Volume 11 Chapter 2 – Farewell
His little brother was extremely excited, and he swiftly contacted everyone else. They all arrived shortly. Even Hong and Thunder G.o.d arrived.
"What, Little Feng, you are leaving for so long?" His mother Gong Xin Lan couldn"t help but exclaim. Because of the large amounts of treasures that helped alter and enhance them from the inside out, whether it was his mother or father, they both still looked very young, like they were in their 30s.
"That"s pretty long." His father Luo Hong Guo couldn"t help but say too.
"The most important thing is." His little brother Luo Hua said, "Just the travel alone will be 3 years, and returning will take another 3 years. And you have to stay at the headquarters for a long time. Just the primal universe partic.i.p.ation will take 100 years! This, this is simply&h.e.l.lip;"
Luo Feng sat there, feeling uncomfortable.
He had just received the e-mail from the Virtual Universe Company informing him that they would pick him up in 12 days time from Bailan star. Within the e-mail it spoke of the partic.i.p.ation within the primal universe being 30 years. However the time flow in there was different compared to outside, as the time flowed slower within that s.p.a.ce.
30 years in the primal universe would mean a 100 years in the actual universe.
The good news was that even though he was within the primal universe, he could still enter the virtual universe network.
"Hm?" Luo Feng felt his hand being squeezed. He turned to look at his wife Xu Xin beside him, who was still dressed in her office attire. She held his hands, and her eyes filled with reluctance.
"Alright, be good." Luo Feng gently touched the back of her hand.
"Dad, mum, it"s actually not as serious as you think. Even though I"m leaving earth, I can still enter the virtual universe once in awhile." He forced out a smile, "The virtual universe 100% simulation is no different from meeting in reality."
"Even though it says 100%, however, daddy, it"s still not reality." Luo Hai couldn"t help but say.
Luo Feng extended his hand and pulled his two sons over.
He couldn"t bear to leave them.
He really couldn"t bear to leave his whole family behind. However Luo Hong Guo and Gong Xin Lan had both experienced the great Nirvana era. Luo Hua and the others too experienced the swallowing beast disaster etc&h.e.l.lip;disasters that happened to earth time and again, along with their perceptions widening with more information from the universe, they understood that what he was doing was right.
"Third Brother, you are doing the right thing." In the gra.s.s patch in front of Luo Feng"s house, Luo Feng, Hong and Thunder G.o.d stood together.
"I see it clearly." Dressed in all black, Hong gazed far away, "Back during the great nirvana when I was young, I saw the many painful scenes of countless fellow people dying. I understood that someone from us had to stand out. We couldn"t survive without anyone taking the lead! Hence I built the Dojo of Limits, built the compet.i.tion structure and raised the strength of human fighters."
"However!"
"The universe is tens of thousands of times more dangerous than just earth." Hong exclaimed, "The compet.i.tion will be even more intense. Just look, even though there are trillions of human races, some of the races have completely been enslaved."
Luo Feng nodded, Thunder G.o.d nodded too.
"Why have they been enslaved? It"s because they didn"t have any true absolute warrior from their race. Their race itself isn"t strong enough!" Hong shook his head, "If their race had just one undying, even if that undying wasn"t within their area, but somewhere else in the universe, just one undying alone&h.e.l.lip;would scare off the slave traders and intimidate others!"
"1 aboriginal race."
"If an aboriginal race enters the universe for the first time, there are usually three outcomes. 1 is to be stepped on and become subservient, which was still ok. The 2nd outcome is to immediately be enslaved, just like goods and sold around, the females will be sold as waitresses etc while the men will be sent to do dangerous level of work. The 3rd outcome&h.e.l.lip;is to rise up and become a strong race within the universe of humans. Just like our earth now!"
"Earth people, they haven"t been enslaved and haven"t been stepped on!"
"Because of third brother!" Hong looked at Luo Feng, "You, you are the leader of the milky way galaxy! The leader of the milky way galaxy is a person from earth, and this leader has even entered the core of the Virtual Universe Company, along with a very high position within, which was the Absolute beginning secret area. Even the Black Dragon Mountain empire wouldn"t dare mess around, even the Ganwu universe country has to respect you. With such influence, who"d dare bully or mess with the people of earth? Who"d dare?"
Luo Feng took a deep breath.
"Third brother, you"ve done well." Hong took a deep breath and said, "For a human race to rise up, especially during its early stages means that someone had to stand out, someone had to lead and take that bold first step!"
"Third brother, Thunder G.o.d and I, we are still weak right now!"
"You are doing well right now because of the genius battle. However&h.e.l.lip;genius doesn"t mean one is strong." Hong emphasized, "People do not dare mess with you because of your position and reputation. However the moment you fall, with our little strength, how will we protect earth?"
Even universe level slaves could be bought in the market. Hong and Thunder G.o.d were only star level, how could they protect earth?
"Hence!"
"Third brother, we have to rely on you now to carry the burden." Hong emphasized, "We both will work hard too. In 10,000 years, earth will have the three of us to protect it. By then, earth itself would have produced generations of strong warriors. Then its power will rise greatly and when it"s that strong, we wouldn"t have to rely on one person to intimidate others."
When a race could produce universe levels one generation after another, occasionally producing a domain lord, no slave trader would dare mess with them anymore.
"Work hard!" Hong emphasized.
"Relax, Thirdie, we will chase up to you very quickly." Thunder G.o.d laughed.
"We three will work hard together." Luo Feng smiled too.
To earth, this was a very important era.
An era of great change.
Whether the people of earth would be placed in the middle levels amongst the countless human races, or be stepped on right at the bottom, doing the most tedious and dangerous works, getting the least amounts of pay or even nothing as slaves&h.e.l.lip;it all depended on these 10,000 years! And Hong, Thunder G.o.d and Luo Feng, these three had long realized this.
They were earth"s strongest, if they didn"t take this burden, who else would?
Night.
Yangzhou city Westlake courtyard, the moonlight was mesmerizing as it was s.h.i.+ning through the window into the bedroom.
Inside the bedroom, a thin blanket covered two bodies which were wrapped tightly around each other, almost as though they were venting out all their reluctance madly. After some time&h.e.l.lip;
Luo Feng wore his pajamas and walked onto the balcony, looking up at the sky and the moon.
This was the moon of his home!
Earth"s moon!
And in the coming hundred years or so, he wouldn"t be able to witness this scene.
"You are leaving tomorrow?" Similarly dressed in her pajamas, Xu Xin hugged Luo Feng from behind as she gently snuggled to his back.
"Yes."
Luo Feng gently nodded, "Sor&h.e.l.lip;sorry."
"What are you sorry about, we are an old couple already." Xu Xin walked to his side, looking at the moonlight, she laughed, "Time pa.s.ses so quickly. In the blink of an eye, we"ve been married for over 10 years."
"It is indeed fast." Luo Feng nodded.
They had been married for over 10 years. These 10 years, with the sea creatures invading the bases, with the swallowing beast disaster, with the Nuolan Shan family invading earth, with the world within the world fight for treasures, and the recent 5-6 years of the genius battle&h.e.l.lip; his wife had quietly supported him from the shadows throughout these ordeals.
"I still remember back in high school." Xu Xin smiled. "You were still a student at the dojo."
"You were still a plain and simple lady back then." Luo Feng laughed.
"The main thing was my grandfather made me attend a normal high school, not some expensive private school." Xu Xin said, "And he also restricted me from revealing my family roots, or talk about love or anything. owever honestly, the reason our Xu family was able to rise up was indeed because of my grandfather. He"s a very knowledgeable man."
Luo Feng nodded.
During the Great Nirvana, when the bases were first built, the Xu family initially didn"t have much background, but because of her grandfather"s hard work, they made it to this level. He was indeed an exceptional figure.
"Back then you used to secretly look at me from behind." Xu Xin smiled.
"Haha." Luo Feng laughed too.
"You were even caught many times. The moment you got caught, you"d get shy. Even I wasn"t like that." Xu Xin couldn"t help but say.
The married couple spoke a lot during the night. They even left Yangzhou city and flew to many places on earth to look around.
They went to Egypt to see the pyramids, to the ancient Great wall, looking at the traces of the wilderness breaking into the city.
Finally they stood before the yellow river.
The water creatures were plenty within. Luo Feng stood by the sh.o.r.e and grabbed some soil from the ground and used a bowl to store some of the river water. He then kept it within his storage ring. Beside him, Xu Xin watched this quietly.
"Let"s go, we"ll go back." Luo Feng gripped Xu Xin"s hand.
Sou!
His domain became a light net, becoming a golden shooting star and heading towards Yangzhou city.
2071 September 18th.
The pinnacle of the humans of earth, Luo Feng sat in the universe s.h.i.+p and left earth. This trip was going to be a very long one, and by the time he returned, the world would have changed drastically.
Bailan star.
"Master!" His slave guards said respectfully.
"Hm."
Luo Feng turned to look at his two soul slaves. Both of them were universe level 9s. He said seriously, "Di Fan, Bai Kalo, this time I"m heading to the primal universe located within the Virtual Universe Company"s headquarters. I have no way to bring anyone along. Hence I have to leave both of you on earth."
"Understood."
Di Fan and Bai Kalo nodded.
"I"ve already pa.s.sed all the techniques to you. If you do not understand anything, you can enter the virtual universe network and contact me." Luo Feng said seriously, "I think, with your talents&h.e.l.lip;and the techniques I"ve given you, the next time I see you you"ll both have entered the domain lord level."
The two slaves had extremely high talents. Only thing was that one was a slave before and the other one had a teacher that was Nuolan Shan. Without a proper teacher, you wouldn"t get good techniques.
Many strong warriors in the universe lacked good teachers and techniques, as a good teacher"s instructions could raise the efficiency of a strong warrior being produced by ten times.
"Hm?"
Luo Feng turned to the distance. An ancient translucent black long blade like simple s.h.i.+p descended from above.
"I have to go." Luo Feng turned and looked seriously at Di Fan and Bai Kalo, "When I"m not around, help me to protect my family. As for earth"s safety&h.e.l.lip;with the intimidation of the Virtual Universe Company, no one would dare come mess with earth."
"Yes, master."
Di Fan and Bai Kalo replied respectfully.
Following which Luo Feng flew directly towards that simple s.h.i.+p.
Volume 11 Chapter 3 – Yu Xiang Mountain
This was a long s.h.i.+p that was about 600m in length. Its width was also close to 100m. As a battle blade shaped universe s.h.i.+p, it"s entire body was black. Facing this s.h.i.+p, it gave off a faint sense of ancient energy, almost as though it had existed in the flows of time for a very long period of time.
The cold winter wind blew and the snow fell heavily.
Amidst the snow, Luo Feng walked towards the s.h.i.+p.
Jade essence, this is a F grade s.h.i.+p made of jade essence." Within his consciousness Babatas shocked voice resounded.
"I know it"s F grade." Luo Feng replied. As he looked ahead, a group of people flew out of the s.h.i.+p"s cabin door, leading them was one similar in appearance to that of earth"s humans. He was dressed in dark armor. The skinny old man with a roman nose had intrepid short hair. As he smiled, one could even see an ice mark on his forehead.
That energy feeling that dominated the sky and land. This made Luo Feng understand that this was a sector lord that had gained the recognition of the universe origin laws.
"Shawu greets your majesty!" The skinny old man bowed slightly.
"Greetings to your majesty!"
Behind him were a group of domain lords and universe levels that were incomparably respectful to Luo Feng and bowing.
"Your majesty?" Luo Feng was taken aback.
"It looks like your majesty is still oblivious to many things." The skinny old man laughed, "Your majesty, we"ll first enter the s.h.i.+p. The entire trip to the Virtual Universe Company takes three full years, we cannot waste any time."
"Hm." Luo Feng nodded.
Under the protection of this group, he entered the F grade s.h.i.+p. The interior of this s.h.i.+p was enormous, the entire s.p.a.ce for the defense mechanism of this s.h.i.+p was the main cabin itself. There were even cabins laid out throughout the lower decks. At this time, Luo Feng flew into a 300m long and 60m wide luxurious hall.
Comfortable sofa, enticing wine, precious fruits, all were already laid out. At the back were even beautiful waitresses awaiting his command.
"Your majesty, please sit." The skinny old man smiled.
Luo Feng sat down facing the skinny old man.
"This place is not bad." Luo Feng looked around and nodded, "This F grade universe s.h.i.+p with its entire body made of Jade essence is definitely a treasure!"
"Your majesty has good taste." The old man"s smile got even wider, "This is the F6 grade Jade essence. The sides of the s.h.i.+ps are extremely sharp and even infused with origin laws, incredibly piercing. Once it accelerates, it can immediately pierce right through a planet. Also, going through planets doesn"t even affect its speed much."
Luo Feng nodded.
This was similar to the Yun Mo Planet s.h.i.+p. When one compared the the materials it was constructed from, the Yun Mo Planet s.h.i.+p was actually still a little stronger.
"Mr Shawu, what"s this about you calling me your majesty?" Luo Feng asked curiously.
"Looks like your majesty has many points to uncover." The skinny old man smiled, "Let me first introduce myself. I, Shawu, am a sector lord from the Virtual Universe Company"s last phase secret area."
Luo Feng nodded.
Last Phase secret area?
There were four large secret areas. Their names were actually very easy to understand. Take a world"s change and evolution for instance, it would first begin in the Primal phase, and later slowly begin to reach the Absolute beginning, and finally expanding and forming the skies and land. Hence heaven and land and right before it dies, it reaches the Last Phase.
Primal, Absolute beginning, Heaven and land, Last Phase, it was simply the process of evolution of a world.
"Our Virtual Universe Company"s core members are very few." The skinny old man smiled. "Absorbing these core members usually has three ways of doing so. One is from the genius battles, picking the strongest from the universe"s most elite. Another is the company’s internal nurturing of their own elites and the last is a small number of sector lords being selected and absorbed."
"Small number of sector lords?" Luo Feng was shocked.
Sector lords, even they didn"t have the worth to become core members.
"Hm." The skinny old man nodded, "As normal sector lords usually have no chance of breaking through to the undying, or some not even gaining the recognition of the origin laws. How could the company respect or even absorb them? After all, there are simply too many sector lords in the company.
Luo Feng couldn"t help but nod.
Right, the Ganwu universe country alone had millions of sector lords. Then compared to one of the 5 great leviathans the Virtual Universe Company? A hundred times of a universe country? Or even more?
"The true elites and warriors, only they can become core members." The skinny old man smiled. "As for the term your majesty&h.e.l.lip;In the four secret areas within, the Last Phase secret area belongs to the most outer layer. The members in this area, as long as they meet any other members from the other three secret areas, even if their ranks are lower than undying, we have to call you all your majesties!"
"And your majesty has entered the Absolute beginning secret area. Hence, your rank is much higher." The skinny old man smiled, "Also, those normal helpers who are not in the core, if they meet any members under undying, they also have to call them your majesties."
"Ah." Luo Feng nodded.
Your Majesty?
In the universe, these were normally emperors or kings that received such t.i.tles. Obviously the Virtual Universe Company core members that were below undying level were comparable to emperors and kings, given the hope of becoming the next ultimate warriors. In terms of position, they were much higher than those universe country princes. Those princes almost had no hopes of ever succeeding the throne!
"Your majesty, let"s enter the virtual universe together." The skinny old man smiled, "I"ll take you to the Virtual Universe Company headquarters."
"Ah?" Luo Feng"s eyes gleamed.
The universe s.h.i.+p had long began its universe transfer through the dark universe. It"s speed was rising continuously, until it reached 20 times light speed and later maintaining this speed as it progressed.
Luo Feng first entered the s.h.i.+p"s most luxurious resting room, and later his consciousness entered the virtual universe network.
Right now Luo Feng had the status of a core member. Hence his virtual a.s.sistant Babata automatically gained a feature. The moment he entered the virtual universe, he could immediately be transferred to a special location.
"Teleport!"
Hu!
Luo Feng vanished from the Black Dragon Mountain island 9 star bay.
Virtual universe headquarters.
It was a mountain peak covered in clouds and mist and was incredibly huge, even more so than a planet in real life. A person suddenly appeared within one of its stone paths, it was Luo Feng.
"Hm?" Luo Feng glanced around.
There were many people in the distance and also on this path. There were also many constructs all around him and on his left there were many beautiful villas.
"Your Majesty. A silhouette ran over from afar, it was Shawu.
"Mr Shawu." Luo Feng smiled and shouted.
"Your Majesty." The skinny old man smiled, "This entire s.p.a.ce is our Virtual Universe Company"s virtual headquarters. Actually, compared to the real headquarters, the virtual headquarters is more bustling. As there are many huge figures here who can"t always stay within the real headquarters."
"Hm." Luo Feng nodded.
"Come."
The skinny old many brought Luo Feng about to sightsee, "This is a mountain peak that floats and it is named Yu Xiang mountain. Its diameter alone is about 89,000 km."
"That big!" Luo Feng was shocked.
The earth"s diameter was only about 10,000km, and this mountain peak alone was 7 times that of earth.
"Of course it has to be big. Otherwise, there wouldn"t be enough s.p.a.ce for the training s.p.a.ces." The skinny old man laughed, "The entire Yu Xiang Mountain is separated into 5 regions. Each for the Primal, the Absolute beginning, Heaven and land and Last Phase regions along with the Public region. These 5 regions are about the same size."
"Of which, the Primal region has less than 120 people."
"The Absolute beginning region has about 1,000 people."
"The Heaven and land region has about 10,000 people."
"And the Last Phase region has over 10 million people." The skinny old man said, "As for the public region, they are filled with shops and entertainment etc. Any one from the other 4 regions can enter there. Right&h.e.l.lip;your majesty, the Primal region, Absolute beginning region, Heaven and land region, and Last phase region, none of the members can enter regions other than their own.
Luo Feng nodded, curious, "You said that the area of each region is about the same, the Primal region has less than 120 people, yet the Last Phase region has over 10 million?"
"This is ranking."
The skinny old man exclaimed, "The internal department of the company picks out the elites to enter the core, these all enter the Last phase. A few exceptional sector lords that get absorbed in also enter the Last phase! The genius battles and warrior compet.i.tions mostly enter the Last phase too&h.e.l.lip;hence this results in the last phase having the most people. The living quarters of the last phase are skysc.r.a.pers, and everyone gets an apartment."
"Within the Heaven and land region, everyone gets their own villa."
"Within the Absolute beginning region, everyone gets their own training s.p.a.ce, their own learning grounds etc, these are considered very luxurious."
"The Primal region however, with less than 120 people, they get villas and mansions with territories of diameters over 10,00km. Within them they have training facilities and they even have specially placed undying teachers stationed long term there. They also have large amounts of helpers and staff to be called over at anytime to help in training etc." The skinny old man"s eyes were filled with envy.
Luo Feng was stunned.
The difference in treatment was too huge. The last phase stayed in skysc.r.a.pers, the Heaven and land got villas, the Absolute beginning got villas and training areas, the Primal region however&h.e.l.lip;my G.o.d, building a huge villa with a diameter over 1,000km. What kind of villa was this? It was bigger than any base on earth during the Great Nirvana! It was simply an empire! And they even have undyings specially stationed there?
"The primal area has less than 120 people. The number of sector lords there doesn"t exceed 100. Every sector lord who are present there, in the universe they would be considered to be at the pinnacle and invincible." The skinny old man smiled, "They are all the true elites of the country, getting this kind of treatment wasn"t strange at all."
Under Shawu"s instructions, Luo Feng got a good understanding of the entire Yu Xiang Mountain. This was where the core members under the undying level of the Virtual Universe Company gathered&h.e.l.lip;
Standing on a precipitous mountain stone, the skinny old many pointed to the distant clouds where an incredibly huge island floated. It was surrounded by lightning snakes. "See, that"s Lightning island, also named Undying island. It"s a hundred to a thousand times bigger than Yu Xiang mountain. All the undyings from the Virtual Universe Company normally live there. If one said that Yu Xiang mountain was were the geniuses and core members under undying level gathered, then Lightning island was were the truly strong gathered. It was the undying gathering area."
"Hm." Luo Feng looked at the Lightning island amidst the clouds, nodding.
That place was named as one of the sacred lands of the all the universe humans.
"Your majesty, I"ll send you to the Absolute beginning region, of course I can only send you to the entrance." The skinny old man smiled, "Even though the benefits of the Absolute beginning region are slightly lousier than the Primal region, however it is still the second best. The living quarters you"ve been a.s.signed to, once you see it you"ll understand why countless people are vying hard to get in. And the absolute beginning rank is a.s.signed only to a little more than a 1,000. On average, one for every universe country."
Absolute beginning region, let"s go!" Luo Feng couldn"t wait anymore.