Swallowing the Stars: 100x Return for Teaching Apprentices

Chapter 205 Time Flies, Luo Feng's Advance
Even the most precious treasures are ultimately just external objects.

It can indeed greatly enhance a cultivator's combat power in a short period of time, but as strength increases, it will eventually be phased out.

However, the strengthening of one's own body and the understanding of the laws and the Great Dao will be things that accompany one throughout one's life.

Now that Qi Yuan has broken through to the realm of the Lord of the Universe, aside from external treasures and other valuable items, there are only a few aspects he can improve himself in.

Laws, secret techniques, divine power, will.

More importantly, it is naturally based on laws and divine power.

According to the original work, each person must take a different path to break through from the Lord of the Universe to the strongest being in the universe. However, these thousands of paths can be summarized into only two categories.

The first category is the rule-based approach.

Cultivators begin to understand a fundamental law from the moment they reach immortality, such as the law of metal, the law of wind, and so on... Becoming a Universal Venerable involves studying the laws of time or space...

The path of laws is to climb upwards from the smallest point, with the ultimate goal of mastering the ten most basic laws of metal, wood, water, fire, earth, wind, lightning, light, time, and space, and integrating them into a unified 'chaotic law'.

Of course, if the goal is simply to break through to become the strongest in the universe, it's not necessary to go to such an outrageous level.

If one has a deep enough understanding of two or three of the laws one has mastered, reaching a level where one can create a sixth-order secret technique, then one can break through the bottleneck of the divine kingdom with a sufficiently strong understanding.

Once the divine kingdom breaks through its bottleneck, it naturally begins to evolve into a miniature universe, and the cultivator himself will also break through to the realm of the strongest in the universe.

The second category is the divine power route.

The key to becoming the strongest in the universe is to break free—to break free from all constraints and enter a new world.

The path of law begins with the divine kingdom, allowing it to break through its bottlenecks and naturally evolve into a miniature universe.

Starting from the path of divine power also means breaking through the bottleneck.

The perfect genes of the primordial universe's ruler were 10081 times greater; this is the limit.

Starting with divine power means breaking through this limit and allowing divine power to evolve to a new level!

Once divine power evolves, it naturally means that both the body and soul have evolved; this is breaking through the laws with force! Forcibly breaking through the shackles with absolute power!

Once one breaks through, the divine kingdom that one can support will naturally become more powerful. The divine kingdom can then break through its bottleneck and begin to evolve into a miniature universe.

In terms of laws, he created a sixth-order secret technique.

In terms of divine power, it pushed the level of divine power beyond the perfect limit of 10081 times.

These are the two major challenges that Qi Yuan, and indeed all universe masters who aspire to break through to the level of the strongest in the universe, must face.

However, before the emergence of the Broken East River inheritance, the only people in the entire primordial universe who clearly knew about these two breakthrough directions, besides the reincarnation of the God King of Jin, 'Sitting Mountain Guest', were probably only the transmigrator Qi Yuan.

In Qi Yuan's view, if the Realm Lord level is the first important stage for laying the foundation, then the Universe Lord level is the second stage for laying the foundation, and its importance is no less than that of the Realm Lord level!
The breakthrough from Realm Lord to Immortality is the transformation of the flesh and blood body into a divine body composed of divine power, and the inner world of the body transforms into a divine kingdom.

The breakthrough from the Lord of the Universe to the Strongest in the Universe is when the divine body returns to its original state and transforms into a flesh and blood body, and the divine kingdom further evolves into a miniature universe.

These are two fundamental transformations!
Strictly speaking, the step from the Lord of the Universe to the strongest being in the universe is even more crucial.

This could be considered the last chance to defy fate in the primordial universe.

To break through to the True God realm, everything must return to its origin. All the avatars must be merged into one, the physical body must be reshaped, and even the various innate secret techniques must be taken back by the original universe.

If you can make sufficient preparations at this stage and lay a more solid foundation, you will have the opportunity to overtake some of your competitors who were previously far stronger. So how can you make that foundation more solid?
Creating sixth-order and higher-order secret techniques is a stage that all the strongest beings in the universe must go through. It's just a matter of going a little earlier or later, and there isn't much difference between them.

What truly creates a gap is the difference in divine power.

For example, cultivators at the same level of understanding of the laws, who break through to become the strongest in the universe with divine power at the level of perfect genes (10081 times the strength of their genes), will naturally have vastly different physical strengths when they break through with divine power at the level of genes (30,000 times, 60,000 times, or 90,000 times the strength of their genes). This directly relates to the strength of their subsequent combat power!
As a transmigrator with the incredible opportunity of the Return System, Qi Yuan naturally had high aspirations and would not be content with breaking through through the most mediocre route.

In his view, even if he couldn't achieve the exaggerated level of a perfect divine body like Luo Feng's, he would at least need to reach the level of an 'infinite divine body' that is more than 90,000 times stronger before he would choose to break through to become the strongest in the universe.

This path is destined to be extremely difficult, even some powerful beings on the legendary Origin Continent could not accomplish it.

However, for Qi Yuan, who possesses the return system, all of this is possible!

"In terms of laws, I first comprehended all ten fundamental laws, and then I studied the nine hundred volumes of 'Array Dao' in the 'Chehhou Yuan Craftsman God Inheritance'. It contains the Dao of multi-attribute array fusion and superposition, which is similar to the fusion of laws. It should greatly promote my future path of law fusion."

"In terms of divine power, now that I've broken through to the realm of the Lord of the Universe, the analytical capabilities of the Chaos Pearl accompanying my Jade Purity Avatar have greatly improved. I can collect more natural substances and biological materials from the Primordial Universe and the Cosmic Sea for analysis, and then use the 'creation' ability to evolve them."

"However, this path will definitely not be easy. Besides his talent for creating the Nether Sea Avatar, Luo Feng also relied on the inheritances of the Duan Donghe lineage and the Jinzhi God King lineage to reach that final step. I also need to find a way to obtain some related inheritances."

"By advancing along both paths simultaneously, once the foundations in these two aspects are improved, the enhancement of secret techniques and willpower will naturally follow."

After some thought, Qi Yuan quickly clarified the direction of his next efforts.

The Shangqing and Yuqing avatars continue their adventures in the cosmic sea. Besides seeking opponents for battle and honing their skills, the two avatars have two more missions—

The first step is naturally to collect all possible location information that may contain traces of ancient civilizations.

The enormous spaceship was once home to a powerful ancient civilization legion, so it's unlikely that only the Duan Donghe lineage had any descendants left behind.

Qi Yuan wasn't greedy. He was willing to accept any inheritance that was one or two levels lower than the Duan Donghe lineage, as long as it didn't have the 'single-lineage' restriction like the Duan Donghe lineage. He could naturally obtain a higher-level inheritance with the help of the system.

The second task, as mentioned earlier, is to collect some unique substances nurtured by the special environments of the cosmic sea, and use them as the 'base material' for Yuqing's clone to analyze and create.

With the enhancement of a complete set of magnificent treasures, Shangqing's clone is now in no way afraid of any enemy below the strongest in the universe, making it much easier and more carefree to roam the inner domain of the cosmic ship.

They challenged some more powerful cosmic lords, ventured into dangerous environments and strange places within the inner domains of the cosmic ship, and even occasionally encountered opponents with compatible temperaments, thus befriending them. The two avatars, on the other hand, completely integrated into the environment of the cosmic sea.

Meanwhile, Taiqing's clone and main body continued to devote themselves to studying the other seven fundamental laws and the 'Treasure Refining Flow' technique.

In this regard, he has the advantage provided by the Heart of Law and the computational consciousness at the level of the Lord of the Universe, as well as a complete series of inheritance guidelines such as the "Eight Formations" and the "Craftsman God Inheritance of Che Houyuan", so naturally, he is making good progress.

Stories can be long if there's much to say, or short if there's nothing to say.

On Qi Yuan's side, his main body and three clones were busy with their own affairs, leading fulfilling and regular lives, with no major ups and downs for the time being.

Meanwhile, Luo Feng, the original 'protagonist' of this world, embarked on a spectacular and ambitious journey.
He cultivated the magic in the Ice Prison for two thousand years, but his identity was eventually exposed by the Lord of Sirius, which made him famous throughout the universe.
He joined the Ancestral God Cult, fought 62 battles in the world of glory, swept away a large number of alien races and became a king, thus causing a great sensation.
Assassination by a Cosmic Venerable, a journey through the Nine Netherworlds, and an adventure in a treasure land.
One incident after another made Luo Feng famous among billions of races throughout the universe, and also made him a thorn in the side of many alien races, who wished they could get rid of him as soon as possible!
However, just as Luo Feng's momentum was about to reach its peak, he suddenly disappeared again.

Moreover, this disappearance lasted even longer than the previous period of silence.

Ten thousand years, thirty thousand years, fifty thousand years, eighty thousand years.
In the blink of an eye, nearly 80,000 years have passed without any news of Luo Feng in the universe.

Eighty thousand years is an incredibly long time for countless ordinary cultivators, enough for many things to happen.

For example.
During the long period of 80,000 years that Luo Feng remained dormant, the entire human race seemed to have entered an era of explosive growth in talent.

One after another, astonishing geniuses rose rapidly with a momentum almost comparable to Luo Feng's in his prime, also beginning to write their own legends in the universe.
(End of this chapter)