Swallowing the Stars: Starting with the Battle of Geniuses

Hunzhen fell into deep thought, and the Lord of Luohe did not urge him, silently waiting for Hunzhen's answer.

It's not hard to tell from the words of the God Lord of Luohe that the difference between the God King and the God Lord must be related to the information he currently possesses.

In other words, a new characteristic that he is completely unaware of will not suddenly appear.

Hunzhen looked up: "Is it because of a different level of understanding of the principles of the world?"

In Hunzhen's understanding, the main direction of a God-King's development lies in the principles of the world and the power of supreme laws. (To prevent some readers from missing or skipping chapters, please note that the Supreme Law path of condensing a Supreme Divine Heart only makes it easier for them to control supreme laws after becoming God-Kings, not that God-Kings on other paths are unable to cultivate supreme laws.)

Through the power of the ultimate void, he had vaguely sensed that he did not have a bottleneck in this aspect, and thus naturally came to the above conclusion.

Who would have thought...

Yes, but not entirely.

Lord Luohe shook his head and said, "Being able to raise this point proves that you already have a considerable understanding of the God-King level. Everyone who cultivates the path of supreme laws knows that mastering supreme laws is the direction we take to reach the supreme level. But even so, it's good that you can still consider things from the perspective of the principles of the world. In a sense, it's not wrong. But in reality... these two must go hand in hand to reach the God-King level!"

"The principles of the world can perfect the inner world and strengthen the foundation of divine power. But no matter how well the inner world is perfected, it only allows one to reach the peak of the God-King level, but not to step into the God-Lord level."

"The so-called God-Lord is someone who, based on their own characteristics, creates their own supreme law or God-Lord-level secret technique, enabling them to integrate supreme laws into the principles of the world to construct their inner world, thus completing a further step in world construction! Upon reaching this stage, they can even extend the principles of the world beyond the construction of their inner world, allowing some of their influence to spread outwards, unleashing unparalleled, groundbreaking abilities!"

"But even among God Lords, there can be a difference in strength of several times. Most importantly, even if we twelve God Lords were to relinquish the title of God Lord, we could still continue to climb to the supreme level. However, many people who seem to have reached the God Lord level have entered this level too hastily, or are limited by their talents, which prevents the supreme power from being perfectly integrated into their inner world. As a result, their inner world is like a cripple with missing limbs, and they have no hope of advancing further."

"This is why, even though some peak God-Kings have indeed created so-called God-Lord level secret techniques, they cannot reach the God-Lord level. It's not that they can't, but that they dare not! Either their inner world hasn't reached its peak, or although they created God-Lord level secret techniques, the principles of the world they wove and the supreme power they control are not completely compatible. Under these circumstances, if they choose to break through, either their foundation will be unstable, their strength will be poor and they will be unable to advance further, or their world will collapse and they will perish!"

"Using a person as an analogy, the inner world is the human body. And secret techniques and supreme techniques are the weapons. Only with a strong body, excellent weapons, and outstanding swordsmanship can one fully exert combat power. On the path to becoming a god, only those who have perfected both their inner world and supreme techniques can achieve a perfect breakthrough."

"Although you are currently at the level of Chaos Ruler, after your cultivation in the House of Spirit and Time, you will soon reach the pinnacle of Chaos Ruler. Once the journey on the Primordial Heavenly Road is over, you will face the breakthrough to God King. Plan ahead the development direction of the principles of the world, and once you step into the God King level, you will be able to make rapid progress, or even... directly skip the intermediate level of Peak God King and become God Lord."

The principles of the world and the understanding and control of supreme power are the foundation for becoming a god.

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Time flies like an arrow, and time flies like an arrow.

While Hunzhen was cultivating within the Chamber of Spirit and Time, where time flowed ten thousand times faster, his previous deeds truly spread with the help of the Temple of Destiny.

In order to maintain the vitality of competition within the realm, the divine authority generally will not take the initiative to intervene.

But this does not mean they cannot intervene; whenever they do, it is as if it were an unquestionable divine decree.

Moreover, Hunzhen's record is indeed spotless.

Thus, the title of "the strongest under the God-King" was finally beyond question.

As time went on, the name Hunzhen gradually spread to other realms.

However, due to the passage of time, as the competition for the title reached its final stage, new big news emerged every now and then, so that even the title of "the strongest below the God King" quickly lost its popularity.

This does not mean forgetting. After all, the creatures on the Origin Continent are at least immortal when they grow up, and each of them has superhuman memory. It's just that they have sunk the things about Hunzhen into the ocean of memory and turned their attention to other interesting hot news.

In the blink of an eye, tens of millions of epochs, or thousands of eras, have passed on the Origin Continent.

And time in the three thousand dimensions has also gone through a cycle of reincarnation...

The two quietly passed through the Reincarnation Passage and arrived at the Origin Continent.

Like a grain of rice falling into a vast ocean, it didn't cause a ripple for a moment.

Thus, another three minor epochs passed.

Each minor epoch represents a cycle within a three-thousand-dimensional universe.

For those who have just entered the Origin Continent, such a long period of cultivation in a high-level world like the Origin Continent is comparable to at least a hundred reincarnation eras in the three thousand-dimensional universe.

In the Wuchao Realm, far from the Luohe Realm, a superior nation called the Food Kingdom suddenly became the center of another major news and storm.

A Saint-level expert named Luo Feng instantly killed a prodigy with a prestigious title, who had been artificially promoted by the Food Kingdom, in front of a large audience, and calmly escaped from the pursuit of the Food Kingdom's second ruler.

He quickly rose to fame and became incredibly popular.

However, it was not as shocking as Hunzhen's instant kill of the God King, and since his characteristics were not obvious, he was not able to directly obtain a title.

But at least at the national level, Luo Feng's existence is already known to the public.

Everyone assumed that Luo would quickly flee the food kingdom.

After all, the Food Kingdom is a powerful superior nation, and a superior nation means that there must be at least one peak God-King in the Food Kingdom!

Unexpectedly, Luo Feng did not wage guerrilla warfare in the Wuchao Realm like Hunzhen, but instead set his sights on the Food Kingdom.

For every person the Food Kingdom bestows the title of "Heavenly Pride," the Food Kingdom assassinates them; for every two people it bestows the title of "Heavenly Pride," the Food Kingdom kills them.

After some time, everyone knew that the so-called "Heavenly Pride" of the Food Kingdom was nothing but a silver-plated spearhead, a complete fraud.

The three rulers of the Food Kingdom all wished they could kill Luo Feng as soon as possible.

However, with the help of the Mountain-Sitting Guest, who had secretly completed reincarnation and regained his God-King strength, Luo Feng was like a slippery eel, impossible to catch.

Since the fall of the Jin Kingdom, and because he had been active in a lower-level world like the Three Thousand Dimension Universe for so long, the strength of the Mountain-Sitting Guest had not improved much.

However, their cunning and diverse methods were honed at the "grassroots" level.

Let the universe be vast; who doesn't know that the Mountain-Sitting Guest's methods are endless and difficult to grasp?

This kind of experience can still be used on the Origin Continent.

While the Mountain-Sitting Guest may not be considered powerful among the God-Kings, as a God-King with outstanding treasure-refining abilities, his methods are so diverse that even peak God-Kings would find it difficult to match.

However, the most that the person sitting on the mountain did from beginning to end was to provide assistance from the sidelines.

He provided Luo Feng with some specific tips and tricks for setting up traps, but never actually used them.

The Mountain Guest knew that the reason he and Luo Feng were able to get along so well was because they had the advantage of the enemy being in the open while they were in the dark.

If the three rulers of the Food Kingdom knew that it was the Divine King of Jin who had returned with his disciples, they would surely use their trump cards or connections to force them out and resolve the situation.

Moreover, a peak god-king is, after all, a peak god-king.

Being located within the territory of hostile forces, once they are targeted by a peak god-king, they have virtually no chance of escaping without support.

The hermit knew the principle that too much of a good thing is bad.

He didn't even dare to use treasures similar to his past style to help Luo Feng, for fear that the three rulers of the Food Kingdom would see through his scheme.

However, the reality is not necessarily so difficult.

Because... the Mountain Guest realized that among the three rulers of the Food Kingdom, none of them necessarily possessed the combat power of a peak God-King.

Or rather, besides using the enemy's territory and people to enhance their disciple's prestige and gain fame, their main objective for this trip was to investigate the changes in the power of the Food Kingdom.

The god-kings are in a competitive relationship.

Once a solitary god-king reveals his life force in other kingdoms, he will be regarded as an enemy, and even if he is annihilated by his master, it is still within the rules.

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Of course, a lone god-king can also turn around and destroy the original owner, seizing their territory. This is simply part of the rules; otherwise, where would the territories of those newly promoted god-kings come from?

However... in most cases, unless it is a period of redistribution of interests after the boundary is established, it is difficult for a newly promoted God-King to take a bite out of the territory from its original owner.

Because the original owner could have easily invited the neighbors to join forces to suppress the newly appointed God-King, or even hunt him down and divide his assets.

This situation usually occurs after a newly crowned god-king has repeatedly failed in his attempts to seize territory.

The fact that God-Kings cannot kill each other one-on-one means that even a newly promoted God-King who is slightly weaker can survive against other God-Kings.

Since these newly crowned god-kings have chosen not to live in seclusion but to emerge and participate in the competition for kingdoms, they must be ambitious individuals who will not easily settle for obscurity and will continue to seek their next target.

If left unchecked, it will inevitably bring disaster to nations before it truly achieves its goals.

Even if the great battle between the gods ends in a draw, it would still be a tremendous catastrophe for the space-time and living beings around the battlefield.

No god-king would want to see his territory suffer such damage.

Thus, a newly ascended god-king rises to power, and either if he can't defeat them, he joins another kingdom as a subordinate, or he successfully usurps the throne and becomes a new player, or he is wiped out by a coalition of several god-kings.

The cunning and shrewd mountain hermit naturally understood the principle that if he didn't act, he wouldn't act at all, but if he did, he had to succeed.

Their attack on the Food Kingdom was inevitable.

Before Luo Feng became a God King, the struggle for the title was coming to an end, which was the perfect time to fish in troubled waters and gather intelligence on the enemy.

In the memories of the Mountain Dweller, the original Food Kingdom was just a relatively powerful lower-level kingdom, meaning that the three rulers were all just ordinary god-kings.

The Jin state had been destroyed for dozens of Great Eras, but this amount of time was insignificant to the God-King.

Just like a genius breaking through from the realm master to immortality, the increase in strength is the greatest and the change is the fastest when they first break through, and the same is true for a god king.

Those top geniuses all reached the peak God King level as soon as they broke through.

The three great rulers are only considered ordinary among the God-Kings. Since they did not possess the combat power of a peak God-King when they broke through, their strength will not change much even after dozens of Great Evolution Eras.

"The only reason they were able to elevate our nation to the ranks of superior nations is... thanks to that secret treasure I created with all my national resources!"

A flash of hatred crossed the mountain dweller's eyes, but he quickly regained his composure.

Relying on secret treasures to reach the peak of the God King level is quite common. As a top treasure-refining master, he had also been thinking about this before.

Unexpectedly, they fell victim to the schemes of the three rulers of the Food Kingdom, not only failing at the last moment but also losing everything...

Although he failed, he did not leave no way out, and was able to sense the location of the treasure from a certain distance.

However, even after being in the Food Kingdom for so long, the Mountain Guest had not noticed its existence.

"That treasure was designed specifically for the Jin Kingdom. If the Shi Kingdom were to use it, it would require tremendous effort and a long period of time. They might simply not have the resources, or rather... they might not think it's a worthwhile choice. The most likely scenario is that the three rulers of the Shi Kingdom offered it to other powers in exchange for other benefits."

"For example, special cultivation resources. For example, exchanging talented individuals. For example, exchanging them for a more suitable treasure of the same level... Of course, we cannot rule out the possibility that they discovered my hidden trick and erased it, or that they couldn't erase it but deliberately hid it."

The mountain dweller had not yet determined which possibility it was, and therefore became increasingly cautious, offering Luo Feng many warnings.

However, they are not prepared to give up causing trouble in the food country.

Because Luo Feng lacked the Beast Slaves and the Dimensional Technique that could threaten the God King from the original story, the combat power of their small group was significantly weaker compared to the original route.

If one possesses a Beast Servant, the Mountain Dweller could spare no expense to have it reach the Saint level in a short period of time.

That would be the combined combat power of two God-Kings plus Luo Feng's Saint-King level, enough to conquer a lower-class kingdom in a short time.

Forcibly uniting the beliefs of the entire nation would make it easy to elevate Luo Feng to the position of a revered prodigy.

Now, things are in a state of limbo, neither here nor there.

Most importantly, the time for the title competition to end is not far off, and they don't have much time to prepare.

The best course of action now is to seek wealth and status through taking risks.

Either forcefully build a reputation and establish an honorific title, or attract the attention of powerful nations and persuade them to invest in Luo Feng!

Regardless of the method, the first priority is to establish a reputation!

Therefore, taking into account various factors, the Food Kingdom was chosen by the master and apprentice as the best target!

As for giving up the title of "Heavenly Pride" and the competition for the Hunyuan Heavenly Road, these were not within the scope of consideration for the master and disciple.

The path to becoming a strong person is to constantly face challenges, acquire more resources and opportunities, and transform through trials of life and death!

If we unfortunately missed the last train to Hunyuan Sky Road, that would be one thing, but now that we've caught the last chance, how can we let it go!? (End of Chapter)