Devouring the Stars: The Lord of the Sky

Chapter 166 Seven Transformations of Water and Space

As for the excessive killing and the extremely evil deeds committed?
Don't panic!

Within the Tianshuang Universe Kingdom, on numerous life-bearing planets that were originally slave planets but are now part of the Yanhuang Company's territory, billions of beings have expressed their gratitude for his good deeds and are silently praying for him after the Yanhuang Company's propaganda department spread the word.

Billions of beings pray for me, so what's wrong with me catching some 'cosmic animals'?
If I can still feel uneasy about this, then wouldn't all my good deeds have been in vain?

Then, the Netherworld Blood Sea clone, carrying the Kunlun Mirror, shifted his thoughts and teleported the hundred immortals outside the Lingxiao Palace to various parts of the demon race's territory.

Lu Jin had never been to the demon realm, but in the virtual universe, he could find the corresponding real-world coordinates of the demon realm.

It doesn't matter if the coordinates are inaccurate, since there's no specific target anyway. As long as we can teleport to the interior of the demon territory and there are demons to capture, that's fine.

Three years later, in the Great Luo Heaven, the Water Qilin clone, now in human form, stood atop an endless sea of ​​golden clouds.

In front of Lu Jin, there were hundreds of thousands of tiny triangular metal cones, none of which had any laws or secret patterns, floating in dense array.

As Lu Jin thought, all the triangular cones sometimes coalesced into a giant triangular cone, sometimes transformed into a huge spear, and sometimes condensed into a giant sword, displaying countless forms.

The only similarity is that when the various weapons are gathered and condensed, the countless silver-gray triangular cones that were originally just ordinary metal all turn blue-gold, surrounded by the rich aura of the water source law and the space source law, and permeated with a chilling cold.

"I think I've mastered the 'Sixteen Forms of Heavenly Frost,' which serves as the foundation for the Water and Sky Beast Divine Path, quite well, right?"

After a long while, he retrieved the countless triangular metal cones, which transformed into a large silver-gray metal ingot, Lu Jin thought to himself.

The next moment, within Zi Ni Chang's divine realm, Lu Jin, who was comprehending the laws of water, had a thought and logged into the virtual universe.

As for his first task after taking office as the Special Inspector of the Tian Shuang Branch?
Unsurprisingly, he failed to complete it successfully.

The mission had a time limit of only one year. After a year of pursuit by the Seventh Legion, the vast majority of the few remaining prototypes were killed.

However, two people on that list of 80 million mission targets have still disappeared to some unknown corner of the universe.

Therefore, the task was only 80% complete, earning 16 points.

Fortunately, Lu Jin has both points and mixed units, so although he's a little annoyed, it's not a big deal.

Virtual Universe, Thunder Island, Frost Temple.

"Not bad, you've got it pretty good."

After Lu Jin demonstrated the skill level of the "Sixteen Forms of Heavenly Frost" secret technique, the Heavenly Frost King nodded.

Then, the King of Tianshuang raised his hand and pointed, and seven blue-gold metal books, each about a meter long and wide and half a meter thick, materialized and landed in front of Lu Jin. He said, "From now on, you can officially embark on the path of the Water Beast God. These seven secret manuals are my ultimate technique, the Seven Transformations of Water and Void."

"Thank you, Teacher Xie, for transmitting the Dharma."

Lu Jin bowed and carefully put away the seven secret manuals.

The Heavenly Frost King waved his hand slightly and said with a solemn expression, "The complete Path of the Beast God has seven realms, and each of these seven manuals corresponds to one realm of the Path of the Beast God."

Unfortunately, even if one masters the seventh level of the Beast God Path, without comprehending the 'Heart of the Beast God,' one still cannot fully master the Fusion Law and become the master of the universe.

What exactly is this 'Heart of the Beast God'? For countless years, even I have been unable to understand it.

Lu Jin, I hope that one day you will comprehend this ethereal 'Heart of the Beast God,' and based on my 'Seven Transformations of Water and Space,' create a truly perfect Path of the Beast God.

After a pause, recalling the secret he had accidentally discovered, the King of Tianshuang continued, "The Beast God Statue is extraordinary. Although I have spent countless years trying to comprehend the so-called 'Heart of the Beast God,' I have still managed to uncover a secret about the Beast God Statue."

Later, your master will send you seven statues corresponding to the seven volumes of the secret techniques of "Seven Transformations of Water and Space".

These seven statues are also statues of beast gods, but they are clearly layered, progressing from shallow to deep. With real beast god statues as a reference, it is easier for you to understand them.

Furthermore, when you are cultivating the "Seven Transformations of Water and Space," if you carefully copy the statue and the Beast God statue corresponding to the level of the secret technique, and if you can comprehend a trace of the Beast God's Law, you can accelerate the cultivation of the secret technique.

The higher the level of the secret technique, the easier it is to comprehend the essence of that Beast God Law, creating a complementary effect.

"Yes, teacher, I will certainly work hard!"

Lu Jin bowed and said.

The Heavenly Frost King nodded, then changed the subject: "The Venerable Guanghan has opened a shop in the Hong Alliance that sells G-grade divine weapons. She is a treasure refiner."

The so-called Venerable of the Moon Palace is none other than Zi Ni Chang.

"Ah."

Lu Jin nodded.

Zi Nishang is studying the art of refining treasures and cultivating secret techniques to make up for her shortcomings in combat power. She doesn't need the Qiankun Cauldron every moment.

The Qiankun Cauldron has an automatic treasure-refining mode, so leaving it idle would be a huge waste.

Therefore, when Zi Nishang is not using the items, she will store up materials and energy in advance so that the Qiankun Cauldron can start its automatic treasure refining mode and automatically produce treasures.

Within the Hongmeng alliance, members below four stars do not have the right to open shops, but those above four stars do.

The Heavenly Court was still developing and growing, and the number of treasures produced by the Qiankun Cauldron was too large to be consumed internally, so they were naturally sold in the shops opened by the Hongmeng.

"Could it be used to forge powerful treasures?"

The King of Tianshuang asked.

Don't be fooled by the fact that all the treasure refiners are rolling in money; not everyone can become a treasure refiner.

It's like inscribing law runes. You haven't even mastered the corresponding law, so what are you inscribing?

Secondly, you need to inherit a treasure. Without an inheritance of a sufficient level, you can only rely on your own exploration. Do you think you have extraordinary comprehension?

Finally, there's the success rate of treasure refining. Just knowing how to refine treasures is useless; if the success rate is very low, then you can't be called a treasure refiner, but a money-losing machine.

However, since Zi Nishang's shop is able to open and do good business, it is clear that she is at least making a profit in refining G-grade divine weapons. Otherwise, wouldn't she lose more money if she sold more?
In addition, Zi Ni Chang is a cosmic venerable, which also meets the basic requirements for the strength of a treasure refiner when refining precious treasures.

"It can't be refined."

Lu Jin shook his head.

How many years has Zi Ni Chang been involved in treasure refining? How many years has she been a Universe Venerable?
What remains inside the Crystal Inheritance Tower are memory jade slips, not inheritance jade slips that can be learned instantly.

If it weren't for her already high level of skill, would she really have thought she could forge a G-grade divine weapon in just over a hundred years? Dream on!
The King of Tianshuang asked again, "What is the specific reason why there is no treasure-refining inheritance?"

If there is a lack of tradition, one can apply to the clan or community.

Although their race lacks the most powerful treasure refiners in the universe, they do possess the lineage for refining both high-grade and ordinary treasures.

A master craftsman of the highest level would be a great treasure even among humans.

After all, many cosmic venerables only use precious treasures.

The importance of each additional master craftsman of the highest level to the entire human race is no less than that of adding another cosmic overlord.

Lu Jin said, "It's about time; she hasn't been involved in the art of treasure refining for very long."

After a pause, Lu Jin asked, "Teacher, I've heard that the Time Palace can greatly accelerate time. I wonder if the clan sells any?"

The Time Palace can alter the passage of time; one year outside can be ten, a hundred, a thousand, or even ten thousand years inside. However, it seems that there is no Time Palace among humans that can accelerate time ten thousand times.

Of course, it's not necessarily true that humans can't build a Time Palace that takes ten thousand times longer.

The main reason is that within the Spaceship, one of the three forbidden zones of the Cosmic Sea, there is a place called the 'Black-Patterned Stone Pillar'.

That place is a natural time palace. As long as your will is strong enough, you can get time acceleration of 100,000 times, let alone 10,000 times, for free.

"The Palace of Time?" The Frost King raised an eyebrow and asked, "Have you ever heard of the Treasure Point?"

Lu Jin nodded: "I know a little bit. One Treasure Point can be exchanged for several thousand Heavy Treasure Points."

There is no fixed exchange rate between Treasure Points and Major Treasure Points, but it is generally around 1:3000 to 4000.

The Heavenly Frost King said with a smile, "Depending on the acceleration ratio, our human race can create three types of Time Palaces, namely ten times, one hundred times, and one thousand times the time acceleration."

The Time Palace can generally only be created by the Lord of the Universe who controls time and space, but the Lord of the Universe is the absolute high-ranking member of the race, and their fees are not cheap.

There are three types of Time Palaces: 35 Treasure Points, 350 Treasure Points, and 1 Supreme Treasure Point.

In addition, maintaining the operation of the Time Palace also requires a large amount of cosmic crystals or immortal crystals, and the higher the life level and the more life there are in the palace, the greater the energy consumption to maintain its operation.

Moreover, compared to the value of the Time Palace itself, the energy consumption is the biggest expense. Are you sure you want to buy it?

Upon hearing this, Lu Jin pondered for a moment and then said, "Teacher, I would like to purchase a Time Palace with a thousandfold acceleration."

With one Treasure Point, he can easily collect it if he puts his resources together.

It wasn't that they sold the domain treasure that was still in the process of being conceived in the Silent Demon Abyss, but rather some mid-grade peaches.

Given his current status and background, he's only selling some mid-grade peaches, so no one would have any ulterior motives.

As for the energy to maintain the Time Palace, there's even less to worry about. Since the Cosmic Crystal and the Immortal Crystal work, the Divine Source Liquid produced by the Immortal Transformation Pool will definitely work as well.

With the Time Palace in hand, not only can his own growth speed be greatly accelerated, but Zi Ni Chang can also become a treasure-level treasure-refining master and a true top cosmic overlord more quickly.

"I didn't realize you were so rich?"

The King of Tianshuang Kingdom said in surprise.

One Treasure Point—let alone a nobody below the Immortal level, even many Universe Venerables couldn't gather that many.

For example, Qianwu, who was also the ruler of the Cosmic Kingdom, only lacked a few Treasure Points, yet he was burdened with the heavy title of 'the most indebted person of the human race'.

It should be noted that Qianwu's strength is not bad; he is a high-level cosmic venerable!

There are many cosmic venerables among the human race whose strength is inferior to that of the Qianwu.

"This disciple has had some good fortune."

Lu Jin said modestly.

And you know what? With the Kunlun Mirror in hand, his opportunities were indeed plentiful.

The Heavenly Frost King smiled and said, "I'll give you a Thousand Times Time Palace. As for the expenses of maintaining the Time Palace, you'll have to figure that out yourself."

As an ancient cosmic overlord, his strength ranks among the top of the second tier among the many cosmic venerables of the human race, second only to the three top cosmic overlords of the first tier: the Heavenly Eclipse Palace Master, the Ancestral Tree Venerable, and the Star Prison Demon Ancestor.

It's just a Time Palace that costs 1 Arcana Point and is worth a thousand times more; it's nothing special.

What's more, he already had one of these things; it was given to him by his senior uncle countless years ago.

"Thank you, Master!"

Lu Jin said with a delighted expression.

"Remember, while the Temple of Time can accelerate time, it also accelerates the depletion of your lifespan."

The King of Tianshuang Kingdom said with a serious expression.

"Disciple, please remember this."

Lu Jin responded.

But he has no worries about his lifespan whatsoever.

A lifespan of 1000 epochs refers only to an ordinary realm lord.

If one is a world master with a hundred times the life gene, their lifespan can reach 100,000 epochs.

However, special life forms, or those with perfect genes acquired later in life, have unlimited lifespans.

Even if you don't achieve immortality, you don't need to worry about dying of old age.

The King of Tianshuang waved his hand: "Go ahead, I'll have Barn deliver the things to you."

"The disciple retire."

After bowing, Lu Jin withdrew from the Heavenly Frost Temple.

After leaving the Frost Temple, Lu Jin returned to his manor in the Primitive Zone.

Inside the manor's attic, Lu Jin quickly flipped through the seven volumes of "Seven Transformations of Water and Space".

Book 1: The Metamorphosis of Scales
Book Two: Blood Transformation

Book 3: Bone Changes
Book Four: Claw Transformation
Book 5: Tail Change
Book 6: Angular Transformation
Book 7: Divine Transformation
The seven-volume "Seven Transformations of Water and Space" progresses from simple to complex, from easy to difficult.

Volumes One, Two, and Three: Top-Tier Secret Techniques.

Volumes Four, Five, and Six: The Ultimate Secret Techniques.

The final, seventh volume reaches the level of ultimate secret techniques.

'They failed to comprehend the heart of the Beast God, so the seventh volume is only called Divine Transformation, not Beast God Transformation?'

Lu Jin thought to himself.

Shaking his head, Lu Jin stopped thinking about it and began to carefully read the first volume of "Seven Transformations of Water and Sky": Scale Transformation.

The manual was not only large, but also very thick.

The first volume does not contain just one specific secret technique, but rather a whole series of secret techniques.

The essence of all secret techniques lies in the application of the first level of understanding of the law of water and space fusion.

However, the specific ways of using them are quite different and varied.

They interpreted the mystery of the fusion of some of the fundamental laws of water and some of the fundamental laws of space from different perspectives.

Some are secret techniques for mental cultivators, some are secret techniques for movement, some are secret techniques for defense, some are secret techniques for the soul, and some are even secret techniques for martial artists.

After all, a powerful martial artist may not be a qualified mentalist, but a powerful mentalist is certainly a qualified martial artist.

Learning this systematic and comprehensive secret technique, rather than just a single move, will undoubtedly enable practitioners to better create their own secret techniques based on the essence of this technique.

In the universe, every powerful being will embark on the path of creating their own secret techniques.

Because a secret method created by someone else cannot truly and perfectly suit oneself.

To fully unleash one's potential, one must create it oneself.

It can be said that the seven volumes of "Seven Transformations of Water and Space" are not only his guide to cultivating the law of water and space fusion, but also a solid foundation for his future creation of secret techniques.

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