Swallowing the Stars: 100x Return for Teaching Apprentices

Chapter 256 The Secret Realm of Revival

The Primordial Universe, the Lanting Universe Kingdom, the Eternal Starfield.

In a desolate star system called Cangxuan Star System in the Eternal Starfield, there is an incredibly vast and special region.

Twisted, dark spatial rifts, like giant pythons, spread and intertwined, filling the entire starry sky.

Through the cracks in the spatial rifts, one can vaguely see an extremely dark and desolate world, yet a few glimmers of life are slowly growing, and the spacetime within is gradually becoming more stable.

Not far from here in the starry sky, several figures were waiting quietly.

The leader was a majestic figure, dressed in an extremely beautiful and strange purple robe, or rather, it was an outer garment completely woven from endless lightning. Endless lightning flowed around it, and when his eyes opened and closed, it seemed as if dazzling lightning flowed out, naturally releasing an incomparably domineering aura.

Behind him stood several men and women dressed in various colored armors.

A silent wait.

moment--

Without the slightest fluctuation, a black-haired youth clad in dark gold armor, the surface of which was covered with countless mysterious swirling patterns, appeared before everyone.

As everyone looked at the black-haired youth, they felt as if he had merged with the entire starry sky, or as if he did not exist in this world at all, utterly ethereal and impossible to pinpoint.

"Greetings, Master of the Wonderful Fate Pavilion!"

The moment the figure appeared, the majestic man in the purple robe hurriedly bowed forward, and even the endless lightning flowing on his robe quickly subsided and dimmed.

"Greetings to the great and extraordinary host!"

The armored men and women behind the burly man in purple robes all bowed in response.

"No need to be polite."

As if a gentle breeze were blowing, the tense figures bowing and greeting each other naturally relaxed.

The black-haired youth was none other than Qi Yuan's Shangqing clone, who had just returned from the Cosmic Sea.

Because they had ventured so deep into the spaceship, even though they could quickly pass through many places using their 'words become law' ability, it still took decades to finally return to the original universe.

"Lanting, how did things go?"

Shangqing's clone spoke with a smile.

"Reporting to the Master of Qiyuan Pavilion!"

The burly man in purple robes stepped forward respectfully and reported, "As per your orders, all life-bearing planets within a million light-year radius have been relocated and properly settled."

"Okay, thank you for your hard work." Shangqing's clone nodded.

"It is our honor to serve the Lord of Qiyuan Pavilion!" the burly man in purple robes replied.

Looking at the extremely respectful Lord Lanting before him, Shangqing's clone smiled faintly, then took out a small, exquisite, silver-white tower covered with endless colorful lines. It was an ordinary palace-type treasure called the 'Heavenly Craft Tower'.

The perfect critical strike back then returned thousands of 'Heavenly Craft Towers' to him. Over the years, the human universe venerables who ventured to the Primordial Star 'rented' some from him, but what he still had was still a huge number.

"This is just a little something, consider it compensation for taking up your territory."

A divine force directly carried the silver-white pagoda to the presence of the King of Lanting.

Upon seeing this, the ruler of Lanting Kingdom quickly declined, saying, "It is an immense honor for the entire Lanting Universe Kingdom that Master Qiyuan has chosen to establish a Daoist temple within our territory. How could we possibly accept any compensation from Master Qiyuan?"

"Take it. I'll inevitably need your help in the future," Shangqing's clone said with a faint smile.

"Yes, thank you for the treasure, Master Qiyuan!"

The burly man in purple robes, the King of Lanting Kingdom, happily accepted the small silver pagoda, and hurriedly imprinted a trace of divine power into it.

Upon sensing the information about this treasure, the joy on the face of the King of Lanting Kingdom grew even greater: "From now on, whatever orders the Lord of Qiyuan gives, please feel free to dispatch him. The entire Lanting Universe Kingdom will always be at the Lord of Qiyuan's command."

"Yes, you may all leave for now." Shangqing's clone nodded with a smile.

"Yes."

The King of Lanting bowed again, then used his divine power to quickly teleport away with the people behind him.

The continuous teleportation took only a moment, and the figures of the group had already retreated millions of light-years away.

After they left, Qi Yuan turned to look at the gray world surrounded by endless spatial rifts.
This world is the very same 'Heavenly Craftsmanship Realm Ruins' that he explored when he first broke through to the Universe level.

At that time, he obtained a series of precious treasures in that secret realm, including the metallic life form 'Bumblebee', a fragment of the Soul Secret Technique, the 'Eight Formations' manual, and the Heavenly Craft Tower.

In particular, the "Eight Formations" manual and the Heavenly Craft Tower not only provided him with great assistance in his cultivation process, but the secret technique "Time and Space" and the eternal true god-level treasure "Miracle Pavilion" that he returned as gifts with them once became his strongest trump cards!
"More than 100,000 years have passed, and this secret realm has recovered considerably. A clear sense of life can be sensed within it, and its size has even expanded nearly a hundredfold."

The Shangqing clone silently sensed that "without external intervention, it might take a million years for this relic to fully recover and re-evolve into a small secret realm."

"However, a large amount of incredibly pure primordial essence was collected in that mysterious space. If we integrate it into it, it should accelerate the process considerably!"

Thinking this, Shangqing's clone began to step forward, approaching the gloomy world shrouded in the endless dark rift.

"Kakaka~~~"

As he approached, the already fragile space at the edge of that dark world began to shatter on a large scale, with black, ravine-like spatial cracks spreading outwards, almost completely transforming it into a void.

Qi Yuan ignored all spatial rifts and stepped directly into that dark world.

"Boom~~~"

The entire world was violently shaking. Even though the space of the secret realm ruins had become much more stable over the years due to continuous recovery and the gradual emergence of vitality, it still instantly reached the spatial limit of the secret realm ruins after Qi Yuan, a 'super high-level energy body', entered.

"Wow~~~"

"Boom~~~"

Space was shattered in patches, and the gray earth that had just begun to recover some green life was also constantly collapsing and becoming fragmented, a scene of apocalypse.

"The mysterious ruins in their recovery phase, under their self-protective measures, are reacting with such tremendous force."

The Shangqing clone smiled faintly, then tossed out a black bead the size of a thumb. A small crack appeared on the surface of the bead, where a hazy black film flowed, and instantly—

boom!
Like a flash flood or an endless torrent of water, countless colorful mists poured out from the black sphere, instantly filling the entire gray world.

Each point of colored light contained boundless and immense energy and power. A massive amount of colored light mist spread out, and the powerful energy instantly caused the entire dark world to explode on an even larger scale!
Rumble~~~
The entire gray space was shattered, the heavens and earth were collapsing, and the boundaries in all directions were constantly crumbling.

However, at the same time as the collapse, the endless colorful light mist particles that spread out also began to rapidly merge into the entire shattered space.

"Om~~~"

That endless colorful mist was an extremely pure and condensed source of cosmic energy.
As this massive amount of cosmic primordial energy was integrated, a certain vitality seemed to be awakened deep within the entire dark world, and an incomparably vigorous vitality began to erupt rapidly!

woohoo~~~
With this burst of life, the shattered world began to rapidly recover—

The sky, the continent, the mountains, the rivers, the rocks, the vegetation—everything is reunited.

Even the boundaries of the world, driven by this vigorous vitality, began to expand rapidly in all directions.

"It's still too slow."

With a thought, Qi Yuan caused the black bead floating in the void to suddenly grow larger, reaching a diameter of over 100 million kilometers. At the same time, the gaps on the surface of the black bead also widened further.

"boom!"

The ever-growing and surging colorful light mist energy poured out like an endless tsunami, spreading endless colorful light mist throughout the entire space. The colorful light mist instantly surged to an extremely dense level!

This colorful mist is an incredibly concentrated and pure essence of primordial energy.

In the mysterious space behind the vortex of flames, the immense pressure from the gathering of endless light and mist could damage even the most supreme treasures, let alone this fragile secret realm space that was currently in the process of reviving.

As endless, massive amounts of colorful light mist converged, an incredibly heavy burst of power shattered the newly formed and restored secret realm space once again!

However, at the same time as the explosion, an even larger amount of colorful light mist rapidly merged into the 'origin' of this secret realm, making this 'origin' even stronger!
It's like a planet, with its own 'core'.

It's like the primordial universe, with its origin.

The Cosmic Secret Realm also possesses a 'Secret Realm Origin' similar to the origin of the universe!
With the infusion of massive amounts of primordial energy essence, the originally barren primordial source of this secret realm was replenished and began to rapidly recover.

An even more vigorous vitality was released once again, which began to drive the secret realm space to repair itself and continue to expand in all directions.

Endless colorful light mist poured down, continuously merging into the 'origin' of the secret realm. The 'origin' of the secret realm absorbed this massive amount of primal energy essence and began to revive and grow stronger, thus driving earth-shattering changes to the entire secret realm!
Once the 'origin' of this secret realm absorbed enough energy, it seemed to truly come alive.

The secret realm's 'origin' trembled continuously, and in an instant, it directly established an incredibly close connection with the origin of the primordial universe!

Each and every cosmic secret realm is a place where the origin of the universe is most outwardly manifested.

This is why each secret realm possesses incredible and powerful abilities.

This secret realm ruins had been damaged before, and its 'origin' was weakened, which is why it became desolate and its mysterious connection with the origin of the universe became extremely weak.

Now, after Qi Yuan injected a large amount of pure primordial essence into the 'primordial essence' of this secret realm, the originally damaged 'primordial essence' of the secret realm quickly recovered and revived, and even surpassed its strongest state.

The revived secret realm 'Origin' naturally formed a subtle connection with the origin of the universe through its own efforts.

Following this subtle connection—

"boom!"

An immense and vast aura wafted over!

In an instant, the secret realm's 'origin' and the original source of the primordial universe seemed to be directly connected as one, as if an invisible channel had opened, and endless primordial energy of the universe began to frantically pour into this secret realm space.

There is no need to use Qi Yuan to provide any energy; instead, endless primordial energy is directly poured in from the origin of the universe!

"Boom~~~"

With the infusion of this endless energy, the entire secret realm began a true and comprehensive revival and transformation!

Rumble~~~
Continents coalesced and took shape, forming mountains, rivers, a vast starry sky, and strange celestial bodies. The edge of the entire secret realm continued to expand, directly devouring the endless universe and shattering it, transforming it into the most primordial energy.

An endless flood arose between heaven and earth, forming a void river.

Various strange environments and treasures began to emerge.

"The evolution of the universe's mysteries is endless!"

As Shangqing's clone moved his mind, a hazy black light spread, and the Realm of Truth and Illusion rapidly expanded, directly enveloping the entire secret realm space, to sense the various wonders and mysteries in the evolution of the secret realm space.

He even attempted to use the power of the True and False Realms to guide the evolution of the secret realm, consciously guiding the birth of certain specific environments.

For example, a certain area could be modeled after the mysterious spatial forms deep within the Prison of Time and Space, or it could be made to resemble the mysterious environment of certain special and dangerous places in the Cosmic Sea. Or, based on the hazy imagery of Earth's starry sky, an attempt could be made to evolve a similar special environment.
The Realm of Truth and Illusion possesses the characteristics of a self-contained universe, similar to a 'virtual universe,' and also incorporates the 'creation' and 'opening up' concepts contained in the original star map. It is a special form that lies between illusion and reality, possessing the magical power to influence reality.

With the intervention of the power of the Realm of Truth and Illusion, the endless primordial energy of the universe was indeed guided by the invisible force, and began to converge and evolve in a special form.
(End of this chapter)