Chapter 1: Lu Qingshan

Yanfeng Universe Country, Lei Guang Hai Star Domain, Tianlei Star!

Tianlei Star is incredibly prosperous; in the entire Lei Guang Hai Star Domain, I'm afraid only the Capital Star can surpass it!

In the most core area of Tianlei Star, inside a meditation chamber at the very top of a towering castle, a middle-aged man clad in golden battle armor sat cross-legged in silent meditation.

This middle-aged man had short black hair, a resolute face, and a very obvious lightning mark on his Marquis Meixin.

This person was none other than the Lord of Tianlei Star, the third strongest power in the Lei Guang Hai Star Domain, Lu Qingshan!

After meditating for hundreds of years and feeling not a shred of progress, Lu Qingshan helplessly opened his eyes, then unknowingly fell into memories.

At this moment, more than eight million years had passed since he transmigrated to this world!

During these eight million-plus years, he had been striving to cultivate, sparring and fighting with countless powerful beings, and even scrambling for opportunities everywhere...

When he first began cultivating, Lu Qingshan's cultivation speed was indeed astonishingly fast!

He entered the first realm of the Lightning Domain at fifty, crossed the threshold of the Lightning Origin Law at twelve hundred, and was even hailed as the number one genius of the Lei Guang Hai Star Domain!

Moreover, the Lu family was already one of the top ten great families in the Lei Guang Hai Star Domain, producing a Boundary Lord-level powerhouse in every era; Lu Qingshan's future was absolutely bright!

Back then, he was indeed ambitious, firmly believing he could become the pinnacle existence in the vast universe!

But facts proved he was simply not cut out for it!

At fifteen hundred years old, Lu Qingshan participated for the first time in the Universe Human Peak Genius Tournament hosted by the Giant Axe Martial Arena; he ultimately ranked only 471 within the Yanfeng Universe Country, far from breaking into the top thousand of the entire universe, and could only join the Yanfeng Sacred Land!

However, being familiar with the original story, he deeply understood the importance of joining the core layer of the five major powers; so after his peers successively crossed into the Universe Level, he still lingered at the Star Level for several thousand years!

Not until he was six thousand five hundred years old did he participate again in the Universe Human Peak Genius Tournament hosted by the Virtual Universe Company.

This time his strength had indeed made tremendous progress; he even defeated all opponents in the genius selection battle within the Yanfeng Universe Country, but in the end he was outmatched by a single move, failing to break into the top thousand of the entire universe.

Helplessly, he could only choose to continue cultivating within the Yanfeng Sacred Land, while also breaking through to the Universe Level.

In the long years that followed, he participated several times in the Universe Human Peak Powerhouse Tournament, which only Universe Level cultivators could join, but ultimately failed to use it to join the core layer of the five major powers of the human race!

After struggling and striving many times, Lu Qingshan finally realized there was a huge gap between him and the top geniuses of the universe.

So in the days that followed, he gradually lost his fighting spirit and became a salted fish just coasting through life.

Of course, even a salted fish has dreams!

For Lu Qingshan, his dream after becoming a salted fish was to cultivate steadily to the Decay Realm, then, when Luo Feng rose in the future, offer him some help, after which he could lie flat completely!

Precisely because of this, although Lu Qingshan had lost his fighting spirit, he never stopped cultivating himself.

After millions of years passed, he cultivated quite smoothly to the peak of the Boundary Lord realm, gained the recognition of the Lightning Origin Law, and even became the third strongest power in the Lei Guang Hai Star Domain!

But unfortunately, taking the final step to become a true Immortal God remained an incredibly difficult matter for Lu Qingshan.

Fortunately, he was familiar with the plot and knew where some opportunities that could aid his cultivation were located.

And the most important of these opportunities was entering the Primordial Universe to comprehend!

Although the quota for Boundary Lord-level comprehension in the Primordial Universe was extremely precious, the Lu family produced a Boundary Lord-level powerhouse in every era, having already accumulated for hundreds of millions of years.

Furthermore, after Lu Qingshan became a Boundary Lord-level powerhouse, he began continuously taking geniuses as disciples and striving to cultivate the family's younger generation; now, after millions of years, except for lacking a true Immortal God to hold the fort, the Lu family's strength in the Lei Guang Hai Star Domain was already no less than that of the Lei Guang Hai Empire's imperial clan!

With the family's hundreds of millions of years of accumulation plus Lu Qingshan's millions of years of effort, Lu Qingshan was now not too far from obtaining a quota for Primordial Universe comprehension.

"Time really passes quickly!"

Lu Qingshan couldn't help but sigh softly: "According to the family's recent wealth growth rate, even without special opportunities, with only about another twenty thousand years of accumulation, I can gather enough three thousand Hunyuan units!"

Although the quota for Boundary Lord-level Primordial Universe comprehension often sells for over three thousand Hunyuan units at auctions, Lu Qingshan's efforts over the past millions of years were not in vain.

Besides becoming an external member of the Virtual Universe Company, he also got to know more than a dozen Immortal Gods from the Yanfeng branch of the Virtual Universe Company.

Of course, the most important point was that his sixth disciple, whom he took in over five million years ago, had now become an Immortal God within the core layer of the Virtual Universe Company!

Therefore, he only needed to spend three thousand Hunyuan units to obtain a Boundary Lord-level Primordial Universe comprehension quota through the Virtual Universe Company's internal channels!

Actually, with Lu Qingshan's current strength, there were other ways to accumulate wealth faster, such as going to the Outer Battlefield to accumulate military merit...

On the Outer Battlefield, which was known as the race's meat grinder, if one could survive for tens of thousands of years, Lu Qingshan's strength would be fully capable of accumulating wealth of several thousand, or even ten thousand, Hunyuan units!

But the premise of all this was being able to survive smoothly!

Lu Qingshan had once gone to the Outer Battlefield before, but after only wandering there for a few decades, he encountered several life-or-death crises; so after accumulating enough military merit to gain his freedom, he immediately chose to retire.

After all, he was not the Luo Feng of the original story, who possessed numerous methods and could even crush Hun Dun Chengzhu's token in critical moments!

He, an ordinary Boundary Lord powerhouse, wandering the Outer Battlefield was simply too dangerous; it was better to honestly accumulate wealth within the human territories.

Moreover, before going to the Primordial Universe, his own accumulation in the Lightning Origin Law had to be sufficient; otherwise, even if he obtained the opportunity to comprehend in the Primordial Universe, becoming Immortal would still be very difficult!

"It's a pity my golden finger hasn't arrived yet!"

Lu Qingshan's consciousness quickly focused on a progress bar in his mind: "Otherwise, I would probably have become Immortal, or even a Zifeng Zunzhe, by now!"

Yes!

As a transmigrator, Lu Qingshan also had a golden finger: the progress bar in his mind that was about to finish loading.

Although he didn't know what type of golden finger it was, as long as it was a golden finger, it would always help his cultivation.

But unfortunately, since the moment this progress bar was nearly finished reading, it had been stuck there!

For endless ages, Lu Qingshan had already tried countless methods, yet he still could not activate his golden finger.

Over time, he gradually gave up and could only rely on himself to cultivate slowly.

After all, as long as he could live until Luo Feng's era and successfully latch onto Luo Feng's thigh, the effect would be completely no less than any kind of golden finger!

"Father!"

Just as Lu Qingshan was recalling his life of the past millions of years, a profound layer of voice suddenly sounded beside his ear.

"Hmm?" Lu Qingshan couldn't help but frown slightly.

During his cultivation, no one was allowed to disturb him; and the only ones who could come to him at this time were his several children and direct disciples; others had absolutely no permission to come here.

But his several children and direct disciples were not fools; generally, unless something very important occurred, they would never come to disturb him!

"Come in!" Lu Qingshan, returning to his senses, said in a deep voice.

The great door of the quiet chamber opened on its own, and shortly after, three figures walked in from outside—all of them his children.

"What is it?" Lu Qingshan was quite surprised.

Since he began cultivating, he had taken six wives in succession, and his children numbered as many as fifteen, but with the passage of time, most of these kin had already perished; those still living now amounted to only one wife, four sons, and three daughters.

As for the children currently staying on Heavenly Thunder Star, there were only the three before him.

Unless something major had happened, these three would absolutely not have come to see him at this time.

"Father!"

The eldest of the three, Lu Hongwen, showed a trace of sorrow on his face: "Seventh Brother has perished!"

"What?" Lu Qingshan was slightly stunned.

His seventh son, Lu Hongyuan, was the most gifted and talented among his many children; having cultivated for a mere one-plus million years, he had already gained the acknowledgment of the Wind Origin Law, and was even somewhat faster than Lu Qingshan himself back in the day.

But now, Lu Hongyuan had actually perished?

"Exactly what happened?" Lu Qingshan quickly asked.

"Father!" Third Lu Hongwen hurriedly answered: "It's this matter—!"

Hearing this, Lu Qingshan's gaze immediately turned to Lu Wenyun at the side.

Lu Wenyun and Lu Hongyuan shared the same mother, and their bond was indeed the closest; however, Lu Wenyun was now only a Domain Lord, and if she could not break through to the Boundary Lord, in just over a hundred thousand more years she would reach the limit of her lifespan!

"Father!"

Seeing Lu Qingshan's gaze, Lu Wenyun immediately said in a low voice: "Seventh Brother went to the Extraterrestrial Battlefield over two hundred years ago to temper himself. Just now, he sent one last message through the Virtual Universe, saying he had encountered a fatal crisis he could not escape! Before he could finish speaking, Seventh Brother's communication was cut off, and when I subsequently checked the keepsake he left me, the aura on it had also completely dissipated!"

Hearing this, Lu Qingshan immediately waved his hand and produced a token engraved with Lu Hongyuan's name; the aura on it had indeed completely vanished.

"Hmph!"

Lu Qingshan snorted coldly, then said in a frigid voice: "I warned you long ago—the Extraterrestrial Battlefield is extremely dangerous. Without sufficient strength, you absolutely must not go there to adventure! Have you all taken my words as empty wind passing by your ear?"

"Seventh Brother was gone for so long, yet not a single one of you thought to inform me of this?"

"Father, Seventh Brother made me keep all of this confidential!"

Lu Wenyun hurriedly said: "His going to the Extraterrestrial Battlefield this time was actually to give you a surprise!"

"A surprise?" Lu Qingshan was slightly stunned.

"Yes!" Lu Wenyun hurriedly explained: "Seventh Brother knew you have always been scraping together funds to purchase a slot for comprehending the Primordial Universe. This trip to the Extraterrestrial Battlefield was to accumulate military merit, to help you exchange for a Primordial Universe comprehension slot!"

"This…"

After hearing Lu Wenyun's words, the fury in Lu Qingshan's heart instantly vanished, and what rose in its place was a wave of helplessness and sorrow.

After a moment of silence, Lu Qingshan finally asked again: "Wenyun, did your Seventh Brother leave behind any last words?"

"Seventh Brother gave me his Cosmic Star River Bank account number and password, and asked me to pass them on to you. He also hoped that the family could look after his branch a little in the future!"

Lu Wenyun said in a heavy voice: "Seventh Brother's last words were also that he hoped you could become a true Immortal God!"

"This child…"

Lu Qingshan sighed, and the sorrow in his heart deepened by several degrees more.

(End of this chapter)