Devouring the Stars: The Lord of the Sky

Chapter 246 Supreme Conference, Cosmic Sea

The day after the banquet ended.

Within the virtual universe, the official Virtual Universe Company sent a congratulatory message to all Virtual Universe accounts, congratulating the establishment of the Heavenly Court.

On that day, news of the establishment of the Heavenly Court and the change in the power structure of the race from five major powers to six major powers spread throughout the entire human territory.

Similarly, due to the presence of spies within the human race, this news is spreading rapidly throughout the entire primordial universe.

At the same time, within the virtual universe, on the 1008 continents representing all the universe nations of the human race, and on the nearly ten million islands representing all the universe nations of the human race with medium-level civilizations, the star region branches and star domain branches of Yanhuang Company all sprang up from the ground.

The convenience of the virtual universe is undeniable; as long as one has the appropriate permissions, any item can be created instantly.

However, compared to the virtual universe, the Yanhuang Company's expansion speed in reality is not so fast.

The only branches that could be established on that day were the star region branches on the capital star of the Qianwu Universe Kingdom and the star region branches on more than 13,000 star region capitals.

As for the lower-level star system branches within the Qianwu Universe Kingdom, as well as the various levels of branches in the other 1007 universe kingdoms of the human race, they cannot be dealt with in a short time.

However, Lu Jin doesn't need to worry about Yanhuang Company's online and offline expansion; that's handled by President Xu Xin.

As for encountering local bullies during offline expansion?
nonexistent!

The original five major powers of the race, now there are six major powers, which is the epitome of privilege.

Moreover, these privileges were not granted by others, but rather stemmed from one's own strength reaching a level sufficient to exercise them.

Wherever he went, whether it was the Cosmic Nation, the Imperial government, or various forces in the region, they all cooperated unconditionally.

After all, anything unworthy will be subjected to a dimensional reduction attack from the Heavenly Court.

The following day, Lu Jin initiated a top-level meeting.

Each member at the highest level of the group can initiate a top-level meeting at any time.

In the virtual universe, on the long stone table in front of the Giant Axe Temple, twenty-three figures gathered.

Compared to the last time, two more members have been added to the highest-level meeting: the Lord of Light and the Lord of Crimson from Heaven.

The seats are located in the third and fourth seats on the right, with the seats for the Cosmic Mercenary Alliance, the Cosmic Galaxy Bank, and the Cosmic First Bank arranged in order.

"Ling Xiao, you initiated this meeting. Is there anything I can do for you?"

The giant axe spoke to Lu Jin, who was first on the right.

As soon as he finished speaking, everyone's eyes turned to Lu Jin.

Lu Jin nodded and said, "There are three things."

The first thing I will do is to collect the corpses of the Lord of the Universe and the True Gods indefinitely.

Each corpse of a Lord of the Universe yields 1,000 Treasure Points; corpses belonging to avatars of the Lord of the Universe are not required; and corpses of True Gods yield 50,000 Treasure Points each.

There is no need for you to worry about the Heavenly Court being unable to pay for the treasures; the Heavenly Court's Spirit Treasure Hall has an ample supply of treasures.

In addition to the giant axe, all of you may also take note of my Heavenly Court's Hall of Immortal Ascension.

As he spoke, Lu Jin looked at the Chaos City Lord sitting directly opposite him.

Lu Jin didn't care much about the corpse of the Lord of the Universe.

Whether the Heavenly Court can have more rulers of the universe makes no essential difference.

But Lu Jin cared a lot about the corpse of a true god.

Of all the human race, only the giant axe had previously been able to kill a true god.

However, the Giant Axe has not yet obtained the supreme treasure axe, and its strength is at the eighth level. Moreover, it is not good at soul attacks, so it may not be able to leave a corpse after killing a true god.

Furthermore, it is often impossible to kill someone of the same level in a battle, and there are relatively few seventh-level true gods in the cosmic sea, so the giant axe usually does not have any true god-level corpses in its hands.

However, there is a very high possibility that the Lord of Chaos City possesses the corpse of a true god.

In the past, the Primordial Ancestor was invincible throughout the universe and was also proficient in soul attacks. He must have collected the corpses of true gods, right?
Why am I an exception?

"Giant Axe asked curiously."

Lu Jin said, "The Immortal Transformation Palace has a resurrection function, and True God-level life has exceeded the resurrection limit."

Upon hearing this, the Lord of Chaos City perked up and hurriedly asked, "Ling Xiao, do you mean you can resurrect the Lord of the Universe?"

Upon hearing this, everyone present looked at Lu Jin with shock.

The Heavenly Court's Hall of Immortal Transformation has the function of reviving life, which is very mysterious, but still within the scope of understanding.

After all, even the Lord of the Universe can resurrect immortals and cosmic beings whose strength is not too great.

Even after achieving perfect genes, with its massive divine body spanning over 90,000 kilometers, resurrecting the cosmic overlord would not be a problem.

And the giant axe of a true god can also resurrect top cosmic overlords.

However, the ability to resurrect the Lord of the Universe violates the rules of the original universe and is beyond the comprehension of everyone present.

Lu Jin nodded: "The Immortal Transformation Palace has a special kind of supreme treasure that can revive immortals, cosmic venerables, and cosmic masters. It leaves a divine power imprint on immortal crystals beforehand, so that they can be revived after their fall."

"How many Treasure Points are needed for one resurrection?"

"The Lord of Darkness asked."

Lu Jin said, "The Immortal Transformation Hall needs to consume energy to revive fallen lives. The specific consumption is linked to the strength and size of the divine body. The stronger and larger the divine body, the greater the consumption."

Imperfect genes will receive 10,000 Treasure Points, while perfect genes will receive 30,000 Treasure Points. Furthermore, the player will be resurrected first, and the money will be given later.

If calculated according to the resurrection fee charged by the Heavenly Court's Hall of Immortal Ascension, not a single one of the universe lords present could afford the resurrection fee.

After all, a first-order universe lord with a hundred times the gene strength has a divine body that is a billion times stronger than that of an ordinary initial-level immortal military lord.

Even if a god's body is only a tiny two-meter-tall first-order universe lord, his resurrection would still amount to 10 trillion Chaos Units, equivalent to about 3 Treasure Points.

But the divine body of the Lord of the Universe, let alone two meters tall, can be classified as tiny even within a hundred kilometers.

The volume is a cube of the height. According to the way the Immortal Transformation Palace collects resurrection fees, even if all the treasure points of the entire human race were emptied, it would still be far from enough to resurrect any human universe lord.

Therefore, Lu Jin directly set a uniform standard for the revival fee.

"The perfect gene costs less than 10,000, while the perfect gene costs 30,000. It's a bit expensive, but it's worth it and I can afford it."

"Giant Axe commented."

The resurrection fee wasn't low, but it was unique in the entire primordial universe, so the Heavenly Court deserved to earn this precious resource.

For a cosmic ruler, the choice between complete annihilation and paying 10,000 or 30,000 Treasure Points is definitely more appealing than paying the Treasure Points, even if it means incurring a huge debt.

As long as you can live, with your own strength, no matter how many Treasure Points you owe, you will eventually pay them off one day.

Still not clear?
Let's revive first. At worst, we can sell ourselves. It's better than falling.

“I don’t have the habit of collecting corpses. If you have any, just sell them. You can’t use them as treasures anyway.”

Giant Axe felt a pang of regret, then spoke to the Lord of False Gold.

Had he known this would happen, he should have used his soul attack to annihilate all the alien universe lords who had died by his axe in the past.

It's true that he wields a giant axe, but that doesn't mean he can't use soul attacks; it's just that his soul techniques are far inferior to his axe skills.

The Lord of Void Gold nodded: "Yes, I have the corpse of a Lord of the Universe."

"Unfortunately, I am not skilled in soul magic, so I didn't even leave behind the corpse of the alien universe lord I killed."

"I have one."

"I have three."

Listening to everyone's comments, Lu Jin nodded to himself.

Apart from the Chaos City Lord who has not yet spoken, the various Universe Lords present possessed a total of nine alien Universe Lord corpses.

The Lord of Darkness possessed the most, having collected three, which he likely killed in the cosmic sea.

"If you send someone to deliver the body to the headquarters of the Yanhuang Company in the Nine Heavens, my Heavenly Court will immediately transfer the funds."

As Lu Jin spoke, his gaze turned to the Lord of Chaos City.

The Lord of Chaos City said, "My Virtual Universe Company has two True God corpses and eight Universe Lord corpses."

If you don't have enough Treasure Points, you don't have to pay; you can save them as resurrection fees for the Lord of the Universe Company in my Virtual Universe.

The two true god corpses and the eight universe lord corpses were all collected by his teacher, the original ancestor, after he hunted them down.

These ten corpses, totaling 108,000 Treasure Points, are probably beyond the reach of the Heavenly Court, which hasn't accumulated enough over time. They can be used as an advance payment for resurrection.

After thinking for a moment, Lu Jin said, "The Heavenly Court will first owe 100,000 Treasure Points, and then pay off the rest."

"can."

The Lord of Chaos City nodded.

Lu Jin said, "Next is the second matter. My Heavenly Court is preparing to advance into the Cosmic Sea. Our clan should have a general map of the Cosmic Sea, right?"

With the help of her legion of warriors and the ultimate secret techniques of the Lord of the Universe, Hong'er and her six companions were all able to reach the eighth-tier level.

With such strength, coupled with the supreme treasure palace that can be described as 'absolute defense', and the Kunlun Mirror that can traverse space, it is enough to venture into the cosmic sea.

Giant Axe said, "The data and maps of the Cosmic Sea collected by the clan, as well as the information on well-known experts in the Cosmic Sea, are completely open to the highest-level members, allowing the auxiliary intelligence to search for them in the virtual universe."

Lu Jin nodded and said, "Alright, the last and third thing."

As fellow humans, I do not wish to see the slave trade of humans continue within the borders of any cosmic nation.

"In Lingxiao, the universe is a dog-eat-dog world, and the practice of slavery cannot be completely eradicated."

Lord of the Wilderness hesitated before speaking.

Lu Jin said with a look of agreement, "Huang Jian, you are right. The strong prey on the weak in the universe."

After the meeting, my Heavenly Court will notify all cosmic nations to completely prohibit the buying and selling of human slaves, and only allow the buying and selling of slaves from other races.

The rectification period is three years, and the Heavenly Court will not take any action before that.

However, three years later, all human slave trading organizations within the territory of the race will be targeted by the Heavenly Court.

Everyone involved in this entire chain of interests, no matter who they are, will either die or become a soul slave under the command of my Heavenly Court.

Of course, if you have the power to raze my Heavenly Court's Lingxiao Palace to the ground, you can ignore this notice.

Giant Axe: "." Everyone: "."

To raze the Lingxiao Palace to the ground?
Giant Axe felt that, let alone others, even he himself didn't have this ability.

In the battle to establish the Heavenly Court's authority in the demon realm, the Southern Heavenly Gate directly suppressed the nine-headed demon lord who was hiding in a top-tier palace treasure.

At that time, the giant axe was not yet able to determine the exact grade of the Nantianmen as a sealing treasure.

However, when the divine incarnation went to the Heavenly Court for a banquet and saw the South Heavenly Gate with his own eyes, the giant axe was able to confirm it.

The South Heavenly Gate is not only a treasure similar to a cosmic passage, but when combined with the Heavenly Realm of the Heavenly Court, it is also an extremely powerful treasure for sealing and suppressing evil.

Entering the South Heavenly Gate as a guest was not a problem.

Entering the South Heavenly Gate as an enemy is tantamount to deliberately walking into a supreme treasure of the sealing type.

Moreover, the Seven Lords of the Heavenly Court are seven top-tier sixth-order universe lords.

As expected, no one present objected, including the Giant Axe Arena, whose interests were most deeply involved in the slave trade.

After all, we can't afford to fight the Heavenly Court for such a paltry amount of benefit, can we?

Putting aside the question of whether they could actually win, the five cosmic lords present were all hoping to be resurrected by the Heavenly Court should they perish in the future!
After the high-level meeting, Lu Jin put Zi Zhenfeng in charge of prohibiting the buying and selling of human slaves.

After the three-year period, the task of cracking down on human slave trading organizations and arresting those involved in the profit chain will be handled by the Heavenly Temple, which is under the leadership of Zi Zhenfeng.

Ensure that three years from now, there will be no large-scale slave trading organizations within the human territory.

Subsequently, Lu Jin began to search for relevant information about the Cosmic Sea.

The dangers of the cosmic ocean are far greater than those of the primordial universe.

Those whose strength is inferior to top-tier cosmic overlords are not even qualified to venture into the cosmic sea.

Even the most powerful cosmic overlords, without the secret technique of creating clones, are basically just asking to be killed.

Any ordinary, dangerous place would be enough to cause the fall of the Lord of the Universe.

The three forbidden zones, 'Cosmic Boat', 'Peak-Leaping Realm', and 'Flowing Mountain', are fraught with danger; even a true god would perish if he recklessly ventured there.

However, although the Cosmic Sea is full of dangerous places, it also nurtures a large number of treasures. There are many people with extraordinary luck who pick up top-level treasures or even the most powerful treasures while walking around.

It is precisely because of this that the cosmic sea contains countless treasures, which has attracted a large number of powerful beings from the primordial universe to venture out and search for treasures.

The powerful beings active in the cosmic sea can be categorized into five major types.

The powerful figures from the Purple Moon Holy Land, the Eastern Emperor Holy Land, the first reincarnation era, the second reincarnation era, and the third reincarnation era, which is the current era's original universe.

Of course, apart from the two unified holy lands, just like in the original universe, the positions of the strong in the first and second reincarnation eras were not consistent.

It has split into many different factions, some of which are even deeply antagonistic.

There are two ways to reach the Cosmic Sea.

One method is to enter the spatial interlayer, then teleport to the end of the interlayer, break through the original cosmic membrane that even the Lord of the Universe can break, and then enter the cosmic sea.

The second method is to travel to the cosmic sea via the 'Toya Black Hole,' the most powerful black hole in the primordial universe.

The powerful tearing and twisting force formed by the Toya black hole continuously destroys the original cosmic membrane wall, and one can reach the cosmic sea by following the opening in the membrane wall torn open by the Toya black hole.

After finding the coordinates of the Toya Black Hole in the virtual universe, a Blood God Child, incarnated on the top floor of the Immortal Ascension Palace, withdrew from cultivation and headed to the Netherworld.

Lu Jin placed the Bodhi tree in the Hall of Ascension to Immortality and divided the space of the Hall of Ascension to Immortality into five levels.

The first level is the cultivation ground for members below the Immortal level within the Heavenly Court after they have exchanged for cultivation opportunities.

The second level is Immortal, the third level is Cosmic Venerable, and the fourth level is Cosmic Lord and the future True God.

The fifth floor on the top floor is the exclusive floor for Lu Jin, as well as Zi Nishang and Hong'er.

In the Netherworld Heaven, within the Divine Kingdom, the Netherworld Blood Sea clone's consciousness communicated with the Kunlun Mirror. Based on the cosmic coordinates of the Toya Black Hole, it teleported the Blood God Child avatar, who carried numerous Kunlun Tokens, there.

The primordial universe, a remote place.

In the void, a massive black hole is constantly devouring all matter in the vast surrounding star field, plunging the surrounding star field into almost absolute darkness.

"Shh!"

Suddenly, a blood-red palace hundreds of kilometers high appeared in an instant.

'It's quite a sight.'

His gaze pierced through space, fixed on the Toya Black Hole in the dark void ahead. Lu Jin, inside the Blood Palace Treasure, thought to himself.

The Toya Black Hole itself is not large; it is just a black sphere about three meters in diameter with countless complex dark gold patterns on its surface.

However, this black sphere with countless dark gold patterns can continuously generate an extremely terrifying twisting and devouring power.

Around it was a membrane wall of the primordial universe. This originally extremely tough membrane wall was torn open by this twisting force, creating a hole with a diameter of nearly 10,000 kilometers.

This twisting force is so powerful that even an ordinary cosmic venerable would be instantly reduced to ashes if he came near it.

However, the crimson palace treasure that Lu Jin was riding, although it looked small, was only intentionally suppressed; in reality, it was a top-grade palace treasure, the 'Blood Sea Demon Palace'.

If the intensity of a material attack is less than the sixth level, it cannot pose a fatal threat to the Blood God Child avatar within the 'Blood Sea Demon Palace,' even if the Blood God Child avatar has ordinary life genes.

After all, although the life genes of the Blood God Child's incarnation were ordinary, it was still a huge divine body of more than 90,000 kilometers, and its divine power reserves were far beyond those of ordinary universe venerables.

"Whoosh!"

Riding the Blood Sea Demon Palace, Lu Jin entered the Cosmic Sea directly through the membrane opening torn open by the Toya Black Hole.

Upon entering the Cosmic Sea, a powerful pressure acted upon the Blood Sea Demon Palace.

This was formed by the endless, mist-like chaotic air currents surrounding it.

Even though these chaotic currents did not attack intentionally, the pressure they naturally emitted was enough to cause an immortal god to perish.

The next moment, the Netherworld Blood Sea clone within the Netherworld Heavenly God Kingdom stirred its mind, and the Blood God Child avatar within the Blood Sea Demon Palace disappeared, only to reappear shortly afterward.

'Not bad, the Kunlun Mirror's space travel still works, and its detection range hasn't been suppressed.'

After a brief trial, Lu Jin nodded in satisfaction.

Unlike the original universe, the cosmic sea restricts the teleportation of the divine kingdom, the virtual universe communication system is unusable, and the dark universe does not exist.

This means that once you enter the Cosmic Sea, you might get lost without a map.

If you get lost, you might be lucky enough to find your way back, but if you're unlucky, you might end up in some dangerous place.

But since the Kunlun Mirror is usable, as long as you carry the Kunlun Token, there is no possibility of getting lost, and you can teleport back at any time.

With a sufficiently sturdy palace treasure, as long as it can withstand attacks from dangerous environments, it means that no matter how vast the universe is or how dangerous the places are, you can go anywhere.

"Shh!"

After a series of teleportations, the Blood Sea Demon Palace appeared in a void filled with chaotic energy.

Looking around, Lu Jin saw 39 twisted spatial openings in this void.

These 39 spatial openings are all natural wormholes.

The cosmic ocean is vast and boundless, and no one knows exactly how big it is.

The lack of access to the Dark Universe and the vast distances involved have become one of the challenges faced by many powerful individuals venturing into the cosmic sea.

Fortunately, although the environment in the Cosmic Ocean is harsh and full of dangers, there are also many natural wormholes.

Traveling along a natural wormhole from one end to the other could take you hundreds of billions of light-years away.

With the Kunlun Mirror in hand, Lu Jin didn't care about the distance when returning.

However, when he set off, he couldn't accurately reach the location he wanted to go because he didn't know the exact coordinates.

For example, if he wanted to reach the Spaceship, one of the three forbidden zones of the Cosmic Sea, he could only follow the route known to his race once.

Throughout the process, one can travel through space using the Kunlun Mirror, but it is not possible to reach the destination in one step.

Because the route map for the spaceship included by the human race shows that there are many places along the way where natural wormholes have been used to greatly shorten the distance.

No one knows the exact distance each natural wormhole spans, or exactly where the other end of a natural wormhole is located in the cosmic ocean.

All maps of the cosmic ocean are fragmented maps, not panoramic maps.

It's not that scaling up the distance on a map proportionally will equal the distance in reality.

He casually tossed aside a Kunlun Token for future reference, then piloted the Blood Sea Demon Palace into one of the space wormholes closest to the spaceship, and began a continuous teleportation.

Although natural wormholes are straight, they are not very large. Once the distance for remote positioning is too far, the perspective of remote exploration will no longer be inside the natural wormhole.

Even if the direction is only one trillionth off, when the distance is measured in billions of light-years, it will have already deviated to who-knows-where.

If the distance is too far, it's impossible to reposition back into the natural wormhole; if the distance is too close, it's pointless, so it's easier to just teleport.

Meanwhile, just as Lu Jin sent his Blood God Child incarnation to explore the Cosmic Sea.

The five major powers also arranged for the universe overlords to send the corpses of the alien universe lords and alien true gods to the headquarters of the Nine Heavens Yanhuang Company.

They also brought along the crystallized divine power of all the universe's lords, to serve as the foundation for the future resurrection of the Immortal Transformation Palace.

After obtaining the corpses, aside from the two True God-level corpses sent by the Virtual Universe Company, which will be temporarily held in suspense.

The Lord of Lingbao Hall, Venerable Cangwu, used the Lingbao Hall's account to transfer a total of 17000 Treasure Points to various sellers.

The Netherworld, the Kingdom of Gods.

"Heavenly Emperor, the five major powers have delivered the corpses, and the Spirit Treasure Hall has paid the treasure points for the seventeen corpses of the Lords of the Universe."

Standing beside the vast sea of ​​blood, Venerable Cangwu respectfully presented a world ring.

"In addition to the Heavenly God Temple and the Tushita Palace, notify the masters of all other temples to come here."

A wisp of ethereal divine power descended, taking the world ring handed over by Venerable Cangwu into the Blood Sea. At the same time, Lu Jin's voice echoed from the Blood Sea.

"Yes, Heavenly Emperor."

Venerable Cangwu responded and contacted Venerable Xiguang and other palace masters through the virtual universe.

Within the sea of ​​blood, after recognizing the World Ring as its master, Lu Jin's divine power penetrated the World Ring to investigate.

Inside the World Ring were nineteen corpses exuding a powerful aura, two of which possessed an even more terrifying presence.

(End of this chapter)