Chapter 1: The Age of War Lords
The old era collapsed silently, and the new era was reborn in the remains of the old era.
As the remnants of the old days, the people of Earth have obtained the destiny of the new era, and are qualified to awaken the divine realm and be promoted to war lords.
At this point, the era of universal war lords has arrived!
They descended into the infinite planes of the chaotic virtual sea, opened up territories, cultivated dependents, formed armies, plundered resources and ancient lost heritage from the monster lords, expanded the divine domain step by step, and finally condensed the throne of the Supreme War Lord, becoming the supreme existence in the new era.
“What a magical world!”
Li Qing supported his chin with his hand and listened to his history teacher talking about the history of human civilization, which had been repeated no less than ten times. Even though he had heard it ten times, he still felt it was extremely novel.
"Human war civilization has obtained the destiny of the new era and relies on the eternal sacred tree for survival."
"The Eternal Divine Tree stands on the Chaos Void Sea. There are 541 Eternal Fruits hanging on the tree, representing 541 War Thrones. There are also 4.65 million Eternal Divine Leaves, representing 4.65 million War Lords of human civilization!"
"Every Eternal Fruit, every Eternal Divine Leaf, represents a war domain of varying sizes, protecting hundreds of millions of human beings. "
"We are in the Black Stone Divine Realm, which is ruled by the War Lord Black Stone Realm Master. It covers an area of 86,000 square kilometers and shelters a population of over 18 million."
"The Lord of the Realm is kind and willing to train the people of the territory for free."
At this point the instructor knocked on the podium and said loudly:
"These few days are the days for you to open up the divine realm. The Realm Master provides each student with a little source of essence for you to open up the divine realm. Drink the water and remember its source. If you achieve something in the future, please remember this kindness!"
Immediately, a student responded loudly:
"I will never forget the protection and cultivation of His Highness the Realm Lord. If I achieve something in the future, I will never forget it!"
Li Qing was no exception and followed suit.
Mentor Fang Hai looked at the sincere faces and eyes of the young people below, feeling gratified but also a little reluctant.
Everyone has the opportunity to open up the divine realm. As a destined race, all human beings born within the coverage of the Eternal Divine Tree have a divine realm seed in their minds at birth, and the seed will slowly mature during the subsequent growth.
When the divine domain seed reaches a certain age and is fully mature, it can then be fused with the source substance, and the power of the source substance can be used to activate the divine domain seed and open up a divine domain.
But although everyone has the opportunity, only a few can succeed.
Opening up the divine realm requires both talent and luck, and is also a technical job that requires strong personal mental strength, soul strength, and some personal traits. The vast majority of humans fail in opening up the divine realm when they reach adulthood.
There are more than a dozen junior schools under the Blackrock War Academy in the Blackrock Realm. Every year, thousands of people in each school try to open up the divine domain, but only forty or fifty of each school can ultimately succeed.
Distributed to each class...
Among the fifty-eight students in front of me, only five or six can succeed, and no more than ten at most.
However, although he knew it in his heart, Fang Hai still sincerely hoped that more students could succeed.
He clapped his hands to signal everyone to be quiet, and said in a deep voice:
"The teacher has already explained the precautions that need to be mentioned . Everyone should already know how to open up the area. You can go to the academy to get a source card later. Once you are ready, you can open up the divine domain."
"In addition, if you can successfully open up a divine domain, remember to register at the school and receive the gift package that His Highness the Realm Lord gives to every War Lord apprentice who successfully opens up a divine domain. This is very important to you."
"Well, get out of class is over now!"
"goodbye teacher!"
As Fang Hai's back disappeared, the classroom was briefly quiet before becoming noisy, with students whispering to each other.
"Li Qing, has your family prepared anything for you?"
A boy with a slightly fat face asked, leaning over the table.
While packing up his things, Li Qing replied:
"A bit of essence. All family members will have it when they open up the divine domain. If they can successfully open up the divine domain, they will have a standard resource package. In addition..."
He paused and said:
"My father has already prepared some essence for me."
"Oh, then you have three points of essence. If you can successfully open up a divine domain, the initial area of the divine domain will be larger than that of others."
"Well, it will be a little bigger, but not much bigger. It is definitely not as big as some people who can easily get dozens of source essences to forcibly open up the divine domain."
"Hey, we can't compare with the direct descendants of the official war lords. It's good enough that we are stronger than ordinary people."
Li Qing glanced at the fat man in front of him, who was the legitimate son of a formal war lord, and was speechless.
The fat Zhao Dingzhen laughed and said:
"To be honest, if we can successfully open up the divine domain, then why don't we form a team together? I'll take the war route, and you'll take the logistics route, so that we can complement each other's strengths."
Li Qing paused and shook his head:
"I want to go the war route, too!"
"You also want to go the war route? This thing consumes a lot of resources. Whether it's training clans, military salaries, hiring heroes or professionals, or logistics maintenance fees, as well as promotion runes, it all costs a lot. Do you have so many resources?"
Li Qing stood up and said seriously:
"No, but you can take your time."
"Besides, it is not certain that we can successfully open up the divine realm. After all, the success rate is so low."
"Well, all right then!"
Zhao Dingzhen shrugged and did not continue the topic.
Then the two chatted for a while, and after Li Qing packed up his things, they left the classroom together.
This is a five-story teaching building, which is lined up with four other teaching buildings around it. In front is a large playground and a school gate, behind is a dormitory, and on the right is a comprehensive building. At this time, the comprehensive building is crowded with students who have received source quality cards.
The so-called source material, in layman's terms, is the processed origin of the plane.
The War Lord descends upon an alien plane and plunders the various resources in the plane. If there is a ruling race or civilization in the plane, the origin of the plane or the origin of civilization will be condensed.
After defeating or exterminating the ruling race or civilization of a plane, one can use the power of the divine realm to forcibly plunder the origin of the plane.
Use the power of the divine realm to purify the imprint in the origin of the plane, and what remains is the purest source essence.
Source essence has many uses, but its greatest benefit, besides opening up the divine domain, is to strengthen the divine domain.
The Black Stone Realm where Li Qing lives is the divine domain of the war lord, the Lord of the Black Stone Realm, with a total area of 86,000 square kilometers. It has gradually expanded from an initial divine domain of less than one square kilometer.
The two of them lined up at the back of the queue, chatting. In less than ten minutes, it was their turn. After a simple registration, they received a source card.
The so-called source card is a hard transparent crystal card as big as a playing card. There seems to be transparent smoke flowing inside. There is only a badge pattern representing the Lord of the Black Stone Realm on the outside, nothing else.
It contains a bit of complete source essence, which can be used to open up the seeds of the divine realm.
All realm masters of human civilization have the responsibility to train newcomers . Every year, they have to spend a large amount of source essence from their own income to open up divine realms for newcomers from various colleges. However, the success rate of newcomers in opening up divine realms is very low. Often, among tens of thousands of newcomers in a year, only a few hundred can finally successfully open up divine realms.
And these hundreds of war lord apprentices who have just opened up the divine realm still need to go through countless plane wars to grow, and the possibility of them being successfully promoted to formal war lords is only one in ten.
That is to say, among the tens of thousands of people who open up divine domains every year, there may be only a dozen or so who have the opportunity to reach the end and be promoted to official war lords.
Thousands of troops are crossing a single-plank bridge, but the brave are not afraid!
After receiving the source quality card, Li Qing and Zhao Dingzhen parted ways and returned to their dormitories.
The college's dormitories are five-story buildings, and their exterior style is very similar to that of the technological era of the previous era on Earth. Thanks to the world master's attention to the college, each student has an independent small dormitory.
The dormitory is not big, only about five or six square meters, with room for a bed, a small wardrobe, a desk, and nothing else.
Li Qing closed the door, took off his coat, sat down in front of the desk, and pressed the button on the corner of a large crystal panel embedded in the wall in front of the desk. The crystal panel suddenly lit up and an operating interface began to appear.
This thing is a rune product similar to a tablet computer made using magic rune technology in the new era, and can realize most of the functions of a computer.
This thing is very expensive and is provided by the college. You cannot take it away after graduation.
Although this thing seems to have realized many functions of a computer, it is not a computer after all. It can neither be programmed nor play games. It only has simple file storage and remote receiving network, as well as a browser and simple functions similar to Taobao online.
In addition, although this thing can connect to the Internet, the network range is limited to the Black Stone Realm and cannot contact the worlds of other realm masters.
However, Li Qing heard that there are more advanced products on the market, as well as personal terminals that individuals can carry with them, which can be used to contact the worlds of other world masters through a signal relay system after paying a fee.
But if it leaves the human main world and descends into other dimensions of the Chaos Void Sea, this thing will have no signal.
However, if a formal war lord comes to the current plane with a signal relay system, generally speaking, when a large-scale attack is launched on a certain plane, a formal war lord will come with a signal relay system. At that time, the lord's apprentices, heroes, or professionals who come to the plane can communicate in real time through the signal relay system.
Li Qing took a quick look at the Blackrock Realm portal website. The top information was that the Lord of Blackrock Realm had teamed up with his war lords to defeat an orc kingdom in a large plane and plundered a large amount of resources and orcs.
"The price of Orcs and Orc Promotion Cards will be reduced."
Li Qing pinched his chin and opened the trading platform to search for orc transactions. He found that there were many pre-order orders. Many people had reserved large numbers of orcs of various races in advance.
Orcs are a race that is very suitable for training as the main combat clan of the Divine Realm, especially powerful races such as tiger men, bear men, werewolves, minotaurs, etc., which not only have high initial levels, but also have high promotion limits.
But the only drawback is that it is expensive. Not only is it expensive for ordinary people, but the promotion runes for powerful orc troops are also expensive. Li Qing cannot afford it.
After watching for a while with envy, Li Qing closed the website, browsed the portal website again, and found that there was no other new news, so he closed the website.
He turned around and opened the bedside box, took out an exquisite locked wooden box, opened the box, and found two source cards inside.
The two cards were provided by his family, and one was prepared for him by his father a long time ago.
Although it is only a branch of a family branch, and is out of five generations of kinship with the main branch, as long as it has not left the family, it is eligible to receive a source card to open up the divine realm.
There is nothing to say if you fail. If you can successfully open up the divine realm, or if you fail but can complete the digital transformation of your body into a hero or professional, your status in the family will immediately rise.
And according to the results, a standard resource package and follow-up training will be provided.
After being reborn in this world for eighteen years, Li Qing knew very well that this was a world where the gap in status was greater than he had imagined, and how huge the gap was between having family support and being of commoner origin.
Although his status and life in the family were no different from those of ordinary people, he was still a member of the family after all. As long as he could successfully open up the divine domain and be promoted to an apprentice of the war lord, the role of the family could be brought into play.
It’s hard to say about the future, but the beginning will definitely be much stronger than that of ordinary people.
Unfortunately, my father and mother are now in the main branch of the family, serving under a war lord. They are currently fighting in the outer realms and are not in the Blackrock Realm, so we cannot contact them.
After taking out two source cards, Li Qing turned around, put a "Do Not Disturb" sign on the dormitory door, locked it, turned back to the bed, stacked the three source cards in his palm, and let out a light breath.
According to the instructor's instructions, all that is left is to use mental power to draw the source essence in the source essence card into the body, and then the irreversible operation of opening up the divine realm will begin.
If you succeed, you will reach the sky in one step.
A failed civilian.
There was nothing to say. Li Qingjing sat for half an hour to calm himself. With a thought, his little mental power was stimulated, and the three overlapping source cards on his palm quickly collapsed into a ball of clear light and merged into his palm.
Then, Li Qing felt a cool breath flowing into his body from the palm of his hand, rising rapidly along the flesh and blood of his arm, and instantly merging into his brain.
"boom!"
Before he could react, it was as if a bomb exploded in his mind. Li Qing instantly lost all senses and entered a state of chaos.
Under the stimulation of the source substance, the divine realm seeds that had already matured long ago have been activated.
Just like the explosion of the universe, the opening up of the divine realm is similar to the birth of the world.
It was unknown how long it had been before Li Qing vaguely felt his own existence. He felt as if he was in a gray chaos, surrounded by a violently surging chaotic atmosphere.
No one explained it, but at that moment he understood clearly that this was the chaos after the God's Domain Seed was activated. Next, he needed to open up a God's Domain in this chaos.
Success means becoming a noble apprentice of a war lord, and the road to excellence begins.
If you fail, all your hopes will be shattered and you will become a civilian trapped in a small place and unable to leave.
How to open up the divine realm...
There are many ways to open up God's domain. The success rate and source utilization rate of different methods of opening up God's domain, as well as the size of the God's domain after opening up, are different.
However, the high-end methods of opening up the divine domain are in the hands of the war lords' families, including Li Qing's family, which has a family-inherited method of opening up the divine domain, but it will only be passed down to the family's direct descendants. There is no hope for a side branch like Li Qing.
