhouse, Lu Qingshan could not help but be stunned.

This exotic-race powerhouse was the 'Jin Hongwang' of the Meng Yao Zu faction, Tail-Descendant race group, initial King-rank strength, looking ordinary and unremarkable.

And the reason Lu Qingshan felt surprised upon seeing this Jin Hongwang was entirely because the other party had already perished at his hands over three million years ago!

Thinking of this, Lu Qingshan quickly began looking up information about Jin Hongwang.

"Came back to the Extraterritorial Battlefield to adventure again after just over two million years?"

After looking up the information, Lu Qingshan thought to himself: "The probability of this Jin Hongwang having a clone is not high; he should have been revived through time-reversal by a Universe Master of the Tail-Descendant race group!"

The Tail-Descendant race group was a powerful race group that possessed super-existences like Universe Masters; a King-rank Undying like Jin Hongwang naturally had the chance to be revived through time-reversal by a powerful member of the race group.

Thinking of this, Lu Qingshan quickly used the Virtual Universe to look up information about the Tail-Descendant race group.

With his current authority, he temporarily could not access information about the high echelons of the Tail-Descendant race group, but he did find some information about King-rank Undying of the Tail-Descendant race group.

"Recently, several other fallen Tail-Descendant King-rank Undying have also appeared on the Extraterritorial Battlefield? Then it seems my guess should be correct!"

Lu Qingshan observed Jin Hongwang, who was riding a cosmic spaceship at sub-light speed, through a large-scale detector, and could not help but sigh: "Jin Hongwang, don't blame me; if you must blame someone, blame yourself for being too unlucky!"

After sighing, Lu Qingshan quickly changed the flight angle of his cosmic spaceship, then rapidly approached in the direction Jin Hongwang was heading.

Back then, it was by relying on soul attacks that he killed Jin Hongwang; encountering the other party again now naturally made him the best target to verify the might of his soul attacks!

……

Inside a saucer-shaped cosmic spaceship within the void of the Extraterritorial Battlefield.

Jin Hongwang, who had just finished a battle, was sorting through his gains.

"This Swallow Eagle race powerhouse really is skilled in movement techniques!"

Jin Hongwang could not help but sigh inwardly: "Just an initial Marquis-rank, yet his instantaneous burst speed can rival an ordinary peak Marquis-rank powerhouse!"

"If it were an ordinary King-rank Undying, he might have actually escaped! But the strong ones of our Tail-Descendant race are best at binding enemies; running into me can only be considered his bad luck!"

"Hahaha, this haul should be worth two million Dunzhu!"

After scanning through all the spoils, a smile could not help but appear on Jin Hongwang's face: "Accumulating resources on the Extraterritorial Battlefield really is faster; after being revived through time-reversal by the leader this time, I worked within the race for a million years and only earned contribution points equivalent to fifty thousand Dunzhu!"

"Yet coming to the Extraterritorial Battlefield to adventure, just any random battle yields over a hundred thousand Dunzhu! As long as I accumulate for a while longer, I can pay off all the contribution points I owe the race group!"

"Speaking of which, I don't know whether my luck is good or bad!"

Jin Hongwang sighed inwardly: "If it's good, I just happened to run into that damned King Lingjian King! If it's bad, I was revived through time-reversal by the leader just a few hundred years after I perished!"

One must know that although the Tail-Descendant race group was a powerful race group, the entire race group only had one Universe Master.

Under normal circumstances, the Universe Master of the Tail-Descendant race group would generally only revive a King-rank Undying within the race group after a long passage of time.

But after Jin Hongwang perished this time, he happened to catch the race group's leader reviving strong members of the race, so he was revived through time-reversal after just a few hundred years.

"Moreover, after this time-reversal revival, I feel my comprehension of the origin law of time has increased somewhat!"

Jin Hongwang thought to himself: "Perhaps after tempering myself on the Extraterritorial Battlefield for a while longer, I can step into the high King-rank level!"

"King Lingjian King, just you wait! Sooner or later, I will make you pay the price!"

……

On the other side, by continuously adjusting the spaceship's flight angle, Lu Qingshan finally appeared within a hundred thousand kilometers of the cosmic spaceship Jin Hongwang was riding after three hours.

Whoosh!

The spaceship hatch opened.

"I wonder if the White Rainbow King will be pleasantly surprised when he sees this?"

With this thought flashing through his mind, Lu Qingshan instantly executed a movement art and gave chase!

Once he was within ten thousand kilometres of the flying vessel the White Rainbow King was riding, Lu Qingshan immediately waved his hand and blasted out a stream of undying divine power, then rapidly bombarded it in the direction of his target.

(End of chapter)