Chapter 1701: Chapter 6: The Four Stages of the World, A Hundred Years of Intensive Training!

Liu Tianning’s performance in the second round was also on the verge of passing if luck had been slightly better. If the strength density in his small world were a bit lower, he would have entered the third round.

"When we return, we’ll have to go pay our respects at the dock. You’re the only one left at Man Ya Boundary Star." Liu Tianning said, "You need to take good care of yourself."

"Yes."

After the conversation with Lao Liu and the other two ended, Zhao Xing quickly received messages from Jing Yan and Yu Tianqing.

"Brother, impressive! I heard you’ve reached the Great Divine Power Realm?" Jing Yan couldn’t wait to ask as soon as he appeared.

"Just so-so." Zhao Xing nodded.

"Damn, you really pulled it off." Jing Yan complained angrily.

"Both you and Yu Tianqing have broken that shackle, but I’m still stuck. The Great Path shows no mercy to me, Jing Yan."

Yu Tianqing and Jing Yan have both passed the second round.

After all, there’s hope for passing even if one isn’t in the Great Divine Power Realm, but in the Illusion God Star System trio, both Yu Tianqing and Zhao Xing have already broken through that barrier.

Jing Yan, as a prince, has yet to break through, which is a bit depressing.

"Tell me, what kind of feeling is it?" Jing Yan asked.

"Hasn’t Yu Tianqing told you?" Zhao Xing asked. Old Yu reached the Great Divine Power Realm hundreds of years earlier.

"He talked nonsense." Jing Yan was irritated upon mentioning this, "He said it happened naturally, purely a matter of aptitudes."

Yu Tianqing felt a bit aggrieved; he truly relied on talent.

Zhao Xing couldn’t help but chuckle silently.

For Yu Tianqing, there’s no bottleneck in reaching the Great Divine Power Realm. After awakening and accumulating a few years of Origin, he reached it directly! He wasn’t wrong.

"Don’t ask me that; if I could teach it, I’d change careers to become a scholar." Zhao Xing waved his hand, "Such mysterious things, talking about them is pointless."

"Alas..."

After chatting for a while with Jing Yan and Yu Tianqing, Zhao Xing soon received congratulatory messages from Bai Yang, Chen Xuan, and then Du Yun.

However, Du Yun’s congratulations were more direct; he transferred 300 million Red Star Coins to Zhao Xing and included a note with two words: [Congratulations, a small token.]

"Little Du’s congratulations are quite practical." Zhao Xing smiled. Du Yun still remembered him, but his memory was fuzzy, and he didn’t remember the matter of five trillion.

However, the money isn’t with Du Yun; it’s not even in the hands of the bigwig Du Yun had entreated.

Qing Yu Zi said that person was directly penalized by the Reincarnation Temple, losing all their old savings.

And was even forced to reincarnate, as a consequence of interfering with Reincarnation Temple affairs.

"If they hadn’t investigated, it would have been fine. But once investigated, the cost became boundless. They only collected 5 trillion from me but were forced to reincarnate; truly no place to reason."

Once reincarnated, cause and effect are cleared, and the punishment from the Reincarnation Temple is considered concluded.

However, the Reincarnation Realm who engaged in this business truly suffered a great loss.

"Logically, Du Yun should also be penalized, but being part of Purple God Mansion means he has Qing Yu Zi’s protection."

"Du Yun is only in the Origin Realm, so he was just a messenger in this matter, entirely unpunished."

Zhao Xing couldn’t help but feel a moment of silence for the unfortunate Reincarnation Realm, but to this day, he doesn’t know the name of the unlucky Reincarnation Realm.

...

"Zhao Xing, congratulations on advancing to the third round."

On the other side, after paying respects to the Beihai Lord, he was arranged to meet Qiao Song for the specific reward arrangements.

"Thank you, sir. It was merely luck on my part." Zhao Xing said humbly.

"Come, choose a high-grade Boundary Star you like and give it a name." Qiao Song waved his hand, and the Star Mirror projected the images of various Boundary Stars.

"On each high-grade Boundary Star, there are about 100 billion registered native residents and 1 billion citizens of the Beihai Star System. Once you choose, you become the master of this planet."

"However, you need to note that you can deal with 100 billion registered native residents as you wish, live or die, but you can’t arbitrarily harm the 1 billion citizens of the Beihai Star System."

"Yes." Zhao Xing nodded.

Calling it an empire, naturally, there are slaves. Of course, in a nicer way, they’re referred to as registered natives here.

Registered natives can only perform the lowest labor, such as being transported to mineral planets for mining, etc. In the hands of certain severe planet masters, they don’t even have human rights.

This is a situation players would encounter when first entering the cosmic version.

Non-citizenship, the planet master can deal with however they see fit.

Players often jokingly say they’ve entered a black plantation or a cosmic-level scam park.

However, this is essentially the rule in Xuanling Star Domain.

Controlling the number of citizens is equivalent to controlling the right to cultivation.

If no control is exercised, every force in the Xuanling Star Domain would exhaust the Spiritual Energy Origin within a few epochs.

Citizens have the right to cultivate and cannot be killed at will.

"I’ll choose this one." Zhao Xing pointed at a blue planet. "Sky Blue Star No.48."

"Alright." Qiao Song operated on the Star Mirror, "You are now the master of Sky Blue Star No.48, and the surrounding Star Land and mineral planets have been assigned to your name."

"Thank you, sir." Zhao Xing cupped his hands.

"Do you have any other requirements?" Qiao Song asked.

"Yes." Zhao Xing nodded, "Mr. Qiao, since the third round is also happening at Man Ya Boundary Star, I’d like to find a good cultivation site to enhance my dojo and World Technique over the next hundred years."

"Refining the dojo and World Technique." Qiao Song pondered, "Elevation of the dojo and World Technique cannot be accomplished by a Preaching Scholar."

"Now that you’ve opened the door to the Great Divine Power Realm, at this level, there are few shortcuts like sudden enlightenment available."

The rarity of the Great Divine Power Realm is due to the difficulty of external assistance. Zhao Xing understood this well, so he only requested a good site.