Zhutian: Start from Devouring the Stars and Becoming a God

Chapter 266 The Harvest of Ten Thousand Eras

In this Devouring Starry Sky, the realm below and above the Immortal Gods are two completely different concepts.

The difference between the two lies not only in their astonishing disparity in strength, but also in their perception of the passage of time.

Below the level of immortal gods, even world lords can generally only live for ten million years.

During this period, which is neither short nor particularly long, these powerful individuals with limited lifespans will desperately cultivate, hoping to successfully enter the realm of immortality and possess a lifespan that can be described as eternal and endless.

Through diligent cultivation, ordinary realm masters can greatly improve their understanding of lower-level laws within this limited time. Those with better talent can gain recognition from lower-level origin laws, while those peerless geniuses can even achieve extremely high levels of understanding of higher-level origin laws!

During this stage, each of them is working hard to cultivate themselves and improve, and their progress is the fastest.

But once one reaches the immortal stage and possesses an eternal lifespan, the passage of time seems to lose its meaning.

An ordinary immortal, if they do not venture into dangerous places such as cosmic secret realms or extraterrestrial battlefields, but only operate within their clan's territory, will generally not encounter any danger.

A period of over 100,000 epochs is undoubtedly insignificant to immortal gods with eternal lifespans, or even to cosmic sovereigns.

As a result, between more than 100,000 epochs ago and more than 100,000 epochs ago, most of the eternally powerful individuals did not experience significant changes in their strength, such as the Extreme Lightning King, the Crimson Leaf King, the Azure Duckweed King, and so on...

However, for those geniuses below the level of immortal gods, this period of over 100,000 epochs is quite a long time.

Even the Cosmic Humanity's Pinnacle Genius Battle, which is held once every five thousand years, has been held more than two hundred thousand times.

When Lu Qingshan first broke through to become a Universe Venerable, the human race was facing a shortage of available slots for the Genius Battle and the Strongest Battle due to the successive emergence of Universe Venerables, especially from the Virtual Universe Company lineage, which produced the Heavenly Eclipse Palace Master, the Stele Skeleton Venerable, and Lu Qingshan. Therefore, it was only with the help of the Purple Fox Venerable that Lu Qingshan was able to preside over the Three Thousandth Peak Genius Battle as quickly as possible.

More than 100,000 epochs have passed by now, and the battle of the three thousand peak geniuses back then has naturally ended long ago.

Among the three thousand sessions of the Peak Genius Battle, a total of three million geniuses who were considered exceptionally talented at the stellar level and were all capable of breaking into the top one thousand in the entire universe joined Lu Qingshan's ranks.

Almost every one of these three million super geniuses possesses talent far surpassing that of Lu Qingshan before his breakthrough to immortality, and their opportunities are also far greater.

However, in the end, out of these three million geniuses, only about 50,000 successfully broke through to the Immortal Realm.

Among them, only one person had the understanding of the laws at the King level as soon as he broke through. That person was Lu Qingshan, who was ranked first in the entire universe when he held the first Peak Genius Battle. At that time, Lu Qingshan intended to take him as a disciple, but the other party became the super genius Clement, who was under the tutelage of Venerable Tianfeng.

Clement, who had only cultivated for a little over a million years, broke through to become an immortal god by comprehending the laws of the eighteenth level of the Bridge to Heaven. His combat power was astonishing, and he had already passed the nineteenth level of the Bridge to Heaven!
Besides Clement, among the many geniuses under Lu Qingshan who successfully broke through to become immortals, there were more than a thousand people who became Marquis Immortals upon their breakthrough. Among them, there were more than thirty peak Marquis, more than one hundred advanced Marquis, and the rest were all at the initial Marquis level.

Of these Marquis Immortals, only a little over three hundred are still alive today. At the same time, one person has successfully broken through to the King level and become a King Immortal under Lu Qingshan's command!
As for the other geniuses who successfully broke through to the Immortal realm, they were all Immortal Army Lords when they first broke through. Now, only more than 12,000 of them are still alive, among whom 12 have successfully broken through to the Marquis level.

In other words, of the three million geniuses who were able to break into the top one thousand in the entire universe during the Three Thousand Generations of Genius Battles hosted by Lu Qingshan, only two King-level Immortals (including Clement), more than three hundred Marquis-level Immortals, and more than twelve thousand Immortal Military Lords are still alive today.

Fortunately, Lu Qingshan did not hold any position within the Virtual Universe Company, so he did not need many people to serve him.

Therefore, after having these personnel, Lu Qingshan did not continue to apply to hold the Peak Genius Battle.

Only now has the Virtual Universe Company arranged for him to continue presiding over the Ultimate Battle of Human Geniuses in the Universe.

However, for Lu Qingshan, hosting the Peak Genius Battle at the beginning was still novel, but after hosting it many times, he became numb to it.

This is actually quite normal!
The Battle of the Peak Geniuses is held every five thousand years, as is the Battle of the Peak Strongest. At the same time, the five major human powers also recruit various geniuses through other channels.

Even in the most important original secret realm within the core layer of the Virtual Universe Company, there are one hundred exceptionally talented world lord-level members every ten million years.

Over 100,000 epochs, that's more than 10,000 incredibly talented Primordial Secret Realm Masters!

In addition, there are the Giant Axe Realm Masters of the Giant Axe Arena, the Glory Realm Masters of the Cosmic Mercenary Alliance, and so on...

There are countless geniuses!

But how many of them can successfully break through to immortality? And how many of them have survived to this day?
At the stellar and cosmic levels, Lu Qingshan thought that those super geniuses who could break into the top 1,000 in the entire universe were already very impressive, because he had tried many times but had never broken into the top 1,000 in the entire universe!
At the Domain Lord and Realm Lord levels, Lu Qingshan was even more envious of the core geniuses of the five major powers.

Because everyone is at the same level, but those core geniuses can accumulate wealth comparable to immortal gods when they are at the Domain Lord level, and they become even more extraordinary when they reach the World Lord level.

Even with the accumulation of his family's long history, Lu Qingshan had worked hard and put in a lot of effort to obtain the spot to go to the initial universe for enlightenment, a spot that was easily obtained by those core geniuses.

After breaking through to the Immortal God realm, Lu Qingshan possessed a cheat code like the All-Heavens Chat Group, but he was still quite polite to those super geniuses.

For example, during his time working in the transportation sector, he developed some connections with many key talents, including promising individuals like Celestial Eclipse.

After entering the realm of the Universe Venerable, Lu Qingshan had thought about cultivating some capable assistants like other Universe Venerables. In any case, he could exchange the Heavenly Creation Dew from Han Li in the mortal world. Although he couldn't help these geniuses break through their limits, it could still be of some help.

Therefore, when he held the first Genius Battle, he tried to take Clement as his disciple, but Clement eventually became a disciple of Venerable Tianfeng.

It wasn't until Lu Qingshan killed the Black Wolf Venerable in the Azure Phoenix Secret Realm and received a warm welcome from countless Universe Venerables that he gradually let go of the idea of ​​cultivating subordinates.

Therefore, Lu Qingshan later provided his favorite disciple, Hoggs, with a lot of Heavenly Creation Dew, and even spent hundreds of billions of Chaos Units to help him exchange for many treasures that would help him cultivate, raising his understanding of the laws to the peak of the Marquis level, and with other means, he possessed the combat power of a King level.

In this way, Hoggs was able to handle things more easily, and he naturally didn't need to spend any more effort cultivating geniuses.

Anyway, the company will take the initiative to cultivate these geniuses, and they will naturally come to serve under Lu Qingshan when they grow up. He doesn't need to worry too much.

Of course, this is also because, apart from Clement, no other special geniuses emerged in the genius battles he organized.

If a terrifying genius like the Lord of the Heavenly Eclipse Palace were to emerge, that would be a different story.

However, with the help of the multiverse chat group, his strength can continue to improve. Even if a super genius appears, he may not necessarily take the other party as his disciple, and the other party may not even look at him now...

"Genius battle?"

Lu Qingshan shook his head slightly, then only spared a sliver of his consciousness to preside over the Genius Battle, and then stopped paying attention.

Subsequently, Lu Qingshan's main consciousness quickly arrived in the endless divine sea within the divine realm.

Feeling the boundless divine sea clone with a diameter of over fifty million kilometers, Lu Qingshan felt a surge of pride!

The Endless Divine Sea Avatar possesses no special talents or secret techniques; its life genetic level is the same as that of ordinary life forms in the universe…

In short, compared to the Nine Nether Sea of ​​the Lord of the Nine Netherworlds, Lu Qingshan's Endless Divine Sea clone is utterly useless.

But so what?
Thinking of this, Lu Qingshan couldn't help but recall his current wealth in the clan's treasury: 3 Treasure Points and 2770 Heavy Treasure Points!
It should be noted that after Lu Qingshan sold the arm of the Star Destroyer, the Star Stone, and the Void Sand, his total wealth was only 3 Treasure Points and 1957 Heavy Treasure Points.

This means that in the short span of just over 100,000 epochs, he has accumulated more than 800 treasure points.

These eight hundred treasure points alone are probably almost comparable to the entire fortune of the Iron Eagle Venerable, who teamed up with him to explore the Azure Phoenix Secret Realm.

But the entire fortune of the Iron Eagle Venerable is all that he has accumulated over hundreds of billions of epochs since he became a Universe Venerable!

Lu Qingshan's strength is not much stronger than that of Iron Eagle Venerable, so how is he able to accumulate wealth in just over 100,000 epochs that Iron Eagle Venerable has not accumulated in hundreds of billions of epochs?
The most important reason for this is naturally the endless divine sea avatar with a diameter of over 50 million kilometers.

With an endless divine sea avatar with a diameter of fifty million kilometers, his second avatar, who was venturing into the secret realm of the universe, could burn his immortal divine power to fight without restraint, and he did not need any time to replenish his divine power after the battle.

Just like Mad Blade Venerable and Iron Eagle Venerable who went to the Azure Phoenix Secret Realm with him back then, it's still unknown whether they have fully replenished the divine power they gained from their battle with Azure Wolf Venerable and others.

However, Lu Qingshan had already been exploring the secret realms of the universe for over 100,000 epochs!

Even other cosmic venerables who possess the ability to create clones might not dare to burn their divine power in battle as recklessly as Lu Qingshan. This is because even if the divine bodies of their clones are relatively large, they are unlikely to be able to compare with Lu Qingshan's endless divine sea clone.

Moreover, when Lu Qingshan was exploring the secret realm of the universe, he always carried a part of his divine body that had been split off from his endless divine sea avatar.

While this approach can compensate for the small size of the main battle clone, it also presents other disadvantages.

For example, after the Endless Divine Sea clone split into a divine body, its divine power could not continue to recover, so that even after such a long time, the size of the Endless Divine Sea clone had not increased.

In short, if Lu Qingshan didn't possess the Endless Divine Sea Avatar, this enormous 'power bank,' he simply wouldn't dare to play like this!
In the span of over 100,000 epochs, more than 30 Universe Venerables have teamed up with Lu Qingshan to explore the secret realms of the universe. However, like Venerable Kuangdao, Venerable Tieying, Venerable Feiyu, and others, all of these Venerables returned to the human race's territory to recover their divine power due to the great battle.

Among them, Mad Blade Venerable and Iron Eagle Venerable were the luckiest. They not only obtained treasures like Void Sand, but also did not lose too much of their divine power!

Among the cosmic venerables who had teamed up with Lu Qingshan, some only gained a few treasure points before encountering a great battle. Their divine power was even reduced by more than 20% or 30%, and after the battle, they gained nothing except for the loss of divine power!
Is this bad luck?
Bad luck!

But this is the norm for a cosmic being to roam the universe!
Good luck is rare; even if one's divine power is damaged, it can only be considered bad luck!
The truly unlucky ones are those who get killed by others!
If a powerful person has clones, it's not so bad if they are killed; they will only lose many of their protective treasures.

However, if a powerful person does not have a clone, once they are killed, they will not only lose many treasures, but will also incur a large debt due to being resurrected by reversing time!

"With the endless divine sea avatar, my advantage among the cosmic venerables is simply too great!"

Lu Qingshan couldn't help but sigh inwardly, "He has accumulated more than 800 treasure points in just over 100,000 epochs. If it were a million or ten million epochs, wouldn't he be able to accumulate 7,000 or even 70,000 treasure points?"

With that in mind, Lu Qingshan quickly focused his attention back on his second clone, who was exploring the secret realm of the universe.

……

Within the Zerg territory, in the ancient and mysterious realm.

This ancient and mysterious realm was once inhabited by many ordinary races, and even a powerful race called the 'Ancient Gods'.

However, the so-called Ancient God Clan is actually just an ordinary race. It's just that their entire race has submitted to a special being in the Ancient Mystic Realm who calls himself an 'Ancient God' and is at the level of a universe master.

That 'Ancient God' was a unique and special life form in the universe, born at the level of a Universe Venerable, with a life gene level more than seven thousand times that of ordinary life in the universe, and later even broke through to the level of Universe Lord.

When the ancient mysterious realm was first discovered by the Zerg's powerful beings, the ancient god, the ruler of the universe, even arrogantly wanted the Zerg to submit to him.

But how could he, with his limited perspective, know the terror of the Zerg?
In the end, the Zerg Queen personally took action, leading a group of Zerg universe lords to directly annihilate the ancient god's soul, and even the so-called 'Ancient God Race' was completely wiped out by the Zerg.

After the fall of the ancient gods, the ordinary races in the ancient mystic realm either became vassal races of the insectoid race or were directly wiped out by the insectoid race.

However, the Ancient Mysterious Realm is fraught with danger. Even the Ancient Gods and their Ancient God Clan have never explored the entire Ancient Mysterious Realm. In addition, the Ancient Mysterious Realm is too difficult to develop, so the Zerg have given up the idea of ​​completely occupying this mysterious realm.

Over time, this ancient and mysterious realm became a well-known cosmic secret realm in the vast universe, attracting many powerful beings from billions of races across the universe to explore it.

In one of the more dangerous areas within the ancient and mysterious realm, three human figures were cautiously exploring.

One of them had a resolute face and was wearing purple-gold armor;

The other person was about two meters tall, wearing a dark blue robe engraved with countless secret patterns, and carrying a strangely shaped longsword on his back.
The last person was over eight meters tall, with a burly build, wearing blood-red armor, and had eight arms!

These three are none other than the Venerable of Myriad Realms, Venerable of Heavenly Wind, and Venerable of Iron Fist, all from the Virtual Universe Company lineage within the human race!
More than four million years ago, Lu Qingshan and his two companions had already ventured into this ancient and mysterious realm.

Over the course of more than four million years, Lu Qingshan and his two companions successively acquired wealth worth more than twenty treasure points.

Of course, Lu Qingshan and his two companions did encounter dangers during this time.

However, the Iron Fist Venerable possessed a top-tier palace-type treasure borrowed from other universe overlords. With this treasure, they were always able to avoid danger.

It was precisely because of this top-tier palace-like treasure that the Iron Fist Venerable was able to claim 40% of the spoils of war.
As for Lu Qingshan and Venerable Tianfeng, who possessed the strength of a high-level Venerable, they split the remaining 60% equally, which was 30% each.

However, Lu Qingshan didn't actually gain an advantage, because he was the one who first went to scout out many potentially dangerous places.

Over the course of more than four million years, he has already burned his divine power in battle five times, accumulating more than five percent of his divine power. If it were anyone else, they would probably have to return to their clan's territory to recuperate.

But for Lu Qingshan, who possessed the endless divine sea avatar, the burning divine power was nothing more than a drop in the ocean!

"Myriad Realms!"

While cautiously exploring the secret realm, Venerable Tianfeng suddenly transmitted his voice to Lu Qingshan: "I remember it's your turn to preside over the Peak Genius Battle again, right? Should we take a few years to rest?"

"No need!"

Lu Qingshan said with a smile, "My clone has always been in Chaos City. Once those little guys arrive at the company headquarters, I can just go and send them directly to the Initial Universe!"

"Yeah, what's there to care about those little guys?"

The Iron Fist Venerable, standing to the side, also chuckled and said, "Speaking of which, ever since you, Myriad Realms, broke through to the Universe Venerable realm, our human race hasn't produced any outstanding geniuses in the past hundred thousand epochs!"

"Not to mention a Universe Venerable, not even a peak King-level expert has appeared!"

"That's true!"

Lu Qingshan quickly nodded and said, "The most outstanding ones recently are your disciple Tianfeng and the female disciple taken in by Venerable Zihu. Both of them have now passed the nineteenth level of the Tongtian Bridge, which is already quite impressive!"

"Speaking of which, Myriad Realms, you're in for a bit of trouble!"

The Iron Fist Venerable quickly laughed and teased, "I remember that the Genius Battle you organized back then was given to you by Purple Fox, right? If she hadn't given it to you, wouldn't her little disciple have become your disciple?"

"And that disciple that Tianfeng took in, it seems he also snatched him from you!"

Hearing Iron Fist Venerable's words, Heavenly Wind Venerable couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed. He quickly said, "That time it was mainly because I got along very well with that little guy Clement. The Divine Rift Weapon he used was one I created, and he also chose the Chaos Monument of the Universe, which I had comprehended. That's why I..."

"It's just a small matter!"

Lu Qingshan quickly said, "Tianfeng, you don't need to worry about it too much!"

As far as Lu Qingshan was concerned, he hadn't paid any attention to Clement when he was a disciple of Venerable Tianfeng, let alone now!
　Do you think the number of geniuses who have achieved success is reasonable? If not, please leave a comment and I will make some minor adjustments.

　　I know that there are ten Primordial Secret Realm experts in each Genius Battle, but the chances of them eventually becoming Primordial Secret Realm Masters (that is, being granted a title upon breakthrough) are still very small.

　　Because in ten million years, the Primordial Secret Realm will only have 1000 Realm Lords, while in ten million years alone, the Virtual Universe Company will have held two thousand Genius Battles and Strongest Battles, which is 20,000 Primordial Secret Realm Universe-level members. That's a ratio of 20 to 1, meaning that out of 20 Primordial Secret Realm Universe-level members, only one can eventually become a Primordial Secret Realm Lord. The others will either be eliminated or perish. We also have to eliminate geniuses who join the Primordial Secret Realm through other channels.

　　Moreover, even those who are at the Tai Chu Secret Realm will most likely find it difficult to successfully break through to become immortals.

　　As for the rumor that he took on apprentices, that's completely untrue.

　　Although everyone keeps saying I'm padding the story, I've never actually written any repetitive plot points in this book.

　　Aside from battles, since when a battle breaks out, it's usually just about looting treasures, providing support, and so on.

　　Therefore, I can no longer write about the Genius Battle in detail and then take on apprentices.

　　Even if a super genius is accepted as a disciple in the future, the process will be glossed over.
　　
　
(End of this chapter)