"Vanished into thin air..."
Qian Daoliu stood where Qian Renxue had last disappeared, his expression extremely grim.
He! Qian Daoliu! A Rank Ninety-Nine Titled Douluo! A figure standing at the pinnacle of the Douluo Continent!
Yet his own granddaughter had vanished right before his eyes! Until the very instant her aura disappeared, he had not detected who had done it.
He remained where he was, his gaze sweeping relentlessly over the surroundings, yet he found nothing.
"Lord Heavenly Dao."
Qian Renxue smiled sweetly, her eyes full of anticipation as she looked at Lu Chen.
Where was she going next?
Lu Chen nodded slightly. "This operation will take at least a year, perhaps several. Are you ready?"
"If I weren't ready, Xiao Xue wouldn't have called for you, Lord Heavenly Dao!"
Qian Renxue asked curiously, "Lord Heavenly Dao, can you tell me where I'm going now?"
"Once we get there, what do I need to do to help you?"
"Follow me."
Lu Chen waved his hand. The scenery before Qian Renxue's eyes rapidly vanished, and then she and Lu Chen arrived in a pitch-black void. As far as she could see, only scattered starlight entered her sight.
Whoosh!
Blades of space glittering with starlight slashed toward them. Lu Chen ignored them entirely. To Qian Renxue's astonishment, an invisible ripple spread from beside them, erasing the threat without a trace.
"Where is this?"
Like a curious child, Qian Renxue looked all around. Everything here fascinated her beyond measure.
A black void, flickering starlight, meteors like towering ancient cities, and warped, shattered space.
Why had she never learned of such a bizarre and terrifying place from any records?
"The Voidland of the Douluo Continent."
As Lu Chen led Qian Renxue onward, he explained. With every step they took, the space beneath their feet shattered and twisted, carrying them tens of thousands of miles away in the next instant.
"Voidland?"
"This Voidland belongs to the Douluo Continent, yet it also does not belong to the Douluo Continent. It contains countless dangers, but also countless opportunities."
"For example, that shattered region of space we just passed through could easily kill even a Hundredth Level Quasi-God. Only Divine Attendants can withstand it."
Brushing aside a meteor before him, Lu Chen frowned slightly. A Rank Three God's strength was still far too weak. Even this sort of nuisance could come looking for him.
"A Hundredth Level Quasi-God? A Divine Attendant?" Qian Renxue blinked her large eyes, filled with confusion. "Does the continent really have a Hundredth Level realm? Are Divine Attendants gods?"
After casually dealing with a spatial fragment that suddenly appeared before them, Lu Chen explained to Qian Renxue:
"The Hundredth Level realm exists, but the continent's current cultivation system is incomplete, making breakthroughs extraordinarily difficult."
"Under such circumstances, anyone who can reach the Hundredth Level will, barring surprises, be an unparalleled genius capable of condensing Godhood on their own!"
"As for Divine Attendants, they are slightly stronger than those at the Hundredth Level. They can live forever, but they are not truly gods. Though they possess immortal lives, their status in the Divine Realm is low. Most are responsible for labor and menial tasks, serving the true gods."
"If the Angel God were still alive, she could kill a whole group of Divine Attendants with one slap."
"Oh, oh!"
Qian Renxue suddenly understood. So even the Divine Realm had people who worked and ran errands?
But wouldn't those immortal beings have to work until the end of time? Spending an ageless, deathless lifetime serving others sounded rather miserable...
Fortunately, the Angel God was a true god. Once she inherited the Angel God's Godhood, she definitely would not have to live such a miserable life.
Qian Renxue thought with some relief.
"Um, Lord Heavenly Dao, may I ask you a question?"
"Ask."
"My grandfather... if he had a complete cultivation system, could he break through to the Hundredth Level?"
"In theory, yes, but there's no need." Lu Chen glanced at Qian Renxue. "Once you become the Angel God, you can directly help your grandfather break through to the Divine Attendant realm."
"By my estimate, you'll definitely become the Angel God faster than your grandfather could cultivate to the Hundredth Level on his own."
"Oh, oh! All right! I understand."
Qian Renxue nodded her little head, marveling at the power of gods. Becoming a god meant being able to turn a Titled Douluo into an immortal Divine Attendant. That ability was simply incredible!
Once I become the Angel God, I'll definitely turn Grandfather and all the uncles in Spirit Hall into Divine Attendants too. Then, hehe.
Lu Chen inwardly rolled his eyes, feeling too drained to comment. Divine Attendants might be weak, but they were not so cheap that anyone could become one at will.
No one could simply make whoever they wanted into a Divine Attendant—not even a God King possessed that ability, or rather, that authority.
But Lu Chen was focused on searching for his destination and could not be bothered to explain such useless knowledge to Qian Renxue.
She would understand once she became a god.
"Hm?"
Lu Chen's heart stirred. He caught a fragment before him, and a glint flashed through his eyes.
"Hold tight!"
"Hm?"
Whoosh!
Before Qian Renxue could react, the world spun around her, leaving her completely dizzy. Stars practically began circling above her little head.
When she opened her eyes again, countless enormous, enormous, enormous green spheres had appeared before her!
"Lord Heavenly Dao... wh-what is this? Where... where are we?" Qian Renxue asked dizzily.
"A small world, a small world that exists by relying on the Douluo World."
Sensing the aura of this small world, Lu Chen shook his head slightly. It was a naturally formed small world, not the one he was seeking.
"A... a small world? The Douluo World?" Qian Renxue shook her head to clear it, then stared at the huge green sphere before her in shock.
A world? Did it mean the kind of world she understood?
"Like the world you live in, this is another world. It is simply far weaker than the Douluo Continent, with no intelligent life within it. It must cling closely to the Douluo World to survive in this void."
Lu Chen casually branded a mark onto the small world. "This is also one of the opportunities within the void. If a soul master from the Douluo World stumbled upon a small world, they could at the very least become a Titled Douluo in the future."
"Ah?"
Qian Renxue looked at the small world in surprise. "Just finding one is enough to become a Titled Douluo? That's amazing! No, wait! Ordinary soul masters couldn't find one, could they?"
"If they are lucky, they can. There are usually spatial rifts within the Douluo World that lead to such worlds, though not to this one."
Lu Chen shook his head. He had already lost interest in this small world. A small world with the scale of a Rank Three God was utter trash. It was wasting his time!
"Let's go. We'll keep looking for others."
"Oh, oh! Lord Heavenly Dao, did you bring me out this time to find a small world?"
"Yes, but this small world is hidden rather deeply. It will only emerge in roughly ten or twenty thousand years, so finding it is somewhat troublesome."
With that, Lu Chen once more fixed his gaze in a direction, shattered space with Qian Renxue, and sped toward it.
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