Swallowing the Stars: 100x Return for Teaching Apprentices

Chapter 232 Disciple 'Su Ai', Luo Feng's Rise

Qi Yuan never expected that the intelligent life form he carried with him would display such amazing talent after successfully fusing with the Heart of Evolution!
With a base return rate of 75 times, it's comparable to some universe masters!
More importantly, whether it was the perfect body I had carefully crafted for her that had an effect, Xiao Ai, who had become a mechanical life form, actually had an extremely high degree of compatibility with the Ten Fundamental Laws!

This is the point that Qi Yuan values ​​most!
Now, he has almost reached the pinnacle of understanding the laws, reaching the level of a master of the universe.

The direction of cultivation for a very long period of time to come will be based on the Ten Great Laws, to gain a deeper understanding of the rules governing the universe, and thus achieve the state of "a single thought arising from emptiness".

Even on this basis, one must go further, comprehend the source of some kind of law, and eventually fully integrate the ten laws to control the complete laws of chaos!

Whether it's condensing the void, comprehending the source of the laws, or even mastering the complete laws of chaos, the prerequisite is to have an extremely profound understanding of the ten fundamental laws.

When Qi Yuan recruited disciples before, he did pay attention to special geniuses who had a good affinity with multiple fundamental laws, but such geniuses were still relatively rare, and most of them only had a high degree of affinity with two or three fundamental laws.

It is no exaggeration to say that intelligent life forms like "Xiao Ai" are extremely rare, as they are highly compatible with all ten fundamental laws!

If it can grow according to the path it has planned for itself, it will surely bring great benefits to itself in the future!

For ease of reference, Qi Yuan gave the intelligent life form 'Xiao Ai' a new name – Su Ai.

In the following period, Qi Yuan's Taiqing clone, in addition to cultivating, also began to devote a great deal of energy to the training of this special mechanical race disciple, 'Su Ai'.

The body that Su Ai evolved into at the beginning of her life as a mechanical race was meticulously crafted by Qi Yuan, who referenced the "Puppet Refining Method" in the "Twenty-Three Chapters of Heavenly Craftsmanship" and the "Inheritance of the God of Chehouyuan". It required a large amount of precious materials.

In terms of sheer strength, this body is already comparable to an ordinary supreme treasure!
However, Su Ai had just successfully fused with the Heart of Evolution, and her cultivation level was limited, so she was not yet able to fully develop the potential of this body.

Even so, the talent it has shown is absolutely astounding!

Inside the Azure Palace, Qi Yuan specially maintained a cultivation space for it that accelerated time a thousand times. One year in the outside world was equivalent to a thousand years of cultivation in the Azure Palace.

After its first century of cultivation in the Azure Palace, it steadily improved and quickly broke through to the level of a Realm Lord.

Subsequently, under Qi Yuan's arrangement, it chose an extremely difficult path of cultivation—cultivating the ten fundamental laws simultaneously!
Qi Yuan also assigned it a task for cultivation during the Realm Lord stage: only when it has cultivated all ten fundamental laws to the point of gaining the recognition of the laws can it break through to become an immortal god!
If it were anyone else, even a peerless genius like Luo Feng or Ke Di, achieving this would be extremely difficult, and even if they could, it would take an extremely long time.

Because their talents are mainly concentrated on the one law that they are compatible with and the corresponding higher law, if they were to cultivate other laws, their speed would be much slower, even slower than the most ordinary geniuses in the apocalyptic secret realm.

As someone who is almost unique in that he has reached an extremely high level of compatibility with the ten fundamental laws, Su Ai naturally has a great advantage in this regard!
With the subtle influence of Qi Yuan Taiqing's avatar's 'education' ability, the unlimited opportunities to comprehend the 'Primordial Chaos Stele', and the support of a series of top-tier secret techniques such as the 'Eight Formations' and 'Time and Space', its progress can be described as leaps and bounds!

In just a thousand years, after breaking through to the realm master level, it comprehended all eight lower laws—metal, wood, water, fire, earth, wind, thunder, and light—to the point that they were recognized by the original laws!

If this achievement were to spread to the outside world, it would likely be enough to shock countless people!

Even if an ordinary realm lord cultivates for millions of years, it would be considered extremely good if he could cultivate a certain lower-level law to the point that it would be recognized by the original law.

Su Ai spent less than one-thousandth of their time, yet she gained the recognition of the eight lower-level primordial laws. Such an exaggerated cultivation speed is hard not to be amazed!
However, when it shifts its focus to the more profound laws of time and space, its cultivation speed inevitably slows down.

Time and space, as the two most difficult higher laws to comprehend, are naturally extremely difficult to understand.

Just looking at the requirements for gaining recognition from the fundamental laws, such as the eight lower laws, one only needs to be at the level of the ninth level of the Bridge to Heaven to gain recognition from the eight lower laws.

As for the laws of time and space, even if one gains recognition from a small category, one must at least have a level of understanding comparable to being granted a marquisate. This increases the difficulty by a hundredfold, or even a thousandfold!
However, the slowdown was only compared to when it was cultivating the eight lower-level laws. Compared to other human geniuses, its cultivation speed was still incredibly fast! In just over eight hundred years, it successfully comprehended the 'matter transfer' subcategory under the 'teleportation' branch, one of the three major branches of the spatial laws, and gained initial recognition from the spatial laws.

Another 1,100 years passed, and it comprehended the 'delayed burst' subcategory under the 'time deceleration' branch, one of the three major branches of the laws of time, and thus gained initial recognition from the laws of time.

In a total of about three thousand years, Su Ai grew from the ninth level of the universe level when she first evolved to the point where she gained the recognition of all ten fundamental laws!
After that, Qi Yuan sent it back to the primordial universe to break through and become an immortal god.

At the moment Su Ai broke through with the fundamental law of gold, the supreme power of the ocean of fundamental laws descending to transform her divine body finally brought her consciousness, the heart of evolution, and the special body that Qi Yuan had created for her to a perfect state of fusion!
The moment the divine body transformation was completed, the potential contained in that special body, which was as powerful as a supreme treasure, was finally perfectly released, causing an unexpected and explosive improvement in its life gene level!

Qi Yuan didn't know if normal mechanical beings underwent such changes when breaking through to immortality, but this situation had indeed occurred in this special disciple—

The moment the divine body transformation was completed, Su Ai's life gene level directly reached about 300 times that of ordinary cosmic life!
This already falls into the category of a special life form!
Its extremely high level of divine power, coupled with its incredibly sturdy and impenetrable divine body defense, means that once it breaks through, its combat power is comparable to the top-tier King-level Immortal!
Having completed her breakthrough and gained an endless lifespan, Su Ai was given a new cultivation task by Qi Yuan—the Path of the Eight Great Beast Gods!
The Eight Great Beast God Paths are the cultivation paths of eight integrated laws: Metal Void, Wood Void, Water Void, Fire Void, Earth Void, Wind Time, Thunder Time, and Light Time.

Qi Yuan is currently studying the Eight Great Beast Gods' Ways, hoping to use them as a breakthrough to find the entry point for fusing the Ten Great Origin Laws and returning to chaos.

The difficulty of cultivating the fusion of laws is much higher than that of cultivating the single laws of time and space. Even Qi Yuan, when cultivating the eight great beast god paths, did not have the feeling of rapid improvement that he had when comprehending the laws of time and space in the past.

Moreover, the complete cultivation method of the Beast God Path is controlled by the Ancestral God Sect, which is known as the number one power in the original universe. Among the human race, there are only some classic texts left behind by human powerhouses who have studied the Beast God Path in the past based on their own insights.

The strongest of these classic texts is only at the level of "Seven Transformations of Divine Evolution" that Luo Feng cultivated in the original work, and the highest level one can cultivate to is only the level of a cosmic overlord.

However, this did not pose a problem for Qi Yuan.

After gifting his disciple Su Ai several precious classic texts on the cultivation path of the Beast God within the human race, such as "Seven Transformations of Divine Evolution" and "True Techniques of Time," as a system "gift," Qi Yuan easily obtained the complete cultivation inheritance of the eight major Beast God paths!
The Beast God of Metal, The Beast God of Wood, The Beast God of Water, and The Beast God of Light!
Each of the eight inheritances represents the end of a path of fusion with the laws. When each is cultivated to its extreme, one can break through to the realm of the Lord of the Universe and transform into a true 'Beast God'!
With the complete inheritance of the Eight Great Beast Gods' Paths, and Su Ai's rapid mastery of the Eight Great Beast Gods' Paths, Qi Yuan was able to obtain a large amount of cultivation experience back from it through the system's 'transfer cultivation experience' option, allowing him to enter a state of rapid advancement in the cultivation of the Eight Great Beast Gods' Paths.

Qi Yuan was immersed in training his disciples and improving his own cultivation.

Meanwhile, in the outside world, Luo Feng, the true protagonist of this world, began his final sprint to join the ranks of the world's top experts.

He broke through to the level of a Universe Venerable, secretly controlled the Star Tower, obtained the "Nine Tribulations Secret Manual," and took over the Blood Cloud Palace. He was assassinated by the True Demon God of the Ancestral God Sect. He used the Primal Star Blade to cleave the top Universe Overlords, which attracted the siege of the Universe Lords of the three major races. In the end, he killed more than 6000 Universe Venerables in an instant with the move "I am the Universe." As the Lord of the Blood Cloud Palace, he killed the clone of the Lord of Sinking Fire and fought a great battle against the Lord of the Star River.
Some of these deeds were public knowledge, while others were carried out in secret and remained unknown to the outside world.

As these events unfolded, Luo Feng's fame spread rapidly throughout the universe!
"Humanity is incredibly lucky. First there was the Master of the Wonderful Fate Pavilion, and now there's Luo Feng. Although Luo Feng is slightly inferior to the Master of the Wonderful Fate Pavilion, he has already achieved the combat power of a Universe Lord after cultivating for 100,000 years. That's quite astonishing!"

"That's right, and in the last 100,000 years, the human race has produced quite a few peerless geniuses. Even if we don't count these two, there are also the newly risen Celestial Venerable, the Purple Universe King, and other peerless geniuses with endless potential."

"No wonder those three alliances are so furious. They suffered such a huge loss last time targeting Master Qiyuan, yet they still haven't learned their lesson and are targeting Luo Feng again. Tsk tsk, more than six thousand Universe Venerables and Universe Overlords have fallen. This is going to give them a real headache!"

"Haha, they brought it on themselves. But then again, it's only because we don't have territorial conflicts with the human race that we might be even more eager than the other three major races!"

"Haha, that's true."

The entire primordial universe was filled with praise for Luo Feng's illustrious name.

Meanwhile, Qi Yuan, immersed in cultivation, received an email invitation from the Lord of Chaos City—

"Come to Thunder Island."

(End of this chapter)