[Ascension benefits...aren't those benefits just notification arrays for memory infusion? What's so greedy about that?]

[The remaining martial arts knowledge, etc., will also be provided once we reach the war zone.]

Zheng Qingfeng's voice trembled: "Senior, I... I really don't understand."

"That's right, you didn't understand. I was just playing a prank on you."

"..."

You paused, then said, "However, I do intend to enjoy the benefits of being a newcomer; I need to use the General Knowledge Array."

The city lord hesitated for a moment, then stepped forward: "But senior, Taicang is just a small city, and its database of knowledge about formations is limited. I'm afraid there's nothing of value to your liking."

[The General Knowledge Array can implant knowledge into a person's mind, but this intricate array requires replacing the "hardware" device to implant different knowledge points; data cannot be directly downloaded and transmitted via the meta-energy network.]

[However, Taicang City is not large in scale, and its database of general knowledge arrays is merely standard, far inferior to that of larger cities.]

"That's enough, and I also need to get an ID card."

You'll experience the path that Lao Qi walked back then.

Everyone was puzzled.

What does it mean to get an ID card?

You slowly said, "I am a human, but I am not a human from the Azure Domain."

"I am a wandering son who has lost his homeland..."

"My homeland, the human race, was destroyed by countless alien races. I fled to this region, but I never expected that there would be humans here as well, and that they would be quite powerful, one of the three great races of this Azure Domain!"

"After this period of observation, I've decided to join you, to seek hope for revenge!"

[A supreme human from another realm has entered the Azure Realm!?]

This matter is of utmost importance; the news spread rapidly, from small towns to large cities, and from large cities to the capital!

[After you infused your knowledge with general knowledge through the "General Knowledge Array" and learned most of the common knowledge of the Azure Domain, a mid-stage Overlord was already waiting outside when you stepped out of the array.]

You demonstrated to him your cultivation level of the fourth realm.

[After confirming the authenticity and discovering that the elemental energy aura was indeed brand new, this undoubtedly stirred up quite a storm among the higher-ups of the human race!]

[Direct access to the highest levels of authority!]

[The Supreme Hall is in an uproar!]

They took the newly emerged supreme being very seriously, skipping unnecessary procedures and immediately taking action.

Eight supreme-level envoys have arrived.

"Welcome to the Azure Domain, supreme human from afar."

[Four lower-level humans, four mid-level humans.]

Yun Shou subconsciously thought: If I wanted to, I could keep all eight of them here... none of them would be able to escape.

Even a mid-level human supreme being with a perfect battle physique is only around the mid-level earth supreme being level.

His current base stats are already quite impressive, making him a mid-level Earthly Supreme!

[You are a guest from afar. The Supreme Envoys invite you to the heart of the Azure Domain human race, the place where fortune gathers—the Supreme Hall.]

[A rather grand internal banquet. The Supreme Hall is usually staffed by thirty to forty people, but now more than twenty are attending.]

[With words and laughter, one can be a supreme ruler; in his presence, no hegemon roams.]

[The atmosphere was quite harmonious. A supreme being inquired about the past of your homeland. You drew upon classic plot points from certain well-known novels to create a worldview depicting a tragically barbaric ancient human race.]

During the conversation, you described a rather poignant story, even moving yourself to tears.

That place is called the "Ancient Wilderness Domain".

"This is so hopeless!"

"That was an era when all races joined forces to attack humanity!"

"Barbarians and beasts are the true masters of everything; humans are too weak!"

"We have been resisting for ten thousand years, a hundred thousand years, and in the very last moment, we have chosen to burn our bridges!"

"By sacrificing the entire human race's fortune, and with everyone offering themselves as sacrifices, I, the most brilliant genius of that era, as dazzling as the blazing sun, awakened the divine power of the race's destiny!"

"But I am only at the fourth realm. I am too weak. How can I, alone, fight against all races? Though I am the only hope, I am the only one left in the world!"

"Ultimately, surrounded and pursued by countless races, I accidentally entered an ancient teleportation array."

"Through the teleportation array, I traversed endless space and countless realms of the Primordial Heaven, finally arriving here..."

[Many supreme beings comforted you: "It's alright, fellow countrymen from another realm. This place can also become your home, and the Azure Domain will become your second home."]

"Really, are you really willing to accept me?" You stammered, moved to tears.

They all nodded. In their eyes, although you came from outside the Azure Domain, a human is still a human, and your cultivation system of Yuan Power is the same as theirs—you're one of their own!

People from all lower realms are considered human, and those from other primordial realms are of course also human!

[It's very easy; you've entered the Supreme Ranking, receiving immense fortune, and are now the Supreme One of the Azure Domain.]

Once we're on the same side, we can speak more freely about various things.

[For example, a Supreme Being asked curiously: "If I may ask, Brother Yun, what kind of strength do the myriad races and the human race possess in the region you described?"]

They're thinking that if you're considered the hope of humanity just because you've reached the Supreme Realm, then the strength of humanity in your original region must not have been high, and there might not even be any Fifth Realm cultivators. That's why you were suppressed by the united forces of all races.

"I come from the desolate ancient domain..." you sighed softly, "Among the myriad races, there are hundreds of emperors, and kings are everywhere. A 'venerable one' like me, or a 'supreme being' here, is merely a large ant!"

[A supreme being stared blankly: "Brother Yun, what are the differences between the king and the emperor you mentioned?"]

"I don't know how you guys call it," you say bluntly. "Anyway, it's the fifth and sixth realms."

All the supreme beings: "..."

[You seemed oblivious to their shock, and continued to sigh: "Before I was born, there were two great emperors among our human race. One of them sacrificed his life to protect my growth, thus erasing all the karmic schemes and machinations against me by all other races!"]

"And the remaining emperor, along with numerous kings, venerables, overlords, and trillions upon trillions of human beings, willingly sacrificed themselves to help me condense unparalleled divine powers. In the entire Desolate Ancient Domain, only I remain as a human."

"That's some serious bragging."

"It's something I thought of yesterday."

"...Or rather, there are many, many more humans, but they are either slaves and food for the myriad races, or they live in the lower realms, where even those at the second realm are rarely seen, perhaps only once every hundred years."

"Someone who had finally ascended to the Desolate Ancient Domain was easily subdued in a land surrounded by alien races, and even tortured into revealing their original world, causing yet another lower realm that originally belonged to the human race to fall..."