Rain Realm Mountain was the gathering place for core members below the Immortal level.
Thunder Island was the gathering place for all the Immortal beings of the Virtual Universe Company, and was the centre of its highest authority.
Walking through the Public Area, Luo Feng could see Domain Lords everywhere. He could casually spot hundreds of Domain Lords at a glance, and 99 percent of them had received recognition from the origin laws, with various origin law marks between their eyebrows.
“A Domain Lord who has received recognition from the origin laws would be at Tianchen’s level in the Black Dragon Mountain Star Region.” Luo Feng sighed inwardly. “Yet within a giant like the Virtual Universe Company, they have only barely obtained the qualifications to enter the ‘Apocalypse Secret Realm’. There are probably hundreds of millions of Domain Lords who cannot even enter the core layer!”
No wonder one of the three major rewards for the top 1,000 in the Universe’s Genius Battle was to ‘become a core member’.
A moment later, they arrived at a broad and quiet bluestone road. Beside the road was a flower garden, where various flowers and plants had been arranged into the Universal Language characters, ‘Absolute Beginning Area’.
“Beep!”
A faint halo flashed across the lean old man’s body, and he could no longer move forward. He immediately called out, “Your Highness, I cannot go any further. Follow this road. The area ahead is the Absolute Beginning Area. Once Your Highness enters, the management staff there will guide you.”
“Thank you, Mr Sha Wu.” Luo Feng smiled and nodded.
Following the beautiful and quiet bluestone road, Luo Feng smelled the fragrance of grass and flowers beside him. He slightly quickened his pace, and after half a minute, he reached a place more than ten kilometres away.
This was the entrance to the enormous and luxurious ‘Absolute Beginning Area’. There were also many servants at the entrance. When they saw Luo Feng arrive, one of the leaders immediately came forward to greet him.
“His Highness Luo Feng, I’ve been waiting for you to arrive.” A beautiful woman with a fox tail was extremely enthusiastic. There was also a flame mark between her eyebrows. “You can call me Mrs Forth. I’m specifically responsible for managing all kinds of miscellaneous matters in the Absolute Beginning Area.”
“Understood.” Luo Feng nodded.
In fact, since this was the Virtual Universe, cleaning and trimming flowers and plants could be simulated instantly. But perhaps to make everything feel more realistic, everything here was 100 percent simulated. Even large numbers of servants were arranged to clean the place, trim the flowers and plants, and serve the various Highnesses.
If you were hungry, you had to buy food. If you were thirsty, you had to buy drinks. Even buying property in the Virtual Universe required money. Everything was exactly the same as in the real world.
Because it was so realistic, in the vast universe, many wealthy people who had the protection and resources of their ancestors, or people who faced no major dangers, spent most of their time living in the Virtual Universe. They would either play virtual games or do whatever they wanted. Many of them had already begun treating the virtual world as reality.
However!
Only a very small number of people could enjoy such a life of indulgence. After all, everything in the Virtual Universe cost money. Even maintaining a network connection required payment. Without the protection of their ancestors and sufficient wealth, it was impossible to live a life of indulgence.
“His Highness Luo Feng, please follow me.” Domain Lord ‘Mrs Forth’ smiled and led the way.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
The two of them flew through the Absolute Beginning Area. As one of the five major areas, the Absolute Beginning Area was enormous, occupying one fifth of the entire Rain Realm Mountain. It could be said to be larger than the entire Earth!
Yet this enormous area was only for a little over a thousand members to live in.
“Absolute Beginning Area, 1,138 official members.” While flying through the air, Mrs Forth pointed downwards. “There are many cultivation grounds, study areas, restaurants and so on in the Absolute Beginning Area. As for the residential area, it is all at the very back. There are 1,138 estates, each one 98 kilometres long and 81 kilometres wide.”
Luo Feng was amazed.
An enormous estate 98 kilometres long and 81 kilometres wide was truly extravagant. This was the treatment in the Absolute Beginning Area, while the lowest Apocalypse Area had people living in apartment blocks. It was said that the residences in the highest Primal Area had diameters of more than 1,000 kilometres.
“His Highness Luo Feng’s estate is Number 1136.” Mrs Forth pointed towards an extremely quiet estate in the distance. It looked very ancient, and the walls were covered with all kinds of plants and flowers.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
The two descended.
“Your Highness!” The estate’s gate was a full 100 metres wide. Two bull-headed giants, each six metres tall, respectfully bowed.
“His Highness Luo Feng.” Mrs Forth smiled. “As a member of the Absolute Beginning Secret Realm, Your Highness’s standard guard formation consists of one entire battalion. The battalion has one general, ten captains and 100 warriors. The general is a Domain Lord from the Apocalypse Secret Realm, the ten captains are ten Domain Lords, and the 100 warriors are Universe-level warriors. In the Virtual Universe, they will be stationed here at Your Highness’s estate. In reality, they will also protect Your Highness. They will obey all of Your Highness’s orders.”
“Mm.” Luo Feng nodded slightly, but his heart was shaken.
Although he had already heard Rong Jun talk about it, seeing it with his own eyes was still quite shocking.
Two Domain Lords were guarding the gate.
The leader of an entire guard formation was a Domain Lord who had received recognition from the origin laws!
However, according to the information he had received earlier, the guard formations of Absolute Beginning Secret Realm members were far inferior to those of Primal Secret Realm members. The leader of a Primal Secret Realm member’s guard formation was an Immortal being!
“Apart from the guard formation, there are also more than 100 servants in the estate to serve Your Highness.” Mrs Forth smiled.
At this moment, a gust of wind blew past. A group of people suddenly appeared at the entrance of the estate. The leader was a bald old man who looked similar to an Earth human. When the bald old man saw Luo Feng, he immediately bowed.
“Your Highness.”
The large group of people behind him also bowed respectfully and shouted together, “Greetings, Your Highness!”
“This is the general of His Highness’s guard formation, whose full name is ‘Odorik Wen Sheng Laiso’.” Mrs Forth smiled.
“You can just call me Audo, Your Highness.” The bald old man immediately said.
“Mr Audo, I’ll be relying on you from now on.” Luo Feng was polite.
“It is only right.” Odorik hurriedly replied. Inwardly, however, he felt quite comfortable. According to the Virtual Universe Company’s arrangements, his status was lower than Luo Feng’s, but he was, after all, a Domain Lord who had received recognition from the origin laws. No matter how talented the young Highness before him was, he was still only a genius rather than a true powerhouse. Perhaps he might fall before even reaching the Domain Lord level.
Mrs Forth immediately said, “His Highness Luo Feng, I’ll leave first. Audo is very familiar with everything in this estate. He will tell you about it.”
“Thank you, Mrs Forth.” Luo Feng nodded.
Mrs Forth then transformed into a streak of light and instantly disappeared into the distance.
“Your Highness, this way.” Odorik led the way, and Luo Feng also entered his estate.
……
Looking around the estate, there was green grass everywhere, and everything looked very natural.
“That is Your Highness’s cultivation ground.” Odorik pointed towards a sealed, enormous building in the distance. “The entire cultivation ground is 50 kilometres long, 30 kilometres wide and 300 metres high. The ground inside is incomparably hard.”
“Mm.” Luo Feng nodded in satisfaction.
Luo Feng’s Dark Cloud Shuttle was extremely fast, and if the space was too small, he could not use it freely. A cultivation ground 50 kilometres long, 30 kilometres wide and 300 metres high could only be considered decent for a Controller. It was just about adequate!
Of course, such a large space was extremely vast for a martial artist.
Want a larger cultivation ground?
Then enter the Primal Secret Realm if you have the ability. Members of the Primal Secret Realm even had dedicated Immortal teachers stationed there permanently to teach them.
“That is the swimming pool.” Audo pointed towards another enormous swimming pool in the distance. “The swimming pool is divided into an inner pool and an outer pool. The water in the inner pool contains special effects. Lying in it can rapidly restore an exhausted body. The inner pool is divided into six areas according to water temperature. In fact, this arrangement is a simulation of reality. In the real ‘Absolute Beginning Secret Realm’, Your Highness’s residence has even better conditions than this.”
“Oh?” Luo Feng’s eyes lit up, then he shook his head. “What a pity. I’ll still have to wait a long time.”
His journey through the universe would take three years. After three years, he would enter the ‘Initial Universe’. After leaving the Initial Universe, he might then go to one of the four secret realms, the ‘Absolute Beginning Secret Realm’.
……
Audo introduced the functions of various buildings within the estate, then pointed towards a quiet three-storey building in the distance.
“Your Highness, that is where you will live. As for the interior of the building, Your Highness can use the virtual assistant to create whatever you want according to your preferences.”
Inside the estate, the first floor of the residential villa was used to receive guests, the second floor was for entertainment, and the third floor contained the bedroom and network display screens.
Luo Feng changed the screens into the ‘laptop’ style that Earth humans were accustomed to. Screens for watching news and entertainment programmes were changed into television sets. Even the books on the bookshelf were directly translated into Chinese. The styles of chairs, beds and other furniture were also instantly changed.
“This is more like it.” Luo Feng smiled as he sat on a chair.
He opened the laptop screen in front of him. After starting it up, he casually opened a folder called ‘Treasury’.
Beep!
The treasury opened, and eight major categories immediately appeared on the screen: ‘Secret Techniques’, ‘Weapons’, ‘Rare Treasures’, ‘Technological Weapons’, ‘Materials’, ‘Tools’, ‘Lifeforms’ and ‘Other Special Items’.
Under each major category floated many subcategories. For example, under Lifeforms there were ‘Plant Lifeforms’, ‘Metal Lifeforms’, ‘Tamed Beasts’ and so on. Even ‘Secret Techniques’ were divided into different schools.
There were tens of millions of different categories.
“Luo Feng, open the ‘Secret Realm Treasures’ section under ‘Rare Treasures’.” The fist-sized little demon Babata screamed.
“Mm.” Luo Feng gently clicked it open.
Countless dense lines of text and illustrations immediately appeared.
“Ten Thousand Spirits Purple Blood Juice, 120,000 points per portion. 30 percent discount for the Primal Secret Realm, 20 percent discount for the Absolute Beginning Secret Realm, 10 percent discount for the Heaven and Earth Secret Realm, full price for the Apocalypse Secret Realm.”
“Seven-Coloured Eye Fruit, 100,000 points each. 30 percent discount for the Primal Secret Realm, 20 percent discount for the Absolute Beginning Secret Realm, 10 percent discount for the Heaven and Earth Secret Realm, full price for the Apocalypse Secret Realm.”
“Crip Crystal, 200,000 points each. 30 percent discount for the Primal Secret Realm, 20 percent discount for the Absolute Beginning Secret Realm, 10 percent discount for the Heaven and Earth Secret Realm, full price for the Apocalypse Secret Realm.”
……
“My goodness, my goodness! This, this is far too extravagant! This is so unfair! Your teacher and the others have to compete for limited purchases when they want to buy these things. Every single one of them gets pushed to astronomical prices at auctions, yet everything is supplied here. You only need to exchange points for them! What the hell are these points?” Babata screamed. “Open it, open the Secret Techniques category, the Soul Secret Techniques category!”
Luo Feng clicked it open again.
He looked at 《Seven Stars Light》, 《Eternal Immortality》, 《Void Tower》, 《Dills Secret Codex》 and other secret techniques that were extremely famous throughout the universe. They appeared on the list as if they were ordinary goods. At a glance, there were at least tens of thousands of them, and this was only the first page.
“Crazy, crazy.”
“Immortal beings outside fight to the death for a little treasure, risking their lives over it, yet the Virtual Universe Company only needs some damn points to exchange for these things? Points, points! These are clearly points created internally by them, not the money used outside.” The demon Babata was completely overwhelmed.
“Open it.”
“Open it for me!” Babata glared and shouted.
Luo Feng obediently clicked through one subcategory after another. They contained everything imaginable, with nothing missing. The Virtual Universe Company’s treasury list completely stunned Babata.
He had known long ago that the Virtual Universe Company was frighteningly powerful. Even an individual Immortal being like the Master of Yun Mo Planet could not compare with even a tiny fraction of its resources. But after actually seeing all of this, Babata was still completely stunned.