Swallowing the Stars: 100x Return for Teaching Apprentices

Chapter 42 The Fallen Realm Lord

"Huh? That's..."

As soon as Qi Yuan stepped inside, he was immediately drawn to one of the items!
The space behind the cave is not large, about the size of an ordinary bedroom on Earth in my previous life.

In the center of the ground in this space, sat a skeleton with a completely golden body.

The golden skeleton wasn't particularly tall; even if it stood upright, it probably wouldn't exceed 1.5 meters.

The skeleton is somewhat humanoid, but its arms are unusually long, and it has two sharp, long horns on its head, similar to those of an antelope.

"These bones"

Upon seeing the golden skeleton, Qi Yuan's heart stirred slightly.

According to Bu Chen, this secret realm has been lost in the spatial interlayer for countless epochs.

The fact that these golden bones could still exist after such a long period of time is clearly extraordinary.

"The flesh, hair, and other parts have all disappeared, which means it's not immortal yet. So, could this be the remains of a realm lord?"

Qi Yuan's eyes lit up, and he quickly surveyed the area around the golden skeleton.

Almost instantly, his gaze was drawn to a silver ring with mysterious patterns on the ground in front of the skeleton!
"A ring... is it a spatial ring?"

Qi Yuan's face lit up with joy, and a wisp of his spiritual imprint instantly wrapped around the silver ring—

The mark merged into Qi Yuan's senses like a drop of water, and instantly, an enormous spatial world appeared in Qi Yuan's perception!
He was instantly overwhelmed by the sheer size of the space he perceived.

The entire space inside the ring is 10,000 kilometers long, 10,000 kilometers wide, and 10,000 kilometers high. There are even land, sky, rivers and lakes in this space, just like a real world!
"What a vast world! A world ring! This isn't a spatial ring, it's a world ring!"

Qi Yuan's heart was instantly filled with boundless joy!
The World Ring is something only a World Lord-level expert capable of creating a world can forge!

Its internal space is countless times larger than that of an ordinary spatial ring, and it is just like a real world, capable of accommodating life to live in it!
Moreover, even peak Realm Lord level experts rarely want to create spatial rings; they prefer to use their inner world for storage.

Because, in order to incorporate an entire world into a small ring, the materials used in that ring would have to be incredibly rare and expensive!

"Holy crap, I'm rich! I'm rich! The price of just this one world ring is more than all my current assets combined! And..."

Qi Yuan probed into the World Ring with his mind and quickly locked onto a six-story building in the center of the World Ring.

With the help of the sliver of world power that the owner of the World Ring could mobilize, Qi Yuan easily saw the situation inside the six-story building.

Books, lots of books!

Every floor of the six-story building is lined with rows of bookshelves!

Gold, silver, blue. Books of different sizes and colors with different covers are neatly arranged on bookshelves, making the interior of the six-story building resemble a small library!
Although Qi Yuan didn't have time to examine the contents of these books, something that a suspected fallen world lord-level powerhouse would treasure with a precious world ring must not be an ordinary item.

Apart from this six-story building, the entire world ring was completely empty, containing nothing else.

"It's estimated that this realm lord kept most of his possessions in his inner world, but after his death, the inner world collapsed, and the things inside probably drifted away to who knows where."

Qi Yuan, however, did not feel any sense of loss.

During his visit, he not only gained a metallic life form capable of growing to the ninth level of a World Lord, but also an extremely precious World Ring and a large number of books within it that he hadn't had time to look at.

These alone are enough to make his trip worthwhile!
"Let's go outside first and talk about it later."

Before leaving, Qi Yuan looked at the golden skeleton once again.

Beside the golden skeleton, there lay a small, pale gold beast statue, about a foot long, resembling a unicorn lion, lying quietly.

The material of the golden beast statue was somewhat similar to that of the metal life form 'Bumblebee' from before.

Below the unicorn horn of the small beast statue, on its forehead, there was a hole about the size of a finger. Qi Yuan seemed to vaguely sense a faint aura somewhat similar to that of a bumblebee inside.

"Could it be that the former body of this Bumblebee was a metallic life form of this Realm Lord powerhouse, and after its master perished for countless years, a new consciousness was born on its original body?"

Qi Yuan made some wild guesses, but in the end he put the golden skeleton and the unicorn statue into his world ring.

Without pausing, he transformed into a bolt of lightning and sped towards the cave exit.

When entering the cave, Qi Yuan had to be careful of the potential dangers deep inside, so he had to move much slower.

But going outside was different. In less than ten minutes, while traveling at full speed, he could vaguely see the light coming from the entrance.

However, at that moment, the detector that Qi Yuan was carrying suddenly made a strange noise.

On the detector's screen, two extremely powerful life forces could be clearly seen rapidly approaching this direction.

"Has someone discovered the entrance to the cave?"

Qi Yuan frowned, and his figure transformed into a bolt of lightning as he rushed towards the cave entrance.

The cave space is too small; if someone were trapped inside, it would be too passive.

With a "whoosh," Qi Yuan's figure shot out of the cave and soared into the sky!
"Ok?"

"Someone?"

The moment he appeared, the two figures that were rapidly approaching each other above the mountain range where the cave entrance was located suddenly stopped in mid-air.

One of the two figures was a powerfully built man, over three meters tall, with two horns on his head, sharp fangs at the corners of his mouth, and wielding a giant axe, resembling a legendary demon.

The other was an exceptionally handsome young man with purple hair, carrying a silver longsword on his back.

However, both of them wore the same golden pagoda-shaped medal on the chest of their armor.

Qi Yuan also spotted the two people instantly, and when he saw the pagoda medals on their chests, he immediately confirmed their identities.

"People of Wuji Palace"

Within the Eternal Empire, apart from the official institutions represented by the Eternal Empire's royal family, the most powerful organizations are the three major civilian organizations: the 'Sea Control Pavilion', the 'Limitless Palace', and the 'Thousand Blades Sect'.

The three major organizations each have spheres of influence covering nearly a thousand star systems, and each has produced immortal-level powerhouses throughout history.

However, those powerful figures had long since gone to develop in the Lanting Universe Kingdom and did not remain within the territory of the Eternal Empire.

Even so, no one dared to underestimate them.

After all, the three major organizations not only have world lord-level powerhouses stationed there year-round, but also have a great many domain lord-level and universe-level powerhouses under their command.

When the three organizations unite, even the royal family of the Eternal Empire has to be wary of them; even when they are separate, they are not people that ordinary people can mess with.

"One is a fourth-tier cosmic-level being, and the other is a second-tier being."

However, after sensing the difference in their cultivation levels, Qi Yuan felt somewhat relieved.

After breaking through to the cosmic level, he simulated battles against numerous cosmic-level opponents in the killing field.

Unless he encounters another genius who has also crossed the threshold of the laws or whose application of the domain is extremely exaggerated, fighting against someone two or three levels higher is not a big problem for him!

After all, the difference between the first and ninth levels of the cosmic level is only the accumulation of energy.

Having undergone a life leap, his energy and strength were already significantly higher than those of other martial artists of the same level. Even compared to a fourth-tier cosmic-level martial artist, he wasn't far behind.
Although Qi Yuan was not afraid of his opponent, he thought that he had already taken all the treasures in the cave and there was no need to cause any more trouble. He immediately decided to find the right direction and fly away.

However, as soon as he made a move, the two people above him separated in perfect unison, blocking his path from the front and the back.

"Damn it, why are you running? Stand still and don't move!"

A very rude shout came from above.

The ugly, burly man with two horns and sharp fangs swung his giant axe at Qi Yuan as he swiftly flew closer.

From another direction, the purple-haired youth also approached at a leisurely pace.

"Ok?"

Seeing this, Qi Yuan's gaze darkened slightly, and he said in a cold voice, "What do you two mean by this?"

"Haha, what do you mean? I'm asking you, did you find anything good in that cave?" The ugly, burly man said with an arrogant expression.

The three major organizations have been accustomed to their dominance within the Eternal Empire, and many of their members are naturally domineering and eccentric. This ugly giant is clearly one of them.

As a fourth-level universe-level being, he faced off against Qi Yuan, a first-level universe-level being, in a secret realm ruin where all the higher-ups tacitly agreed that they could fight each other. Naturally, he had no scruples whatsoever.

"You mean a cave? Ha, it's completely empty. You can go in and see for yourselves if you don't believe me."

Qi Yuan sneered in response, but at the same time he was already secretly preparing to explode.

The ugly, burly man seemed oblivious to this, maintaining his nonchalant and domineering demeanor.

"What do you mean 'empty'? You must have taken it all! Hand over your storage space items so I can check them!"

Meanwhile, his purple-haired companion, a fourth-level cosmic-level expert, was already closing in on Qi Yuan with perfect coordination.

At this moment, Qi Yuan finally understood that these two people weren't after any treasure in the cave; they were probably after him, a lone fat sheep, from the very beginning!

All the hard work of searching for treasure is nothing compared to the ease of robbing and killing a lone fat sheep who is only at the first level of the universe level!
Sure enough, after the ugly giant and his companion tentatively closed in to a certain distance, they erupted almost simultaneously!
One wielded a giant axe, the other brandished a silver longsword, and the two accelerated towards Qi Yuan in an instant!
"Die!"

"kill!"

At this moment, the ugly, burly man's eyes no longer held the previous domineering and eccentricity; all that remained was indifference to life and a thirst for harvest!

"Hehe, almost there. After slaughtering a few more fat sheep, I should be able to gather enough resources to exchange for entry into the 'Secret Technique Pavilion'. Once I obtain a secret technique that suits me, I can do it during the next Hall Master competition."

However, just as he was envisioning his bright future, a blinding flash of lightning suddenly erupted—

(End of this chapter)