Divine Kingdom, Earthstar World.
One of Dongguan's divine power avatars walked down a street. The city he was in had many towering buildings, as well as some floating structures.
Its technology was somewhat more advanced, and its "ordinary people" were physically stronger, but its society bore some resemblance to Earth before the Great Nirvana.
That was why he had come to experience that long-lost feeling from before his transmigration.
"Eternal life, immortality, the stars and the seas, all this prosperity. But what does any of it have to do with ordinary people?"
Dongguan watched the advertisements scrolling across a huge screen mounted outside a building, displaying introductions to various "health products."
After taking Chen Feng out of the Divine Kingdom and returning, he had noticed a change in its atmosphere.
But throughout the universe, the masses prostrated themselves before overwhelming strength.
Across the broadest regions, the system experienced by the vastest populations was essentially feudal lordship.
That even included present-day Earth, whose Earth Lord was Luo Feng. It was just that some lords were more enlightened and granted those within their territories more rights to develop.
Only upon reaching the planetary level and becoming a Universe Citizen could someone be considered to have escaped the status of a "subject."
But not every lord was enlightened enough.
Only by becoming a citizen of a Universe Country could someone be considered truly "free."
Though Dongguan recognized the existence of this system, he had no intention of changing it, because it was inevitable.
Besides being rulers, "lords" were also protectors. What many "subjects" longed for
was not necessarily "freedom," but a sufficiently powerful "lord" who could give them safety.
After all, the actual lord might not exploit the common people.
And everywhere, people faced oppression from the forces under the powerful rather than