Divine Kingdom

Within the Yan Feng Universe Country of humanity's territory, in a desolate stretch of starry sky a hundred thousand light-years from Thunder Star.

There was no life here, only some long-dead stars and planets.

Buzz!

Accompanied by a wave of spatial fluctuations, a blood-red triangular spacecraft suddenly appeared in this lifeless cosmic expanse. It was Blood Red Three, assigned to Lu Qingshan by the Virtual Universe Company's transport department.

Whoosh!

The hatch opened, and a middle-aged man clad in dark golden armor flew out of the spacecraft. It was Lu Qingshan, returning to the Thunderlight Sea Starfield from the Virtual Universe Company headquarters.

"Here will do!" Lu Qingshan swept his gaze over the surroundings before speaking slowly.

The reason he had not immediately returned to Thunder Star was naturally because he wanted to find a suitable place to establish his own divine kingdom.

A divine kingdom was more than half an immortal god's life. It possessed many special abilities and was an excellent place for nurturing disciples and descendants.

The holy lands of the royal families in the major starfields, for example, were mostly located within the divine kingdoms of their founders.

To enter a divine kingdom from the Primal Universe, one either had to travel to the spatial coordinates where the divine kingdom was located or arrive through a transmission passage.

However, divine kingdom coordinates concerned the owner's safety and ordinarily would never be disclosed to others. Thus, most people who wished to enter a divine kingdom could only do so through a spatial passage.

Spatial passages, in turn, were divided into fixed passages and temporary passages.

Opening a temporary passage cost relatively little and could be done anywhere in the universe at any time, but the farther the distance, the greater the cost;

Constructing a fixed divine kingdom passage, however, required not only fixed passage coordinates but also an astonishing expenditure. Even a short-distance spatial passage required tens of thousands of chaos units, while some distant ones required millions or even tens of millions of chaos units to construct successfully.

Of course, if one could build a fixed spatial passage, then over the accumulation of long years, it would be far more economical than using temporary passages.

Lu Qingshan had chosen to establish his divine kingdom in the Thunderlight Sea Starfield precisely because he had considered the future construction of a spatial passage.

This place is relatively close to Thunder Star, so fewer resources will be consumed when I construct a spatial passage in the future!

And the stars here have all completely died out. No one should normally come here, so it is fairly well hidden!

With that thought, Lu Qingshan swiftly slashed forward.

Rip!

The space before him was directly torn apart by Lu Qingshan. He then took a single step and entered the spatial interlayer.

In the eyes of most immortal gods, the spatial interlayer could be divided into thousands upon thousands of layers.

The first layer was the space fragment layer; the second was the divine kingdom layer; the third was the space torrent layer...

Of course, in the eyes of true super experts, the spatial interlayer was actually just one incomparably vast expanse.

It was simply that the closer one was to the Primal Universe, the smaller the space fragments were; the farther one was from the Primal Universe, the larger the space fragments became!

And the larger the space fragments, the greater the threat they posed to experts!

In the safest areas of the spatial interlayer, even World Master-level experts could survive. But as one continued deeper, even Universe Venerables might fall.

Whoosh!

Lu Qingshan's figure flickered continuously, and he soon passed through the tiny space fragments in the outermost layer.

This is the divine kingdom layer. Ordinary immortal gods generally place their divine kingdoms here!

Looking at the space fragments around him, which had already grown fairly large, Lu Qingshan thought to himself, With my current strength, continuing into the space torrent layer would make it easy to encounter danger. I should place my divine kingdom here instead!

Once my strength improves in the future, I can simply have the divine kingdom move deeper!

For experts, the deeper they ventured into the spatial interlayer, the more dangerous it naturally became. After all, there were many enormous space fragments there. If one collided with them, even if one did not die, one would suffer severe injuries;

But for divine kingdoms, the deeper they were within the spatial interlayer, the safer they were. Many experts liked to enter the spatial interlayer to fight, and if a divine kingdom was too close to the Primal Universe, it could easily be caught up in the aftermath.

However, this was within humanity's territory and was also extremely remote. Super experts would generally not fight here!

"This one, then!"

Lu Qingshan quickly selected a suitable space fragment within the divine kingdom layer.

It was a space fragment with a maximum diameter of 160,000 kilometers and a minimum diameter of 120,000 kilometers, more than enough for the current Lu Qingshan.

After all, the internal worlds of ordinary peak World Masters were only several tens of thousands of kilometers in diameter. Although Lu Qingshan understood deeply the importance of an internal world's size, his life gene level was extremely ordinary, and he had never encountered any special opportunities. Thus, even though he had previously tried many methods to expand his internal world, he had ultimately only expanded it to a diameter of 100,000 kilometers.

"Establish divine kingdom!"

With a thought, Lu Qingshan swiftly approached the chosen space fragment and began summoning his internal world.

An invisible energy soon erupted from Lu Qingshan's internal world, directly locking onto the enormous space fragment he had selected.

Whoosh!

A huge world vaguely appeared in the surrounding space. This world seemed to exist within illusion as it continuously flew toward the enormous space fragment.

At the same time, the space fragment selected by Lu Qingshan was also continuously drawing closer to that world.

One illusory, one real, they gradually approached each other.

Rumble!

The surrounding space trembled without cease, while all the other space fragments moved aside. The world that seemed to exist within illusion was slowly merging with the enormous space fragment, gradually becoming stable as a real world began to form!

A moment later, the world that had seemed illusory had completely vanished. Only the real world that had perfectly fused with the space fragment remained in its place.

This was the divine kingdom, Lu Qingshan's divine kingdom!

Whoosh!

With a thought, Lu Qingshan instantly stepped into the divine kingdom.

Within the vast divine kingdom, divine might surged mightily, while the edges of the divine kingdom continued expanding outward.

"Divine hall, rise!"

With a thought from Lu Qingshan, the vast quantity of universe crystals originally stored within his internal world immediately began to gather.

Before long, a towering divine hall gradually took shape!

This divine hall radiated a dense aura of the origin laws of lightning. Lightning serpents filled its surroundings, and the instant it formed, it became the core of the entire divine kingdom.

"This is my divine kingdom!"

Standing in the main hall of the divine palace, Lu Qingshan closed his eyes and sensed everything within the divine kingdom.

At this moment, he seemed to be the entire divine kingdom itself. Everything within it rested within a single thought!

Mountains, plains, grasslands, swamps, deserts, oases, lakes...

With the augmentation of my divine kingdom, my strength is likely more than ten times greater than it is outside!

Lu Qingshan thought to himself, Unfortunately, the foundation of my divine kingdom is still far too weak. Not to mention compared to Luo Feng in the original work—even compared to ordinary star beasts, it falls far short!

Fortunately, there is still a chance to make up for all of this!

As long as I break through to become a True God by the divine power route in the future, when my divine kingdom transforms into a miniature universe, its current foundational shortcomings will naturally be remedied!

Now that the divine kingdom has been established, it is time to return to Thunder Star!

With that thought, Lu Qingshan immediately left his divine kingdom. He then boarded his spacecraft, entered the Dark Universe, and flew toward the coordinates of Thunder Star.