The three departments are divided among the three major powers.
What does the fourth major power do?
“It appears Your Highness hasn’t fully gathered intelligence on this matter,” Dylan said with a faint smile.
Luo Feng shook his head with a smile.
He had only decided to advance to Domain Master level ahead of schedule because of Hong’s matter, so he hadn’t had time to do preparatory work like gathering information.
“Members of the Primordial Secret Realm who are assigned externally are given the official title of ‘Inspector Special Envoy,'” Dylan said. “Their rank is equivalent to the three major department heads.”
“Inspector Special Envoy? What do they do?” Luo Feng asked in confusion. “Is it just a nominal position? Without real power?”
Having real power is very important.
Merely having a high position without actual authority is useless. Luo Feng, back on Earth, had already understood this trickery well.
“Of course there’s real power,” Dylan immediately replied. “In fact, their power is quite significant.”
“Oh?” Luo Feng listened attentively.
“My branch of the Virtual Universe Company, the Qianwu Subsidiary, represents the company in managing many affairs of the cosmos nation. Many immortal gods of the Qianwu Cosmos Nation are even eager to befriend the three department heads. Just imagine how astonishing their power must be,” Dylan sighed. “Precisely because their power is so great, even immortal gods have many ambitions. Over time, for the sake of ambition and greed, it’s quite normal for them to do things that harm the interests of the Virtual Universe Company.”
Luo Feng nodded.
That was indeed true. Power corrupts people, especially when one holds great power over an entire cosmos nation.
“Therefore, just as the name suggests, the Inspector Special Envoy has the privilege of supervision,” Dylan smiled. “They can monitor those three department heads, and once any suspicious activity is detected, they can directly report it to the company headquarters! Ha ha… Even the most powerful individuals can’t withstand thorough scrutiny. Moreover, if there really is any wrongdoing, then they would be even more afraid of provoking you.”
“The three department heads will surely flatter you and dare not provoke you easily,” Dylan laughed. “Once you become a World Master, your tenure as a regional governor will automatically end, and they can finally relax.”
“Considering how rare Domain Master-level members of the Primordial Secret Realm are, it might take millions of years or even longer before another Inspector Special Envoy is assigned to the Qianwu Cosmos Nation.”
“Oh?” Luo Feng’s eyes lit up.
Inspector Special Envoy?
This essentially meant representing the ‘headquarters’ to conduct supervision. Such power was indeed significant.
“This is the most fundamental authority of an Inspector Special Envoy,” Dylan chuckled. “From a training standpoint, the Virtual Universe Company will also assign other practical missions for His Highness to undertake… Successfully completing these tasks will earn you points as well.”
Luo Feng nodded.
That made sense.
Even Domain Master and World Master-level geniuses have ways to earn points, though not as easily or conveniently as Cosmic-level geniuses.
…
The news of Luo Feng becoming a Domain Master quickly spread throughout Yuxiang Mountain.
As the most outstanding gathering place for talents in the Virtual Universe Company, everyone was extremely envious of the ‘Primordial Secret Realm.’ Therefore, when Luo Feng passed the qualification battle and entered the Primordial Secret Realm years ago, those talents were already aware of it and felt astonished at the time—Luo Feng’s first qualification battle had already brought him into the Primordial Secret Realm, which was truly impressive!
But who could have imagined—
Only a dozen years later, Luo Feng had already advanced to Domain Master and was being assigned externally.
“Is Luo Feng out of his mind? Among the talents of the Primordial Secret Realm at Yuxiang Mountain, 90% can break through to Domain Master level at any time. But how many are as reckless as him?”
“There’s a huge difference in strength between Cosmic-level and Domain Master-level geniuses. I heard that even the weakest members of the ‘Taichu Secret Realm’ at Domain Master level have passed the eighth level of the Celestial Bridge, while the ten Domain Master-level members of the ‘Primordial Secret Realm’ have all passed the tenth level at the very least!”
“Even the strongest Cosmic-level genius, Feito, would barely survive in the Taichu Secret Realm among Domain Masters. What’s Luo Feng thinking?”
“Who knows!”
…
In a private room of the Rongzhuang Hotel at the public area.
The top ten contestants from the Genius Competition gathered here, mainly to see Luo Feng off. Whether it was Ronjun or Bolan, they were all stunned when they learned that Luo Feng had broken through to Domain Master level.
“Madman, we’ve known each other for so many years, and I’ve always thought you were crazy, but this time, you’ve surpassed even my expectations,” Ronjun raised his wine glass. “Even the most gifted usually linger at the Cosmic level for thousands of years before advancing. Most stay for several thousand years before breaking through. But you—just for your madness, Madman, I toast you.”
“Haha, Wildman, come on, drink up,” Luo Feng raised his glass.
Clang!
Their glasses clinked together, and they both tilted their heads back and drank.
“Madman!” Wuka stood up and laughed, “Cosmic-level geniuses usually stay at their level for thousands of years, while Domain Master-level geniuses linger for tens of thousands of years. Therefore, the weakest Domain Master-level members of the ‘Taichu Secret Realm’ have passed the eighth level of the Celestial Bridge, and those of the ‘Primordial Secret Realm’ have at least passed the tenth level!”
“I know that!”
Luo Feng laughed. “Among the 100 Domain Master-level members of the Taichu Secret Realm, 39 have passed the eighth level, 58 have passed the ninth level, and 3 have passed the tenth level of the Celestial Bridge!”
“Among the ten Domain Master-level members of the Primordial Secret Realm, nine have passed the tenth level, and one has passed the eleventh level. Am I right?”
Wuka was momentarily speechless.
Everyone else in the private room fell silent. According to what they knew, Luo Feng had only passed the seventh level so far, which still left him far behind even the Domain Master-level members of the Taichu Secret Realm, let alone those of the Primordial Secret Realm.
“What’s there to fear? The Domain Master qualification battle only happens once every thousand years, and the next one is still several hundred years away,” Luo Feng laughed. “By then, my strength will have improved.”
Bolan, who had been silent all along, suddenly looked up, his voice cold: “In a few hundred years, do you have the confidence to reach the tenth level?”
Luo Feng fell silent for a moment.
The Celestial Bridge was divided into tiers of three levels: 1-3, 4-6, 7-9, 10-12…
Therefore, advancing from the ninth level to the tenth was an incredibly difficult threshold.
Those who had trained for tens of thousands of years as extraordinary geniuses, accumulating through several rounds of Genius Competitions and Hero Competitions, were still only a little over ten people who had managed to pass the tenth level of the Celestial Bridge after ten thousand years of cultivation. These dozen or so individuals were either the best of a particular Genius Competition, the best of a Hero Competition, or top-tier geniuses cultivated internally by the Virtual Universe Company.
Each of them was extraordinary.
Yet they still spent over ten thousand years to pass the tenth level of the Celestial Bridge!
Advancing from the ninth to the tenth level could be said to be… more difficult than the combined difficulty of levels one through nine!
“Do you have the confidence?” Bolan stared at Luo Feng, asking again.
“Haha,” Luo Feng smiled. “At the very least… I have the courage to try! Besides, who can say what the future holds?”
The group around the table fell silent.
They all felt Luo Feng’s unwavering heart! This was a belief… a belief that would never retreat! Although they understood this, none of the others at the table followed Luo Feng’s example, because Luo Feng had broken through as a Cosmic-level member of the Primordial Secret Realm, while none of the others had managed to enter the Primordial Secret Realm.
…
Primordial Secret Realm, Wuchen Continent.
“Your Highness, you don’t need to worry,” Dylan looked at Luo Feng.
“Worry? I don’t need to worry?” Luo Feng frowned. “The Primordial Secret Realm is too far from the Qianwu Cosmos Nation. Even if I take a spaceship capable of 50 times light speed, it would still take over a year. A whole year! Right now, I’m very worried about my older brother, but who knows what will happen after a year? Unless I trouble my teacher.”
“Your Highness, unless absolutely necessary, it’s better not to bother the Grandmaster,” bald Dylan said.
“I naturally understand,” Luo Feng frowned. “But the travel time…”
“Your Highness.”
The bald man smiled. “I said, Your Highness need not worry… In the universe, besides relying on spaceships, there is another method that is much faster to reach the Qianwu Cosmos Nation!”
“Oh?” Luo Feng was surprised. “What method!”
“Your Highness should have been to the Chaos City in the Initial Universe,” the bald man smiled.
Luo Feng nodded.
“Chaos City is located in the Initial Universe. The distance between the Initial Universe and our ancient Primordial Universe… even if they are as close as possible, it’s still much farther than your journey to the Qianwu Cosmos Nation,” the bald man said. “Yet back then, your journey to the Initial Universe was very fast, right?”
Luo Feng nodded: “Yes, it was very fast, because we traveled through the Cosmic Channel.”
Luo Feng clearly remembered that back then, when they took the spaceship of the Nine-Sword Venerable, they reached the Initial Universe through the ‘Cosmic Channel.’ During that journey through the Cosmic Channel… the unstable flow of time made all the geniuses feel very uncomfortable.
“Exactly, the Cosmic Channel!” the bald man nodded. “Not only that, take your former Black Dragon Mountain Empire, for example. Behind the Black Dragon Mountain Empire is the ‘Holy Black Dragon Mountain,’ which is actually a divine kingdom. There is a fixed channel within the Black Dragon Mountain Empire that leads directly to the Holy Black Dragon Mountain.”
Luo Feng nodded; he was aware of this.
“And divine kingdoms are all located in the gaps of cosmic space,” bald Dylan smiled. “The channels connecting divine kingdoms to the outside world are transmission channels.”
“Whether it’s a divine kingdom space channel or a higher-level Initial Universe cosmic channel, they are all types of transmission channels,” Dylan smiled. “They allow places that are millions of light-years or even farther apart to instantly reach each other through the transmission channels.”
“These are all fixed space channels!”
Dylan sighed. “The more distant the two points connected by any fixed channel, the greater the cost required to build it. Even a short-distance fixed space channel requires spending tens of thousands of Primordial units! For longer distances, it might cost hundreds of thousands or even millions of Primordial units to establish a fixed channel.”
Luo Feng was shocked.
The cost of establishing a fixed channel was indeed enormous.
“Besides building fixed space channels,” Dylan smiled. “Divine kingdoms can also perform one-time transmissions.”
“If I am within my divine kingdom, as long as there’s a coordinate point I’ve left behind somewhere else in the universe, I can instantly open a spatial transmission and perform a one-time transmission,” Dylan sighed. “This kind of transmission is less costly. However… each transmission requires opening a spatial channel once, and the cost varies depending on the distance.”
“Returning to my divine kingdom from here requires opening a transmission, consuming about 3 Primordial units of resources. Opening a channel from my divine kingdom to the Qianwu Cosmos Nation requires approximately 5 Primordial units,” Dylan explained.
Luo Feng was stunned.
A single transmission via a divine kingdom would consume 8 Primordial units?
Many immortal gods’ wealth is less than 10,000 Primordial units. Even his teacher, he suspected, would not be willing to make such transmissions repeatedly.
“Opening ultra-long-distance spatial channels consumes a tremendous amount of energy. Therefore, even immortal gods usually prefer to use spaceships,” Dylan explained. “Unless it’s an extremely urgent matter or for escaping danger, they would choose to instantly teleport back to their divine kingdom, or instantly go to a certain place through their divine kingdom!”
Luo Feng sighed inwardly.
A divine kingdom is half of an immortal god’s life force; it is a mysterious existence with many special abilities.
“No wonder the journey to the Initial Universe used a fixed cosmic channel. If each trip required opening a one-time transmission, the cost of repeated travels back and forth… even the Virtual Universe Company would be reluctant to bear such an expense,” Luo Feng mused. If he wanted to return to the Qianwu Cosmos Nation and save time, it would require spending a huge amount of resources.
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