Swallowing the Stars: Ten Thousand Times Return for Taking on Disciples

Chapter 273: A Surprise Right From the Start

This Ice Prison truly lives up to its reputation as a powerful, sealing-type treasure.

Lu Qingshan walked for several days and nights, only to find that this world seemed to have no end.

obviously……

The interior of the Ice Prison is much larger than the outside.

Moreover, it is impossible to teleport to the Divine Kingdom within this icy prison.

However, a virtual universe is usable.

Lu Qingshan walked through the Ice Prison while chatting with his teacher, the King of Qianwu Kingdom.

"Qingshan, come back after you've gotten your benefits. What are you doing running off to the Ice Prison? That's no good place."

"Master, I've heard that the Ice Prison holds some top-tier experts. I'll definitely come and see it if I get the chance. Don't worry, Master, I'm confident in my abilities."

"Even if you're confident, you still need to be careful... But anyway, you have Qing Kou's token, so you can leave at any time."

"Hmm, teacher... it seems they've discovered the enemy."

"Be careful."

……

Inside the icy prison, large detectors were unusable, but the small detectors that Lu Qingshan carried with him still proved somewhat effective.

Just now, he sensed a strong fluctuation of divine power ahead.

The Time Overlord Armor materialized on his body, and Lu Qingshan took out the Banyan Wood Divine Blade, instantly increasing his speed.

About 100,000 kilometers away, on a mountaintop.

A monster covered in feathers and with vertical pupils looked at Lu Qingshan with excitement.

"A newcomer, a newcomer from the Ice Prison!"

The man roared as if he had gone mad.

He transformed into a streak of light and flew straight toward Lu Qingshan.

"Newbie, let's fight! If you don't kill me today, I'll kill you!"

madman!

Lu Qingshan looked at this madman; Nasus had already pulled up his information.

The Katu Clan is a minor sub-clan of the Demon Clan. This peak-level King is likely a top expert of that clan.

call!
A blood-red blade flashed past.

Lu Qingshan took a step back to dodge.

The blade struck the ground, causing the earth to tremble. An attack from a peak-level King-level expert would likely have destroyed an entire star system if it were outside.

“Katul clan expert, why don’t we have a chat? There’s no need to start fighting right away.”

After dodging one of the attacks, Lu Qingshan spoke.

"Die!"

Seeing that his attack had been dodged, the Katu clan expert instantly burst into flames, his strength increasing by more than a thousand times.

His eyes were bloodshot, like those of a bloodthirsty madman.

"Directly burning divine power? It seems this guy has truly lost all reason."

Lu Qingshan frowned slightly.

He did not continue to try to communicate with the other party, just as the powerful Katu tribe warriors, burning with divine power, were about to attack.

"Time stops!"

Lu Qingshan decisively used Time Stop.

Logically speaking, successfully using the Time Stop technique is not easy, especially when facing an opponent of the same level.

They were very fast and had plenty of opportunities to dodge. After all, the closer the strength, the more one had to shrink the area to stop time and restrict the other. The enemy naturally knew this and would be careful not to get caught up in it.

After all, this move is too overpowered. Even if time stops for only 0.1 seconds, it can launch several attacks directly, and that's when the opponent is unable to move. If it's not weakened, then those who have comprehended other branches of the law will have no chance to play.

However, this powerful member of the Katu tribe had no intention of dodging at all, and instead charged straight in.

His body paused, and Lu Qingshan used time acceleration to instantly arrive in front of the Katu clan expert.

"The Milky Way is beginning to appear!"

Swish! !

A single slash appeared, like a galaxy of stars.

The Katu clan's powerful divine body instantly collapsed. Although it quickly reformed, it was noticeably much weaker.

"Time stops... One strike annihilates 30% of my divine body. You are now an invincible king, and the newcomer is also an invincible king!"

The Katu clan's powerful figures showed no fear; instead, they became even more frenzied.

"To die at the hands of an invincible king is a win-win situation, a win-win situation!!"

he yelled.

The sound traveled in all directions!

The powerful warriors of the Katu tribe charged forward again, ready to die.

This time, Lu Qingshan didn't use Time Stop and slashed twice more. The Katu clan expert didn't even think about dodging, and both slashes hit him directly.

"Boom!"

The flames on the Katu clan's powerful figure vanished, and his divine body could no longer be condensed; he completely perished in this icy prison.

"died……"

Looking at this crazy guy, Lu Qingshan felt sorry for him, even though he was from a different race, and a hostile demon race at that.

This powerful figure from the Katu clan held a position in his own race that was probably equivalent to that of the Star Wheel King he knew in the Hong Alliance. He bore the heavy responsibility of the race's development and originally had a promising future, but who knew that he would be imprisoned in this icy prison for countless epochs, leading to his complete collapse.

To be able to drive a peak-level King-level expert to the brink of suicide, one can only imagine how long he had been imprisoned.

"Damn it, I was hoping to find someone familiar with the Ice Prison to show me the way, but I ran into a madman right away."

Lu Qingshan continued forward, activated the detector, and searched for the next target.

He just left.

The snow on the ground slowly rose up, forming a round, chubby snowman. The snowman looked at the place where the Katu tribe had died and sighed softly.

"Dead? Katu, you useless thing, you couldn't even hold on for long! You couldn't hold on, but I still have to!"

The snowman said something and his body slowly disappeared. Before he disappeared, his gaze was fixed on the direction Lu Qingshan had left in.

Humans!!
The king is invincible!

The last powerful being to leave the Ice Prison was a human... Humans have a virtual universe that allows them to contact the outside world.

A hint of struggle flashed in his eyes, but he ultimately followed.

……

At this moment, outside the Ice Prison Star.

As a treasure of Venerable Qingou Kou, Ice Prison Star naturally has a way of observing what is happening inside.

When Lu Qingshan encountered the madman of the Katu tribe, he originally planned to rescue him and take him away from the Ice Prison, but unexpectedly, Lu Qingshan stopped time, which made him completely unable to do so.

Next, we saw Lu Qingshan effortlessly and swiftly kill the Immortal King of the Katu Clan.

Venerable Qingou Kou turned around, looking at Venerable Ziou Kou beside him in disbelief, and asked, "Are you sure he's a Realm Lord? Have you ever seen a Realm Lord who has mastered two branches of the laws of time?"

"I trust my gut feeling!"

A hint of surprise flashed in Venerable Zidou's eyes.

Even in the Ancestral God Sect, a place teeming with geniuses, she had never seen such a heaven-defying realm lord before.

A World Lord-level being can easily kill a peak-level King, especially one who has burned divine power; this is simply a miracle.

"Qing Kou, are you sure this is your old friend's disciple? And not the personal disciple of the Human Chaos City Lord, the Giant Axe Founder?"

"Venerable Zidou Kou asked."

"I'm sure, didn't you just overhear my conversation with Qianwu?" Qingkou looked at Lu Qingshan in the Ice Prison, pondering where the problem lay.

Suddenly he asked.

"Do you think this Lu Qingshan might be the person Zuo Shanke asked us to deliver that black metal plate to? On the surface, he is the disciple of the Qianwu Kingdom's ruler, but in reality, he is Zuo Shanke's disciple. After all, only a universe-leading being like Zuo Shanke could cultivate such a heaven-defying genius!"

"You have a vivid imagination, but this is impossible! If that were the case, why would he abandon that black metal plate and go to this icy hell on his own initiative?"

"Could there be some misunderstanding?"

"Don't overthink it. This Lu Qingshan is obviously a disciple of a top human expert, but on the surface he is just a disciple of Qianwu."

"Venerable Zidou Kou said with certainty."

"In any case, my worries are unnecessary. As long as he is careful in this icy prison, he should not be in great danger."

After observing for several days, Venerable Qingou Kou found that Lu Qingshan had not yet encountered a single opponent, so he shook his head and turned to leave.

No matter what the situation was, he pretended not to know, since it had nothing to do with them anyway.

……

Inside the icy prison, Lu Qingshan continued searching for other powerful individuals, but the detectors failed to detect a single person.

The Ice Prison is too large, with hundreds of people scattered inside, and large detectors cannot be used, making it extremely difficult to find the others.

This is why the Katu tribe has survived all these years.

They only need to hide in some secluded place, and it will be very difficult for those stronger than them to find them.

"Human! Can you speak with me?"

Suddenly a voice came.

Lu Qingshan looked closely and realized that the source of the sound was a snowman a few hundred meters away.

"Right on my mind."

Lu Qingshan flashed to the snowman.

At such close range, neither the detector nor the snowman detected it, which clearly indicates that this snowman is no ordinary creature.

Lu Qingshan looked the snowman over and asked, "Introduce yourself."

"I come from the Snow Demon Clan, and this is one of my snow clones."

The snowman spoke.

Lu Qingshan asked Nasus to check; with his access privileges, he could find out anything that wasn't top secret.

Soon, Lu Qingshan learned some information about the Snow Demon Clan.

The Snow Demon Clan... an extremely rare and special race in the universe. Some of them live in the Snow Demon Secret Realm. There are cosmic overlords among the clan, and their rarity is similar to that of the Demon Slayer Clan.

Although they cannot compare to some powerful special life forms, the Snow Demon Clan's potential far surpasses that of the top races.

The key is possessing two innate secret techniques.

One is concealment, and the other is the ability to create clones.

Lu Qingshan instantly understood that the snowman in front of him was just a 'clone' created by the Snow Demon Clan using a clone technique.

The power of this clone is far inferior to that of the original body. Even if it is killed, the divine power of the clone will automatically dissipate and return to the original body. Only if all the divine power imprints of this clone are completely destroyed will the Snow Demon Clan lose the corresponding divine body of this clone.

This snowman is very weak. The Snow Demon Clan used it to communicate with Lu Qingshan, so they obviously wouldn't waste too much of their divine body's energy to create an avatar.

As for why Lu Qingshan couldn't detect it, that's because of the first talent: Concealment. The natural environment of Ice Prison Star is perfect for the Snow Demon Clan's Concealment talent.

"Snow Demon Clan, what do you want to say?"

Lu Qingshan asked.

"I want to know, can you leave the Ice Prison?" The Snow Demon's eyes held a hint of anticipation.

"it should be no problem."

Lu Qingshan said.

"I knew it, I knew it." A hint of surprise flashed in the Snow Demon's eyes: "If you were an old man from the Ice Prison, I wouldn't believe you, but you're just a newcomer who has just entered the Ice Prison. I can believe you. You are an invincible king of the human race, you can use the virtual universe, and you are a top expert of the human race. I can definitely rescue you!"

“I want to make a deal with you!” said the Snow Demon.

Lu Qingshan was slightly surprised: "What kind of deal? I can't take you out of the Ice Prison."

“No…you don’t need to take me out of the Ice Prison. Just send news of my existence back to my people, and they will naturally find a way to ransom me.”

The Snow Demon's voice carried a hint of excitement.

“Okay, but what can you bring me?” Lu Qingshan looked at the snowman.

“A priceless treasure! Thirty million epochs ago, a powerful expert at the peak of the King realm perished in the icy sea. My avatar obtained his treasure, but I myself cannot use it. If you agree to my request, I will give you that treasure as your reward!”

Lu Qingshan was slightly startled, but a look of joy appeared on his face.

Having only been in the Ice Prison for less than a month, a pleasant surprise has already arrived. To receive a valuable treasure for simply delivering a message—in the primordial universe, there is probably no more profitable business than this.

“I can grant your request, but you will act as my guide during my time in the Ice Prison. That should be fine, right?”

"No problem, this clone of mine can stay with you the whole time."

After the deal was struck, the snowman disappeared for a while, then reappeared shortly afterward, holding a sword-shaped treasure in his hand.

Among all the powerful treasures, the cheapest one is probably only at the level of the Ghost Moon Blade, but Lu Qingshan is already quite satisfied.

(End of this chapter)