Looking at the dense formations outside Pan Star, Liu Xing couldn't help but complain: "Pan Star's defensive formations are too numerous, aren't they? Even the palace of the Daqian World doesn't have so many guardian formations!"
Lucas said with a smile: "The reason is very simple. Emperor Changsheng is the greatest master of alchemy and formations in the Yang God world. The King of Artifacts he built—the Immortal Monument—is an artifact composed of countless formations and runes."
Xiao Xuan: "These formations give me a very dangerous feeling. Even I don't have the ability to forcibly invade Pan Star."
Lucas: "The outer sky's living environment is very harsh, and every living star has descendants of ancient demons dwelling on it. Emperor Changsheng and Holy Emperor Pan have high hopes for Pan Star, so naturally they must provide it with sufficient protection."
Outside World
After the endless formations were activated, stone platforms flashing with thunder emerged from Pan Star. At the same time, terrifying beings exuding powerful auras appeared on the periphery of Pan Star.
In the chat group, Liu Xing said, stunned: "What are those stone platforms? The thunder they release seems to be thunder that belongs to the world itself. I can feel the unique aura from this thunder."
Lucas: "There are no heavenly tribulations in the thunder on planets outside the sky, so there's no way for soul cultivators to survive their tribulations. But Pan Star is a place where Emperor Changsheng and Holy Emperor Pan have high hopes—how could they not have tribulation thunder on this planet?"
Zheng Qizi suddenly said: "So in order to make Pan Star produce Thunder Tribulation Ghost Immortals, Emperor Changsheng and Holy Emperor Pan created those stone platform instruments?"
Lucas: "Yes! Those stone platform instruments are called Heavenly Thunder Platforms. When there's strong thunder in the Daqian World, they can absorb the lightning tribulation from there and store it for ghosts to survive their tribulations."
Zheng Qizi: "So those Thunder Tribulation Ghost Immortals outside Pan Star all used the Heavenly Thunder Platforms to transcend their tribulations? I thought they used some method to quietly go to the Daqian World for their tribulations! Otherwise, why are there so few of them?"
Lucas: "Although Pan Star has Heavenly Thunder Platforms that can produce Thunder Tribulation Ghost Immortals, these instruments are all in the hands of Pan Star's great families. Only children of these families are qualified to cultivate their souls, while ordinary people can only cultivate martial arts."
Zheng Qizi: "Resource monopoly brought about by power and status? It seems the ideal world created by Emperor Changsheng and Holy Emperor Pan is nothing special after all."
Lucas: "Do you look down on Pan Star? Those on Pan Star who aren't qualified to cultivate their souls still look down on your great world! They have no emperor, and their planet is led by leaders and ministers elected by the people. They're proud of this and think the people of your great world are all uncivilized natives."
Liu Xing said solemnly: "Leaders and ministers elected by common people? Although this is a good way to listen to the opinions of the people, won't it cause problems? As the human population increases, doesn't average intelligence decline?"
Zheng Qizi worried and said, "Are the people of Pan Star wise enough? If people's wisdom isn't high enough, too much attention to public opinion could be self-defeating!"
Lucas: "Don't worry! Those qualified to be leaders and ministers are all children of the Pan Star families. No matter who the people choose, there won't be incompetent people in high positions."
Liu Xing said disdainfully: "Then why are they so proud? Pan Star's so-called public opinion is just a guise to fool the people."
Howard Stark: "I wouldn't say that! When people aren't wise enough, it's also prudent to limit their choices. Their actions might be correct, but their motives are definitely questionable."
Outside World
Lucas looked at the Pan Star leaders who appeared before him and said with a smile: "Greetings! People of Pan Star, are you ready for a new era? The plans of Emperor Changsheng and Holy Emperor Pan are things of the past—are you ready for a new future?"
The leader of Pan Star snorted coldly and asked, "What do you mean?"
If they weren't afraid of Lucas's strength, the masters of Pan Star would have rushed forward and attacked Lucas on the spot.
Lucas said indifferently: "It's quite simple! I'm here to announce that I'll be taking over your central world! Will you cooperate obediently or resist?"
As soon as the words left his mouth, a grumpy minister on Pan Star's side said angrily: "You brazen invader, go to hell!"
The magic circles outside Pan Star flashed, and a group of Pan Star masters joined forces to attack. Their powerful energies gathered into a beam of righteous light that bombarded Lucas.
"Moral Wrath!"
A powerful qi and blood energy rose up from Pan Star—the joint force of tens of billions of people on Pan Star. The magic array prepared by Emperor Changsheng and Holy Emperor Pan for Pan Star could mobilize the power of every human on the planet.
This enormous qi and blood rushed into the formation, greatly enhancing the power of the Moral Wrath qi, multiplying the imposing manner of Emperor Changsheng's ultimate move, and bursting forth with the formidable power of a star destroyer.
Lucas merely said, "Really? Nice technique."
"It's a pity that you're too weak to use this properly."
Lucas sneered and stretched out his palm, lightly grabbing the beam of righteous light in front of him. His powerful force directly shattered the beam.
"My turn!"
After smashing the joint attack of Pan Star with one move, Lucas swung his palm toward Pan Star. Terrifying high-temperature flames spurted from his palm, condensing into a huge flaming hand large enough to crush stars, grabbing toward Pan Star.
"Unite with me!"
The leader of Pan Star shouted angrily, and a huge thought appeared above his head. It was the soul crystallization of a Yang God powerhouse—the strongest weapon left by Holy Emperor Pan to Pan Star, and also the symbol of Pan Star's leadership.
The Yang God Thought was powerful, and the nine Heavenly Thunder Platforms communicated with each other, causing extremely terrifying fluctuations. The Yang God Thought and the Nine Heavenly Thunder Platforms actually burst forth with an aura that only a King of Divine Artifacts possesses.
On Pan Star, another force of qi and blood rose into the sky, transforming into energy for the formations surrounding the star, releasing powerful energy to form a barrier, trying to resist the approaching flame hand large enough to destroy stars.
Boom!
The flame hand and the power released by Pan Star collided. The Pan Star masters vomited blood and were sent flying backward. Dense cracks appeared in the leader's Yang God Thought, looking shocking.
The nine Heavenly Thunder Platforms were also in a state of near destruction, and most of the formations outside Pan Star were melted by the high-temperature flames. Before Pan Star's masters could recover from the shock of barely blocking the attack, Lucas stepped in front of them.
"I'll give you one more chance—survive or perish?"
Standing before the Pan Star masters, Lucas burst forth with a terrifying aura that made them feel hopeless, directly shattering their resolve for stubborn resistance.
"We... surrender!"
After the leader of Pan Star spoke these words, it seemed as if all his energy and spirit had been drained away. He aged hundreds of years in an instant, suddenly transforming from middle-aged to elderly.
"Very good!"
Lucas nodded with satisfaction and, with a wave of his hand, took away the super magical instruments such as the Heavenly Thunder Platforms and the Yang God Thought from the Pan Star powerhouses, placing them into his own King of Artifacts.
The Pan Star powerhouses felt a pain in their hearts but did not resist. Disarming the losers was what every victor would do.
Seeing this, Lucas smiled with relief and said to the powerful Pan Star leaders: "Give me the martial arts cultivation method left by Holy Emperor Pan, and then take me to the place where the Immortal Monument is suppressed. I will help you fix the crisis facing Pan Star."
In the Chat Group
Liu Xing questioned: "Is that right? Pan Star's strength is so formidable, yet they also face a crisis? With the strength they've shown, if they came to the Daqian World, they could easily overthrow the sun and moon powers. The current power of the Daqian World is completely no match for Pan Star."
Lucas: "Pan Star's crisis comes from within, not from external enemies. Although Pan Star's ruling institutions aren't perfect, they've solved the problems that plagued ordinary people in their world, and almost all natural and man-made disasters have been eliminated."
Lucas: "In the absence of natural and man-made disasters, Pan Star's population has grown wildly to the point where the planet can no longer sustain it. If Pan Star hadn't been plundering and expanding, the population problem alone would have destroyed them."
Lucas: "Now the life-bearing planets in the outer sky have been almost entirely occupied by them. If Pan Star doesn't want to perish because of civil strife, they must migrate to the Daqian world."
Howard Stark: "Using war to plunder more resources while reducing the population that has become a burden? This isn't a wise choice because this approach has an endpoint."
Howard Stark: "If the population grows uncontrollably, sooner or later it will reach a point where even an entire world can't sustain it. What happens then? The places that can be invaded and expanded will eventually all be occupied."
Howard Stark: "You must take measures in advance, otherwise the crisis that Thanos has been worried about will eventually appear in this world. Powerful civilizations that collapse due to resource and population problems aren't uncommon throughout the universe."
Lucas: "Don't worry, I'll handle it."
Realizing that the powerhouses in the central world weren't sincerely surrendering to him—on the contrary, some were thinking of deceiving him and backstabbing him when they regained their strength—Lucas quietly used the Pure Lotus Fire illusion on them, extinguishing their ambitions.
Not long after, a huge picture appeared before Lucas. On the picture was the figure of a stalwart man. The painters in the Yang God world had special abilities, and the things they drew could give people a three-dimensional feeling.
In the chat group, Zheng Qizi looked at the three-dimensional figure of the stalwart man through Lucas's eyes and couldn't help but comment: "Are those the acupuncture points of the whole body that need to be opened for martial arts training?"
Lucas: "That's right, and it's the complete version! This stalwart man is the first emperor of ancient times, Pan, who left a complete method of martial arts cultivation for the ideal world he created."
Liu Xing sighed: "No wonder this man gives me a kind feeling. Only the ancient sage emperor can have this kind of impartial and selfless character."
Suddenly, Liu Xing frowned and said, "Wait, the number of these acupoints is wrong, isn't it? Ninety-nine are missing!"
Lucas: "Haven't you noticed the map behind Holy Emperor Pan? The mystery of the last ninety-nine acupoints is in it."
Xiao Xuan: "Isn't that map the map of Thousand World in the Middle Earth of the Daqian World? I remember seeing this map in the palace."
Zheng Qizi: "Yes, this is the map of the Middle Earth and Thousand World. This is also the map of the orthodox human realm established by Holy Emperor Pan, and it hasn't changed for tens of thousands of years. I thought the map behind Holy Emperor Pan was just to promote his achievements, but it seems I was overthinking."
Dongfang Yuechu: "Zheng Qizi, have you realized something?"
Zheng Qizi: "Not at all! Did Holy Emperor Pan record the secrets of the last ninety-nine acupoints? Did he hide the secrets of the last ninety-nine points in the map to test the comprehension ability of future generations?"
Lucas: "Wrong! The mystery of the last ninety-nine acupoints is difficult to express through language and diagrams. Unlike other acupoints, the last ninety-nine acupoints need to be obtained from the outside world."
Zheng Qizi: "Obtained from the outside world?"
Lucas: "Yes! One must condense ninety-nine points with one's essence, then merge them with the ninety-nine space nodes in Middle Earth and Thousand World. When they absorb enough spatial power, they'll resonate with the land of the Daqian World. After that, one takes them back into the body and transforms them into ninety-nine acupoints."
Zheng Qizi: "That sounds difficult! It's better to comprehend this kind of thing yourself—it's somewhat troublesome when others try to explain it."
Lucas: "That's right! Even if others explain it, it's useless. The ninety-nine space nodes need to be sensed telepathically."
Dongfang Yuechu: "Group Leader, are you going to collect the last Immortal Monument?"
Lucas: "And the leader of the five god-tier kings who were suppressed there—the Immortal God King. He's also a valuable asset."
Xiao Xuan asked curiously, "How much can it improve Xiao Chen?"
Lucas: "What a pity! The Immortal God King is my goal and cannot be used by Xiao Chen."
Lo Pei: "The Group Leader disregards the other four god kings but is determined to obtain the Immortal God King. Is there a big gap between them?"
Lucas: "Of course! The Immortal God King is the King of Demon Gods, and his flesh and blood are fundamentally different from other Demon Gods. Let's just say that after refining the Immortal God King's flesh and blood, I can shatter the void more easily."
Xiao Xuan: "No wonder the Group Leader hasn't cultivated the martial arts of the Yang God world for a long time—it turns out you were waiting for the Immortal God King."
Lucas: "That's right! Martial arts in the Yang God world are very troublesome to practice. I have to wait until everything is ready before practicing. A complete cultivation method and the flesh and blood of the Immortal God King are indispensable!"