Swallowing the Stars: 100x Return for Teaching Apprentices

Chapter 209 Primal Star Opening
The news of Longji and Luming's breakthrough of the Lord-level Primordial Tongtian Mountain was still spreading like wildfire, while the two main figures had quietly returned to the headquarters of the Virtual Universe Company.

After visiting Qi Yuan in the virtual universe, the two did not delay any longer and directly broke through to the Immortal level at the headquarters of the Virtual Universe Company.

Both of them had reached the limit of a hundredfold in terms of genetic level, and their understanding of the laws was enough to pass through the Primordial Tongtian Mountain at the World Lord level. Naturally, the scene of their breakthrough was magnificent, causing a great sensation throughout the entire headquarters of the Virtual Universe Company.

After their breakthrough, the two directly achieved the title of King-level powerhouses.

Longji retained the title of "King of Heavenly Timing" that he had earned through his previous adventures, while Luming was given the title of "King of Purple Universe" by the Virtual Universe Company.

As the personal disciples of the super-powerful 'Master of Wonderful Fate' of the Virtual Universe Company, the two were naturally entrusted with important responsibilities by the company and appointed to powerful positions overseeing important regions of the starry sky.

Before the two took office, Qi Yuan also summoned his two disciples separately.

In addition to acknowledging their performance over the years, arrangements were also made for their safety.

After all, the news of the two of them breaking through the Primordial Tongtian Mountain, a realm master level, had spread like wildfire, and those alien spies lurking in the human territory must have already found out about it.

Humans, demons, insects, and machines—these four dominant races are constantly at war due to their adjacent territories, and they will stop at nothing to assassinate the geniuses of each other.

Although the area where the two will be stationed in the future is considered an important territory of the human race, the highest combat power stationed there is only at the level of an ordinary universe venerable. There is really no guarantee that there will be no alien races taking the risk of assassination.

Qi Yuan's guarantee of their safety was also very simple—

Each person was granted a 'Heavenly Craft Tower'!
These are all Heavenly Craft Towers perfected by Qi Yuan, ranking among the top in ordinary palace-type treasures.

When in danger, they can hide in the Heavenly Craft Tower. Unless it is the most powerful being among the universe's rulers or a universe overlord who is extremely skilled in soul attacks, they will be absolutely unable to harm the two people hiding in the Heavenly Craft Tower.

Not long ago, the perfect critical strike return to the fourth disciple, Mireya, returned a full 6300 pieces of Heavenly Craft Tower to Qi Yuan!

With such a large quantity, it would be enough to give one to every human universe venerable, so giving one to each of the two disciples is naturally nothing.

After his two disciples left Chaos City to take up their respective posts, Qi Yuan guided the remaining disciples in their cultivation while also throwing himself back into his own practice.

The existence of a heart imbued with the laws means that when he comprehends other laws, he will not be affected by the rejection of the divine body.

In addition, he has recruited many new disciples over the years, and he often uses the system's experience return function when teaching his disciples to cultivate. Therefore, he has made extremely rapid progress in comprehending the basic laws.

Even though the compatibility of the other fundamental laws was much worse than that of the three laws of time, space, and lightning, it only took a little over ten thousand years to fully comprehend all ten fundamental laws.

Although simply comprehending the ten basic laws does not provide a significant boost to combat power at the moment.

However, in that state of 'erudition' where he had mastered all ten laws and was almost omniscient, he felt an extremely powerful boost when creating secret techniques and studying the 'treasure refining' method.

The collision and contrast of different laws and characteristics made it easy for him to gain many new insights. Whether it was creating secret techniques or creating secret patterns that needed to be imprinted on precious treasures and supreme treasures, it became much simpler.

Less than ten thousand years after he entered the Cosmic Sea, he combined his own insights with his understanding of the defensive runes on the supreme treasure, the 'Dragon Abyss Divine Armor,' and successfully created the first strongest secret technique of the Cosmic Lord.

With the experience of the first success, and with the continuous improvement of his understanding of the laws, he became more adept at creating secret techniques of this level.

As if there was no turning back, over the next tens of thousands of years, he created no fewer than a dozen more secret techniques of this level.

It encompasses everything from movement techniques to physical defense, soul defense, and sword attacks.

As the eighty thousand years drew to a close, he went a step further, fusing the two secret techniques 'Opening Heaven' and 'Chaos Suppression', which had already been elevated to the strongest level, and successfully created the first strongest fusion secret technique of the universe master, 'Chaos Burial'!
Combining the all-powerful destruction of "Opening Heaven" with the control and annihilation of "Chaos Suppression," this secret technique possesses unbelievable power!
Even a fourth-tier universe lord with average defense and divine body would risk immediate death when facing this move!
This process sounds easy, but it is not simple at all.

Like the Lord of the Star River in the original work, who comprehended the truth for countless years, he only managed to reach this level with one technique, 'River Under the Night'.

Like the Lord of Chaos City, who is the most promising Universe Lord to break through to the realm of the strongest in the universe, he has also cultivated for billions of epochs, but he has only created the three ultimate techniques of 'Palm', 'Finger', and 'Fist'. Many Universe Lords may not even be able to create this level of secret technique even after exhausting an entire reincarnation era.

Qi Yuan was able to achieve this in such a short time by relying on the 'transformation' ability of his Shangqing clone to analyze the secret techniques of many opponents, by comprehending all ten basic laws, and by being inspired by the 'Treasure Refining Flow' method.

With this secret technique and the two supreme treasures in his possession, his true combat power quietly soared to the level of 'Sixth-Order Universe Lord', making him invincible below the strongest in the universe!
However, apart from him, no one else knows about this news for the time being.
Besides his progress in secret techniques, he has also made great strides in his research on the 'treasure refining' method.

By combining his understanding of "Chapter Twenty-Three of the Heavenly Palace" with the "Craftsman's Legacy of Che Houyuan," and with the support of comprehending all ten fundamental laws, he was already able to create "high-grade treasure" level secret patterns at will.

However, the secret runes involved in top-tier treasures are far too complicated. He has only been exploring this field for a relatively short time, and he is still some distance away from reaching that level. He needs to spend more time deducing and experimenting.

However, compared to these two aspects, his progress in another area has stalled somewhat—

Once he had fully comprehended the ten fundamental laws, he began to attempt the path of 'integrating laws' in his cultivation.

However, this attempt revealed that the path was unimaginably difficult.

In particular, he wanted to start by trying to integrate the five elements of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth.

After all, based on some ideas he had come across in his previous life, metal generates water, water generates wood, wood generates fire, fire strengthens earth, and earth generates metal. The five elements can generate and restrain each other, and he felt that the integration of the five elements would be relatively simple.

However, his idea was simple, but when he actually tried it, he met with a resounding failure.

The fusion of a lower-level law with a corresponding higher-level law, such as the Path of the Beast God, is relatively easier to achieve. It's like the fusion of a subsystem and a parent system, which is relatively easy to add.

Different subordinate laws, as well as the laws of time and space, are like two completely independent and unrelated systems. It would be extremely difficult to perfectly integrate them together.

Even with the 900 volumes of "Array Dao" from the "Che Hou Yuan Craftsman's Inheritance" as a reference, it would still take an extremely long time to truly master it.

After all, the main focus of the nine hundred volumes of "The Way of Arrays" is on "integration and application," but the description of how to "get started" in the integration of different laws is extremely brief, as if it is assumed that learners can easily get started.

The truth is that throughout the primordial universe and countless previous eras, it's not that no one has tried, but no one has ever succeeded in this endeavor, which shows how difficult it is.

Even if Qi Yuan had a high opinion of himself, he wasn't arrogant enough to think that he could definitely surpass the many outstanding geniuses of countless reincarnations.

After initial attempts failed, he had no choice but to find another way, starting with the eight great beast god paths that were already very mature in this world. In any case, the ultimate goal was to integrate all ten primordial laws into one, so doing a partial integration first wouldn't be a waste of time.

However, even in the Path of the Beast God, the difficulty of cultivating each of the Beast God Fusion Laws far exceeds that of a single spatial law or temporal law.

And the time he would need to fully comprehend the eight great beast god paths would naturally be even more staggering.

However, this predicament improved somewhat after obtaining the Eternal True God-level treasure 'Qiyuan Tower'.

The Qiyuan Tower contains 100,000 spaces, each with a powerful 'enlightenment' effect, which can enhance the perception of the 'Universal Great Dao' in the dark, thereby greatly improving cultivation efficiency.

Moreover, the layers of secret patterns imprinted on the Qiyuan Tower are incredibly ingenious, and Qi Yuan can gain profound insights by studying them.

With the powerful assistance of the Wonderful Fate Tower, Qi Yuan's speed in cultivating the fusion of laws has greatly increased!

In this immersive experience, time quietly slips away.

On this day, Qi Yuan, immersed in cultivation, suddenly received an email notification from the virtual universe system—

"The Supreme Race Conference. Is this the time for the Primordial Star to begin?"

(End of this chapter)