Chapter 279: Imperial Citizen

“It’s truly beautiful.”

Luo Feng tilted his head to gaze at the sky. The heavens above resembled a thin veil of purple gauze. In the distant horizon, the sky transformed into a deep blue!

“The sky of Qiulong Star is indeed unparalleled,” Gao Sheng also smiled in admiration. “Some regions have blue skies, others purple, green, red, and so on. The colors frequently change! Especially when sunlight penetrates the atmosphere, casting its glow upon the ocean—it’s an absolutely breathtaking sight!”

“Qiulong Star has attracted many powerful warriors to reside here precisely because of its beauty. Gradually, Qiulong Star has become even more prosperous,” Gao Sheng praised.

Among this group of people, the slowest flyer was Gao Sheng.

However, Gao Sheng stood on a streamlined, peculiar board, enabling him to fly at around two thousand meters per second. As they conversed, they quickly flew past hundreds of kilometers.

“Wu,” Luo Feng’s eyes lit up as he looked toward a distant city.

It was a beautifully designed city, roughly the size of a city on Earth.

“Brother Luo Feng, you’re also envious? Haha, that’s considered a very luxurious residence on Qiulong Star. A castle measuring 9.8 kilometers in both length and width—those who can afford to live in such a castle are definitely top-tier powerhouses,” Gao Sheng’s eyes sparkled with excitement. “Damn it, I don’t know when I’ll ever be able to afford one.”

“A castle?” Luo Feng was momentarily stunned.

“Brother Luo Feng, that’s a property, a rather luxurious one. It’s similar to the ‘villas’ on Earth,” Babata quickly explained. “The universe is vast, with countless planets, so the upper echelons of society are accustomed to living in very large places! For example, your teacher’s residence is an entire planet. On a prosperous planet like Qiulong Star, land is more expensive, so a castle measuring 9.8 kilometers in length and width is considered luxurious. On an ordinary planet, it wouldn’t be considered anything special.”

Luo Feng couldn’t help but silently curse.

They were on completely different levels!

Their residences were castles measuring 9.8 kilometers in length and width!

“Hmm?”

While flying, Luo Feng spotted another castle in the distance, and even farther away, another castle.

On the breathtakingly beautiful Qiulong Star, owning one’s own castle was indeed a luxury.

More than ten minutes of flying passed.

Luo Feng looked down and saw a densely built-up area below, with one ‘small castle’ after another.

“These are the cheapest residential properties on Qiulong Star. A manor merely one kilometer in length and width would be considered quite valuable—on our Karuo Empire, even in the capital star, it would sell for no more than a billion Heilong coins,” Gao Sheng muttered in disbelief. “Yet here on Qiulong Star, even the cheapest of such manors costs over a hundred billion Heilong coins!”

Luo Feng blinked a couple of times.

Over a hundred billion Heilong coins?

“Brother Luo Feng, do you own any property here?” Gao Sheng asked.

“No, I’m too young,” Luo Feng replied.

“Yeah, me too,” Gao Sheng nodded quickly. “My old man tightly controls my allowance, and even promised to give me a planet only after ten years, once I complete my coming-of-age ceremony.” Gao Sheng looked quite dissatisfied. “Otherwise, I could already have a manor on Qiulong Star to relax and stay in during my travels. Then, I would be a resident of Qiulong Star! On Qiulong Star, that means I can walk around with pride and confidence!”

Luo Feng nodded slightly.

Before coming here, Babata had already told him. Once someone becomes a ‘resident of Qiulong Star,’ they receive special treatment!

However…

Judging from the exorbitant property prices here, those who can afford to purchase manors, let alone more expensive castles, are likely members of royal families or prominent clans from vassal states (elementary cosmic civilizations), or at the very least, planetary lords who own their own planets.

Even owning a planet doesn’t necessarily mean one can afford to buy property here.

After flying for nearly half an hour.

At last, Luo Feng caught sight of a colossal city looming in the distance. Its towering walls were pitch-black as ink, stretching boundlessly toward the horizon—impossible to take in with a single glance! Crowning the battlements were crystalline, glass-like structures, upon which magnificent, serpentine dragons of radiant glass coiled in majestic splendor.

As Luo Feng drew closer, he noticed intricate carvings on the ink-black walls—carvings of one-horned dragons.

“What a massive city,” Luo Feng and Gao Sheng and others landed on the ground, looking up at the towering walls, their hearts filled with awe.

The obsidian walls alone stood approximately 120 meters tall. When combined with the crystalline dragon sculptures adorning their summits, the entire structure soared hundreds of meters into the heavens. Furthermore, this magnificent metropolis stretched boundlessly across the horizon, its ancient grandeur exuding an overwhelming sense of majesty that commanded reverence.

“Qiulong City, nearly 6,000 kilometers in both length and width. This city has a history of over three million years,” Gao Sheng praised.

“Just as Babata told me.”

Luo Feng realized…

Although Babata had been on Earth for fifty thousand years, even after fifty thousand years, the universe had changed very little! Whether in terms of technology, empires, organizations, etc., there hadn’t been much change. Obviously, for empires that had existed for hundreds of millions of years, fifty thousand years was indeed insignificant.

The massive city gate was nearly a kilometer wide.

People bustled in and out.

Luo Feng, Gao Sheng, and the other four entered the city together.

“Signal received, Luo Feng. In Qiulong City, your communication number is 19287342325,” Babata said.

A communication number was similar to a ‘phone number.’

Even the most advanced communicator couldn’t make calls across light-years of space. Some civilized planets automatically assigned a code to every lifeform’s ‘auxiliary brain’ upon arrival. Within the planet, people could communicate with each other using communicators.

For interplanetary communication, there was only one way—entering the ‘Virtual Universe Network,’ where conversations could take place in the virtual universe.

“Brother Luo Feng, what’s your communication number?” Gao Sheng asked.

“19287342325,” Luo Feng replied.

“Got it.” Gao Sheng grinned. “I need to meet an elder first upon arriving in Qiulong City. Let’s part ways here. Tonight, I’ll contact you—I’ll host a dinner for us.” Influenced by his father, Gao Sheng enjoyed making many friends. More friends meant more opportunities.

In his eyes, Luo Feng clearly had a strong background.

“Alright, let’s part ways here,” Luo Feng smiled.

After parting ways with Gao Sheng and the others, Luo Feng walked through this massive city, feeling overwhelmed by its brilliance.

The surrounding buildings were of various styles.

Many of them were indeed breathtakingly beautiful.

“So fascinating.”

“Three eyes. Huh, that person’s teeth are quite interesting.” Luo Feng walked along the street. The streets were crowded with people, and even high above, at a hundred meters altitude, many people flew by. They were called ‘people,’ but their appearances were all quite strange. Within just five minutes, Luo Feng saw humans ranging from nearly ten meters tall to as small as an Earth baby.

Skin colors varied.

Some even had oddly shaped heads.

However, most still had ‘two eyes, one nose, one mouth,’ though their faces might be covered in fur or have strange patterns.

“That person looks like a Buddha from mythology, entirely golden, with particularly interesting hair.”

Luo Feng felt like an old countrywoman entering a grand garden, his eyes unable to take everything in.

“Stellar Level Six, Stellar Level Nine, Planetary Level Three, Stellar Level One, Planetary Level Five…” With Babata’s assistance, Luo Feng scanned the energy signatures of numerous individuals. Amidst the ceaseless flow of pedestrians on the streets of Qiulong Star, nearly all were Stellar Level combatants, with a considerable number of Planetary Level warriors mixed among them.

Take any of them and drop them on Earth, and they would be ‘beings surpassing the might of a War God.’

Just by looking around, he could find warriors stronger than Earth’s strongest—Hong, Luo Feng, and Thunder God.

“Brother Luo Feng, I’ve already called the planetary service number to ask. The administrative building of the Heilong Mountain Empire on this planet is about two hundred kilometers away,” Babata said. “According to our plan, the first thing upon arriving at Qiulong Star is… to join the Heilong Mountain Empire and obtain citizenship.”

“Let’s go.”

Luo Feng immediately soared into the air, flying at a hundred meters altitude. This was the height at which most flyers traveled.

“I’ve encountered numerous Star-level warriors at the seventh, eighth, and ninth tiers. Yet not a single Cosmic-level warrior has crossed my path,” Luo Feng pondered silently.

“Star-level warriors are already considered formidable. On smaller planets, they’re rarely seen. However, on a planet like Qiulong Star, Star-level warriors are relatively common. As for Cosmic-level warriors… how many exist across the entire Yinlan Empire? Of course, Cosmic-level warriors do reside on Qiulong Star, but encountering one depends entirely on fortune.”

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As they spoke,

Luo Feng spotted a massive carving of a black dragon coiled around a mountain!

This was the administrative building of the Heilong Mountain Empire on Qiulong Star.

At the entrance of the building stood two towering guards, nearly six meters tall, with bronze-colored skin.

“Hmm? They’re Liuyin Guards!”

“Indeed, Liuyin Guards.”

The two towering sentinels instantly snapped to attention, their faces breaking into broad grins. As Luo Feng drew near the entrance, they eagerly swung the massive doors wide with a flourish: “Milord, pray enter.”

“Just as Babata said, in the universe, strength, status, and identity are highly valued,” Luo Feng smiled as he entered the grand hall. Behind him were two Liuyin Guards in black uniforms. He casually glanced at the introduction of the building’s various functions inside the hall and quickly found the floor he needed to go to.

“32nd floor?” Luo Feng directly stepped into the nearby circular sofa and sat down. The Liuyin Guards stood beside him as he simultaneously said, “32!”

Ding!

The tray beneath the circular sofa emitted a white glow.

Whoosh!

It shot straight up, not the slightest tremor. When it stopped, it had already reached the 32nd floor.

“Sir, hello,” a beautiful woman, with rabbit ears and as enchanting as an elf from mythology, flew over, slightly bowed, and smiled, “How may I assist you?”

“I wish to join the citizenship of the Heilong Mountain Empire,” Luo Feng smiled.

In the universe, having a citizen identity was very necessary for many matters.

Thanks to Babata’s guidance, Luo Feng could smoothly handle many matters. If it were Hong or Thunder God, arriving on a planet blindly, they would likely be completely lost and clueless.

“Citizenship?” The receptionist looked surprised.

Who doesn’t have citizenship these days?