Zhutian Panlong: They've all become gods, and they're only just joining the chat group.

After closing the chat group, Richard stroked his chin. Interesting, the cheat code has arrived at this moment.

Before this, his greatest ambition was nothing more than to achieve the highest level of godhood and then he could lord it over others and enjoy life.

Even achieving the Great Perfection of a High God is extremely difficult. Becoming a Shura-level powerhouse is acceptable, and at the very least, a High God at the Seven-Star Demon level can live quite comfortably in the God Realm.

His demands weren't high at all. Becoming a supreme god was purely a matter of luck, and he didn't think he had that kind of luck. So becoming a powerful being who could roam freely in the divine realm would be more than enough. He'd also have a long lifespan. Happiness is something you only appreciate when you compare it to something else. Wasn't this life much better than being a corporate slave in his previous life?

Now that we have chat groups, can we set our goals higher? Perhaps even reaching the pinnacle of godhood will no longer be his limit.

Once you reach the Great Perfection of the Seven Laws and Four Rules, there is no way to become a High God. But the myriad realms are not limited to these eleven laws. For example, there must be the laws of spacetime, right?

Even the Panlong World isn't without the laws of spacetime; they're just hidden in ways that ordinary gods can't access. Otherwise, how would you explain the teleportation arrays that permeate both the divine and material planes?

Hongmeng initially created one main world and four subsidiary worlds. To ensure the stability of the subsidiary worlds, the laws of spacetime were concealed. Only the main world could freely comprehend the laws of spacetime, while the laws of spacetime remained invisible in the four subsidiary worlds.

Panlong World is one of the four subsidiary worlds.

Of course, it may be invisible, but it is not completely uncomprehending, much less forbidden or prohibited from being comprehended.

Some mythical beasts are born with supernatural powers related to space and time. Even Richard's understanding of the Law of Wind contains some mysteries related to space, doesn't it?

Therefore, chat groups still need to be planned carefully.

The worlds these group members live in now involve time and space. For example, the Naruto world, the Dragon Raja world, and the Under One Person world.

However, let's not rush things now. We don't know what HarmonyOS's attitude is yet, so let's be cautious for now.

He wasn't even in a hurry to exchange cultivation techniques for points. Otherwise, he would have already exchanged all the battle qi manuals, various magic systems, and even the techniques he had created over the past few centuries.

For the next period of time, Richard would occasionally chat in the chat group, but most of the time he was focused on his own cultivation.

After a few months, he also discovered that his world probably had the fastest time flow in the entire chat group.

This puzzled him. His world was supposed to be the highest energy level among all the worlds in the chat group, right? Could it be that the higher the energy level, the faster the flow of time?

The time flow in the Naruto world doesn't seem to be much different from other worlds, does it?

There are some things I don't understand.

But it's not a big problem. If I can't figure it out, I'll just let it go. I won't waste my energy on it. If I can't figure it out now, I'll just put it aside for now and think about it later.

Anyway, this is a good thing for him. He was worried that he would cultivate for decades or even centuries, only to find that most of his group members had died of old age when he came out of seclusion. That would be embarrassing.

But generally speaking, as his strength grows, the time required for him to comprehend the profound mysteries of the laws will also increase. Those who don't embark on the path to immortality will eventually part ways.

On this day, the banquet hall of the Grand Duchy of Silverblue was packed with people.

Today is the day the Richard family is holding a banquet. All the prominent figures in the entire Olissis Empire have come, and even the current emperor of the empire has come to attend Richard's ascension to godhood banquet.

Furthermore, the connections the Hegel family had built up over hundreds of years since Richard became a Saint were now becoming apparent. Besides the Empire, there were other small and medium-sized powers on the continent of Osiris, and those allied with the Hegel family also arrived.

If it weren't for the tight schedule and the fact that people from other continents couldn't come, the banquet hall would have been twice as crowded.

Richard is a god after all. He might not remember everyone who came today, but what if he remembers those who didn't come? So even those forces that usually have some conflicts with the Hegel family obediently came to attend this banquet.

Those ordinary people, including those from the Holy Domain's own families, were entertained.

Richard only needed to properly entertain the god-level powerhouses who came.

It's quite heartbreaking, really. Richard has been living in this world for hundreds of years, focusing solely on cultivation. He hasn't gone out to make friends much, so he doesn't have a single truly close friend; they're all just casual acquaintances.

If it weren't for expanding the family's influence, there would be no need to hold this banquet.

However, holding this banquet did have its advantages; the gifts from these god-level powerhouses were quite appealing. Most of them were lower-level divine artifacts. Perhaps for a Saint-level powerhouse without a background, divine artifacts are very precious, and it would be extremely difficult to obtain even one.

However, for these god-level powerhouses who have been gods for a long time, divine artifacts are not that precious. A thousand years is enough to nurture a batch of lower-level divine artifacts. With a few thousand years of accumulation, they will never lack lower-level divine artifacts. And for these god-level powerhouses who have stayed in the material plane for tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of years, the lower-level divine artifacts in their spatial rings are simply piled up.

Since they couldn't be easily released and cause an overabundance of artifacts, they naturally piled up in heaps.

But for Richard, these artifacts were a great help, at least making up for the awkward stage before he could nurture them.

The first Emperor Olissis didn't come, but a lower-level god from the royal family did. It wasn't the current Emperor Olissis. The current emperor is merely an ordinary Saint Realm cultivator, not even touching the threshold of the laws; he was only elevated to the throne because of his outstanding administrative abilities.

This lower-level god, representing the royal family, gifted Richard a mid-level divine artifact—a suit of armor, a material defense artifact. One piece was equivalent to several ordinary mid-level material attack artifacts.

According to royal custom, to win over a lower-ranking god, one should only receive a mid-ranking artifact for material attack.

Could it be that he sees his talent as quite good and is trying to win him over?

In this small material plane, becoming a god within a thousand years is already considered an extraordinary talent, rare even in the entire history of the Tara plane. The few who achieved godhood, aside from those who perished along the way, all at least reached the level of mid-level godhood. Of course, those individuals have all gone to the god plane; none of them remain in the Tara plane today.

So Richard has now become the most talented individual in the Tara plane? If that's the case, then giving Richard a material defense artifact would be reasonable.

Richard wasn't too bothered; if you dare to give it to me, I dare to accept. He was confident that within a few hundred years, he could become a mid-level god through wind magic, at which point he would be able to attack or defend as he pleased. He could do whatever he wanted.

For now, let's deal with the plane guardians in front of us first.

This plane guardian is a mid-level god. Nominally, he is a guardian under the command of the main god, responsible for the material plane teleportation array.

In reality, these guardians each have their own powerful factions behind them. The supreme god is too high and too distant for them to rely on. They can only try to recruit geniuses and cannon fodder to gain benefits for their families.

This person had tried to trick Richard when he was still at the peak of the Saint Realm, trying to get him to go to the Heavenly Realm.

Now that Richard has been promoted to a lower-level god, Mr. Steven's attitude is even more enthusiastic.

"Mr. Steven, I have no plans to go to a higher divine plane for the time being. I can't let go of my family. When I do want to go to a divine plane someday, I will definitely prioritize the Celestial Realm," Richard said perfunctorily.

"Richard, listen to me. Staying in the material plane will greatly slow down your cultivation speed, which is a waste of your talent. You should go to the divine plane as soon as possible," Mr. Steven advised patiently.

"Do you think I don't know what the divine plane is like? Are you really trying to fool me like I'm some clueless bumpkin?" Richard thought to himself. He suspected that most of the people who had gone to the divine plane before had probably been tricked into going by this guy.

A mere lower-level god, is he going to the god realm to die? Or he'll just have to become a dog for humanity. Considering his decent talent, someone might want him.

No matter what Mr. Steven said, Richard just wouldn't budge.

At this moment, Richard had no choice but to thank the native mid-level gods of the Tara plane and his powerful backer, His Majesty Olissis. Otherwise, he couldn't guarantee that Mr. Steven wouldn't resort to force.

You see, in some weaker planes, the plane guardians are like tyrants. They tell you what to do, and you have to do it, or you'll be in big trouble. They might just kill you outright, or exile you to a plane prison.

In other words, the Tara plane is powerful enough that the plane's guardians cannot cause trouble.

At this point, after yet another unsuccessful attempt to persuade him, Mr. Steven had no choice but to give up. He was no match for the first Emperor Olissis. Furthermore, his family couldn't have come to this material plane without a reason. The cost of teleporting a high-ranking god to the material plane was enough to bankrupt even a poor seven-star demon.

The factions are only allowing him to deceive their members because of his status as the guardian of the plane; they can't be ungrateful.

The banquet ended, and the splendor faded. The Grand Duchy of Silverblue returned to its former tranquility.

But everyone knows that everything is different now. The deterrent power of gods and holy realms is vastly different. Anyone with eyes can see that the Hegel family will be able to expand rapidly in no time.