Nine names.

Liang Chen ignored Qing Lan Yong's words and stepped over the edge of the basin, sliding down the side of it until he reached the seemingly endless bottom. He couldn't turn around to look at Qing Lan Yong, he feared that he might once again lose control over his emotions and attack him. He also couldn't guarantee that he wouldn't lose himself so much that he ended up sealing Qing Lan Yong's Qi and simply killed him right there and then. Now that he had finally gotten his blazing emotions under control again, there was no way that he could allow that to happen.

Liang Chen's gaze roamed across the vast emptiness that used to be the Storm Wolf sect, a tinge of sadness flashing past his eyes. This was once a beautiful place filled with energetic and ambitious disciples, but now it had all vanished and been reduced to less than rubble. Liang Chen drew in a deep breath of dusty air, his gaze focusing again as he started to walk, Yumao nestling against his hair.

Liang Chen hadn't come here for nothing, he could feel that there was still something within this large basin that was resonating with him, something had survived the destruction of the Storm Wolf sect. Liang Chen walked with slow steps and allowed his body to instinctively follow the resonating feeling, his steps bringing him towards the western side of the basin.

He followed the resonating feeling for almost five hours until his feet stopped, his gaze sweeping his surroundings. The spot where he was standing right now was where the resonating feeling was at its strongest, and if his memories were correct this should be about where the Wolf Hall headquarters were located.

Liang Chen crouched down and smashed his right fist into the ground, a cloud of dust and debris shooting into the sky as the earth was torn apart. Through the dust, Liang Chen could see that there was a small cave dug out beneath the basin, approximately five meters long and wide. And standing at the very center of the small cave was a familiar three-meter tall black stone with a rugged surface. Once Liang Chen smashed the ceiling of the cave and exposed it to the light, a familiar voice came from the stone as a figure started to take form in front of it.

"You have quite the guts to actually return here. Did you see my rules as a cheap joke?"

The figure of a rainbow-haired elder with a drooping white mustache appeared in front of the stone, his closed eyes focused on Liang Chen. Quite some time had passed since he last saw him, but Liang Chen had never forgotten this Elder Chaotic, the spirit and materialization of the stone that carried the Chaos King technique.

The two looked at each other in silence for a short few seconds, neither of their expressions showing their emotions. Liang Chen had nothing to say, the moment he transferred the Chaos King technique to Yan Ling he had broken one of the two rules that Elder Chaotic had set.

Liang Chen knew that transferring the technique meant that Elder Chaotic would definitely leave the Storm Wolf sect, but if he once again found himself in those circumstances then he was confident that he would make the same choice. The first one to break the silence between the two people was actually Elder Chaotic, his voice carrying a soft sigh.

"You're lucky. Had it not been for the strange fusion of your and that girl's bloodline then I would have left this planet the moment you transferred the technique to her. I would have headed directly to you and torn any information about the technique out of your minds. But I decided to wait because of the fusion of those two incredibly strong bloodlines, I wanted to wait until you returned to see if you were worthy of me deciding to wait. And I must admit, you have grown far more than I anticipated, you've even incorporated that horrifying thing into your body and soul, not even my Creator could do that. But there are still countless people more powerful than you in this multiverse, countless more people with higher potential, so my decision wasn't quite settled even after you drank that tainted thing. Do you know why I ended up deciding to not tear that technique out of your and her mind?"

Elder Chaotic actually spoke quite a bit when he finally opened his mouth, somewhat surprising Liang Chen. He wasn't as surprised to hear that there were countless people that were stronger or had more potential than him, Sphere of Existence where they lived was unimaginably vast after all. Seeing how high Elder Chaotic's standards seemed to be, it didn't require a lot of thought from Liang Chen to guess just what finally changed his mind.

"It was the appearance of the Nine Star Demon God, wasn't it?"

If not even the law of the void could cause this Elder Chaotic to decide to not take back the Chaos King Technique, then Liang Chen could only attribute it to the terrifying existence that had shortly visited this planet when he took away Yan Ling. And just as he expected, Elder Chaotic nodded his head in confirmation, giving a light wave of his hand.

"Indeed, Senior Demon God is the reason, he is one of the very few people in this multiverse to have reached the same height as my Creator. With him taking that girl away, the only way for me to make a move against you and her is if my Creator first has a chat with Senior Demon God and somehow convinces him. But all the people of that realm are rather peculiar and pointlessly stubborn, so even I'm not so fanatical that I believe my Creator would be capable of that."

A segment of the large stone that stood behind Elder Chaotic started to shimmer when he waved his hand, revealing names that had been carved directly into the stone, forming a list. The list only contained nine names and was thus rather short, but Liang Chen felt his breathing nearly stop when he saw the list, he recognized several of those names, recognized their weight.

2.Ning Hao.

4.Xiang Hong.

5. Huang Ying.

6.Li Yang.

8.Yin Long.

He had heard three of these names before in the recording he saw when he got the full Ocean God's Physique, Xiang Hong was the Universal Heart that had created the technique and Ning Hao and Yin Long were the two that killed him. Liang Chen also knew that Ning Hao had a more famous title, the Bloodwind Emperor and creator of the Bloodwind Codes.

Liang Chen had never heard the names Huang Ying and Li Yang, but he remembered Xiang Hong mentioning two people he referred to as Brother Ying and Brother Yang. The people on this list were definitely those that had reached the same level as Ning Hao and Xiang Hong, so he guessed that it was these two people that Xiang Hong spoke about back then.

A list of nine names, did that mean that there were a total of nine Universal Hearts in the multiverse? But if that was the case then why didn't it align with what Liang Chen had been told by the spirit of the dead Sebettu that he spoke to when he awakened his bloodline? There was also the fact that Xiang Hong was supposeldy already dead. He was also curious if the list was actually a ranking that determined their strength, his gaze drifting to the top spot of the list as a mutter unconsciously escaped his lips.

"Number 1, Chang Yun..."

Elder Chaotic's expression changed the moment Liang Chen opened his mouth and spoke, his body flashing forward and covering Liang Chen's mouth before he could continue to read the names. He actually wore a somewhat panicked expression as he looked at Liang Chen and scolded him.

"You fool! Hasn't anyone told you that you mustn't carelessly speak names like theirs? What if you annoy someone who decides that it's worth the trouble of killing you?!"

Elder Chaotic had forgotten a very simple fact thanks to Liang Chen's abnormal strength and laws, he didn't have any strong organization or teacher behind him. Basically everything he had was acquired through his own effort, clawing his way forward along the path he had chosen, there wasn't ever really anyone around that could teach him certain facts about the universe. Before Liang Chen got the chance to question Elder Chaotic's words, a finger landed on his spine, a curious voice ringing out from behind him.

"So you're the little voidling that Oldy and the Little Zookeeper told me about?"