Swallowing the Stars: 100x Return for Teaching Apprentices

Chapter 257 Divine Power Breakthrough
Like a collapsing ocean, endless primordial energy of the universe surged forth, and boundless vitality erupted rapidly!

Rumble~~~
The entire secret realm was filled with endless and powerful cosmic primordial energy, and began to expand wildly!

It devoured the boundless starry sky, billions of stars, one by one, stars, white dwarfs, neutron stars were all swallowed up and everything was pulverized, turning into its most primordial state.

Immediately afterwards, the primordial energy of the universe merged in, and seemingly invisible rules also spread out, with continuous evolution taking place.
The 'Thirty-Three Heavens' are formed from countless solidified continents.
A pulsating singularity, endless devouring vortices and shock tides coexisting, a special network structure condensed by strange spacetime forces, a 'spacetime prison' composed of floating bubble worlds.
A unique starry sky, blazing stars, planets, satellites, and terrestrial planets orbiting it, and the vast surrounding void—a special atmosphere permeates the space, radiating boundless vitality.
A frigid river flows through the void, within which stars rise and fall. An endless ocean of illusory mist. An all-consuming dark abyss and an endless fiery domain that scorches everything.
Strange places kept being born, and time and space became solidified and stable.

As the evolution progressed, driven by the unseen laws of the universe, primordial life began to be conceived and born—

The 'Wa Water Spirit' swimming and playing in the glacier, the 'Tai Xu Ancient Whale' in the Illusionary Mist Sea, the 'Little Demon' roaring in the abyss, and the 'Fire Refining Ape' in the Endless Fire Domain.
Countless unique mountain ranges, exotic plants, and rare natural treasures have been created as a result.
It is constantly evolving.

Endless mysteries will then naturally unfold.
Qi Yuan covered the entire secret realm with the Realm of Truth and Illusion. Except for the initial intentional guidance that created some special environments, he mostly allowed the secret realm's inherent evolutionary power to take effect.

He, on the other hand, focused more of his consciousness on perceiving and comprehending the evolution of this secret realm and the birth of life.

The Cosmic Secret Realm is a special existence in which the rules governing the operation of the universe are manifested to an extreme degree.

Its birth naturally contains endless mysteries.

Qi Yuan silently sensed it, and every now and then, a sudden realization would come to him.

"Evolution and birth".

"The gestation of life"

"This is true creation and opening up. The manifestation of the origin of life."

Long ago, Qi Yuan began to use the creative talent of Yu Qing's clone to analyze all sorts of strange substances and life samples.

Strange metals, ores, special energy bodies, liquids, plants, the blood, scales, and hair of all kinds of creatures, the leaves of plant life, the composition of metal life, and even special 'strange objects' from the continent of origin.
Endless matter, endless biological samples, special materials, especially the blood he recently obtained from the corpse of the former sect leader of the Ten Directions Sect, the Void Ancient Ape 'Zhu Yongzi' who was at the Eternal True God Realm.

By utilizing his creative talent to delve into the microscopic level of analysis, Qi Yuan has gained an unparalleled and profound understanding of the most fundamental composition of life and matter.

At this moment, after fully immersing himself in the evolution of this secret realm and the mysteries of the natural birth of countless life forms within it, Qi Yuan was incredibly close to breaking through the barrier of the 'ten thousand times perfect gene' limitation in his research on divine power. Now, he finally broke through it completely!

In an instant, countless new ideas surged into Qi Yuan's mind!

These millions of new ideas may not all be correct, but they have given Qi Yuan directions to try and move forward.

"Divine power, disintegrate." Qi Yuan's Shangqing clone moved his mind.

Wow~~~
Instantly, one of Shangqing's clones' hands decomposed into a large amount of divine power that floated around.

"Life, Reborn!"

The life structure within the divine power was immediately controlled and modified by Qi Yuan, much like genetic modification!
However, under Qi Yuan's control, this transformation is obviously at a higher level. He has already broken through the limits by transforming the most basic components!
call!
The divine power re-condensed, attempting to restore the original stable hand structure.

However, due to the change in the most basic life imprint within the divine power, it experienced great rejection when attempting to restore its original stable form.

Wow~
The divine power recombination has failed!

However, Qi Yuan was not discouraged at all.

"Try again!"

Another attempt, this time to modify it according to a different concept.

"fail!"

"fail!"

"Restructuring failed!"

Tried again and again, failed again and again.

However, each failure was a valuable experience, leading Qi Yuan to refine his other ideas.

Time flies, and more than a hundred years have passed in the blink of an eye.

"Success is certain."

"I have a feeling that I'm about to succeed; I was just a little short last time."

"Life, Reborn!"

The Shangqing avatar, standing in the void, transformed its palm into a vast divine power, which was rapidly undergoing internal changes, with its most fundamental structure changing.

hum~~~
Everything stops.

Qi Yuan also stopped controlling the device and began to focus on sensing it.

If it fails, the divine power whose origin has been altered will naturally decompose and revert to its original state quickly.

"It's stabilized, it hasn't collapsed!" Qi Yuan was overjoyed.

"The reorganized level of divine power."

Qi Yuan carefully sensed it.

This was a completely new divine power, a powerful divine power carrying an aura of boundless vastness, with an incomparably heavy momentum brewing within it. "15000 times!" Qi Yuan made a rough judgment in an instant.

"Success! We've successfully broken through the bottleneck of perfect genes!" Qi Yuan was overjoyed!
In the primordial universe, the so-called perfect gene was 10081 times stronger!
Even for countless universe lords, reaching this level is extremely difficult; at most, they can only come close.

This is the limit, the limit that a normal life form can reach!
If one wants to break through to become the strongest in the universe by following the path of divine power, one must break this limit, break the shackles, and thus enter another world!
Once this limitation is broken, even if it's just to reach 10082 times the life genes, it can immediately drive the divine kingdom to evolve into a miniature universe.

Of course, such a breakthrough to become the strongest in the universe is almost negligible in terms of strength. Among all those of the same level, they can only be considered the most ordinary, or even the worst.

There are two paths for the Lord of the Universe to break through to become the strongest being in the universe.

Starting from the path of laws, one must rely on one's own understanding to create a secret technique of six levels.

Starting from the path of divine power, the goal is to break through the bottleneck of perfect genes by ten thousand times.

However, even if one breaks through the genetic bottleneck and achieves a breakthrough with different levels of divine power, the boost to one's strength will vary greatly.

The difference in strength between those who achieve a breakthrough in genes within 3 times and those who break through to become true gods through the laws of nature is not significant.

Normally, one needs to reach 3 to 6 times the genetic potential to be considered as breaking through to the first level of the divine power path.

Reaching 6 to 9 times the gene count constitutes the second level.

Reaching 90,000 times and then infinitely approaching 100,000 times constitutes the third level.

These are the three levels of the divine power path.
As for the level of perfect genes that Luo Feng ultimately reached, which was 100,000 times higher than the original novel, that was only achieved through countless heaven-defying coincidences and could not be considered a level on its own.

The three levels of the divine power path, the first level of which can make the divine body increase tenfold from its original height!
For example, it could jump from a height of only 100,000 kilometers to a height of one million kilometers, and its total divine power would increase by a thousandfold.

Moreover, this advantage will be maintained even if one becomes a true god, or even surpasses a true god.

The second level allows the divine body to increase a thousandfold from its original height!
Qi Yuan's current normal divine body height is over 90,000 kilometers, close to 100,000 kilometers. Once he breaks through to the strongest in the universe with the second level of divine power, his divine body can grow to a height of nearly 100 million kilometers!

The third level is the most difficult to reach.

Once this threshold is reached, the divine body will be able to "size at will" and become an "infinite divine body"!
Yes, an infinite divine body, with infinite volume!

The final volume is determined by 'divine power'; the more divine power, the larger the volume!
Of course, once one becomes a true god, the final amount of divine power is fixed.

Therefore, cultivators whose genes have reached this level need to absorb as much endless divine power as possible before breaking through to the True God realm, so that their divine bodies can grow to a certain 'limit'. Only in this way can they maximize their benefits when they break through.

However, at this level, the amount of divine power needed to grow the divine body to its limit is simply too enormous. Just supplying this divine power is a 'happy burden'.

However, with the almost limitless divine power supplied by those three golden auspicious clouds, Qi Yuan should be able to avoid a lot of trouble.

"Haha, I originally thought that I would have to carefully study the Ten Directions Sect's lineage of inheritance on the breakthrough of divine power before I could break through the bottleneck of perfect genes. I didn't expect that after experiencing the process of the secret realm's evolution, this day would come ahead of schedule."

Qi Yuan Shangqing's clone stood in the void of the secret realm.

"Divine body, reconstruct!" he whispered to himself.

boom!
The entire Shangqing clone disintegrated with a roar, transforming directly into a vast and mighty divine power.

Immediately afterwards, all the divine power rapidly transformed according to the composition form that had just been successfully tested. After the transformation was completed, with a thought from Qi Yuan, all the divine power quickly condensed again, directly transforming back into the figure of the Shangqing clone.

Although the total number of divine bodies of Shangqing's clones decreased significantly, the aura of the entire divine body became increasingly stronger.

"This feeling is wonderful."

Qi Yuan revealed a look of joy. He could feel the divine body's eagerness to try, and even the distant divine kingdom was stirring. Because of the divine body's strength, it could support an even more powerful divine kingdom!
And if the divine kingdom expands again, it will immediately evolve into a miniature universe!

In other words, as long as Qi Yuan is willing, he can immediately transform the divine kingdom into a miniature universe and enter the true god stage!

However, he has only reached the life gene level of 15000 times, which is far from his expectations. In fact, this level does not help his strength much, so he will not blindly break through.

"Breaking through the bottleneck of perfect genes, at least until the next bottleneck of 30,000 times, there shouldn't be any major difficulties. As long as I devote myself to studying the relevant inheritances left by the Ten Directions Sect, I should be able to continuously improve."

"What an unexpected surprise! This breakthrough is at least 100,000 years ahead of schedule."

After a moment, Qi Yuan calmed his restless mood and began to look around.

Over the course of hundreds of years, with the continuous infusion of endless cosmic primordial energy, the evolution of the entire secret realm has been completely completed.

As the power of the True and False Realms spread to every corner of the entire secret realm, everything came under his control.

Having absorbed a large amount of primordial essence, the spacetime of the entire secret realm became incredibly stable. In some areas, even teleportation was impossible; even immortals and cosmic venerables could only pass through by flying.

An aura of boundless vastness permeated the entire secret realm, an incomparably rich aura of primordial energy.

Some low-level cultivators cultivate within it, constantly absorbing the rich primordial energy of the universe. Even without relying on auxiliary means such as 'nutrient capsules,' they can quickly complete the energy accumulation for each realm.

The entire secret realm has formed a series of incredibly strange places.

The 'Thirty-Three Heavens' continent is incredibly stable at its core, almost unshakeable!
A mysterious starry sky that evolves from the concept of 'evolution' inherent in the starry sky where Earth is located!
A unique environment similar to the Ninth Battlefield: Time-Space Prison!
Icy rivers, illusory mists, oceans, dark abysses, endless fire domains
There are also some special life forms that have been nurtured in these strange places.
"Although this secret realm only eventually reached a range of nearly a million light-years, making it only a small to medium-sized secret realm, the level of its internal development was high enough to surpass that of most large-scale cosmic secret realms!"

"Such a foundation is more than enough to serve as the basis for a powerful force!"

(End of this chapter)