Orderly tyrant

Accompanied by the shifting of time and space, Lin Qing reappeared inside a desolate and majestic divine palace.

"You have entered the 'Warpath Emperor's' divine palace."

A cold and dignified voice echoed, and Lin Qing immediately understood that the War Master's divine position could also evolve into the 'Warpath Emperor' at the star level.

As a Star God, after successfully completing the Star God trial, he could directly become the Warpath Emperor without further trials!

In an instant, Lin Qing was enveloped by a massive pillar of light, and his divine abilities began to transform frantically.

He didn't know how much time had passed, but when he came back to his senses, time and space had changed again. He was also enveloped by a vast and powerful force, and began to travel through time and space, returning to Earth.

"It's over..."

During the time-space travel, Lin Qing felt his current divine abilities and nodded to himself, "The Warpath Emperor's abilities are also very strong, and he can refine 'World-Class Artifacts'. If it's refining faction-specific artifacts, it will be faster and stronger..."

Both the Star God and the Warpath Emperor had undergone tremendous transformations in their abilities.

As for the specifics, he still needed to slowly figure out and adapt.

Before long, the vast power dissipated, and the time-space travel also stopped. When the time and space in front of Lin Qing returned to normal, he found that he had returned to Earth. Not far away was the mist of the star-level divine position forbidden zone.

Just then—

[Order Level has broken through 100,000, unlocking new advanceable projects, unlockable again after 1,000,000]

A line of golden prompts suddenly appeared before his eyes.

"Huh?"

Lin Qing was slightly stunned, and then reacted. After returning to his original sphere of life, the Entropy Reverser also determined his current Order Level.

"360,000?" Lin Qing glanced at the current Order Level.

The Order Level was so high, it was clear that Earth's civilization had developed extremely rapidly in the past few hundred years.

However, Lin Qing wasn't surprised.

Although he had only participated in the Star God trial for a few months, hundreds of years had passed on Earth!

A few hundred years ago, Earth's civilization had reached a population of over 100 billion in a hundred years, and the Order Level at that time was 80,000.

Now that hundreds of years had passed, reaching this level was normal.

"Don't rush back to Earth yet."

Lin Qing pondered for a moment, then his brow's vertical eye moved, releasing the Black Flame clone, letting the Black Flame clone fly into the forbidden zone mist to participate in the star-level divine position trial.

It was said that star-level divine position holders couldn't interfere with star-level divine position trials, even clones.

So he naturally chose to have his main body participate in the Star God trial first, with the Black Flame clone assisting.

Now that the main body's trial was over, the Black Flame clone could also participate in the Star-Eating Demon's trial.

With the Black Flame clone's gene index and combined divine skills, passing the Star-Eating Demon's trial was simply a breeze.

"Return to the Vacuum Great Tomb first."

With a thought, Lin Qing immediately used the Graveyard Keeper's privilege to travel through time and space and return to the Vacuum Great Tomb.

...

"As expected, you succeeded."

Her Highness Su looked at Lin Qing with a smile and said, "How is it? Was I right?"

"The Star God trial is indeed not difficult," Lin Qing nodded and said, "No wonder Your Highness didn't want me to wait for the Blood Cauldron King clone to transform into a Void Creature before going. Was it because you didn't want me to be targeted by the Star God trial?"

"Not telling you was to avoid you being targeted by the Star God trial."

Her Highness Su smiled and said, "Next, you should advance to become a Void Creature as soon as possible. As the Graveyard Keeper, if you become the Master of the Secret Realm in the future, you can also use the power of time and space of the Vacuum Great Tomb to conceal the Secret Realm. Even if you enter the Void Sea, other Tier 2 civilizations won't be able to find your Secret Realm."

Lin Qing nodded slowly and asked, "Can there only be one Master of the Secret Realm?"

"Of course."

Her Highness Su said casually, "With your soul imprint engraved in the depths of the world's origin of the Void Secret Realm, you are the Master of the Secret Realm. Within the Secret Realm world, you can use the Secret Realm to leverage the rules of space, and your strength can suppress 'Void Overlords'."

"Void Overlords?" Lin Qing couldn't help but ask.

Her Highness Su laughed and explained, "Void Creatures need to recognize all kinds of Void Essences, until quantitative change leads to qualitative change, truly mastering the rules of space, and the life form will also transform into 'Void Overlords'."

She paused and said, "The top-level powerhouse of the Tower Wheel civilization that you suppressed and sealed is a Void Overlord."

Lin Qing suddenly understood.

He couldn't help but ask, "I heard that the Tower Wheel civilization seems to have one hundred and eight Sky Pillar-level powerhouses. Are they all Void Overlords?"

"I don't know about that."

Her Highness Su said, "But as long as they are native Void Creatures of the Secret Realm, as long as the Master of the Secret Realm allows, they can integrate their consciousness into the origin of the Secret Realm, sense the true rules of space, and their spatial attainments will improve extremely quickly, greatly increasing the probability of giving birth to Void Overlords."

She paused, "However, the Secret Realm can only make it easier for you to progress in the rules of space, but creating divine skills depends on yourself."

Lin Qing nodded slowly.

Next, his first step was to become a Void Creature as soon as possible.

"After I became a Star God, are there any special rewards here at the Vacuum Great Tomb?" Lin Qing couldn't help but ask.

"No," Her Highness Su said casually, "Do you think the Beginning Realm needs Star Gods? You only get rewards when you complete the Graveyard Keeper's work, or become a Beginning Realm Void-level citizen."

"Alright."

Lin Qing nodded slightly, "Now that I've become a Star God and have the ability to refine artifacts, I should be able to pass the tests on the upper levels of the Sky Dome Islands, right?"

"On the Sky Dome Islands, there are only the most basic artifact refining methods," Her Highness Su said, "And you can only refine life-type artifacts."

As she spoke, she glanced at the pyramid tombs in the void around the platform and said, "Those truly powerful artifact inheritances are all within the tomb inheritances. If you want to get them..."

"I understand."

Lin Qing nodded and said, "Help find suitable successors, right?"

"It's good that you understand," Her Highness Su nodded slightly.

"I'll prepare for a while longer. After refining the basic artifacts, I'll join the Cosmic Star Patrol Alliance. At that time, I can also help search for successors," Lin Qing said.

"Go ahead," Her Highness Su hummed in agreement.

...

"Lin Qing, you succeeded?"

Qi Lingxiao, Chu Hongjun, and others were relieved to see Lin Qing's success.

The importance of a Star God to a civilization was almost irreplaceable.

Although Lin Qing was confident, they were still uneasy until he was confirmed to have succeeded.

Now, they felt much more relaxed.

Lin Qing smiled and said, "The three of you, it's been hundreds of years. How is Earth doing now?"

"We have already begun large-scale Authority Awakening," Chu Hongjun said, "But it is still difficult to give birth to geniuses with Ninth-Order talent on Earth now, and Eighth-Order talents are only a minority."

"It doesn't matter. What's more important now is the quantity of Star Origin Stones," Lin Qing said, "As long as large-scale Authority Awakening is carried out."

"To open up a Void Secret Realm, you need the guidance of a Void Creature. Are you confident?" Chu Hongjun asked.

"No," Lin Qing shook his head and said, "Anyway, whether it's opening up a Void Secret Realm or expanding and strengthening it, it requires a huge amount of Star Origin Stones. Let's increase the population as much as possible and improve the lifespan of the entire population first."

"About how much?" Chu Hongjun asked.

"If it's just opening up and stabilizing the Void Secret Realm, it requires 38 billion tons of Star Origin Stones every thousand years. Expanding the Secret Realm requires even more," Lin Qing said, "So, there must be a sufficient number of Authority Awakeners."

"How...how much? 38 billion tons?" Qi Lingxiao was a little dumbfounded.

Chu Hongjun pondered for a moment and said softly, "That requirement is not too high. Even if 99.9% of the citizens in a civilization have Sixth-Order talent, and each person contributes dozens of kilograms of Star Origin Stones every thousand years, it's enough as long as there are trillions of Authority Awakeners."

"It's indeed not high," Lin Qing nodded and said, "It shouldn't take too long, right?"

"The number of Authority Awakeners grows exponentially, so it won't take long indeed."

Chu Hongjun said, "It's not difficult to help the existing citizens in the civilization awaken their Authority. What's difficult is expanding the population scale. This requires enough resources to support so many Authority Awakeners to survive and cultivate."

He pondered slightly and said, "In the past few hundred years, after three global evolution radiations, the average gene index of Earth's civilization has reached 97%. Almost all of them can awaken their genes, and their average lifespan is very long. Achieving Authority Awakening for the entire population shouldn't take too long either, but there is a very serious problem."

Lin Qing said thoughtfully, "Are you saying that Earth can't bear it?"

"Yes, it actually can't bear it anymore."

Chu Hongjun said slowly, "I have already sold those cosmic fleet fortresses and so on of the Nine-Star Civilization in the Golden Merchant Guild, and fully purchased resources for the direction of civilization development."

"Plus, Irene is guiding the civilization more often, so the development speed is indeed quite fast."

He frowned slightly and said, "But now there are more and more Authority Awakeners being supported, and in the future, we will need to support trillions of Authority Awakeners. We also have to let them all reach the level of Primordial Lifeforms. Such a huge number of Primordial Lifeforms cannot be supported by Earth alone."

Lin Qing understood his meaning.

Conservation of energy.

To ensure its own energy balance, stable consumption and recovery, a Primordial Lifeform needs to absorb the cosmic free energy gathered by the planet.

With the vast energy that a perfect-level planet attracts and gathers from the universe at all times, even if a thousand or ten thousand Primordial Lifeforms absorb it at all times, the planet can supply it.

But the consumption of trillions of Primordial Lifeforms?

That consumption is too terrifying!

Even trillions of ordinary people require the planet's technology to be developed enough and a steady supply of external resources to support so many people.

Not to mention trillions of Primordial Lifeforms!

A perfect-level planet can barely supply a million Primordial Lifeforms.

And a perfect-level planet simply cannot supply trillions of Primordial Lifeforms!

It's like a big family. It can live very well supporting a thousand people, but supporting ten thousand people is destined to starve many people to death.

"Can't the Primordial Lifeforms all leave Earth and temporarily live on other planets?" Qi Lingxiao asked.

"Where to?"

Chu Hongjun glanced at him and said, "The moon? Mars? Or those terrestrial planets a few light-years away? Those uninhabited, dead planets are not life planets and will not actively gather cosmic energy. They are no different from space, and the energy is too thin to supply the consumption and survival of many Primordial Lifeforms."

"Then spread them out?" Qi Lingxiao said, "The universe is so big, a range of hundreds of light-years. Can't it even support trillions of Primordial Lifeforms?"

"Spread out?" Chu Hongjun said, "These Primordial Lifeforms must break through on Earth. If Earth can't supply such a huge amount of energy, then they can only break through in batches. This will take too long."

Lin Qing pondered for a moment and said, "What good methods do you have, Dean Chu?"

"Two methods."

Chu Hongjun said, "First, either purchase energy resources to supply the entire civilization with breakthroughs and replenish consumption, but this consumption is too terrifying. Even the foundation of a Tier 1.9 civilization cannot last too long for trillions of Primordial Lifeforms."

Lin Qing asked thoughtfully, "Then what's the second method?"

"The second method is to let Earth transform into a higher-dimensional planet, start absorbing a trace of energy from the Void Sea, and it won't be difficult to supply ten billion or a hundred billion Primordial Lifeforms. Then break through in batches and spread to other planets, so that it can last for a long time."

Chu Hongjun said, "When enough Star Origin Stones have been accumulated, then transform the higher-dimensional planet into a Void Secret Realm in one fell swoop, and it will be able to easily support trillions of Primordial Lifeforms."

Qi Lingxiao said helplessly, "Void Creature... I feel like I'm still a little short. I don't know when I'll be able to break through."

After Lin Qing sealed and suppressed the extraterrestrial civilizations such as the Nine-Star Civilization with the power of time and space, he went to kill a batch of Star Divine Position Holders, so he also experienced the transformation method promoted by the Divine Position.

Unfortunately, this requires completely recognizing and understanding a Void Essence. Even if he has Divine Position specialization and a guide, and his luck is also very good, he still feels hazy and can never truly recognize it.

"Wait a little longer."

Lin Qing said, "Manager Qi and I will transform into Void Creatures as soon as possible, and we will be able to solve this trouble. Maintain the maximum speed of development now. How long can we last?"

"It's no problem to last another one or two thousand years," Chu Hongjun said.

The Authority Awakening of the entire population and the transformation of the entire population into Primordial Lifeforms. Just thinking about this consumption is terrifying. Being able to last one or two thousand years is still because the Nine-Star Civilization sent a large number of cosmic fleets and precious fortresses.

Chu Hongjun sold almost all of these through the Golden Merchant Guild, and only then did he buy these resources.

"Then continue to maintain it."

Lin Qing said, "I'll go out and find some treasures first, and then sell them through the Golden Merchant Guild and exchange them for resources."

"Go out?" Chu Hongjun glanced at him, "Isn't the Tier 2 civilization staring at the time and space where Earth is located?"

"It's okay."

Lin Qing smiled and said, "I had no way before, but now I have a way to deal with it."

Chu Hongjun glanced at him and asked, "Have you paid off the Star Origin Stones you borrowed from the Vacuum Great Tomb before?"

"Not yet," Lin Qing said with a slight shake of his head. "It's okay, it won't take long."

During his seclusion for over a hundred years, which was more than a thousand years in the cultivation room of the Vacuum Grand Tomb, he had already accumulated enough Starry Sky Source Stones for a thousand years.

Since the time limit for the Vacuum Grand Tomb was ten thousand years, he wasn't in a hurry to return the Starry Sky Source Stones that the Vacuum Grand Tomb had lent him.

Instead, he first cleared the more than 800,000 kilograms of Starry Sky Source Stones he owed from when he awakened his Authority.

This also freed up a spot for advance payments.

When he finds an opportunity to seclude himself in the cultivation room for a hundred years in the future, he will be able to pay off the Starry Sky Source Stones he owes the Vacuum Grand Tomb.

"Lin Qing, how is your current strength?" Chu Hongjun asked.

"Strength?" Lin Qing hesitated for a moment and said, "I'm not sure, but I should be stronger than many Void creatures, right?"

Before becoming a Star God, he already had strength close to the eleventh level of the Star Abyss, and after becoming a Star God, he should have improved another level in theory.

But the specifics would only be known after a fight.

"I haven't tried the Star Abyss Trial yet, but I happen to have an opponent I can test it on."

Without saying much, Lin Qing immediately mobilized the power of time and space and teleported to a meteorite crater on Mars.

In the distance, only he could see the Nine-Star Emperor, the Progenitor, and the man in the white-gold robe—one of the Celestial Pillar-level experts of the Tower Civilization—suppressed by the Time-Space Cage.

"Perfect, to promote the evolution of my Divine Title, I need to kill a group of Star-level Divine Title holders or a Void creature..."

Immediately, Lin Qing floated through the air and entered the Time-Space Cage where the Nine-Star Emperor was located.