Swallowing the Stars, Hu Yanbo's Pre-Godhood

Chapter 274 I will speak for Heaven

In the quiet room, the Great Dao Book in Huyanbo's palm slowly dissipated.

"The Great Dao of the Five God-Kings at the Second Level was achieved seventy epochs ago."

"The fusion of the two major branches of the second level of the Origin Great Dao of this space has now been completed."

He has achieved the second level of the Five Paths Divine King realm.

All the conditions for becoming the Lord of the Source World have been met.

It is time to enter the source and take control of this world.

Huyanbo's entire consciousness manifested in the origin of the source world.

The origin of all things has no upper or lower, no inside or outside.

Nine fundamental paths stretch across the void, each carrying the fundamental operation of the source world, together forming a supreme set of rules.

As Huyan Bo's consciousness descended, his Hunyuan body naturally aligned with the origin.

The five Divine Kings at the second level of their Great Dao simultaneously connect and resonate with their corresponding Origin Great Dao.

The other four fundamental paths were no longer out of reach; their pathways were clear and tangible, their energy was stable and harmonious, and there was no longer any barrier between them.

The power of the origin of the world spontaneously circulated around his consciousness, enveloping him layer by layer, like water flowing into the sea, like stars returning to their orbits.

"Refining the origin is not about conquering, but about merging one's own Great Dao with the rules of the world." Hu Yanbo's consciousness remained still, his mind tense to the extreme, not daring to deviate even slightly.

With the complete Dao of Cause and Effect as its core, it further draws upon the power of the four Daos of Life, Destruction, Time, and Space, which are in two realms.

The five forces extended in an orderly fashion, steadily reaching the hub of the supreme rules.

The hub is unlocked and unprotected, allowing forces to infiltrate freely.

Of course, only those who are born into this world of origin and who have mastered half of the supreme rules that make up this world of origin can climb up here.

Otherwise, even the strong who break free from the cage will be constantly rejected.

Huyanbo perfectly fits these two ironclad rules.

The power of the five Great Daos merged with the fundamental rules within the hub in turn.

Cause and effect are predetermined, life and destruction complement each other, time and space provide the bottom line, the patterns interlock, the Great Dao resonates in unison, and the power of origin feeds back wildly through the interlocking gaps, washing over Hu Yanbo's consciousness and the foundation of the Great Dao.

Each time they intertwine, one can clearly perceive the operating principles of the source world—the chaotic core of the cosmic sea, the rules of the origin continent, and the birth and death rhythms of the three thousand primordial universes, all of which flood into the mind.

Hu Yanbo's will sank down along the lines of the rules, penetrating the core of the hub inch by inch.

"Only when one's will is firmly rooted here can one truly begin to refine the origin of the source world."

But after taking root for only a short while, Hu Yanbo clearly sensed that the origin of the source world was far too vast.

Even if it showed no resistance and allowed him to refine it, with his current strength of will as a late-stage God Emperor, it would probably take thousands of years to completely refine it.

Therefore—with a slight condensation of consciousness, Hu Yanbo's mind stirred, and the words on the pre-planning panel in his mind reappeared:

[Advance payment project: Lord of the Source World.]

Repayment conditions (completing any one of them is sufficient)

[1. After comprehending the five Great Daos and reaching the second level of each, and finding the Origin World that possesses these five Great Daos, one can become the Lord of the Origin World. This requires secluded cultivation for one thousand epochs.]

[2. Comprehend the five ultimate paths to become the master of the source world; no seclusion is required.]

[3. Comprehend all the Great Daos within the Supreme Rules, advance all Great Daos to the Second Realm, and become the Lord of the Origin World without needing to go into seclusion.]

4. Comprehend the Great Dao of Hunyuan and become the Lord of Hunyuan.

"If I were to receive the advance payment directly, would I need to go into seclusion for a thousand epochs?" Hu Yanbo pondered, calculating to himself.

Although it saves a lot of time compared to refining it purely through one's own will, he has only been cultivating for about two hundred and twenty centuries.

A thousand years is still too many.

Hu Yanbo glanced at the repayment conditions on the panel, paused briefly, skipped the first one, and focused on the next two.

As for the fourth point, comprehending the Great Dao of Hunyuan and becoming the Lord of Hunyuan, Huyan Bo gave up on it without even thinking about it.

With a slight thought, the text on the advance payment panel changed.

[Advance payment project: The Ultimate Realm of the Path of Life.]

Repayment conditions (completing any one of them is sufficient)

[1. Comprehend the profound mysteries of the Great Dao of Life within the three thousand eras of lower-level primordial life.]

[2. The secret method for establishing the Great Dao of Life in the early stages of the God Emperor's reign.]

Hu Yanbo looked at the panel and shook his head.

It seems that even with some pre-existing panels and increased affinity with the Great Dao, the difficulty of reaching the ultimate realm of the Great Dao is still terrifying.

Whether it is comprehending the primordial life of three thousand eras or creating a secret technique at the level of a god-emperor, neither is an easy task.

It would be better to just go into seclusion.

"Let's consider the cost of pushing the other four Great Daos to the second level."

Hu Yanbo pondered, and another thought arose in his mind.

[Advance payment project: Five branches of Wuliang Avenue.]

Repayment conditions (completing any one of them is sufficient)

[1. Comprehending the boundless, fundamental Dao for sixty million days.]

[2. The secret technique for creating the second realm of the Boundless Great Dao.]

[3. Absorb the boundless precious liquid and comprehend three million days of enlightenment.]

"Repaying the Great Dao seems even easier now."

Having just faced the repayment requirements of the Ultimate Realm Great Dao, Hu Yanbo showed no unusual reaction. But now, looking at the repayment conditions of the first stage of the Boundless Great Dao, he suddenly understood much more clearly.

He has begun to merge with the origin of the Source World, and the affinity between his Primordial Body and the Great Dao within the Source World has been significantly enhanced.

"This is it! I happen to have over 25 reward points left in the Infinite Space, so I'll make the most of it now."

"Otherwise, wouldn't these reward points be wasted if we became the Lord of the Source World?"

Once one becomes the master of the source world, one will be a world-class chaotic life form that has broken free from its shackles.

Many of the treasures in the infinite space were originally crafted by beings at this level.

By then, reward points will be meaningless.

Since that was the case, Huyanbo decided to live life to the fullest.

The remaining four avenues will be repaid in the fastest way possible.

"The five branches of the Boundless Path, advance payment!"

"Boundless Elixir, exchange."

In the quiet room, boundless precious liquid entered his body.

Huyan Bo quietly contemplated and comprehended the five branches of the Boundless Great Dao in order to repay them.

"The two major branches of the Boundless Path are merging, advance payment!"

After another thirty epochs of comprehension, the Boundless Great Dao steadily entered the second realm.

Boundless, Extreme Point, World, Matter, these are the remaining four Great Daos that constitute the Supreme Rule.

If you have treasures, use them; if you don't, go into seclusion to meditate.

As it continuously aligns with the origin of the source world, the difficulty of repaying the Great Dao is greatly reduced.

The four great paths, from their branches to their second level, were all completed in just over a hundred epochs.

Thus, space, immeasurable, extreme point, world, matter.

All nine supreme rules and principles have been mastered to the second level.

Hu Yanbo scanned the Origin Hub with his mind again and sensed that although all nine Great Daos had reached the second level of perfection, which greatly slowed down the time required for refining them on his own, he still could not refine them completely in an instant.

The origin of the world is too vast. Even without the slightest rejection, Hu Yanbo's realm is still too low.

It still requires a long process of refinement before it can be truly mastered.

but-

Hu Yanbo never intended to rely on himself to slowly endure the hardships.

The repayment conditions have been fully met.

Why wait for thousands of years?

There's no need for further polishing.

Now is the perfect time.

Hu Yanbo calmed his mind, and the premonition about the Lord of the Source World reappeared in his mind.

"Prepayment, from the Lord of the Source World!"

In an instant, the invisible supreme rules emitted a silent resonance, and the primordial hub suddenly lit up with a faint light.

The origin of the world was completely opened, and all nine supreme rules and patterns lit up, fitting perfectly with the hub patterns without a single gap.

The power of the origin surged like a burst dam, rushing wildly into Huyanbo's body through the point of connection.

The entire refining process was completed in an instant.

Hu Yanbo's own will, like an unparalleled foundation, was nailed into the core of the hub, completely locked to the foundation of the source world, thus becoming the core fulcrum of the source world's operation and dominating the direction of all rules.

At this moment, he clearly sensed that he and the Source World had become symbiotic and inseparable.

At this moment, the entire Origin Continent and Origin World held no secrets from him.

Every rule flowing, every fold of space, every wisp of primal fluctuation is clearly tangible and entirely under control.

Hu Yanbo's consciousness slightly focused, and with a light flick of his fingertips, the shattered space in a certain part of the Origin Continent instantly healed, and the chaotic energy obediently returned to order.

With another movement, a chaotic area in the cosmic sea instantly calmed down and resumed its normal function.

Even the river of time that records all the traces of the origin continent unfolds before consciousness.

The river of time rises and falls, and countless living beings traverse it—the living ones continue to move forward in their respective timelines, vibrant and alive.

For the dead, the timeline stops at a certain point and never extends further; it is frozen in that past moment.

Hu Yanbo's consciousness stirred again, and he retrieved another stagnant timeline of life. With a gentle stroke, the broken timeline was completely restored, and the life force continued to flow in the river of time without ever stopping.

He knew that within the Source World, within the cage, he could indeed grant immortality to the life forms here.

The moment a thought arises, the rules of the source world are moved accordingly.

With a single thought, the Nine Supreme Paths were thus fixed.

"I speak for Heaven's will, this is the Lord of the Origin World!" Hu Yanbo said with some joy.

Before the joy had subsided, even greater joy followed. Hu Yanbo sensed that the vast divine light of the entire Origin World was surging and boiling, continuously flowing back to nourish him, cleansing his life level, body, and soul.

Their own strength is increasing at an unimaginable and exaggerated rate.

Hu Yanbo was shocked—"Previously, imprinting one's will on the origin and refining the origin were merely borrowing the power of the source world to fight the enemy; ultimately, it was 'borrowing power.'"

"Now it's truly internalized."

After receiving this feedback from the Origin World, even if Hu Yanbo leaves this world and enters any region of the Chaos Origin Space, he can still display powerful combat strength that transcends all limitations.

"Is this another benefit of the weak refining the source world?" Hu Yanbo remarked, sensing his ever-increasing strength.

For beings at the lord level, refining the source world is merely a means to revive old friends and acquaintances within it.

Even slightly weaker world-class Chaos Origin lifeforms, when refining the Origin World, can only receive a significant boost in combat power when fighting around the Origin World.

Even weaker advanced Chaos Origin life forms, or those who haven't yet broken free from the shackles of the half-Chaos Origin level, can experience a significant boost.

But someone like Hu Yanbo, whose own Great Dao is still only at the Ultimate Realm and who has not even truly touched the Great Dao of the God Emperor level, is unheard of.

The Dao remains the ultimate Dao, but the level of life has been forcibly elevated countless times by the source world.

It is important to know that there are God Emperors, Semi-Primordial Lifeforms, Advanced Primordial Lifeforms, and World-Class Primordial Lifeforms.

With each leap in realm, the gap increases exponentially.

The semi-primordial life form is considered the pinnacle, but even an invincible semi-primordial level being can crush dozens of others of the same level, yet cannot withstand even a trace of high-level primordial power.

Only a future Chaos Lord who takes the path of breaking laws with force during the half-Chaos Origin stage can annihilate the power of a high-level Chaos Origin with a half-Chaos Origin body.

A world-class Chaos Origin Lifeform can easily annihilate a peak-level High-level Chaos Origin Lifeform with a flick of its wrist.

At this moment, Hu Yanbo had not even touched the Great Dao of the God Emperor level, yet he directly leaped from a life within the cage to the ranks of world-class Chaos Origin experts.

The combat power has increased by more than billions of times.

Hu Yanbo closed his eyes and focused his mind, carefully sensing the leap in his life level, with the divine light of his origin flowing endlessly within his body.

On the continent of origin, an unparalleled and immense will, like a surging torrent, swept across the entire continent, reaching far and wide.

The supreme rules manifested with a roar, and endless divine radiance rose from the chaotic rifts on the edge of the continent, transforming into a sky full of golden light. The vast and majestic pressure of the world's origin instantly enveloped heaven and earth, causing mountains and rivers to tremble and the rules to hum.

At this moment, all the God-Kings on the Origin Continent were shaken to their core and their souls trembled as they clearly perceived that a new will, transcending all things, had been born within the supreme rules.

Most of the god-kings looked bewildered, their brows furrowed, their bodies frozen in place.

Throughout their lives, they never left the Origin Continent, and they couldn't even figure out the Origin World.

Not to mention trying to understand what lies beyond the source world or what kind of power exists there.

Such overwhelming pressure, so unlike anything they had ever seen before, was completely beyond their comprehension; they had no idea what had happened.

Only a few God Emperors who knew some of the secrets trembled as they gazed at the churning divine light and the curtain of rules in the sky, their expressions filled with awe and fear—they vaguely knew that this was a sign of the birth of the Lord of the Origin World, an existence that could control the life and death of the entire Origin Continent, had descended.

"Flame Wind!" Thunder Ancestor was surrounded by lightning, but he could not hide the panic in his voice.

"Someone has become the master of our Fangyuan world!"

Yan Feng stood within his own small world, his expression as solemn as iron, his gaze fixed on the rule-based light curtain in the sky.

"I never imagined that someone could refine our Fangyuan World."

"Refining the Source World is just a legend, even in the Dark Holy Realm. No one has ever actually seen it, let alone been able to do it."

"I never expected that this time, the two of us would witness this legendary scene with our own eyes."

"Hopefully, we will have the opportunity to witness the brilliance of this Lord of the Origin World in the future," the Thunder Ancestor said expectantly.

Yan Feng slowly shook his head: "Regardless of whether there is hope or not, I think we should first dissolve the two ancient kingdoms."

"I think no strong person would want a rival force to dominate their world!"

"You're right," Thunder Ancestor nodded.

"Also, inform Feng Xi that if his disciple, Huyan Bo, can gain the favor of the Lord of this Origin World, the chances of him escaping his confinement will greatly increase." Yan Feng nodded slightly and continued, "Hmm!"

Compared to the mysterious and unpredictable Lord of the Origin World, Huyanbo's relationship with them was somewhat closer.

If he can successfully break free from the cage, they will have more to rely on when traveling in the Dark Holy Realm in two days. It will be much more reassuring than relying on that unpredictable Source Master.