Imperial Capital Star of the Movita Empire.
Inside a room on the first floor of a skyscraper in the central district, Yue Qin reluctantly tugged at Jiang Luo. "Can't you cultivate at home, child? Why do you insist on traveling?"
His younger sister, Jiang Ying, and younger brother, Jiang Ting, also looked at him reluctantly.
"All right." His father, Jiang Feng, said, "A-Luo is the chief councilor of our Luo Planet and the strongest person among the Luo Planet People. He has responsibilities of his own.
"We're safe living here, but what about the rest of the Luo Planet People? They all depend on A-Luo to protect them.
"If he wants to protect Luo Planet, he has to keep getting stronger. You've joined the Virtual Universe Network, haven't you? Which strong fighter has ever gotten stronger by staying at home?"
Jiang Luo grumbled to himself, Once I've fostered faith on the five life planets I just bought, getting stronger while staying at home won't be a dream.
"Wu He." Jiang Luo turned to the man beside him, whose body was mechanical. "While I'm away, I'll be counting on you to look after my family."
After bidding farewell to his reluctant family, Jiang Luo boarded a spacecraft and left the spaceport on Imperial Capital Star of the Movita Empire.
Half a year had passed since he joined the Ancient Wheel Sacred Hall and left Luo Planet.
During that time, Jiang Luo had applied to the Cosmic Galaxy Bank and the Cosmic First Bank for unsecured loans under the name of an Ancient Wheel Sacred Hall member, borrowing a total of 15 million Universe Coins.
It was true that members of the Ancient Wheel Sacred Hall enjoyed privileges in many fields, and with careful management, it wasn't difficult to build a fortune.
But that took time.
Jiang Luo didn't want to waste so much time, so he had no choice but to apply for loans.
Fortunately, his status as a member of the Ancient Wheel Sacred Hall really did carry weight.
Even for unsecured loans, the two banks had each granted him a credit limit of several million Universe Coins.
If they hadn't considered that he was only Planetary Level and would likely lose his membership in the Ancient Wheel Sacred Hall within a few decades, his credit limit would definitely have been more than 15 million Universe Coins.
That was already comparable to the entire fortune of a Universe Level powerhouse.
Jiang Luo first spent 11 million Universe Coins to buy five life planets.
Normally, a life planet that sold for a million Universe Coins could already be considered top-tier.
But Jiang Luo needed them urgently, wouldn't wait for an auction, and only wanted life planets in the Huanming Star Sector, so he had to pay a hefty premium.
On top of that, he required every life form above the Apprentice Level on the planets to be relocated, which naturally meant paying even more in compensation.
Besides that, he also bought over a thousand Star Level slaves.
They would serve as assistants in fostering his faith.
For this trip to his newly purchased life planets, he brought only the Star Level slaves and didn't take Wu He along.
After all, fostering faith involved his greatest secret, and Wu He hadn't yet acknowledged him as his master.
He had told his family that he was traveling.
With the help of the many Wood Bud Crystals, Azure Wave Marrow, and other treasures he had bought, all his family members had become Planetary Level life forms.
He had also settled them on Imperial Capital Star, in the central district of the Movita Empire, an intermediate civilization. There was no need to worry about their safety.
After more than a month of travel, Jiang Luo finally reached the first life planet he had purchased.
A large number of ordinary slave races, not even at the Apprentice Level, had already been relocated to the planet.
And under his arrangements, more and more slave races continued to move there in batches.
The Star Level slaves he had bought were handling everything.
Ordinary people were worth very little. Even buying tens of billions of them wouldn't cost much.
Looking at the land dotted with construction machinery, Jiang Luo nodded in satisfaction.
The machinery was building one temple after another.
The statues inside the temples all depicted him.
He had already tested it: Planetary Level, Star Level, and ordinary people could provide faith power of no fundamental difference.
According to his guess, that was because the souls of Planetary Level life forms and ordinary people had no fundamental difference.
A stronger soul didn't mean its fundamental nature had changed.
Only upon becoming an Immortal did the soul undergo a fundamental leap, gaining an endless lifespan.
A human World Lord could live for only 1,000 eras, not because a World Lord's body could last only 1,000 eras, but because the soul's limit was 1,000 eras.
Only by transcending the World Lord level and achieving a fundamental leap in the soul could one break that limit.
The faith power provided by Immortal Gods was surely far greater than that provided by ordinary people.
But for now, that was only wishful thinking.
Even if he became a Universe Venerable in the future, he might not be able to gain the sincere faith of many Immortal Gods.
Faith wasn't determined by strength alone.
Ten years passed in the blink of an eye.
On a yellow-brown planet.
Countless people had braved hardships and traveled hundreds or even thousands of miles on foot, gathering at the foot of a towering mountain range. They knelt and prostrated themselves:
"Great Emperor Luo, you are the wisest of all, the creator of all things in the world, the all-knowing and all-powerful Supreme God..."
Inside a temple at the mountain's summit.
Jiang Luo opened his eyes and felt the surging faith power streaming toward him.
Over the past ten years, the people on all five life planets had been relocated and settled.
Each planet had over ten billion people!
They were all ordinary people, not even at the Apprentice Level.
That was why Jiang Luo had made such swift progress in establishing his faith.
All he had to do was display a few miracles.
Whenever droughts, floods, earthquakes, or other disasters struck, he would send Star Level slaves to demonstrate their power.
Or he would use technology to control the weather and ensure favorable conditions for the crops.
Then, drawing on his memories of his past life, he would write a few religious texts. Naturally, this made fostering faith incredibly fast.
Of course, Jiang Luo wouldn't let the people on these five planets live completely carefree lives, keeping them penned up like livestock.
Faith also came from fear.
If they truly had no worries about food or clothing, and faced no disasters or hardship, why would they need to believe in a god?
So sometimes he would send one or two Star Level slaves to stir up bloody chaos while disguised as "demons." Then he would step in himself, or send his "angels" to quell the unrest.
And the rewards for all this effort were bountiful.
Each planet gave him far more faith power than Luo Planet did.
There was a fundamental difference between worshipping the strongest person and placing one's wholehearted trust in the Supreme God.
Looking at the thousand billion strands of white愿力 gathered inside the space within the Nameless Seal, Jiang Luo smiled with satisfaction.
"Manifest the Nuwa Map!"
Five years ago, he had broken through to the fifth stage while cultivating the Crimson Bright Nine Heavens Map.
Not only had his physical strength risen to a level comparable to that of an early Star Level life form,
but more importantly, his perception of the fluctuations of the Origin Laws of Water and Fire had become much clearer.
They were no longer as vague as before.
Of course, that clarity was still nowhere near Luo Feng's perception of the Origin of Gold after taking over the Golden Horned Beast.
After all, the Golden Horned Beast was practically a favored child of the Origin of Gold.
But after looking into it, Jiang Luo found that his perception of the Laws was already two or three times clearer than that of an ordinary person with ninth-level Domain.
Even so, comprehending the Origin Laws was no easy feat. Otherwise, so many talented people who had reached ninth-level Domain wouldn't have remained stuck at the threshold of mastering the Laws for decades or even centuries.
Sensing the fluctuations of the Laws and comprehending even a trace of them were two entirely different things.
A human simply couldn't possess the kind of heaven-defying clarity of perception that the Golden Horned Beast had.
If the clarity of an ordinary human's perception of the Laws at ninth-level Domain was 1, the Golden Horned Beast's perception of the fluctuations of the Law of Gold was 10,000.
What he wanted most was a cultivation method suited to helping him comprehend the Universe Origin Laws.
And the answer given by the Wordless Seal was the Nuwa Map!
But manifesting the Nuwa Map required at least a thousand billion strands of white愿力, equivalent to the faith offered in a year by a thousand billion of the most devout believers.
Only now had he finally saved enough.
After all, brainwashing people into believing took time.
In an instant, a Nuwa statue radiating billions of rays of light appeared in his sea of consciousness.
The light nourished his soul, slowly transforming it. Even his perception of the fluctuations of the Laws seemed to grow a little clearer.
Moreover, this change was happening every moment, without interruption.
It was as if he were devouring Chaos True Spirit with every passing second.
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