Chapter 234: The Hierarchy of Void Beings

"Since you've qualified, you are now official members of the Cosmic Patrol Alliance."

The silver-robed man flipped his hand and produced a crystal-like identification badge, saying, "Each branch of the Cosmic Patrol Alliance in every Level-Two civilization is responsible not only for maintaining order in the Void Sea but also for overseeing a region within the Real Universe."

"Real Universe?" Lin Qing took the badge and noticed the Universal Script engraved upon it: "Order."

After connecting his consciousness to it, the badge could also be used to log into the Second Cosmic Network.

After partitioning a thread of his consciousness to log into the Second Cosmic Network, he discovered the badge granted access to three subsidiary spaces.

"Hah, you haven't been to the Real Universe yet, have you?"

The silver-robed man laughed, "The Real Universe is where Level-One civilizations operate. Though vast, its spatial rules are faint, its cultivation environment is poor, and the Yu Xingyuan Demon Clan's disturbances are rare."

He paused, "But the dangers in the Real Universe are no small matter. Our Patrol Alliance barely needs to maintain order there—just dealing with the Yu Xingyuan Demon Clan is enough. Our main duty remains the Void Sea, where besides the Yu Xingyuan Demon Clan, we also hunt pirates wanted by all civilizations."

Lin Qing pondered, then asked, "How often do missions come up?"

"At least one mission within a thousand years; the rest is up to you."

The silver-robed man said, "Once you log into the Second Cosmic Network, you'll see: as a One-Star 'Orderkeeper,' you may enter mission zones from One-Star to Three-Star, and you may even participate in the Alliance's Three-Star missions—though only as auxiliary personnel."

He glanced at the two of them and added, "Though your freedom is absolute, higher-level missions are far more dangerous. With only Yu Xingyuan Level Ten power, you're barely safe in One-Star missions. As for Three-Star missions… even we Void Beings who've forged Divine Arts risk death entering them. Be careful."

Lin Qing nodded slightly.

He didn't fully understand the exact hierarchy of Void Beings, only that after self-creating a Divine Art, one attains peak Yu Xingyuan Level Eleven power.

"Also."

The silver-robed man said, "As a One-Star Orderkeeper, you have certain privileges at the branch: you may purchase common treasures through branch channels, and if you accumulate enough points, you may exchange them for Alliance-exclusive treasures."

He didn't elaborate further, merely saying, "Check the details yourself."

Lin Qing nodded slightly.

After the silver-robed man left, Lin Qing immediately took his Blood Cauldron King's avatar to the Alliance branch's Commerce Space, where all manner of common treasures were displayed at standard prices.

Discounts were only available to those with sufficient privilege levels.

After surveying the Commerce Space, Lin Qing spotted numerous tools needed for forging Divine Artifacts—but he had no intention of buying any.

He also found an auction for entry slots to the "Endless Abyss."

Three slots are auctioned every 380 years, sold at a discount by the Bai Ta Civilization's Secret Realm master to the Cosmic Patrol Alliance.

The starting price is eight hundred million Void Coins; it usually takes around one billion to win.

"Let's go check the library."

What Lin Qing most lacked right now were basic knowledge materials about Level-Two civilizations.

Inside the library's spatial bubble, countless informational book phantoms floated in midair, like an ocean of knowledge—vast beyond measure, holding untold volumes.

"First, let's read about the Void Sea."

Lin Qing activated his mental force and began reading a book titled *The Latest Revised Edition of the Cosmic Chronicle: Void Sea World Gazetteer*.

Void Sea.

As a high-dimensional layer of the universe, this Void Sea corresponds to a cosmic region spanning hundreds of millions of light-years, yet its manifestation in the high-dimensional plane is boundless.

Only by traversing Void Sea passages, spatial vortices, and other shortcuts can one safely and swiftly reach destinations.

Within this Void Sea, roughly 8,500 Level-Two civilizations exist.

Yet the number of Void Secret Realms exceeds thirty thousand.

Many fallen Level-Two civilizations have left behind only their uncollapsed Void Secret Realms, now preserved as dead, useless ruins with no cultivation value.

"Level-Two civilizations are truly numerous—and also chaotic enough."

Lin Qing continued reading, "Three hazards of the Void Sea?"

The three universally recognized hazards of the Void Sea.

The Yu Xingyuan Demon Clan, Void Sea Pirates, and the myriad natural dangers and perilous zones formed within the Void Sea itself.

Among them, the Yu Xingyuan Demon Clan primarily congregates in the Bottomless Abyss along the edge of this Void Sea.

The Yu Xingyuan, the universe's dark side, manifests in the high-dimensional Void Sea as a Bottomless Abyss encircling and dividing the entire Void Sea.

This is also why exiting this Void Sea is so difficult.

As for Void Sea Pirates, they are essentially no different from star pirates or bandits—looting factions within the Void Sea.

Though the Void Sea's own dangers and perilous zones are terrifying, accurate maps allow one to avoid them; some of these zones are even cosmic wonders, offering opportunities and treasures.

"Six kin clans of the Yu Xingyuan Demon Clan, tens of thousands of servant species… Four Void Sea Emperors, seven Marshals… Ten Absolute Terrains…"

Lin Qing and his Blood Cauldron King avatar read together, absorbing all manner of common knowledge and lore about the Void Sea.

After a while, Lin Qing picked up a book on biological evolution.

This was the most basic and comprehensive text in the library on cultivation and evolution.

"It starts from the First Energy Level?"

Lin Qing became interested and immediately read closely.

In this universe, energy is divided into eight energy levels.

The first four levels are energies naturally generated by life planets, formed from the decomposition of the Fifth Level's "Primordial Energy."

The Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Levels are primordial energies born from the universe itself, divided among the Six Major Sects, and serve as the stellar core forces of life planets.

Biological evolution is the process of transformation through energy-level leaps.

Lifeforms within the first eight energy levels are cosmic beings, the foundation of biological evolution; only after surpassing the Eighth Level does one truly enter the high-dimensional plane of cosmic life.

For cosmic beings, the probability of evolving into a Void Being is unimaginably small—countless lifeforms might produce just one with spatial talent, that is, a Ninth-Level talent.

In the Void Sea, Void Beings are merely at the outermost fringe of the powerful.

The gap in power among Void Beings is extreme: the weakest are merely peak Yu Xingyuan Level Ten, while Void Sovereigns are still classified within this same tier.

"So… this is what Void Level means?"

After reading through the entire text, Lin Qing finally understood the hierarchy of Void Beings.

Without considering divine artifacts or other external factors, the weakest void beings are those that master a single void prototype, transform their physical bodies with spatial power, and evolve into ninth-tier life forms.

As long as the proper sacred characters are inscribed, their combat power is at least at the peak of Yu Xingyuan Level Ten.

At a higher level, they base themselves on various cosmic energies, integrate one void prototype, and, through the mysteries of space, create higher-tier divine arts. Because they incorporate spatial mysteries, the power of these divine arts undergoes a transformative enhancement.

Simply creating one divine art grants the power of Yu Xingyuan Level Eleven's peak; if multiple are created, the gene index also rises, or if one masters powerful secret arts, they may even reach Yu Xingyuan Level Twelve.

However, this is merely a "single-prototype divine art" infused with a minimal amount of spatial mystery.

Once a second void prototype is mastered and integrated into the divine art, after gaining deeper insight into the void from more angles, the spatial mysteries uncovered become far greater, and the divine art's power undergoes another transformation.

This is the two-prototype divine art.

The power of a two-prototype divine art is roughly half a tier stronger than a single-prototype divine art.

That is, even without knowledge of any secret arts and with an average gene index, one can still achieve Yu Xingyuan Level Twelve through a two-prototype divine art.

As more and more void prototypes are integrated, the divine art's power transforms again and again.

At the highest level, fusing all seven void prototypes allows one to truly perceive the complete spatial laws; with the seven prototypes unified, one can glimpse all spatial mysteries.

A seven-prototype divine art grants even the most ordinary void being the power of Yu Xingyuan Level Fourteen's peak.

!

This is still just normal divine art.

If it is a combined divine art—or even perfect divine arts like World Divine Art or Genesis—power can rise another tier.

Of course, if one possesses a suitable divine artifact, power can rise yet another tier.

A single-color divine artifact can resonate with cosmic origins, enhancing the power of a single-prototype divine art by one tier.

A two-color divine artifact can enhance the power of a two-prototype divine art by one tier…

And so on.

The peak beings among void beings, who create seven-prototype divine arts and wield a seven-color divine artifact, possess at least Yu Xingyuan Level Fifteen's peak power!

"Yu Xingyuan Level Fifteen's peak…"

Lin Qing was secretly startled.

This power was far, far stronger than his own.

Of course, creating a seven-prototype divine art was extraordinarily difficult.

Even those void beings who had mastered the unification of seven prototypes found it hard to create seven-prototype divine arts; even with sufficient spatial mysteries, most could only create four- or five-prototype divine arts from a position of superiority.

Only void sovereigns, who fully mastered spatial laws, could, after spending sufficient time, create various seven-prototype divine arts.

However, void sovereigns formed true spatial divine bodies through complete spatial laws, making their power extremely terrifying.

Only void sovereigns had even a slight chance of becoming void-level divine officials.

"From this, the power of the Bai Ta civilization is indeed terrifying…"

Lin Qing silently marveled, "The Holy Lord, the Four Kings—all are void-level divine officials; even the Seventy-Two Marquises are all void sovereigns, each wielding the seven-color ancestral divine artifacts of their clans…"

Each one was an immensely terrifying powerhouse; in the real universe, they treated stars, white dwarfs, and similar celestial bodies like marbles to be played with at will!

"Only void sovereigns are truly significant powers in this Void Sea."

Lin Qing gradually understood the power structure of this Void Sea.

Leaving aside the lofty void-level divine officials—each emerged from endless competition and slaughter, each terrifying beyond measure; only a few secondary civilizations among countless ones possessed a void-level divine official as their pillar.

Some weaker secondary civilizations might not even have a single void sovereign yet in their newly formed Void Sanctuaries.

Yet the Bai Ta civilization, a relatively strong secondary civilization, had more than one void-level divine official.

"And the Bai Ta civilization's Seventy-Two Marquises each possess a seven-color ancestral divine artifact?" Lin Qing was secretly stunned.

Thus, the Bai Ta civilization, having existed for hundreds of millions of years, truly had profound depth.

"If a 2.7-level civilization is this strong, what about a 2.8-level one?" Lin Qing could hardly imagine, "Or even… the three 2.9-level civilizations known as the Three Sacred Sites?"

Without knowing, he hadn't realized; now that he understood, he truly grasped the vast gulf between Earth's civilization and secondary civilizations.

It was the difference between heaven and earth.

Forget the lofty void-level divine officials—even a single void sovereign was a terrifyingly powerful being beyond imagination.

"I once spoke to a void sovereign like that… really…" Lin Qing couldn't help smiling.

Had they not mistaken him for a genius from a 2.9-level civilization, believing his background to be terrifyingly immense, how could they have tolerated his attitude?

"Too bad… I'm just from a planetary civilization…" he softly shook his head.

"Take it slow…"

Lin Qing took a deep breath, "First step: become a void being."

"First, earn ten billion void coins."

He flipped his hand and pulled out a black metal card bearing strange patterns.

It was the VIP card from Wanxing Group's Tianbao Star Company, left to him by the black-robed girl void sovereign named Fei Yan.

…

"You want to earn money?"

As Lin Qing had expected, the black-robed girl came to meet him personally—her attitude was clearly different.

"Yes." Lin Qing nodded slightly. "I checked: your investment, Wanxing Group, has a high-end business selling divine artifacts, correct?"

"Do you have a divine artifact?" the black-robed girl asked.

"I have one not yet sold." Lin Qing nodded slightly, then added, "But what I mean by earning money is applying for a position."

"Applying?" the black-robed girl frowned. "What position?"

"I can forge divine artifacts," Lin Qing said.

"Forge divine artifacts?" The black-robed girl froze, then stared at him in disbelief. "You can forge divine artifacts? Are you… a Star God?"

"Of course." Lin Qing glanced at her. "Besides Star Gods, what other divine official can forge divine artifacts?"

"You are actually a Star God..."

The girl in black clothes couldn't help but take a deep breath, sizing up Lin Qing, and said, "A genius like you—your home civilization doesn't treat you as a treasure to be cherished, yet they are willing to let you come out to temper yourself?"

"There are tens of thousands of Star Gods in the entire Void Sea," Lin Qing said casually. "Truly becoming a Chaos God hasn't happened even once in tens of millions of years."

The girl in black clothes couldn't help but be stunned, looking at Lin Qing in a daze, then shook her head and said, "It seems your status in your homeland is even more shocking than I imagined... What ambition."

(End of this chapter)