Devouring the Stars: The Lord of the Sky

Chapter 227 Ultimate Secret Technique Achieved, Immortality
Time flies, eighty years later.

Virtual Universe, Yuxiang Mountain Primitive Area, Manor No. 114.

Within the boundless starry sky training ground, a mythical beast about five meters tall, covered in azure scales, was engaged in fierce combat with a Qingdou bandit who was three meters and six inches tall.

The Kou are special life forms with a hundredfold genetic bonus, formed from extremely cold energy. They are divided into two types: blue and purple, and in reality, they reside in the Wuhua Secret Realm.

The Purple Flying Bandit resembles a human woman and is skilled at freezing souls; the Green Flying Bandit resembles a human man and is skilled at freezing bodies.

"Hoohoo!"

A torrent of freezing air swept in from the frozen space, and Lu Jin, who had transformed into a water unicorn, dodged it with lightning speed as his frost wings flapped behind him.

"Destroy all directions!"

The beast god materialized, its blue-gold hooves slamming out.

The law of water and air fusion was activated, as if a raging wave was crashing against the shore, with spray and endless water mist rising and falling. A terrifying pressure descended, and a towering, ferocious beast claw covered with blue and gold scales slammed down with the force of the end of all things.

"boom--"

In an instant, the starry sky trembled, and the space within a radius of 100,000 kilometers collapsed and turned into tiny turbulent currents.

The 2000th opponent, Qing Gou Kou, whose immortal divine body was not much left after being struck by the claws of the ferocious beast, was instantly annihilated into nothingness.

"It's been stuck for two whole years, but it's finally approved!"

Looking at the scene refreshed and the Starry Sky Training Ground restored to its original appearance, Lu Jin couldn't help but sigh.

The original body fought for eighty years in the virtual universe training ground, and 80 Blood God Child incarnations served as external brains for eighty thousand years in the Thousand Times Time Palace.

Originally just reaching the peak level, 'Ten Directions Annihilation' has finally undergone a magnificent transformation into an immortal-level ultimate secret technique.

The Heavenly Frost King set up 1000 opponents for him, representing everyone from the initial peak to the ultimate secret technique.

Initially, with the endless inspiration provided by his 'external brain,' Lu Jin was able to defeat one opponent in just a few days.

However, as the sorted numbers increase, the difficulty of defeating the opponent also becomes increasingly greater.

For example, his 2000th opponent, Qing Kou, who served as the dividing line between peak secret techniques and ultimate secret techniques, managed to hold him back for a full two years.

"Shh!"

Just then, a figure with long silver hair, a cold and handsome face, and wearing frost armor appeared in the training ground.

"teacher!"

Lu Jin bowed respectfully.

The King of Tianshuang Kingdom had a big smile on his face: "I must say, you've given your master another surprise."

"No matter what methods you used, to create such an ultimate secret technique in just eighty years... I was far inferior to you back then, there's no comparison."

The King of Tianshuang was filled with emotion.

Back when he was at the Realm Lord stage, he was one of the most dazzling geniuses of the human race, and he also passed the Realm Lord level Primal Tongtian Mountain.

During the immortal stage, he undoubtedly became one of the few invincible kings among the human race at that time.

Compared to Lu Jin, who created his own ultimate secret technique at the realm master level and has only been cultivating it for a few hundred years in the primordial universe, there is really no comparison.

At first, in his view, Lu Jin had the potential to become a cosmic overlord and had a slight possibility of becoming the master of the universe.

But now, in the eyes of the Heavenly Frost King, Lu Jin is likely to become the third strongest being in the universe in human history, following his master, the progenitor, and the creator of the giant axe.

Lu Jin said, "I was able to create my own ultimate secret technique thanks to your guidance, Master."

Without the specific guidance of his teacher, the Heavenly Frost Kingdom Lord, he could create his own ultimate secret technique at the World Lord level, but the time it would take would be absolutely enormous.

Shaking his head slightly, the King of Tianshuang said with some regret, "Guiding disciples is the responsibility of every qualified teacher."

Unfortunately, my master's secret techniques are only at their ultimate level. From now on, you'll have to walk your own path, or find a more powerful teacher to guide you.

After a pause, the King of Tianshuang Kingdom said, "With Venerable Guanghan here, you have no shortage of treasures, and as for secret techniques, I can no longer give you any more guidance."

Someone has been talking about you for a long time. Should we ask them to give you some pointers in the future?

The person he was talking about was naturally his father, the Lord of Ice Peak.

The ruler of Tianshuang Kingdom was originally very resistant to this.

You're trying to steal your son's apprentice? What kind of father are you?
But then I thought, if my apprentice is your apprentice, then wouldn't I be on the same level as you?
This can be!
Moreover, as Lu Jin continued to improve, the King of Tianshuang Kingdom also realized that his disciple was too monstrous, and his own level was limited, so he could no longer teach him.

Another thing is, this kid is good at causing trouble.

Having captured most of the demon beasts in the demon realm, and then extorted money from the demons and blackmailed the mechanical race, the Slaughter King is now on the battlefield outside the realm, striking fear into the hearts of countless immortals in the mechanical race camp.

If he ever slips up, even as the cosmic overlord, he won't be able to protect him.

Uh... it seems even his father can't protect him; only the founder of the giant axe can.

Lu Jin shook his head and said, "Thank you for your opinion, but I'd rather not."

Teacher, your guidance and teachings are enough to give me the first step towards the peak. The rest, I will complete.

Those stronger than the Heavenly Frost Kingdom Lord, the only ones are top-tier cosmic overlords, cosmic lords, and true gods.

The top cosmic overlords are only stronger than the cosmic overlords in terms of life genes; in other aspects, they are about the same. So, the 'nagging person' must be referring to the cosmic overlord.

Moreover, judging from the teacher's casual attitude, the other party is most likely the Lord of Ice Peak.

The Lord of Ice Peak is quite powerful, being a fourth-order Universe Lord. For another World Lord who is about to step into Immortality, he is definitely an excellent teacher, one that would be hard to find even with a lantern.

But he is different, and times have changed. Becoming a disciple of the Lord of the Universe is more of a disadvantage than an advantage for him.

After all, it would be somewhat inappropriate to become the disciple of the Universe Master of the Virtual Universe Company and then start a new business right away.

Seeing that Lu Jin had no intention of becoming his disciple, the King of Tianshuang Kingdom said, "That nagging person is my father, the Lord of Ice Peak, so he is not an outsider."

Even if you don't become his disciple, you can still seek his guidance at the Ice Peak Temple on Thunder Island in the future.

Alright, now that the ultimate secret technique has been revealed, go and break through!

Stepping into immortality will open up a whole new world.

After saying that, the King of Tianshuang waved his hand and disappeared from the training ground.

'It's time for a breakthrough.'

Lu Jin thought to himself, then exited the virtual universe.

In various locations across the extraterrestrial battlefield, tens of thousands of Blood God Child avatars clad in blood armor and blood wings disappeared one after another.

In the initial chaotic city of the universe, sitting cross-legged on the rooftop of a residence, the Blood God Child, disguised as the true self, returned to his bedroom, entered a world ring, and then disappeared.

The inner world of prokaryotes.

"Whoosh!" "Whoosh!" "Whoosh!"

One after another, the figures of the Blood God Child avatars appeared. Lu Jin used the Kunlun Mirror to retrieve all the Blood God Child avatars that were outside.

Immediately afterwards, the 10081 Blood God Children merged into one, releasing their enormous size. Above the Netherworld Blood Sea, they transformed into a colossal giant over 90,000 kilometers tall, with long, flowing blood-red hair, fair skin covered in blood-red demonic patterns.

Beside the strongest Blood God Child incarnation are the Water Kirin clone and the Time Dragon clone, both of which have revealed their true forms.

Of course, this is different from the Blood God Child incarnation who was temporarily teleported back.

The Water Kirin clone and the Time Dragon clone were both teleported back several years ago.

Outside, Lu Jin, carrying the original core, stepped into the Lingxiao Palace and sat on the nine-colored throne at the head of the table.

The next moment, within the primordial core of the body, the Origin Pearl transformed into a water unicorn.

"Destroy all directions!"

The mimicked water unicorn let out a soft shout, and its blue-gold hooves slammed out.

In an instant, as the laws of water and air merged, it resembled surging waves and endless mist. A ferocious beast claw covered with blue-gold scales, carrying the force of the end of all things, slammed directly onto the inner wall of the original core, which even the peak secret techniques could not break through.

"boom!"

As the Heavenly Beast Claw descended, the entire inner wall of the primordial core trembled violently, and with a loud 'bang,' it instantly turned into dust and vanished into nothingness.

With the original core shackles broken and this shackles gone, the water unicorn transformed from the Origin Pearl instantly connected to the endless 'ocean of water laws' in the origin of the universe.

'boom--'

At this moment, the fundamental law of water in the universe descended upon the Great Luo Heaven, appearing above the majestic Lingxiao Palace and covering an area of ​​several light-years.

"Rumble--"

The boundless divine power of water poured down like a celestial river flowing backwards.

A realm lord who fails to gain recognition from the higher laws becomes an immortal military lord after entering immortality. The ocean of primordial laws of the universe only needs to bestow a small amount of divine power to transform him into an immortal divine body.

Those who have a deep understanding of the higher laws, or those who are larger in size and are realm lords, need a great deal of divine power to complete the transformation into immortal divine bodies before they can enter immortality.

But Lu Jin's abilities are not simply limited to his profound understanding of higher-level laws and his large divine body.

The main body, the Water Qilin clone, the Time Dragon clone, and the strongest Blood God Child incarnation are all 10081 times the perfect genetic life form, and their size is over 90,000 kilometers.

The divine body, spanning over 90,000 kilometers and possessing the power of a ninth-tier World Lord at the peak of a billion times, would require countless times more divine power than an ordinary cultivator who has entered the Immortal realm.

Compared to the Netherworld Blood Sea clone with a diameter of billions of kilometers, the divine power required by the original body, the two clones, and the incarnation is insignificant; it is no exaggeration to say that they are worlds apart.

In terms of sheer scale, even an ordinary Immortal who has entered the Universe Venerable realm would not be able to match even a fraction of the scale of Lu Jin's entry into Immortality.

Under the influx of endless divine power and seawater, the original body in the Lingxiao Palace, the Water Qilin clone, the Time Dragon clone, and the strongest Blood God Child incarnation in the inner world all completed their transformation from world lord-level flesh and blood bodies to immortal divine bodies in an instant.

Then the soul imprint merges into every bit of divine power, achieving immortality.

However, while the main body, the two avatars, and the incarnation have completed the transformation into divine bodies, the Netherworld Blood Sea avatar has not yet completed it.

Within the inner world, like a celestial river flowing backward, endless divine power and seawater poured down from the void, still surging madly into the Netherworld Blood Sea below.

The size of the Netherworld Blood Sea clone was far greater than that of the original body and other clones.

However, although the Netherworld Blood Sea was vast, the ocean of the fundamental laws of water in the universe was even more extraordinary. Before long, the entire Netherworld Blood Sea completed its divine transformation, turning into a divine ocean with a diameter of 10 billion kilometers.

Unlike the seven members of Hong'er, who were initially blood-red and then transformed into ordinary seawater after completing their divine transformation, the Netherworld Blood Sea clone remained blood-red even after entering immortality.

'A mere cosmic venerable could be destroyed with a flick of the wrist.'

Standing atop the crimson ocean, feeling the immense divine power within his body, Lu Jin thought to himself.

With a perfect genetic crown-level divine body, a hundredfold limit amplitude secret technique, treasures of no less than the level of supreme treasures all over his body, an immortal-level ultimate secret technique, and even the strongest talent secret technique 'Chaotic Tide' that he could finally use after entering immortality, he was enough to give him the power to destroy ordinary universe venerables.

His gaze shifted to the strongest Blood God Child incarnation above the Netherworld Blood Sea.

"Melt!"

With a thought, Lu Jin's strongest Blood God Child avatar instantly transformed into a torrent of divine power and blood, pouring down and causing the diameter of the Netherworld Blood Sea clone to increase slightly.

As expected, after reaching the Immortal level, the Netherworld Blood Sea clone's limit of 10 billion kilometers in diameter disappeared, and it could continue to expand its size through the innate secret technique 'Blood God Child'.

"Blood God Son!"

With the Blood God Child's innate secret technique activated, amidst the surging divine power and the rolling sea of ​​water, the strongest Blood God Child avatar, towering over 90,000 kilometers in height, materialized from the Netherworld Blood Sea, which had a diameter of 10 billion kilometers.

"Tsk~, it seems like I'd better get a Primal Treasure."

After carefully sensing the efficiency of the divine power recovery, Lu Jin clicked his tongue and said.

The Netherworld Blood Sea clone has a large divine body, and if it absorbs divine power to its fullest extent, its recovery speed is extremely fast.

However, the divine body of the strongest Blood God Child is also quite large, with a perfect genetic peak divine body spanning over 90,000 kilometers!

To condense the strongest Blood God Child avatar, the current size of the Netherworld Blood Sea clone would require about a month without the aid of external aids.

Of course, if it were an ordinary Blood God Child incarnation, even if the divine body were also over 90,000 kilometers tall, it would only take a few minutes.

To recover enough divine power to condense the strongest Blood God Child avatar in the blink of an eye, the divine body of the Netherworld Blood Sea clone would need to expand to an extremely large extent.

Shaking his head, Lu Jin flashed and instantly teleported out of Lingxiao Palace.

Having reached the Immortal level, it's time to establish a divine kingdom.

In the Great Luo Heaven, Lu Jin's figure stood suspended in the air.

After communicating through a soul-level connection, Lu Jin flipped his hand, and nine small glass spheres materialized, representing the nine unused heavenly realms among the thirty-six heavenly realms.

"Whoosh!" "Whoosh!" "Whoosh!"

The next moment, the nine glass spheres shimmered with vibrant colors, and two of them disappeared directly into the origin of the universe.

The other seven transformed into seven colorful streams of light, disappearing into the seven largest star kingdoms among the many star kingdoms hanging high in the sky above the Great Luo Heaven.

The higher the life level, the stronger the power, and the larger the divine kingdom.

According to information obtained by the Water Kirin clone from the Ancestral God Cult, the divine kingdom of the cosmic overlord can expand to a diameter of 1 light-year.

The top-tier cosmic overlord with ten thousand times the genetic power and the first-order cosmic master, whose divine kingdom has a maximum diameter of 10 light-years.

The divine kingdoms of second- to fifth-order universe masters have diameters ranging from 100 to 100,000 light-years.

The divine kingdoms of Hong'er and her seven companions were all placed within the Great Luo Heaven.

Although their divine kingdoms are still far from their maximum diameter and are in the process of gradual expansion, the Great Luo Heaven, with a maximum diameter of only 129600 light-years, will not be able to contain seven divine kingdoms with a maximum diameter of 100,000 light-years in the future.

Therefore, Lu Jin decided to move the seven of them to another celestial realm.

If they become true gods in the future, their divine kingdoms will be placed back into the interlayer of the original universe space before they begin to evolve into miniature universes.

Soon, after transforming into a dazzling stream of light and disappearing into the divine kingdom, the seven star divine kingdoms hanging high in the sky were painted with a layer of dazzling colors, and then the seven star divine kingdoms disappeared.

The next moment, with a thought, nine more celestial passages appeared beside the two celestial passages with the words 'Xuanhuang' and 'Shanhai' inscribed on their gates on the huge white jade plaza in front of the Lingxiao Palace.

These nine celestial passageways, each spanning tens of thousands of kilometers, are inscribed with the words 'Netherworld', 'Jade Pool', 'Red Glow', 'Orange Glow', 'Yellow Glow', 'Green Glow', 'Azure Glow', 'Blue Glow', and 'Purple Glow'.

At this time, the divine kingdoms of Hong'er and her seven companions had been transferred to the 'Seven Clouds Heaven'.

Lu Jin plans to place his divine kingdom within the 'Netherworld Heaven'.

As for 'Jade Pool Heaven', it is where Zi Ni Chang will be placed in her divine kingdom, but this matter will have to wait until the Heavenly Court is established.

The largest single celestial realm has a diameter of 129600 light-years, enough to contain the divine kingdom of any cosmic lord.

Moreover, because the divine kingdoms are located in the celestial realm, the potential of the divine beings born in these nine divine kingdoms is no less than that of the beings born in the territories of the peak races in the primordial universe.

Furthermore, due to the spiritual energy contained within the Heavenly Realm, the overall lower limit of physical cultivation talent for beings born in these nine divine kingdoms is significantly higher than that of beings outside the Heavenly Realm.

'Shuh! '

The space shifted, entering the Netherworld. Lu Jin mobilized his authority as the Lord of the Heavenly Realm and began to condense spatial fragments large enough to contain the inner world with a diameter of trillions of kilometers.

After entering the Immortal Realm, the authority and power of the Celestial Lord greatly increased. In just a few hours, Lu Jin condensed a spatial fragment with a length, width and height of more than one trillion kilometers in the sky of the Netherworld.

Subsequently, Lu Jin began to activate the world within his body.

Instantly, an invisible force erupted from his inner world, locking onto the massive spatial fragment not far ahead.

"call--"

In mid-air, a vast world faintly appeared, seemingly existing in an illusion, in another dimension, as the huge spatial fragments flew rapidly.

Before long, the illusory and the real gradually drew closer.

"Rumble--"

Space trembled, and that enormous, seemingly illusory world merged with the massive spatial fragments.

A moment later, the somewhat illusory world completely disappeared, leaving only an incredibly real world.

At this moment, after merging with the fragments of space, the inner world evolved into a divine kingdom.

'Whoosh! '

Lu Jin's figure flashed and he instantly teleported into the divine kingdom.

"The temple is standing!"

Standing above the Netherworld Blood Sea, as divine power converged, under Lu Jin's control, a majestic temple, a million kilometers high and radiating azure light, rapidly took shape.

'Shuh! '

Inside the temple, Lu Jin teleported in and sat on the throne.

With his eyes closed and a thought forming in his mind, Lu Jin felt that everything in the divine realm—mountains, grasslands, swamps, deserts, oases, and lakes—existed within his heart.

Every minute and every second, the divine kingdom is absorbing the cosmic energy that fills the Netherworld.

Furthermore, while the divine kingdom absorbs cosmic energy, its edges are also constantly devouring the space of the Netherworld, gradually expanding outward until it reaches its limit.

Furthermore, with the suppressive power of the Divine Kingdom and the control of time and space by his Netherworld Blood Sea clone, his strength within the Divine Kingdom is dozens of times greater than that outside the world.

Of course, the divine kingdom is the foundation of immortal gods, cosmic venerables, and cosmic masters, and Lu Jin would not allow hostile powerhouses to enter his divine kingdom.

With the divine kingdom established, Lu Jin returned to the Lingxiao Palace to check on the changes in the Kunlun Mirror and the Thirty-Six Heavens, and to see what the Immortal-level treasure chest given by the cheat system could yield after he entered Immortality.

Suppressing his anticipation, Lu Jin took the lead in carefully examining the changes in the Kunlun Mirror and the Thirty-Six Heavens.

Before long, the specific changes were understood.

The effects of the Kunlun Mirror increase as its level increases.

During the realm master stage, the Kunlun Mirror's remote detection range was a spherical region with a diameter of ten million kilometers.

After entering the Immortal realm, the diameter of the exploration range increases a hundredfold, reaching a diameter of one billion kilometers.

With a detection range of one billion kilometers in diameter, plus the space-traveling ability of the Kunlun Mirror, Lu Jin felt that he would definitely become the treasure-hunting champion if he went to the spaceship in the future.

As for the changes in the Thirty-Six Heavens, with a thought from Lu Jin, the ten fundamental law threads that appeared in the Great Luo Heaven's dome instantly became ten times clearer.

Furthermore, based on the ten fundamental law threads, a large number of fusion law threads with different attributes were manifested.

These newly emerging fusion law threads not only possess attributes such as water and space, light and time, but also different combinations of fusion laws such as spacetime, water and time, light and space, and water and light.

'Unorthodox methods.'

Lu Jin muttered to himself, then waved his hand, directly blocking most of the fusion law threads, leaving only the fusion law threads of the eight beast gods and the spacetime fusion law threads.

It's not that the fusion rules for other attributes are really wrong, but rather that they are not suitable at this stage.

In addition to the ten fundamental laws that have manifested, which have become clearer, they are still present on the Purple Thorn Island of the Ancestral God Sect.

As the highest heaven, the Great Luo Heaven also has an additional regional time acceleration function.

The Celestial Realm retreats into the origin of the universe, where all energy consumption is paid for by the original source of the universe.

By letting the primordial origin of the universe act as the scapegoat, time acceleration can be achieved up to 100 times within a designated area of ​​the Great Luo Heaven.

The larger the area of ​​time acceleration, the more life forms there are, the stronger those life forms are, and the greater the energy consumption.

The efficiency with which the Great Luo Heaven absorbs the primordial energy of the universe is linked to its life level.

If the energy consumption in other aspects, plus the energy consumption to maintain this time acceleration zone, exceeds the current efficiency of the Great Luo Heaven in absorbing the original energy of the universe, then the time acceleration multiple within the acceleration zone will decrease accordingly.

It's a pity that the time acceleration in the Great Luo Heaven and the time acceleration in the Time Palace can only take the higher value and cannot be superimposed.

'So it's a free version of Time Palace?'

Lu Jin thought to himself.

Hopefully, as life level increases in the future, the acceleration multiplier for this time will also increase; otherwise, if it's only 100 times, it won't be very meaningful.

Subsequently, Lu Jin's consciousness sank into the external space.

With a thought, the immortal-grade treasure chest, which was radiating nine-colored light within the external space, transformed into a dazzling burst of nine-colored brilliance.

(End of this chapter)