Chapter 464: Ch
It was a literal hell that no sane soul in the Empire wanted to visit, where one would suffer the pain of a thousand deaths over several lifetimes without ever finding the sweet release of dying.
To them, it was a punishment far worse than any hell the multiverse could offer—and it kept every single minister and councillor perfectly, terrifyingly disciplined.
For Kallus firmly believed that punishment and promotion must coexist. If a position empowers a person, elevating them to a supreme being in the eyes of those below them and allowing them to enjoy immense authority, it can easily lead to corruption. After all, if power is not kept in check, it will almost definitely go to anyone’s head.
To ensure that his direct subordinates and the officials below them remained duty-bound with absolutely zero misconduct, a corresponding level of punishment was put in place.
If they were caught doing something they shouldn’t, they would experience a punishment a hundred or even a thousand times more intense than the power they had enjoyed.
A few individuals had already experienced this throughout the Celestial Void Empire. Much of it was because of the deep-seated reverence that Kallus hadn’t yet been able to fully cultivate in the hearts of the newly added members from Earth a while ago.
Second, the sudden leap in strength and status was simply too much for certain people who were mere mortals before, with few opportunities to their names. It was after witnessing this firsthand that Kallus implemented the severe punishment system, demonstrating to all his subordinates exactly where they would end up if they dared to push the limits of their authority, misuse it, or disobey their superiors.
Putting this aside, the Interior Council meeting began right on time, despite the initial detours and minor problems at the start.
Meanwhile, at that very same moment, within one of the empire’s larger star systems—a Super Star System known by the name Red Divine Star—preparations were reaching a fever pitch. This system served as one of the primary battle fleet bases and the active headquarters of the three newly formed grand battle fleets: the 8th Fleet, known as the Lance of the Void; the 9th Grand Fleet, named the Apex Rapier; and the 10th, the Apex Trident.
Each fleet’s name represented its unique strength and signaled a massive shift in how these grand battle fleets—the literal swords of Kallus—were constructed.
Kallus had begun to merge the profound strength of a cultivator directly with the very capital ships they led. For example, Grand Admiral Mav Lark was a Genesis Law Realm being of the Integration Realm.
His flagship, the Lance of the Void, was a super dreadnought that could also be classified as a super star destroyer-class vessel. He had formed a special kind of symbiotic bond with this ship.
Though still in a semi-complete state, this mystical connection allowed him to operate the massive vessel entirely on his own, without the need for a crew or even the ship’s internal AI.
It granted him one hundred percent control over the dreadnought directly through his mind. The ship extended beyond mere machinery; it felt like a part of his own being—just like the legends of ancient warriors who merged so perfectly with their swords or spears that the weapons became a true extension of their bodies.
his was the kind of level Mav Lark could achieve with his flagship, the Lance of the Void. The massive vessel acted as a colossal armament—much like what an exoskeleton would be to an average human being—granting him a significant boost in raw strength.
Though his personal cultivation stood at the 5th Rank of the Integration Realm, when bound to his ship, his combat power surged to the 7th Rank, a massive boost of two full levels.
And that was just a fraction of his true capability.
A strict, terrifying hierarchy of power and cultivation ran down the rest of the fleet structure:
Super Star Destroyer / Super Dreadnought (Flagship Class): Commanded exclusively by Integration Realm beings of the Genesis Law, receiving a multi-rank boost to their power.
Star Destroyer / Dreadnought Class: Captained only by those who have successfully stepped into the Comprehension Realm of the Genesis Law.
Super Battleship Class: Requires a captain with a minimum cultivation of the High-Level World Building Realm (a realm divided strictly into Low, Mid, and High sub-realms).
Battleship Class: Requires a captain whose strength sits at least within the Mid-Level World Building Realm.
Battlecruiser Class: Commanded by officers with a cultivation limit matching the Low-Level World Building Realm.
Destroyer Class: Requires the captain to possess the strength of a High-Level Paragon.
Assault Ship Class: Requires at least the strength or cultivation of the Low to Mid-Level Paragon Realm.
Frigate Class: Captained by cultivators ranging from the Low Master Level up to the High Grand Master Realm.
Corvette Class: The foundational tier of the fleet, crewed and commanded by those with strengths ranging from F to SSS-rank, transitioning into the initial cultivation ranks.
This system linked a practitioner to their ship in a manner remarkably similar to an innate Dao weapon from legendary cultivation paths, interlinking a living being completely with their chosen weapon. The result was not a simple mathematical addition where one plus one equals two; instead, it created an exponential synergy where one plus one equaled three.
This profound bond significantly increased a cultivator’s chances of breaking through to a higher realm with far less difficulty.
The immense burden of breakthrough and cultivation was no longer borne by a single soul, but was carried by two distinct entities at the exact same time—one being the cultivator themselves, and the other being their massive starship, such as Mav Lark and his Lance of the Void.
Beyond the immediate combat enhancements, it bestowed other major benefits, including a vast increase in lifespan. Most importantly, it offered a beacon of hope to those born with mediocre or non-existent cultivation talent, giving them a tangible path to ascend to a level where they too could become mighty and truly immortal.
This system was not something Kallus had designed on a whim. Rather, it was a revolutionary discovery he had unearthed during a recent expedition into the deeper layers of the universal domain, where he frequently ventured in his free time.
To his absolute astonishment and shock, he had discovered the traces of an ancient, forgotten ruin. Buried within those ruins lay the inheritance of this dual-type cultivation system—a path where advanced technology and profound mysticism were seamlessly interlinked to give birth to a different, yet terrifyingly powerful cultivation framework known as the Evolution System.
Furthermore, because of the ancient inheritance he had uncovered, Kallus had finally solved a terrifying secret that had long eluded him: the true tier and classification of his own ultimate flagship, the Obliterator.
According to the records of that ancient human civilization, the Obliterator belonged to the mythical Titan Class—or in the specific terminology of that lost era, a Celestial Destroyer Class vessel.
At this peak tier of engineering and cosmic power, a single starship possessed the terrifying capability to easily wipe out multiple galaxies from a single point. Its absolute destructive reach could span across hundreds, and in some specialized cases, even thousands of galaxies simultaneously.
And these were galaxies they were talking about—vast cosmic structures housing hundreds of billions of star systems each, with larger ones containing far more, alongside an unimaginable, infinite number of living beings.
And not only that, Kallus also discovered that he had actually been walking this very path of cultivation unconsciously. This was mostly due to the profound, innate bond he had always shared with the Obliterator—a connection he previously had no real inkling of, largely because he had always treated it as part of his connection with the Red Empress. Never had he thought that the Obliterator and the Red Empress were two entirely different entities altogether.
But his confusion was also reasonable. After all, the Empress acted as the living brain of the Obliterator, housing her consciousness within it. Yet, even he knew she could pull away from the ship if needed because her core existence was a fundamental part of his own soul, whereas what resided within the Obliterator was merely a sort of advanced clone of her consciousness.
This revelation significantly upgraded the level of mystery surrounding the Obliterator in his mind, making him realize that the creations of the Supreme Being truly could not be underestimated. Nor would that entity simply hand him a weapon that sat at the absolute, unrestricted peak of the universe without safeguards.
After all, if the Obliterator was truly operating at the full galactic-annihilation scale mentioned in the records of the ancient human civilization—which the Supreme Being had purposefully left behind in the universal domain for him to find—Kallus’s body at its current meager level would never have been able to bear the sheer pressure.
He would have crumbled instantly, much like how a low-level Golden Core cultivator cannot even dream of wielding an Immortal Weapon, even if the weapon is sitting right in front of them.
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