Chapter 150: The Framework of the Law

Chapter 150: The Framework of Laws

When the military training concluded, Li Hongshen and the others, under the leadership of Ma Zhongliang, boarded his spacecraft and returned to the Ironclad Fortress.

Upon arrival, they underwent multiple rigorous inspection procedures, including soul detection, physical scanning, biochemical quarantine, and more.

The security here was far stricter than any customs checkpoint, designed specifically to prevent alien spies from infiltrating the civilization's territory and causing catastrophic damage.

When Li Hongshen once again boarded the Trident vessel and left the Ironclad Fortress, he looked through the bridge's viewport at the continent that divided the sea of stars. The next time he came here, he would be a genuine participant rather than a mere spectator as he had been during military training.

This military training had made him acutely aware of his own shortcomings, making him realize that he was, so to speak, pathetically weak. It reined in his somewhat arrogant mindset, placing the word "steadiness" firmly in his heart, prompting him to silently repeat it to himself over and over again.

However, the military training also left Li Hongshen with a few regrets. For instance, after advancing to the Transcendental realm, Ma Zhongliang's territory had gained the ability to expand independently, and he was indeed constructing a new city on newly born land.

Right beside this new city was his military port, where his personal void warship was docked. Although it was only a cruiser, it was entirely self-constructed.

Yet, everything concerning the new city, the military port, and the void warship itself was not open to Li Hongshen and the others. Li Hongshen and his peers fully understood this.

At the same time, they finally understood why Ma Zhongliang had been willing to take on such a military training assignment. It turned out he still had a trump card up his sleeve, which gave Li Hongshen and the others yet another profound lesson: operations could indeed be conducted in such a manner.

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The return journey was much slower than Li Hongshen had imagined. Even though they traveled via the civilization's well-maintained, direct stellar gates, simply waiting in the queue took Li Hongshen a full week.

Then, they flew through the stellar gate corridor for two days before finally returning to the isolation zone within the civilization's territory. Passing through layers of void fortress walls, Li Hongshen and the others used spatial jump bridges to return to the First Domain, and finally made an individual jump back to the vicinity of the Central Lord Academy's stellar city.

Such a return speed still relied heavily on the civilization's highly developed spatial technology. Whether it was stellar gates or spatial jump bridges, both involved profound spatial physics theories.

It was akin to stretching space from a multi-dimensional level down to two dimensions, folding it, punching a hole through it, and finally fixing the exit at the multi-dimensional level using spatial constraint devices, allowing people to utilize such spatial corridors.

The biggest difference between a stellar gate and a jump bridge lay in their length and the thickness of the corridor. Depending on the length of the corridor, the transit speed varied noticeably, which in turn dictated the different specifications of the required spatial constraint devices.

Generally speaking, stellar gates were longer and thicker than jump bridges, and the transit speed through them was slower. However, their construction costs were exorbitant, requiring super spatial constraint units to match them. Consequently, stellar gates were relatively scarcer within the civilization than jump bridges.

As for jumping, it involved generating an ultra-vacuum bubble to envelop oneself, bombarding the surrounding environment with high-energy particles to hurl the ultra-vacuum bubble along with the vessel into a special dimension, and then using the warship's engines and thrusters to propel its speed to several astronomical units per second.

When the Trident vessel smoothly entered the stellar city, Mi Xianyun finally breathed a sigh of relief. Although he possessed a somewhat mischievous streak and enjoyed teasing his junior martial brothers and sisters, he was, after all, a good counselor.

Leading a team for military training for the very first time had still made him somewhat nervous. Now that they were back at the Central Lord Academy, he could finally relax.

After returning to the school and resting for a day, Li Hongshen and the others immediately plunged into intense studies.

A wide array of subjects filled their schedules for the first half of the year: the Framework of Laws, Construction of Vassal Professions, Political Structures, Military Literacy, Translocation Simulations, and other such courses constituted their daily lives at the Central Lord Academy.

First was the course on the Framework of Laws of the Teaching Lord Space. This class was taught to the entire grade simultaneously, and their instructor was an Epic-tier Lord.

Living up to its reputation, the class was packed with special effects. The very moment Li Hongshen stepped into the classroom, the entire space underwent a certain degree of folding.

Although he could still see his classmates through the glass-like spatial barriers to his left and right, the most prominent sensation was that the distance between him and the instructor had been dramatically shortened.

It felt like a one-on-one tutoring session; the instructor was right before the student's eyes, yet simultaneously felt unfathomably distant.

Without further ado, the instructor directly produced a Lord's Heart. Naturally, this was not a real one, but merely a simulation prop. However, this in no way detracted from the Epic-tier master's demonstration.

The instructor directly decomposed this simulated Lord's Heart, constructing numerous tiers of varying levels. Through these different levels, Li Hongshen and the others could see various streams of data wandering among the tiers.

"Have you ever wondered what the framework of laws is, and why the civilization divides lords into different tiers? Is it truly because of a difference in sheer strength?

The framework of laws constitutes the foundational laws of your entire lord space. No matter how you tinker with it or how you develop, those foundational laws will remain almost entirely unchanged.

However, why did I say 'almost'? Because these laws are not unchangeable; it all depends on whether you possess the strength and the authority.

Do you see the tiers marked out here? Each tier corresponds to a lord's rank. When your rank reaches that level, you can attempt to undergo modifications.

Just like right now, I am certain that your territories undoubtedly contain energy laws originating from the Endless Wilderness. Such laws are inherently harmless.

However, I cannot guarantee the same for other laws. Therefore, I advise you that in the future, when you acquire other laws, it is best to first expend Origin Points for simulations before introducing them into your territories.

It is very easy to introduce a law, but stripping one away is rather difficult, and you must also face the repercussions left in the wake of that removal.

Furthermore, the tier of these laws had best not exceed your own rank, because doing so might cause them to spiral out of your control."

The Epic-tier lecturer progressed from shallow to deep, breaking down the framework of laws into several small modules for Li Hongshen and the others, explaining the underlying mysteries and his personally summarized experiences.

Beyond this, he would also lead Li Hongshen and the others in using simulated Lord's Hearts to experiment with combining various different laws, helping them understand what constitutes a conflict of laws, what complementary pairings mean, and so on.