Swallowing the Stars: Time Simulation

Chapter 409 Amazing Progress

[At 310,000 years old, time has flown by, and in the blink of an eye, you have been an immortal deity for over 80,000 years.]

[For over 80,000 years, you have been diligently studying the laws of space, attempting to break through to the realm of a Cosmic Venerable. However, your cultivation seems to have encountered some bottlenecks. Even after receiving the Beast God's inheritance again, or using the innate secret technique 'Eye of Time' to comprehend the Chaos Stele, you still failed to break through.]

[You sought guidance from your teacher, the Lord of Dragons, who told you that fighting other powerful individuals in reality would allow you to break through to the next level more quickly.]

[Therefore, you began sending your avatar, Tingni, in disguise to explore dangerous secret realms throughout the universe and engage in battles with other powerful beings. Sometimes, you even ventured alone into the territories of hostile races such as the demon race, the mechanical race, and the insectoid race, hoping to lure powerful beings into battle.]

[However, your strength is already extremely formidable, which often attracts even stronger enemies to overwhelm you. You'll rarely encounter opponents of similar strength to fight you; you can only keep trying.]

Fortunately, Tingni's clone is a special energy-based life form, born without a soul. Even if it perishes without carrying any precious treasures, it will suffer no loss!

[At 320,000 years old, time has passed, and another 10,000 years have gone by in the blink of an eye.]

[At this point, the 100,000-year timeframe agreed upon between you and Master Zuoshanke is almost up, yet you still haven't broken through to become a Universe Venerable, let alone defeated Venerable Qingyao. This has greatly increased the pressure on you.]

During this time, your friend Luo Feng also became an immortal god with eternal life. Just after his breakthrough, the Mirror King, whom you had killed and then resurrected by a powerful being, surprisingly challenged him to a life-or-death battle.

[You were worried about your friend Luo Feng's safety and planned to secretly help him in his battle against the King of the Barking Mirror, but Luo Feng politely declined.]

[Luo Feng tells you he's confident he can kill the Barking Mirror King, which seems unbelievable to you. After all, in your view, although Luo Feng has also become a disciple of Master Zuoshanke and successfully recognized the supreme treasure, the Star Tower, he, at only the Immortal God realm, shouldn't be able to use the Star Tower. How could he possibly kill the extremely powerful Barking Mirror King using only his Earthly form?]

To everyone's astonishment, Luo Feng actually killed the Mirror King in battle, just like you, and was even slightly faster than you.

Although you are not jealous of the other person, your competitive spirit makes you feel a strong sense of crisis. In addition, the deadline left by Master Zuoshanke is approaching, so you continue to think of ways to break through to the Universe Venerable realm as soon as possible.

After much deliberation, you've finally devised a method perfectly suited to you: battle against numerous Cosmic Venerables of similar strength within the human race. The human race boasts thousands of Cosmic Venerables, with Space Venerables comprising more than half. If you could fight each of them, it would undoubtedly greatly aid your ascension to the Cosmic Venerable realm. After all, you're currently just one step away from achieving that goal; sometimes, a single spark of inspiration in battle can be the key to a breakthrough.

As the saying goes, "You can't catch a wolf without risking your cub," you used up your few remaining precious treasure points to invite many cosmic venerables from your clan to fight you. Those cosmic venerables, all wanting to befriend you and also wanting to gain some valuable treasure points, were naturally happy to fight you.

[Thus, within a year of Luo Feng becoming an immortal god, you fought against thousands of Space Venerables from the human race, and finally, under pressure, comprehended the complete laws of space, becoming a true Space Venerable. Naturally, your strength also increased dramatically!]

[After becoming a Universe Venerable, your Flame God Clan avatar immediately went to the Azure Radiance Secret Realm to challenge the Azure Radiance Venerable. Unfortunately, although your strength was already extremely powerful and you could completely suppress your opponent, you still could not defeat him.]

[Only then did you realize how difficult the test Master Zuoshanke had set for you was. Although your talent was already extraordinary, you still hadn't met Master Zuoshanke's requirements.]

[To defeat Venerable Qingyao, you borrowed a precious treasure from your teacher, Lord Dragon Journey, which allowed you to successfully defeat him and obtain the location coordinates left by your teacher, Master Sitting Mountain Guest. From there, you also obtained a super treasure that can be used to roam the universe.]

[You planned to return the treasure you borrowed to your teacher, the Dragon Lord, but the Dragon Lord said that a grand feast was about to begin in the Primordial Universe, and with your strength, you could compete for it by concealing your identity. So he directly bestowed the treasure upon you.]

[Decades later, the Primordial Star, the core region of the vast universe, opened. The Primordial Star contains endless treasures, including the Star Pearl you once fused with. Your current strongest combat power ranks among the top even among the countless Universe Venerables of the human race; naturally, you should strive to seize it.]

[After the Primal Star opened, you used your avatar, Tingni, to carry numerous treasures and disguise your identity to enter the Primal Star. Unfortunately, the Primal Star is vast and boundless, and the appearance of treasures is random. Although you are extremely powerful, you still need a lot of luck to obtain treasures.]

[At 330,000 years old, time keeps flowing by. In the blink of an eye, you've already spent 10,000 years on the original planet.]

[Over these ten thousand years, your Tingni clone has made some gains, acquiring several supreme treasures alone, enough to rival the accumulation of a cosmic overlord over countless years.]

During this time, you also encountered the emergence of a supreme treasure. With your strength, you were fully capable of obtaining this treasure. However, just as the treasure appeared, a cosmic ruler from another force appeared, vying with you for it.

[Although your strength is already extremely powerful, you still struggle immensely against a true universe ruler. Even though you have given up that supreme treasure, because your Tingni clone concealed its faction identity, that universe ruler still has no intention of letting you go.]

[Thanks to the supreme treasure bestowed upon you by your teacher, Master Zuoshanke, you were able to barely survive the attacks of the Lord of the Universe. However, the longer the conflict dragged on, the more disadvantageous it became for you. Left with no other choice, you sought help from your teacher, Lord Longxing, through the virtual universe. Upon Lord Longxing's appearance, he easily repelled the opponent, and your true strength was exposed to the eyes of the high-ranking members of the human race. Everyone found it unbelievable, and consequently, they became even more secretive about your true identity.]

Meanwhile, news of the emergence of a super being within the Hong Alliance also spread rapidly throughout the universe.

[Your emergence as a dark horse has become a topic of considerable discussion since the opening of the Primal Star. However, the opening of the Primal Star is a grand feast for the entire Primal Universe. New powerful figures emerge every day, and super beings perish in the struggle for supreme treasures. Although Tingni's clone is quite strong, it won't attract much attention from others.]

In the days that followed, your Tingni clone continued to roam the Primal Star, sometimes acting alone, and sometimes teaming up with other powerful members of the Hong Alliance.

However, as a precaution, neither your Fiery God avatar nor your Earthling true self has yet appeared in the universe.

[At 34 years old, time continues to flow, and you are still wandering on the primordial planet.]

Compared to the long opening time of the original star, the time you've spent exploring is insignificant, but your gains are still quite considerable.

Over the years, every time your Tingni clone encountered a supreme treasure, it would try to seize it. Because of its powerful strength and astonishing defense, you have been quite successful in your attempts to acquire the treasure.

[But as time went by, you also felt the gap between yourself and true super-strong individuals. Although you could defeat, and even kill, weaker cosmic overlords by relying on your many treasures, when you encountered a true top-tier cosmic overlord, you could only rely on your supreme treasures to withstand the attack. In terms of true offensive techniques, you were simply no match for your opponent.]

[After all, your cultivation time is far too short. Although your "Godslayer" spear technique can dominate among the King-level Immortals and even rival most Universe Venerables, it is still far inferior to the true top-tier Universe Overlords.]

After carefully considering the shortcomings of your own strength, you began researching and creating the ultimate secret technique for your own Universe Venerable stage while venturing into the Primordial Star.

However, the creation of this secret technique is extremely difficult, and even with your talent and comprehension, progress will be very slow.

[But just then, news suddenly spread from countless forces across the vast universe, shocking countless powerful beings: the human Blade River King had already possessed the strength of a top-tier cosmic overlord!]

[Who is Daohe King? Your friend Luo Feng! This news, once spread, immediately caused a huge uproar among countless races in the vast universe! Even you find it utterly unbelievable.]

[You should know that even your most powerful Tingni clone is only barely comparable to some top-tier cosmic overlords thanks to its strong defensive capabilities. To achieve that level of strength, you need to further advance your secret techniques.]

[Ke Luofeng broke through to immortality nearly 100,000 years later than you, how could he possibly become a Universe Venerable so quickly? Moreover, even if he became a Universe Venerable, he couldn't immediately possess the strength of a top-tier Universe Overlord. You can't, and neither can he!]

Just as you were about to ask your friend Luo Feng for information, he was suddenly assassinated by the strongest being in the universe within the Ancestral God Sect, which greatly angered Luo Feng.

[Subsequently, Luo Feng made a public appearance on the Primordial Star, attracting the attention of super-powerful beings from the other three hostile races. You wanted to help, but even your most powerful avatar, Ting Ni, was unable to intervene in the battle between those super-powerful beings.]

As time passed, a campaign to eliminate the rising geniuses of the human race began. The other three major races each dispatched their Universe Lords to confront Luo Feng. In this battle, Luo Feng actually killed thousands of Universe Venerables from the three-race alliance, then fought a Universe Lord to a draw, and successfully escaped the encirclement.

Following this battle, Luo Feng's fame began to spread among the various races of the vast universe. The human race had risen to become the new ruler of the universe, the Galactic Lord, Luo Feng.

[Compared to Luo Feng's astonishing achievements, even you, with your initially exceptional talent and comprehension, appear extremely dim. Of course, you were not discouraged by this, but instead chose to continue creating the ultimate secret technique of the Cosmic Venerable.]

[35 years old; in the blink of an eye, thousands of years have passed.]

On this day, you are adventuring on a primitive planet when you suddenly receive news that humanity's highest council is being convened.

At the highest council, many of humanity's most powerful beings began summoning exceptionally gifted immortal deities and cosmic lords to undertake an extremely difficult task.

[At this point, the gap between you and your friend Luo Feng has widened considerably. In order to catch up, after learning about the mission from your teacher, the Dragon Lord, you dispatched your Netherworld Avatar to accompany a super being from the human race to a mysterious place.]

After overcoming the trials of the mysterious land, you have finally arrived at a safe place and begun to solve a chess puzzle called the "Rhinoceros King's Game."

[To comprehend the chess game more quickly, all of you have entered the miniature universe of the strongest being of the Giant Axe. The strongest being of the Giant Axe has also used extraordinary methods to accelerate the flow of time within the miniature universe to more than ten thousand times that of the original universe.]

However, the chess game known as the "Rhinoceros King's Game" is extremely difficult; you have to expend endless effort to barely comprehend it.

[At 950,000 years old, in the blink of an eye, more than 600,000 years have passed since you comprehended the 'Rhinoceros Emperor's Formation' in the miniature universe of the strongest giant axe user.]

[Over these six hundred thousand years, while you were comprehending the Rhinoceros Emperor's Formation, you were also quietly comprehending your own self-created secret techniques.]

[With the guidance of the Rhinoceros Emperor Bureau, you easily created a peak-level secret technique of the Universe Venerable, which is even more powerful than the third form of your self-created "Godslayer" spear technique.]

However, your progress in the research of the "Rhinoceros Emperor's Formation" has been quite slow. Even after 600,000 years, you have only solved the 127th formation with the help of predecessors. Although this speed is not slower than that of other universe venerables of the human race, it is far inferior to that of your friend Luo Feng.

[Simulation ended...]

"This simulation experience..." Yang Wu pondered as he looked at the simulation experience on the simulator panel.

The previous controversy over Earth's ownership and Luo Feng's recognition of the Star Tower as his master had already occurred many times in previous simulations, so there's no need to elaborate further.

However, the simulation experience that followed was quite unexpected for Yang Wu.

"With the assistance of numerous treasures, breaking through to the Universe Venerable realm within ten thousand years is a natural progression!"

Yang Wu thought to himself, "However, to be able to defeat Qingyao Venerable right after breaking through to the Universe Venerable realm, the weapon that Master Longxing lent me must be a top-tier treasure!"

Over the past period of time, Yang Wu has also gained some understanding of many cosmic beings in the universe.

Among them, the weapon used by Venerable Qingyao was a high-grade treasure, and when combined with his powerful divine body, the power it unleashed was not to be underestimated.

Although the Flame God Clan's avatar became even more powerful after becoming a Universe Venerable, it still needed an even more powerful treasure to assist it in truly defeating its opponent.

Upon realizing this, Yang Wu was deeply moved.

After all, even if a Universe Lord were to emerge from the human race, the treasure bestowed upon him by the race would only be a resource of similar value to a top-tier supreme weapon. Yet the Lord of Dragons directly bestowed a top-tier supreme treasure upon him, who was still merely a Universe Venerable.

However, as Yang Wu watched the simulations unfold, he felt even more how terrifying Luo Feng was.

Although Luo Feng in the original work cultivated for nearly 200 million years in the small universe of the old Beast God, the fact that he was able to create the ultimate secret technique of the universe master is enough to show how amazing the other party was.

After all, even for immortal gods with eternal lifespans, a mere two hundred million years is utterly insignificant.

What about Luo Feng?

With the body of an immortal god, he created the ultimate secret technique of the Lord of the Universe!

Such an achievement is hundreds or thousands of times more difficult than creating the third ultimate secret technique at the realm master stage.

Especially considering that the past time in the primordial universe was far too short, it is truly unbelievable that someone could possess the combat power of a universe master in just tens of thousands of years!

"The only pity is that I still went to comprehend the 'Rhinoceros Emperor's Formation' during the simulation! Otherwise, I probably could have survived until after the Three Races War during this simulation!" Yang Wu thought to himself.

When Yang Wu was studying the "Rhinoceros Emperor's Formation," he comprehended it within the miniature universe of the strongest being with the giant axe. Just as the Time Palace could accelerate the passage of time, the time flow rate of the miniature universe should naturally be included in the simulated experience.

Therefore, comprehending the Rhinoceros Emperor's Formation, which has lasted for 600,000 years, is equivalent to only 60 years in the primordial universe, while Yang Wu's simulation experience has already come to an end.

"Fortunately, comprehending the Rhinoceros Emperor's Formation is not entirely useless. At least it greatly helps me in creating the ultimate secret technique of the Universe Venerable!" Yang Wu comforted himself inwardly.

Of course, this wasn't just wishful thinking. The "Rhinoceros King's Game" was a game studied by countless beings on the Origin Continent, and the process of studying it itself helped improve one's comprehension. Otherwise, with Yang Wu's current level of comprehension, he probably wouldn't have been able to create a peak-level secret technique of the Universe Venerable so quickly.

[The simulation has ended. You can choose one of the following rewards.]

[First, his martial arts cultivation at age 95 million.]

[Part Two: Martial Arts Insights at Age 95 Million.]

[Part Three: Simulated Life Experiences.]

Soon, the reward option appeared on the simulator.

"I choose reward two!"

Faced with these three extremely familiar options, Yang Wu did not hesitate at all and directly chose the reward for martial arts enlightenment.

I've become a Universe Venerable, so no one will say I'm stuck at a certain level anymore!

As for the future enlightenment of the Rhinoceros Emperor Bureau, please be rational and refrain from criticism!

Given the protagonist's comprehension level, he will definitely be stuck for a while. Of course, there will also be times when he doesn't participate, which I will write about then.

In the simulation, the protagonist is essentially just an ordinary strong person.

For example, the Seven Swords King; or Coty; or even the Fiery Venerable...

Take the ruler of the Qianwu Kingdom, for example. Wasn't he powerful? He ventured to the Primordial Star and was at least a High-Level Universe Venerable, yet he ended up owing countless debts.

Take Venerable Guiyi, for example. As the third disciple of the Chaos City Lord, how long has he lived? He must have experienced the opening of the Primordial Star, right? Yet, despite his strength as a cosmic overlord and the endless years he has spent, he has not been able to possess a soul-type treasure.

Therefore, the situation of Luo Feng continuously acquiring treasures is truly an exceptional case.

(End of this chapter)