Devouring the Stars: The Lord of the Sky

Chapter 167 Domain Lord-level Primal Tongtian Mountain, Passed!
Barn arrived quickly, reaching Guanghan Star in about half a day.

However, Barn came quickly and left quickly.

After handing a world ring to Lu Jin, Barn didn't linger and left immediately.

By channeling his mental energy, Lu Jin quickly completed the process of recognizing the World Ring as his own.

Using telekinesis to probe, one could see a magnificent palace, approximately ten thousand kilometers high, situated on the grassland within the World Ring. The palace was entirely milky white, with silver and transparent patterns interwoven throughout.

This magnificent palace is the Time Palace, which can accelerate time a thousandfold.

In the distance from the Temple of Time, there are seven blue-gold statues of beast gods, each stretching for tens of thousands of kilometers.

Seven enormous statues of beast gods emanated varying degrees of oppressive power.

The weakest one is probably only at the initial stage of being granted the title of King.

But starting from the fourth one, the pressure emanating from it was no less than that of the Abyss Demon Lord he had tricked to death in the Dead Silence Abyss, and each one was stronger than the last.

Subsequently, Lu Jin himself entered Zi Ni Chang's divine kingdom.

Meanwhile, within the Great Luo Heaven, the Water Qilin clone spent some time absorbing the Netherworld Blood Sea clone, which had transformed into a vast sea of ​​blood, into its inner world within its original core.

He then took the Qiankun Cauldron and stored the large amount of divine source liquid accumulated in the Immortal Transformation Pool over the years into a world ring before leaving the Great Luo Heaven with Zi Ni Chang, Hong Er, and the other six.

The Celestial Realm is not yet ready to be exposed; one cannot ascend to the virtual universe from within the Celestial Realm.

Whether it's himself, Zi Nishang, or the seven others like Hong'er, it's best to practice and create secret techniques within a virtual universe.

Hong'er and her six companions were unable to purchase soul-related secret techniques from the Virtual Universe Company's treasury.

However, Zi Ni Chang could help them purchase items from the Hongmeng's treasury, and since the seven of them were his soul servants, they could also log into the virtual universe normally.

Therefore, placing the Time Palace within Zi Ni Chang's divine realm is the best choice.

Since Zi Nishang cannot comprehend the laws, it doesn't matter whether she is in the Great Luo Heaven or not.

As for Lu Jin himself, he left a Blood God Child incarnation in the Great Luo Heaven. This Blood God Child incarnation saw the original laws manifested in the sky of the Great Luo Heaven, which means that all his bodies and incarnations saw the manifested original laws.

The same applies to Hong'er and her seven companions.

Although none of the seven, including Hong'er, had clones, the Queen Mother's soul could be divided into countless parts and dispersed among the Zerg warriors.

The gate to the celestial realm was not closed. In the Great Luo Heaven, a Zerg warrior with a soul attached was left behind. Even though they were in the Time Palace outside the celestial realm, Hong'er and her six companions could still see the primordial laws manifested in the Great Luo Heaven through the Zerg warrior left behind.

In addition, the Zerg Queen's hive possesses basic intelligence.

As long as the breeding plan is set in advance and resources are sufficient, whether the Queen is in the brood hive or not will not affect the breeding of Zerg warriors in the brood hive.

In the heavenly realm of the Purple Rainbow Robe.

"Ni Chang, the Palace of Time is now under your control."

With that, Lu Jin handed the two world rings to Zi Ni Chang.

One of them contained a massive amount of divine essence liquid to maintain the operation of the Time Palace, while the other was the World Ring that Barn had given him.

Of course, Lu Jin had already stored the seven giant beast god statues in this world ring into his inner world within the original core.

Although Zi Nishang possesses a top-tier overlord divine body, Lu Jin positions her as a 'logistics-type player,' meaning she will spend more time in the Time Palace than he will, and the Time Palace can be left to her control.

"Ah."

Zi Ni Chang nodded and infused her divine power into the body, recognizing it as her master.

Before long, Zi Nishang raised her hand and flipped it, and a white palace about ten thousand kilometers high flew out and hovered in the sky above the divine kingdom.

Then, Zi Nishang said to Lu Jin, "In terms of the treasure level alone, this Time Palace is only a heavy treasure, and not even a palace-type heavy treasure with relatively higher value, but a special type of heavy treasure."

In addition to a cultivation space, the Time Palace also has a storage space for storing energy sources such as cosmic crystals and immortal crystals.

Furthermore, the time acceleration factor of this Time Palace is not fixed at a thousand times, but can be freely adjusted within a thousand times the time.

Different acceleration ratios result in different energy consumption; the higher the acceleration ratio, the more energy is consumed.

Assuming the energy consumption for accelerating time tenfold is 1, then the energy consumption for accelerating time one hundredfold is 100, and the energy consumption for accelerating time one thousandfold is ten thousand.

"It's alright, it's just a simple energy consumption, we can afford it."

Lu Jin waved his hand dismissively.

The efficiency with which the Immortal Transformation Pool produces Divine Source Liquid is equivalent to one hundred million times the amount of divine power restored by the Lord of the Universe of a Perfect Gene Standard Divine Body.

If even the Immortal Transformation Pool cannot afford the Time Palace's thousandfold accelerated energy consumption, then looking across the primordial universe, apart from a few powerful beings with extremely large divine bodies like the Lord of the Nine Netherworlds, who can afford this thing?
Divine Source Liquid can be obtained for free from the origin of the universe through the Immortal Transformation Pool, but there's nowhere to get other people's cosmic crystals and immortal-level energy resources for free.

"Ni Chang, go in first and accelerate time a thousand times to see the consumption."

Lu Jin said to Zi Nishang.

Nodding, Zi Ni Chang transformed into a stream of light and entered the Palace of Time.

A moment later, Lu Jin and the other seven people, including Hong'er, also flew into the Time Palace.

Looking around, Lu Jin saw that the interior space of the Time Palace was not very large, with a length, width and height of about 100,000 kilometers.

Humanity possesses a virtual universe where the practice and creation of secret techniques can take place. The Time Palace, created by the Human Universe Master, naturally doesn't have a very large internal cultivation space.

After all, building something too large is not practical and would only waste materials.

"Compared to your own efforts, how much more energy have you consumed now?"

Lu Jin asked.

After carefully sensing it, Zi Nishang said, "It's not much more."

Upon hearing this, Lu Jin nodded in satisfaction.

The more life forms there are in the Time Palace, the greater the energy consumption to maintain acceleration.

However, the specific energy consumption is not calculated by doubling the consumption of the strongest individual, but rather by summing the energy consumption based on the strength of each individual life form.

In contrast, Zi Ni Chang, a top-tier cosmic overlord, has three major clones and over ten thousand blood god child incarnations within his original core.

However, the highest level is only the peak of the ninth level of the Realm Lord. Even if all of them are combined, plus Hong'er and the other seven, their life strength is far inferior to that of Zi Nishang.

It can be said that with Zi Ni Chang present, the difference in energy consumption of the Time Palace is not significant whether he and Hong'er and the other seven are present or not.

However, if Hong'er and her group of seven were to bring the mother hive and the Zerg army into the Time Palace, the consumption of the Time Palace's thousand-fold acceleration of time would be enormous due to the massive increase in the number of life forms.

Therefore, Lu Jin did not allow them to bring the mother nest. In fact, they transferred the tens of millions of peak-level Netherworld King Insect Warriors that they had accumulated in their inner world to the world rings and left them in the Lingxiao Palace of the Great Luo Heaven.

"Ni Chang, you should perfect your secret techniques first. Once you have created at least one top-tier secret technique, then turn your attention to the art of treasure refining."

As Lu Jin spoke, he raised his hand and waved it, causing the Qiankun Cauldron to land in a corner of the Time Palace.

The standard equipment for a cosmic lord is a peak secret technique, and as a top cosmic overlord who is comparable to an ordinary cosmic lord, it is only reasonable to say that he must possess an ultimate secret technique.

"Ah."

Zi Ni Chang nodded, logged into her own exclusive dimension in the virtual universe, and began cultivating the many top-tier secret techniques she had purchased from the Hong Alliance, laying the foundation for creating her own techniques later.

All human beings who are cosmic venerables, regardless of whether they have joined the Virtual Universe Company, can obtain the authority to create a private dimension within the Virtual Universe.

It's not just humans; alien cosmic venerables who have joined the Hong Alliance also have this authority.

"Hong'er, you should comprehend the laws and create secret techniques along the way."

Lu Jin turned to Hong'er and the other six and said.

"Yes, Master."

Hong'er and the other seven nodded.

After making the arrangements, Lu Jin didn't delay, and each of his bodies and avatars began their respective cultivation practices.

Within the inner world of the original core, because the treasure trove of the Virtual Universe Company does not contain the secret method of light-time fusion, the Time Dragon clone can only comprehend the fundamental laws of light first.

Besides activating its innate secret technique, "Frozen Universe," the Water Kirin clone also experienced the profound mysteries of the water-air fusion law.

The process involved copying and carving the first of the seven giant beast god statues, as well as the smaller water beast god statue, to understand the essence of the beast god.

The Netherworld Blood Sea clone paused its expansion and focused on comprehending the fundamental laws of space.

10080 Blood God Child incarnations, 80 who comprehended the fundamental law of time, 5000 who comprehended the fundamental law of water and the law of time, and 5000 who attempted to cultivate the secret techniques in the first volume of "Seven Transformations of Water and Void" that did not involve spiritual power or the soul.

Furthermore, one of the Blood God's incarnations, in addition to his cultivation, would occasionally use the Kunlun Mirror's remote detection mode to freeload off the Chaos Stele within the Chaos City of the Initial Universe.

There can be a maximum of 10081 Blood God Child incarnations. The remaining Blood God Child incarnation is currently in the Dead Abyss within the Purgatory Abyss World, guarding the Blood Lake Treasure that has not yet been fully formed.

As for the human being carrying the original core, in the virtual universe, the Tongtian Mountain plane.

"Shh!"

On the vast land, Lu Jin's figure appeared.

Gazing at the three towering mountains in the distance, Lu Jin transformed into a stream of light and flew towards the most majestic, primordial Tongtian Mountain, a domain lord-level peak.

Generally speaking, to pass through the Primal Tongtian Mountain at the Domain Lord level, one needs to gain insight from the 16th level of the Tongtian Bridge.

The third level of the ninth layer of the nine divine weapons controlled by the wielder corresponds to the 15th level of the Heavenly Bridge.

Three years ago, he was still a little short of the third level of the ninth level of the Heavenly Frost Divine Weapon. When the Heavenly Frost Divine Cone teleported, spatial fluctuations would still appear.

But now, three years later, he has already mastered the secret technique that comes with the Heavenly Frost Divine Weapon, the Heavenly Frost Secret Manual.

With the third level of the ninth stage of the Divine Weapon, plus a hundredfold increase in soul amplitude, the Primal Tongtian Mountain at the Domain Lord level is no problem.

Before long, Lu Jin, riding the Water Cloud Shuttle and carrying the Heavenly Frost Divine Weapon on his back, landed at the foot of the Primal Tongtian Mountain.

Just like the original Primordial Tongtian Mountain, which was of cosmic level, the burly minotaur warrior seemed to be born with a love of sleep, and was still lying at the foot of the mountain taking a nap.

"Old Niu, it's time to receive the guests!"

Lu Jin shouted.

"Huh?"

The minotaur smacked his lips and opened his sleepy eyes.

Upon seeing that the visitor was Lu Jin, the minotaur's large, bell-like eyes widened, and he quickly put on a smile, saying, "I thought it was some distinguished guest who had come to our door, requiring this old minotaur to entertain guests. It turns out to be Your Highness Lu Jin. Is Your Highness going to attempt the challenge?"

"Ah."

Lu Jin nodded.

"Haha~, you white ape, burning women, come out and greet your guests!"

With two loud laughs, the minotaur grabbed a large axe from the side and roared.

The Minotaur's voice boomed, echoing throughout the foothills of the primeval Tongtian Mountain.

"Whoosh!" "Whoosh!" Soon, two figures flew through the air. They were the lean ape-man controller and the alluring snake-woman illusionist.

"Oh my, isn't this His Highness Lu Jin? Why are you here again so soon?"
If I remember correctly, Your Highness, you only passed the 12th level of the Heavenly Bridge, didn't you?

With her alluring eyes scanning Lu Jin, the snake-woman illusionist spoke with a curious expression.

"You don't understand the world of geniuses."

Lu Jin said with a smile.

Just like Luo Feng taking off in the original work, not to mention the Chaos City Lord and others, even someone with a broad vision like the Mountain Guest who was the reincarnation of a god king, did not expect Luo Feng to be so powerful.

Three people: "."

"Come~"

Lu Jin beckoned to the three of them with his finger.

"Today, Lord Bull is going to take revenge! White ape, burn the women, let's do it!"

Excitement flashed in the minotaur's eyes as he charged directly at Lu Jin, wielding his blood-red axe.

In the eyes of the Minotaur, it has only been a little over ten years since Lu Jin crossed the cosmic-level Primordial Tongtian Mountain.

In just over a decade, Lu Jin couldn't possibly have cut his way from the foot of the mountain to the top and cleared the Primal Tongtian Mountain, a Domain Lord level realm, could he?

Impossible, absolutely impossible!
The sense of accomplishment from crushing a genius, especially one as rare as Lu Jin in the vast history of humanity, is indescribable!

Lu Jin was unaware of the minotaur's thoughts. The moment the minotaur made his move, the Heavenly Frost Divine Weapon behind him burst forth with countless blue lights, instantly disintegrating into a seven-foot-long blue-gold ice cone.

"Puff puff!"

In an instant, the seven-foot-long Heavenly Frost Divine Cone flashed three times in succession, shattering the life cores of the Minotaur warrior, the ape-man controller, and the snake-woman illusionist, causing their deaths.

He excels at dominating games.

"You're like a pickled fish, sour, bland, and superfluous; you're like a braised chicken, yellow, simmered, and spicy."

With a wave of his hand, Lu Jin retrieved the Heavenly Frost Divine Weapon, humming a little tune, and rode the Water Cloud Shuttle towards the mountainside.

At the mountainside, the opposing team was the same, but the three guards were ten times stronger than those at the foot of the mountain. However, the three of them still couldn't withstand the Heavenly Frost Divine Cone, which was enhanced by a hundred times the soul amplitude.

"Shh-"

With a whooshing sound, Lu Jin, riding the Water Cloud Shuttle, arrived at the mountain peak.

The mountaintop was shrouded in mist, where a minotaur lay on the ground snoring loudly, an ape-man was drinking heartily from a barrel of wine, and a snake woman was playing in a pool of water not far away.

Upon noticing the arrival of an uninvited guest, the three of them instantly perked up and turned to look at Lu Jin.

"It's been a long time since anyone has come. Your Highness Lu Jin, would you like to bathe with me?"

The snake woman winked at Lu Jin and invited him.

"Fair skin, beautiful face, and long legs, you only have two of those qualities."

Lu Jin shook his head and politely declined.

Snake Girl: "."

"Stop burning women, stop being so horny!"

The minotaur said with dissatisfaction.

"Sigh~, one a big dummy and the other a skinny stick, neither of them are my type!"

With a mournful sigh, the snake woman swung her tail and swam out of the pool.

Soon, both sides were ready.

"Your Highness Lu Jin, I've arrived!"

The snake woman chuckled, and as she spoke, her soul power spread out, casting an illusion spell directly at Lu Jin.

'Hu~'

Like a gentle breeze, the consciousness of a perfect ninth-level world lord, combined with the mental power of a ninth-level domain lord with a hundred times the limit amplitude, made the snake woman illusionist's illusions completely ineffective against Lu Jin.

At the same time, an arc of light shot out from behind the ape-man controller, directly slicing towards Lu Jin's head.

"Humph!"

Lu Jin snorted coldly, and the Heavenly Frost Divine Weapon behind him instantly disintegrated into the Heavenly Frost Divine Cone. Then, the Heavenly Frost Divine Cone pierced through the void and instantly appeared in front of the arc-shaped stream of light.

"clang--"

A metallic clang rang out as the Heavenly Frost Divine Cone swiftly and decisively blasted away the arc-shaped stream of light.

The next moment, the Heavenly Frost Divine Cone disappeared, traversing the void and appearing behind the minotaur warrior who was wielding a blood-red great axe and was slashing towards Lu Jin with the power to tear through space.

"Bam—"

The Minotaur warrior was pierced through the chest by the Heavenly Frost Divine Cone. The intense shockwave spread, shattering his life core, and his entire body turned into ice crystal powder and dissipated.

"call out!"

Immediately afterwards, the Heavenly Frost Divine Cone continued to traverse the void, once again intercepting the arc-shaped stream of light shot out by the ape-man controller.

When the minotaur warrior was killed, one of the three guards was gone, and of the remaining two, the snake woman's illusions were ineffective against him, the outcome of this battle was already decided.

"Oh!"

Not long after, after killing the ape-man controller, the Heavenly Frost Divine Cone shattered the snake woman's life core.

Domain Lord-level Primal Tongtian Mountain, passed!
The next moment, the figures of the minotaur, the ape, and the snake woman reappeared.

"Congratulations, Your Highness Lu Jin, on passing the Domain Lord-level Primal Tongtian Mountain!"

The three gatekeepers congratulated Lu Jin.

Lu Jin cupped his hands in a respectful gesture: "Thank you for the courtesy."

'Another small step forward.'

Looking down at the scenery below the mountain peak, Lu Jin thought to himself.

"Shh!"

Within the inner world, the figure of Lu Jin himself appeared.

"It's time to break through!"

With a thought, the power of the world converged upon him.

Before long, with the infusion of the world's power, his level advanced to the first rank of World Lord.

"Whoosh whoosh-"

A large number of immortal-level life source crystals appeared, and the life level of the main body also entered a crazy speed mode.

Having already passed the Primal Tongtian Mountain at the Domain Lord level, there's no need to remain at the Domain Lord level any longer.

In any case, Lu Jin no longer found the benefits and treatment that Virtual Universe Company arranged for members of the Domain Lord-level Primal Secret Realm to be satisfactory.

A week later, the original body, which had reached the peak of the ninth level of the Realm Lord, left the inner world and appeared in the Time Palace.

Although comprehending the truth within the body is the same, Lu Jin is not used to exposing his life core—the primordial core—directly to the outside, as it gives him the feeling of being naked.

Subsequently, the original self also began cultivation.

Apart from the Time Dragon clone, which lacks affinity with the laws of nature, the Water Kirin clone, the Netherworld Blood Sea clone, and the ten thousand Blood God Child incarnations each have their own tasks in the cultivation of the Water and Sky Beast God Path.

The Blood God Child's incarnation has neither a soul nor any spiritual power.

Therefore, the secret techniques involving spiritual power and soul in the first volume of "Seven Transformations of Water and Space" can only be attempted and cultivated by the original owner.

The Inner World, somewhere in the Central Continent.

The water unicorn clone, manifesting the massive body of an auspicious beast, carefully sensed the fusion law fluctuations emanating from the giant beast god statue.

While using his mental power to control countless carving knives of all sizes derived from the power of the world, he began to meticulously carve a mountain range that stretched for tens of thousands of kilometers, following the standard answer of a small water beast god statue.

Lu Jin did not attempt to copy the small beast god statue. This thing contained the complete laws of water and space fusion, which would be either an ineffective attempt for him now, or an effective attempt that would touch a 'taboo' and result in being oppressed by the rules of the universe, receiving a severe blow.

Of course, if one can effectively imitate, it is also beneficial to appropriately imitate small animal god statues, which can also serve as a guide.

Once. Ten times. Hundred times. Thousand times. Ten thousand times.
Even though each time Lu Jin copied and sculpted a beast god statue, it was just an ordinary statue with no substance, he was not discouraged.

Cultivation is never easy, especially this kind of cultivation where there's no way to significantly improve one's abilities.

Each time the carving fails, the power of the world gathers, and the mountain that has become an ordinary statue will be restored to its original state, and then a new carving will begin.

After an unknown amount of time, just as Lu Jin was immersed in the 'grand carving project' and was habitually preparing to use the power of the world to restore the statue into a mountain range and begin carving it anew.

However, he discovered that the beast god statue he had carved was no longer just a pretty face, but was emitting a faint fluctuation of the water-space fusion law.

The Water Kirin clone was originally a special life form based on the Water-Air Fusion Law. Now, having achieved perfect genes, its affinity with the Water-Air Fusion Law has been greatly enhanced. It should not be too sensitive to fluctuations in the Water-Air Fusion Law.

Even if the statue only possessed a tiny bit of divine charm, and the fluctuations caused by the water-space fusion law were negligible, it was still clearly sensed.

'It doesn't seem as difficult as I expected?'

Lu Jin thought to himself.

The next moment, the power of the world surged, and the statue was restored to a mountain range of tens of thousands of kilometers. Lu Jin began carving again.

If you've succeeded at something once, even if it was just by chance, it will be much easier to succeed a second time.

Using the small beast god statue as the perfect standard, and referencing the giant beast god statue, after tens of thousands of imitations and carvings, Lu Jin once again carved a statue that exuded faint fluctuations of the water-space fusion law.

If there is one, then there will be two, then there will be three.

With each successful carving, Lu Jin would gain something.

Furthermore, when the main body and many Blood God Child incarnations attempted to cultivate the many secret techniques in the first volume of "Seven Transformations of Water and Void," although they failed to grasp the basics, they still gained some insights. This made it increasingly easier for the Water Qilin clone to carve a statue that emitted fluctuations of the fused laws.

Time slipped by unnoticed, and I don't know how much time had passed.

Finally, with practice, the water unicorn clone began to sculpt statues that contained the divine essence of the beast god, emanating faint fluctuations of the water-space fusion law.

The fact that he could successfully carve each time meant that he had grasped even the most basic essence of the Water-Sky Beast God's intent.

Subsequently, the water unicorn clone continued its efforts, pursuing a more divine spirit and a richer fluctuation of the water-space fusion law while carving.

From that moment on, Lu Jin discovered that the difficulty of cultivating the many secret techniques in the first volume of "Seven Transformations of Water and Space" began to decrease significantly.

(End of this chapter)