Immortal Invitation

"Connecting to the virtual universe..."

"It has been detected that you have retired from the extraterritorial battlefield system. Your login privileges for the virtual universe war continent have been temporarily frozen. Please select a different login location."

The voice of the computer, Bai Yue, was clear and melodious, reminding Li Che to choose the landing point for this virtual universe.

This did not surprise Li Che.

As a product of a terrifying secret technique that almost covered the entire primordial universe, the virtual universe, under the control of a mechanical race universe lord enslaved by the Primordial Ancestor, manages the human territory in a very, very systematic way.

The company divides the 1008 Universe Kingdom into 1008 continents, while the intermediate civilizations under the Universe Kingdom are islands built around the continents, so there will be no problem of management chaos.

As for the virtual continent called the War Continent where Li Che was before, it was an independent continent specially opened up by the Virtual Universe Company for the extraterritorial battlefield. From the first to the eleventh, they correspond to the eleven extraterritorial battlefields that humanity faces.

Due to the existence of the War Continent, the strongest individuals within the human race possess extremely high intelligence-sharing efficiency on the extraterritorial battlefields. Cooperation, requests for aid, trade, and the distribution of spoils can all be completed in the virtual universe.

"Let's choose my private villa on Rongbing Island in the Qianwu Continent as the login location," Li Che said.

"Okay, Rongbing Island on the Qianwu Continent has been selected. Virtual universe connection successful..."

As soon as Bai Yue finished speaking, Li Che felt the scene before him blur for a moment, and when it became clear again, he was in a wide garden.

All around, clusters of beautiful dark purple flowers were in full bloom, and the faint pollen carrying a delicate fragrance flowed into Li Che's nose, making his eyes seem to brighten up.

This is a virtual universe property personally gifted to Li Che by the King of Rongbing after he entered the Hengxing Star. It is said that its price is very high, and even in the virtual universe, its value is close to 1 trillion universe coins.

"It's been a long time."

Taking a deep breath of this strange pollen, which is said to help one comprehend the fundamental laws of earth, Li Che stood up from the quiet little garden and stretched his virtual body vigorously.

"Sir, two guests have requested entry to your villa. They are Lord Rongbing and her guests. Should we allow them in?" Bai Yue's voice came at the right time.

"Please invite them in." Li Che nodded slightly.

A moment later, he changed into a loose, jet-black robe and, in a few flashes, arrived at the main hall of the enormous villa.

Here, in the elegant and refined villa hall, two female figures stand side by side.

One of them was nearly ten meters tall, with fair skin and delicate features. He wore a body-hugging battle armor forged from ice. He was none other than the master of the Rongbing Empire, the homeland of Li Che, and the immortal god Rongbing God.

Beside her stood a winged woman about two meters tall, her figure slender and graceful, with four pairs of wings spread out behind her, scattering a sacred and boundless law of light.

Clearly, this is also an immortal deity.

At this moment, the two immortals are admiring a huge scroll painting personally created by Li Che.

The subject of the painting is a terrifying celestial body located in a vast void. It is not very large, but it becomes the absolute protagonist of the surrounding vast spacetime by virtue of its unimaginably large gravitational field. Anything, including light, once captured by that terrifying gravitational field has no chance of escape.

That's a black hole!

"Goddess, Enlightened Goddess, we've been waiting for you." Li Che stepped forward and greeted the two female immortal deities.

Besides his own God Lord, he also knew another God Lord of Enlightenment, who was the God Lord of the Enlightenment Holy Land, one of the two great immortal holy lands of their Rongbing Empire.

"As expected of someone who has been evaluated as a military-level world lord by the extraterritorial battlefield army system, I can already see your profound mastery of the fundamental laws of earth from this black hole diagram."

Upon seeing that it was Li Che who had come, the Divine Lord Rong Bing nodded slightly. Her cold and deep gaze returned to Li Che's black hole diagram, and her tone was somewhat sentimental.

The other Enlightened God Lord also looked at Li Che with a serious gaze. It wasn't the gaze of an immortal god looking down on a mere World Lord-level little guy, but rather the gaze one would give to an immortal god of the same level.

It's no exaggeration to say that if this black hole catalog were further improved, it would be fully qualified to become a sacred treasure of an immortal god kingdom. From world lords to little guys at the Eternal Star level, everyone could potentially comprehend the power of the fundamental laws within this catalog.

"Just a casual creation from eight or nine thousand years ago."

Li Che smiled and invited Lord Rongbing and Lord Qiyao to sit in the hall. He then ordered the villa's intelligent butler to serve them alien drinks and exotic fruits before getting down to business.

"My Lord, could you tell me more about the war with the Calabash Empire?"

Lord Rongbing nodded.

She gave a signal with her eyes, and the eyes of the little elf-like intelligent assistant on her shoulder immediately lit up, with data streams weaving into the shape of a miniature galaxy.

It was a small star system with two stars at its core, which gravitationally bound 27 planets of varying sizes. In the vast universe, such star systems were insignificant. Just considering the primitive civilizations under the Rongbing Star Region, they had at least hundreds of billions of such star systems under their control.

"This is a small star system that a team of space adventurers found some time ago between the Rongbing Star Region and the Hufeng Star Region. They detected interference signals from a spaceship on the sixth planet of that star system. After exploration, they learned that the signal came from an F-class spaceship that crashed hundreds of epochs ago."

"Those space adventurers successfully activated the intelligent life on the F-class spaceship and learned that the spaceship once belonged to a powerful lone immortal god of the Marquis level. That immortal god was severely injured in the extraterrestrial battlefield by a Zerg queen, and before dying, he left his vehicle on this planet and bequeathed his legacy to the intelligent life..."

As Lord Rongbing recounted the story that had unfolded on that planet, Li Che's expression grew increasingly strange.

The lone immortal god, his soul grievously wounded, arrived on a secluded planet before dying, entrusting his legacy to intelligent life to await a successor.

This plot seems so familiar!

"After being tested, that group of space adventurers failed to gain the recognition of that intelligent life form. So, they decided to sell this information to our Rongbing Empire in exchange for a high reward."

"But those space adventurers were clearly not of one mind; another group contacted the authorities of the Calabash Empire on the other side..."

As Lord Rongbing spoke, he couldn't help but sigh.

"So, the current issue is your conflict with that Calabash God Lord, over the inheritance of a Marquis-level immortal deity?"

Li Che said he understood.

"That Marquis-level being is preparing to pass on the majority of his legacy to the inheritor of his secret techniques, but that's not a big problem. I plan to sell that intelligent life form along with its legacy to the Cosmic Mercenary Alliance. They really like taking on these kinds of cases, and their prices are quite fair."

Lord Rongbing continued to explain to Li Che.

"I've had quite a few clashes with that Calabash God over the years. That person has no intention of sharing the profits from selling the inheritance with me. He even went so far as to seek out the Master of Meteorite Star to suppress me."

As Li Che listened to his own ancestor's words, he couldn't help but feel a little emotional.

If, in the original timeline, the intelligent life and legacy left on Earth by the deceased master of Meteorite Star were to be discovered by cosmic adventurers, they would likely have been noticed by the Black Dragon Mountain God immediately, and would probably have been sold off by him.

"Therefore, for the sake of the expected profits exceeding five million Chaos Units, I have chosen to wage war against the God of Calabash Wind. The victor will gain everything, and the loser will gain nothing."

The voice of the Lord of Rongbing continued to come.

"Li Che, I hope you can participate in this war and help me. If we succeed, I will give you a certain percentage of the selling price of that inheritance as a reward. Even if we fail, I will give you 200,000 Hunyuan units as compensation."

Clearly, the Rongbing Goddess had no intention of underestimating Li Che. Even though Li Che was still nominally the first prince of her Rongbing Empire, she still offered him a very generous reward.

"The problem is, won't the official authorities of the Qianwu Universe Kingdom stop you two, two intermediate-level civilizations, from engaging in a large-scale war?"

It would be a lie to say that Li Che wasn't tempted by the mixed-elemental unit, but he remained cautious and inquired.