The Road Ahead

In the territory of a distant cosmic nation.

There was a stretch of dark, silent starry sky.

There were no stars or planets here, only occasional fragments of meteorites and stardust flying by.

Within the spatial rift corresponding to this starry sky, a magnificent and vast divine kingdom was hidden.

Countless humans lived in the divine kingdom, all looking respectfully towards a glorious divine palace emitting dazzling golden light on a certain mountain range.

Inside the divine palace at this moment.

Screech! Screech!

Roar!

Giant insectoid warriors of various appearances walked within the divine palace.

Occasionally, one could even see some golden Immortal-level insectoid warriors.

Besides the insectoid warriors, there were also many humans wearing white robes, golden robes, and armor.

These humans and insectoid warriors often passed each other but remained unharmed.

At the highest level of the divine palace.

A colossal insectoid hive, over ten kilometers tall and resembling a meteorite, stood in the center of the highest level.

Large numbers of golden Immortal-level insectoid warriors were gathered around it, no less than ten thousand at a glance.

"Master!"

A golden-robed human, surrounded by a large number of insectoid warriors, respectfully saluted the insectoid hive.

"You called me, what is it?" A gentle, beautiful voice, like a peerless beauty whispering in one's ear, echoed throughout the entire hall.

"Master."

The leading golden-robed human said respectfully, "Personnel embedded within the human race have sent back news. Mother Ancestor's thirteenth disciple, Su Heng, although still at the World Lord realm, his true strength is already sufficient to contend with a King-level!"

"Mother Ancestor's disciple? Is it the human genius who was previously ranked No. 17?" the gentle voice asked with some hesitation.

"Yes."

"Didn't he only have the strength comparable to a Marquis-level? How did he suddenly become King-level? Did he recently obtain some fortuitous encounters?" the gentle voice said with great confusion.

Mother Ancestor was one of the few human Universe Overlords. Naturally, they would pay attention to anyone she took as a disciple.

At that time, Su Heng could indeed be considered a peerless genius, having formed the nascent stage of fused laws and created his own ultimate secret techniques. His comprehension of laws as a World Lord had already passed the nineteenth level of the Tongtian Bridge.

Furthermore, in the days that followed, they obtained intelligence about Su Heng during his life-and-death trials.

Back in the Extraterritorial Battlefield, Su Heng had personally annihilated eleven foreign races at the early Marquis-level!

Under multiple circumstances, their assassination department had specifically placed Su Heng at the No. 17 position.

However, in the time that followed, Su Heng gradually fell silent, his ranking slowly dropped, and he eventually disappeared.

Millions of years later, the Insect Race's Mother Empress heard this name again, and this time it was with a significant increase in strength.

"The specific reason is not very clear. The intelligence was obtained from personnel lurking within the Demon Race. It is said that the information was released by Hundred Ape Marquis, a high-level Marquis from the Extraterritorial Battlefield. For this, he also paid a heavy price, suffering great damage to his divine body."

The golden-robed human replied respectfully.

"Hundred Ape Marquis, that Demon Race individual who is close to becoming a King-level?" As the Mother Empress in charge of intelligence, she naturally knew some of the more famous Marquis and King-level foreign races.

"Since the news was obtained by personnel lurking within the Demon Race, it should be accurate. In that case, raise Su Heng's ranking to No. 7 and dispatch Green Insect King to Su Heng's location."

The gentle voice issued the order.

Someone who could kill Marquis-level beings and even heavily injure high-level Marquis-level beings while still at the World Lord realm, once they truly broke through to the Immortal realm, they might even be able to contend with ordinary Venerables!

Such an existence must be eliminated in advance at all costs!

As for Green Insect King, his true form was originally an ordinary warrior of the Green Mantis Race. However, after countless battles, he accidentally mutated and developed an independent consciousness, eventually cultivating to the peak King-level realm.

"Yes!" The golden-robed human stood up and saluted.

"Go."

The gentle voice spoke its final words, and the entire hall fell silent.

"Immortal realm..."

Within the Guangluo Shattered Star Belt, Su Heng muttered to himself as he withdrew his consciousness from the virtual universe.

Breaking through to the Immortal realm was not difficult for him at the moment; it would only take one or two ten-thousand-year periods of accumulation to create peak secret techniques.

What gave him pause was the path after breaking through to the Immortal realm.

As is well known, the World Lord realm is the easiest period to comprehend laws because it is the closest to the primal universe's ocean of laws!

Upon breaking through to the Immortal realm, although lifespan becomes eternal, the speed of comprehending laws becomes much slower than in the World Lord period. Furthermore, comprehending laws that were not acknowledged by the World Lord period would result in repulsion, and the difficulty of comprehension would multiply.

Of course, for ordinary Immortals, comprehending one minor law and one major law is already very difficult and sufficient.

After all, a major law can lead to becoming a Void or Time Venerable, and fusing a minor law with a major law can lead to becoming a Universe Lord.

How many Universe Lords are there in the entire human race? Reaching this stage is already surpassing countless lives in the universe!

If it were the Su Heng of the past, he would naturally have walked this path as well.

But with the arrival of his Mandate, he had to look further ahead: True God, Void True God, Eternal True God, Chaos, and even God King, Hunyuan.

And to become a True God, the so-called strongest in the universe, the required condition is to comprehend all ten Great Laws.

During his World Lord period of tens of millions of years, Su Heng not only fully comprehended the Law of Wood but also gained recognition for the Laws of Metal and Fire along the way.

Eight Lower Laws and two Higher Laws, a total of seven Laws still needed recognition.

The Lower Laws were easier to handle. With his current talent, it would take at most a few hundred years to gain recognition for a Law. If he were in the Initial Universe, this time could be significantly shortened.

However, the Higher Laws were not so simple. To gain recognition for a Higher Law from scratch, even with Su Heng's current talent, would take at least around twenty thousand years.

How much lifespan did he have left?

This was also why Su Heng had been hesitating. He was considering whether to focus on comprehending Laws in the later stages of his life. Although comprehending Laws became difficult after becoming Immortal, it wasn't impossible.

It would just take some time. Anyway, after breaking through to Immortal, his lifespan would already be eternal.

Even if the Era of Reincarnation arrived, it should be enough for him to become a True God.

"I'll take it one step at a time. After I create the secret technique, I'll go to the Initial Universe to comprehend Laws, as many as I can."

This issue clearly couldn't be figured out in a short time, so Su Heng stopped dwelling on it.

Flying out of the Shattered Star Belt, Su Heng released his spaceship and began searching for suitable targets, intending to hone his ultimate skills while fighting.

One more chapter, later.