"Senior Brother, can I go through the Life-and-Death Trial now?" Zhang Dong asked respectfully.
He had originally planned to go through the trial for fun and casually fulfill the company's requirements, but things were different now. He had to work hard to earn Hunyuan Units to buy Fermo Venom.
If he saved up more Xiafeng Coins, he could buy a True Divine Artifact to use.
True Divine Artifacts contained Dao within them. Even if they could not be used across different worldviews, studying their internals would be greatly helpful in opening up Dao. It was highly possible that he could open up Dao at the Fourth Heaven Realm Deity stage.
As for Cosmic Crystals, Zhang Dong planned to use them to buy secret techniques or ultimate arts in the future.
To truly become a super expert, one could not rely on external objects. Just like in the Jin World, with the boost of Mechanical Flow Treasures, many Universe Masters could rival True Deities.
Yet they were still not True Deities. Realm was what mattered most.
"Go."
Dark Marquis Lord was looking forward to seeing what kind of reputation Zhang Dong could forge.
With insights from the eighteenth level of the Heavenly Bridge, combined with some fortuitous opportunities, one could generally barely attain King-Level Combat Power.
With insights from the twentieth level, combined with fortuitous opportunities, one could attain high King Level combat power. However, due to the limitations of immortal divine power, in actual combat one could only kill a Peak Marquis.
But unparalleled prodigies should be even more terrifying. Perhaps Zhang Dong could possess peak King Level combat power. Dark Marquis Lord thought of this optimistically.
After bidding farewell to Dark Marquis Lord, Zhang Dong did not rush to the secret realm. He first returned to the Ganwu Universe Kingdom, then went to the Boundary Heart Continent to absorb the energy needed by the Sun Tree and Falling Star Clone.
He definitely could not absorb that energy in the Primordial Universe.
Not to mention the Primordial Universe—even the energy throughout the entire Cosmic Sea was sparse.
In Luo Feng's final battle against the World Beasts, he had even been forced into battle before his divine body had absorbed energy to one hundred percent.
If it were Zhang Dong, a trip to the Boundary Heart Continent would allow him to fill up quickly.
Whoosh!
Returning from the Boundary Heart Continent to the Primordial Universe, the Sun Tree clone, which had just been released from the restrictions of the laws, began expanding madly at that moment!
A hundred thousand kilometers, a million kilometers, ten million kilometers...
From a god to a World God, its size had to expand by a full billion times. Moreover, due to Zhang Dong's Bitter Snow Vine, the Sun Tree had undergone some mutations.
His inner world simply could not contain such a colossal object.
Thus, he had asked the Ganwu Kingdom Master for help, finding an extremely secluded region. The other party personally acted, sealing off a space spanning over a thousand light-years before clearing it out himself.
Within this thousand-light-year region, unless a Universe Master, another High Venerable, or a Cosmic Overlord arrived, no one could detect anything unusual.
In the starry universe, that Sun Tree grew wildly. Its energy had long since been fully absorbed; it was only becoming so enormous because the restrictions of the laws had been lifted.
Whoosh!
The trunk and crown swelled at an astonishing speed. They soon surpassed the size of a star and continued soaring upward.
Originally, expanding a body that was a hundred thousand kilometers tall by a billion times should have resulted in a height of one hundred million kilometers. Yet it had already far exceeded that height.
Two hundred million, three hundred million, five hundred million...
It did not stop growing until it reached ten billion kilometers.
The incomparably massive tree practically filled the entire starry sky. Every leaf was the size of a star, dazzling to the utmost, its brilliant radiance illuminating an unknown number of light-years.
It was not merely large.
The energy accumulated within the leaves themselves truly did not pale beside that of stars.
The energy accumulated in an ordinary Immortal God's divine body was about equal to that of a star. With Zhang Dong's countless leaves, one could imagine just how exaggerated the total mass of his divine body was.
Even the combined energy of every celestial body in an entire galaxy fell far short of it.
"My god..." Zhang Dong blinked. "What kind of monster lifeform did I just create?"
A lifeform born from using the Bitter Snow Vine to transplant plants from the Boundary Heart Continent, combined with the effects of the Jade Green Bubble—even Zhang Dong himself could not say exactly how powerful it was.
At the Realm Lord Level, or rather, at the First Heaven Realm Deity stage, it already stood a full ten billion kilometers tall!
A Universe Venerable-level World Tree was only 590 million kilometers tall, and its crown had a diameter of merely one billion kilometers.
Yet Zhang Dong had surpassed a Venerable-level World Tree while still at the Realm Lord Level. How enormous would it become in the Second Heaven, Third Heaven, and Fourth Heaven?
Its crown had a diameter of a full 1.7 billion kilometers. Looking up from below, it felt endless, as though it covered the entire universe.
"If Teacher or Senior Brother saw this thing, they'd probably say there's no need for you to go through the Life-and-Death Trial, right?" Zhang Dong blinked.
What the hell was there left to test?
Any King-level Immortal or ordinary Cosmic Venerable would despair upon seeing Zhang Dong's Sun Tree. If it were thrown onto a Primordial Star, even those high-level Cosmic Venerables would not dare entertain any ideas upon seeing it.
But this Sun Tree absolutely could not be exposed.
If it were exposed, things would become huge. A plant lifeform created by a Realm Lord that was actually this enormous—who would dare believe it?
By then, even those lone strongest experts would probably want to capture Zhang Dong and study him.
Hiding the Sun Tree and Falling Star was easy enough. Zhang Dong first placed an order through the Virtual Universe Company, preparing to cultivate a Cloud Vine plant lifeform.
Cultivating it to early King Level would be enough. A King Level Cloud Vine was also a plant lifeform, so its divine kingdom would be enormous and could easily hold the Sun Tree.
Once the Cloud Vine had been cultivated, Zhang Dong ordered it to establish its divine kingdom. He then placed the Sun Tree and Falling Star inside the Cloud Vine's divine kingdom.
Those two things were absurdly huge. At the very least, he had to wait until he reached the Fourth Heaven Realm Deity stage and possessed the combat power of a Mighty Expert before taking them outside to fight.
Although Falling Star was somewhat smaller, it was still measured in hundreds of millions of kilometers.
With such an enormous body, controlling it was also troublesome for him. He needed to improve his methods involving the mysteries of laws and his spiritual will before he could truly control it perfectly.
"Until I become immortal, I'll arrange things like this." Zhang Dong directed the Cloud Vine. "Leave more coordinate tokens behind. I'll still need to rely on your Divine Kingdom Teleportation."
"Yes, Master," the Cloud Vine transmitted.
After it had been cultivated to early King Level, it had originally thought it would accompany Zhang Dong into battle across all directions, serving him faithfully.
But after seeing the Sun Tree that stood ten billion kilometers tall, the Cloud Vine knew it was nothing. Other than needing its Divine Kingdom Teleportation, its master needed nothing from it.
To the current Zhang Dong, the greatest significance of Immortal Gods was Divine Kingdom Teleportation. Relying solely on his own Teleportation to travel was simply too much of a waste of time.
"With sufficient preparations made, let's see where the first stop should be." Zhang Dong began searching through information on Cosmic Secret Realms.
His authority was exceptionally high, allowing him to see information on most Cosmic Secret Realms.
Within the Human Territory, the Mechanical Race, the Insect Race, the Demon Race territories, or even more distant regions.
Their levels of danger also varied. The lowest-grade ones were like those Huyan Bo and Babata had visited, where Peak Marquis and King Level experts could be found.
Although Zhang Dong wanted to earn more Hunyuan Units, he would not specifically go robbing Peak Marquis or King Level experts. His conscience simply would not allow such a thing.
If he happened to encounter them and they provoked him first, robbing them along the way was no issue. But deliberately going to bully those far weaker than himself would violate his Dao heart.
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