Devouring the Stars: The Lord of the Sky

Chapter 243 The Shocking Breakthrough of the Qianwu Kingdom's Ruler
In contrast, the Ten-Element Origin Spirit Tea can only temporarily enhance one's talent for cultivating laws.

The elemental spirit peaches formed from the ten elemental spirit peach trees can permanently enhance one's talent for cultivating laws, and their upper limit of efficacy can reach the level of a darling of elemental laws.

The cultivation process is similar to that of the Origin Spirit Tea Tree. The ten-line Origin Spirit Peach Trees are all the same size, with a height of three meters and a crown diameter of five meters.

Each lineage of Primal Spirit Peach Trees takes a hundred years to flower, a hundred years to bear fruit, and another hundred years to mature. Each Primal Spirit Peach Tree produces 99 Primal Spirit Peaches every three hundred years.

Even the most ordinary life form with the most ordinary talent for cultivating laws can elevate its talent to the level of a darling of the original laws by consuming nine primordial spirit peaches of the same attribute.

If one has a good talent for cultivating the fundamental laws, then one only needs to consume a smaller number of fundamental spirit peaches.

However, perhaps due to the permanent effect, the maximum number of Primal Spirit Peach Trees has decreased considerably.

The eight lower-level law attribute primordial spirit peach trees, each with a maximum of 10081 trees, totaling 80648 trees across all eight categories.

The two superior law attributes are the source of the spirit peach trees. Each of them has a maximum of 108 trees, for a total of 216 trees.

It has to be said that even the universe master-level mother nest of Hong'er and her seven companions can cultivate Venerable-level warriors and Immortal warriors with great efficiency.

Otherwise, the million lower-level divine sparks used to cultivate lower-level spiritual tea trees and spiritual peach trees would be easy to collect, but the more than 20,000 higher-level divine sparks used to cultivate higher-level spiritual tea trees and spiritual peach trees would not be so easy to collect.

"Supernatural Power: Manipulating Creation!"

The next moment, Lu Jin, who was standing in mid-air, once again activated his divine power.

As the divine power was activated and a massive amount of divine power was consumed, with the support of the Netherworld Blood Sea clone not far away, after consuming tens of thousands of times the divine power of an ordinary Blood God Child incarnation, the vast number of Primal Spirit Tea Trees and Primal Spirit Peach Trees all completed a growth cycle.

On each Primal Spirit Tea Tree, a thousand Primal Spirit Tea Leaves grew, covered with various colored Law Runes.

Each of the Primal Spirit Peach Trees also bears 99 Primal Spirit Peaches covered with various colored Law Runes.

'Compared to the peach trees, cultivating these tea and peach trees requires far less divine power.'

Lu Jin thought to himself.

That's right. With the power to manipulate creation, one can not only accelerate the ripening of the primordial spirit tea tree and primordial spirit peach tree, but also the ripening of the flat peach tree.

However, perhaps due to his insufficient strength, Lu Jin could only accelerate the ripening of low-grade and mid-grade peach trees. He could not do the same for high-grade peach trees with perfect genes, and the divine power consumption would be extremely high.

"Fatty, bring Cangwu and Mingyue to the Netherworld."

Lu Jin gave the instructions to Fatty.

"Yes, Master!"

Fatty responded.

Before long, two figures arrived flying through the air.

"Emperor of Heaven."

The Lord of Lingbao Hall, Venerable Cangwu, and Xu Xin bowed to each other.

Pointing to the tea and peach groves below, Lu Jin said, "The tea tree is called the Primordial Spirit Tea Tree, and the peach tree is called the Primordial Spirit Peach Tree. Both possess all ten of the Ten Laws attributes."

Both can elevate one's talent for cultivating the fundamental laws to the level of a darling of the fundamental laws.

The effects of the spiritual tea are temporary, and the duration varies depending on the level of life and affinity with the laws.

The Spirit Peach has a permanent effect; the most ordinary life form needs to consume nine Spirit Peaches to reach the level of a favored child of the Origin Law.

The growth cycle of a tea tree is ten years. Each tree produces 1000 tea leaves per cycle. The lower-level lineage has 129600 trees, while the upper-level lineage has 10081 trees.

The growth cycle of a peach tree is three hundred years. Each tree produces 99 precious peaches per cycle. There are 10081 trees in each lower lineage and 108 trees in each upper lineage.

Both the tea and peach orchards experience a hundredfold acceleration in time, shortening their growth cycles to a month and three years, respectively, compared to the outside world.

Cangwu, these primordial spirit tea trees and primordial spirit peach trees are usually maintained and harvested by your Lingbao Hall.

Xu Xin, your Xuanhuang Company is in charge of sales.

Lower-grade spiritual tea and peaches are sold at the Star District branch; higher-grade spiritual tea and peaches are sold at the Nine Heavens headquarters.

"Yes, Heavenly Emperor."

Venerable Cangwu responded.

Xu Xin asked, "Heavenly Emperor, what are the specific prices for the spirit tea and spirit peaches?"

Lu Jin said, "One piece of lower-grade spiritual tea costs 100 million units of Hunyuan, and one piece of upper-grade spiritual tea costs 100 million units of Hunyuan."

A lower-grade Spirit Peach costs 1000 Chaos Units; a higher-grade Spirit Peach costs 100 billion Chaos Units.

Based on the price set by Lu Jin, and taking into account the effect of accelerating time by a hundred times.

The 1036800 lower-level primordial spirit tea trees can produce an average of over 10 billion mixed units of revenue per year.

The 20162 superior primordial spirit tea trees can produce an average of 20162 trillion mixed units of revenue per year.

The 80648 lower-level primordial spirit peach trees can produce an average of over 26 billion mixed units of revenue per year.

The 216 superior primordial spirit peach trees can produce an average of 727.8 trillion mixed units of revenue per year.

Undoubtedly, compared to the superior spiritual tea and peaches, the inferior spiritual tea and peaches, which make up the vast majority, are not considered valuable.

However, there's nothing that can be done about it, since lower-level spiritual tea and spiritual peaches can only help the realm lord break through to immortality.

However, superior spiritual tea and spiritual peaches can more or less help those at the peak of the King realm and above who are immortals and enter the Universe Venerable realm, who have a poor affinity with superior laws.

The difference in wealth between a Realm Lord and an Immortal at the peak of the King level or above is like heaven and earth.

If the price of lower-grade spiritual tea and spiritual peaches is too high, then no one will buy them.

Even so, lower-level spiritual tea and spiritual peaches are not something that ordinary realm lords can afford.

Similar to plant life, only the second generation or core members of the five major forces have this economic strength.

However, while lower-grade spiritual tea and spiritual peaches are considered expensive by ordinary realm lords, they are extremely cheap in Lu Jin's eyes, giving him a sense that they are not worthy of the effort he has put into them.

The reason he's still selling them is mainly because Lu Jin wants to cultivate more immortals for the human race.

Anyway, once you reach Immortality, you'll inevitably have to spend money at Yanhuang Company, which will also increase the number of potential customers.

The Qianwu Universe Kingdom is a palace complex stretching for tens of millions of kilometers, suspended in the vast starry sky.

"Ah~"

On the throne inside the temple, the ruler of the Qianwu Kingdom couldn't help but sigh deeply.

The Tiangong Pavilion in Hongmeng City has launched a new business: collect the corpses of Universe Venerables for 10 Treasure Points each.

He originally thought this was the dawn of his escape from huge debts.

But as it turns out, he was overthinking things.

This path to wealth isn't easy; when hunting, you not only have to leave the carcass behind, but you also have to be careful that the prey doesn't suddenly turn into the hunter.

Just a few years ago, when he was about to crush a Cosmic Venerable from a weak race, a high-level Cosmic Venerable with even greater strength than him suddenly appeared, and he was ambushed.

Although it didn't completely collapse, its divine body suffered considerable damage and has not yet fully recovered.

After all, aside from possessing another body or creating a clone, the divine bodies of immortal gods and cosmic sovereigns of human origin are not large, and their divine power cannot withstand burning.

Over the years, he has paid off some of his debts, but compared to the 1.6 Arcana Points he owes to his friends and the 2.2 Arcana Points he owes to his clan, what he has paid off is just a drop in the ocean.

It's only because his friends didn't charge him interest that he was able to repay the interest on the precious points he had earned.

Suddenly, the voice of the intelligent life form 'Wu Yun' rang in the mind of the Qianwu Kingdom Lord: "Master, Wu Yun has received an email. The Heavenly Court invites you to a banquet in one month to witness the establishment of the Heavenly Court. Cosmic coordinates: Qianwu Star Region, Black Dragon Mountain Star Area, Milky Way Galaxy XXX"

This coordinate is precisely the current location of the South Heavenly Gate.

Upon hearing this, the ruler of Qianwu Kingdom perked up.

It should be noted that the Lord of Chaos City had informed him several years ago.

From the moment he was notified, the Qianwu Universe Kingdom was no longer the territory of the Virtual Universe Company.

All of Virtual Universe Company's rights within the Qianwu Universe Kingdom, except for its branches directly under Virtual Universe Company, have been transferred to the Heavenly Court.

In other words, the current Qianwu Universe Kingdom is the territory of the Heavenly Court.

After the Heavenly Court officially took over the Qianwu Universe Kingdom, he, as the ruler of the universe kingdom, could choose to remain in the Virtual Universe Company or join the Heavenly Court.

The ruler of Qianwu Kingdom was conflicted about whether to join the Heavenly Court.

The Virtual Universe Company is very powerful. In the eyes of the Qianwu Kingdom's ruler, even if the Heavenly Court becomes the sixth largest power in the race, its overall strength will definitely not be comparable to the well-established Virtual Universe Company.

On the other hand, the Heavenly Court was newly established and was in dire need of talent. He was, after all, a high-level cosmic venerable, and being the first to pledge allegiance, he had a good chance of being given an important position.

But to the surprise of the ruler of Qianwu Kingdom, he couldn't find the way to the Heavenly Court at all, nor did he know who the high-ranking officials of the Heavenly Court were.

The Lord of Chaos City said that his own Qianwu Universe Kingdom is the hometown of the Heavenly Court's Lord Lingxiao, and he had sent people to gather intelligence, but to no avail.

An entire star sector! Over a hundred million light-years in diameter, such a vast territory, how would the Lord of Lingxiao know exactly where it is if he didn't tell him?

After a moment's thought, the ruler of the Qianwu Kingdom gritted his teeth, teleported out of the temple, returned to the divine kingdom through the fixed divine kingdom passage, and then teleported towards the token closest to the coordinates given by the Heavenly Court.

Somewhere in the Milky Way, a majestic celestial gate, about 100,000 kilometers high, stands amidst the boundless starry sky.

Inside the Heavenly Gate, countless rays of light shone and auspicious clouds gathered at the bottom, as if celestial music was wafting from it.

Two enormous pillars of heaven, made of crystal-clear glass, are entwined with lifelike golden dragons and jade phoenixes, appearing and disappearing amidst auspicious clouds.

Above the lintel, the three gilded characters "Nantianmen" gleamed brightly, seemingly possessing the majesty of heaven and earth.

'Shuh! '

Suddenly, a figure in purple robes appeared in the starry sky more than ten million kilometers away from the South Heavenly Gate, and then flew towards the South Heavenly Gate.

Centered on the South Heavenly Gate, within a radius of ten million kilometers, spacetime has been sealed off, restricting teleportation and divine kingdom transfer.

Even the corresponding region in the dark universe, with a radius of about one kilometer, has been folded over by the South Heavenly Gate.

Unless it is a true god whose words can become law and whose speed can exceed the speed of light in the primordial universe, even if the ruler of the universe came, it would take more than half a minute of flight time from the moment he appeared to the moment he blocked the South Heavenly Gate.

Just as the ruler of the Qianwu Kingdom appeared, in front of the South Heavenly Gate, in the magnificent palaces that stood on the left and right sides, thousands of kilometers high, two guardian generals, one wearing earth-yellow armor and the other wearing black armor, immediately sensed the arrival of a cosmic venerable.

Their gazes pierced through the void, and they saw that the purple-robed figure was a human universe venerable. The two heavenly generals did not step forward to drive him away, but instead flew out of the temple and stood in front of the South Heavenly Gate.

Before long, the ruler of Qianwu Kingdom stepped onto the plaza in front of the South Heavenly Gate, which appeared to be paved with white jade. Looking at the one hundred and two figures in armor standing before the magnificent South Heavenly Gate, the ruler of Qianwu Kingdom was shocked.

After taking charge of the Heavenly God Palace and commanding the Heavenly Army and Generals, the Lord of Light, Zi Zhenfeng, arranged for two overlord-level Heavenly Generals and a hundred King-level Heavenly Soldiers to guard the South Heavenly Gate.

Judging from their life force, the ruler of Qianwu Kingdom could tell that among these 102 figures, there were 98 initial-level Kings, two advanced-level Kings, and two cosmic overlords whose auras far surpassed his own.

My God, is the cosmic overlord guarding the gate?
Incidentally, the ruler of Qianwu Kingdom also glanced discreetly at the three gilded characters "South Heavenly Gate" above the Heavenly Gate, as well as the precious palaces standing on the left and right sides in front of the South Heavenly Gate.

This is a palace treasure! I'm so envious!
"Who is coming?!"

The heavenly general, clad in earthen-yellow battle armor, asked in a deep voice.

"I am Qian Wu, here to pay my respects to the Lord of Lingxiao. May I ask who you two are?"

The ruler of Qianwu Kingdom bowed and said.

"Heavenly Court, General Panwu."

"Heavenly Court, Nightfall General."

The two heavenly generals revealed their names.

Then, Panwu Tianjiang, dressed in earthen-yellow battle armor, said, "I have already reported to the Palace Master. As for whether the Heavenly Emperor will see you, that is not something we can decide."

"May I ask what the name of the Palace Master mentioned by the Heavenly General is?"

The ruler of Qianwu Kingdom asked.

Panwu Tianjiang said, "Our Heavenly Army and Generals are under the command of the Heavenly God Palace, whose Lord is the Lord of Light."

My duty, along with that of the Nightfall, is to guard the Southern Heavenly Gate, and it is inconvenient for me to leave my post. The ruler of the Qianwu Kingdom may accompany the heavenly troops into the Nine Heavens.

As he spoke, Pan Wutian waved to a high-ranking heavenly soldier who was standing guard in front of the South Heavenly Gate.

It's not that they can't leave their posts, after all, there are two guardian generals.

The main issue is that the ruler of the Qianwu Kingdom is not of sufficient importance, so there is no need for them, as heavenly generals, to lead the way.

'Lord of Light. The Heavenly Court has at least two Lords of the Universe.'

The ruler of Qianwu Kingdom thought to himself.

"King of Qianwu Kingdom, please."

A high-ranking celestial soldier, who had been granted the title of King, stepped forward, bowed, and led the ruler of the Qianwu Kingdom across the crystal-clear water curtain into the Nine Heavens.

Gazing at the ten supreme palaces located on the inner side of the South Heavenly Gate, scattered throughout the Nine Heavens, and the majestic palace complex in the distance that also faintly exuded the aura of supreme treasures, the Qianwu Kingdom ruler fell silent.

Not to mention the magnificent palace complex, just the eleven supreme palaces inside the South Heavenly Gate and in the sky alone represent eleven cosmic overlords!
Palace treasures are something that even a supreme being below the ruler of the universe wouldn't have the financial means to possess unless they were extremely lucky.

For example, even among the many high-level universe venerables in his race, his strength can be considered to be among the top.

Otherwise, after his first resurrection, he wouldn't have had the confidence to borrow an Arcana item to turn the tide, and ended up failing three times, accumulating a debt of nearly 4 Arcana points.

But this debt of less than 4 treasure points has been a source of endless headaches for him, preventing him from paying it off for countless years.

Even if the Treasure Palace is in poor condition, it still requires nearly 20 Treasure Points, which is really not something that a high-level universe venerable can afford.

"Whoosh!"

Just then, a Heavenly Soldier who had been standing guard in front of the Lingxiao Palace arrived by air.

"King of Qianwu Kingdom, the Heavenly Emperor summons you."

"Please show me the way."

The ruler of Qianwu Kingdom bowed.

He naturally wouldn't care about being granted the title of Immortal King, but since he was new here, he had to be polite.

Just like in the Chaos City of the Initial Universe, even the Immortal gatekeeper of the inner palace of the city lord's mansion was treated with respect by most human universe venerables.

"please!"

The heavenly soldiers led the ruler of the Qianwu Kingdom to a huge floating island in the heavenly firmament of the Nine Heavens.

"I heard from the two heavenly generals Panwu and Yemu at the South Heavenly Gate that this place is the Nine Heavens. I wonder where that is?"

Pointing to the majestic palace complex in the distance below, which faintly exuded the aura of supreme treasures, the Qianwu King asked the heavenly soldiers.

The heavenly soldier leading the way said, "That is the headquarters of Yanhuang Company, which is the external commercial agency of our Heavenly Court. Venerable Mingyue is the president of Yanhuang Company."

Furthermore, the Nine Heavens will be open to the outside world from now on, and immortal gods of the race, or core members of the five major forces, are welcome to come.

"I see. Then, I wonder where the Heavenly Emperor resides?"

The ruler of Qianwu Kingdom nodded and then asked.

The heavenly soldier leading the way said, "The Heavenly Emperor is omnipresent, but at this moment he is in the Lingxiao Palace of the Great Luo Heaven."

The Great Luo Heaven is also the head of all the heavenly realms in my Heavenly Court.

Soon, the two descended into the sky and landed on a floating island in the heavens.

What came into the view of the Qianwu Kingdom ruler was a celestial portal passage that stretched for tens of thousands of kilometers, with the words "Daluo" inscribed above the lintel.

Beside the celestial passage, there was another 'familiar' treasure palace.

'Another overlord.'

The ruler of Qianwu Kingdom thought to himself.

At this moment, the ruler of Qianwu Kingdom no longer had the idea that joining the Heavenly Court would guarantee him a high position.

Excluding the headquarters of Yanhuang Company, he has seen fourteen supreme palaces along the way, which means that there are at least 14 cosmic overlords in the Heavenly Court.

If there are 14 cosmic overlords, how could there be fewer high-level cosmic venerables?
To be honest, the ruler of Qianwu Kingdom misunderstood this.

The Heavenly Court has many overlord-level celestial generals, but it has none of the high-level cosmic venerables.

Apart from Xu Xin, who is a blank slate, the existing Universe Venerables in the Heavenly Court are either Universe Overlords or Intermediate Universe Venerables. There are no Elementary Universe Venerables or Advanced Universe Venerables.

The former is not that weak. After all, even alien servants, once they step into the realm of cosmic venerables, will have 10 times the genetic power and 100 times the amplitude.

With such a configuration, plus the fact that the treasures are not lacking, his strength is at least that of a mid-level universe venerable, and he is even a master among mid-level universe venerables.

The latter case indicates that one's understanding of the laws has not reached the level of a high-level cosmic venerable.

After crossing the Heavenly Gate leading to the Great Luo Heaven, the ruler of the Qianwu Kingdom was even more shocked.

What came into view was a huge white jade plaza, and in front of it stood the majestic Lingxiao Palace, which stretched for millions of kilometers.

Beside the Heavenly Gate behind him stood many other Heavenly Gates that looked identical, but with different inscriptions on their lintels, such as 'Netherworld', 'Jade Pool', 'Mysterious Yellow', 'Red Glow', and 'Orange Glow', among others.

Beside each celestial passage lies a magnificent palace.

In the sky, nearly a thousand palaces emanating the aura of supreme treasures floated, including palace complexes with even stronger auras of supreme treasures.

However, the next moment, the attention of the Qianwu Kingdom Lord was drawn to the many fine lines of primordial laws manifested in the sky of the Great Luo Heaven.

The manifestation of the fundamental laws is not unfamiliar to the ruler of the Qianwu Kingdom; it existed in the primordial universe.

However, the fundamental laws manifested in the initial universe were not as clear as those manifested in the Great Luo Heaven.

Gazing at the transparent threads of the fundamental laws of time that had manifested, the ruler of the Qianwu Kingdom was deeply moved. The incomplete fluctuations of the laws of time emanated from his body, and he couldn't help but close his eyes, letting his consciousness sink into them.

"This"

Seeing that the ruler of Qianwu Kingdom was engrossed in enlightenment and seemed to be about to break through, the heavenly soldiers leading the way were dumbfounded.

Go forward and wake them up; you might ruin their chance to break through.

But if we don't go forward to wake him, the Heavenly Emperor is still waiting inside the Lingxiao Palace!
At that moment, Lu Jin's voice rang in the mind of the guiding heavenly soldier: 'Bring the shaman over after he wakes up.'

Upon hearing this, the heavenly soldier leading the way perked up, bowed respectfully towards the Lingxiao Palace, and then stood aside to wait quietly.

Half a day later, the fluctuations of the time law emanating from the Qianwu Kingdom's ruler suddenly underwent a qualitative improvement.

'A master-level understanding of the laws. Who would have thought that he would be able to comprehend both time stop and time acceleration in succession!'

After the fluctuations of the laws emanating from his body subsided, the ruler of the Qianwu Kingdom opened his eyes, thinking excitedly to himself.

The levels of understanding of the laws of the Space-Time Universe Venerable are clearly defined, depending entirely on the level of understanding of another higher-level law that has not yet been mastered.

For example, if a Space Venerable has zero comprehension of the laws of time, then that is only the comprehension level of a Primary Universe Venerable.

Crossing the threshold of the fundamental laws of time is the enlightenment of a mid-level universe venerable.

If one can gain recognition from the fundamental laws of time, it is an enlightenment attained by a high-level cosmic sage.

However, as long as one comprehends the mysteries of time, whether it is one or three, anyone who fails to master the complete laws of time and become the master of the universe will only gain the insights of a cosmic overlord.

This is similar to the peak of the King-Sealing Realm. If we only consider the comprehension of the laws, one high-level profound mystery can be the peak of the King-Sealing Realm, and three high-level profound mysteries can also be the peak of the King-Sealing Realm.

This is precisely why the performance of a genius at the Realm Lord stage is the most valued by all forces.

For example, someone like Lu Jin directly comprehended all the profound mysteries of the two superior laws at the realm master stage.

Once one enters the Immortal Realm, as long as one can integrate one of the higher-level laws and step into the Universe Venerable Realm, one's understanding of the laws of the Space-Time Dao can directly reach the level of the Universe Overlord.

As the ruler of a cosmic kingdom that has existed for countless ages, the ruler of the Qianwu Kingdom is already a high-level cosmic venerable.

Over countless years, although he failed to fully comprehend the three great mysteries of time, he did comprehend the branches under the three great mysteries of time.

Seeing the threads of the fundamental laws of time manifested in the sky above the Great Luo Heaven, it's normal to feel a sense of enlightenment and for one's understanding of the laws to advance to a higher level.

Of course, understanding the laws is only one of the elements that constitute the power of a cosmic sovereign.

Despite possessing a level of understanding of laws comparable to a cosmic overlord, the current ruler of the Qianwu Kingdom does not yet directly possess the strength of a cosmic overlord.

Life genes, amplitude secrets, supreme treasures, unique skills, and so on, all need to be kept up with.

Otherwise, in terms of strength, he would only be a slightly stronger high-level cosmic venerable.

Even considering the factor of supreme treasures, he is not even as good as the few high-level cosmic beings who possess supreme treasures.

(End of this chapter)