Universe-Level Lord

Swallowed Star World.

Wang Yu's D4-class Universe Spaceship was flying toward a planet as beautiful as a gemstone.

Looking at this gorgeous planet, Wang Yu could not help feeling a bit excited.

Standing beside him, a man with scales between his eyebrows smiled and said,

"Haha! Brother Wang Yu, are you satisfied with your main star?"

"Of course I am satisfied. Many thanks to my older brother for fighting for me, otherwise I would never have fifty living planets and such a high-quality planet as my main star!" Wang Yu smiled.

"You and I are brothers, why mention thanks?" Jimmy laughed heartily.

"Anyway, I only had to open my mouth and say a few words. The planets weren't provided by me, they were all supplied by the empire!"

Wang Yu chuckled along with him.

The spaceship entered the planet and landed on the plaza of a magnificent palace.

The cabin doors slid open, and ten thousand people on the plaza shouted respectfully in unison, "Greetings, Lord!"

Neither of them paid any attention to these ordinary people. As they entered the palace, maidservants immediately served wine and dishes, and the banquet began.

Every single dish served at the banquet was valuable enough to purchase a seventh-order star-level slave, and the fine wine was ten times more expensive, enough to buy a ninth-order star-level slave!

The maidservants looked on, feeling it was the height of luxury.

Wang Yu and Jimmy did not care at all. As universe-level powerhouses, such meager consumption was completely normal.

"How is it? Brother, do you want to take another look, or have you decided on this planet?" Jimmy asked, holding his wine glass.

"This planet is good enough, no need to look further."

"Very well..." Jimmy split off a sliver of consciousness to confirm the planetary territory for Wang Yu in the virtual universe, and soon smiled again.

"Done. From now on, you are the lord of fifty living planets. Congratulations!"

"Thanks!" The two clinked glasses and drank.

"There is a lord's document sent to you by the Imperial Administrative Office, which details the things you need to pay attention to as an imperial lord. Have a look at it when you have time later."

"However, let me briefly explain it to you as well. Actually, there is nothing particularly special about it; the important things are just three rules."

"First, pay taxes! A universe-level lord must pay taxes once every hundred years. Remember to pay on time, as this is the most important thing."

"Second, cultivate geniuses! Brother, you are a third-class elite of the Ganwu Dojo, so naturally you understand that the great Qian Wu Country Lord attaches great importance to cultivating geniuses. This is the core national policy, and for all vassal countries, it is a matter of top priority!"

"This is not forced upon you. How difficult is it to produce a true genius? Therefore, this point means there are rewards for succeeding, and no real punishment for failing. It all depends on whether you have the interest to cultivate younger generations."

"Third, don't go overboard when slaughtering your subjects! Planetary-level individuals are considered legal citizens of the empire. According to imperial law, a universe-level lord is allowed to slaughter up to two hundred planetary-level subjects per year on each living planet. Since you own fifty living planets, your annual slaughter quota is ten thousand planetary-levels. Furthermore, matters are settled for the current year, and unused quotas cannot be accumulated."

Speaking up to this point, Jimmy suddenly turned serious.

"Of course, when managing a planetary territory, it is impossible to completely prohibit killing. Therefore, executing lawbreaking criminals does not count toward your slaughter quota. As long as you follow the proper procedures to pin some crimes on them, executing them is fine. Slightly exceeding the quota is no big deal, as long as you maintain a sense of proportion and don't go too far!"

"If you really cannot suppress your urges and want to engage in a massive slaughter, just use apprentice-grades to make up the numbers! Apprentice-grades aren't even citizens, so you can kill as many as you like. However, if you really kill too many, there won't be anyone left to work, which isn't great for the development of your territory. You'll have to weigh that yourself, brother!"

"Ahem, I understand. I don't plan on engaging in any massive slaughter..." Wang Yu said hastily.

"Oh, brother is benevolent and kind, that is naturally for the best!" Jimmy smiled.

"Frankly speaking, I am only mentioning this so that brother understands how to conduct himself. Since the empire grants territories, naturally it doesn't want lords slaughtering subjects just for fun, otherwise the planets would find it very difficult to develop!"

"Brother, I joined the Blue Silver Empire as a lord because I genuinely intend to manage the territory well."

"Is that so? Brother performed so well in the Genius Battle that I thought you only took these planetary territories to satisfy your craving for being a lord..." Jimmy looked at Wang Yu with some surprise.

"Right, there is one more matter. This main planet currently only has a serial number and no formal name. By convention, you, the new lord, must name the main star."

"Oh? There is such a rule?" Wang Yu thought for a moment.

"Let's call it... War God Star."

"War God Star? Hmm, that's a good name." Jimmy nodded, splitting off a sliver of consciousness to operate within the virtual universe.

"Alright, the name has been officially registered with the empire. From now on, this planet is called War God Star."

After chatting casually for a little longer, Jimmy stood up to take his leave. As the head of the Imperial Administrative Office for the Blue Silver Empire, he still had official duties to attend to and could not stay long.

Wang Yu sat alone on the resplendent lord's throne within the grand hall, feeling a profound wave of emotion.

"I've finally made it to the universe-level and become a planetary lord..."

He was originally a modern person from the Xia Kingdom. One day, he struck supreme good fortune when he went out, and upon opening his eyes again, he found that he had transmigrated, becoming a newly born infant.

Not only had he transmigrated out of nowhere, but he had landed in the Swallowed Star World, and during a very early era at that!

It was simply a triple-combo of pleasant surprises!

How early?

He had just participated in a Stellar-level Genius Battle two years prior. That was the one hundredth time the Genius Battle had been held since the founding of the Ganwu Universe Country!

The Genius Battle was held twice every ten thousand years. The one hundredth time meant that the Ganwu Universe Country had only been established for five hundred thousand years!

The layout of humanity's 1008 universe countries had been established quite early on, and furthermore, the Ganwu Universe Country was not the 1008th one founded; the current layout of humanity consisted of 996 universe countries...

Arriving early to this degree, even figures like Ke Di, Shi Huo, and Zhen Yan were probably not even born yet, let alone Luo Feng!

Separated by who knows how many hundreds of millions of years, wanting to latch onto City Lord Luo's coattails?

Then he would first have to break through to become an Immortal, and in the middle, survive those countless hundreds of millions of years without perishing, just to scrape by all the way until City Lord Luo was born...

Not to mention impossible, but this difficulty was clearly hell-difficulty!

Added to that, he only came from an ordinary background; although it wasn't tragic enough to start as a slave, it was still just the most ordinary planetary-level universe citizen family, unable to give him any cultivation support.

As for cultivation talent, he could at best scrape by as a Ganwu Dojo third-class elite, comprehending a sixth-stage domain at the star-level, and placing a little over nine-thousandth in the 100 world districts during the Genius Battle universe country preliminary rounds.

A standard like this could be called the potential of a Domain Lord!

Right, just the potential of a Domain Lord!

No more than that!

After transmigrating into the Swallowed Star World and actually going to cultivate, he truly experienced just how arduous cultivation was.

A galaxy had hundreds of thousands of life planets, and each planet had tens or hundreds of billions of lives, yet normally only a single universe-level could be born...

Previously, he thought universe-levels were absolute trash, mere cannon fodder on the Extraterritorial Battlefield.

Now?

He himself had only just broken through to the first-order universe level, and in his eyes, every universe-level was extremely powerful and not to be messed with at all...

He truly felt emotional that in such a terrifying world, walking this path all the way was indeed not easy!

No matter what, as a Ganwu Dojo third-class elite with acceptable Genius Battle performance and Domain Lord potential, breaking through to the universe-level and joining an elementary universe country immediately earned him fifty life planets, making him a high and mighty lord master...

He had finally made it through!

Wang Yu's gaze looked toward the rows of illusory text floating before his eyes.

[Host territory of life planets detected, Highest Lord System officially activated]
[Calculating starter lord allocation based on territorial population]
[Calculating...]
[Calculation complete]
[Starter lord funds: 10 billion energy]
[Starter lord points: 10 billion energy]
[Lord Mall and Lord Stat Allocation unlocked]

Since he was a transmigrator, he naturally possessed the transmigrator's perk, a "system".

His system was the "Strongest Lord System", which he got right when he transmigrated, but activation had a requirement: he had to own life planet territory and at least ten billion territorial subjects to successfully activate it.

He was not the descendant of some powerhouse, just the child of ordinary planetary-level parents.

Even if he could become a Ganwu Dojo third-class elite, considering he had somewhat of a status and obtained some funds from well-intentioned investments, he could barely manage to buy a life planet. However, considering it was too difficult to hold onto a planetary territory at the star-level, he had no choice but to endure, participate in one Genius Battle to gild himself, and then break through to the universe-level to acquire a fief by joining an elementary universe country.

Now it seemed he had done the right thing after all.

A massive amount of information regarding the system materialized out of thin air in his mind.

So that's how it is... Wang Yu instantly understood what to do.

Simply put, this system existed to make him cultivate his territorial subjects.

When new subjects were born, when subjects broke through in cultivation, and when subjects achieved accomplishments, the system would grant "Lord Funds" and "Lord Points" rewards based on these three items.

Lord Funds could only be used to build the territory and cultivate subjects; he could not use them on himself.

However, Lord Points could be used to directly allocate points through the system to enhance his own strength.

With every reward, the amounts for both were guaranteed to be identical; however much funds were rewarded, that many points were given.

A simple and brutal model.

And furthermore...

The calculation unit is actually Universe Coins!? Wang Yu sucked in a breath of cold air.

He was truly shocked!

Universe Coins!

This system gave him 10 billion Universe Coins right at the start!