Devouring the Stars: The Lord of the Sky

Chapter 272 Reversing Time and Space, A Million Heavenly Soldiers to Become Kings

Not long after Zi Yumo left, Zi Zhenfeng arrived.

"Your Majesty, the Heavenly God Palace is short-handed."

Zi Zhenfeng said awkwardly.

"Not enough again?"

Lu Jin couldn't help but ask in surprise.

You should know that he had previously had Hong'er and the others cultivate tens of millions of immortal insectoid warriors and given the Heavenly God Temple tens of millions of lower-level law godheads.

Tens of millions of Law Godheads represent tens of millions of immortal gods.

Zi Zhenfeng said, "Mingyue from Yanhuang Company, Yinyue from Qinghua Palace, and Lengyuan from Qiankun Palace have all come to me."

As is customary, each star sector-level branch of Yanhuang Company needs to send one King-level Immortal, and each star region-level branch needs to send one Immortal.

The addition of 4936 new star sectors means the creation of 4936 new kings and tens of millions of immortals.

The Qinghua Palace is responsible for cultivating geniuses, and in the future, these star regions and star domains will all need to have responsible persons, with the shortage being the same as that of the Yanhuang Company.

The gap in the Qiankun Palace was even larger, according to Leng Yuan's account.

To reduce the probability of corruption, the management of the star sector and the management of the star region should not be entirely managed by the same person; at least three people are required to be in charge of each aspect.

Although there wasn't an urgent need at the moment, the three of them applied to the Temple of Heaven in advance because the quantity was too large.

Approximately how many people are needed?

Lu Jin asked.

Zi Zhenfeng said, "Yanhuang Company and Qinghua Palace have each applied for 50 million Immortals, while Qiankun Palace has applied for at least 150 million Immortals."

As for bestowing the title of Immortal Heavenly Emperor, with the development of the Heavenly Court, the overall strength of the Heavenly Army should be improved, with the attainment of Immortal Heavenly Emperor as the minimum requirement.

"Ordinary immortals are easy to create; they can be built up with divine sparks of laws. But this king-level title is different."

As he spoke, Lu Jin couldn't help but frown slightly.

With the seven members of Hong'er enhanced to their limits, cultivating immortal-level Zerg warriors in the master hive of the universe would be far too easy.

Each immortal-level Zerg warrior is equivalent to a lower-level law godhood, or a blank-level novice immortal military lord.

However, if one is granted the title of King of Immortality, the training process becomes slightly more difficult.

Currently, the Heavenly Court's strength at the Immortal stage is not strong; the vast majority of its members are ordinary cannon fodder, and there are not many who can hunt down alien races and become Immortal Kings.

Moreover, hunting down a King and leaving behind his corpse is something that ordinary immortals cannot do.

But if a cosmic venerable were to be dispatched, that would be far too unethical.

The concentration of alien kings is the outer battlefield. The Heavenly Court is hunting down kings on a large scale, and the forces of the victims will definitely hold the human race's immortals accountable.

At this moment, Zi Zhenfeng said, "Heavenly Emperor, I have two methods to obtain a large number of Kings and Immortals."

"Oh? Tell me."

Lu Jin raised an eyebrow and said.

Zi Zhenfeng said, "Firstly, the original Crystal Clan headquarters and the Prison Clan ancestral mountain must have been visited by a large number of King-level Immortals from both clans. By reversing time and space to revive them and then killing them, we can obtain a large number of King-level Immortal corpses."

Secondly, there is the initial universe, which almost all the immortal kings of our human race have visited. In history, there have been countless immortal kings who were not resurrected by reversing time and space due to insufficient background and strength.

If only high-level Kings are resurrected, with the Enlightenment Diagram of Higher-Level Laws, these high-level Kings should be able to reach the limit of Kinghood very quickly.

The former involves reviving and then killing a rival king, using the obtained superior law beads to cultivate an immortal king belonging to the Heavenly Court.

The latter is readily available, and because it is a King-level Immortal cultivated through legitimate means, it can automatically upgrade its level later.

Having already reached the advanced level of Kinghood, by studying the Enlightenment Diagram of Higher Laws and comprehending one of the three great mysteries of the higher level, reaching the peak of Kinghood should not be difficult.

If one cultivates the first ten times the amplitude of the Amplification Secret Technique "Innate Dao Body", one will immediately reach the limit of becoming a King.

"That's one way."

Lu Jin nodded slightly.

The universe has no shortage of geniuses who are within the realm of comprehension.

This cycle of time has already passed by trillions of epochs, and the timeline for the human race to become the pinnacle race was relatively early. There have been hundreds of millions of geniuses who are said to appear only once every tens of thousands of epochs.

Throughout countless ages, the human race has produced countless kings and immortals.

However, the human race currently has only about 100,000 Kings. Apart from those who were enslaved by other races or perished under special circumstances, there are countless Kings who could be resurrected by reversing time and space but were not resurrected.

As for the issue of the greater the punishment for reviving more lives in a short period of time, Lu Jin simply ignored it.

With his perfect genetic universe body spanning over nine million kilometers, plus a ghostly blood sea clone with a diameter of 12 light-years serving as a reserve of divine power, reviving a million kings at once is not a difficult task.

After all, the penalty for frequent resurrections doesn't increase exponentially like the first one being doubled, the second two times, and the third four times. It's just that in the short term, the cost of each additional resurrection is slightly higher than the previous one.

After relocating the Immortal Transformation Palace to the Nine Heavens, Lu Jin returned to the Netherworld God Kingdom and was teleported to the headquarters of the Virtual Universe Company via the Kunlun Mirror.

They then entered the Chaos City of the Initial Universe through the cosmic passage.

"Shh!"

The next moment, the figure of the Chaos City Lord appeared beside Lu Jin.

As the host, the Lord of Chaos City naturally had to greet the distinguished guests.

Lu Jin said, "Chaos, the Heavenly Court has added thousands of star sectors to its territory and needs a lot of manpower, so I've come to Chaos City to recruit people."

"But do we need to revive a large number of people?"

The Lord of Chaos City was stunned for a moment, then immediately understood who Lu Jin had recruited.

Lu Jin nodded: "That's the idea."

"It seems that those high-ranking immortals who were not on the resurrection list in the past are now in luck."

The Lord of Chaos City said with a smile.

Before long, the two arrived at the square in front of the city lord's mansion.

Anyone who has entered Chaos City and been granted a title of King has definitely visited the City Lord's Mansion Square.

The next moment, Lu Jin had a thought, and the pedestrian space in the wide square suddenly shifted and appeared outside the square.

‘Huhuhu——’

Immediately afterwards, time within the square area began to rapidly rewind.

Like a movie playing in reverse, the scene in the square began to rewind at an extremely fast speed, quickly returning from the present time to the past.

As time rewinds, Lu Jin's divine power surges forth, enveloping every immortal deity who has appeared in the plaza, whose divine body is no less than that of a King.

There's no need to distinguish; those who are still alive cannot be resurrected by reversing time, but it doesn't matter if you 'rescue the wrong person,' since it doesn't consume divine power anyway.

One by one, the immortals of the highest rank and above from past timelines were enveloped by divine power, time and space reversed, and waves of backlash acted on Lu Jin's divine body.

This backlash acts directly on the divine body and cannot be weakened by any supreme treasure armor or special secret techniques; the divine body can only withstand it.

Fortunately, only the high-level immortals who were originally on the resurrection list of the race were resurrected, as well as a very small number of immortals who were at the peak of the king level or above but have not yet been resurrected by the Lord of the Universe.

The resurrected target was not very strong, and the backlash was nothing more than a drizzle to Lu Jin, who possessed the divine body of the master of the perfect genetic universe spanning over nine million kilometers.

"Whoosh!" "Whoosh!" "Whoosh!"

As the backlash forces intensified and acted upon Lu Jin's divine body, the previously illusory figures from past timelines rapidly solidified and were subsequently resurrected through time reversal.

Immediately afterwards, Lu Jin moved the group of resurrected, still bewildered, immortal kings to the edge of the plaza.

As time passed, more and more immortal kings, resurrected by Lu Jin through time reversal, appeared on the edge of the square.

These resurrected immortal kings are relatively evenly matched in strength.

The majority of those who achieved the highest rank of King were of the highest level, while only a very small portion achieved the highest rank of King.

There are no divine bodies that surpass the peak of the King-Sealing level, approaching the King-Sealing Invincible level, or even the King-Sealing Invincible level.

Moreover, as the timeline moves forward, the immortals who were resurrected by Lu Jin through time reversal are now only at the advanced level of immortality, with no higher levels of immortality remaining.

After all, if one's strength reaches the peak of the King-level realm, as long as one doesn't make any major mistakes, one can be included in the clan's resurrection list after falling.

Of course, those with good backgrounds, or those deemed by their clan to have further potential to become kings, can also be included in the clan's resurrection list after their fall.

One thousand kings. Three thousand kings. Ten thousand kings. One hundred thousand kings.
As more and more kings were resurrected, the spacious square in front of the city lord's mansion was almost overflowing. Lu Jin waved his hand and temporarily created a huge space at the edge of the square.

The reversal of time and resurrection continues, with 200,000 becoming kings, 300,000 becoming kings, and 500,000 becoming kings.
When the number of resurrected reached 800,000 and he was crowned a king, the accumulated punishments became increasingly severe, and the aura emanating from Lu Jin inevitably began to weaken.

Upon seeing this, the Chaos City Lord standing nearby couldn't help but twitch his eye slightly.

Eight hundred thousand were granted the title of King, and none of them were weaker than those granted the title of High-Rank King.

The fact that so many high-level immortals were resurrected in one go, coupled with the ever-increasing penalties from the frequent resurrections in a short period of time, only consumed 10% of Lu Jin's divine body.
The Lord of Chaos City could foresee that if frequent resurrections were not punished in the short term, the cost of resurrecting 800,000 high-level immortals would be nothing more than a drop in the ocean for Lu Jin.

The next second, something even more shocking happened to the Lord of Chaos City.

Lu Jin, who was still reversing time and space to revive and become a high-level immortal king, suddenly returned to his peak state.

What the Chaos City Lord didn't know was that the strongest Blood God Child avatar, who had just been teleported to the world ring that Lu Jin was carrying, had consumed 10% of its divine body.

The divine power of the main body, clones, and incarnations is shared, and if other divine bodies act as replenishment packs, as long as the divine power is sufficient, the consumption of a certain divine body can be restored instantly.

After a long while, having reversing time and space to revive a million high-level and above immortals, Lu Jin finally stopped.

'A million-times-overlapping punishment, that's pretty powerful.'

Lu Jin thought to himself.

Reviving 800,000 high-ranking kings only consumed 10% of his divine body.

However, the two hundred thousand high-ranking kings behind him actually killed dozens of his strongest Blood God Child incarnations.

Sure enough, even if the initial value is small, it will eventually grow into an astronomical number as it keeps rolling upwards. It's just a few dozen of the strongest Blood God Child incarnations. With the current size of the Netherworld Blood Sea Avatar, which has a diameter of 12 light-years, plus the top-tier Origin Treasure that increases the efficiency of divine power recovery by 100,000 times.

What appears to be a massive drain on divine power can actually be replenished in minutes.

At this moment, the Chaos City Lord beside him said with a smile, "A million Immortal Kings, this is the first time that so many Immortal Kings have existed at the same time in our human race."

What the Lord of Chaos said is true. Throughout countless years, the most people in the human race have ever been granted the title of King has only been a few hundred thousand.

It's not that humanity doesn't want more of its existing kings to be immortal; the main problem is that the vast majority of kings have exhausted their potential and have no chance of becoming cosmic sovereigns. After their fall, naturally no cosmic lord will resurrect them.

Moreover, the divine bodies of many of the previous human universe lords were not very large. From a cost-effectiveness perspective, it was not worthwhile for the universe lords to expand the scope of reversing time and space to resurrect.

Lu Jin shook his head slightly: "All that's left is the quantity."

Frankly speaking, without the right opportunity, most of these million kings would still be at the same level of strength after countless years.

However, they were lucky. After joining the Heavenly Court, the superior law enlightenment diagram in the Hall of Immortality and the countless inheritances in the Hall of Inheritance were the best opportunities.

Even without these factors, he could still cultivate to the advanced level of King, which shows that he is also a genius.

With the aid of the superior law enlightenment diagram and inheritance, plus the amplitude secret method "Innate Dao Body".

The million people who have been crowned kings in front of us will at least be the limit for being crowned kings in the future, and a large number of cosmic venerables will also emerge.

Then, Lu Jin's gaze swept over the million immortal kings and he said, "My name is Lord of Lingxiao, Heavenly Emperor of the Heavenly Court."

"Greetings, Lord of Lingxiao!"

The million-strong army, all bowed deeply in reverence.

Lu Jin said in a deep voice: "Most of you have perished long ago and are unaware of the current state of the human race, nor have you ever heard of the Heavenly Court."

The Heavenly Court was established in this era and is one of the six major powers of the human race.

From this moment forward, regardless of which faction you originally came from, you all belong to my Heavenly Court.

Of course, you don't have to join the Heavenly Court; you just need to pay a resurrection fee of 1 Heavenly Treasure Point. Anyone prepared to pay the resurrection fee?

After the words were spoken, a profound silence fell over the million-dollar crown.

Just kidding, this is a Tier 1 treasure point!
If you were frugal and only bought the lowest-priced items, you could have bought two high-value treasures.

The vast majority of them are high-level Kings, and a very small number are at the peak or limit of King status, even if they have the capital to afford the resurrection fee of 1 Treasure Point.
Although the resurrection fee charged by the Lord of Lingxiao was very expensive, those who were present and knew the price of the resurrection fee did not dare to object in the slightest.

Lord of the Universe! As Little Rakami, all I need to do is obediently follow your orders.

Lu Jin nodded in satisfaction: "Very good. After you pass the identification, you will be official members of the Heavenly Court."

After saying that, Lu Jin waved his hand and put the million-dollar title of king into a world ring.

Afterwards, Lu Jin didn't stay in Chaos City for long. After chatting with the Chaos City Lord for a few minutes, he left the Initial Universe and teleported back to the Celestial Realm.

The Great Luo Heaven, the Lingxiao Palace.

"Whoosh!" "Whoosh!" "Whoosh!"

On the nine-colored throne, Lu Jin released the million kings he had recruited in Chaos City.

The next moment, Lu Jin invoked the authority of the Heavenly Realm to carefully investigate the situation of the million kings within the Lingxiao Palace.

Soon, Lu Jin had a thought, and among these million immortal kings, dozens of high-level king souls perished.

There was no other reason; these dozens of high-ranking kings were all soul servants.

Lu Jin was too lazy to investigate who had enslaved them and treated them all as spies planted by foreign races.

Then, Lu Jin turned to look at Zi Zhenfeng, who was standing in the hall, and said, "Guangming, they will be the Heavenly Soldiers of the Heavenly God Palace from now on."

The manpower needed by Yanhuang Company, Qinghua Palace, and Qiankun Palace will be prioritized for dispatching the Heavenly Soldiers who were previously trained.

Furthermore, if any of them reach the level of a Cosmic Venerable, they will be given priority to serve as Star Sector Guardians in the Qiankun Palace.

Heavenly soldiers cultivated through the divine nature of laws have exhausted their potential because they can no longer comprehend the original laws. Whether they remain in the Great Luo Heaven or not makes no essential difference.

However, the million Heavenly Soldiers who have been granted the title of King in the Lingxiao Palace can still increase their life level on their own. Whether they remain in the Great Luo Heaven or not makes a significant difference.

In this way, personnel sent abroad will naturally be prioritized for those whose potential has been exhausted.

"Yes, Heavenly Emperor!"

Zi Zhenfeng bowed and replied.

After giving instructions to Zi Zhenfeng, Lu Jin's figure disappeared from Lingxiao Palace and teleported into Chengxian Palace to resume his cultivation.

While the Heavenly Court was receiving a million new kings and soldiers, the cleanup work in various parts of the original two alliances' territories was also in full swing.

Countless realm lords and immortals from the six major human powers, as well as many cosmic venerables, arrived at the designated mission area with large numbers of people to begin the cleanup operation.

Connected by a virtual universe, a realm lord leads a team of numerous domain lords and universe-level beings to clean up multiple star systems.

The Immortals are stationed in the capital star of the original two alliances, responsible for suppressing the powerful Realm Lords and the Immortals of ordinary strength who appear within the star region.

The Cosmic Venerable resides in the capital star of the star sector. Whenever the immortal remnants of the two major alliances appear in any star sector and are not suppressed in time, the Cosmic Venerable will quickly arrive at the scene through the divine kingdom teleportation to suppress them.

If a cosmic sovereign appears and is unable to suppress it, the matter is reported to the Heavenly Spirit Palace, which then forwards it to the Heavenly God Palace, which dispatches a cosmic overlord-level celestial general to suppress it.

If any remnants of the two major alliances' universe masters appear, they will be suppressed by the ten top-tier fifth-order universe masters of the Heavenly God Temple who are stationed in the territories of the two major alliances.

Under the leadership of numerous Realm Lords and Immortals, alien races were continuously cleared from the original territories of the two major alliances, from life-bearing planets and star systems to make room for human survival.

Some of the alien life forms that originally lived on these inhabited planets had already fled, while others were killed directly.

However, most of them were collected into the world rings by the cleanup teams that accepted war missions, and after accumulating a large number, they were sold to the Yanhuang Company at a low price.

These alien beings will eventually be taken into the Heavenly Realm and become one of the countless cattle and horses of the Heavenly Court in the future.

If we're talking about which area has the most lucrative cleanup, then we have to mention the Prison Clan's territory.

The team that accepted the mission to clean up the territory of the Prison Clan was full of energy, as if they had been injected with chicken blood.

Why?

The Hell Clan has a diverse range of life forms, and there are quite a few races with high bloodlines.

Even with only three times the genetic bonus, their physical cultivation talent far surpasses that of ordinary people.

As long as it is a living being with a soul and can be possessed, it is definitely a treasure trove for most cleaning teams that are not very strong, and it is extremely valuable!
It can be said that for a long time to come, the human race will produce more geniuses than ever before.

After possession, if the soul remains unchanged and the individual's comprehension does not decrease, but the physical talent for cultivation increases, then a mediocre person can become a minor genius, and a minor genius can become a great genius.

Of course, top-tier geniuses, who appear only once every tens of millions of epochs, are unlikely to appear due to possession unless they are possessing a special life form.

Luo Feng is an exception; the real strength doesn't come from the Golden Horned Beast with its peak bloodline, but from Luo Feng himself.

Time flies, and more than 3000 years have passed since the beginning of the universe.

Heavenly Court, Nine Heavens, Hall of Immortal Transformation.

"Shh!"

A burly, over three-meter-tall immortal king, who had just been resurrected by the Immortal Transformation Pool, was expelled from the pool and appeared in the main hall.

A beautiful fairy maiden, whose divine body was at the level of a low-level immortal military lord, quickly stepped forward and asked, "May I ask your name, immortal?"

"King of the Golden Swords".

The burly Golden Sword King said with a frustrated expression.

Although he was resurrected in the Heavenly Palace of Immortal Transformation, he lost all his treasures on the battlefield outside the realm, and he will also owe a huge resurrection fee. He was extremely depressed.

That hateful Global Alliance!
As the Lord of Chaos City had predicted, given the strength of the human race, or more accurately, the terrifying power of the Heavenly Court.

Shortly after the establishment of the Universal Alliance, in order to limit the development of the human race, the insect, demon, and mechanical factions on the outer battlefield joined forces.

Although infighting between the three factions is inevitable, the overall situation is that the three factions have joined forces to deal with the human faction.

Furthermore, many members from other factions within the Universal Alliance have entered the extraterritorial battlefield, joining the three races in their joint attack against the human race.

Fortunately, the Universal Alliance exercised restraint and continued to abide by the rule that cosmic venerables were not allowed to intervene in extraterrestrial battlefields. All battles were restricted to those below the level of cosmic venerables.

Although the human race was outnumbered and outmatched, their foundation was not bad.

The Divine Source Liquid launched by the Heavenly Court's Spirit Treasure Hall can quickly restore divine body injuries and can even be used in battle, making the survival ability of human immortals who can afford it much higher than before.

For a minor immortal being, the resurrection fee from the Heavenly Court's Immortal Transformation Hall isn't too outrageous.

In addition, the Heavenly Court also dispatched a large number of people who were close to being invincible kings to be stationed in various extraterritorial battlefields.

The combination of multiple factors has meant that although the human race is at a disadvantage in the extraterritorial battlefield, it is not in a precarious situation.

"King of the Golden Sword, please come to the testing device for testing."

The fairy led the newly resurrected Golden Sword King to a special instrument that resembled a security screening machine.

"drop!"

A beam of light shot out and shone on the Golden Sword King's divine body, and then the display screen attached to the instrument lit up.

[Identity: Golden Sword King (Virtual Universe Company)]

Divine Body Level: Peak of Kinghood

Divinity size: 3.1 meters tall
Discount on privileges: None
Resurrection cost: 3724 billion Chaos Units

The resurrection fee at the Hall of Immortal Transformation is linked to the strength and size of the resurrected person's divine body.

Based on the standard of a primary immortal military lord with a two-meter divine body, the Golden Sword King, who is 3.1 meters tall, has a divine body size coefficient of approximately 3.724.

A divine body at the peak of the King-level has a strength coefficient of 1000.

Multiplying the size coefficient and strength coefficient of the divine body, we find that the amount of divine source fluid required for resurrection is approximately 3724 liters.

Each liter of Divine Source Liquid costs 10,000 Mixed Yuan Units, and the resurrection cost is 10,000 times the cost of the Divine Source Liquid, resulting in a resurrection cost of 3724 billion Mixed Yuan Units.

(End of this chapter)