Voidland and the Small World

"Vanished into thin air..."

Qian Daoliu stood where Qian Renxue had last disappeared, his expression extremely grim.

He! Qian Daoliu! A ninety-ninth-level Title Douluo! One of the figures standing at the pinnacle of the Douluo Continent!

Yet his own granddaughter had vanished right beneath his nose! Even until the instant her aura disappeared, he had not detected who was responsible.

He stood rooted in place, his gaze sweeping the surroundings intently, yet he discovered nothing.

"Heavenly Dao."

Qian Renxue smiled sweetly, her eyes filled with anticipation as she looked at Lu Chen.

Where would she be going next?

Lu Chen nodded slightly. "This operation will take at least a year, perhaps several years. Are you ready?"

"If I weren't ready, Little 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 I get there, what do I need to do to help you?"

"Come with me."

Lu Chen waved his hand. In the next instant, the scene before Qian Renxue's eyes rapidly faded away, and she and Lu Chen arrived in a pitch-black void. As far as she could see, there were only scattered points of starlight.

Whoosh!

Blades of space glittering with starlight flew toward them. Lu Chen ignored them outright. To Qian Renxue's surprise, an invisible ripple spread out from beside them, silently erasing the threat.

"This is?"

Like a curious child, Qian Renxue examined her surroundings. Everything here was far too fascinating to her.

A dark void, flickering starlight, meteors like towering cities, and twisted, shattered space.

Why had she never learned of such a strange and terrifying place in 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, and in the next second, they had crossed tens of thousands of miles.

"Voidland?"

"This Voidland belongs to the Douluo Continent, yet it also does not belong to the Douluo Continent. It contains countless dangers, as well as countless opportunities."

"For example, the shattered space we just passed through could easily kill even a Hundredth Level Quasi-God. Only a Divine Attendant could withstand it."

Brushing aside an asteroid before them, Lu Chen frowned slightly. The strength of a Rank Three God was still far too weak. Even this sort of nuisance could come looking for him.

"Hundredth Level Quasi-God? Divine Attendant?" Qian Renxue blinked her large eyes, confusion filling her gaze. "Does the continent really have a Hundredth Level realm? Are Divine Attendants gods?"

After casually dealing with a fragment of space that suddenly appeared before them, Lu Chen explained to Qian Renxue:

"The Hundredth Level realm exists, but the cultivation system on the continent is currently incomplete, making breakthroughs extraordinarily difficult."

"In such an environment, anyone who can break through to the Hundredth Level will, barring accidents, be a peerless prodigy capable of condensing their own Godhood!"

"As for Divine Attendants, they are slightly stronger than Hundredth Level cultivators. They can live forever, but they do not count as gods. Though they possess eternal life, their status in the Divine Realm is low. Most of them handle labor and menial work, serving the true gods."

"If the Angel God were still alive, she could wipe out a whole group of Divine Attendants with a single slap."

"Oh, oh!"

Qian Renxue suddenly understood. So the Divine Realm had people who worked and did chores too?

But wouldn't those beings with eternal lives have to work until the end of time? Spending an ageless, deathless life serving others sounded rather pitiful...

Luckily, 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?"

"Go ahead."

"My grandfather... if there were a complete cultivation system, could he break through to the Hundredth Level?"

"Theoretically, 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 certainly 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, inwardly marveling at the power of gods. Becoming a god would allow her to turn a Title Douluo into an immortal Divine Attendant. That ability was simply incredible!

Once I become the Angel God, I'll definitely turn Grandpa and all the uncles from Spirit Hall into Divine Attendants. Then, hehe.

Lu Chen rolled his eyes inwardly, feeling too powerless to even complain. Divine Attendants might be weak, but they were not so cheap that just anyone could become one.

No one could make whoever they wanted into a Divine Attendant. Not even a God King had that ability—or rather, that authority.

However, Lu Chen was currently focused on searching for their destination, so he could not be bothered to explain such useless knowledge to Qian Renxue.

She would understand once she became a god anyway.

"Hm?"

Lu Chen's heart stirred. He grabbed a fragment before him, and a gleam flashed through his eyes.

"Hold on tight!"

"Hm?"

Whoosh!

Before Qian Renxue could react, the world spun around her. She became utterly dizzy, and 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... what... what is this? Where... where have we arrived?" Qian Renxue asked groggily.

"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 looking for.

"A... a small world? The Douluo World?" Qian Renxue shook her head to clear it, then stared in shock at the enormous green sphere before her.

A world? Was it the kind of world she understood it to be?

"Just like the world you live in, this is another world. It is simply much weaker than the Douluo Continent. There are no intelligent lifeforms within it, and it must cling tightly to the Douluo World to survive in this void."

Lu Chen casually branded a mark upon the small world. "This is also one of the opportunities found within the void. If a soul master from the Douluo World stumbled upon a small world, they could at the very least become a Title Douluo in the future."

"Ah?"

Qian Renxue looked at the small world in surprise. "Just finding it would let someone become a Title Douluo? That's amazing! No, wait! Ordinary soul masters can't find it, can they?"

"If they're lucky, they can. There are usually some spatial rifts within the Douluo World leading to such worlds, but not to this one."

Lu Chen shook his head. He had already lost interest in this small world. A small world with the capacity of a Rank Three God was utter trash. It had wasted his time!

"Let's go. We'll keep looking."

"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 take another ten or twenty thousand years to appear, so finding it is somewhat troublesome."

With that, Lu Chen fixed his gaze on another direction, shattered space with Qian Renxue, and sped toward it.