Chapter 67: Time Passes, Strength Grows

With the accompaniment of ten Domain Master-level experts like Dolores who had received the acknowledgment of the Origin Laws, Lu Qingshan's subsequent work indeed became much easier.

Except for the handover of some important figures and resources which required Lu Qingshan to appear in person, all other matters could be entrusted to assistants like Dolores, giving him more time to cultivate.

Just like that, time continued to pass, and in the blink of an eye, over fifty thousand years had gone by.

Fifty thousand years in a world like Covering the Sky would be enough for one or two Human Race Great Emperors to reach the end of their lives, but for Lu Qingshan, it was merely a small segment of scenery on his life's journey, utterly insignificant.

Virtual Universe, Lei Ting Island, within the cultivation space of Lu Qingshan's residence.

"Simulate the scene as the starry sky!"

At Lu Qingshan's command, the intelligent lifeform Hearing Shenlan acted quickly; immediately, the scene within the entire cultivation space switched, transforming into an boundless universe of stars.

Lu Qingshan, his feet clad in dark golden war boots and a purple crystal longsword forged from Thunder Source Purple Crystal strapped to his back, floated suspended in the vast starry sky, gazing far ahead.

"Heavenly Thunder Break!"

Lu Qingshan let out a fierce roar, and instantly the crystal longsword behind him appeared in his hand.

Lu Qingshan swung the longsword in his hand fiercely; immediately, a dazzling purple sword light shattered the layers of space before him, shooting directly at a planet ahead.

Boom!

Moments later, the purple sword light struck hard against the asteroid ahead, which was over one hundred thousand kilometers in diameter; the entire asteroid instantly shattered, turning into endless small meteorites flying in all directions.

"Hahaha..."

Lu Qingshan gazed far ahead, a trace of excitement appearing on his face: "Finally, I succeeded! Now, my mere comprehension of the Time Origin Law can already rival the fourteenth layer of the Heaven-Connecting Bridge!"

"And my technique 'Heavenly Thunder Break' is getting closer and closer to entering the top-tier level!"

The technique 'Heavenly Thunder Break' Lu Qingshan just performed was a secret art he created over the long years past, using the Time Origin Law as the main element and the Lightning Origin Law as the auxiliary; although it is currently only at the ordinary level, it is already very close to the top-tier level!

Secret art levels are generally divided into non-entry, ordinary, top-tier, peak, ultimate...

Under normal circumstances, most self-created secret arts of experts in the universe can only be considered non-entry level;

while secret arts carefully created by ordinary Immortals over hundreds of thousands or even tens of millions of years can generally enter the ordinary level; Hu Yanbo's 'Soul Seal' in the original work was of this level, but since 'Soul Seal' contained a method of soul enslavement, its preciousness could even rival top-tier secret arts; however, because Hu Yanbo's own realm was too low, the power of 'Soul Seal' was also quite limited;

while secret arts created by top-tier Marquis Immortals and most King Immortals are considered top-tier; especially for peak King Immortals who can break through the twentieth layer of the Heaven-Connecting Bridge, their own realms are extremely high, and the power of the top-tier secret arts they create based on this is naturally extremely terrifying;

as for peak secret arts, only the outstanding ones among King Immortals can create them; any peak King Immortal capable of creating a peak secret art, even with an ordinary life gene level and knowing no amplification secret arts, possesses combat power sufficient to reach the King limit!

Most secret arts created by Universe Zifeng Zunzhe also belong to the peak level; however, since their own realms are higher, the peak secret arts they create using complete Upper Origin Laws naturally possess even greater power!

As for ultimate secret arts, they are generally only created by the outstanding ones among Universe Zifeng Zunzhe and the supreme Universe Masters; Luo Feng in the original work once spent tens of thousands of years creating an ultimate secret art while in the Domain Master stage; although his foundation was low at the time and his goal was merely to break through the shackles and enter the Immortal realm, this was enough to prove his unparalleled talent!

The current Lu Qingshan is naturally far inferior to Luo Feng in the original work, but his ability to create a 'Heavenly Thunder Break' approaching the top-tier level with the law comprehension of the fourteenth layer of the Heaven-Connecting Bridge already places him among the very top few among High Military Masters!

"Of course, the most important thing now is that after my law comprehension reaches the level of the fourteenth layer of the Heaven-Connecting Bridge, my divine power can be reconstructed again!"

Thinking of this, Lu Qingshan immediately returned his consciousness to reality and began to reconstruct his own divine power.

It must be known that when Lu Qingshan first broke through, he could only be considered a most ordinary Immortal with the power of a Hundredfold Boundary Domain Master peak; but as time passed, his law comprehension continuously improved and his divine power continuously reconstructed; now he is about to reach the power of an Eight-hundredfold Boundary Domain Master!

"Divine power, reconstruct!"

The process of reconstructing divine power was inherently not dangerous, and Lu Qingshan had experience from several previous reconstructions; thus, after his Immortal divine power boiled for a moment, it quickly stabilized again.

"Finally reached the power of an Eight-hundredfold Boundary Domain Master!"

Feeling the power within his body once again elevated, Lu Qingshan could not help but show a smile on his face.

If a normal Immortal God broke through, most people would probably have to rely on the long passage of time to accumulate divine power until reaching a perfect state;

a very few would spend vast resources to quickly restore their own divine power, bringing their divine power to a perfect state.

But for Lu Qingshan, who possesses the Infinite Divine Sea clone, this matter is relatively simple.

During this period, not only has Lu Qingshan's Infinite Divine Sea clone been continuously absorbing energy to increase its own divine power reserves, but his original body and the other clone also frequently transfer a small portion of their divine power to the Infinite Divine Sea clone, thereby continuing to absorb energy from the universe for recovery.

Since Lu Qingshan's original body and clones only divide out a small portion of divine power each time, the recovery is relatively fast.

With these three approaches working together, after tens of thousands of years, the diameter of his Infinite Divine Sea clone has already reached over eight meters, and its divine power reserves are enough to equal dozens of Lu Qingshan's original bodies.

"Supplement!"

At Lu Qingshan's thought, he quickly opened the Divine Kingdom transmission channel, continuously supplementing the divine power from the Infinite Divine Sea clone.

After the original body's divine power was about to reach perfection, Lu Qingshan began to let the original body slowly absorb divine power for recovery, and then started reconstructing the divine power of the other clone and the Infinite Divine Sea clone.

After everything ended, the diameter of Lu Qingshan's Infinite Divine Sea clone had also shrunk a circle!

"Next, it is to master the Undying Body!"

Feeling the powerful strength within his body, Lu Qingshan thought silently: "After I fully comprehend the fifth picture of the Heavenly Thunder Chaos Stele, I can use this as a basis to reconstruct my own divine power and possess a true Undying Body!"

"Master!"

Just then, the voice of the intelligent lifeform Hearing Shenlan suddenly rang in Lu Qingshan's mind: "The Transportation Department has issued another mission for you; you need to arrive at the Violet Thorn Star of the Ancient Wheel Universe Country in half a year, and then deliver the genius 'Huo Gesi', who ranked first in this year's Peak Genius Battle, to the Virtual Universe Company's Universal Headquarters within the specified time!"

"Another mission to escort geniuses?"

After hearing Hearing Shenlan's reminder, Lu Qingshan could not help but sigh: "In recent years, I have escorted the first place winners of three Genius Battles and Stronger Battles; unfortunately, I haven't encountered a single assassination attempt by an alien spy!"

It must be known that within the Transportation Department of the Virtual Universe Company, the authority for such genius escort missions is actually quite high.

Those ordinary geniuses aside, at most, Domain Master-level experts are dispatched to escort them.

But the first place winners of past Genius Battles require Immortal Gods to escort them; even the original Lu Qingshan did not have the authority to accept such missions.

It was only after Lu Qingshan broke through to become a High Military Master, and had entered the Initial Universe to comprehend during the Domain Master stage, and broke through to become an Immortal immediately after leaving the Initial Universe, that he had sufficient authority to accept such escort missions.

"However..."

Lu Qingshan waved his hand to open a video; in the video, a burly giant holding a war blade was breaking through the trial tower: "In this Genius Battle, this 'Huo Gesi's' performance was quite good; not only did he break through the second layer of the sixth trial tower, but in battles against other geniuses, he instantly killed his opponents!"

It must be known that under normal circumstances, the first place winners of past Genius Battles could only break through to the first layer of the sixth trial tower; those who could break through the first layer were already rare, let alone someone like Huo Gesi breaking through to the third layer!

"Although Huo Gesi's talent cannot compare to Alvis's performance back then, if he does not fall due to accidents in the future, becoming a Marquis Immortal should be very simple; even becoming a King Immortal is possible!"

That's right!

Alvis!

Now, over fifty thousand years have passed; Lu Qingshan, who broke through the fourteenth layer of the Heavenly Thunder Heaven-Connecting Bridge back then, has made acceptable progress; at the very least, his comprehension of the Time Origin Law has improved greatly, which is already very rare among Immortal Gods!

And what about Alvis, who only broke through the eighth layer of the Yanshan Heaven-Connecting Bridge when Lu Qingshan broke through the fourteenth layer of the Heavenly Thunder Heaven-Connecting Bridge back then?

Back then, after Alvis left Hun Dun City, he cultivated for merely five hundred years before breaking through the Universe-level Primordial Sky-Piercing Mountain, cultivated for four thousand years before breaking through the Domain Master-level Primordial Sky-Piercing Bridge, and simultaneously bowed before the great Long Xing Zhi Zhu;

After cultivating for over forty thousand years, Alvis directly broke through the twentieth layer of the Yanshan Sky-Piercing Bridge and the World Master-level Primordial Sky-Piercing Mountain, and was immediately hailed as an unparalleled genius appearing once every tens of millions of eras in the human race!

At this moment, countless spies from the Meng Yao Zu, the Mechanical Race, and the Insect Race all wanted to find traces of Alvis, wishing to kill him and be done with it!

Now, because of Alvis, the spies from the other three peak races lurking within the human race are like moths flying into a flame; knowing full well that even if exposed they would hardly obtain useful information, yet they still one by one jump out to probe for news.

Even during Lu Qingshan's mission execution, he once assisted a Marquis-level Immortal from the Virtual Universe Company's intelligence department in handling a matter concerning an Insect Race spy!

But Alvis seemed to have vanished completely; no matter how those alien spies probed, they could not obtain any news regarding Alvis.

"Alvis's talent absolutely belongs to the top tier in the entire history of our human race!"

Lu Qingshan thought silently in his heart: "Now those alien spies, in order to obtain news about him, have simply all gone mad!"

In fact, regarding Alvis's current situation, Lu Qingshan still had some guesses in his heart!

After all, during a period in the past, Lu Qingshan had once had a slight connection with Alvis!

At that time, Alvis was merely at the Universe level; he should have just completed the 'Dead Star' mission of the Glory Secret Realm of the Universe Mercenary Alliance, and at that time Lu Qingshan happened to arrive near the Dead Star due to a mission, so the Virtual Universe Company assigned the task of escorting Alvis back to the Primordial Secret Realm to Lu Qingshan!

And because Lu Qingshan knew the original plot, he knew Alvis's future achievements were destined to be extraordinary; perhaps he would become an Immortal in tens of thousands of years and a Universe Zifeng Zunzhe in hundreds of thousands of years, just like the Shi Huo Zunzhe who appeared in the original work; therefore, when Lu Qingshan escorted Alvis back to the Primordial Secret Realm back then, he behaved very enthusiastically.

Although Alvis was diligently cultivating during the spaceship's flight at that time, Lu Qingshan still seized an opportunity to treat the other party to a banquet; at that time, just those fine wines and delicacies cost him nearly two thousand Hunyuan units of wealth.

One bottle of fine wine alone was worth twelve hundred Hunyuan units; originally, Lu Qingshan had bought it to ask Ka Lixi to deliver to his teacher Lei Huanwang inside Hun Dun City, but in the end, it was used to treat Alvis!

And all of this was very worthwhile; after that banquet, Alvis's attitude toward Lu Qingshan became much warmer, and after returning to the Primordial Star, Alvis even exchanged Virtual Universe numbers with him.

Later, after Lu Qingshan learned that Alvis had broken through the Universe-level Primordial Sky-Piercing Mountain, the Domain Master-level Primordial Sky-Piercing Mountain, and the World Master-level Primordial Sky-Piercing Mountain, he had also sent congratulatory messages to Alvis.

However, Lu Qingshan's permissions within the Virtual Universe Company were not very high; by the time he obtained these news, a very long time had already passed.

"Forget it, why think so much? Let's go to Zijing Star first to pick up that Huo Gesi!"

Thinking of this, Lu Qingshan quickly gave orders to Deloris and others under his command, then led these people to board Crimson Three and flew toward the direction of Zijing Star.

……

More than two years later.

A crimson-colored spaceship appeared near the continent of the Virtual Universe Company's universal headquarters; it was Crimson Three, which Lu Qingshan was riding.

And in the control room of Crimson Three, Lu Qingshan, who had just finished seclusion, was chatting with the Primordial Secret Realm genius Huo Gesi.

"Huo Gesi, ahead is the headquarters of our Virtual Universe Company!"

Lu Qingshan looked at the Primordial Secret Realm genius before him, who had been quite polite to him throughout the journey, and said with a smile: "The genius battle of your generation is presided over by Zifeng Zunzhe; I imagine Zifeng Zunzhe has already arranged people to wait for you!"

"Mr. Lu Qingshan!"

The burly giant Huo Gesi looked at Lu Qingshan and asked with great curiosity: "Is this the headquarters of our Virtual Universe Company? I once heard a teacher mention that the stars, planets, asteroids, and so on surrounding this headquarters continent are actually very terrifying technological weapons; even existences like the Universe Country Rulers find it hard to resist them. I wonder if that is true?"

"Indeed it is!"

Lu Qingshan said with a smile: "However, what truly guards our Virtual Universe headquarters through endless ages are still the few most supreme existences of our Virtual Universe Company lineage, such as the great Hun Dun Chengzhu..."

"I know this!"

Huo Gesi said very excitedly: "I heard that Hun Dun Chengzhu is stationed within the Initial Universe..."

A moment later...

Whoosh!

Crimson Three landed on a dedicated landing pad.

"My lord!"

Deloris, standing behind Lu Qingshan, hurriedly reminded: "We have arrived; the staff under Zifeng Zunzhe are already waiting below for Prince Huo Gesi!"

"Mm!"

Lu Qingshan nodded slightly, then looked at Huo Gesi and said: "Huo Gesi, let us go down; the people coming to receive you have arrived!"

"Good!"

Huo Gesi nodded slightly, then followed Lu Qingshan to disembark from the spaceship.

At this moment, more than ten men and women in uniforms who had been waiting outside the spaceship saw Lu Qingshan and others appear; among them, a silver-robed man at the head quickly stepped forward: "Lu Qingshan, I didn't expect the escort personnel this time to be you!"

"Crist, weren't you assigned to the Flowing Light Branch?"

Lu Qingshan looked at the silver-robed man and asked in confusion: "How did you end up under Zifeng Zunzhe now?"

This Crist, like Ka Lixi and others, was an Immortal Deity who had entered Hun Dun City with him back then and subsequently successfully broke through; however, he was originally assigned to the Flowing Light Branch of the Virtual Universe Company.

"It's a long story!"

Crist said helplessly: "Back then, our group of thirty was assigned to the Flowing Light Branch, but the resources of the Flowing Light Branch were almost entirely divided up by the Immortals who were there before, so the resources available for us to control were particularly scarce! Later, I simply applied to go to the Borderlands; I roamed there for over ten thousand years! However, the Borderlands were simply too dangerous; after accumulating sufficient military merit, I chose to retire, and just happened to catch the time when the Lord Lord Huaying Hou under Zifeng Zunzhe was recruiting personnel, so I followed him!"

"So that's how it is!" Lu Qingshan suddenly understood.

For many Immortal Deities, going to the Borderlands was indeed an opportunity to change their own fate, but there was also a high probability of perishing in the Borderlands.

"Alright, let's not talk about it for now; Lord Lord Huaying Hou is still waiting for us!"

After saying this, Crist quickly turned his head to look at Huo Gesi beside him: "Prince Huo Gesi, I am waiting here by order of Zifeng Zunzhe; please follow me, Your Highness."

"Mm!"

Huo Gesi nodded slightly, then looked at Lu Qingshan and said: "Mr. Lu Qingshan, thank you for your protection throughout this journey!"

Lu Qingshan smiled and responded: "Huo Gesi, I am also very happy to have spent more than two years with you!"

After saying this, the two groups quickly separated.

Huo Gesi followed Crist and the others to the gathering place, while Lu Qingshan, after handing Crimson Three over to Deloris and others to manage, also quickly walked toward a rest hall belonging to the transportation department.

(End of this chapter)