Kuka’s words made Qin Hao fall into deep thought. After entering the Ancestral God Tomb’s Second Layer, he had been very low-key, not even communicating with other members of the human race, choosing instead to settle in a remote area.
He hadn't expected to still be targeted.
Qin Hao was clear that it must have been other members of the human race who spread his information. After all, communication between different regions mostly occurred within the central commercial district; other areas were generally in opposition. Compared to the First Layer, the clashes between the three great powers in the Second Layer were more frequent and intense.
Even large-scale battles would occasionally erupt.
Mutual surveillance and infiltration had become the norm, much like a microcosm of the Primordial Universe. However, within the Ancestral God Tomb, this microcosm was relatively small and simpler. Yet, the methods employed were by no means simple.
However, facing such a situation, even Qin Hao currently had no effective solution. If he now possessed World Lord Peak strength, Qin Hao would fear no one. With his powerful strength, comprehension of laws, and some secret methods, Qin Hao was confident he could contend with an Undying.
But now, his Domain Lord basic strength was too low. While he could handle a World Lord Peak, against an Undying, he could only focus on self-preservation and escape.
“Next, I need to develop low-key for a period,” Qin Hao quickly decided in his heart. This wasn't contradictory to his previous plans; it just meant this current location was no longer suitable. He couldn't even appear in the human race’s current gathering areas. He also needed to change his appearance and aura, completely hiding himself.
After making his decision, Qin Hao didn't hesitate. He quickly activated the entire grand formation to control the remaining four Monster Race World Lords and absorb them into the Wan Shou Tu Pu (Myriad Beasts Diagram).
After completely subduing the five Monster Race members, Qin Hao directly collected everything in the small courtyard. His appearance and aura changed, and he had transformed into an ordinary human race World Lord.
After completing the transformation, Qin Hao quickly hid himself within the Jiang Lan Realm. After Qin Hao disappeared, the five Monster Race members, including Kuka, began to act.
Their World Power was fully unleashed, and the immense force of their collision directly pulverized the original location of Qin Hao’s small courtyard, leaving a massive crater in its place.
The loud noise spread rapidly. From the distant human race gathering place, a team of World Lords swiftly flew out, approaching the source of the sound.
After completing their attack, Kuka and the other four began to scatter and flee quickly. When the human race team arrived, all they saw were scattered debris and the massive crater on the ground.
“It’s those little brats from the Monster Race,” the leading human World Lord said hatefully. The surrounding aura was very familiar to them—the Monster Race aura confirmed the culprits of this incident.
“Captain, what do we do next? It looks like one of our human race’s Five Great Powers’ core members was attacked. Now that a core member has fallen, it’s bound to attract attention.”
“What can we do? Go chase them immediately! Gather more people and pursue them in five separate routes. We must capture them all,” the captain quickly decided. Since the Monster Race had already attacked, they absolutely could not be let go.
Moreover, this section of the area was under their team’s responsibility, and such a situation meant he also bore responsibility. However, it was more for the sake of his own mission and status.
After all, even a genius, a core member of various factions, was not that important to the entire human race faction, or even most factions.
The Genius Battle, held once every five thousand years, produces 1,000 participants each time, and 100 of them who survive almost always become World Lords. In 10,000 years, that’s 200. A World Lord can live for ten million years, meaning in one World Lord’s lifetime, there will be 200,000 such geniuses.
Furthermore, there are countless other geniuses who join through various channels, far exceeding this number. Within the human race faction, such geniuses are innumerable.
What each faction truly focuses on are top-tier geniuses, like Qin Hao, Bolan, and Luo Feng—geniuses who have hope of becoming Venerables, or even a sliver of hope of becoming a Universe Lord.
For many factions, an Undying no longer plays a significant role; only top-tier power is the fundamental stability of a race. An Undying is merely a backbone force, and even then, only Champion-Level Undying can be called a true backbone force.
The standard for admission into the Great Alliance, led by the human race, also starts at the Champion level.
The surrounding human race World Lord patrol teams quickly mobilized, pursuing Kuka and the other four in their respective escape directions. After Kuka and the four left, they also rapidly fled, heading quickly towards the Monster Race territory.
They were also well aware that the pursuers behind them would not give them a moment of slack. If they stopped for even a minute, they could instantly lose their lives.
Qin Hao paid no attention to their chase and escape. The Jiang Lan Realm had already transformed into a speck of dust, hidden away. Qin Hao also continued his cultivation within the Jiang Lan Realm.
His Domain Lord cultivation was rapidly growing under the continuous absorption of cosmic energy. Mountains of cosmic crystals were quickly being converted into the purest energy, which Qin Hao continuously and rapidly absorbed.
These cosmic crystals, not to mention assisting a Domain Lord in breaking through to World Lord, would be more than enough to break through from World Lord first-stage to World Lord Peak over a hundred times.
However, for Qin Hao, this energy might only be just enough for him to break through to World Lord. Qin Hao not only has a lower Dantian but also an upper Dantian and a middle Dantian, and all three Dantians need to break through from Domain Lord to World Lord.
Moreover, each requires 90 times the energy of a normal World Lord. Additionally, there are six spaces—metal, wood, water, fire, earth, and space—and the new stars he visualized during his breakthrough to Domain Lord have also opened up their own unique spaces within his body.
Adding to that, Qin Hao’s progress in cultivation and visualization during this period, the stars in his sea of consciousness, the spaces within his body, and his Dantians have reached 18 in total.
Although these spaces do not require 90 times the energy like the Dantians, they each require about 10 times the energy. Qin Hao can now be said to be a major consumer of energy.
What’s more, the continuously operating Crimson Bright Nine Heavens Diagram is also devouring energy. This makes the energy consumed by Qin Hao for each breakthrough extremely vast, and the energy he needs to absorb is also extremely immense.
If it were an ordinary person, slowly absorbing energy would take an extremely long time. Qin Hao, however, with the aid of his 360 acupoints and countless pores, has maximized his energy absorption, giving him the confidence that even with such a massive amount of energy, he can still break through in a short period.
However, this so-called short period is relative to most cultivators. Compared to the force-feeding absorption method of the Virtual Universe Corporation, it is still a bit slower.