Chapter 354: Lord of the Universe: The Plan

In a distant spatial interlayer, within Lu Qingshan's divine kingdom.

"I'm finally about to break through!"

Above the vast Endless Divine Sea avatar, a figure clad in purple-gold battle armor suddenly appeared—it was the divine power incarnation Lu Qingshan had condensed.

At this moment, the divine power incarnation looked up at the sky, only to see an incomparably enormous vortex had already appeared above the Endless Divine Sea avatar.

This massive vortex had spread to a diameter of over ten billion kilometers, within which black, white, black… two colors constantly intertwined, ring upon ring of enormous vortex, vast and endless, each carrying boundless might.

At the core of this enormous vortex was a void, which continuously emanated the aura of endless time and space origin laws.

Generally, when a powerful being breaks through to the Lord Realm without an avatar, the universe's origin laws naturally descend above their person, allowing them to swiftly devour the universe's origin energy and convert it into their own divine power.

But for a powerful being like Lu Qingshan who possesses an avatar, the universe's origin descends directly above the avatar with the "largest volume and most energy," which is also more conducive to improving the breakthrough-cultivator's efficiency in devouring divine power.

Yet Lu Qingshan's true body and second avatar each had a maximum height of only two hundred meters, while the Endless Divine Sea avatar's diameter was a full two billion-plus kilometers—the universe's origin naturally had to descend above the Endless Divine Sea avatar.

This is "Optimal Descent," and also a kind of blessing bestowed by the universe's origin will upon the lives dwelling within the primordial universe.

"This kind of might is truly too terrifying!"

Lu Qingshan gazed at the enormous vortex overhead with a diameter of over ten billion kilometers, and felt quite shaken.

One must remember that when he had broken through to the Venerable Realm back then, the Endless Divine Sea avatar's volume was already not small, yet the tri-colored vortex at the time had a diameter of merely over a million kilometers.

But now, upon stepping into the Lord Realm, the energy vortex's diameter was more than ten thousand times larger than before!

Moreover, unlike the tri-colored vortex during his last breakthrough to the Venerable Realm, this vortex was entirely composed of black and white constantly rotating into each other.

Although Lu Qingshan had not yet comprehended the complete space origin law, when he broke through to the Lord Realm, the space origin law descended all the same.

The black vortex and white vortex could be seen intertwining, ring within ring, endless and infinite, all emanating overwhelming pressure.

If one looked carefully, one would notice some faint other colors mixed in upon the black-and-white vortex.

And at the center of this enormous black-and-white vortex was a passage—a passage connecting the "Place of Universe Origin" and Lu Qingshan's divine kingdom.

"Such terrifying might must be a rare sight within this primordial universe!"

Gazing at the black-and-white vortex in the high sky, Lu Qingshan could not help but sigh.

One must know that from the time this reincarnation era's primordial universe was reborn to the present, the number of Lords born would not exceed a thousand.

And among these Lords, the divine bodies of most Lords could not possibly exceed ten thousand kilometers, let alone compare with the current Endless Divine Sea avatar with a diameter of over two billion kilometers.

Within the vast universe, when breaking through to become a Lord, the only one whose commotion might surpass Lu Qingshan's would be the Lord of Nine Hells of the Zushen Sect!

Whoosh!

Countless visible streams of divine power seawater surged down directly from the other end connected to the enormous vortex, then madly poured into the Endless Divine Sea below.

"The crucial moment has arrived!"

Lu Qingshan knew clearly in his heart that this was the most critical moment of breaking through to the Lord Realm—devouring divine power!

The Endless Divine Sea avatar's volume was so enormous that under normal circumstances, increasing divine power, or even expanding its volume, would certainly require an extremely long period of time.

Yet in the instant of breaking through to the Lord Realm, the divine power from the Place of Universe Origin was virtually boundless and inexhaustible, enough to fuel his frenzied absorption.

How much divine power he could devour depended entirely on Lu Qingshan's own devouring speed, so naturally Lu Qingshan at this moment had to cherish this rare opportunity.

After all, the next time he would have such an opportunity would be when he became the strongest being in the universe.

And becoming the strongest being in the universe required opening up one's own mini-universe, and at that time one would no longer receive the primordial universe's favor and bestowal as now.

"The time for devouring divine power is extremely limited."

Lu Qingshan thought to himself: "I must devour with the highest efficiency!"

One must know that the time the universe's origin descends is absolutely very brief!

Whenever a powerful being breaks through to become Immortal, Venerable, or Lord, the universe's origin directly bestows a great amount of energy for them to absorb and convert into their own divine power.

But among these three stages, only when breaking through to the Immortal Realm does the universe's origin provide enough energy to completely transform their divine body; as for the other two stages, it depends on the breakthrough-cultivator's speed of absorbing energy.

If the divine body is relatively small, naturally one can convert most or even all of it, but if the divine body is too enormous, even absorbing desperately, one can only convert a portion of the divine body.

"Nine Thunder Mysterious Heaven Cover!"

With a low shout from Lu Qingshan, a bowl-shaped treasure radiating dazzling purple light immediately rose from the Endless Divine Sea—it was precisely the origin-type supreme treasure he had previously exchanged for in the human race's treasury, the Nine Thunder Mysterious Heaven Cover.

During its ascent, the Nine Thunder Mysterious Heaven Cover also began to rapidly enlarge, then with its mouth facing upward, directly blocked the center of the divine power transmission passage.

Rumble rumble!!

Under the augmentation of the Nine Thunder Mysterious Heaven Cover, the already surging divine power seawater instantly became even more violent.

At the core of the black-and-white vortex arranged in rings, endless divine power seawater poured down madly like a vast celestial river.

The speed at which the divine power seawater poured down was as if an entire ocean had collapsed directly—how many times more terrifying than when Lu Qingshan last broke through to the Venerable Realm?

"I absorb, I absorb, I absorb!!!"

At this moment, all of Lu Qingshan's will was focused on controlling the Endless Divine Sea avatar and the Nine Thunder Mysterious Heaven Cover to madly devour the divine power from the Place of Universe Origin.

Absorb, convert…

With the assistance of the origin-type supreme treasure Nine Thunder Mysterious Heaven Cover, the speed of Lu Qingshan's Endless Divine Sea avatar's transformation was naturally astonishingly swift.

The divine power, originally only at the Venerable level, immediately transformed to the Lord level.

Breaking through from Venerable to Lord, the base power of divine power alone would reach a hundred times the original; combined with the astonishing gap brought by the law breakthrough, how much had his strength increased—hundreds, thousands of times?

But regrettably, the opportunity to devour divine power so extravagantly could only last for a brief moment.

After a brief moment, Lu Qingshan's entire divine kingdom returned to calm once more, and the pressure of the primordial universe's origin laws had also receded.

Only deep within the Endless Divine Sea avatar did the endless seawater continue to slowly transform.

"Hahaha, with the augmentation of an origin-type supreme treasure this time, even though the Endless Divine Sea avatar's diameter is over two billion kilometers, I still converted over sixty percent of my divine body!"

Sensing the vast aura transmitted from within the Endless Divine Sea avatar below, Lu Qingshan could not help but sigh: "In the current primordial universe, apart from that monster Lord of Nine Hells, no one should be able to surpass me in total divine power!"

Although the Endless Divine Sea avatar's life gene level was very low, its diameter was over two billion kilometers, and as a mere energy reserve alone, it was already virtually boundless!

"Moreover, I still have my other two avatars for combat!"

Lu Qingshan thought to himself: "Now that I have broken through to the Lord Realm, the previous hundred-fold life gene level limit no longer exists—I can fully rely on treasures to raise my life gene level to a thousand-fold, or even ten-thousand-fold life gene level!"

You should know that in the primordial universe, apart from the leader of the Yan Divine Race, Yan Di, probably only those powerful beings who had cultivated the *Nine Tribulations Secret Tome* could raise their life-gene tier by more than a hundredfold as ordinary lives before becoming a Lord of the Universe.

And now that Lu Qingshan had already broken through to the Lord Realm, he naturally would no longer be bound by such a restriction.

"And there's my divine kingdom!" Lu Qingshan could not help but sense his own divine kingdom.

The divine kingdom is the very foundation of a powerful being!

As one's own strength continuously rose, the divine kingdom would also keep expanding and transforming; by the time one stepped into the strongest tier of the universe, the divine kingdom could even transform directly into a small universe, breaking away from the primordial universe.

The initial universe of the human race, for instance, was the small universe of the super powerful being 'Yuan Zu', who had once led the human race to rise.

Back when Lu Qingshan had just broken through to the Immortal God realm, the diameter of his divine kingdom was only a hundred thousand kilometers — among Immortal Gods, even calling it bottom-tier would have been generous.

But as his own strength kept rising — even breaking through to the Venerable Realm — and with the expansion of endless eons, the diameter of his divine kingdom had already exceeded ten billion kilometers!

And now…

After Lu Qingshan stepped into the Lord Realm, his divine kingdom naturally began transforming once more.