Chapter 72: Exchanging Treasures: Envoy Mission

In Chaos City, an ancient side hall serves as the place where the human race exchanges treasures, though generally only Universe Venerables come here.

Zhou Yu had never been here before, and this time is his first visit.

When Zhou Yu walked up to the side hall.

Boom—boom—boom.

The ancient hall doors slowly opened; the bronze‑colored gate, about a hundred meters wide, gradually swung open, and as Zhou Yu stepped inside, the gate closed again.

The main hall was very spacious yet empty, with only a stone platform about a hundred meters tall at its center.

That was the "Treasure Appraisal Platform"; placing a treasure on it would automatically appraise it and determine its value.

Zhou Yu did not hesitate; as soon as he thought of it, a blood‑colored vine about a meter long instantly appeared on the appraisal platform.

After waiting a moment, a voice suddenly sounded.

"Core part of the Blood Vine, offering it to the clan yields 0.1 Treasure Points. Zhou Yu, do you wish to donate this treasure to the clan?"

"Yes."

Zhou Yu naturally chose "yes."

Wow!

The center of the stone platform cracked open violently, the piece of blood‑colored vine fell down, and the platform quickly restored itself.

Zhou Yu did not hesitate again; he took out another treasure.

"Star Soul Fruit, offering it to the clan yields 0.3 Treasure Points. Zhou Yu, do you wish to donate the treasure to the clan?"

"Yes."

Zhou Yu chose "yes" again.

At this point he kept offering treasures one by one; he had obtained 3,216 treasures from the Lord of Crimson Darkness, and ultimately donated 3,106 of them.

The vast majority of these treasures were valued at less than 1 Treasure Point each.

However, some were extremely precious, with the highest reaching 52 Treasure Points.

In the end, Zhou Yu accumulated a total of 2,150 Treasure Points.

This was a massive fortune; the Lord of Chaos City said Zhou Yu had struck great luck, and indeed the words were not false.

The Lord of Crimson Darkness, as a lone wanderer, finding such a huge wealth was truly difficult.

"But although the Treasure Points are many, how to use them still requires careful thought," Zhou Yu mused.

First, the genetic tier of the human clone needs to be raised.

Zhou Yu opened the "Detailed Form for Human Race Precious Treasure Exchange" and quickly selected a treasure from the Special Resource category among the four major classifications: Treasure, Precious Treasure, Material, and Special Resource.

There are actually many treasures that can raise genetic tier, but ordinary Immortals and even Universe Venerables cannot access them; at this moment the Lord of Chaos City granted Zhou Yu permission, and he easily found many such treasures.

"Raising the genetic tier to a hundredfold is very easy; raising it to a thousandfold is harder, requiring roughly 100 Treasure Points; raising it to two thousandfold costs considerably more, needing 350 Treasure Points; raising it to three thousandfold is even pricier, requiring 1,000 Treasure Points."

"Generally, once you quickly reach three thousandfold, further advancement becomes very difficult."

Zhou Yu looked at the treasures in the form and quickly calculated in his mind.

Relying on the treasures in the human treasury, the highest achievable is three thousandfold; to go higher would require a special opportunity.

"Three thousandfold is already very high; my Seven‑Star Vine clone is only at a thousandfold genetic tier," Zhou Yu thought.

Of course, the Seven‑Star Vine clone's main advantage is its large size.

Large size is the advantage, and the massive divine energy reserve also gives a great edge in battles at the Lord of the Universe level.

"Then let's raise it to three thousandfold," Zhou Yu decided after deep thought.

When the genetic tier reaches three thousandfold, compared to a thousandfold it is not only three times stronger, but crucially the physique also undergoes a qualitative change.

Below the Lord of the Universe, aside from special beings, the genetic limit for ordinary life is a hundredfold.

The Lord of the Universe, while breaking this limit, also continuously enlarges in size as the genetic tier rises.

At over a thousandfold genetic tier, the size could be thousands of kilometers.

But at three thousandfold, the size reaches tens of thousands of kilometers.

The gap in divine energy reserves between the two is considerable.

Therefore Zhou Yu prefers to spend 1,000 Treasure Points to raise the genetic tier to three thousandfold.

"There are still over 1,100 Treasure Points left," Zhou Yu thought, and opened the Treasure Category exchange list.

Various treasures vary widely in value; ordinary weapon or armor treasures require only single‑digit Treasure Points, while high‑end or top‑tier weapon and armor treasures are still not expensive.

Even a pinnacle treasure could potentially be exchanged for one with Zhou Yu's remaining thousand‑plus Treasure Points.

However, some special treasures, such as flying palace‑type, domain‑type, or soul‑type, are much pricier.

Even at the top tier, Zhou Yu could not afford them at this moment.

"Armor I don't need, weapons I don't need for now," Zhou Yu thought.

He had just had it inspected by the appraisal platform; the "Starflow Annihilation Divine Armor" he obtained is a top‑tier treasure armor, already sufficient for Zhou Yu's current use.

As for weapons, Zhou Yu's sect is special, so ordinary weapons have little effect for him; the key is that he has just broken through and has not yet created a Lord of the Universe‑level secret technique.

He only possesses the most basic skill, "Control of Time and Space"; even with a weapon he cannot make use of it.

"Staying alive is the most important," Zhou Yu thought clearly; his human clone's survivability is rather average.

When immortal, he is fearless because death can be revived.

Now, death is truly final.

"Palace‑type treasure," Zhou Yu decided quickly.

He can exchange for a flying palace‑type treasure; the best is the "Nine‑Dragon Hall" worth 800 Treasure Points, which, though only a high‑tier treasure, is practically infinitely close to a top‑tier treasure.

"With such a palace‑type treasure, as long as I don't leave the Primeval Universe, dying would be difficult," Zhou Yu nodded with great satisfaction.

In the Primeval Universe, even if he encounters a crisis, he can still call for aid.

By relying on the palace treasure for a moment, a human strongman will naturally arrive.

"Exchange another soul-type supreme treasure." Zhou Yu promptly exchanged for another high-level soul-type supreme treasure.

However, his remaining treasure points were no longer enough to exchange for a better high-level soul treasure, so he exchanged for a relatively ordinary one.

Of course, this was enough for Zhou Yu; after all, he was already the Lord of the Universe, making it hard to kill him with soul attacks, and with another high-level soul-type treasure guarding him, it was naturally foolproof.

After finishing the exchange, Zhou Yu then went to the Lord of Chaos City.

"What are your plans now?" the Lord of Chaos City asked, looking at Zhou Yu.

"I haven't decided yet; I need to plan carefully." Zhou Yu shook his head.

He wasn't in a hurry to reveal his strength, merely to preserve his primal energy; once it became known that he was the Lord of the Universe, he feared he could no longer kill at will.

After all, a neutral powerhouse would hardly attack without cause; hostile faction powerhouses, the Lord of the Universe is currently no match for them; using superior strength to bully a Universe Venerable, others could easily emulate to kill human Universe Venerables—this is clearly unworkable.

For now, keeping his strength hidden, if someone comes to deal with him, he can counterattack—then it would be justified.

Such an opportunity comes only once, so Zhou Yu naturally needs to plan carefully.

Figuring out how to kill more is also a problem.

"The company has an envoy mission; they haven't found a suitable person yet—if you're interested, you can go." the Lord of Chaos City said at that moment.

"An envoy mission?"

"Not long ago, in the fringe region of the universe, a new cosmic secret realm was discovered; our human race sent someone to explore, who found a vast human population; though the group as a whole isn't strong, it likely has an extremely powerful chieftain." the Lord of Chaos City said:

"For such a human population in a secret realm, our general strategy is to absorb and integrate; of course, many groups choose independence, depending on their own choice."

The concept of the cosmic human race is indeed vast; many environments nurture human life, not every human lineage ultimately merges with the cosmic human race—some remain independent, and some even merge first and later split off.

However, Zhou Yu's current concern wasn't these matters, but how the situation the Lord of Chaos City described sounded somewhat familiar.

"Teacher, do you have detailed information?" Zhou Yu asked.

"There are some." the Lord of Chaos City nodded, then sent some materials to Zhou Yu in the virtual universe.

After looking, Zhou Yu quickly confirmed that this was indeed the human race led by the Seven-Star Vine Avatar.

"Indeed, what a coincidence—a newly discovered secret realm, a huge population, and an extremely powerful chieftain." Zhou Yu inwardly marveled.

"Teacher, I'll take this mission." Zhou Yu smiled.

(End of chapter)