"A Breakthrough! This is the First Order of the Divine Power Path."
Ender stood in the Void, feeling the life gene level of that wisp of Divine Power reach 30,000 times, and was immediately surprised.
"The gene map in the Legacy goes up to over 70,000 times the life gene level. Although I haven't finished researching and analyzing all the gene maps, I've researched and analyzed most of them."
With his deep accumulation in gene maps, breaking through the 29,999 times life gene Bottleneck and reaching the First Order of the Divine Power Path was normal.
Ender recalled that wisp of Divine Power, and his Divine Body instantly disintegrated and recombined, his life gene level instantly increasing from the original 29,999 times to 30,000 times!
At the same time, the Gu Yu Ancient Tree Clone and branch trees in the Creation Secret Realm and the Divine Kingdom all had their Divine Bodies collapse and recombine to raise their life gene levels to 30,000 times.
"This time, investigating the missing Disciple, I unexpectedly gained some insight and broke through to the First Order of the Divine Power Path."
Ender gazed at the distant planet, feeling quite emotional.
The protective treasures he had bestowed upon Xi Yi included an ordinary Soul-type Heavy Treasure and a special Ultimate Treasure armor. The treasure configuration was much better than what his Senior Brother Venerable Myriad Treasure had when he went out for training.
With these two treasures, Xi Yi had killed a Pinnacle Marquis-level Immortal, yet he still perished, even though both treasures could reduce Soul attacks.
The strongest in the Extraterritorial Battlefield were merely Invincible King. Without a Universe Venerable's combat power intervening, it wasn't considered bullying the weak.
For Xi Yi to perish, the Demon race spent at least 10 Arcana Treasure points, so it can only be said that his death was not in vain but still regrettable.
"It's time to go back."
Ender instantly teleported away from the Extraterritorial Battlefield and returned to the Creation Secret Realm.
After his human main body returned to the palace, he began to cultivate in seclusion and research the life gene map.
After his Divine Power reached the First Order, there was no Bottleneck to continue increasing his life gene level. Once his Divine Power reached 59,999 times, he planned to try creating a method to guide life to break through the Bottleneck.
...
Time flowed on, and in a blink of an eye, over a hundred million years passed.
Virtual Universe, the palace above Myriad Creations Island.
Inside a side hall, Ender and Boya sat at a stone table.
"Teacher, the Universe Artifact & Potion Refining Company has produced another talented young man," Boya said with a smile.
"What, do you also want to recommend a Disciple to me?"
Ender shook his head slightly, "Even if I take him as a Disciple, he may not be able to become a Universe Venerable like your Senior Brother.
"The path of a Powerhouse is quite arduous. For example, your Junior Brother had Heavy Treasures and Arcana Treasures protecting him, yet he still met his demise."
"Teacher, I actually really want to take that young man as a Disciple."
Boya said with some distress, "But I became a Universe Master through the Beast God Path of Fire and Space, and I even comprehended the Beast God Heart in a muddled way.
"And what that young man is comprehending is the 'Star Beast Primal Chaos Tablet' created by Star Prison Devil Lord. He has already comprehended a trace of the Artistic Conception left by Star Prison Devil Lord before even leaving Primal Chaos City."
"In that case, that young man is suitable for cultivating the Beast God Path."
Ender nodded gently and said with a smile, "Since he has comprehended a trace of the Artistic Conception from the 'Star Beast Primal Chaos Tablet', then let him become a Disciple of Star Prison."
"That young man comprehends the Law of Thunder and Lightning. Star Prison Devil Lord became a Universe Master through the Beast God Path of Light and Time."
Boya quickly said, "Although they are both Time-Department Beast God Paths, Star Prison Devil Lord can't teach him too much. It would be better if you, Teacher, took him as a Disciple."
"Heh, since you think so highly of him, then you can set up the test."
Ender smiled and shook his head, "The test content just needs to be a bit harder than when you took it."
"This Disciple understands." Boya nodded with a smile.
"By the way, aren't you planning to take Disciples?"
Ender asked softly, "Your Senior Brother has taken several Disciples, and one of them is almost capable of refining weapon-type pseudo Heavy Treasures."
"The Disciples Senior Brother takes are mainly Artifact Refiners, and the Universe Artifact & Potion Refining Company is not short of Genius Artifact Refiners."
Boya sighed lightly, "There are few Geniuses that catch my eye, and even if there are some with barely enough talent, they aren't suitable to be taken as Disciples. Since they're not suitable, it's better not to mislead them."
"As you wish." Ender smiled and shook his head.
Seeing that her goal was achieved, Boya smiled and left. Ender, meanwhile, continued his secluded cultivation, researching and analyzing the gene map.
...
Time flew like an arrow, and long years passed.
The young man Boya had recommended earlier became Ender's Official Disciple, but he didn't pass the Personal Disciple test.
Because of this, when Boya chatted with her Senior Brother Venerable Myriad Treasure, she even complained that she had misjudged him, mistakenly believing him to be a super Genius.
Because that young man had good talent in the Time Law, but his Beast God Path talent was mediocre, he wasn't qualified for the Human Race to bestow upon him the Beast God Inheritance Token for Thunder and Time.
So, Ender had him, during his World Master Level's external tempering period, pursue the footsteps of the Thunder Beast God in the Universe, just as he had done in the past.
Eventually, that young man returned alive from his tempering. After cultivating in seclusion for hundreds of thousands of years, he broke through his Law comprehension, reaching the twentieth level of the Tongtian Bridge, and successfully passed the World Master Level's 'Creation Peerless Peak', with hopes of becoming a Universe Venerable in the future.
Tens of thousands of years later, he broke through to become an Immortal, titled King Swift Thunder.
During these long years, after the Demon race, Zerg, and Mechanical Race opened the Extraterritorial Battlefield, they continuously expanded their territory outwards to compensate for the large amount of territory ceded to the Human Race.
As the three races expanded their territory, the Human Race, after developing and assimilating the newly acquired 400 high-level Universe Countries, also joined the ranks of territory expansion, but their methods were a bit better than the three races.
The Demon race, Zerg, and Mechanical Race expanded their territories quickly, as other forces in the Universe had predicted, stopping only when their territories reached the Secret Realm where the Extraterritorial Battlefield was located.
As a result, the three races each acquired dozens to hundreds of star regions, basically compensating for the territory ceded to the Human Race, with only the Demon race finding it difficult to fully compensate due to ceding more territory.
The Human Race, through expansion and exchange, also opened up 60 high-level Universe Countries, with each of the six major Leviathan of Humanity acquiring ownership of 10 high-level Universe Countries.
By then, the number of high-level Universe Countries in the Human Territory reached 1,468!
...
About a hundred thousand years before Original Star opened.
Ganwu Universe Country, Azurewood Empire.
In the well-known Void Zone of the Milky Way Galaxy, a C-class Universe spacecraft departed from a blue planet.
Inside the spacecraft's control room.
A short-haired young man in a blood-colored combat suit stood in the boundless, vast starry sky, looking back at the enormous blue planet behind him.
Beside the black-haired man was a child's phantom with two pointed horns on his forehead, blood-red eyes, and wearing a black robe, chewing on a red fruit.
"Luo Feng, the spacecraft has already left Earth. Our destination is Red Leaf Star." The child's phantom finished speaking, revealing his fangs and continuing to gnaw on the fruit.
"Babata, you said Red Leaf Star has a treasure to heal Second Brother's Soul?" The black-haired man turned his head and asked the child's phantom beside him.
"Of course. Red Leaf Star is one of the most prosperous planets in the Azurewood Empire, and it's also where the Azurewood Empire Branch of the Universe Artifact & Potion Refining Company is located."
The child's phantom, named Babata, nodded, "The Universe Artifact & Potion Refining Company monopolizes over ninety percent of the Universe's pharmaceutical business."
"Although Soul-healing medicines are precious, your Second Brother is only Planetary Level, so he only needs the lowest-grade medicine. The cash in the backup account your Teacher left is enough for you to buy the medicine."
"If we had come to the Universe sooner, perhaps Big Brother wouldn't have died in battle!" Luo Feng couldn't help but sigh.
"Who told your Earth to be both lucky and unlucky?"
Babata couldn't help but exclaim, "It's one thing for a Space Beast of the top bloodline, the Thunder Beast, to appear, but there's also a Pinnacle bloodline Golden-Horned Beast.
"If Hong and Thor hadn't burned their Souls to severely wound the Souls of the Golden-Horned Beast and the Thunder Beast, your Earth would be gone!"
Hearing this, Luo Feng recalled the scene of that battle at the time, feeling a lingering fear...