Swallowing the Stars: The cheat system only comes when I'm almost a god?

Protostar No. 7521

This is a mountain range shrouded in a pale golden mist. The mountains are composed of some kind of mineral that emits a golden light and is exceptionally hard.

"Buzz—"

A pale blue light curtain enveloped the area spanning millions of kilometers, isolating this region from the outside world.

A rare treasure in the common realm: Blue Water Realm.

Inside the light barrier, the battle had been raging for half a day.

Clad in fiery red armor, Venerable Flame Moon relentlessly thrust out his spear, blocking all of the attacks from Venerable Shadow Blade of the Northern Frontier Alliance.

The armor is called the Flame Phoenix Armor, and both it and the Blood Flame Spear are high-grade treasures bestowed upon them by their teacher, Venerable Flame Cang.

Venerable Yan Yue broke through when she was invincible at the King level, so as soon as she broke through, she had the strength of a mid-level universe Venerable. With these two supreme treasures, she now has the combat power of a high-level Venerable.

Lawrence from another battle group wore a set of silver armor, the surface of which shimmered like water; it was the Radiant Armor, a high-grade treasure.

In his hand was a long sword that gleamed with cold light, each strike capable of piercing through space and time—the supreme treasure weapon, the Sky-Splitting Sword.

As the personal disciple of the master weapon refiner Long Xingzhi, Lawrence was clearly treated better than Venerable Yan Yue.

Moreover, Lawrence himself is more talented, so even though he broke through 500,000 years later than Yan Yue, his current strength has surpassed Yan Yue's, making him the number one fighter in the team.

His opponent was a five-meter-tall alien race whose body was as if cast from refined iron, wearing a black iron armor and wielding a giant hammer.

"Humans, you have gone too far!" the Iron Bone Venerable roared, his giant hammer smashing down on Lawrence with the force of a collapsing mountain.

Lawrence simply stepped lightly, his figure flashing past the hammer strike like a phantom, and the Sky-Splitting Sword shot out like a venomous snake, aiming straight for the Iron Bone Venerable's throat.

"clang!"

The sword tip touched the black iron armor, and cracks appeared on the surface of the armor, but it did not completely break.

"Such tough armor." Lawrence raised an eyebrow slightly. "But it's useless."

He moved his longsword again, this time the tip of the sword lit up with a silver light - Void Piercing Strike!

"puff!"

The sword light pierced through the armor and directly penetrated the Iron Bone Venerable's divine body. Although its power was weakened by the armor, the remaining force still caused the opponent's divine body to lose three-thousandths of its power.

"What?" The Iron Bone Venerable was shocked.

His black iron armor was an ordinary treasure with extremely strong defense. It was impossible for a high-level Venerable who had not created his own ultimate secret technique to break through it. Yet the opponent pierced through it with a single sword.

"You are not an ordinary high-level Venerable!" Venerable Iron Bone finally realized something was wrong.

Lawrence did not answer, but only intensified his attack.

On the other side, Venerable Flame Moon and Venerable Golden Flow joined forces to suppress Venerable Shadow Blade and Venerable Rock Shield.

Venerable Jinliu wore a long golden robe and held a golden abacus in his hand. Each bead that flew out could transform into a golden stream of light, making the attack unpredictable and difficult to defend against.

He focused his attacks on the Shadow Blade Master, his abacus beads following him like a shadow, forcing his opponent to constantly dodge.

Flame Moon Venerable faced off against Rock Shield Venerable, whose defense was extremely strong, but whose attack methods were limited.

The Bloodfire Spear kept striking the giant shield, sparks flying everywhere, and each impact left a faint white mark on the shield's surface.

"This won't do!" Shadowblade Venerable anxiously transmitted his voice to his companions, "They have a domain-type treasure to seal off the space. We can't escape. We have to fight to the death."

Rock Shield Venerable gritted his teeth: "How can we fight? That human with the sword is too strong; Iron Bones won't last long."

Sure enough, after only a hundred or so rounds, Lawrence found Ironbone Venerable's weakness.

"it's over."

The Broken Sky Sword suddenly disappeared, and when it reappeared, it had become a giant sword several kilometers long. In Lawrence's hands, which had released the limitations of his body size, it shone with endless silver light. Even the Iron Bone Venerable, who was hundreds of meters tall, looked like a speck of dust in front of it.

"No--!"

……

The primordial universe is in turmoil, with the covert war between the six top powers and the Northern Frontier Alliance unfolding continuously on the primordial planet.

However, these disturbances did not reach the depths of Chaos City.

Time seemed to pass even faster in this sacred land of humanity; six hundred years had passed since the end of the Supreme Council.

In the virtual universe, in the central mountain range of Thunder Island, inside a newly built, majestic temple.

In the meditation room, Lin Yuan slowly opened his eyes. Countless spear shadows seemed to vanish in his gaze, ultimately settling into a single, intensely sharp point.

"Finally...it's done."

He muttered to himself, holding no spear, yet the entire quiet room seemed to be filled with an invisible spear intent, the space slightly distorted and trembling.

Over a period of six hundred years, with the help of the sparring partners and the enlightenment function in the chat group set up by Venerable Yan Cang, he rapidly advanced the third form of the Flame Dragon Break to the true peak level of secret techniques.

This move, named "Star Burning," is the culmination of his current material attacks. It combines the violent burning of the fundamental law of fire with the sealing and penetrating mysteries of the fundamental law of space. With a single strike, it is as if a star is collapsing and the star field is burning. Its power has completely crossed the threshold of the cosmic venerable.

"Then it's time for him to break through." A glint flashed in Lin Yuan's eyes.

The modification of the secret technique was originally intended as a pretext to cover up the main body's fusion with the Blood Crystal. Now that the secret technique is complete, the main body's progress has reached its limit.

His true form possesses a trace of innate beast god characteristics, and when fusing with the Blood Crystal, he is not limited by the genetic level of ordinary life forms, which is a hundred times greater.

Over the past six hundred years, he has exchanged and fused more than three thousand Blood Crystals, causing his genetic level to soar to an astonishing six hundred times.

However, the enhancement effect of Blood Crystal is not unlimited.

As the genetic level increases, the enhancement effect brought by each Blood Crystal also decreases sharply.

After fusing more than 3,100, no matter how hard he tried, he could no longer make any change in the genetic level of his original self.

"Six hundred times the genetic level is about right."

Lin Yuan knew perfectly well that if he used a large amount of Beast God blood, his genetic level could be further improved, but the Virtual Universe Company obviously wouldn't give him unlimited exchange rights for that.

After all, the more than three thousand Blood Crystals he used were only equivalent to thirty drops of Beast God's Blood, which was nothing compared to the consumption of the Kings and Venerables of the Hong Alliance. But if it were Beast God's Blood, it would be different; his consumption alone would be equivalent to that of the entire Hong Alliance.

With a thought, most of his consciousness returned to the Azure Dragon avatar located in the Divine Kingdom.

The primordial universe, deep within the spatial interlayer.

Far from the hustle and bustle of the normal starry sky, only endless fragments of space exist here, and Lin Yuan's divine kingdom is hidden in this misty interlayer.

Inside God's kingdom, the scene is different from before.

The central continent remains vast, but above it now stretches a boundless expanse of azure nebula.

The nebula rotated slowly, and upon closer inspection, it was not a real star or cloud, but rather the light refracted by countless fine blue scales.

Lin Yuan made ample preparations for this breakthrough.

He knew that when a powerful being with clones broke through, the fundamental laws of the universe would descend upon the largest clone of the divine body, so he placed the Azure Dragon clone in the divine kingdom in advance.

The Azure Dragon clone's genetic level has reached the limit of a hundredfold, so the resources required to replenish its divine power are much more than before. However, Lin Yuan still spared no expense and spent various precious resources worth more than thirty treasure points to push its diameter to an astonishing 700,000 kilometers!

Now it sits above the divine kingdom, truly like an ancient star dragon descending to earth, a single scale comparable to a mountain range.

Beside the Azure Dragon clone's head, which was comparable in size to a planet, Lin Yuan's Flame God Clan clone sat cross-legged in mid-air.

This clone's genetic level is over three thousand times higher, but its normal divine body size is far smaller than that of the Azure Dragon clone. Even with the complete release of the life form suppression, it is only about twelve kilometers in size.

Although it is not large in size, the divine body of the Flame God Clan clone is of extremely high quality and contains incomparably pure energy.

At this moment, Lin Yuan's main body, Azure Dragon clone, and Flame God Clan clone were all connected and immersed in the deepest level of understanding of the laws.

The Earth and Void Beast God's Inheritance Crystal Core floated in front of the main body, emitting an earthy yellow light and ethereal spatial fluctuations.

"The earth's weight sustains all things; the space's vastness encompasses all realms... Earth is the foundation, space is the domain, and when the two combine, that is..."

Lin Yuan had already comprehended the three great mysteries of the laws of space. Now, under the guidance and connection of the Beast God's inheritance, the originally independent mysteries began to resonate in a wonderful way.

"Buzz..."

In the center of the divine kingdom, the void between the Azure Dragon clone and the Flame God Clan clone suddenly trembled violently.

Clear spatial cracks were generated and intertwined, outlining three complex and dazzling images.

One image is like an iron wall encircling and suppressing everything; another image is like a storm of a thousand blades cutting through everything; yet another image is like a twinkling star gate, reaching far and wide.

"Merge!"

Lin Yuan's consciousness emitted a low shout.

The main body formed a hand seal, the Azure Dragon clone's eyes widened, and dark red flames ignited around the Flame God Clan clone.

"Click...click..."

As if some kind of shackles had been broken, the three secret patterns were no longer independent of each other, and the patterns on their edges began to extend and merge continuously.

The stability of the spatial blockade provided a fulcrum for the strangulation, the sharpness of the spatial strangulation opened up a path for teleportation, and the agility of teleportation, in turn, enriched the mystery of the blockade...

Time seemed to lose its meaning at this moment.

It could be a moment, or it could be ten thousand years.

at last!

"boom!"

The three secret patterns merged completely into one, transforming into a flawless three-dimensional secret pattern.

The pattern was complex and profound, exuding a spatial aura that even made powerful kings tremble.

"It's done!"

next moment--

"Boom!!!"

An endless pressure descended upon Lin Yuan's divine kingdom, as if the primordial will of the universe had cast a glance upon it.

Immediately afterwards, in the central sky above the divine kingdom, where the Azure Dragon's avatar was perched, space seemed to have been torn open by an invisible giant hand, creating a huge gap.

"Splash—"

Five-colored light illuminated the entire divine kingdom!

The radiance of the five lower-level fundamental laws—metal, wood, water, fire, and earth—flowed and swirled like colorful ribbons, jointly protecting the most vast ray of silver light at the core.

A massive, multicolored vortex with a diameter exceeding two million kilometers formed above the Azure Dragon's avatar and began to spin wildly. At the center of the vortex was the ocean of the fundamental laws of space, through which boundless divine power surged forth.

"The fundamental laws of space have descended!"

Lin Yuan was filled with excitement. This scene, which far surpassed that of ordinary Venerables breaking through, was a privilege brought about by the Azure Dragon's massive size of 700,000 kilometers.

"Inhale! Inhale with all your might!"

Without any communication, the Azure Dragon clone let out a dragon roar that shook the entire divine realm and opened its massive maw.

The Devouring Heaven Demon Art and the Kunpeng Devouring Technique obtained from Little One were used simultaneously. On the enormous dragon body, which was 700,000 kilometers long, every scale transformed into a miniature vortex, bursting out with terrifying suction force.

The avatar of the Flame God Clan also sat cross-legged beside the dragon's head, its twelve-kilometer-tall body resembling a bottomless black hole, joining the ranks of those absorbing the energy.

"They're here!"

As if the Milky Way had burst its banks, endless spatial divine power condensed into a giant pillar of light, completely enveloping most of the Azure Dragon's body and the Flame God Clan's avatar, while immortal divine power rapidly transformed.

Lin Yuan could clearly feel that his connection with the origin of the primordial universe had never been so close. With a thought, he seemed to be able to control the endless space around him.

However, aside from the time of breaking through to become an immortal god, the blessings from the primordial universe's origin are limited when breaking through to other realms.

Just a moment—

"Buzz..."

The multicolored vortex began to shrink rapidly, and the cascading pillar of divine power quickly became thinner.

The descent of the fundamental laws of space has ended.

As the last ray of multicolored light dissipated into the void of the divine realm, the oppressive aura faded, and everything returned to peace.

"Hoo..." Lin Yuan carefully sensed the state of the two clones.

The Azure Dragon's clone, a divine body spanning 700,000 kilometers, ultimately has a conversion rate of approximately 65%.

The dragon's body, spanning over 450,000 kilometers, has been completely transformed into Venerable-level divine power. The remaining portion is still slowly absorbing energy from the divine realm for further transformation, which is destined to be a long and arduous process.

Even so, the total amount of divine power possessed by the Azure Dragon clone at this moment was enough to make most universe venerables feel despair.

The avatar of the Flame God Clan, with a divine body about twelve kilometers long, underwent a 100% transformation during the descent of the origin of the universe. A Venerable-level divine body with a genetic level more than three thousand times higher and purer divine power has already taken shape!

"Space Venerable..." Lin Yuan's true form stood up in the quiet room, a joyful smile on his face.