Orderly tyrant

Vacuum Graveyard.

“Cultivation before the Void level is indeed simple. You're back so soon?”

Princess Su, dressed in a black dress, sized up Lin Qing. “Do you plan to cultivate to the tenth level of Star Abyss in one go and become a Graveyard Keeper? I must remind you that the Graveyard Keeper's secret techniques are extremely difficult.”

Lin Qing thoughtfully asked, “Specifically, what makes it so difficult? Comprehension? Luck?”

“Both,” Princess Su replied. “You'll understand when the time comes.”

Lin Qing nodded slightly and said, “I have to go back after half a year of cultivation, and then return with a temporary pass. By that time, I'll try to become a Graveyard Keeper.”

“So urgent?” Princess Su raised an eyebrow slightly.

“On Earth's side, the opening can only be delayed for three to five years at most. Three to five years isn't enough for me to cultivate normally to become a Graveyard Keeper, so I have to go out early and try other methods,” Lin Qing shook his head.

“You're really motivated,” Princess Su sighed. “However, even if you become a Graveyard Keeper, you have to work hard to be qualified to use the Vacuum Graveyard's power of time and space to hide Earth.”

“I understand,” Lin Qing nodded, not feeling surprised at all.

Borrowing the power of time and space to completely hide an entire starfield is such an incredible power!

Such power naturally wouldn't come without a price.

...

On the boundless pure white ground.

“Earth's opening is in seven months. I must return before it opens.”

Lin Qing sat cross-legged on the ground, thinking carefully. “Seven months, which is about six years. Cultivating divine techniques is far from enough, but I can transform the Black Flame clone into an ultimate Star Creature, and also raise its gene index to be close to mine.”

The Black Flame clone can't pre-draw, but as long as he knows the transformation method, his main body can pre-draw the required essence of energy.

In addition to the Star Origin Stone providing energy, it can quickly transform into an ultimate Star Creature in one go.

As long as the Black Flame clone's life level also reaches the ultimate Star Creature, using the 'Combination Technique' to merge with his main body time and time again, the Black Flame clone's gene index can gradually increase to close to the cosmic standard of over 1,200 times.

There's no need for the Black Flame clone to learn any divine techniques. As long as the life level and gene index are raised, he's confident he can kill the Nine-Star Civilization's Blood Cauldron King.

“There's not enough time for divine techniques, but there's enough for holy writings…”

Lin Qing's vertical eye between his eyebrows moved, and the Black Flame clone flew out of the space channel.

The Black Flame clone is currently only a high-level Primal Creature, and its lifespan is consumed extremely quickly.

But as long as it becomes an ultimate Star Creature, completely masters the eighth-order Black Flame, it can completely control the Black Flame, no longer suffer from short life and spontaneous combustion, and with the Black Flame Clan's bloodline's mystique, it can exert ten times its strength when burning its life.

As his knowledge gradually increased and his strength became stronger, he realized that what made the Black Flame Clan's strength increase so greatly, and also gave them this fate of self-immolation, was not the eighth-order flame.

It was the Black Flame Clan's bloodline.

——Or rather, a trace of the Demon Race's bloodline.

The Divine Human Race is a human race that has integrated the bloodline of the Void God Race, while the Demon Race is a human race that has integrated the Star Abyss Demon Race.

And the Black Flame Clan is one of the Demon Races.

“Let's begin.”

Lin Qing stared at the Black Flame clone and immediately began to use the Combination Technique that he had already successfully cultivated.

...

In the blink of an eye, two years passed.

In reality, more than two months have passed. The Black Flame clone has already transformed into an ultimate Star Creature, and the required nine sets of eighth-order holy writings have been successfully engraved.

The gene optimization index has also gradually reached more than 400 times the cosmic standard with the improvement of the Combination Technique time after time.

In a few more years, the gene index is estimated to be close to the main body.

Although there is not enough time to cultivate the eighth-order divine technique, relying on such a powerful gene optimization index and holy writings, coupled with the Black Flame Clan's ten times strength when burning life, it is also the strength of the peak of the eighth level of Star Abyss.

On this day—

Lin Qing's consciousness, which was constantly staying in the Second Universe Network, suddenly received a message from Chu Hongjun, asking him to meet in the attached space.

...

“Dean Chu, what's wrong?”

Inside the living room-like attached space, Lin Qing sat down on the sofa and looked at Chu Hongjun not far away.

“Trouble has appeared,” Chu Hongjun said slowly. “The second round of the Tinder Project's transportation of human elite seeds was originally scheduled to take a spaceship today, taking a roundabout route along the β route to enter the universe, preparing to hide in the nearby 1.3-level civilization Blue Shield Civilization, but just an hour ago, the spaceship that had only left Earth a few million kilometers was suddenly destroyed.”

“Destroyed?” Lin Qing frowned slightly.

“Not a single survivor,” Chu Hongjun said. “The 430,000 people on board, along with the spaceship itself, were annihilated, including the guardian puppet responsible for escorting them.”

“Guardian puppet?” Lin Qing's expression changed.

He had only brought out two guardian puppets from the Vacuum Graveyard.

The guardian puppet's combat power is generally average, only at the eighth level of Star Abyss, but it is extremely good at protecting and entangling. With the guardian puppet's protection, even a peak ninth-level Star Abyss powerhouse would find it difficult to deal with. It can be said to be the best bodyguard.

But… it was annihilated along with the escorted spaceship?

“Could it be…” Lin Qing frowned.

Chu Hongjun nodded slightly and said, “I'm afraid the Nine-Star Civilization's Void Creature has already arrived. It should be lurking in the solar system at this time, and even… may be monitoring Earth on the moon.”

“The Nine-Star Civilization's second-generation Emperor? Or the Nine-Star Civilization's ancestor?” Lin Qing frowned tightly.

“It's not clear, but it's likely to be the second generation,” Chu Hongjun said. “According to current known information, the Nine-Star Civilization's ancestor should be traveling and studying in a second-level civilization.”

Lin Qing was silent for a moment and said, “Can the Tinder Project not continue?”

Chu Hongjun slowly said, “That Void Creature is guarding the solar system, and its attack is so indifferent and cruel. It is obviously prepared to cut off the hope of our Earthlings.”

Lin Qing couldn't help but frown.

The Tinder Project is the human inheritance plan of Earth's civilization.

It's basic common sense not to put all your eggs in one basket.

Therefore, after Earth's civilization drove out the extraterrestrial civilization, in order to avoid the Earthlings being completely wiped out one day in the future, it formulated the Tinder Project, sending out a part of the human elite talents in advance.

The ending of almost all civilizations is destruction. This is the fate of civilization, as inevitable as life and death.

As the tinder for continuing civilization, it is very important.

“Is the first batch of tinder sent out enough to continue civilization?” Lin Qing asked.

“It's a bit difficult,” Chu Hongjun shook his head and said, “A group of initial humans with inferior genes are still far from gene awakening. It's difficult for them to integrate into other civilizations and redevelop.”

Lin Qing took a deep breath and said, “This Void Creature wants to trap us to death…”

“It's not necessarily to trap us to death,” Chu Hongjun said. “For Void Creatures that can destroy planets, they may not care about our weak civilization. They just made a slight move to deter us.”

Lin Qing narrowed his eyes slightly.

Just deterring, and slightly wiped out hundreds of thousands of Earthlings who were the tinder?

“In addition, a large number of fleets of the Nine-Star Civilization seem to have begun to arrive on Mars one after another.”

Chu Hongjun said, “It's not difficult to imagine… what we will face on the day Earth opens will inevitably be the strongest force of the Nine-Star Civilization.”

Lin Qing nodded slowly.

This is an inevitable result.

The Seventh Prince of the Nine-Star Civilization discovered the specialness of Earth decades ago, and is waiting for Earth to open before launching a large-scale attack.

Even if Earth's civilization resists this wave, the Nine-Star Civilization will quickly arrive.

“Are you ready?” Chu Hongjun looked at Lin Qing.

“Soon.”

Lin Qing nodded and said, “It will be completed before Earth opens.”

Chu Hongjun pondered for a moment and said, “It doesn't matter even if the Void Creature comes. Although his strength is strong, he can only enter the Bronze Demon Mountain and the Silver Labyrinth.”

Lin Qing nodded slightly.

Among the six pre-civilization relics on Earth, only the Bronze Demon Mountain and the Silver Labyrinth do not require being natives. The other four relics require at least being natives to enter.

Even a Void Creature as strong as him cannot forcibly enter the relics.

“Unfortunately…”

Chu Hongjun shook his head slightly and said, “If we could borrow the power of the Star Patrol Council, it would be great. The influence of the Star Patrol Council on the planet is limited after all, unless the strength is strong enough, the Star Patrol Council will take the initiative to help apply to become a formal member of the Universe Star Patrol Alliance before we can borrow the power of the Universe Star Patrol Alliance.”

Lin Qing couldn't help but be slightly stunned and asked, “The Universe Star Patrol Alliance?”

On the Son of God Trial, the Star God of the Life System, who was the supervisor, mentioned the Universe Star Patrol Alliance to him.

“Yes, it's the background of the Star Patrol Council.”

Chu Hongjun said softly, “It is said that the Universe Star Patrol Alliance has established Star Patrol Councils on all life planets in the universe, but it really values the Void Star Sea in the high-dimensional layer of the universe, so the requirements for joining the Universe Star Patrol Alliance are also very high.”

“Oh?” Lin Qing asked, “What are the requirements?”

Chu Hongjun said, “A Star God Practitioner, and possessing the strength of the tenth level of Star Abyss.”

Lin Qing couldn't help but be stunned, and then shook his head slightly and said, “This is even higher than the requirements for a Graveyard Keeper. If I can meet this requirement, I can become a Graveyard Keeper.”

“The difficulty is indeed very high,” Chu Hongjun nodded gently.

“No matter what… I must first become a Graveyard Keeper first.”

Lin Qing took a deep breath and asked, “Will the Nine-Star Civilization's Blood Cauldron King come?”

“As long as the Blood Cauldron King knows this news, he will definitely come,” Chu Hongjun said. “The current Emperor of the Nine-Star Civilization should also desire the civilization to have a new Void Creature, so as to get rid of the throne, so he should pass the message to the Blood Cauldron King.”

“I hope so,” Lin Qing nodded slightly and said, “I will continue to cultivate, and I will come back on the day Earth opens.”

...

Time passed day by day.

In these six years in the cultivation room, Lin Qing ended the cultivation of the holy writings and began to cultivate divine techniques.

Although there is not enough time to cultivate the eighth-order World God, or even successfully cultivate one of the four great divine techniques of the World God, it is better to master some now, and it will be faster to pay back in the future.

May 19, 2126, Earth time.

Inside the cultivation room of the Vacuum Graveyard.

On the boundless pure white earth, accompanied by the endless energy collapsing and flowing back, Lin Qing, who was surrounded by wisps of black flames and had dark and deep eyes, also quietly landed at this time, slowly exhaling a breath.

“Combination Technique, World God plus Primordial Annihilation, this is my strongest state at present…”

Lin Qing's mind moved, and a illusory figure of light separated from his body, and immediately turned into a Black Flame clone with weakened vitality.

The Black Flame clone immediately stopped the Black Flame burning, and its aura quickly returned to normal, but its lifespan was consumed too much.

“The Black Flame clone's gene index is 1,020 times the cosmic standard.”

Lin Qing looked at the Black Flame clone, his eyes thoughtful: “However, because of the Black Flame Clan's bloodline, burning life can reach ten times its strength, and then using the Combination Technique almost makes my strength also increase to eight or nine times its original strength.”

The Combination Technique is the addition of the basic attributes of the two, and after the Black Flame clone merges with him time after time, the gene index is already relatively close to him.

As long as the Black Flame clone burns its life and then merges with him, it is equivalent to increasing his basic attributes by eight or nine times!

Of course, under such amazing strength, the speed of burning life is also faster, and it can only last for about ten seconds before the Black Flame clone's vitality is exhausted and the Combination Technique is解除.

However, for battles of this level, ten seconds is also very long.

So…

In these six years, although Lin Qing has not made any progress in divine techniques, because the Black Flame clone's life level and gene index have increased, his strength has greatly improved.

“Unfortunately… it is still impossible to pass the tenth level of Star Abyss,” Lin Qing sighed.

He has already passed the ninth level of Star Abyss, and in the combined state, he can completely easily sweep the ninth level of Star Abyss, and then he also tried the tenth level of Star Abyss, but he still can't pass.

There is no way, he is still a bit short of the bottom line of the tenth level of Star Abyss, let alone only ten seconds, so he can't pass the tenth level of Star Abyss at all.

To pass the tenth level of Star Abyss, you must master the eighth-order World God.

“Well… it's not bad to maintain the strength of the peak of the ninth level of Star Abyss for ten seconds.”

Lin Qing slowly clenched his fists, then glanced at the Black Flame clone, causing it to self-immolate into nothingness, and then recreating it with the Gate of Eternity.

Then, the vertical eye between his eyebrows lit up, sucking the Black Flame clone that had recovered to its peak into the other space.

“Although I can't stop the Void Creature now, but when I master the eighth-order World God, and then pass the Star God Trial…”

Lin Qing took a deep breath and then left the cultivation room.

On the wide platform outside the cultivation room.

“Are you leaving?”

Princess Su sized up Lin Qing.

“Yes,” Lin Qing nodded and said, “Tomorrow, Earth will open.”

Princess Su nodded lightly and said, “If it really doesn't work, escape back, cultivate to be strong enough, and then you can fight.”

“If forced, I will do this.”

Lin Qing nodded, then waved his hand, “I'm leaving, next time I come, it will be when I become a Graveyard Keeper.”

“I am looking forward to this day,” Princess Su said.

...

This day was May 20, 2126.

As the power of the rules integrated with gravity abruptly vanished, the vast fleet, seemingly blotting out the sky, surged towards Earth's atmosphere from beyond the blue planet of the solar system.