Chapter 323: Frequently Convened Supreme Meeting

In a rooftop bar within Hong Meng City, in the virtual universe.

While the Ax Creator and other supreme beings of the superpowers were deliberating, Lu Qingshan was also gathered with dozens of the human race's cosmic lords discussing the formation of the Northern Alliance.

"This formation of the Northern Alliance has truly become a huge affair!"

A stunning woman clad in a blue battle armor couldn't help exclaiming: "I never expected the Northern Alliance would attract a lone cosmic strongest to stand guard, and have gathered nearly eighty cosmic lords!"

"Indeed!"

Another middle-aged man in a black robe, wreathed in wisps of black mist, likewise marveled: "Our human race has only a dozen or so cosmic lords—even if we add the hall masters within Hong Meng, we'd barely reach thirty or forty, less than half of the Northern Alliance's number!"

"Our human race's greatest backing is still the Ax Creator!"

A cosmic overlord quickly rebutted: "As long as the Ax Creator stands, our human race will forever remain one of the superpowers of this primal universe!"

"But the Northern Alliance has also secured a cosmic strongest to stand guard!"

Another cosmic overlord added: "If we don't curb them, their future influence will be astonishing!"

"The formation of the Northern Alliance is truly a monumental event—far surpassing any previous expansion of our territory or campaigns in the Outer Battlefields!"

The bald man in crimson robes, Venerable Guiyi, couldn't help sighing: "Since I began cultivation, this vast universe has always been dominated by the Eight Superpowers. Now, with the sudden formation of the Northern Alliance and the recruitment of a cosmic strongest, this will be a massive shock to all of us superpowers!"

"But we don't need to overthink this now!"

Master Ningshuang, seated nearby, drained her cup of wine and smiled: "The other superpowers will surely respond to the Northern Alliance's formation!"

"Once the major superpowers have reached an agreement, our race's high command will make a decision—we only need to follow their orders."

"That's true!"

Upon hearing Master Ningshuang's words, the surrounding cosmic lords all nodded in agreement.

While Lu Qingshan and the others were conversing, they soon received a message from the human race's high command.

"The supreme meeting is being called again?"

"It seems our race is preparing to address the Northern Alliance's formation!"

Upon receiving the message, each cosmic lord stirred inwardly and immediately set off toward the location of the human race's supreme meeting.

……

In the virtual universe, Shenshan, the Hall of the Gods!

The Hall of the Gods, which rarely opened even over eons, had now been activated three times within just a few centuries—a rarity even in the human race's entire history.

After the human race's supreme meeting was called, the strongest among them gathered swiftly.

Thus, when Lu Qingshan and the others arrived, nearly half of the human race's cosmic lords were already assembled.

Lu Qingshan's group consisted mostly of cosmic overlords, along with a few powerful, high-ranking supreme lords; as soon as they appeared on Shenshan, other powerhouses warmly greeted them.

"Wan Jie Zunzhe!"

"Guiyi Zunzhe!"

"Ning Shuang Zunzhe!"

Seeing this, Lu Qingshan and the others naturally responded warmly to the greetings.

As time passed, the number of the human race's powerhouses gathering around them grew steadily, until it was time for the supreme meeting to begin.

Boom—!

Amid a tremendous roar, the clouds in the sky parted, revealing the Hall of the Gods floating in the void.

"Human powerhouses, assemble!"

As a majestic voice rang out, Lu Qingshan and the others vanished from their spots and reappeared upon their respective Wang Zuo within the Hall of the Gods.

Because news of the Northern Alliance's formation had spread rapidly across the universe, and the human race, possessing the virtual universe, learned of it first.

Thus, all these cosmic lords already knew why the high command had called this supreme meeting—they were not overly surprised, but instead speculated on how the race's leadership would handle the Northern Alliance.

On the golden throne at the front of the hall, representing cosmic lords, every seat was now occupied by the human race's cosmic lords.

"Hahaha!"

The leader of the Cosmic Mercenary Alliance chuckled loudly as he listened to the cosmic lords' murmurs: "These youngsters are all guessing how we'll deal with the Northern Alliance—probably they never imagined the main force in this operation will be you cosmic lords yourselves!"

"Actually, this war will hinge mostly on the cosmic overlords!"

Nearby, Xu Jin Zhi Zhu quickly smiled: "If we can eliminate enough Northern Alliance cosmic overlords, the Northern True Gods may not be willing to keep reviving them!"

"Enough. Let's begin the meeting."

The Ax Creator waved his hand to cut off the cosmic lords' chatter, then turned directly to Hun Dun Chengzhu: "Chun Dun, you will preside over this supreme meeting."

"Understood." Hun Dun Chengzhu immediately nodded.

……

On another side, Lu Qingshan was exchanging whispers with his senior, Venerable Yao Guang, when suddenly the solemn voice of Hun Dun Chengzhu echoed in his ear.

"All of you!"

The Chaos City Lord's voice, immensely authoritative, filled the entire hall: "The supreme meeting has been convened frequently in recent times, but always due to matters capable of shaping the future of our entire human race!"

"The opening of the Primal Star and our recent territorial expansion were both beneficial events for our race!"

"But the matter we are to deliberate today—if mishandled—will have serious negative consequences for our human race!"

Upon hearing the Chaos City Lord's words, all the human race's cosmic lords grew solemn.

They had already learned of the Northern Alliance's formation, so they fully agreed with his assessment.

"The Northern Alliance has formed, and invited a lone cosmic strongest to stand guard!"

The Chaos City Lord continued gravely: "If we allow the Northern Alliance to continue growing, it will inevitably seize vast interests from our human race—and may even inspire lesser factions to imitate it!"

"Therefore, after deliberation, the high commands of our human race, Meng Yao Clan, Insect Clan, Machine Clan, Prison Clan, and Crystal Clan have decided to jointly launch a war against the Northern Alliance!"

"And the main force of this war will be you—these cosmic lords!"

Upon hearing the Chaos City Lord's words, the human race's many cosmic lords froze in slight shock.

"We are the main force of the war?"

"It seems the race groups are also unwilling to engage in all-out war with the Northern Frontier Alliance!"

"With six superpowers joining forces, I doubt the Northern Frontier Alliance can hold out much longer!"

"Exactly! Although the Northern Frontier Alliance has gathered many powerful races and ordinary races, compared to the six superpowers, it's far inferior!"

After a brief daze, the surrounding Universe Zifeng Zunzhe began transmitting their discussions one after another. "Everyone!"

Hun Dun Chengzhu's voice quickly sounded again in the ears of Lu Qingshan and the others: "Each of you is a backbone of our human race. Now the race needs you to fight, to clear the obstacles for our human race!"

"Only by thoroughly hurting the Northern Frontier Alliance will they learn that establishing a superpower is not so easy!"

"Of course, since you risk your lives for the race, the race will also give you some assistance, along with certain rewards!"

"This is the reward list our human race has prepared for this operation. Everyone may browse through it first!"

The moment Hun Dun Chengzhu finished speaking, a phantom screen instantly materialized before Lu Qingshan and the others below, displaying the specific reward form and detailed information regarding this operation against the Northern Frontier Alliance.

Upon seeing the phantom screen ahead, Lu Qingshan, who had been eager to learn the details of this operation, naturally began carefully browsing through it right away.

It must be said that the human race has truly gone all out to suppress the newly established Northern Frontier Alliance.

First, the kill rewards:

Killing an initial-level Universe Zifeng Zunzhe of the Northern Frontier Alliance yields a reward of fifty Heavy Treasure Points;

Killing an intermediate-level Universe Zifeng Zunzhe of the Northern Frontier Alliance yields a reward of two hundred Heavy Treasure Points;

Killing a high-level Universe Zifeng Zunzhe of the Northern Frontier Alliance yields a reward of eight hundred Heavy Treasure Points;

Killing a Universe Overlord of the Northern Frontier Alliance yields a reward ranging from one to five Ordinary Ordinary Zhibao Points, depending on the strength of the slain!

These kill rewards are similar to military merits on the extraterritorial battlefield — as long as one can slay beings at the Universe Zifeng Zunzhe level of the Northern Frontier Alliance, corresponding rewards can be obtained.

One must understand that, under normal circumstances, when the Universe Zifeng Zunzhe of the human race fight with Universe Zifeng Zunzhe of other alien races, there have never been any rewards at all.

And when adventuring in Cosmic Secret Realms, even treasures worth twenty or thirty Heavy Treasure Points are enough to make high-level Universe Zifeng Zunzhe fight to the death.

Now that the upper echelons of the human race have offered such generous rewards, the purpose is naturally to enable the strong ones of the human race to continuously slay the Universe Zifeng Zunzhe of the Northern Frontier Alliance!

Besides the kill rewards, there is also a resurrection discount!

Any strong one of the human race who falls in battle against the strong ones of the Northern Frontier Alliance only needs to pay half the original resurrection cost.

That is to say, when a high-level Universe Zifeng Zunzhe without Supreme Treasures falls, the usual cost for the race's upper echelons to reverse time and space to resurrect them is 0.8 Ordinary Ordinary Zhibao Points. But if they fall in combat against the strong ones of the Northern Frontier Alliance, they only need to pay 0.4 Ordinary Ordinary Zhibao Points after resurrection!

For the many Universe Zifeng Zunzhe who risk their lives for the human race, this is an even stronger guarantee.

Besides the kill rewards and resurrection discount, there is a third benefit — discounts on renting treasures from the human race's treasury.

Any strong one of the human race planning to slay members of the Northern Frontier Alliance may rent treasures from the human race's treasury free of charge.

Among them, initial-level Universe Zifeng Zunzhe may rent treasures not exceeding one hundred Heavy Treasure Points; intermediate-level Universe Zifeng Zunzhe may rent treasures not exceeding four hundred Heavy Treasure Points; high-level Universe Zifeng Zunzhe may rent treasures not exceeding one thousand five hundred Heavy Treasure Points; Universe Overlords may rent treasures not exceeding two Ordinary Ordinary Zhibao Points!

As long as the treasures do not exceed the quota, they can all be rented free of charge. When the time comes, one only needs to return the treasures or the corresponding Heavy Treasure Points!

It can be said that these three benefits are all extremely astonishing for the Universe Zifeng Zunzhe of the human race.

Lu Qingshan possesses the ability to create avatars, carries many Supreme Treasures and wealth on his person, and naturally is not too tempted by these benefits.

But the other Universe Zifeng Zunzhe are different!

Take the initial-level Universe Zifeng Zunzhe of the human race — their entire net worth combined is at most one or two hundred Heavy Treasure Points. They only need to slay two or three initial-level Universe Zifeng Zunzhe of the Northern Frontier Alliance, and their net worth can double. It is even very possible for them to exchange for some precious treasures and step into the intermediate-level Universe Zifeng Zunzhe realm!

By the same logic, intermediate-level Universe Zifeng Zunzhe, high-level Universe Zifeng Zunzhe, and even many Universe Overlords are the same.

After all, they normally don't have these benefits, and when roaming the universe and encountering treasures, they still have to fight desperately with alien Universe Zifeng Zunzhe just the same.

Now with so many benefits, the Universe Zifeng Zunzhe of the Northern Frontier Alliance are precious Heavy Treasure Points in their eyes — walking treasure vaults!

Even if they cannot single-handedly slay those Universe Zifeng Zunzhe, they can team up with friends. Slaying just one or two Universe Zifeng Zunzhe of the Northern Frontier Alliance would be enough to match the gains of their long past years.

"Heavens! It seems the upper echelons of the race are truly furious this time, to offer such tremendous benefits!"

"Naturally! If a powerful race produces a new strongest being of the universe and establishes a superpower, that's still simple. But the establishment of the Northern Frontier Alliance is not merely a newly emerged superpower — it will also become the target of those top-tier forces one level below!"

"Why bother with all that? I only know that slaying one initial-level Universe Zifeng Zunzhe of the Northern Frontier Alliance earns fifty Heavy Treasure Points. This rate of accumulating wealth is far faster than slowly searching for treasures in Secret Realm lands!"

"Right! Bipo, want to give it a shot?"

"Of course we must! The Universe Zifeng Zunzhe of those powerful races and ordinary races are inherently somewhat weaker than us. One-on-one, we can suppress them. With the two of us joining forces, slaying two or three Universe Zifeng Zunzhe is quite simple!"

"Intermediate-level Universe Zifeng Zunzhe can rent treasures not exceeding four hundred Heavy Treasure Points. Zi Yan, you and I will each rent a domain-type Heavy Treasure and a palace-type Heavy Treasure. Even if we encounter a high-level Universe Zifeng Zunzhe, we won't fear them at all!"

"Hahaha! The chance to get rich has arrived, and we can also contribute to the race. This time I must kill at least three intermediate-level Universe Zifeng Zunzhe — then I'll have a chance to exchange for that treasure!"

For a moment, the Universe Zifeng Zunzhe of the human race who had finished browsing the information on the phantom screen all became extremely excited. Many of them even began contacting friends before the highest meeting had ended, preparing to form teams to slay the Universe Zifeng Zunzhe of the Northern Frontier Alliance.

"It seems these little ones are all very excited!"

On the golden Wang Zuo, the Lord of Qingdong of the Universe's First Bank could not help but sigh after hearing the transmissions of the many Universe Zifeng Zunzhe.

"Actually, it's mainly because the benefits we've offered this time are generous enough!"

The Lord of Lord Huang Jian quickly spoke: "With so many benefits combined, it's only natural they want to go fight the Universe Zifeng Zunzhe of the Northern Frontier Alliance!"

In fact, the most important wealth of the human race is mostly concentrated on the Giant Axe Founder and the many Universe Lords.

Although the human race seems to have put out quite a few resources this time, compared to the resources controlled by the Giant Axe Founder and the many Universe Lords, it is merely a drop in the bucket.

After all, the human race currently only has a few thousand Universe-level lords. The Giant Axe Founder only needs to casually take out a peak domain-type Ordinary Ordinary Zhibao, and it would be enough to exchange for a full set of Ordinary Ordinary Zhibao weapons and armor for all the Universe-level lords of the human race.

But unless the human race faces a life-or-death crisis, the upper echelons of the human race would never do this.

Because to obtain, one must give!

Not to mention the many Universe Zifeng Zunzhe — even the Universe Lords are the same.

Those precious treasures in the human race's treasury — they too need sufficient contributions to exchange for them!

And in the process of accumulating wealth and exchanging treasures, it is also a good tempering for them. Who knows, they might even have a chance to break through to a higher realm!

If the upper echelons of the human race truly equipped every strong one of the human race with precious treasures, it would be impossible to cultivate new super-strong experts!

"However…"

The Lord of Lord Huang Jian quickly continued: "Giving such generous benefits to the strong ones of our human race is one thing, but the alien races within the Hong Alliance must have their benefits reduced!"

"I agree with Lord Huang Jian's thinking!"

The Xu Jin Zhi Zhu of the Giant Axe Arena quickly said: "In my view, the kill reward should be sixty percent of what our human race's strong receive, the resurrection discount should be sixty percent of the original, and as for the benefit of renting treasures, let's not give it to them!"

"The treatment Xu Jin mentioned is already quite good!"

"I think so too!"

"Then it's settled!"

After hearing the words of the surrounding Universe Masters, Hun Dun Chengzhu, who was in charge of handling Hong Alliance affairs, quickly nodded and said: "Then when I discuss with the other Hall Masters within the Hong Alliance later, I'll go by what everyone has said!"

In fact, the resurrection cost for other strong members within the Hong Alliance was normally already considerably higher than for the human race's own strong members.

For example, a high-rank Universe Zunzhe of the human race needed to pay 0.8 supreme treasure points to resurrect, but if it were an alien race member within the Hong Alliance, they would have to pay 1, or even 1.2 supreme treasure points.

Especially the Universe Overlords within the Hong Alliance — it was even more so!

After all, ordinary Universe Zunzhe could still ask those alien-race Universe Masters within the Hong Alliance to resurrect them, but Universe Overlords could only be resurrected by the Giant Axe Founder alone!

So no matter how much the cost, those alien races could only choose to accept it!

(End of chapter)