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

Just as the outside world was in turmoil, Lin Yuan's Yan God Clan avatar was undergoing its final breakthrough in the Time Palace.

This is an independent space that only a great cosmic ruler could create, where time flows at a rate more than a thousand times faster than outside.

The space is not large, only about a million kilometers, but it is filled with rich cosmic energy, as well as various rare resources that Lin Yuan exchanged from the clan's treasure trove, which are helpful in improving the genetic level.

The avatar of the Flame God sat cross-legged in the center of the space. Its massive twelve-kilometer-long divine body was crimson, and complex flame patterns appeared on its skin.

"More than six thousand times the genetic level... we're just one step away from achieving it."

Lin Yuan's consciousness was completely immersed in his body.

The genetic evolution path of the Yan God Clan is a heaven-defying path that constantly breaks the shackles of life.

They are essentially born with the Nine Tribulations Secret Manual, and their genetic level is extremely easy to improve, so they can reach a very high level even when they are weak.

After Lin Yuan's clone obtained the bloodline of the Yan God Clan, it increased its own genetic level by eighty times. With the addition of the forty-eight times increase from the fifth tribulation, the overall genetic level was close to four thousand times.

Because the starting point was too high, it was extremely difficult to go any further, and since the genetic level itself could hardly be improved, he could only try to increase the amplification level.

Fortunately, he was standing in front of that threshold at that moment.

……

The genetic evolution of the Yan God Clan is not a simple accumulation of energy, but a leap in the essence of life.

Each breakthrough requires breaking down the original genetic structure and then rebuilding it according to a higher-level template.

This process is full of pain and risk. Failure can lead to genetic collapse, and the complete annihilation of the divine body is also common. Therefore, apart from the Yan Emperor, there is not a single member of the Yan God Clan who can reach the seventh tribulation or above.

For the past 600,000 years, Lin Yuan has been going through a cycle of genetic collapse and the rebirth of clones. This time, he felt that the chance of success was the highest. If he still couldn't break through, then he would have no choice but to crush Venerable Youhuo with his equipment.

"boom--!"

It felt as if stars were exploding inside my body, and every cell was instantly broken down into the most basic energy particles.

A wave of excruciating pain swept over him; it was the agony of his genetic structure being forcibly torn apart. Even with Lin Yuan's cosmic overlord-level willpower, he couldn't help but groan.

But he did not stop; instead, he accelerated the activation of his divine power.

Energy particles drifted through the void and then rearranged according to higher-level laws.

Time slips away quietly.

Three years... five years... ten years...

finally--

"Buzz!"

A silent vibration emanated from Lin Yuan's body, and the scattered energy particles suddenly condensed, transforming into chains of crimson-gold law.

The chains intertwined, constructing a completely new genetic framework that was more complex and stable than before, with each node containing several times the power of the previous one.

"Sixth Tribulation Complete! Ninety-sixfold Increase!"

Lin Yuan suddenly opened his eyes, and his divine body, which was originally twelve kilometers long, began to expand wildly.

As bones grow and muscles reorganize, more intricate and mysterious patterns emerge on the skin's surface.

Fifty kilometers... eighty kilometers... one hundred kilometers...

Ultimately, the divine body settled at 150 kilometers, resembling a vast, continuous mountain range.

The breakthrough in the level of innate secret techniques also led to a slight increase in the level of genes, with the original eighty times basic genes now increasing to eighty-five times.

"Eighty-five times the base gene level, multiplied by a ninety-six-fold amplification..."

Lin Yuan calculated in his mind, a hint of shock flashing in his eyes.

A full eight thousand one hundred and sixty times!

It is less than two thousand times away from the limit of ten thousand times the genetic level of life in the original universe!

"This is only the sixth tribulation," Lin Yuan murmured to himself, his eyes gleaming. "If I could comprehend the seventh tribulation, or even the eighth... or even the ninth..."

He couldn't imagine how strong he would be back then.

The Yan God Clan, a race meticulously created by the reincarnated God King Zuoshanke, has an evolutionary path far beyond the imagination of ordinary cosmic life.

Feeling the surging divine power within him, Lin Yuan slowly stood up.

"It's time to go out."

……

The ancestral mysterious realm, Thunder Fire Canyon.

This is a treacherous region deep within a secret realm, where the sky is perpetually shrouded in deep purple thunderclouds, and the ground is riddled with countless abysses through which fiery red lava flows.

Thunder and fire intertwine here, forming a natural domain of laws. Ordinary cosmic venerables who step into it may be torn apart by the violent power of the laws if they are not careful.

But today, this dangerous place is unusually lively.

The mountain peaks on both sides of the canyon were densely packed with figures.

There are rock giants that are thousands of meters tall, strange birds and beasts with wings that blot out the sky, bizarrely shaped multi-limbed life forms, and strange beings made entirely of energy...

They were all inheritors or peripheral members of the Ancestral God Cult, who came specifically to watch this battle that was destined to shake the entire primordial universe.

"They're here!"

Someone shouted, and all eyes turned to the east side of the canyon.

In the void, a streak of crimson-gold light pierced through the thunderclouds and landed on the lava platform in the center of the canyon.

As the light faded, a twelve-kilometer-high silhouette was revealed.

His entire body was crimson red, with a pair of curved, sharp horns on his forehead, and he exuded a heart-pounding, intense heat.

It was Lin Yuan's Fiery God Clan clone!

"Twelve kilometers..." whispers rang out from the spectators.

"This divine body is indeed enormous among the cosmic venerables. No wonder the Chaos Venerable was able to defeat a venerable despite being a king."

"But compared to Venerable Youhuo's divine body, which spans over two hundred kilometers, he is still far too small..."

"A large divine body does not necessarily mean strength; the key lies in the quality of divine power and the level of secret techniques."

Amidst the discussions, the space on the west side of the canyon seemed to distort.

A giant python, over two hundred kilometers long, emerged from the dragon. It had three ferocious heads, its entire body covered in bluish-gold scales, and its vertical pupils burning with ghostly blue flames.

It is none other than Venerable Youhuo!

"Chaos Venerable." Netherfire Venerable sneered disdainfully, "You're going to fight me with this little brat? If you get beaten up and cry, you can't go back to your parents."

His words were laced with undisguised sarcasm. After all, in Venerable Youhuo's view, the size difference between the two was enormous, and the divine power he possessed, brought by his four thousand times greater genetic level, could easily overwhelm the opponent. Venerable Chaos was simply there to die.

Lin Yuan said calmly, "That's enough."

"Enough?" Venerable Netherfire sneered again. "I hope you'll still be this confident when my Netherfire incinerates your divine body."

As soon as he finished speaking, a streak of light flew out of his mouth.

"Netherfire Domain, open!"

boom!

Centered on Venerable Youhuo, the space within a radius of hundreds of kilometers was instantly enveloped by dark blue flames.

This flame possesses the characteristics of a soul attack; it can both burn the divine body and scorch the soul.

"It is the Netherfire Pearl of the Netherfire Venerable, a supreme treasure of the ordinary realm."

"I've heard that once this domain is activated, the divine bodies of powerful individuals at the same level will be continuously weakened, their souls will also be affected, and their combat power will decrease by at least 30%."

"The Chaos Venerable is in danger..."

The spectators held their breath, but Lin Yuan in the center of the domain didn't even frown.

He raised his right hand, palm up, and a crimson-gold light emanated from his palm.

Lake Yanguang!

It started as a tiny spark, but it quickly expanded into a sea of ​​flames.

Crimson gold flames and ghostly blue flames collided, intertwined, and devoured each other in the void.

"A top-tier domain-level treasure? It seems your human genius isn't all that wealthy after all." Venerable Netherfire sneered. "A mere treasure dares to contend with my Netherfire Pearl?"

The Netherfire Pearl was a rare treasure of the ordinary domain that he had acquired at great cost. Its power was above average among treasures of the same level. How could the opponent's top-tier treasure possibly withstand it?

But the next moment, his sneer froze on his face.

Because the crimson-gold flames were not suppressed, but instead burned even more fiercely, and began to erode the dark blue domain in reverse.

"This is impossible!" Venerable Youhuo's vertical pupils contracted.

He could clearly sense that the divine power contained in the opponent's flames was of an absurdly high quality. With each collision of their domains, his ghostly fire would be easily torn apart by the crimson gold flames.

"Your genetic level..." Venerable Youhuo suddenly realized.

Didn't the intelligence report say that the Chaos Venerable's genetic level was average? So what's going on now?

"Just realized?" Lin Yuan's voice was icy as his figure suddenly vanished.

When it reappeared, it was already above the left side of Venerable Youhuo's head.

No nonsense, no probing.

The fist slammed down with the force of a collapsing mountain, without any fancy techniques, only pure power and speed.

Wherever the fist passed, space shattered layer by layer, and the flames burning on the surface incinerated all matter and energy along the way.

Venerable Netherfire reacted extremely quickly, raising his head abruptly and spewing out a pillar of ghostly blue fire.

The pillar of fire collided with the fist.

Boom—!

The terrifying shockwave spread outwards, shearing off a layer of the mountains on both sides of the canyon. The spectators raised their shields, and even the weaker immortal gods were shaken and their divine bodies became unstable.

At the center of the collision, the scales on the left side of Venerable Youhuo's head shattered, and blood gushed out continuously, but Lin Yuan's fist only had a shallow white mark left.

"The quality of your divine power..." Venerable Youhuo was utterly shocked.

During that collision, he clearly felt that the opponent's divine power was at least twice the mass of his own.

What does this mean?

This means that the opponent's genetic level is at least eight thousand times higher, making it difficult for one's own attacks to penetrate their defenses, while the opponent can attack one at will.

"The intelligence is wrong!" A sense of foreboding rose in Venerable Youhuo's heart.

He originally thought he could easily crush his opponent, or at least have a close contest, but now it seems that's not the case at all.

"We can't fight him head-on; we have to use my vast reserves of divine power to wear him down." Venerable Youhuo made a quick judgment. "If we can hold out for a while, we'll definitely win."

He glanced discreetly at the powerful figures in the demon race camp around him, thinking to himself, "Even if I can't win, I can't admit defeat, otherwise my status will definitely drop significantly."

Boom boom boom!

The two enormous divine bodies collided repeatedly in the void. Although Lin Yuan's Flame God Clan clone was small in size, it was able to send Venerable Youhuo flying backwards every time.

As time went on, Venerable Youhuo became increasingly alarmed. He had already consumed 10% of his divine power, and his combat strength had decreased significantly compared to before. However, Lin Yuan's aura showed no signs of weakening.

He realized something was wrong and wanted to admit defeat immediately.

However, at that moment, a glint of light flashed in Lin Yuan's eyes, who had been maintaining a steady offensive.

The crimson-gold flame domain that had surrounded him suddenly shrank inward, converging entirely at the tip of the Blazing Spear in his hand.

"Flame Flash - Burning Body"

call out!

There was no reaction from the surroundings, but the next moment...

"boom!"

The enormous serpentine body, stretching over two hundred kilometers, erupted with crimson-gold flames that swept outwards from the inside out, causing Venerable Netherfire to struggle under the intense heat.

The divine power within its body constantly transforms under the influence of the firelight, sometimes becoming nourishment for the flames, and sometimes transforming into layers of newly opened spaces that merge into the void.

"No--!"

Venerable Youhuo only had time to let out a desperate roar before turning into a scattered speck of light and disappearing completely into the turbulent energy flow, all in the horrified gazes of countless onlookers.

Less than three seconds!

From the moment the flames ignited to the complete demise of the Netherfire Venerable, the entire process took less than three seconds.

Silence. A deathly silence fell over the entire venue, followed by a deafening uproar.

"Dead...dead? Venerable Youhuo was killed in one move?"

"What kind of flame is that? How could it be burning from inside Venerable Netherfire's body?"

"It's the Law of Fusion! That's a profound application of the Law of Fire and Void Fusion. The Chaos Venerable directly ignited the opponent's divine power by relying on his higher-level Beast God Dao!"

"What the Chaos Venerable just used was absolutely the ultimate secret technique of a cosmic overlord, and combined with his divine power quality that clearly far surpassed that of the Netherfire Venerable... his combat power has reached the level of a top-tier overlord!"

"He probably agreed to the challenge in the first place to establish his authority by using Venerable Youhuo as a weapon; this is a complete and utter trap!"