Devouring the Stars: The Lord of the Sky

Chapter 195 The Primal Tongtian Mountain at the Realm Lord Level, Passed!
Inside the Time Palace, Lu Jin teleported back the Water Kirin clone he had hunted in the Star Tower and once again focused his energy on cultivation.

The main body, the water unicorn clone, and half of the blood god's incarnation cultivate many secret techniques, including the third volume of "Seven Transformations of Water and Void".

The Netherworld Blood Sea clone, the Time Dragon clone, and nearly half of the remaining Blood God Child avatars comprehended the laws.

Meanwhile, the carnage continues on the battlefields beyond our borders.

Thousands of Blood God Child incarnations with ordinary life genes continue to hunt down immortal gods on the battlefield with impunity, and are gradually starting to focus on immortals from the demon race.

The name of the mad genius 'Demon Slayer (Blood Demon)' still circulates among the immortal circles of the four factions in the eleven extraterrestrial battlefields.

However, what relieved the Venerables stationed in various extraterritorial battlefields of the demon race was that, although the 'Blood Demon' was still devouring and extremely frenzied, a large number of demon race immortals had fallen at its hands.

However, the strength of the many Blood Demons appearing on various extraterrestrial battlefields was not as strong as the Zerg camp claimed, possessing the ability to kill a peak-level King.

Although the Blood Demon's strength has improved considerably since he first made his name, it is not exaggerated enough to hunt down a peak King. At most, he is at the level of a high-level Immortal Marquis after burning his divine power.

Even if an enemy of this strength cannot be killed, it cannot cause too much damage to the demon race's camp.

To put it bluntly, even if these immortals from their own faction didn't fall at the hands of the Blood Demon, they would basically fall at the hands of the immortals from the human, insect, and machine factions.

Moreover, the proportion of the immortals from their own faction who perished at the hands of the Blood Demon who actually belonged to the demon race was not high; most of them had only temporarily joined the faction on the outer battlefield.

In terms of the destructive power inflicted on the demon race, it is far less than the unknown enemy that set up a huge pit on the Twilight Continent, the battlefield outside the Fifth Domain, a few days ago.

The future is uncertain, but at least for now, it is.

Virtual universe, within Hongmeng City.

Since Tiangongge started offering corpse collection services, business has become quite busy.

Human beings and high-ranking and lower-ranking Universe Venerables from the Hongmeng kept sending over the corpses of alien Universe Venerables from weaker races.

Although some of these items have inevitably been resurrected by time reversal, the overall drop rate is still quite high.

Because the Heavenly Craft Pavilion only accepts the corpses of universe lords from weaker races, and weaker races do not have universe lords in charge.

Perhaps these alien cosmic venerables belong to a weak race that is part of a powerful alliance, but not every fallen cosmic venerable will be resurrected.

If the overall value of a weak race is not even enough to cover the resurrection cost of a cosmic lord, the cosmic lord of their alliance would be too lazy to resurrect them.

Moreover, reversing time and space to revive a fallen cosmic lord comes at a high price. A fellow cosmic lord can also let you slowly work to pay off your debts after your resurrection, just like the unlucky Qianwu.

But if it's a cosmic ruler who isn't of the same race and is part of a loose alliance, your race should pay the resurrection fee first.

No money?

If you have no money, get out of here!

Moreover, the Lord of the Universe isn't always available. Unless it's a 'collectible' that's been stored for a long time, fresh corpses of alien venerables can generally be sold.

The busy business and high output rate have led to an increasing number of high-level law deities that Lu Jin has acquired, and the Heavenly Court has also seen a continuous emergence of Venerable-level Quasi-Heavenly Generals and Quasi-Treasure Refiners.

Lu Jin arranged for every Celestial Venerable of the Heavenly Court to have a hundredfold increase in genes, as well as a hundredfold increase in the dual limit amplitude of divine body and soul, through tenfold gene bloodline source crystals and 90 mid-grade peaches.

The Tenfold Gene Bloodline Source Crystal is obtained from the corpse of a Starry Sky Behemoth with Peak Bloodline. Although Starry Sky Behemoths with Peak Bloodline are few in number, they have formed a race and their numbers are not actually too small. They can be purchased with some Primal Chaos Units or Virtual Universe Company Points.

For medium-grade peaches, each of the 1200 medium-grade peach trees will produce 99 medium-grade peaches, with a growth cycle of six thousand epochs.

Although even if the Peach Garden were brought into the Time Palace, it wouldn't allow for a thousand-fold time acceleration, the number of Peach Trees was considerable. The mid-grade Peach Trees currently in hand were enough for Lu Jin to cultivate over 1,300 beings with a hundred-fold gene speedup.

It's a bit of a pity that the Blood Crystal and the Beast God Crystal refined from it are of little use to the Cosmic Venerable he cultivated.

With the genetic amplification brought about by the power of Blood Luo, world lords and immortals with sufficient foundations can achieve perfect genes.

However, the power of Bloodlust has its limits; the higher the life level, the lower the actual effect, or even the less effective it may be.

For cosmic beings whose life genes have not reached the limit of 100 times, the gene amplification effect of the Blood Luo Power is effective.

However, even the Bloodlust Power at its limit is ineffective against a Cosmic Venerable whose life genes have reached a hundredfold limit.

Of course, only gene amplification is ineffective; the law affinity effect remains effective.

However, for the Heavenly Court Universe Venerables who control time or space with the higher-level Law Godhood, the upper limit of their Law Comprehension has been locked.

With their genes already multiplied a hundredfold, Blood Crystal and Beast God Crystal are completely ineffective against them.

This is precisely why, although Blood Crystals are useful to Universe Venerables, they have not enabled human Universe Venerables to gain a dominant position among the vast number of Universe Venerables in the original universe.

The busy corpse collection business of Tiangong Pavilion is a good thing, but with the busy corpse collection business, coupled with the increased shipment of heavy treasures by Tiangong Pavilion, the lower quality heavy treasures in the inventory are also being bought up one after another.

To this end, Zi Nishang specially applied to the Hongmeng City branch system of the virtual universe and used several top-level treasures of the soul, domain and palace categories to exchange for tens of thousands of treasures of varying grades in the human race's treasure vault, enriching the inventory of the Heavenly Craft Pavilion.

To prevent the Heavenly Craft Pavilion from being filled only with high-value treasures that ordinary Venerables cannot afford, while ordinary treasures are unavailable for sale.

Lu Jin did not allow Zi Nishang to exchange for it at the Chaos City Treasury in the Initial Universe. After all, once they entered the Initial Universe, the Lord of Chaos City would know that Zi Nishang possessed a top-tier cosmic overlord divine body.

Lacking ultimate secret techniques and top-tier treasures, Zi Ni Chang, this top cosmic overlord, is not yet in her complete form.

Zi Ni Chang is not a member of the five major forces, nor is it necessary for her to join any of them. If she were exposed, she would not gain any substantial benefits. In addition, with her teacher, the Heavenly Frost Kingdom Lord, she is not without support. For the time being, she can just be an ordinary Universe Venerable who can refine treasures, so as not to attract the enemy's attention if she is exposed.

If there is no top-tier cosmic overlord among the human race with sufficient strength, then the insect, demon, and machine races will definitely be the number one target.

While it's true that a god-level giant axe can reverse time and resurrect a top-tier cosmic overlord who has no clones, the price it pays is absolutely enough to make the human race wince.

Of course, this is just a hypothetical scenario. The Heavenly Court has the Immortal Transformation Pool. Even if Zi Ni Chang is enslaved by the Zerg Queen's secret technique, she can still be resurrected through the Immortal Transformation Pool. It will only consume a massive amount of divine source liquid.

Time flies; five years pass in the outside world, while five thousand years pass within the Palace of Time.

'Finally, I've mastered it!'

As a Blood God Child in his inner world mastered a sword technique from the third volume of "Seven Transformations of Water and Space," Lu Jin, who was in the Time Palace, opened his eyes, a hint of joy flashing in them.

All the secret techniques recorded in the third volume of "Seven Transformations of Water and Void" are based on the third level of the Water-Void Fusion Law of the Sevenfold Water-Void Beast God Path.

The different secret techniques are merely different in their specific manifestations, and the specific progress of the third level of the water-air fusion law is also different.

Completing any one of the secret techniques in the third volume signifies that his understanding of the Water-Void Fusion Law has entered the third level.

The third level of understanding of the law of water and air integration is equivalent to the nineteenth and twentieth levels of the Bridge to Heaven.

The third level of entry is equivalent to Lu Jin having gained the understanding of the laws at the nineteenth level of the Bridge to Heaven.

Instead of rushing to test his strength, Lu Jin devoted himself to quiet cultivation for several years, and successively mastered many secret techniques from the third volume of "Seven Transformations of Water and Space".

After years of silence, it's time for another small shock.

Lu Jin thought to himself as he logged into the virtual universe.

It is said to have been silent for 'many years,' which is true according to the time calculation within the Time Palace.

However, according to external time calculations, it hasn't been many years since he broke through the Primordial Tongtian Mountain, which is at the Domain Lord level.

Moreover, his fellow geniuses from the same period in the Genius Battle are currently engaged in cosmic-level cultivation missions in the four great secret realms of Primordial Beginning, Primordial Beginning, Heaven and Earth, and the End of the World!

Virtual universe, Tongtianqiao plane.

In the heart of this beautiful island, the guardian Baffin has silently protected its small territory for countless years.

"Shh!"

In the center of the island, a figure appeared—it was Lu Jin.

"Mr. Baffin, it's been a long time."

Seeing Baffin, the guardian who was standing not far away, wearing a black star-patterned robe and having four ears but no nose, Lu Jin greeted him.

He hasn't been back to the Bridge of Heaven dimension since he crossed the 12th level of the Nine Heavens Bridge.

Considering the thousandfold time acceleration within the Time Palace, from Lu Jin's perspective, it has been over 20,000 years since he last saw Baffin.

"??? Long time no see? Your Highness Lu Jin, it's only been a little over twenty years, not a long time at all."

Baffin looked puzzled at first, then smiled and said.

"Haha~, it's been a long time."

Lu Jin smiled but didn't elaborate.

"Your Highness, are you confident in challenging the 13th level, Nine Heavens Tower? Uh... you're a Realm Lord?"

As they were talking with great interest, Baffin noticed something was wrong.

Realm Lord level?
What's going on? Did they break through so quickly?

Because Lu Jin's strength has been classified as a secret by the higher-ups of the Virtual Universe Company, no one within the company, who is a four-star level or below the Universe Venerable, has the right to view his combat videos and level-clearing records.

Baffin, who was only guarding the Tongtian Bridge plane, had no idea that Lu Jin had already broken through the Primordial Tongtian Mountain, which was at the Domain Lord level, and had even broken through to the Realm Lord level.

"Am I a genius? I'm bound to be different from others. Is anyone on the Nine Heavens Bridge right now?"

With a smile, Lu Jin asked.

After scrutinizing Lu Jin for a moment, Baffin shook his head: "No."

"I'm going!"

Lu Jin waved his hand and transformed into a stream of light, flying towards the Nine Heavens Bridge.

Before long, Lu Jin arrived at the end of the 13th floor of the Jiuyu Tongtian Bridge.

The surrounding scenery in this level has changed from the surface of the planet on the 12th floor to the interior of a star.

Of course, the scene is just a fantasy; the intense heat inside the star will not have any effect on the challengers.

Not to mention that even if it were truly inside a star, as long as it were an ordinary star, it wouldn't pose any threat to a peak ninth-tier World Lord life form.

At this moment, the core of the star in front trembled, and a voice came out: "Choose your opponent: Warrior, Controller, Illusionist. Choose one and defeat him to pass the thirteenth floor."

"The Controller".

Lu Jin said.

"Rumble--"

The star's core trembled, and countless red rays shot out, quickly converging in mid-air to form a guardian wearing a red mask and armor, carrying the Heavenly Frost Divine Weapon on his back.

"The Heavenly Frost Divine Weapon...it brings back so many memories~"

Looking at the Heavenly Frost Divine Weapon carried on the back of the gatekeeper on this level, Lu Jin couldn't help but feel a little emotional. "Young man, why are you so old-fashioned?"

The gatekeeper wasn't in a hurry to make a move, and asked with some curiosity.

"I'm just lamenting my lost youth. Come on, or you won't even have a chance to make a move."

As he spoke, Lu Jin's thoughts shifted, and his robes transformed into the Azure Netherworld Armor with three pairs of wings, surrounded by 108 dark blue Azure Netherworld Pearls.

Of course, the Azure Heaven and Yellow Springs that are manifesting right now are not the top-grade treasure sets that are comparable to ordinary treasures in reality, but only the fifth-order imitations corresponding to the realm lord level.

After all, when crossing the Heavenly Bridge and the Heavenly Mountain, the virtual universe will restrict the challengers from using super-standard treasures.

"Hmph~, aren't you afraid of biting off more than you can chew? Young man, I'll let you have a go."

The red-armored gatekeeper snorted coldly, speaking with considerable dissatisfaction.

He wanted to see just how someone couldn't even get a chance to make a move!

"Tsk~"

Lu Jin smacked his lips and shook his head slightly.

"The bright moon rises over the sea!"

Lu Jin raised his hand and pointed, and 108 dark blue Azure Heaven Pearls shot out, radiating a dazzling blue-gold brilliance.

'Whoosh whoosh whoosh—'

In an instant, the law of water and space fusion was activated, the world changed color, and it seemed as if the sound of surging tides could be heard. The illusory, boundless sea replaced the scene of the star's core, and a bright moon rose from the sea.

"puff--"

As the bright moon turned and its cool moonlight fell, with a soft sound, the red-armored gatekeeper, who had been imprisoned in mid-air by a secret technique and unable to move at all, was instantly obliterated by the falling cool moonlight.

Using a butcher's knife to kill a chicken?
Hey~, I'd love to!

"Rumble--"

The next moment, the scene of the star's core that had blocked the way to the bridge receded, revealing a wide passage.

A quarter of an hour later.

In the endless darkness, a winding bridge stretches endlessly into the depths of darkness, with Lu Jin standing suspended above it.

This is the end of the twentieth floor of the Jiuyu Tongtian Bridge.

The previous guardian of the 19th floor, although his level of understanding of the laws was in no way inferior to his, and his combat experience was extremely rich.

However, in terms of combat and amplitude techniques, the guardian of the 19th floor is far inferior to him.

The 19th level of the Heavenly Bridge is used to test high-level immortals who have been granted the title of King and a very small number of super geniuses.

If one can pass the test, it means that the challenger possesses the understanding of the laws that lead to a high level of immortality, beyond the ordinary level of being crowned a king.

If you fail, it's either because your understanding of the laws is lacking, or because your understanding of the laws is good but other aspects are too weak.

It's no exaggeration to say that any legitimate high-ranking prince could pass through the 19th level of the Heavenly Bridge.

Ordinary high-level immortal kings, where would they get immortal-level peak secret techniques? They'd be lucky to even create a top-tier secret technique of a relatively high standard.

As for the amplification secret technique, let alone the advanced level of the King-level, even many peak King-level divine bodies or souls have a zero amplification multiple.

Because the peak of the King-Sealing stage only requires ten times the amplification of the divine body or soul to be considered the limit of the King-Sealing stage.

The secret techniques are on a different level, and in terms of amplitude secret techniques, there is a hundredfold difference.

Not to mention that Lu Jinshui's understanding of the laws at the third level of the Void Beast God Path is no different from that of the gatekeeper of the 19th level, even if his understanding of the laws is one or two levels lower, he can still easily crush him.

At this moment, a deep voice echoed from the endless darkness: "Choose your opponent: Warrior, Controller, Illusionist. Defeat him to pass the twentieth floor."

"The Controller".

Lu Jin said directly.

‘Huhuhu——’

In the surrounding darkness, numerous 'colorful' black dots floated out, then coalesced into a black-armored guardian carrying a giant black sword on his back.

The black-armored gatekeeper is the controller. The pitch-black giant sword on his back is not a real battle sword, but a telekinetic weapon that is shaped like a sword and composed of a large number of parts.

"The moon rises over the sea!"

Without hesitation, Lu Jin, who was known for his disregard for martial ethics, activated his ultimate secret technique.

On the 19th floor of the Nine Heavens Bridge, Lu Jin was absolutely confident. At that time, he politely let the gatekeeper make the first move.

But at the twentieth floor, he doesn't have the resources to do that.

Because the guardian of the twentieth floor has a comprehension of the laws comparable to the peak of the King-level, and has mastered all the profound mysteries of the three major spaces: 'sealing, killing, and instantaneous,' he can instantly unleash his ultimate attack at point-blank range.

In the virtual universe, he has no effective means to deal with 'blocking, killing, and instant' attacks, so he cannot afford to lose the initiative.

Otherwise, even if the secret technique is far more powerful than the opponent's, there is still a possibility of defeat.

'Whoosh whoosh whoosh—'

108 azure blue beads shot out, triggering the law of water and space fusion, changing the color of heaven and earth, descending into an illusory, boundless sea, and raising a bright, clear moon.

'Young people lack martial ethics!'

Upon noticing the appearance of the illusory sea and moon, the black-armored gatekeeper, whose surrounding space seemed to be sealed off, was not only unable to teleport away but was also restricted in mid-air by a powerful binding force, couldn't help but mutter a complaint to himself.

Fortunately, since he couldn't move his body, not only could he not move his telekinetic weapons either.

"kill!"

The black-armored gatekeeper roared, and the pitch-black giant sword on his back transformed into countless blue lights that flew out, condensing into a huge blade in mid-air, and slashed straight at Lu Jin.

Its power was so great that wherever it passed, the space itself was carved into a jagged ravine by the endless sharpness of the sword blade.

"change!"

With a thought, Lu Jin felt the bright moon rising above the illusory, boundless sea begin to rotate, its cool moonlight falling down.

In an instant, the enormous sword blade that had slashed down from the dark, lightless starry sky was frozen in mid-air. Then, the blue light emanating from the blade vanished, and it shattered into dense psychic weapon components.

At the same time, as the cold moonlight shone down, the black-armored gatekeeper felt an extremely terrifying, annihilating power containing the power of fused laws descend upon him.

'Boom—'

The next moment, under this terrifying annihilating power, the black-armored gatekeeper turned into a cloud of blood mist.

Within the virtual universe's Sky Bridge or Sky Mountain, the more talented the challenger, and the more the guardian who is their opponent, the more likely they are to be called a "glass cannon."

Take Lu Jin as an example; he only has the physique of a peak ninth-level World Lord.

However, the attack he can unleash, relying on his understanding of the laws equivalent to the 19th level of the Tongtian Bridge and a hundred times the soul amplitude, the power that the peak secret technique "Rising Moon Over the Sea" can unleash is almost a hundred times that of an ordinary peak Marquis without burning divine power.

Faced with such a powerful attack, what could the black-armored gatekeeper, whose level was only at the peak of the ninth rank of the Realm Lord, whose life genes were ordinary, and who had no heaven-defying treasures to protect him, possibly use to block it?
Of course, Lu Jin himself was in a similar situation.

In other words, the 'Bright Moon Rising Over the Sea' obliterated the power of the previous sword strike; otherwise, if he had been hit, he would have been dead even with his fifth-tier Force Armor.

"Rumble--"

The darkness blocking the bridge dissipated, revealing a wide passage leading to the black hole.

'Complete Spatial Laws'

Lu Jin shook his head and disappeared into the sky above the Nine Heavens Bridge.

Just kidding, the guardian of the twenty-first level of the Nine Heavens Bridge has mastered the complete laws of space.

The difference between the three single spatial mysteries and the complete spatial laws is like heaven and earth, not to mention that he has not even been able to formally comprehend one of the spatial mysteries.

Lu Jin estimated that only when he had fully comprehended the mysteries of the three major spaces, created his own immortal-level ultimate secret technique, and added a hundredfold soul amplification, would he have a chance to defeat the guardian of the twenty-first level of the Nine Universes Sky Bridge.

As I said before, understanding the laws is not absolute. As long as other factors are strong enough, it is enough to defeat an opponent who seems impossible to defeat.

In the Tongtian Mountain plane, three majestic Tongtian Mountains stand tall.

At this moment, the summit of the Primordial Tongtian Mountain, a realm master level, was shrouded in an illusory, boundless sea, and a bright, clear moon rose into the sky.

"change!"

Lu Jin's mind raced, and the bright moon, rising into the sky, began to turn, its cool light spilling down.

"Puff puff!"

Three soft sounds rang out, and the minotaur warrior, ape-man controller, and snake-woman illusionist, who were all bound in place by the secret technique and unable to move, were all obliterated by the scattered moonlight.

The Primordial Tongtian Mountain, hailed as the benchmark of humanity's strongest genius, is now gone!
Then, the three gatekeepers reappeared.

"Congratulations, Your Highness Lu Jin, on successfully passing through the Primal Tongtian Mountain, a Realm Lord level challenge."

“Every human being who can break through the Primal Tongtian Mountain, which is at the level of a World Lord, is an unparalleled genius who appears only once every tens of millions of epochs.”

"Only those who have conquered the Primal Tongtian Mountain, which is at the level of a World Lord, can be considered the most dazzling genius in the vast history of mankind."

The three gatekeepers, now resurrected, congratulated Lu Jin with smiles on their faces.

'Another small step has been taken. Hmm, don't get carried away.'

Standing atop the primeval Tongtian Mountain, overlooking the endless, desolate land below, Lu Jin thought to himself.

I examine myself three times a day: Can you guarantee you won't be caught by Luo Feng? Are you invincible in the universe? Have you become the Lord of Hunyuan?

No, it didn't work out?

Then why are you still so arrogant?

At this moment, the role of his good brother Luo Feng was once again demonstrated.

Even though Luo Feng clearly did nothing.

(End of this chapter)