Ten Billion Kilometers Super Divine Body (Seeking Follow-up Reads)

"Then, Senior Brother, may I now go for the Life-and-Death Trial?" Zhang Dong asked respectfully.

He had originally planned to go for the trial as a bit of fun, casually fulfilling the company's requirements. But now the situation was different—he needed to earn Hunyuan Units to purchase Fermo Venom.

By saving up more Xiafeng Coins, he could buy a True Divine Artifact to use.

A True Divine Artifact contained the Dao within it. Even if it couldn't be directly applied across different worldviews, studying its internals would greatly help in forging his own path, and it was highly possible he could establish a Dao at the Fourth Heaven Realm Deity stage.

As for Cosmic Crystals, Zhang Dong planned to use them later to purchase secret techniques and ultimate arts.

To truly become a super powerhouse, one couldn't rely on external objects. For example, in the Jin World, many Universe Masters could match True Gods with the boost of a Mechanical Flow Treasure.

Yet they still weren't True Gods—realm was the most crucial factor.

"Go ahead."

The Dark Marquis Lord was very much looking forward to seeing what kind of reputation Zhang Dong could carve out.

Comprehension at the eighteenth level of the Heavenly Bridge, combined with some opportunities, would generally yield barely King-Level Combat Power.

Comprehension at the twentieth level, paired with opportunities, could grant High King-Level Combat Power. But due to the limitations of Immortal divine power, in actual combat, one could only kill a Peak Marquis.

However, a peerless prodigy should be even more terrifying. Perhaps Zhang Dong could achieve Peak King-Level Combat Power—the Dark Marquis Lord optimistically thought so.

After taking his leave of the Dark Marquis Lord, Zhang Dong didn't rush off to the secret realm. He first returned to the Ganwu Universe Kingdom, then went to the Boundary Heart Continent to absorb the energy needed for the Sun Tree and the Falling Star clone.

He definitely couldn't absorb this energy in the Primordial Universe.

Not to mention the Primordial Universe—the energy throughout the entire Cosmic Sea was very thin.

In Luo Feng's final battle against the World Beasts, he had even rushed into combat before his divine body had absorbed to one hundred percent.

If it were Zhang Dong, he could go to the Boundary Heart Continent and fill up quickly.

Shwoosh!

Returning from the Boundary Heart Continent to the Primordial Universe, the Sun Tree clone, which had just been restricted by the rules, began to expand wildly!

One hundred thousand kilometers, one million kilometers, ten million kilometers...

From Deity to Realm Deity, its volume had to expand by over a billion times. And because of Zhang Dong's Bitter Snow Vine factor, the Sun Tree had undergone some mutations.

His inner world simply couldn't bear such a colossal being.

So he had asked the Ganwu Kingdom Master to find an extremely secluded area. The Kingdom Master personally acted, sealing off a region of over a thousand light-years and cleansing it himself.

Within this thousand-light-year space, unless a Universe Master, a High Venerable, or a Cosmic Overlord arrived, no one could detect anything unusual.

In the cosmic starry sky, that Sun Tree grew madly. The energy had long been fully absorbed; it was only now, with the rule restrictions lifted, that it became so enormous.

Whoosh!

The trunk and canopy expanded at a terrifying speed, quickly surpassing the size of a star and continuing to soar.

Originally, expanding from a height of one hundred thousand kilometers by a billion times should have resulted in a height of one hundred million kilometers. But now it had far exceeded that.

Two hundred million, three hundred million, five hundred million...

It didn't stop until it reached one billion kilometers.

The endlessly massive giant tree seemed to fill the entire starry sky. Every single leaf was the size of a star, dazzlingly bright, its radiant light shining across countless light-years.

It wasn't just about size.

The energy accumulation in each leaf was truly no less than that of a star.

An ordinary Immortal's divine body stored about as much energy as a star. With Zhang Dong's countless leaves, one could imagine just how exaggerated the total divine power was.

All the celestial bodies in an entire star system combined couldn't compare to its energy.

"My god..." Zhang Dong blinked. "What kind of monster lifeform did I just create?"

Transplanting a plant from the Boundary Heart Continent using the Bitter Snow Vine, and influenced by the Jade Green Bubble, the resulting lifeform was so powerful that even Zhang Dong himself couldn't say for sure.

At the Realm Lord level—or rather, the First Heaven Realm Deity stage—it was already a full one billion kilometers tall!

A Cosmic Venerable-level World Tree was only 590 million kilometers tall, with a canopy diameter of one billion kilometers.

Yet Zhang Dong, at the Realm Lord level, had already surpassed a Venerable World Tree. How enormous would it become at the Second, Third, or Fourth Heaven?

His canopy diameter was a full 1.7 billion kilometers. Standing beneath it and looking up, it felt endless, as if it had spread across the entire universe.

"This thing... if my teacher or senior brother saw it, they'd probably say I don't need to go for the Life-and-Death Trial anymore." Zhang Dong blinked again.

What trial was there even left to do?

Any King-level Immortal or ordinary Cosmic Venerable who saw Zhang Dong's Sun Tree would be utterly despairing. If it were dropped onto the Primordial Star, even those High Venerables wouldn't dare to have any thoughts about it.

But this Sun Tree absolutely could not be exposed.

If it were exposed, things would blow up. A Realm Lord creating a plant lifeform that could grow to such a scale—who would believe it?

At that point, even those lone powerhouses would want to capture Zhang Dong for research.

Hiding the Sun Tree and the Falling Star was easy enough. Zhang Dong first placed an order with the Virtual Universe Company to cultivate a plant lifeform, a Cloud Vine.

He would nurture it to the early King Level. A King-level Cloud Vine was also a plant lifeform, and its divine kingdom would be very large, easily housing the Sun Tree.

Once the Cloud Vine was cultivated, Zhang Dong ordered it to establish a divine kingdom, then placed the Sun Tree and the Falling Star inside the Cloud Vine's divine kingdom.

These two things were absurdly large; at the very least, he would have to wait until he became a Fourth Heaven Realm Deity with the combat power of a Great Power before taking them out to fight in the outside world.

Falling Star, though smaller, was still measured in units of hundreds of millions of kilometers.

With such a massive size, piloting it was troublesome—he would need to elevate his comprehension of the laws and mysteries, as well as his mental will, to truly master it perfectly.

"Until I become an Immortal God, I'll just leave them here for now." Zhang Dong commanded the Cloud Vine, "Leave plenty of coordinate tokens; I'll still need your Divine Kingdom Teleportation."

"Yes, master." The Cloud Vine transmitted its voice.

Having been nurtured to the initial stage of Enfeoffed King, it had originally thought it would accompany Zhang Dong in battle across all directions, serving at his side.

But after seeing the Sun Tree that was a billion kilometers tall, the Cloud Vine realized it was utterly worthless—aside from needing its Divine Kingdom Teleportation, its master required nothing from it.

For Zhang Dong at present, the greatest value of an Immortal God was precisely for Divine Kingdom Teleportation; relying solely on his own Teleportation for travel was far too time-consuming.

"Preparations are complete. Let me see, where should I set the first stop?" Zhang Dong began searching through Cosmic Secret Realm data.

His authority was exceptionally high, allowing him to view most Cosmic Secret Realms.

Within the territories of humanity, the Mechanical Race, the Zerg, and the Demon Race, or even more remote regions.

The danger levels varied greatly; the worst ones were the kind Huyan Bo and Babata had visited, where Enfeoffed Marquises and Enfeoffed Kings roamed.

Although Zhang Dong wanted to earn more Hunyuan Units, he had no intention of specifically going out to rob Enfeoffed Marquises or Enfeoffed Kings—his own heart would not permit such a thing.

If he encountered them and they provoked him first, taking their spoils on the spot was fine, but going out of his way to bully those far weaker than himself would violate his Dao heart.