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 beautiful 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 this main star of yours?"

"Of course I am satisfied. Many thanks to Big Brother for striving for this on my behalf so that I could get fifty life planets, plus such a high-quality planet as the main star!" Wang Yu smiled.

"You and I are brothers, what are you thanking me for?" Jimmy laughed heartily.

"Anyway, I just spoke a few words, and the planet wasn't provided by me anyway—it all came from the empire!"

Wang Yu chuckled along.

The spaceship entered the planet, landing on the plaza of a majestic palace.

The hatch slid open, and ten thousand people on the plaza shouted respectfully at the same time, "Greetings, Lord Lord!"

Neither of them paid much mind to these ordinary mortals. Entering the palace, maidservants immediately served wine and dishes, and the banquet began.

Every single dish at the banquet was worth enough to buy a Ninth-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 that it was excessively luxurious.

Wang Yu and Jimmy didn't care at all. As universe-level powerhouses, such a tiny expense was completely normal.

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

"This planet is more than good enough. There's no need to look further."

"Alright then..." Jimmy split off a sliver of consciousness to secure the planetary territory for Wang Yu in the virtual universe, soon smiling again:

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

"Thanks!" The two of them clinked glasses.

"There is a document sent to you by the Imperial Administrative Office regarding the things you need to pay attention to as an imperial lord. Take a look at it when you have time later."

"However, let me briefly explain it to you as well. Actually, there's nothing particularly special; the important things boil down to three matters."

"First, pay taxes! Universe-level lords pay taxes once every hundred years. Remember to pay on time; this is the most important thing."

"Second, nurture talents! Little Brother, you are a Third-Class Elite of the Ganwu Dojo, so you naturally understand that the great Qian Wu Country Lord attaches great importance to nurturing talents. This is the core national policy and the top priority for all vassal countries!"

"This isn't forced upon you. How easy is it to produce a true talent? Therefore, this point means there are rewards if you achieve it, and no real punishment if you don't. It all depends on whether you have the interest to nurture younger generations."

"Third, don't go overboard with slaughtering subjects! Planetary-level individuals belong to the legal citizens of the empire. According to imperial law, a universe-level lord can slaughter up to 200 planetary-level subjects per life planet each year. Since you own fifty life planets, your annual slaughter quota is ten thousand planetary-level individuals, and it must be settled within the year—quotas do not accumulate."

Speaking up to this point, Jimmy suddenly turned solemn.

"Of course, when managing a planetary territory, it's impossible to completely prohibit killing. Therefore, executing lawless criminals does not count toward the slaughter quota. As long as you go through the process and pin some crimes on them, killing them is just killing them. Exceeding the quota slightly is fine, as long as you maintain a sense of proportion and don't go too overboard!"

"If you really can't suppress the urge and want a massive slaughter, just use apprentice-level individuals to make do! Apprentice-level individuals aren't even citizens, so you can kill as many as you want. However, if you really kill too many, nobody will be left to work, which isn't very good for the development of the territory. Little Brother, you can weigh this yourself!"

"Cough cough, I understand. I don't plan on going on a massive slaughter anyway..." Wang Yu hastily said.

"Oh, Little Brother is benevolent, so of course that's best!" Jimmy smiled.

"Frankly speaking, I only mentioned this so Little Brother understands how to act. The empire grants territories, and naturally it doesn't want lords killing subjects just for fun, otherwise it would be very difficult for the planet to develop!"

"Big Brother, since I joined the Blue Silver Empire as a lord, I do intend to manage it properly."

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

"Right, there's one more thing. This main planet currently only has a serial number and no official name yet. By convention, you, the new lord, must name the main star."

"Oh? There's this rule?" Wang Yu thought for a moment.

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

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

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

After chatting idly for a few more moments, Jimmy rose to take his leave. As the head of the Imperial Administrative Office of 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, his emotions filled with deep sentiment.

"Finally made it to the universe-level and became a planetary lord..."

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

Not only did he transmigrate out of nowhere, but he transmigrated into the Swallowed Star World, and the era was extremely early!

It was simply a triple-threat surprise!

How early?

He had just fought in a Stellar-level Genius Battle two years ago. That was the one hundredth time the Ganwu Universe Country had participated in the Genius Battle since its establishment!

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 right now!

The layout of humanity's 1008 universe countries was established very early on, and the Ganwu Universe Country wasn't even the 1008th to be established—the current human layout only had 996 universe countries...

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

With a gap of who knows how many hundreds of millions of years, he wanted to cling to Lord Luo's coattails?

To do that, he would first have to break through to become an Immortal, and during those unknown hundreds of millions of years in between, he could not fall, all so he could survive by hiding until Lord Luo was born...

This difficulty was not to say it was impossible, but it was clearly hell-difficulty!

Added to that, he only came from an ordinary background; although he was not miserable enough to start as a slave, he was merely from the most ordinary planetary-level universe citizen family, unable to give him any cultivation support.

As for cultivation talent, he managed to scrape by as a Ganwu Dojo third-class elite, comprehended the sixth stage of the domain at the star-level, and ranked a little over nine-thousandth among the 1,000 world areas in the universe country preliminary rounds of the Genius Battle.

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

Right, just the aptitude of a Domain Lord!

No more than that!

After transmigrating to the Swallowed Star World and actually going through cultivation himself, he finally realized just how difficult cultivation was.

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

In the past, he used to think universe-level beings were 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 view, every universe-level being was extremely powerful and very troublesome to mess with...

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

No matter what, as a Ganwu Dojo third-class elite with passable performance in the Genius Battle and the aptitude of a Domain Lord, he had broken through to the universe-level and joined an Elementary Universe Country, immediately obtaining fifty life planets and becoming a lofty lord master...

He had finally made it through!

Wang Yu's gaze looked toward the lines of illusory text appearing before his eyes.

[Host detected to possess life planet territory, the Supreme Lord System is officially activated]
[Calculating starter lord setup quota based on territorial population]
[Calculating...]
[Calculation complete]
[Starter lord starting funds: 10 billion energy]
[Starter lord starting points: 10 billion energy]
[Lord Mall and Lord Stat Allocation unlocked]

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

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

He was not the descendant of some powerhouse; he just had ordinary planetary-level parents.

Even if he could become a Ganwu Dojo third-class elite, he was somewhat considered to have status and received some money from goodwill investments, barely managing to buy a life planet; however, considering that it was too difficult to hold onto a planet territory at the star-level, he had no choice but to endure it first, participate in a Genius Battle to gild himself, and then break through to the universe-level to join an Elementary Universe Country and obtain a fief.

Now it seemed he had done the right thing.

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

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

Simply put, this system was meant for him to cultivate and nurture his territorial subjects.

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

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

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

With every reward, the amounts for both were definitely identical; however much funds were rewarded, that was how many points there were.

A simple and brutal model.

And furthermore...

"The calculation unit turns out to be Universe Coins!?" Wang Yu gasped.

He was truly shocked!

Universe Coins!

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