Swallowing the Stars: 100x Return for Teaching Apprentices

Chapter 208 The Supreme Treasure 'The Pavilion of Fate' (Part 2)
In the ancient-style meditation room.

Qi Yuan looked at the four-winged girl standing respectfully in front of him, and a rather satisfied smile appeared on his face.

After the first batch of five disciples who were given special attention left Chaos City, the Taiqing clone, now with some free time, naturally shifted his focus to the other disciples.

After all, 80,000 years is such a long period of time. The system has returned nearly a million times, and there is also the Taiqing clone's 'educating' ability and the system's 'preaching' function once every 10,000 years. These cannot be wasted.

Over the past 80,000 years, in addition to his own enlightenment and cultivation, Taiqing's avatar has also made two arrangements for his disciples.

The first step is to further invest in the other disciples we have already taken in.

With the previously returned rare resources such as Xuan Yuan Divine Light, Divine Light Liquid, and Yunqi Thousand Willow Light, which can enhance aptitude and gene level, a reasonable combination is enough to raise the disciples' aptitude to an extremely high level.

Moreover, as his strength increased, his confidence naturally rose, and he was no longer as hesitant as before when exchanging resources in the clan's treasury.

Anything that is useful to the disciple can be exchanged at will.

Therefore, even disciples who were originally less talented can be improved to a level that is in no way inferior to the core geniuses of those virtual universe companies after this process.

Mireya, standing before him, was originally the first genius disciple he had taken in, whose base return rate exceeded 50 times.

With this significant investment, his qualifications have improved dramatically, and the basic return rate quickly rose to over 60 times, making him one of the best among the second batch of disciples.

Besides investing in his existing disciples, Qi Yuan's second action was to continue recruiting new disciples.

The return system can be triggered once a month. As time goes on and the strength of the existing disciples continues to improve, the current dozen or so disciples cannot efficiently process so many return opportunities, so he naturally needs to further expand the number of disciples.

In the span of 80,000 years, the Virtual Universe Company alone has hosted more than a dozen Genius Battles and Strongest Battles.

Qi Yuan selects one or two, or two or three, who meet his preferences from each Genius Battle and Strongman Battle to become his disciples. Over the years, he has taken in 36 disciples.

These disciples are all top performers in each Genius Battle and Strongest Battle. Although they cannot compare with peerless geniuses like Bolan, Rong Jun, and Luo Feng, who appear only once every thousand or even tens of millions of epochs, most of them are close to or even comparable to the level of 'Lu Ming' right after the Genius Battle ended.

Furthermore, with the help of the Virtual Universe Company's existing training system, training them naturally becomes much easier.

As for why he chose from these stellar-level and cosmic-level little guys instead of those ready-made kings and immortals, Qi Yuan's explanation to the Chaos City Lord was only one aspect. More importantly, he had unique expectations for these newly recruited disciples!
According to his plan, after he had fully comprehended the ten fundamental laws, he would begin to study the nine hundred volumes of "The Way of Arrays" and try to research the way of multi-law fusion.

Before the emergence of the Broken East River's legacy, the only inheritance of laws in this world was the Path of the Eight Great Beast Gods.

The Path of the Beast God is the fusion of a single lower-level law and its corresponding higher-level law. Once cultivated to its peak, one can break through to the realm of the Lord of the Universe.

Qi Yuan's ambitions, of course, did not stop there.

His ultimate goal is to integrate all ten fundamental laws and return them to the most primordial 'Chaos Law'!
Of course, this path is extremely difficult. After all, in the entire history of the primordial universe, let alone merging into the laws of chaos, no one has ever completely merged the six laws of the space system or the four laws of the time system.

That's already a higher level of cultivation!
Qi Yuan didn't expect to become rich overnight.

With the method of multi-attribute array superposition and fusion in the nine hundred volumes of "Array Dao" as a reference, and with the experience return system as a reliance, he does not expect to fuse all ten basic laws, but only fuse some of them first, which should give him a good chance.

What he needs to do now is prepare for this step.

Recruit a group of disciples with top talent in this area and guide them onto this path. It is not required that they have the same ambition as me to integrate all ten laws. As long as they can get started in the integration of two or three different laws, I can quickly 'pluck experience' from them by using the system's return function.

With the 'educative ability' of Taiqing's clone and the 'preaching' function that can be used once every ten thousand years, Qi Yuan is still very confident that he can guide some disciples to get started in this area.

The cultivation paths of those immortals are already somewhat fixed, and guiding them to change their cultivation paths takes much longer than training a new batch of disciples.

After all, with the abundant resources he provides, it might only take tens of thousands of years to cultivate a stellar-level genius to the level of a king.

For an immortal to change their path, aside from anything else, under the rejection of the divine body, simply trying to learn the laws of other attributes is already extremely difficult, let alone further integrating them.

As for the time it will take, it is estimated to be in the hundreds of millions of years.

In comparison, it would be more efficient to retrain and cultivate some lower-level disciples.

For the past 80,000 years, he has pursued two paths simultaneously: increasing investment in the older generation of disciples while also focusing on the recruitment and training of new disciples.

His disciples have now grown to a considerable size and have all made remarkable progress.

Among them, Mireya, a female disciple he had taken in early on, gave him a great surprise.

When Qi Yuan first broke through to the Immortal Realm and started teaching in Chaos City, the other party followed him and cultivated in Chaos City for quite some time.

However, he later went out to gain experience and deal with some family matters, so he was away for a long time.

When she returned to Chaos City, she seemed to have undergone some kind of transformation. Her will became incredibly firm, her enthusiasm for cultivation soared to unprecedented heights, and her progress far surpassed that of all the other disciples except for Long Ji and the other four.

Moreover, the opponent's talent in array formations (secret runes) is truly amazing, even far surpassing that of 'Fan Yu', 'Vittorio', and other secret rune geniuses who have been trained by the perfect system of the Virtual Universe Company.

Such outstanding performance naturally attracted Qi Yuan's special attention.

Qi Yuan called her over alone this time because he had a gift for her.

"call."

Qi Yuan raised his hand and flipped it over, and a miniature tower with a silver-white body and countless colorful patterns interwoven around it appeared in his palm.

It was the strange treasure 'Heavenly Craft Tower' that Qi Yuan had unexpectedly obtained during his exploration of the Heavenly Craft Secret Realm ruins when he was still at the Universe level. That expedition yielded enormous gains for him: a fragmented soul defense secret technique, which he exchanged for 10 Mixed Yuan Units' worth of 'startup development funds'; a complete set of the 'Eight Formations' inheritance, which, in addition to training disciples, also returned to him exquisite classics such as the 'Time Formation' and the 'Void Formation', as well as the mysterious fragment of the 'True Explanation of Formation Dao'.

Even the Heavenly Craft Tower was used as a training base for disciples for a long time to assist disciples who were learning formations in their cultivation.

However, as his cultivation level increased and he acquired more resources and treasures, he was able to provide his disciples with more and more good things, which reduced the auxiliary effect of the Heavenly Craft Tower.

However, as Qi Yuan gradually came into contact with the art of weapon crafting, he discovered that although this treasure was not of a high level, barely reaching the 'pseudo-heavy treasure' level, some of its crafting techniques and secret pattern construction ideas were truly amazing.

The overall design philosophy of the Heavenly Crafting Tower is based on all the fundamental mysteries of the eight lower-level basic laws, which are interconnected and interwoven to form a complete whole.

When the formation masters who have cultivated the eight basic laws activate it at the same time, it may be possible to use this to fuse and unleash the power of time and space.

In Qi Yuan's current view, the so-called "Heavenly Craftsmen" had a rather fanciful idea.

The fusion of the eight fundamental laws is something that even the strongest experts in the universe, let alone a small race that can only reach the Immortal realm at most, cannot achieve.

However, the secret runes they created by sheer coincidence happened to have an extremely insignificant hint of fusion with the eight lower-level laws.

This was something Qi Yuan could hardly believe, that a small race that had never even produced a Universe Venerable could actually refine such a thing!
In order not to let this decent treasure be tarnished, Qi Yuan began to further improve it when he felt that he had reached a certain level in the art of weapon crafting.

Limited by the strength of the Celestial Craftsmen who originally crafted this pagoda, the secret patterns on the Celestial Craftsmen Pagoda are somewhat incomplete. For example, it lacks true secret patterns of the laws of time and space, and the secret patterns of the major attributes of wood, water, earth, and wind are not yet complete and perfect.

Now that Qi Yuan has already become the master of the universe, the laws of time and space are no longer a secret to him. Moreover, there is a ready-made "Time and Space" secret technique that can be directly used on the Heavenly Craft Tower.

Moreover, through years of study and contemplation, he has long since grasped the fundamental principles of wood, water, earth, and wind.

In addition, given the results he has gained over the years from studying the 'Craftsmanship Inheritance of Che Houyuan', further refining the original Heavenly Craft Tower runes was naturally not a difficult task.

The Heavenly Palace Tower, with its perfected secret runes, naturally brought him quite a pleasant surprise.

Its level has been directly upgraded to the level of a common treasure. Not only is its effect on assisting cultivation more powerful, but it also has extremely strong sealing and attack power. Even among all common treasures, it can be considered extremely special and powerful!

Of course, this power is only for some kings and ordinary universe venerables; for Qi Yuan now, it's somewhat of a liability.

However, since I don't need it myself, it's not bad to use it as a gift for the return system. Maybe I'll have a chance to return an extremely powerful treasure to him.

As the disciple of Qi Yuan who is currently the most talented in the art of 'arrays', Mireya is naturally his first choice to give the 'Heavenly Craft Tower'.

"You've experienced the functions of this Celestial Tower before."

Qi Yuan held the miniature 'Heavenly Craft Tower' in his palm and smiled at the four-winged girl 'Mireya' standing in front of him.
"However, its auxiliary effects used to only reach the immortal level, but now I have improved it so that even a cosmic venerable can use it to cultivate. Moreover, its function in assisting cultivation has been increased by at least a thousand times, and it also has extremely strong attack, suppression, and flight survival functions."

"Since you don't have any decent treasures right now, I'll give you this Heavenly Craft Tower as a means of self-defense."

As he spoke, he used his divine power to lift the small Celestial Tower and deliver it to Mireya.
"Remember, unless absolutely necessary, do not reveal its existence to outsiders. Otherwise, even some cosmic venerables will be extremely envious and fight desperately to seize it!"

"Even a Cosmic Venerable can use cultivation to enhance the effects of cultivation a thousandfold!"

Upon hearing this, Mireya's eyes immediately lit up with an amazing light.

As cultivation progresses, it becomes increasingly difficult. Anything that can help increase cultivation speed, even if it has only a slight effect, is invaluable to cultivators.

She had already experienced the power of the Heavenly Craftsmanship Tower; it was indeed extremely potent.

Unfortunately, as her cultivation level improved, especially with the incomplete wind-law runes and lack of spacetime laws in the original Heavenly Craft Tower, the Heavenly Craft Tower gradually lost its effectiveness for her.

According to the teacher, after his improvements, even a cosmic venerable can use this Heavenly Craft Tower for cultivation, and its cultivation-aiding effects have been increased by more than a thousand times. Just how powerful will it be!
If I were to obtain this treasure, my cultivation speed should increase considerably!

"This disciple thanks the master for bestowing this treasure!"

Mireya made no excuses, but respectfully bowed and accepted the exquisite little tower into her hands.

Over the years, she had come to know her teacher's temperament well. He would never take back anything he gave her. All she could do was accept it, keep the kindness in her heart, and then wait for an opportunity to repay him.

As she accepted the Heavenly Tower, Qi Yuan simultaneously received a system notification that the return was successful.

[A masterpiece, the Heavenly Craft Pagoda, is presented to my disciple!]

[Base return rate 63x, return begins.]

[The gifted item has brought great joy to the disciple, triggering a 100x critical hit reward, with a final return multiplier of 6300x!]

[Return Reward: 6300 pieces of Heavenly Craft Tower. This return triggered a perfect critical hit, granting a special reward: one piece of Wonderful Pavilion.]

The reward has been stored in the system space and can be claimed at any time.

"Another perfect critical hit!"

Qi Yuan's expression shifted slightly, and a wisp of his consciousness immediately probed into the system space to check the information about the special reward he had just received.

But as soon as he checked, his face lit up with immense joy—

[The Wonderful Pavilion: A supreme palace treasure of the Eternal True God level, containing 100,000 spaces, possessing the effects of sealing and enlightenment. The seven floors are imprinted with twenty-one layers of secret runes. When fully activated, it can unleash the ultimate combat power of an Eternal True God.]

(End of this chapter)