Swallowing the Stars: Starting with Optimizing the Five Hearts Towards the Sky

Chapter 581 Completing the Nine Fundamental Great Daos

"It really doesn't consume any energy!"

Looking at the optimization task that had successfully entered the simulation space, Chen Yuan's eyes were filled with surprise: "Now we just need to see if the optimized product can be converted into the corresponding energy according to the current level."

With his current level of skill, he can complete Void-level missions very quickly, especially after the acceleration through the simulated space.

A moment later, Chen Yuan removed the Void-level treasure from the optimization panel.

"Now, it's time to verify our conjecture."

He took a deep breath and used the Primordial Hand on the Void Treasure in his hand, transforming it into the purest energy.

【The Source of the Great Dao +113】

"Success!" Chen Yuan exclaimed with ecstasy. "Unconditionally transforming a peak True God-level treasure into a Void-level treasure at a cost of less than one unit of Dao Source yielded a hundredfold return!"

Although this amount of energy is nothing to him, the Primordial Heart will continue to grow. Once this secret technique reaches the eighth level, he can optimize God-King level missions without any cost!

A very ordinary Void Treasure is worth just over 100 Origins of the Great Dao, but a treasure of the first level of God King is worth at least ten million Cosmic Sands!

Well, with his current reserves, ten million cosmic sands aren't worth much, but what if he accumulates them little by little?

He wouldn't even look at ten million, so what about a hundred billion? Or even ten trillion?

Since there are no limits to the optimization bar, as long as he optimizes enough, he can continuously obtain energy reserves.

The longer the time, the more energy he accumulates.

"Now is not the time to be happy, because there is still one last test to be conducted."

That's the upper limit of this "heart".

Clearly, the secret manual only mentions that tasks two levels lower can be exempt from energy consumption, but it doesn't say whether there is an upper limit to this.

To be fair, Chen Yuan felt that such an upper limit should exist. After all, perpetual motion machines and such sound unrealistic, but this is a system and cannot be treated as an ordinary life form.

What if?

With this in mind, he took out a large number of true and mysterious treasures and continued his experiments.

In an instant, tens of thousands of tasks appeared in the simulation space, and this number continued to increase—because Chen Yuan was constantly producing the same secret treasures with the Primordial Hand!

A moment later, the first batch of Void-level treasures was optimized, followed by the second and third batches.

Chen Yuan was conducting a frantic test at a thousand times acceleration. If the system's stored units were replaced with the Source of the Great Dao at this moment, one could see that the numbers at the end of this line were rapidly increasing!

Hundreds of thousands, millions, tens of millions —

Finally, Chen Yuan abruptly stopped, because a line of words appeared before his eyes:

[Warning: The Primordial Heart has entered an overload state and can no longer provide optimization tasks]

"Is that not allowed?"

Looking at the system warning that appeared before him, Chen Yuan sighed softly. As expected, perpetual motion machines do not exist, and even systems have their limits.

He asked the system, "How do I resolve the overload condition?"

[Remaining time to relieve overload: 1000 years]

"So it needs rest." Chen Yuan blinked. "It really is like a living being; if it gets tired, it can rest and come back to rest."

"Wait, since it's a living being—shouldn't it be able to recover by replenishing energy?"

Thinking of this, he continued to ask the system, and sure enough, he received an affirmative answer.

"It costs 100 million Sources of the Great Dao, minus one year's worth of consumption."

Chen Yuan shook his head helplessly: "Through the transformation of Void-level missions, I only obtained a little over 100 billion in total. After deducting the costs, it was exactly 100 billion."

In other words, when the system performs a zero-cost optimization, it doesn't actually consume nothing; the cost is simply borne by the Primordial Heart.

However, the Primordial Heart also has a limit to its capacity. Once it enters an overloaded state, the system will crash and require a long time to recover, or it can be repaired through energy.

"That's really... perfectly logical."

Chen Yuan was not discouraged, after all, this situation was within his expectations.

Although it took a lot of time to conduct the experiments, he also determined the upper limit of the Primordial Heart, which is good news.

"Although the perpetual motion machine is gone, it doesn't mean that the Primordial Heart is useless."

"On the contrary, as long as I don't deliberately push it to its limit, the energy reduction that this heart provides me is real."

As for the upper limit of the Primordial Heart—it is actually very difficult to reach under normal circumstances.

According to tests, the Primordial Heart at the fifth level can only bear an energy limit of about one hundred billion Great Dao Sources, which is exactly the energy consumed by a Chaos Early Stage mission.

The requirement for a no-consumption mission is that it is below two major realms, meaning that a large number of Void-level missions need to be accumulated before it is possible to trigger the overload state.

So how many of these Void-level missions would be needed? Over a billion!

If it weren't for this test, Chen Yuan would never have been able to complete so many tasks. In other words, no matter how many tasks he used without consuming resources, he could never exceed the capacity of the Primordial Heart.

"Moreover, this overload state only applies to missions with no resource consumption —"

Before testing the no-consumption mission, Chen Yuan spent 50 million Yu Shensha to optimize five secret treasures that had reached level 14 to level 2.

According to normal pricing, a level 2 optimization at the fourteenth tier would cost 20 million, meaning the five treasures would require a total of 100 million cosmic sands. However, he only paid half the price.

It should be noted that if a mission is carried out without resource consumption, the Primordial Heart's maximum capacity is only one hundred billion Great Dao Sources, which is merely equivalent to one thousand cosmic sands.

However, if it's just a matter of reducing energy consumption, he not only saved 50 million cosmic sands, but the Primordial Heart was also completely unharmed and could even thrive.

"It seems that the true purpose of the Primordial Heart is to reduce the consumption of tasks."

"Moreover, this secret technique most likely does not support me in obtaining greater benefits by squeezing the system's potential, otherwise it would not have imposed the overload penalty."

So Chen Yuan simply gave up testing the upper limit of energy reduction to avoid triggering a higher intensity load state. Otherwise, if he couldn't afford the energy to repair it, he would be in huge financial trouble.

He can earn back the energy he loses, but once the system crashes, he has to endure the pain of not being able to optimize it for a long time, which is unbearable under any circumstances.

With this thought in mind, Chen Yuan invested the 100 billion Great Dao Sources he had earned into the system, or more precisely, into the Primordial Heart, to repair the crashed system.

There's no other way; we have to fix it.

Because while he was testing these optimization tasks, a year had passed in the outside world, and his avatar in the Origin Space had already collected all the data on the Origin of the World.

"The information on the Great Dao of the World is complete, and we can optimize the inheritance of those four branches to the God-King level. We should strive to master it as soon as possible."

Chen Yuan then sent the four inheritances to the optimization section, while his clone in the Origin Space continued to collect data at the next Origin Avenue.

Time flies, and more than a decade has passed in the blink of an eye.

Inside the Origin Space, Chen Yuan gazed at the Boundless Origin Great Dao before him and slowly exhaled: "Finally, the eight branches of the Boundless Great Dao have been collected, and I have completed the entire Origin Great Dao."

After sending the relevant inheritances of the Boundless Great Dao to the optimization section, Chen Yuan shifted his gaze to the very center of this space.

Just as he had collected all the Great Daos, he suddenly sensed something attracting him from the center of the Origin Space.