Lawful Tyrant

Chapter 395 The New Duke
“Junior brother, the inner world based on the dual spacetime rules is not actually that ingenious or complex in structure. The key is that it needs a sufficiently powerful world origin to make the inner world truly stable.”

"The internal world, which is based on a single spacetime rule, only needs one world origin. Even after the universe is evolved, it still only needs one origin."

"But the inner world under the dual spacetime rules is completely different."

"It is closer to the real world, so it needs to combine more world origins to stabilize the world."

"I collected the twelve fire-attribute primal forces from chaos as the origin of my world, which allowed my inner world to become completely stable."

“This is true for every duke.”

"Although you are cultivating the rules of the future and the rules of the present, you can still start from this direction."

After visiting the senior brother 'Emperor Dongyan', the senior brother readily shared all the key points and secrets of constructing the inner world.

Afterwards, Lin Qing visited his third senior brother, Wang Jun, who then directly passed on his cultivation inheritance to Lin Qing.

After expressing his gratitude repeatedly, Lin Qing observed the inheritance and discovered that, as his senior brother had said, the world's structure was not particularly ingenious or mysterious. The key was that the world's origin was more complex and changeable, which was necessary to withstand the changes in the two spacetime rules.

"I see……"

"I tried to bear the current and future rules based solely on a single origin of the world; no wonder my deductions failed time and time again..."

Lin Qing already had many ideas and concepts in mind, but she wasn't in a hurry to try them out.

Because he has mastered the three major spacetime rules, which are entirely the rules of the real world, perhaps there are other differences in this kind of inner world?
The avatar of the main god from his hometown, the Void Sea, immediately went to the Vacuum Tomb to visit Prince Su.

……

"You want the cultivation insights from past generations of the Primordial Realm who evolved their inner worlds using the dual spacetime rules?"

His Highness looked at Lin Qing with some surprise, "You've only been reincarnated as a King for a few million years, why are you studying such profound classics so early?"

Lin Qing didn't say much, but the surrounding space-time suddenly twisted and tore apart, revealing a terrifying space-time domain.

"Tearing through space and time?"

Prince Su looked at Lin Qing in surprise, "You've already mastered two spacetime rules?"

Normally, only the ultimate being can repel external spacetime and cause spacetime to be completely torn apart by relying on the cosmic origin within its body.

Furthermore, beings at the level of Dukes can naturally repel external time and space through their own dual-time and space rules.

"Correct."

Lin Qing nodded, "However, I have cultivated in the Flowing Years Palace of the Heavenly Light Divine Kingdom for a billion years, which is far more than a few million years."

“A billion years…that’s incredible.” Prince Su sighed. “Even in the Origin Realm, it doesn’t happen that fast. It took me seven billion years.”

She shook her head slightly, then with a flick of her sleeve, a series of strange hexagonal crystals appeared in front of Lin Qing.

"These are the cultivation insights left behind by the great saints of the Origin Realm who mastered the rules of dual spacetime. You may take a look if you wish," said Prince Su.

"So many?" Lin Qing exclaimed in surprise. "There are over a hundred of these. Are there more than a hundred Great Saints with dual spacetime rules in the Origin Realm?"

Saints in the Initial Realm are eternal beings, equivalent to marquises in the King Realm, or gods in the Immortal Realm and the Abyss Realm.

The Great Saints of the Beginning Realm are either Dukes or Divine Lords!
There are only seven Duke-level powerhouses in the King Realm, and I heard that there are dozens of Divine Lords in the Immortal Realm. I didn’t expect there to be so many in the Beginning Realm!

“During the peak of the Initial Realm, there were hundreds of ultimate beings, and naturally there were over a hundred Great Saints.”

His Highness said, "However, you have mastered the rules of the future and the rules of the present. Among them, only the 'Great Sage of Myriad Wonders' achieved the status of a Great Sage by using the rules of the future and the rules of the present."

"Only one?" Lin Qing asked with some doubt, "Your Highness, aren't you one? I heard that you once mastered three kinds of spacetime rules?"

"I have mastered three spacetime rules."

His Highness shook his head slightly and said, "But I did not leave any cultivation insights, so here is only the cultivation insights of the Great Sage of Myriad Wonders."

"Why?" Lin Qing asked, puzzled.

"...I don't know either." Prince Su paused for a moment before saying, "After all, I am merely an informational life form created by Prince Su himself before his death. It's hard to say how many memories I inherited..."

Lin Qing suddenly had a thought and asked, "Does Your Highness know why the Beginning Realm was destroyed?"

Prince Su looked at him and said, "The Beginning Realm was destroyed by the Ancient Ancestor, one of the three progenitors of the Star Abyss Demon Clan."

"Then do you know why the ancient progenitors destroyed the Origin Realm?" Lin Qing asked again.

"This……"

His Highness frowned slightly and said, "The Beginning Realm is an ally of the Void God Clan. Since it is an enemy of the Star Abyss, it will naturally be targeted by the three progenitors of the Star Abyss."

Lin Qing shook his head and said, "The Void God Clan and the Star Abyss Demon Clan have been locked in a stalemate for so many years. The Star Abyss Ancestor has never destroyed any civilization, so why did he destroy the Origin Realm? Where were the three gods of the Void God Clan when the Origin Realm was destroyed?"

His Highness Su paused for a moment before sighing, "I do indeed have some missing memories."

Lin Qing also confirmed it.

It seems that the life form left behind by Prince Su did not know... that the reason for the destruction of the Beginning Realm might lie with Prince Su himself.

The crucial point is that His Highness Su's cultivation insights are also gone!
This further suggests that it is possible that His Highness Su's mastery of three spacetime rules is what led to him being targeted by the Star Abyss Demon Clan and even the Void God Clan!

What secrets do these three spacetime rules hold?

The thought flashed through Lin Qing's mind: "A threat to both the Void God Clan and the Star Abyss Demon Clan?"

The Void God Clan and the Star Abyss Demon Clan were truly locked in a life-or-death struggle, fighting each other to the death for countless years. Both sides were trying to win over various forces, but the Void God Clan's Three Gods actually tacitly allowed the Star Abyss Ancestor to destroy the Origin Realm without taking any action to stop it.

Moreover, not even His Highness Su's cultivation insights were left behind!

Lin Qing suddenly understood... why Prince Su had told her that "the Void Gods are trustworthy" back then, because she didn't remember the key reason why the Origin Realm was destroyed!

He even felt a chill in his heart.

The Void Gods are the rulers of this main universe. Could they even be able to see the situation of the Vacuum Tomb?

"The Beginning Realm... I don't know exactly what's going on..." His Highness sighed, "but I do feel that something is wrong..."

Lin Qing paused for a moment before slowly speaking: "Let bygones be bygones. Now that the Beginning Realm has been reborn as the Mountain and Sea Realm, the Mountain and Sea Realm... will never follow the old path of the Beginning Realm."

With a wave of his hand, he collected all the cultivation insights of these Great Saints of the Beginning Realm.

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Inside the Hall of Flowing Years.

While summarizing the cultivation insights of the Great Saints of the Beginning Realm, Lin Qing frowned slightly as he pondered the path ahead.

"My mastery of the three major spacetime rules must absolutely not be revealed..."

"You can't tell anyone."

"Even... unless absolutely necessary, one should not use the three major spacetime rules to transform one's inner world and life level."

"Once a breakthrough is made, it's possible that it will be discovered!"

Lin Qing took a deep breath, having already made up her mind.

Unless he was confident in defeating the Void Gods and the Star Abyss Demons, he would never allow himself to be exposed in the slightest way.

Even a powerful and ancient civilization like the Beginning Realm was completely destroyed by the Star Abyss Ancestor.

If he is discovered, his home world and the Realm of Kings will likely be implicated, and he won't be the only one to die.

"So it seems... even if I achieve the ultimate goal in the future and transform the Mountain and Sea Realm into a miniature universe, I can't do it alone." Lin Qing narrowed his eyes. "It would be best to find someone to help me create a miniature universe, or have a pillar-level universe treasure!"

If someone created a miniature universe all by himself, wouldn't that clearly demonstrate that he has mastered the three major spacetime rules?
By then, he might be killed by the Star Abyss Ancestor before he could even successfully create a miniature universe.

"Before achieving the ultimate goal, I'd better not use the three major spacetime rules to transform my inner world, unless I can find a hidden method..."

"At worst, after achieving the ultimate goal, I can use the three major spacetime rules to make the universe within my body evolve and transform again..."

Lin Qing pondered to herself what to do next.

Among the many ultimate beings, the 'Qianmo God Lord' of the Immortal Realm is a similar case.

Back then, the God Lord Qianmo first created his inner universe using a single spacetime rule. He had no special background and was just an ordinary God King. However, after achieving the ultimate level for billions of years, he mastered a second spacetime rule, which immediately caused his inner universe to undergo a transformation and evolution. This is how he became the ruler of a God Kingdom in the Immortal Realm.

He could first achieve the ultimate using two spacetime rules, and then, once he was confident enough, allow the universe within his body to evolve and transform again using three spacetime rules.

"However, thirty-three million years from now, I might be able to try it out in the future..."

Lin Qing pondered to herself.

He first used the ability to travel to the future nearly a million years ago. At that time, he traveled to 34 million years in the future and did not stay for long. Therefore, he can use the ability to travel to the future again in 33 million years.

As for the second time he used the Future Heart to summon the future, that's a long way off; it will be more than 37 million years before he can use it again.

We'll see when the time comes...

Lin Qing shook her head slightly, suppressing these thoughts in her heart, and continued to digest the cultivation insights left behind by the hundreds of Great Saints of the Beginning Realm.

A thousand years passed outside, while millions more passed inside the Palace of Time.

"It should be successful."

A world-building technique, theoretically capable of perfectly transforming the inner world into a dual-spacetime rule world, appeared in Lin Qing's mind, and he couldn't help but smile.

Although it was only a theoretical success, in reality it required combining various chaotic primordial forces and perfectly harmonizing these primordial forces into the origin of the world, which was incredibly difficult. But for him, it was enough as long as it was theoretically successful.

"The seven life-attribute chaotic origins, plus the five void-type chaotic origins, once transformed into my world origins, can theoretically completely stabilize my inner world."

Lin Qing nodded slightly in satisfaction, then left the Hall of Flowing Years and began to select treasures containing the origin of chaos from the treasure hall.

All treasures in the chaos contain various kinds of primordial chaos power; it's just a matter of degree.

Once the origin of the world within his body is formed, he will naturally be able to transform the power of chaos into his own unique world power.

"A thousand hearts and ten thousand flowers, forty-two hundred thousand blossoms."

"The Blood River has three trillion cubic meters of water."

"Seven Eyes of Flowing Flames..."

"A world of mother and child hearts..."

As various primordial treasures of chaos shattered, various primordial chaotic elements continuously poured into his inner world. Lin Qing also manipulated spacetime to barely stabilize these primordial chaotic forces.

However, the real challenge lies in transforming these chaotic origins into a truly stable world origin.

"Advance payment".

Lin Qing wasted no time and directly chose to advance the funds, using the help of the Entropy Reverser to perfectly adjust his own world origin.

The world origin formed by the perfect combination of various chaotic origins is far more powerful than before, and his inner world is also many times more stable than before!
"Such a stable world is sufficient to support two different spacetime rules."

Lin Qing smiled slightly, and immediately began to modify the world rules of the world within his body.

In an instant, as the world's rules changed from a single 'future rule' to 'future rule and present rule', the inner world also began to re-evolve and transform, and expanded wildly at a terrifying speed.

The inner world, which was originally nearly 47.9 billion kilometers in diameter, has expanded to more than 380 billion kilometers in diameter in just a few hundred years!

"The trunk of a cosmic tree."

Without hesitation, Lin Qing immediately integrated the more than 20,000 cosmic tree branches that his senior brother had given him into his inner world, and began to absorb the essence within the cosmic tree branches, allowing his inner world to expand in all directions once again.

The sky is higher, the earth is thicker, and the four corners of the earth are farther away!

As the world inside his body grows larger, the oppression from that world becomes increasingly terrifying!
More than a hundred years later, after he had integrated more than 90% of the branches of the 20,000 cosmic trees into his inner world, his already enormous inner world expanded to a diameter of 479 billion kilometers.

"What a terrifying inner world..."

Lin Qing was secretly amazed. He immediately manipulated the terrifying power of the world to surge out and continuously integrate it into his body, frantically refining his eternal body and transforming his life level to a higher level from the foundation!

After a short while, this transformation of life finally came to an end.

An incredibly terrifying aura spread out, and the surrounding space and time completely froze.

This terrifying power seems capable of completely tearing apart this space-time with just a slight burst of its power!
At the same time, the time acceleration in the Palace of Flowing Years also suddenly weakened, decreasing from 3,800 times to 380 times.

"My level of life..."

Lin Qingjing sensed her body and couldn't help but sigh to herself, "No wonder my strength at the Duke level is close to that of an ultimate being. My current level of life is almost the same as that of an ultimate being, and my body is also comparable to the cosmic body of an ultimate being!"

The level of existence at the Duke level is almost identical to that of the ultimate existence. The biggest difference is that the ultimate existence can use the universe within its body to mobilize the power of chaos and form a cosmic domain where words can become law!

That's why their strength is only 'close', but in reality, they are still a notch below each other.

But if it's one of the best among the dukes—

For example, if one learns a god-level secret technique with dual spacetime rules, or learns the terrifying inheritance of the three gods of the Void God Clan, one can be comparable to or even defeat the ultimate existence!
For example, Yu Gong and Luo Shen Jun are both like this.

"Although none of the rulers of the various divine kingdoms possess the knowledge of the current and future rules, and such a divine-king-level inheritance does not exist, but..."

Lin Qing slowly looked at the Nine-Hearted Sage clone beside him, "I also have the Nine-Hearted Sage's innate secret technique, 'Original Law,' which theoretically allows me to create a God-level secret technique with dual spacetime rules!"

The Original Law is a unique secret technique purely bestowed by innate talent, dividing all the power of endless chaos into six basic units.
The higher one's personal level and the greater one's comprehension, the more powerful the secret techniques one creates.

In theory, the Nine-Hearted Sage might be able to create a god-level secret technique with dual spacetime rules, but the chances are extremely slim.

But Lin Qing is different.

"Hmm, the Void God Clan has another 20,000 to 30,000 years to select the third-generation bloodline successor... but the Time Acceleration of the Flowing Years Palace is only 380 times, I wonder if we'll make it in time..."

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Temple of Heavenly Light.

King Guang frowned slightly, constantly observing the changes in various future timelines and the situation of the divine kingdom war, while deducing in his mind, his brows furrowing deeper and deeper.

"Without Lord Yu, my Heavenly Light Divine Kingdom would be able to withstand this Divine Kingdom War, or at least achieve a peace, and would not suffer any losses..."

"But once Yu Gong was involved in the simulation, the outcome changed drastically; the losses were too severe..."

King Guang frowned. "Even if the loss to the essence of the divine kingdom is not significant, too many people in my Heavenly Light Divine Kingdom will die..."

suddenly--

"Owner."

A deep voice suddenly rang out: "Just now, the pressure on Liunian Palace suddenly surged inexplicably. After checking, I found that the Ninth Prince's life level has undergone a transformation."

"He's transformed?" King Guang was taken aback. "Could it be that he..."

The deep voice said, "His Highness the Ninth Prince has already reached the life level of a Duke."

(End of this chapter)