Lu Ming could never have entered this place on his own.
But with Little Thunder wrapped around him, he now had the power to move freely through it.
"Little Thunder, let's fly deeper and enter the God Kingdom Layer. We'll find a Space Fragment that's large enough and stable enough."
"Yes, Master."
Whoosh!
With Little Thunder, Lu Ming turned into a streak of light and flew deeper into the Space Interlayer.
He flew for tens of trillions of kilometers, and the journey took nearly a month.
The Space Fragments grew larger along the way, and their energy fluctuations became ever more powerful. They had gone from the initial Space Fragment Layer deep into the far broader God Kingdom Layer.
At last, Lu Ming stopped. Ahead of them, a vast Space Fragment roughly eighty million kilometers in diameter drifted slowly. The space within it was relatively stable, with few violent energy currents. Among the countless fragments around it, it seemed quite "peaceful."
"How about this one? It's large enough, deep in the God Kingdom Layer, and isolated, so powerful beings are unlikely to stumble upon it. The space inside is stable enough, too."
"Very good, Master. This Space Fragment is an excellent fit. I can feel that it's highly compatible with my Internal World."
Little Thunder sent a message brimming with delight.
"Then let's begin!"
Beside Lu Ming, the crystalline purple-gold vine swayed gently.
In an instant, an invisible, immense World Power spread out, like a vast invisible net firmly locking onto the enormous Space Fragment in the distance.
At the same time, guided by Little Thunder, the phantom of its "world"—the core of its Internal World, originally situated at the center of the Forest of Life—seemed to be drawn out from another dimension and slowly took shape.
At first, the phantom world was small, but it radiated a solid, majestic aura. Within it, a strange scene of forests interwoven with lightning could just barely be seen.
On one side was a void Space Fragment eighty million kilometers in diameter. On the other was the phantom of an Internal World, containing the framework of a complete world and the foundations of its laws.
The two—one unreal, one real—began to draw closer and merge!
"Rumble~~~"
A thunderous roar, like the creation of heaven and earth, echoed through the Space Interlayer.
Drawn in by the immense force, the empty space inside the vast Space Fragment began to tremble. It was gradually filled and solidified by the substantial phantom of the Internal World.
It was a wondrous process.
The framework of laws and material foundation of the Internal World were merging perfectly with the chosen Space Fragment, reshaping and stabilizing it until it became a true Divine Kingdom belonging solely to the Thunderlight Vine, Little Thunder!
The process continued for a long time.
When the last ripple finally subsided, the once-empty Space Fragment had vanished completely. In its place was a brand-new world roughly a million million kilometers in diameter!
An invisible membrane surrounded this world. Mountains, rivers, and streams had begun to take shape within it, while lightning and the aura of life intertwined faintly at its center. Though it was still somewhat barren, its foundations were incredibly stable. It was also slowly absorbing energy from the Space Interlayer on its own and expanding in every direction!
The fusion had succeeded!
From then on, the Internal World disappeared, and the Immortal Divine Kingdom was born!
"Master, the Divine Kingdom is complete!"
Little Thunder's voice carried a sense of accomplishment and joy.
"From now on, the Divine Kingdom will keep absorbing energy and expanding. It can even swallow smaller Space Fragments to accelerate its growth."
"Excellent!"
A smile spread across Lu Ming's face as he entered the new Divine Kingdom with Little Thunder.
Standing atop a newly risen mountain at the center of the Divine Kingdom, faintly wreathed in lightning, he gazed out over this newborn world as it slowly grew, and the enormous Space Fragments sweeping past beyond the Divine Kingdom. His heart swelled with even greater ambition.
With Little Thunder now at the Immortal Level, its battle power rivaling the Pinnacle King-Level or even the limit, and a stable Divine Kingdom as his foundation and retreat, Lu Ming had never felt more confident.
"Little Thunder has become an Immortal, and its Divine Kingdom is established. Next, it's time for me to break through."
Lu Ming's eyes shone with confidence.
The World Lord Level was an extremely important stage in the path of cultivation.
At this stage, the soul became more attuned to the Primal Universe, and one's consciousness could enter the Origin Land to comprehend laws far faster than during the Domain Lord Level. One could also form an Internal World and wield World Power, making this a period of explosive growth in strength.
For an ordinary Domain Lord, breaking through to the World Lord Level was a huge hurdle, requiring profound Law Comprehension and years of accumulation.
But for Lu Ming...
"I've already been acknowledged by the Flame Origin Law, and I've comprehended a great deal of the higher Space Law. My Life Gene Level is a hundredfold, too! For me, breaking through to the World Lord Level will be as natural as water flowing downhill. There won't be any bottleneck at all."
His accumulation was simply too immense.
The Hundredfold Gene Level brought not only strength, but also an unparalleled affinity for and perception of the Universe Origin.
The barriers to comprehending laws that troubled other geniuses were practically nonexistent for him.
"Here, I'll break through to the World Lord Level in one go!"
Lu Ming steeled his resolve.
This place was completely safe and rich in energy. It was an ideal location for a breakthrough.
He sat cross-legged on the mountaintop, where faint lightning danced, and slowly closed his eyes.
His mind sank into his body.
The core of the Domain Lord Level was a strange Life Core, formed by the fusion of the Soul Crystal and the Force Crystal. It was the core of one's life.
At that moment, the Life Core was undergoing a violent transformation.
Lu Ming focused his thoughts!
"Boom~~~"
It was as if the universe had just begun, and its singularity had exploded.
Within the Life Core, the previously stable, balanced structure broke apart. Guided by Lu Ming's will, his soul power and bodily Origin Force began to spin, compress, and condense wildly along an incomparably profound path!
The first trace of World Power was born!
With the birth of this first trace of World Power, a strand of Lu Ming's consciousness seemed to resonate with the vast universe's origin.
The Primal Universe was the oldest, broadest, and most powerful universe, one that had nurtured more races and lives than any other.
The true Origin Land of the Primal Universe.
At that moment, Lu Ming's consciousness connected to the unimaginably distant Origin Land.
"So this is the Origin Land of the Universe?"
With the resonance of World Power, a strand of Lu Ming's consciousness entered the Origin Land of the Universe in an instant. It was an incomparably vast expanse of earth. With his consciousness, he could only sense this boundless land; he couldn't sense anything else.
Every grain of soil in this endless land seemed to be a space, and each space contained endless Universe Crystals.
Lu Ming was utterly shaken. The Universe Origin was boundless. He could sense only a small part of it, yet even that small part had already left him profoundly shaken.
"Two-World Resonance!"
In that instant, it was as though a passage had been opened between the Internal World and the Origin Land of the Primal Universe. Endless Universe Origin Energy—World Power—surged into the Internal World like a flood, so fiercely that it filled the entire space of the Internal World almost instantly!