Chapter 513: Celebration, Loss, and Territory Allocation

In the Virtual Universe, within a special dimension.

Amid endless darkness, tiny stars shimmered, and a simple, colossal Axe Temple floated silently in the void.

In the temple hall’s open space, a very long stone table stood placed, with stone chairs arranged along the main seat and both sides.

But unlike before, two stone chairs now occupied the main seat, rather than just one.

Huh! Huh! Huh!

One by one, towering figures appeared within the temple, taking their assigned stone chairs—each a Cosmic Master of the human race.

The great war between the human alliance and the three factions—beast, insect, and machine races—had ended, and these human elites naturally convened to deliberate.

When all the Cosmic Masters had arrived, two figures appeared nearly simultaneously: Lu Qingshan and the Axe Founder.

“Axe!”

“Wanjie!”

“Wanjie!”

Upon seeing Lu Qingshan and the Axe Founder appear, all the human Cosmic Masters bowed slightly in greeting.

Though Lu Qingshan remained at the same Cosmic Master level as them, his demonstrated power had already placed him on par with the Axe Founder.

“Friends!”

Once everyone was seated, Lu Qingshan spoke quickly: “In this war against the three-faction alliance, though our human race did not win, your sacrifices have shown the beast, insect, and machine races the strength of our people!”

“Now they dare not provoke another war; on the matter of core territory allocation, they must negotiate with us!”

“Undoubtedly, our human race has achieved its goal through this battle!”

As soon as Lu Qingshan finished speaking, the faces of the human race’s many supreme beings lit up with smiles.

“Hahaha!”

“I knew those three factions together couldn’t touch us!”

“This time, it was mainly Wanjie and the Axe Founder who held off the three factions’ four Cosmic Supreme Beings!”

“Now our human race’s territory will surely expand greatly—even possibly surpassing the beast race’s current domain!”

Instantly, the human Cosmic Masters began speaking excitedly.

“Our success in forcing the three factions to concede was thanks entirely to Wanjie!”

Even the Axe Founder on the main seat chuckled: “If Wanjie hadn’t unleashed three top-tier Rank Six combat powers, I alone could have held off at most one Cosmic Supreme Being!”

“Therefore, Wanjie is unquestionably our greatest hero of this war!”

“Axe, you overstate it.”

Hearing the Axe Founder’s praise, Lu Qingshan smiled quickly: “I am but one member of the human race; contributing to our people is my duty.”

“Moreover, our success in forcing the three factions to concede was due to everyone’s collective effort!”

“If I were alone, I couldn’t have held back so many Cosmic Masters from the three factions—I’d have been crushed under pressure.”

“Wanjie, stop being so modest!”

The Axe Founder spoke again swiftly: “Your contributions to our human race have been seen by all of us.”

“For countless eons, we’ve all sought to strengthen our race—but never succeeded.”

“But now, you’ve achieved what we could not: our human race’s territory is expanding once more on a massive scale. In terms of contribution to our race, you surpass even me.”

“Therefore, I propose…”

The Axe Founder turned again to the human Cosmic Masters and continued: “From now on, Wanjie’s authority within our human race shall be raised to match mine—he may represent our race’s stance on any matter. Do you agree?”

“I agree!”

“I agree too!”

“It’s long overdue!”

Upon hearing the Axe Founder’s words, the human Cosmic Masters all nodded in assent.

Watching this scene, Lu Qingshan felt a deep emotion within.

His status within the human race had always been high, but still slightly below the Axe Founder’s.

Now, he could represent the human race’s stance on any matter whatsoever.

That meant—even if he wished to lead the human race into war against the Eye God Race or even the Two Sacred Realms, the race’s many powerful beings would follow.

This authority was undeniably immense.

Next, the human race’s supreme beings discussed at length the upcoming negotiations with the beast, insect, and machine races.

When these matters were nearly settled, the Chaos City Master spoke again.

“Friends!”

The Chaos City Master gazed at the still-overjoyed human powerful beings and said: “Don’t celebrate too soon.”

“In truth, our human race suffered great losses in this war.”

Hearing this, the human race’s supreme beings fell silent in surprise.

“Losses?”

“Chaos, what do you mean?”

“Are the beast, insect, and machine races preparing to launch another war?”

After a moment of stunned silence, the human powerful beings began speaking.

“No.”

The Chaos City Master explained quickly: “I’m referring to the alien Cosmic Masters who fought alongside us.”

“Before they joined the war, our human race made numerous promises to them.”

“Though not a single Cosmic Master of our side perished, all of us expended vast amounts of divine power.”

“I’ve roughly calculated their contributions—our race must now hand over at least two Peak Domain-class treasures, eleven Peak-tier weapon treasures, Top-tier Domain-class treasures, and numerous Top-tier weapon and armor treasures.”

“This…”

“That’s too much!”

Hearing the Chaos City Master’s words, the human powerful beings were stunned.

How many Peak Domain-class treasures did the human race even possess?

In fact, if Lu Qingshan hadn’t previously donated vast treasures to the human race’s treasury, they wouldn’t have had enough Peak Domain-class treasures for all their Cosmic Masters to exchange.

Even when Lu Qingshan had wanted to exchange for a single Peak Palace-class treasure, he’d had to negotiate with other human Cosmic Masters first.

Now, merely to fulfill promises to the alien races, they needed two Peak Domain-class treasures alone.

In past eons, the human race had never given out more than a few Peak-tier weapons or armors to alien Cosmic Masters—Peak Domain-class treasures were never released.

“These treasures are indeed precious.”

Lu Qingshan nodded slightly: “But since our race made promises, no matter how precious, we must honor them.”

“Moreover, during the war against the three-faction alliance, those alien Cosmic Masters played a vital role—and even when we were at a disadvantage, none withdrew. Rewarding them with treasures is only right.”

“Besides, we may wage such wars again in the future. If we break our promises now, it will be far harder to recruit alien Cosmic Masters next time.”

Hearing Lu Qingshan’s words, all the human powerful beings nodded in agreement.

Thus, after further discussion, Lu Qingshan turned again to the Chaos City Master and said: “Chaos Shibo, handle the distribution of treasures to the alien Cosmic Masters.”

“Rest assured,” the Chaos City Master nodded quickly.

The human race’s supreme beings then gathered to celebrate further, for Cosmic Masters needed only to spare a sliver of consciousness to remain within the Virtual Universe.

And in the real world.