Devouring the Stars: The Lord of the Sky

Chapter 154 Statue of the Water Beast God
Damn it, why do I suddenly feel like laughing out loud?
Fortunately, as the overlord of the universe, the ruler of the Frost Kingdom was able to control his emotions and did not laugh gleefully.

You say this is wrong?
Although he had a good relationship with Evil Flame, no fellow disciple was as close as the only direct disciple in front of him.

Moreover, if I were to bring Lu Jin to apologize in person, that scoundrel E Yan would probably think that I was humiliating him!

Let's just pretend we don't know, and save face for our fellow disciples.

To avoid word getting out that his fellow disciple would be ridiculed for being a dignified Universe Venerable who had actually been defeated by a junior at the Domain Lord level.

"Let's leave it at that, and don't mention it to anyone else in the future."

The King of Tianshuang gave instructions.

"Yes, yes, I understand."

Lu Jin nodded.

It was only when his own teacher asked that Lu Jin would have said anything; otherwise, he would have kept quiet and made his fortune.

Then, the King of Tianshuang waved his right hand, and a blue-gold four-hoofed beast statue materialized and landed in front of Lu Jin.

The entire blue-gold beast statue was about a foot tall and two feet long, and was carved with dense, tiny, crystal-clear scales.

The mythical beast statue resembles a deer, with azure eyes, four hooves on its belly, each hoof having six blue-gold toes, and its entire body covered in blue-gold scales with mysterious blue runes that extend from the five blue-gold horns at the top of the statue all the way to its tail.

At first glance, this strange beast statue is about 70% similar to the Water Qilin clone, and faintly exudes a chilling aura that freezes to the bone.

Staring directly at the statue, Lu Jin seemed to see a scene from countless years ago: a gigantic, blue-gold beast, similar in size to a water unicorn clone, roaming the universe, freezing everything, and annihilating all its opponents.

In particular, the endless chilling aura made the water unicorn clone intoxicated by it.

"Yin——"

Inside the World Ring, the Water Qilin avatar transformed into the form of an auspicious beast and couldn't help but murmur softly, its azure eyes filled with longing and excitement.

'The Beast God statue is definitely a Water Beast God statue!'

Lu Jin thought to himself.

The King of Tianshuang Kingdom slowly said, "This is a statue of the innate Water Beast God. I obtained it by chance in my early years. For cultivators who cultivate the Water Beast God Path, its effects are no less than those of the Chaos Stele in Chaos City."

Now that I've given it to you, remember to keep it safe and don't lose it.

"Your disciple thanks you for your guidance, Master."

"Although there is a statue of the Beast God, don't rush to comprehend the Way of the Beast God. First, cultivate the ninth level of the Heavenly Frost Divine Weapon, and then I will pass on to you the secret method of the Water Beast God Way, and then you can comprehend the Way of the Beast God."

"Disciple, please remember this."

"Well, if there's nothing else important, you may go. Remember to be wary of assassinations by alien immortals."

Nodding, the King of Tianshuang waved his hand and said.

"Master, I have another request."

"Put away this statue of the water beast god," Lu Jin said.

"You said."

"This disciple humbly requests that Master issue an order to prohibit the sale of human slaves within the territory of the Heavenly Frost Universe Kingdom."

Upon hearing this, the King of Tianshuang raised an eyebrow and said, "The slave trade is a common occurrence in the universe."

Although this small amount of benefit was not taken seriously by the truly powerful, it still involved a great deal of people.

How do you plan to resolve this? And what's your motivation?

Lu Jin said respectfully, "Teacher, just because something is commonplace doesn't mean it's right. At least in my opinion, it's wrong."

When I was young, my parents and elders taught me to do good deeds and accumulate virtues to the best of my ability.

Doing good deeds and accumulating virtue is not for any reward, but for peace of mind.

The teacher may not know that when the disciple first came into contact with the universe, he was very apprehensive.

Because many humans in the universe are no different from the demons and monsters that the disciple had previously imagined.

It is also said that the practice of slavery is rampant, and many native planets have become slave planets, with all the native people on them becoming slaves.

The disciple earnestly requests the master to order the prohibition of the human slave trade within the universe, and for the official governments of the universe nation and various empires to reclaim ownership of slave planets at market price and incorporate them into normal administrative planets.

Of course, if the various empires do not have enough funds, or are worried about affecting the interests of all parties.

The disciple has opened a small company in the Guanghan Star Region, and will acquire it in the name of the company as private territory.

The original human slaves on these inhabited planets, as subjects of their respective territories, could become citizens of their respective empires once they reached the planetary level.

Lu Jin refused to believe that with his own wealth, he couldn't afford to buy all the slave planets within the Tian Shuang Universe Kingdom.

It should be noted that back then, the entire Guanghan Starfield only had 1500 Hunyuan units.

His account at the Cosmic Galaxy Bank contains a staggering 10 trillion Chaos Units, which, theoretically, could buy 66 billion small star systems!
As for asking for an exorbitant amount?
I, Lu the Great Philanthropist, will not stoop to your level.

But if you go against me, my many immortals will not tolerate it.

A century has passed, and those servants who rose from lower-level divine status to become immortal gods have now made up for their shortcomings in esoteric arts.

The secret technique level corresponding to an ordinary Immortal Army Lord is 'unranked'. With complete mastery of the lower-level laws, the difficulty of cultivating unranked secret techniques is not great.

These immortal servants are no longer the blank immortals they once were.

Without going into too much detail, their skill level is definitely no lower than the average level of a normal, junior immortal military commander of the human race.

After all, with Zi Ni Chang, a master of treasure refining, and the Qiankun Cauldron, all the immortal servants under his command possess top-grade F-level immortal divine weapons and armor, far surpassing ordinary poor, low-level immortal military lords.

"Doing good deeds and accumulating merit, just to find peace of mind?"

The King of Tianshuang raised his eyebrows, pondered for a moment, and then said, "In the universe, the strong prey on the weak. I can't say for sure whether your parents' teachings were right or wrong, but their character is noble."

"On another note, I've never met your parents."

“My parents died when I was young.”

The King of Tianshuang frowned and asked, "Has he passed his lifespan limit?"

After all, they were the parents of his first disciple, and given that his own father could reverse time, it wasn't a big deal.

"My parents were both apprentices when they were alive."

Lu Jin shook his head.

Upon hearing this, the King of Tianshuang Kingdom was taken aback for a moment, then changed the subject: "After you officially take office as the branch's special inspector, I will order the prohibition of the human slave trade within the universe."

He can't control other places, but within the Tian Shuang Universe Kingdom, he has the final say in everything.

When he opened his mouth, even the Tian Shuang branch of the Virtual Universe Company, which usually enjoyed half of the management authority of the Universe Nation, had no choice but to obey.

Because he is the master of the Ice Peak, and the third-in-command of the Virtual Universe Company.

In terms of status, he is not only the ruler of the universe, but also a senior executive of the virtual universe company, and the son of the third shareholder of the virtual universe company. Naturally, the branch management would not dare to go against him.

"Thank you, Master!"

Lu Jin bowed and thanked him.

A thousand-foot-long silver dragon flew away from the cluster of palaces suspended in the starry sky.

"Your Highness, where are we going next?"

Inside the spaceship's control room, Chen Yuan asked Lu Jin.

Lu Jin said, "The company doesn't seem to have any rules about where I have to stay during my time as a Domain Lord. I plan to stay in the Guanghan Star Region most of the time."

Upon hearing this, Chen Yuan nodded. He knew about Lu Jin's relationship with the Guanghan Star Region Lord 'Guanghan Immortal', and having an additional immortal powerhouse on the side would make security more secure when staying in the Guanghan Star Region.

After flying for a short while, the Shenzhou spacecraft slowly came to a stop and hovered in the void.

After putting away the Shenzhou spaceship, Lu Jin took out an Immortal Crystal.

Immediately afterwards, the immortal crystal emitted a dazzling light, and then a red rhombus-shaped immortal figure appeared between the eyebrows, radiating the fluctuations of wind-elemental laws.

“Master, Marquis Chenyuan.”

After being teleported through the Divine Kingdom, Zi Zhenfeng immediately bowed to Lu Jin, and then bowed to Chen Yuan.

It is only right that a junior immortal general pays respects to an immortal who has been granted a marquisate.

Upon hearing the way this wind-element immortal addressed Lu Jin, Chen Yuan was taken aback. Did His Highness have immortal servants?
Although judging from his life force, he is only a beginner-level Immortal Army Lord, a beginner-level Immortal Army Lord is still an Immortal.

"Yes, let's go back to Guanghan Star."

Lu Jin nodded slightly and said.

Immediately, the divine kingdom's teleportation light shone again.

Before long, the three returned to Guanghan Star via the divine kingdom's teleportation.

Actually, it was only because Chen Yuan was by his side that Lu Jin could travel through space with the Kunlun Mirror and arrive at Guanghan Star in an instant.

After settling Chen Yuan in, Lu Jin entered Zi Ni Chang's divine kingdom, then handed over the chubby guy's intelligent core to the Water Qilin clone, while his main body entered the Great Luo Heaven.

Having not tasted meat for a long time, Lu Jin dragged Zi Nishang into a fierce battle that lasted for a week.

To be fair, I, Lu Jin, am someone who can fight against top-tier cosmic overlords for seven days and seven nights without being defeated!
After the battle, Lu Jin gave Zi Nishang a brief introduction to the Hongmeng.

"Ni Chang, join the Hong Alliance. Within the Hong Alliance, you can buy secret techniques that are nowhere else to be found."

While you're busy studying treasure refining, you also need to fill in the gaps in your secret techniques; otherwise, your status as a top-tier cosmic overlord will be nothing more than a sham.

Lu Jin said to Zi Nishang.

"Then the fact that I became a Universal Venerable can no longer be kept secret, can it?"

"Blink," Zi Nishang said.

After refining the divine spark of the superior spatial laws and achieving the top-tier cosmic overlord divine body, she has never logged into the virtual universe, for fear that her becoming a cosmic venerable would be exposed.

"What's so special about that? Strength isn't a treasure."

When you lack strength, but possess valuable treasures, others will covet them.

But if you have the strength, those on the same side will only respect you, and those on the opposing side will only fear you.

As long as you keep a low profile and avoid fighting other cosmic beings until you've filled the gaps in your secret techniques, that's all that matters.

Lu Jin said, not caring much.

As for how Zi Ni Chang became the Supreme Being of the Universe?

Those who have achieved success in cultivation are not stupid; they wouldn't ask such an idiotic question.

In a universe where the strong prey on the weak, as long as your strength increases from sources other than betraying the interests of humanity.

Then the human race's strong members and those in the same faction will not care how you acquired your strength, but only how far your strength has reached.

Then, they might treat each other with different attitudes, such as being aloof, treating each other as equals, lowering their stance, or even fawning over each other.

"The Hongmeng requires members to be granted the title of King or Immortal to join. Should I kill a King-level alien?"

Zi Nishang asked.

Although her secret techniques were far inferior to those of top-tier cosmic overlords, with her super-powerful divine body that had replenished her divine power gaps through divine source liquid, killing ordinary kings was absolutely a matter of turning her hand.

"No need for that. As long as you log into the virtual universe, the Hongmeng's envoy should come knocking on your door."

Just kidding. If you really needed to have a record of killing a King to join the Hong Alliance, then the number of members in the Hong Alliance would definitely plummet.

It's no exaggeration to say that most members of the Hongmeng Alliance are not strong enough to kill a king of an alien race on their own.

In battles between immortals and above, defeating them is easy, but killing them is difficult, especially for human immortals whose divine bodies are not particularly large.

"By the way, you should learn this soul enslavement technique called 'Ten Thousand Hearts Controlling Soul'. You can recruit a group of soul servants in the future."

However, the number of slaves is limited; those below the peak of the King-level rank should not be accepted.

As he spoke, Lu Jin handed a metal book to Zi Nishang.

Although he had not practiced the "Ten Thousand Hearts Controlling Soul" secret technique, he had memorized its contents perfectly. Then, through the power of the world within his inner world, he created several metal manuals.

"Ah."

Zi Ni Chang nodded and accepted the manual.

The following day, Lu Jin entered the Xuanhuang Heaven.

After more than a hundred years of development, Xuanhuangtian is no longer a desolate place.

Of course, since the diameter of Xuanhuangtian is as large as 129600 light-years, making it a super-giant continent larger than the Milky Way, the area where humans currently live on Earth is only a very small part of Xuanhuangtian.

Near the East Heavenly Gate, which connects to the Earth, there are now rows of buildings and endless fields of various low-level plant resources.

There are no skyscrapers here, only antique-style buildings.

But apart from its antique architectural style, its technological level is in no way inferior to that of a thriving life-bearing planet in the universe.

It must be said that Earthlings are fortunate.

In order to increase the population and enrich the Xuanhuang Heaven, the Heavenly Court issued a very strong policy to encourage childbirth.

All the expenses for the upbringing of minors are reimbursed by the management agencies under the Heavenly Court.

There's no way around it, the resources are just too abundant.

The cosmic energy within the Xuanhuang Heaven is far greater than that of ordinary life-bearing planets on the outside world.

Buy seeds of low-level plant resources from the universe, and have a massive number of B-level and C-level robots cultivate endless land. The low-level resources produced are so plentiful that they pile up in the world ring and get moldy.

As for selling it outside? Lu Jin didn't care about such a trivial matter and wouldn't bother with it.

Within the Xuanhuang Heaven, what minors need to do is learn cultural knowledge, moral character, and receive martial arts enlightenment.

What adults need to do is have children and practice martial arts.

As for Earthlings with poor talent?
Don't panic. Cultivation isn't just for those with great talent; you can also succeed by spending money and resources.

The Heavenly Court's birth incentive policy stipulates that for each child born and cared for until adulthood, both parents can receive a certain number of contribution points.

Contribution points can be exchanged for money and cultivation resources. Furthermore, once the overall strength of Earthlings improves, Lu Jin will also put lower-level domain beads, lower-level law beads, lower-level law godhood, and so on up for sale.

In theory, as long as you have enough children, the path of self-cultivation for both parents is practically smooth.

To date, within the Xuanhuang Heaven, many couples have already achieved the status of Stellar-level martial artists by taking advantage of the birth incentive policy.

Although their strength is very weak, they can be said to know nothing and are not even qualified to be cannon fodder.

But even the most primitive stellar-level life forms can have a lifespan of tens of thousands of years!

In terms of lifespan alone, in some fantasy worlds, it could be said that he became an emperor by having children.

Bonus chapter for April (15/17)

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