God Kingdom

The three departments were divided among the three giants. What does this fourth giant do?

“It seems Your Highness hasn't thoroughly gathered information of this kind,” Dilun chuckled.

Luo Feng shook his head with a smile.

He had decided to reach the Domain Lord level early because of his elder brother Hong's situation, so he hadn't had time to do preparatory work like gathering information.

“Primal Secret Region members who are dispatched hold the unified official position of ‘Supervisory Envoy’,” Dilun explained. “Their rank is equivalent to that of the three department heads.”

“‘Supervisory Envoy’, what do they do?” Luo Feng asked, puzzled. “Is it just a nominal position? No real power?”

Having real power was crucial. A high position without real power was useless. Luo Feng, even on Earth, understood these tricks.

“Of course they have real power,” Dilun quickly replied. “And their authority is quite significant.”

“Oh?” Luo Feng listened intently.

“Our Virtual Universe Company's Ganwu Branch manages many affairs of that Cosmic Nation on behalf of the company. Even many Undying Gods in the Ganwu Universe Nation eagerly befriend those three department heads. Can you imagine how astonishing the power of these three giants is?” Dilun sighed. “Precisely because their power is so immense, even Undying Gods harbor many ambitions. Over time, it's very normal for them to act on these ambitions and greed, doing things that harm the Virtual Universe Company's interests.”

Luo Feng nodded.

That was indeed the case; power corrupted, especially when one wielded so much power over a Cosmic Nation.

“Therefore, a Supervisory Envoy, as the name suggests, first possesses supervisory privileges,” Dilun smiled. “They can oversee those three department heads. If any irregularities are found, they can report directly to the company headquarters! Haha... no matter how powerful someone is, they can't withstand thorough investigations, can they? Moreover, if there truly are irregularities... then they'd be even more afraid to provoke you.”

“Those three department heads will naturally try to appease you and wouldn't dare to casually provoke you,” Dilun chuckled. “Once you become a Sector Lord, this career as a regional governor will automatically end, and they'll be relieved.”

“After all, Domain Lords from the Primal Secret Region are exceedingly rare. It might take tens of millions of years, or even longer, for a Supervisory Envoy to be assigned to the Ganwu Universe Nation.”

“Oh?” Luo Feng's eyes lit up.

Supervisory Envoy?

This was equivalent to representing 'headquarters' in supervision; this power was indeed significant.

“This is the most basic power of a Supervisory Envoy,” Dilun smiled. “From a training perspective, the Virtual Universe Company will also arrange other practical tasks for Your Highness to undertake... if Your Highness completes these tasks well, you can also earn points.”

Luo Feng nodded.

Right.

Geniuses at the Domain Lord and Sector Lord levels also had channels to earn points. It just wasn't as easy or straightforward as for Universe level geniuses.

...

The news of Luo Feng becoming a Domain Lord quickly spread throughout Yuxiang Mountain.

Yuxiang Mountain, as the Virtual Universe Company's pinnacle gathering place for geniuses, had everyone incredibly envious of the 'Primal Secret Region'... so when Luo Feng broke into the Primal Secret Region through the qualification battle back then, those geniuses knew about it. They were astonished at the time... that Luo Feng managed to enter the Primal Secret Region in his very first qualification battle was truly impressive!

But who would have thought—

In just over a decade, Luo Feng had actually advanced to the Domain Lord level and been dispatched.

“Has this Luo Feng gone mad? 90% of the geniuses in our Yuxiang Mountain's Primal Secret Region can break through to the Domain Lord level at any time. But how many are as crazy as him?”

“There's a huge difference in strength between Universe level geniuses and Domain Lord level geniuses. I heard that the weakest Domain Lord in the ‘Taichu Secret Region’ has passed the eighth level of the Sky-Reaching Bridge, and the weakest among the ten Domain Lord members of the ‘Primal Secret Region’ has passed the tenth level of the Sky-Reaching Bridge!”

“Even Feituo, the strongest among Universe level geniuses, would barely qualify for the Taichu Secret Region if thrown into the Domain Lord level. What's Luo Feng thinking?”

“Who knows!”

...

In a private room at the Banyan Villa Hotel in the public area.

The top ten from that year's genius battle were gathered there, mainly to see Luo Feng off. Both Rongjun and Bolan were somewhat stunned when they learned Luo Feng had actually broken through to the Domain Lord level.

“Madman, we've known each other for so many years, and I've always thought you were crazy, but this time, you're even crazier than I imagined.” Rongjun raised his wine glass. “No matter how talented, most people usually stay at the Universe level for a thousand years before breaking through. The majority stay for several thousand years. But you—for your madness, Madman, I toast you.”

“Haha, Savage, come, drink.” Luo Feng raised his wine glass.

*Clink!* Their glasses clinked, and they both tilted their heads back to drink.

“Madman!” Wuka stood up and laughed. “Universe level geniuses stay at their level for thousands of years, while Domain Lord level geniuses stay at their level for tens of thousands of years. That's why the lowest-ranked Domain Lord member of the ‘Taichu Secret Region’ has passed the eighth level of the Sky-Reaching Bridge. And for the Primal Secret Region, the lowest has passed the tenth level!”

“I know that!”

Luo Feng laughed, “Among the 100 Domain Lord level members of the Taichu Secret Region, 39 have passed the eighth level, 58 have passed the ninth level, and 3 have passed the tenth level of the Sky-Reaching Bridge!”

“And among the 10 Domain Lord level members of the Primal Secret Region, 9 have passed the tenth level, and 1 has passed the eleventh level. Am I right?”

Wuka was speechless.

The others in the private room fell silent. From what they knew, Luo Feng had only passed the seventh level so far. He was far behind even the 'Domain Lord level' Taichu Secret Region members, let alone those in the Primal Secret Region.

“What's there to be afraid of? The Domain Lord level qualification battle happens once every thousand years, and there are still several hundred years until the next one,” Luo Feng chuckled. “In a few hundred years, my strength will probably have improved again.”

Bolan, who had been silent, suddenly looked up, his voice cold: “In a few hundred years, are you confident you can pass the tenth level?”

Luo Feng paused slightly.

The Sky-Reaching Bridge has levels grouped in threes: 1-3, 4-6, 7-9, 10-12...

Therefore, crossing from the ninth level to the tenth level was an incredibly difficult hurdle.

Those peerless geniuses who had cultivated for tens of thousands of years were talents accumulated from several genius battles and hero battles. Yet, after tens of thousands of years of cultivation, only a little over ten people had managed to pass the tenth level. Each of these dozen or so individuals was either the most outstanding in a certain genius battle, the most outstanding in a certain hero battle, or a top-tier genius cultivated internally by the Virtual Universe Company.

Each one was extraordinary.

They still spent over ten thousand years to pass the tenth level of the Sky-Reaching Bridge!

One could almost say that the difficulty from the ninth to the tenth level... was greater than the combined difficulty of the first to ninth levels!

“Are you confident?” Bolan stared at Luo Feng, asking again.

“Haha,” Luo Feng chuckled. “At least... I have the courage to give it a try! Besides, who can say what the future holds?”

The group at the table fell silent.

They all felt Luo Feng's unwavering resolve! It was a belief... a belief that would never retreat! Although they understood this, none of the others present followed Luo Feng's example, because Luo Feng had broken through as a Universe level member of the Primal Secret Region, while none of the others had managed to enter the Primal Secret Region.

...

Primal Secret Region, Wuchen Continent.

“Your Highness, you don't need to worry,” Dilun said, looking at Luo Feng.

“No need to worry?” Luo Feng frowned. “The Primal Secret Region is truly too far from the Ganwu Universe Nation. Even if I take a spaceship capable of 50 times the speed of light, it would still take over a year. Over a year! I'm very worried about my elder brother's situation right now, but who knows what could happen in over a year? Unless I trouble my teacher.”

“Your Highness, unless there's absolutely no other way, it's best not to trouble your grand-teacher,” the bald man Dilun said.

“I understand that, of course.” Luo Feng frowned. “But the travel time...”

“Your Highness.”

The bald man smiled. “As I said, Your Highness doesn't need to worry... in the cosmos, besides relying on spaceships, there's another, faster method to reach the Ganwu Universe Nation!”

“Oh?” Luo Feng was surprised. “What method?”

“Your Highness must have been to Chaos City in the Primal Universe, right?” the bald man chuckled.

Luo Feng nodded.

“Chaos City is in the Primal Universe. And the distance between the Primal Universe and our ancient Primal Universe where we live... even if they are close, it's still much further than going to the Ganwu Universe Nation,” the bald man said. “But when you went to the Primal Universe back then, it was very fast, wasn't it?”

Luo Feng nodded: “Very fast, because we went through a cosmic pathway.”

Luo Feng remembered clearly that year, when he took Nine Swords Venerable's spaceship and arrived at the Primal Universe through a 'cosmic pathway'... the unstable flow of time within that cosmic pathway made all the geniuses very uncomfortable.

“Yes, cosmic pathways!” the bald man nodded. “Not only that, but for example, the Black Dragon Mountain Empire where Your Highness once lived, behind the Black Dragon Mountain Empire is the ‘Sacred Black Dragon Mountain’. That Sacred Black Dragon Mountain... is actually a God Kingdom. And within the Black Dragon Mountain Empire, there's a fixed pathway leading to the Sacred Black Dragon Mountain.”

Luo Feng nodded; he knew that.

“And God Kingdoms are all located in the crevices of cosmic space,” the bald man Dilun smiled. “The pathways connecting God Kingdoms to the outside world are teleportation pathways.”

“Whether it's a God Kingdom spatial pathway or the more advanced Primal Universe cosmic pathway, they are all types of teleportation pathways,” Dilun smiled. “They allow two locations, originally hundreds of millions of light-years or even further apart, to be reached instantly through a teleportation pathway.”

“These are all fixed spatial pathways!”

Dilun sighed, “For any fixed pathway, the further apart the two connected points are, the greater the cost. Even a short-distance fixed spatial pathway requires tens of thousands of primal chaos units! For some distant ones, it might take millions or tens of millions of primal chaos units to construct a single fixed pathway.”

Luo Feng was shocked.

The cost of a fixed pathway was indeed enormous.

“Besides being able to construct fixed spatial pathways,” Dilun smiled, “a God Kingdom can also perform one-time teleports.”

“While I'm within my God Kingdom, as long as I have a coordinate point left somewhere else in the cosmos, I can instantly open a spatial teleportation and perform a one-time teleport,” Dilun sighed. “This type of teleportation is less costly. However... each teleport requires opening a spatial pathway once, and the cost varies depending on the distance.”

“Returning to my God Kingdom from here requires opening a teleportation, consuming about 3 primal chaos units of resources. From my God Kingdom, opening a pathway to the Ganwu Universe Nation would require approximately 5 primal chaos units,” Dilun explained.

Luo Feng was startled.

A single teleportation via a God Kingdom consumed 8 primal chaos units?

Many Undying Gods had less than 10,000 primal chaos units in wealth. Even his own teacher probably wouldn't be willing to teleport repeatedly.

“Opening ultra-long-distance spatial pathways consumes an enormous amount of energy. So even Undying Gods are accustomed to using spaceships,” Dilun said. “Only for extremely urgent matters, escaping, and so on, would they choose to instantly teleport back to their God Kingdom. Or instantly travel to a certain location via their God Kingdom!”

Luo Feng sighed inwardly.

A God Kingdom was half the life of an Undying God, a very mysterious existence with many special abilities.

“No wonder a fixed cosmic pathway was built to travel to the Primal Universe. If each trip required opening a teleportation pathway, going and returning repeatedly, the cost... even the Virtual Universe Company would probably feel the pinch,” Luo Feng mused to himself. To return to the Ganwu Universe Nation and save time, he would have to spend enormous resources.