Chapter 389 374: I Didn't Want to Be Hunted, So the Client Had to Disappear

As Jiang Qiu's name spread throughout the entire Desolate Realm, the Soul Race had already placed the highest possible bounty on his head. It was said to be enough for an ordinary Cultivator to cultivate all the way to the Peak of the Fusion Realm—provided that Cultivator's Talent was sufficient.

Under such a bounty, countless Cultivators were tempted. Even experts from powerful factions in the Outer Realm hoped to kill Jiang Qiu and claim the rich reward.

In this situation, many of Jiang Qiu's fans hoped he would join one of the top-tier major factions of the world cluster to avoid being killed.

They truly wanted to see Jiang Qiu soar. After all, this was the human they had watched achieve a fifty-win streak over so many days. If he became incredibly powerful in the future, they could brag to their children and grandchildren about how they had once personally witnessed Jiang Qiu in all his glory.

To them, Jiang Qiu was basically guaranteed to rise. Setting all other factors aside, his Unrivaled Talent alone would allow him to reach an extremely high Realm.

At only the first level of the Spirit Body Realm, he could instantly kill Soul, who was at the Peak of the Fusion Realm. It was hard to imagine what kind of power he would possess when he himself reached the Peak of the Fusion Realm.

It was in this environment that the calls online became incessant. Many fans frantically recommended world cluster-level organizations for Jiang Qiu to join, and those major organizations also began sending people one after another to contact him.

However, Jiang Qiu refused them all.

He was not prepared to accept, not even the offer from Celestial Star, who was currently the kindest to him. "I'm sorry, Senior Celestial Star, but I'm truly not suited for joining a major faction. I must always remember my own race."

'Joining a major faction isn't as simple as just saying you'll join. Every superpower has its own methods of control; they can alter aspects like one's bloodline, soul, and more.'

'My Human Race bloodline would surely be changed. Even my very state of being could be altered. Only by assimilating into their race would I gain their true trust.'

'A superpower might contain different races and be happy to accept them, but the faction itself is often founded by a single bloodline, and only that single bloodline holds the real authority.'

'The Three-Life Race controls the arena. All the upper echelons here are from the Three-Life Race; even the middle and lower ranks have very few members from other races mixed in.'

'The larger the race, the more this holds true. Even among world plunderers, there are distinctions between the main lineage and branch lineages.'

Jiang Qiu was naturally unwilling to have his pure bloodline altered and assimilated in exchange for resources. He believed he could raise his Realm through his own abilities, without needing much outside help.

'Of course, another important reason for refusing these major organizations is that I don't just have a pure Human Race bloodline, but also a pure Dragon Race bloodline. If anyone found out that I possess a Dragon Race bloodline, which has been missing for an entire era, wouldn't the entire world cluster be thrown into an uproar?'

'The more ancient and mysterious something is, the more it sparks curiosity and desire. They would definitely want to take the Dragon Race bloodline from my body and would press me on where it came from.'

'Speaking of which, there is another with a Dragon Race bloodline in the world. His seems to be natural-born, too. I'm talking about Chen. Where on earth did he go?'

'After the great calamity on Blue Star, I never saw him again after I returned from the Northern Boundary. It seems he took all the talented members of the Demon Race to another world.'

'He's a major threat that cannot be ignored!'

'The higher my Realm gets, the more I realize just how absurd Chen is. His identity as an Ancient Demon Emperor is terrifying, and his history of having once followed a True Dragon is horrifying.'

'Since his reincarnation on Blue Star, he threw the Northwest into chaos in less than a year. Several cities were breached, and the entire situation in the Xia Country became precarious.'

'The key is that his ambitions don't seem to be limited to just the Xia Country. He's capable of cultivating Demon Race geniuses of various Dao paths in a short amount of time; he created experts at the Demon Marshal level within a few months.'

'If it weren't for the many bottlenecks on Blue Star at the time, he might have even been able to create Fusion Realm experts with a snap of his fingers. That's the most terrifying thing about him as a reincarnated Demon Emperor.'

'When I first heard of a Demon Emperor, I thought it was just one tier higher than a Demon King, and that their power probably wasn't anything world-shattering. But later I learned that Demon Kings from Ancient Times should have had Fusion Realm Cultivation. The Northwest Demon King back then, the Red Flame Spider Mother, was a Pseudo-Demon King!'

'My own true Realm is also stuck at the threshold of the Fusion Realm, so one can imagine how difficult this breakthrough is. And Chen, at the Peak of his past life, probably had many such beings under his command.'

'Back then, he was the strongest among the many Demon Emperors. Some ancient texts record that he was the main force fighting against the Human Race's Cyan Simurgh Palace branch—the strongest expert in the Celestial Profound Great Realm!'

'This was the oppressive feeling that Chen gave off. His status was probably equivalent to first place on the Yin Yang Celestial Pride List in the Yin Yang Great Realm!'

Not hearing any news of him for so long gave the impression that he was secretly plotting and scheming, waiting for the right moment to emerge and shock the world. This truly unsettled Jiang Qiu. "Senior Celestial Star," he said, "I have more important things to do. It's best for me to cultivate alone."

Receiving such a reply, Celestial Star felt it was a pity, but there was nothing he could do. He couldn't force a peerless prodigy to join him.