Devouring the Stars: The Lord of the Sky

Chapter 260 The Strongest Secret Technique, Lord of Earth and Earth
Joy, happiness, anger, roaring, madness.
Soaring through the universe, battling enemies, shattering stars, and fighting bloody battles in the void. Until finally being besieged, he perished unwillingly.

Inside the Hall of Ascension, Lu Jin's true form and all his clones and avatars sat cross-legged on the ground, gradually closing their eyes and falling into a deep sleep following this strange feeling.

It seemed that everything was an illusion, except for the water beast god in the dream, which was real.

In this incredibly realistic dream, Lu Jin forgot his memories of being human. In his slumber, he felt as if he were the Water Beast God.

Time slips away unnoticed, eight hundred years later, with time accelerated ten thousand times.

'Have you grasped the heart of the Beast God?'

In a daze, Lu Jin opened his eyes, and his original memories surged forth, instantly overriding the memory of when he transformed into the Water Beast God in his dream.

Don't be fooled by Lu Jin's short training time; even with the time acceleration environment, it's still not long.

However, the Blood God Child has numerous incarnations, and his vast memories are thousands or even tens of thousands of times greater than the length of his cultivation.

Although most of his memories were spent either comprehending the laws or creating secret techniques, his memory volume was not small.

After regaining his memories, Lu Jin did not forget the feeling of transforming into a beast god, and he could easily enter that state anytime, anywhere.

Beast gods and humans represent two completely different states of existence: one is a state of complete detachment, freedom, and authenticity.

'It's not entirely useless~'

After carefully considering it, Lu Jin thought to himself.

Although the 'Heart of the Water Beast God' came relatively late, it was not enough to comprehend it before mastering time and space and becoming the master of the universe.

Strictly speaking, he first became the master of the universe through the path of time and space, and then he mastered the path of the water beast god.

But this still cannot change the fact that some people among the human race have successfully traversed the path of the Beast God.

Moreover, although comprehending the heart of the water beast god did not directly affect his strength.

However, it will become easier to create a secret technique that involves eight mysterious water beast patterns by following the path of the secret pattern line.

Subsequently, the main body continued to comprehend the God-Slaying Mystic Runes of the God-Slaying Spear, while the creation of secret techniques and the cultivation of supernatural powers were all left to other clones and the Blood God Child incarnation.

Within the Netherworld God Kingdom, a Blood God Child avatar, awakened from slumber, activated his strongest innate secret technique to continue maintaining the manifestation of the 'Chaotic Tide Secret Pattern'.

'Whoosh whoosh whoosh—'

Inside the Hall of Ascension, the Water Qilin clone, now in human form, surged with divine power, and countless blue threads appeared in the air in front of it, forming the secret pattern of the ultimate secret technique of the Lord of the Universe, 'Surprising Beauty'.

"Hmm~, this doesn't feel quite right. It should be like this."

With a thought, Lu Jin followed his intuition and modified the arrangement of the secret patterns of the ultimate secret technique 'Jinghong'. He also continuously adjusted and added new water beast secret patterns, and then connected them with a new method of connecting the law threads.

"It should be like this here."

"so."

"Right, that is it!"

At one point, looking at the huge secret pattern in the air in front of him, which was composed of countless blue threads and contained 81 mysterious patterns of water beasts, exuding a powerful pressure, Lu Jin found it quite pleasing to the eye.

Immediately, divine power was injected into the massive secret pattern diagram.

"Rumble--"

In an instant, a brilliant blue light flashed, carving a dark spatial trench in mid-air before crashing into the sturdy walls of the Immortal Ascension Palace, unleashing a violent roar.

Fortunately, the Water Qilin clone did not burn its divine power or activate its three heads and six arms, and its secret technique was not enhanced by any supreme treasure. Otherwise, the supreme treasure of the Immortal Ascension Palace, a top-grade palace, would probably have been blasted with a hole.

The perfect gene of the universe master, the strongest secret technique, the first level of the three heads and six arms, the supreme treasure weapon formed from the supreme treasure of the domain, the Karmic Fire Lotus, its power is enough to reach the top level of the sixth rank.

A sixth-tier top-level material attack is enough to destroy a supreme-grade palace treasure.

"Your Majesty, because of you, this material for refining a top-tier treasure has been completely ruined."

At this moment, Zi Nishang, who was not far away, pointed to the Qiankun Cauldron in front of her and said to Lu Jin with a gloomy expression.

Lu Jin: "."

Ignoring the issue of wasted materials, Lu Jin asked, "Can it be refined into a top-tier treasure now?"

"That's right! I broke through shortly after you entered a state of enlightenment."

As she spoke, a hint of pride appeared on Zi Ni Chang's face.

It should be noted that, apart from the deeply hidden Mountain Guest, the Master of Craftsmen is recognized as the number one treasure-making master in the entire universe, but his treasure-making skills are only at the level of top-tier treasures.

Of course, since she has only recently broken through, Zi Ni Chang can only forge top-tier treasure weapons at the moment, which is still far inferior to the God of Crafts.

"Great!"

Lu Jin praised.

Top-tier treasure-refining masters are even rarer than true gods throughout the entire primordial universe.

After a pause, Lu Jin continued, "Ni Chang, once your treasure-refining skills have stabilized, first create the strongest secret technique and cultivate the Three Heads and Six Arms."

Thanks to the efforts of the three Blood God Child incarnations who participated in the treasure hunt, as one treasure after another was opened, the Heavenly Court was not short of treasures below the level of the Supreme Treasure.

In this way, Zi Ni Chang's treasure-refining skills can be temporarily put aside, and she can shift her focus to creating techniques and cultivating the Three Heads and Six Arms.

With her three supreme treasures, Zi Ni Chang's overall strength is at the fifth rank. If she had the strongest secret technique and the first level of the Three Heads and Six Arms technique, which would increase her combat power tenfold after burning her divine power, her strength could reach the top of the sixth rank, the upper limit of the primordial universe.

However, Lu Jin would not let Zi Ni Chang give up the art of refining treasures.

When facing world beasts in the future, mechanical treasures that can greatly enhance strength are absolutely indispensable.

Go and farm the Darklands dungeon; powerful treasures, super-powerful arcane arts, divine power burning techniques, and mechanical treasures that amplify your strength are all indispensable.

"Ah."

Zi Ni Chang nodded and then asked, "Was that the strongest secret technique?"

Lu Jin nodded and then shook his head: "Yes, but it won't raise the upper limit of strength."

Even with the already strongest innate secret technique 'Chaotic Tide', creating another strongest secret technique cannot increase his upper limit of strength.

However, creating new laws is definitely necessary, and we will devote most of our energy to creating new laws in the future.

After all, if we can't even create the strongest secret technique, how can we create an even stronger fusion of the strongest secret technique, or even a sixth-order, seventh-order, or even higher-level secret technique?
Lu Jin saw that the newly created "Water Void" strongest secret technique was similar in its specific manifestation to the ultimate secret technique of the Lord of the Universe, "Surprising Swan," so he did not give it a new name and directly used the name "Surprising Swan."

After some careful adjustments to make it suitable for use with the three weapons of spear, claws, and sword, the water unicorn clone once again immersed itself in the creation process.

More than a thousand years later, within the Hall of Ascension, the Water Qilin clone perfected the original Ultimate Secret Technique of the Lord of the Universe, 'Void Ice Lotus,' to its strongest form. The number of water beast mystical patterns it participated in was even more than the 81 patterns of 'Jinghong,' reaching 98 patterns.

During this period, the 1000 Blood God Child incarnations who studied the mysterious patterns of the Water Beast and created their own techniques also created two other powerful secret techniques, but their power was slightly weaker than 'Surprising Beauty'.

Meanwhile, the 7000 Blood God Child incarnations who studied the mysterious patterns of the other seven great beasts and created their own techniques also created a total of 38 ultimate secret techniques of the universe across seven systems.

Two thousand years later, the supernatural power: the first level of the Law of Heaven and Earth was mastered.

In the following years, the main body, the Water Qilin clone, the Time Dragon clone, and the Netherworld Blood Sea clone successively completed the first level of the Dharma of Heaven and Earth cultivation.

The "Law of Heaven and Earth" supernatural power is a secret method for transforming the divine body. It is similar to the "Innate Dao Body" chapter of the "Innate Dao Body" amplification secret method. Successfully cultivating the incarnation does not mean that other divine bodies can directly cultivate it successfully. All divine bodies need to cultivate it once.

Originally, the Netherworld Blood Sea clone did not need to cultivate, since the Law of Heaven and Earth could not break the 12 light-year limit of the divine body.

However, the Netherworld Blood Sea clone cannot break through the limit, but the strongest Blood God Child incarnation can.

Once the Netherworld Blood Sea clone cultivates to the first level of the Law of Heaven and Earth, the Blood God Child incarnation it condenses will have a divine body that reaches a height of over 900,000 kilometers, making cultivation necessary.

It can not only increase the total divine power of the strongest Blood God Child incarnation, but also accelerate the expansion speed of the Netherworld Blood Sea.

After mastering the first level of the Law of Heaven and Earth, the main body and the two avatars returned to the Netherworld God Kingdom.

With the generous supply from the Netherworld Blood Sea clone, the size of the main body, the Water Qilin clone, and the Time Dragon clone increased dramatically once again, and the divine body increased to more than 900,000 kilometers in minutes.

Twenty thousand years later in the Hall of Ascension, the Time Dragon avatar, who had comprehended the mysterious patterns of the Beast of Light, fell into a strange state and then transformed into the God of Light in a dream.

However, this time, having comprehended the Heart of the God of Light, apart from the Time Dragon clone, Lu Jin's other divine bodies did not fall into slumber again.

Five hundred years later, inside the Hall of Ascension, the Time Dragon's avatar awakens.

Within just three years, the Time Dragon clone created the most powerful secret technique, 'Light and Time'.

Thousands of light-years away from the Hall of Ascension in the Great Luo Heaven, the Time Dragon avatar, in human form, stood above the golden sea of ​​clouds.

Lu Jin raised his hand and pointed, and amidst the surging divine power, a huge secret pattern appeared, and a dazzling white-gold light suddenly appeared. A white-gold energy dragon that was tens of millions of kilometers long soared into the sky.

"Yan!"

A resounding dragon roar echoed as the platinum-gold energy dragon hurtled towards the distant land below at a speed far exceeding the speed of light.

"Rumble--"

In an instant, a terrifying energy surge erupted, and the surrounding space and earth instantly vanished into nothingness, causing the earth within a radius of several light-years to tremble violently.

"Let's call it 'Wandering Dragon'."

Lu Jin gave this newly created, most powerful secret technique a name.

For some reason, the 1000 Blood God Children who comprehended the mysterious runes of the Beast of Light were transformed into warriors, and the Time Dragon's clone was also half warrior and half controller.

However, this "Dragon Soaring" secret technique is the strongest secret technique for the controller type.

"The Heart of the Beast God is indeed a powerful tool for creating laws. I already have the Hearts of the Water and Light Beast Gods; it would be best if I could also comprehend the remaining six types of Beast God Hearts."

Looking down at the enormous crater that resembled an abyss in the distance, Lu Jin thought to himself.

Suddenly, Lu Jin remembered a treasure he had forgotten for a long time.

"Shh!"

A platinum metal book, about ten meters long, five meters wide, and three meters thick, radiating the aura of a supreme treasure, materialized in his hand.

Using the Dawn Codex as a telekinetic weapon, Lu Jin unleashed the strongest secret technique, 'Wandering Dragon,' once again, and sensed the four layers of space within.

The fourth space, opened by the fourth Light-Time Fusion Law, yielded 362 Myriad Transformation Dawn Pearls, each at the level of an ordinary supreme treasure. The fifth space yielded a top-tier domain supreme treasure, and the sixth space yielded a top-tier soul supreme treasure.

The seventh space retrieved a top-tier palace treasure, along with a treasure-refining inheritance from a top-tier treasure-refining master.

He took out the three combined Myriad Transformation Dawn Pearls he had previously obtained and fused them together with all 362 Myriad Transformation Dawn Pearls, causing the treasure's aura to surge.

'A supreme treasure?'

A look of surprise appeared in Lu Jin's eyes.

After the 365 Myriad Transformations Dawn Pearls were combined, their grade actually surpassed that of a top-tier treasure, reaching the level of a peak treasure.

While it may not be considered the best among the ultimate treasures, it is not the worst either.

Moreover, the Myriad Transformations Dawn Pearl is not only a supreme weapon, but it can also be transformed into a supreme armor, making it a supreme treasure that combines offense and defense.

'Unfortunately, we arrived too late and couldn't do anything about it.'

Lu Jin secretly regretted it.

Now that he's become a treasure-hunting expert inside the spaceship, he's really not lacking in treasures at the level of ordinary peak treasures.

However, it must be said that the Lord of Dawn is very generous to his disciples who come after countless years.

The treasures within the seven layers of the Dawn Codex are worth over 15000 Treasure Points.

As the ruler of the universe, to leave such a vast treasure to a disciple he has never met, and to have secret techniques and treasure-making inheritance, he is undoubtedly a good teacher.

'Once his cultivation is complete, the Blood Demon Ancestor should return to the world.'

Lu Jin thought to himself.

The Chaotic Star Sea is one of the countless perilous places in the cosmic sea. It is relatively close to the Cosmic Ship, one of the three forbidden zones, only a few hundred billion light-years away.

Although it is a dangerous place, the danger of the Chaotic Star Sea is not too high.

The occasional 'Tide of Stars' does not require possessing a top-tier palace treasure; even the finest palace treasures remain unscathed.

In the inner region of the Chaotic Star Sea, a figure with a ferocious appearance, three sharp horns on its head, complex scales covering its body, and a domineering aura, resembling a humanoid beast, stood in mid-air.

In the vast ocean far in front of this figure, the heavy seawater churned violently, filled with the oppressive aura of a supreme treasure.

'Unexpectedly, on the way back to the primordial universe, I've encountered the birth of a top-tier treasure; it's quite an incredible stroke of luck!'

Sensing the commotion ahead, the Lord of the Desolate Mirror was secretly delighted.

The cosmic sea is extremely vast, with countless dangerous places, and it restricts the teleportation of the divine kingdom.

This means that it is common for it to take hundreds of years to travel from the primordial universe to a dangerous place in search of treasure, or from a dangerous place in search of treasure back to the primordial universe.

The peaches sold in the Heavenly Palace's Lingbao Hall can create perfect genes. Over the years, the cosmic lords who had ventured into the cosmic sea have gradually returned to the original universe.

After all, if you grit your teeth, tighten your belt, and achieve perfect genes, your strength may not increase by a huge margin, but your ability to survive will certainly improve by thousands of times.

Because this avatar of the Lord of the Wilderness was deep in the cosmic sea, even though it rushed back immediately, it was still far from the original universe.

However, it was precisely because they didn't have time to return to the original universe and were passing by the Chaotic Star Sea that they realized a supreme treasure had been born there.

A top-tier treasure, this item is worth at least two thousand treasure points.

The Heavenly Court sells top-grade peaches for 20 treasure points each. Even if this top-tier treasure is relatively ordinary, it's enough for his clone, whose life gene is nearly ten thousand times stronger, to achieve perfect genes.

Suddenly, the Lord of the Desolate Mirror's expression changed, and he turned to look at the far distance to the side.

In the far distance to the side, a treasure-like earthen-yellow palace, exuding a heavy and oppressive aura, appeared instantly.

'The Earthly Lord's Earthly Palace? Sigh... what a pity.'

Having recognized the origin of this earthen-yellow palace treasure, the Lord of the Desolate Mirror sighed inwardly and transformed into a stream of light, departing without a trace.

The Lord of Earth, born in the Purple Moon Holy Land, possesses the most powerful treasure weapon and the highest-grade treasure palace. His strength is as high as a sixth-order universe lord, and he is no match for him.

Although he also possessed a supreme treasure, the Palace, the opponent couldn't break through its defenses at all.

But just because the opponent can't break through the defense doesn't mean he can't be suppressed.

The most precious treasure belongs to the virtuous. Since my martial virtue is two levels lower than the other party's, it is best to leave.

After all, the experts from the Purple Moon Holy Land are notorious for their arrogance in the Cosmic Sea.

However, at this moment, endless earthy yellow light bloomed, and the Lord of the Desolate Mirror saw that within dozens of light-years around him, everything was filled with fine earthy yellow sand.

"Lord of Earth, what are you doing? I have already given you that unborn top-level domain treasure."

The Lord of the Desolate Mirror's expression changed drastically. He hurriedly took out the supreme treasure, the Desolate Mirror Divine Palace, and hid inside. Then, he said with an indignant expression.

"If I am not mistaken, you are the Lord of the Wilderness of the Human Race in the Primordial Universe?"

Inside the Dikun Palace, the Lord of Dikun, with eight faces and twenty-four arms, wearing a set of earth-yellow armor that resembled rocks, asked in a deep voice.

Within the Purple Moon Holy Land, aside from a few vassals, all the powerful figures are from the Purple Moon Clan.

Depending on the strength of their bloodline, members of the Purple Moon Clan are divided into the highest level, the eight-faced and twenty-four-armed form, and the next level, the four-faced and sixteen-armed and the three-faced and eight-armed forms.

The ordinary members are in a single-sided, two-armed form, and look similar to humans.

Of course, if one's strength reaches the level of a universe master or even a true god, even if one is only a single-faced double-armed person with the most ordinary bloodline level, their status is no less than that of an eight-faced twenty-four-armed member of the same level.

"Lord of Earth, there is no enmity between us, is there?"

Lord of the Wilderness Mirror couldn't help but ask.

"Hmph~, with your strength, do you even deserve to make an enemy of me?"
Fine, I'll let you die knowing why. You, the Lord of Lingxiao in the Heavenly Court of the Human Race, killed my junior brother, the Lord of Leiyue, several years ago. It's not unreasonable to hold you accountable for this.

"If you have to blame someone, blame it on the fact that you and the Lord of Lingxiao are both from the primordial universe's human race."

Having said that, the Lord of Earth moved his mind, and the supreme treasure of the highest grade, the 'Dust and Sand Domain', formed a powerful binding force and descended upon the Desolate Mirror Temple.

Inside the Hall of Ascension, Lu Jin's true form, clones, and avatars were all cultivating.

Suddenly, the chubby voice rang in Lu Jin's mind: 'Master, the founder of the Giant Axe invites you to a high-level meeting.'

Upon hearing the sound, Lu Jin, who was comprehending the 'Slaying God Mystic Rune' of the God-Slaying Spear, separated a wisp of his consciousness and ascended to the virtual universe.

Before long, the twenty-four highest-ranking members of the human race arrived at the long stone table in front of the Giant Axe Temple.

"Huang Jian, you tell me~"

Seeing that everyone had arrived, the giant axe addressed the Lord of the Desolate Mirror directly.

"Everyone, one of my avatars encountered the Earth Lord of the Purple Moon Holy Land in the Chaotic Star Sea and was suppressed by him."

Furthermore, the powerful figures of the Purple Moon Holy Land are hostile to our human race. If you encounter them and are no match for them, retreat immediately.

Lu Jin glanced at him with a resentful look, and the Lord of the Desolate Mirror said with a sullen expression.

He is at the fourth level, while the Lord of Earth is at the sixth level.

Moreover, the opponent's Dikun Palace was a top-grade palace treasure, while his own Huangjian Divine Palace was just a relatively ordinary top-grade palace treasure. In addition, there was a huge gap in terms of domain treasures, so he was suppressed by the Dikun Palace with almost no power to resist.

In other words, the opponent couldn't break through the defenses of the Desolate Temple, otherwise his clone would have perished long ago.

Although this clone, after being suppressed, can be resurrected after its fall, the treasure it carries is extremely valuable.

The Lord of the Desolate Palace, a supreme palace treasure, a top-tier domain treasure, a top-tier soul treasure, and supreme treasure weapons and armor—just thinking about it makes his heart ache.

However, the Lord of the Wilderness Mirror did not blame Lu Jin.

Having lived for countless years, he naturally knew the biggest reason why his clone was suppressed. It wasn't that Lu Jin killed the Lord of Thunder Axe of the Purple Moon Holy Land, but that he was far from being a match for the Lord of Earth Kun.

'The Lord of Earth?'

Lu Jin's eyes lit up. This Earth Lord, who came from the Purple Moon Holy Land, was a sixth-order Universe Lord who possessed the most powerful treasures.

Aside from the fact that its corpse could not be decomposed into a true god-level law godhead, it was still a big fish.

"Huang Jian, how long has it been since you were suppressed? Through the connection between your clones, can you sense the approximate location of the Lord of Earth?"

Lu Jin asked the Lord of the Desolate Mirror.

Being suppressed inside a treasure means one is unaware of their location.

However, Huang Jian has clones. Based on the connection between the clones, as long as the level of the treasures that he suppressed is not too high, he should still be able to vaguely sense it.

Upon hearing this, Lord of the Desolate Mirror felt a surge of excitement and hurriedly said, "Just now, Lord of Earth Kun must still be in the Chaotic Star Sea. A top-tier domain treasure has appeared here, so the other party must still be in the Chaotic Star Sea."

"Well, if the other party is still around, I can't guarantee that I'll get your treasure back."

Lu Jin nodded and said that the main body, who was comprehending the secret runes of the God-Slaying Spear offline, left the Immortal Ascension Hall and headed to the Netherworld God Kingdom.

He doesn't lack treasures below the level of supreme treasures now, so there's no need for him to steal the supreme treasure carried by the Lord of the Desolate Mirror's clone.

"Thank you!"

Lord of the Wilderness sincerely bowed and thanked him.

The cosmic sea, dangerous places and scattered stars overseas.

"Shh!"

Amidst the endless chaotic currents, a magnificent white jade palace with cloud patterns was teleported in.

The Chaotic Star Sea is not too far from the spaceship, and there is no natural wormhole in between. The location of the Chaotic Star Sea is clearly marked on the map.

For Lu Jin, heading to a place with clearly defined coordinates was far too easy.

The Kunlun Mirror locates the Kunlun Token, and then the direction and distance between the Kunlun Token and the target location are calculated. A spatial teleportation is all that's needed to reach the destination.

The entire Chaotic Star Sea is only tens of millions of light-years in diameter. With his gaze spanning across space, Lu Jin quickly locked onto a figure with eight faces and twenty-four arms, wearing earth-yellow rock armor, in the sky above the inner region of the Chaotic Star Sea. The figure was somewhat abstract.

(End of this chapter)