Swallowing the Stars: 100x Return for Teaching Apprentices

Chapter 221 Facing the Strongest Being in the Universe

On the original star.

“Tongling, we have no way of verifying whether you are sincere. You have no clan to restrain you, and you have enjoyed so many resources of the demon race. Some of your friends are also in the demon race. Just talking is not enough to make us trust you.”

The Lord of Chaos City spoke calmly.

"Ah, this, this..."

The lord of Tongling was somewhat anxious.

Logically speaking, with his enormous divine body spanning millions of kilometers and his excellent defensive treasures, his safety should be highly guaranteed as long as he doesn't leave the primordial universe.

After all, in the entire primordial universe, apart from the strongest beings in the universe, there are only a handful of top-tier universe lords who possess the power to cause his demise.

Moreover, cosmic lords of this strength usually hold high positions in their respective factions and are generally not easily mobilized. The probability of him encountering one is extremely low, and even if he does, they are unlikely to truly fight him to the death.

Unfortunately, he not only encountered two of these top-tier experts today, but he also took the initiative to attack one of them, which was practically the same as handing his life over to someone else!
He was filled with regret. If he had known it would end like this, he would have rather risked offending those two demon ancestors than gotten involved in this mess!
"Lord of Chaos City, Lord of Wonderful Fate Pavilion, I, I truly pledge my allegiance to your Hong Alliance! Absolutely my sincere allegiance!"

The Lord of Tongling repeated this over and over.

Qi Yuan first glanced at the Ice Emperor Palace, which had been thrown out by the force of the Chaos City Lord's stick. Seeing that its path had been blocked by the Dragon Lord, he then turned his gaze to the majestic mountain range lying in the silver sea.

"Lord of Tongling, the Demon Ancestor of the Demon Clan is on his way. I have no time to waste with you. Now, either enter my sealed palace, or you will perish here!"

As he spoke, he raised his hand, and a silver tower quickly appeared in his palm. The silver tower rapidly expanded, and in the blink of an eye, its height exceeded hundreds of millions of kilometers.

Each floor of the building is engraved with incomparably exquisite and dazzling patterns. Inside the tower, there are even more vast spaces, a total of 100,000 sealed spaces!

The Eternal True God-level treasure 'Qiyuan Tower' can be considered the strongest treasure in Qi Yuan's possession at present!
Let alone a Lord of Tongling, even the strongest being in the universe would be unable to escape if trapped inside!
As a powerful treasure produced by the system, the Qiyuan Tower had never appeared in the original universe before, so naturally no one knew about it. As long as Qi Yuan controlled its power when using it, he was not worried about exposing its secrets.

Moreover, with his current strength and the treasures he possesses, it wouldn't be a big deal even if he were exposed.

As long as his physical body doesn't leave the original universe, he can simply hide in the Wonderful Pavilion and be absolutely safe. Even if the strongest beings in the universe who are skilled in soul attacks use their ethereal divine power to infiltrate and kill him, he will not be afraid at all thanks to the protection of his peak soul treasure!
"Entering the sealed treasure, wouldn't that mean your life and death are entirely in your hands?" Upon hearing Qi Yuan's words, the Lord of Tongling hesitated.

"You have no other choice, and don't even think about delaying. Either go in now or die!" Qi Yuan's tone was calm, but the murderous intent in his words was undisguised.

"I'll go in!"

The Lord of Tongling hesitated for only a moment before making up his mind.

For a special being like him, there are no constraints from any ethnic group, no sense of face or loyalty, so naturally nothing is more important than his own life!

"Don't resist!"

Qi Yuan gave an explanation.

Rumble~~~
The passage at the bottom of the Qiyuan Tower opened, revealing a dark vortex with a diameter of nearly 100 million kilometers. The massive mountain body of the Lord of Tongling, which was a million kilometers in size, appeared incredibly small in front of this vortex passage.

hum-

An incredibly powerful suction force radiated outwards, and the Lord of Tongling dared not resist in the slightest. Following this suction force, he instantly disappeared into a vast space inside the Qiyuan Tower.

"Your treasured palace is quite powerful."

The Lord of Chaos City strolled over, a faint glint of light in his eyes.

At this moment, he was also extremely surprised. In this one instance alone, Qi Yuan had displayed several extremely unfamiliar and powerful treasures, such as the 'Overlord Armor', the 'Flying Cloud Divine Boat', and the 'Strange Fate Tower'. Moreover, the power of each treasure was enough to make many universe lords envious.

In addition, not long ago he also rented out a large number of ordinary treasures to the cosmic venerables of his race, which made the Chaos City Lord suspect that Qi Yuan may have obtained the inheritance of some ancient civilization in the field of weapon crafting.

However, as one of the leaders of the human race, the Lord of Chaos City has always been fair in his dealings. As for Qi Yuan's own secrets, since he himself does not speak of them, the Lord of Chaos City naturally will not take the initiative to investigate.

'The strongest being of the demon race should be arriving soon. Let's deal with the Ice Emperor's Palace first.'

The Lord of Chaos City turned his gaze to another magnificent palace not far away.

Bound by the Thousand Star Sea Domain, the ice-blue palace was intercepted by the Dragon Lord after only a short escape.

The Lord of Forbidden Waves and the other surviving Lord of Rock Rhinoceros in the Ice Emperor Palace were only at the third level. At this time, they were both severely injured and naturally dared not come out to fight. They could only hide in the Ice Emperor Palace to buy time.

However, this also meant they could no longer actively resist. If the other side had a powerful enough sealing treasure, it was highly likely that they would be suppressed and sealed along with the Ice Emperor Palace.

This is also why these alien universe lords did not choose to enter the palace treasure in the beginning, because it was no different from waiting to die!
"The Ice Emperor Palace is a supreme treasure of the highest level of palaces. At the very least, it must be a top-grade, sealed palace treasure to suppress it. Hopefully, the Chaos City Lord and the others don't possess treasures of that level."

At this moment, the Lord of Forbidden Waves and the Lord of Rock Rhinoceros in the Ice Emperor Palace could only pray in this way.

However, the moment the sealing power of the Qiyuan Tower descended upon the Ice Emperor Palace, the last vestige of hope in their hearts was shattered.

The unparalleled and powerful suction force was simply irresistible, and the entire Ice Emperor Palace was uncontrollably drawn into the base passage of the Wonderful Pavilion.

"Haha, stop dawdling! Let me give you a hand!"

The Dragon Lord, whose body was as majestic as a mountain, laughed heartily. Suddenly, one of his golden hands grew a billion times larger and slammed heavily onto the Ice Emperor Palace, causing the Ice Emperor Palace to sink even faster.

"It's over! The power of this absorption has completely exceeded the Ice Emperor Palace's resistance limit!"

"Ugh, damn humans!"

Inside the Ice Emperor's Palace, two alien universe lords roared in resentment.

However, no matter how much they roared, they could not change the fact that the Ice Emperor Palace was about to be sealed by the Wonderful Pavilion!

"boom"

Just then, an incomparably vast pressure instantly permeated the entire Primal Star, and a powerful will also enveloped the entire Primal Star, instantly taking over control of a certain spacetime on this Primal Star!
"Humanity!"

A chilling voice instantly pierced through endless space and time, and a majestic, winding, enormous silver serpent shadow appeared on this primordial star.

One of the two strongest beings in the universe among the demon race, the 'Dream Demon Ancestor', has descended!

woohoo~~~
The moment it descended, the Dream Demon Ancestor's divine body rapidly expanded, even forcing back the surrounding Thousand Star Sea's water domain. Its silver-white serpent body instantly swelled countless times, almost completely encircling the entire Primordial Star!
The original star is the place closest to the origin of the universe. The origin of the universe cannot be challenged. Even the strongest person in the universe cannot teleport here, and even the flying speed cannot exceed the speed of light.

However, the enlargement of divine bodies and supreme treasures is completed almost instantly and is not subject to this limitation.

It was precisely because of the enlargement of his divine body that the Dream Demon Ancestor was able to approach the battlefield where Qi Yuan and the others were almost instantly.

"die!"

Ignoring the Ice Emperor Palace, which was already in dire straits, the Dream Demon Ancestor directly targeted Qi Yuan and launched an attack!
A flash of light, and an enormous silver serpent tail instantly appeared before Qi Yuan. "Chaotic Burial!"

Faced with the incoming attack, Qi Yuan unhesitatingly unleashed his strongest strike!
Endless sword light surged and converged, instantly forming a chaotic vortex composed entirely of sword light.

However, the endless sword light that could easily tear apart the divine body of a universe master and cause the fall of an ordinary universe master had no effect whatsoever on the huge snake tail covered in silver armor. At most, it only slightly slowed down the speed of the silver snake tail.

"Shh!"

The silver snake tail shattered the entire chaotic vortex and struck the Netherworld Divine Sword. The entire Netherworld Divine Sword was directly bounced back and landed on Qi Yuan's chest.

"Oh!"

With an unparalleled strike, Qi Yuan was sent flying far away. The immense power penetrated his body through the Overlord Armor, causing his divine power to be rapidly annihilated.

Despite being weakened by the strongest fusion technique 'Chaotic Burial' and the top-tier 'Overlord Armor' from the ultimate set treasure, the attack still caused Qi Yuan nearly 5% loss of divine power!
"This is the strongest being in the universe, this is the power of a sixth-order being, truly powerful!"

With the help of the silver seawater domain, Qi Yuan stabilized his body.

He didn't immediately look at the silvery-white giant snake; instead, he focused his mind and manipulated the Wonderful Pavilion to suddenly unleash its power.
In an instant, the Ice Emperor Palace, which had been sucked to the edge of the vortex passage at the bottom of the Wonderful Fate Tower, trembled violently and then completely disappeared into the Wonderful Fate Tower.

"Huhuhu~~~"

The silver tower, which was originally hundreds of millions of kilometers high, rapidly shrank, shrinking almost instantly to a foot in length and landing in Qi Yuan's palm.

Meanwhile, the Lord of Chaos City and the Lord of Dragon Journey landed beside Qi Yuan.

"Dream Demon Ancestor".

The Lord of Chaos City and the Lord of Dragon Walk gave a slight nod to the silver-white serpent.

"chaos!"

The enormous silver-white serpent stared at Qi Yuan for a long time before turning to the Chaos City Lord beside him.

"You humans, very well indeed! You've caused the three major races to suffer such a great loss. Chaos, are you trying to start a war between the human race and the three major races of us?!"

The Lord of Chaos City, clad in a robe of a thousand treasures and wielding a broken stone staff, stood before Qi Yuan.

"Dream Demon Ancestor, your demon race actually took advantage of the opening of the Primal Star to join forces with the insect race and the machine race to attack and kill my human race's strongmen. I was just looking for an explanation from you."

The Chaos City Lord's voice was filled with unparalleled dominance.

"Confess? Chaos, don't think that just because you're invincible among the universe's rulers you can challenge the majesty of the strongest being in the universe. At worst, I'll risk being punished by the rules of operation to completely annihilate you!"

The voice of the silver-white serpent 'Dream Demon Ancestor' was incredibly cold.

"Kill the three of us? I don't doubt the Dream Demon Ancestor's abilities, but can the Dream Demon Ancestor withstand the punishment from the origin of the universe for killing the three of us?"

The Lord of Chaos City remained calm. "Besides, do you think you can so easily let go of the hatred between your demon race and those two major races? At a time when the cost needs to be shared, why is only the Dream Demon Ancestor here? Where are the Mechanical Race Father God and the Insect Race Queen?"

"Hmph, Chaos, you don't need to sow discord. The three major races share the same goal in this operation!"

The silver-white serpent gave a cold, indifferent snort.

However, it did not bring up the topic again.

The Lord of Chaos City is right.

The strongest beings in the universe are incredibly powerful, even capable of manipulating laws and rules, and can make their words become law!
However, despite its power, it is also subject to suppression and constraints from the universe.

From the weak to the master of the universe, throughout this long process, the universe always bestows its grace upon the cultivator, treating them like children and providing them with much care.

However, once they break through to become the strongest in the universe, they are instead bound and suppressed!
Their power was suppressed, and they could only exert power slightly stronger than the strongest universe master!

Furthermore, since the Cosmic Venerables and the Lords of the Universe are all protected by the Origin of the Universe!

If the strongest being in the universe kills a cosmic ruler or cosmic sovereign, they will be punished by the very origin of the universe! The stronger the killer, the heavier the punishment.

For example, killing a cosmic overlord is a punishment that is nothing to the strongest being in the universe.

The punishment for killing a cosmic ruler is much harsher.

As for killing universe lords with incomparably powerful strength like the Chaos City Lord and Qi Yuan, let's not even talk about whether it's possible to kill them. If they were to actually kill them, the punishment brought by the origin of the universe would be something even the strongest beings in the universe would not want to face!
"Chaos, you humans are really lucky, yet another super strong individual has risen!"

The silver-white serpent, the Dream Demon Ancestor, glanced at Qi Yuan with a complex expression, then looked back at the Chaos City Lord.
“This time, our demon race admits defeat. Release Tongling, and I will let you leave.”

"Dream Demon Ancestor, I'm afraid this won't work."

The Lord of Chaos City responded with a faint smile, "The Lord of Tongling and my human race get along quite well. He has already announced his joining my Hong Alliance. I'm afraid he won't be able to leave with the Dream Demon Ancestor."

"Tongling has joined your Hong Alliance? Good, good, good Chaos! We, the Demon Clan Alliance, will remember what happened today. Just wait, the three major races will not let your human race get away with this!"

The Dream Demon Ancestor stared angrily at the Chaos City Lord and Qi Yuan for a long time, then let out a heavy snort, shrunk in size, and quickly left through the nearest vortex passage.

The Lord of Chaos City had a good grasp of its psychology. The strongest being in the universe had taken the initiative to kill the Lord of the Universe, and the punishment for that was so severe was something it absolutely did not want to bear.

Moreover, whether it is the Lord of Chaos City, Qi Yuan, or the Lord of Dragon Journey, they are all extremely powerful cosmic lords.

Even if it wanted to kill it completely, it simply lacked the power to do so.

After all, under the constraints of the original universe's operating rules, it could only unleash power at most around the sixth rank. Although it was slightly stronger than the Chaos City Lord, its strength was still limited.

Its supreme treasure is defensive in nature. When it is unleashed at full power, it can cause some damage to the three of them. However, it is almost impossible to kill them completely. As the strongest being in the universe, the Dream Demon Ancestor would naturally not do such a thankless task.

Furthermore, given the biggest objective of this trip—to rescue the Lord of Natongling—it seems unlikely to be possible in the near future, at least not.

After considering all factors, it naturally and decisively chose to leave.

After it left, the Lord of Chaos City, Qi Yuan, and the Lord of Dragon Journey all breathed a sigh of relief.

After all, they were facing the strongest being in the universe. Even though they had great confidence in themselves, the gap in their strength still made them feel invisible pressure.

However, their faces immediately lit up with incredibly happy smiles:
"it's over"

"Haha, this time we've really struck it rich!"

(End of this chapter)