At night, Qin Hao's figure disappeared from the inn he was staying in.
As he strolled along the main street, all the surrounding light was blocked, and Qin Hao seemed to merge into the darkness, so much so that even the patrolling soldiers passing by did not notice his presence.
After crossing a few streets, Qin Hao went directly to the main gate of the City Lord's Mansion, leaped over, and entered the mansion.
He quickly arrived at the back courtyard of the City Lord's Mansion and found the City Lord's room.
"The Four Great Families have been a bit restless lately," a middle-aged voice came from the room, full of disdain.
"Lord City Lord, the Four Great Families' desire for power never dies; they have always coveted the position of City Lord.
However, they are all cowards who are afraid of death, not even daring to fuse blood river crystals, yet they still want to unite and deceive the heavens."
A fawning voice then answered obsequiously.
In the Blood Luo World, the requirements for a City Lord, or World City Lord, in addition to strength, include the mandatory fusion of blood river crystals.
This is a unique feature of this world, and at the same time, it is also for the Immortal Temple to cultivate more seeds, to impact the Venerable realm, and to free the Blood Luo World from its controlled fate.
Qin Hao did not immediately enter the room but listened to their conversation.
Although Qin Hao understood a part of the situation regarding the Four Great Families and the Five Great Powers, many secrets were still difficult to uncover.
Through their conversation, Qin Hao also gained a clear understanding of the Four Great Families and the Five Great Powers; however, Qin Hao was more concerned with how many blood river crystals each of these powers had in stock.
"It seems that after dealing with the City Lord's Mansion, I'll also have to visit the various powers," Qin Hao thought, no longer planning to delay.
His figure vanished and he entered the room directly.
"Who's there?!" The Qingfeng City Lord roared, and his Wind Domain instantly unfolded, enveloping the entire room within its grasp.
He scanned his surroundings, searching.
Qin Hao gave him no chance; the moment he entered the room, he seemed to transform into a sharp sword, instantly appearing behind the Qingfeng City Lord, his longsword directly piercing his life core.
The Qingfeng City Lord instantly lost his breath, his body falling to the ground.
Dealing with a Territory Lord Rank was almost effortless for Qin Hao.
The only thing he needed to pay attention to was pinpointing the life core's location and quickly executing a one-hit kill.
After all, although he had the ability to directly slaughter the entire City Lord's Mansion, the commotion caused would be too great and would not benefit his actions in the Blood Luo World.
He removed the world ring from the corpse, glanced at it, and then directly threw it into his own world ring.
Qin Hao's figure directly disappeared, calmly leaving the City Lord's Mansion.
After leaving the City Lord's Mansion, Qin Hao did not immediately depart Qingfeng City, but instead went one by one to the locations of the Four Great Families and the Five Great Powers.
He repeated the same operation as in the City Lord's Mansion: a one-hit kill, collecting the blood river crystals, and then disappearing directly.
However, it was either Qin Hao's bad luck or the leaders of these powers were too fortunate.
Among the Four Great Families and the Five Great Powers, the head of four of them happened to be absent.
Qin Hao did not force the issue; after collecting the blood river crystals, he directly left Qingfeng City.
After leaving Qingfeng City, Qin Hao's objective was also very clear: to quickly rush to the next city.
From the Qingfeng City Lord, Qin Hao had also obtained a map of the current world, and the distribution of surrounding cities was already clear in his mind.
Next was the collection of blood river crystals within the various target areas; only after completing the collection would the next step be to fuse the blood river crystals.
For ten years, Qin Hao traveled through various worlds in the Blood Luo World, sometimes needing to use a spaceship when traversing between worlds.
After sweeping through thousands of worlds, Qin Hao had also collected nearly a hundred thousand blood river crystals.
This was also the result Qin Hao achieved under selective conditions.
After all, although he was an outsider, he was not someone who arbitrarily killed for profit.
In the chosen cities and world cities, Qin Hao always acted after a certain amount of investigation and selection.
It was precisely because of this that Qin Hao spent a lot of time.
However, what was relatively good was that because these people all had many misdeeds, even if they were killed, it would mostly be seen as an act of revenge.
Compared to the Territory Lord Rank powerhouses who could be easily handled, Qin Hao suffered a setback the first time he faced a World Lord Rank.
It wasn't that he fell into a disadvantage during the fight, but rather that the commotion was too great, attracting a lot of attention, so Qin Hao could only leave quickly.
After all, Qin Hao was currently only at the Universe Rank; while he could suppress the Territory Lord Rank with his understanding of the Laws, a World Lord Rank inherently controls a world, and with the World Projection's blessing, it was difficult for Qin Hao to resolve the fight in a short period of time.
However, that was only the first time.
The second time, Qin Hao did not directly engage in battle but instead used the Wan Shou Tu Pu (Myriad Beasts Diagram) he obtained from checking in at the Blood Luo World.
In the most recent check-ins, the Wan Shou Tu Pu (Myriad Beasts Diagram) was already considered a decent reward; the rewards from other years' check-ins were still very meager.
The only thing better than the Wan Shou Tu Pu (Myriad Beasts Diagram) was the Jiang Lan Realm obtained when entering the Wu Chen Space-time, which was also a good divine artifact.
After all, being able to accelerate time could help Qin Hao save a lot of cultivation time, and it was also a good life-saving divine artifact.
At least in front of an Undying or a Venerable, Qin Hao could completely hide himself and wait for the enemy to leave.
Speaking of which, the Jiang Lan Realm, Wan Shou Tu Pu (Myriad Beasts Diagram), Star Tears, and Array Dao Nine Hundred that Qin Hao currently possessed were all opportunities from Qin Chen; after all, they were from the same family, and the benefits were quite good.
In the First Layer of the Jiang Lan Realm, Qin Hao sat on the ground, took out a blood river crystal, and prepared to fuse it.
Currently, Qin Hao could only enter the First Layer of the Jiang Lan Realm; the Second Layer required at least the World Lord Rank to open, and Qin Hao estimated that he would need to become a Venerable to open the Third Layer.
He carefully examined the blood river crystal in his hand, a triangular prism-shaped blood crystal with faint golden threads inside.
Without much hesitation, Qin Hao directly integrated the blood river crystal into his body, and as it fused, Qin Hao felt a wave of killing intent impact him.
His body began to ache continuously as the blood river crystal melted and fused into his body.
Qin Hao felt the impact on his will and quickly overcame its influence.
He felt the blood river crystal's power enter his body; a small portion integrated into various parts of his body, but the vast majority of the energy was absorbed by his lungs and entered the seed formed by the Gold Law within his lung space, becoming nourishment for the seed's growth.
The first blood river crystal fused very quickly; in just over ten minutes, the blood river crystal's power was completely absorbed.
Qin Hao's body did not even strengthen much, but his perception of the Gold Law became much clearer.