Zhutian: Start from Devouring the Stars and Becoming a God

Chapter 265 Ultimate Secret Technique
Virtual universe, atop Thunder Island.

This place is filled with a vast amount of chaotic energy, and within this endless chaotic energy stand a very few majestic palaces.

These magnificent palaces are all residences of the rulers of the Virtual Universe Company, one of which belongs to the Ice Peak Lord.

In a training ground within the palace of the Ice Peak Lord, a middle-aged man was diligently cultivating; he was none other than Lu Qingshan, the Ice Peak Lord's youngest disciple.

At this moment, the scene in the training ground has been simulated as a vast starry sky. In this vast starry sky, Lu Qingshan, wearing purple-gold armor, is facing off against a terrifying monster that is over a thousand meters long, surrounded by endless flames, and looks like a lion.

This terrifying-looking monster is the two-thousandth opponent set up by the Lord of Ice Peak for Lu Qingshan to create the fourth ultimate secret technique: the Crimson Flame Lion.

When Lu Qingshan first started creating his own secret techniques, most of the opponents he encountered were ordinary life forms in the universe, because special life forms were not only very rare, but each one was also incredibly powerful.

If the opponent you encounter from the beginning is this strong, then it will be too difficult to defeat them.

However, as the level of the secret techniques increased, the opponents encountered later became ordinary life forms in the universe, such as the two thousandth opponent, the Crimson Lion.

Although special life forms are powerful, most of them rely on their innate secret techniques and naturally high levels of life genes!

Aside from these innate advantages, special life forms are extremely rare, making it difficult for them to match the best among the countless ordinary life forms in terms of comprehension.

Just like the King of Barking Mirrors and the King of Chasing Insects mentioned in the original work, they can suppress or even kill ordinary universe venerables in reality. However, if they rely on their understanding of the way of the beast god to fight in the world of glory, they can only be considered as the middle to lower tier among the same level of beast god way cultivators.

The innate magical powers of special life forms are indeed very strong, and they do have a strong tempering effect on self-created magical techniques. However, as the level of self-created magical techniques increases, the tempering effect naturally decreases.

After all, the opponents simulated in the virtual universe, the secret techniques they use, and so on, cannot be generated out of thin air; they are basically all battles of other powerful figures that have been recorded in the past.

The Crimson Flame Lion that Lu Qingshan was facing was the leader of a powerful race in the universe, the 'Crimson Flame Lord'.

Of course, Lu Qingshan was only facing the Crimson Flame Lord at the Universe Venerable stage.

Even so, the Lord of Crimson Flames is not someone who can be easily defeated.

Lu Qingshan has been stuck on this level for over five million years!

"Roar!!"

The crimson lion, bathed in endless flames, stomped its four hooves on the void and roared madly toward Lu Qingshan's location.

"Time Slash!"

As soon as they saw it, a large number of purple threads spread out from the purple-gold longsword in Lu Qingshan's hand. They then quickly gathered together in the void and transformed into a giant sword phantom that exuded a terrifying pressure.

This sword technique is the fourth sword technique that Lu Qingshan created using the complete laws of time.

However, when he killed the Black Wolf Venerable of the Demon Clan in the Azure Phoenix Secret Realm, this fourth sword technique had only recently reached its peak level. Now, he has defeated his 1999th opponent with this sword technique, and he is only one step away from upgrading this secret technique to the ultimate level.

Unfortunately, this final step had been a delay of over five million years for him.

"Roar!!"

Upon seeing Lu Qingshan unleash his ultimate move, the crimson lion shrouded in endless flames in the distant starry sky flashed across the endless space and pounced directly towards Lu Qingshan's location. One of its giant claws even pierced towards Lu Qingshan's throat like lightning.

"Kill me!"

With a thought, Lu Qingshan unleashed the giant sword phantom that had gathered in front of him, instantly unleashing boundless power as it swiftly slashed horizontally at the Crimson Flame Lion charging towards him.

boom!
The giant sword phantom and the crimson lion's claws collided fiercely in the void, and then a terrifying shockwave instantly spread in all directions.

This is because this is the last opponent for the arcane technique to reach the ultimate level, and its strength is a qualitative leap compared to the previous opponent.

When he first faced this Crimson Flame Lion, Lu Qingshan was even killed by it several times.

However, as Lu Qingshan's secret techniques continued to improve, he was able to withstand the ferocious attacks of the Crimson Flame Lion and even suppress it.

And this time...

Wow!

The giant sword phantom instantly changed direction after colliding with the Crimson Flame Lion's claws, like a poisonous stinger, rushing along the lion's claws to its abdomen, where it unleashed terrifying power.

puff!

In an instant, the giant sword phantom, tens of meters long, sliced ​​open the Crimson Flame Lion's abdomen. Then, the entire giant sword phantom burrowed into the Crimson Flame Lion's body through the wound, and then raged within it with boundless power.

After that, the Crimson Lion's entire body exploded from the terrifying attack from within, and then it completely lost its life force.

"Hahaha! More than five million years have passed, and we've finally killed this Crimson Flame Lion!"

Seeing that the Crimson Flame Lion in front of him had completely lost its life force, a smile quickly appeared on Lu Qingshan's face. Then, he couldn't help but secretly look forward to it: "I wonder when I will be able to kill the real Lord of Crimson Flame?"

The Crimson Lion Clan, led by the Lord of Crimson Flame, is a staunch ally of the Zerg faction and has indeed caused some trouble for the human race over the long years.

At this point, more than 100,000 epochs had passed since Lu Qingshan and his fourteenth senior brother, Venerable Fei Yu, ventured into the Azure Phoenix Secret Realm.

During these tens of thousands of epochs, Lu Qingshan's most powerful second avatar has been exploring the secret realms of the universe with other cosmic venerables of the human race.

Venturing into the secret realms of the universe is naturally accompanied by many dangers, but it must be said that these cosmic venerables of the human race are still very cautious.

Most of them don't have the ability to create clones like Lu Qingshan, so they naturally put more effort into improving their survival skills.

In addition, since the Primal Star had just closed not long ago, many high-level cosmic venerables and cosmic overlords in the human race were digesting the gains made during the opening of the Primal Star. Most of their treasures were not needed, so they would lend them to their friends in the same camp.

This is why the cosmic venerables who ventured into the cosmic secret realms with Lu Qingshan all possessed their own trump cards and methods, such as top-level domain-type treasures, supreme treasure armor, or top-level palace-type treasures.

Even more remarkably, Venerable Haoyue, the sixth disciple of Lord Huangjian, the leader of the Cosmic Mercenary Alliance, had also traveled with Lu Qingshan for a period of time. They once encountered a cosmic overlord from the Nine Domains Alliance. At that time, another cosmic venerable who was traveling with them was planning to ask other cosmic overlords of the human race for help, but Venerable Haoyue directly took out a palace-type treasure that he had borrowed from Lord Huangjian!

It's important to know that even the most ordinary palace-type treasure costs over fifteen treasure points in the human race's treasury. Many cosmic overlords don't even have that much wealth combined, let alone own a palace-type treasure.

That experience also made Lu Qingshan understand better the protective nature of Huang Jian, the leader of the Cosmic Mercenary Alliance.

If they hadn't later exhausted a lot of their divine power while fighting for the treasure, they probably would have continued to explore the secret realms of the universe together for a long time.

Of course, while exploring the cosmic secret realms with other cosmic venerables, Lu Qingshan's main body and his endless divine sea avatar were also diligently cultivating. During this cultivation process, Lu Qingshan's main focus was naturally on cultivating the fundamental laws of space, since as long as he fully comprehended the fundamental laws of space, he would be able to smoothly enter the realm of the cosmic master.

However, after cultivating for over 100,000 epochs, Lu Qingshan finally understood just how difficult the cultivation speed at the Universe Venerable level truly was.

It should be noted that during this long period of cultivation, which far exceeded the total time he had spent cultivating in the past, even though it was extremely difficult to obtain points in the chat group, and even though it required a large number of points to activate the Enlightenment Enhancement function once, Lu Qingshan still activated the Enlightenment Enhancement function twice.

Even so, his progress in understanding the fundamental laws of space remained extremely slow.

Let alone comprehending the three major branches of the fundamental laws of space and raising one's realm to the level of a high-level Venerable, even being close to comprehending just one of the three major branches of the fundamental laws of space is still a long way off.

Fortunately, his progress in comprehending the laws was slow, but it did not affect Lu Qingshan's achievements in combat techniques.

In the ten millionth year since he entered the realm of the Universe Venerable, Lu Qingshan successfully created the fourth peak level sword technique, namely 'Time Slash'.
Sixty million years after entering the realm of the Universe Venerable, he successfully raised his movement technique 'Surprising Swan' to its peak level based on the complete laws of time origin.
In the ninetieth year, Lu Qingshan successfully upgraded the first sword technique, "Heavenly Thunder Break," to the ultimate level. This was also the first ultimate level secret technique he created.

In the 13,000th era, Lu Qingshan further elevated the soul attack technique "Soul Slaughtering Sword" to its peak level, based on the complete laws of time origin.
In the 18,000th era, he further elevated the second sword technique, 'Mysterious Thunder Heavenly Blade,' to the ultimate level.
In the 32,000th era, the third sword technique, "Sword Universe Return to Ruins," was elevated to the ultimate level.
Now, in the 16,000th epoch after breaking through to become a Cosmic Venerable, he has further elevated the fourth sword technique, 'Time Slash,' which he created based on the complete laws of time, to the ultimate level!
All of Lu Qingshan's self-created secret techniques were naturally included in a complete set of "The Origin of Myriad Realms".

In fact, even compared to the "Seven Kills of the Beast God" (Seven Transformations of the God of Derivation) that was clearly recorded in the original work, if we only consider the first four levels, Lu Qingshan's "Origin of Myriad Realms" has obviously surpassed the "Seven Kills of the Beast God".

Among them, the Soul-Slaying Sword, a secret technique for attacking souls, corresponds to the Soul-Defense Secret Technique "Beast God's Roar" in "Seven Kills of the Beast God";
The movement technique "Jinghong" corresponds to "Beast God's Gallop";
As for the sword technique "Nine Swords of Heavenly Interception", it corresponds to "Beast God Weapon". Currently, only four forms have been created: "Heavenly Thunder Break", "Mysterious Thunder Heavenly Blade", "Sword Universe Return to Ruins", and the strongest one now, "Years Slash".
Of course, there is also a body amplitude-type secret technique called "Beast God Transformation" in "Seven Kills of the Beast God", but Lu Qingshan's body amplitude and soul amplitude have already been increased by more than eighty times through the inheritance of the Spirit Wind God General and the Four Directions God General. In addition, there are many amplitude secret techniques in the treasure trove of the human race, so he naturally has no need to create his own.

"In terms of creating secret techniques alone, I'm almost on par with Senior Brother Yaoguang now!"

As Lu Qingshan felt the power and mystery of the Time Slash, he couldn't help but think to himself.

The Ice Peak Master once told him that even after countless years of cultivation, the Radiant Venerable had only managed to elevate the fourth attack technique to its ultimate level.

Of course, Venerable Yaoguang's understanding of the laws had already enabled him to create the sixth peak-level attack technique.

In terms of sheer power, the fourth ultimate secret technique is roughly equivalent to the fifth peak secret technique that defeated 1,200 opponents.

However, for a Cosmic Venerable, raising the fourth attack technique to the ultimate level is much more difficult than raising the fifth and sixth combat techniques to the point of defeating 1,200 opponents.

And just then...

As the surrounding space trembled slightly, a figure exuding a terrifying aura instantly appeared in front of Lu Qingshan. It was none other than his teacher, the Lord of Ice Peak.

Upon seeing the Lord of Ice Peak appear, Lu Qingshan immediately bowed respectfully and greeted him, "Teacher!"

"Not bad!"

Upon seeing Lu Qingshan elevate the fourth sword technique to the ultimate level, the Ice Peak Lord revealed a rare smile: "Qingshan, I didn't expect you to be able to elevate your secret technique to the ultimate level in such a short time!"

"It seems you do indeed have a strong talent for creating your own secret techniques!"

"With this ultimate secret technique, your strength should be enough to step into the level of a high-level universe venerable!"

The Lord of Ice Peaks said with great anticipation, "I look forward to you creating the fifth, or even the sixth, ultimate secret technique! When that time comes, our human race will likely have a remarkable and powerful being!"

The Lord of Ice Peaks was absolutely right.

If Lu Qingshan could truly create the sixth ultimate secret technique, also known as the ultimate secret technique of the cosmic overlord, and combine it with some precious treasures for protection, his strength, while not comparable to that of a top cosmic overlord, would certainly be considered extremely powerful among cosmic overlords.

How many cosmic masters and top cosmic overlords does the human race have today?
With the addition of Lu Qingshan's ability to create clones, his overall strength is probably enough to rank him among the top fifty in the entire human race.

Of course, all of this is on the premise that Lu Qingshan's understanding of the laws can continue to improve, at least to the point that he must comprehend the three major branches of the fundamental laws of space.

However, in the eyes of the Lord of Ice Peak, given Lu Qingshan's talent in creating the fourth ultimate secret technique in such a short time, the probability of Lu Qingshan comprehending the three branches of the fundamental laws of space in the future is still very high.

"This disciple will certainly work hard!" Lu Qingshan quickly nodded and said.

"Ok!"

The Lord of Ice Peak nodded slightly, then continued, "Now, Green Mountain, your swordsmanship has reached its limit. If your understanding of the laws doesn't break through, it will be virtually impossible for you to create even stronger attack techniques!"

"What do you plan to do next? Will you continue to improve your movement techniques and soul attack secrets, or will you focus on comprehending the fundamental laws of space?"

"Teacher, I have actually been diligently studying the fundamental laws of space! Simply researching my self-created secret techniques has no real impact!"

Lu Qingshan quickly replied, "Therefore, this disciple wishes to continue researching self-created secret techniques, striving to elevate both movement techniques and soul attack techniques to the ultimate level. Please continue to guide me, Master!"

"it is good!"

After hearing Lu Qingshan's words, the Ice Peak Master quickly nodded and said, "Since you have such ambition, Qingshan, I will naturally continue to guide you!"

"However, you must understand that at the level of a Universe Venerable, the will of every powerful individual is extremely strong, and many of them carry soul-type treasures or even soul-type supreme treasures!"

"If your soul attack technique doesn't have an overwhelming advantage, at best it can only slightly affect the enemy's actions, and it's very difficult to directly kill the enemy!"

"Disciple understands!" Lu Qingshan quickly nodded and said.

After hearing Lu Qingshan's answer, the Lord of Ice Peak simply waved his hand and disappeared.

A new opponent has appeared before Lu Qingshan, a match specifically set up for him by the Lord of Ice Peak, who exploited the weaknesses in his movement techniques.

Just as Lu Qingshan was about to continue fighting this new opponent, he suddenly received an email.

"Ok?"

Lu Qingshan's heart stirred, and he quickly opened the email he had received.

The email was sent by Hoggs, Lu Qingshan's sixth disciple, who had reached the peak of the Marquis realm with the help of the Heavenly Creation Dew that Lu Qingshan occasionally provided.

At this time, Hoggs's understanding of the laws could only be considered as the peak of the Marquis level. However, with Lu Qingshan's help, his life gene level had been raised to ten times that of ordinary life in the universe by fusing Blood Crystal and Beast God's blood. He also received two kinds of divine general inheritance, raising his body amplitude to 36 times and his soul amplitude to 32 times. After his strength was fully unleashed, he was comparable to an ordinary high-level King.

While his strength wasn't particularly formidable, it was still respectable enough. At this moment, he was Lu Qingshan's most capable assistant, responsible for handling various matters under his command.

As for family matters, Lu Qingshan always entrusted them to his third son, Lu Hongwen, with complete peace of mind.

"Is it time for me to preside over the Peak Genius Battle again?" Lu Qingshan's heart stirred slightly after reading the email.

(End of this chapter)