Swallowing the Stars: Time Simulation

Chapter 414 New Simulation

Time really flies!

Yang Wu couldn't help but sigh inwardly, "In the blink of an eye, I've already cultivated for millions of years. This simulation count has been refreshed again!"

More than two thousand years have passed in the primordial universe. Even without counting his experiences in the time simulator, Yang Wu has already cultivated in the Time Palace for more than two million years.

As for the simulated experience, it has been repeated dozens of times.

Immediately, Yang Wu activated the time simulator in his mind.

"Current simulation attempt: 1. Start The Sims now?"

"Start the simulation!" Yang Wu immediately made his choice.

After selecting the stable simulated personality, lines of simulated experiences that Yang Wu was quite familiar with reappeared on the simulator panel.

[At 257 million years old, you have become a powerful Cosmic Venerable. Your strength ranks among the top in the entire vast universe. Even when facing attacks from some of the Cosmic Lords, you are able to escape unscathed.]

[At this moment, your divine power clone is cultivating in the Time Palace within the miniature universe of the strongest being with the giant axe. To conserve resources, you have deliberately dissipated this divine power clone. After all, for someone with an eternal lifespan like you, the passage of time has little significance, so there's no need to waste resources on it.]

……

[At 266 million years old, time has flown by, and in the blink of an eye, you have devoted yourself to cultivation for tens of thousands of years.]

[For tens of thousands of years, you have been diligently studying the laws of time, attempting to become a more powerful ruler of the universe. Unfortunately, simply relying on secluded cultivation is no longer very effective in breaking through to the level of ruler of the universe, and you are temporarily unable to achieve this.]

During this very period, the Primordial Star, which appears only once every endless years, was activated—a grand feast for all the powerful beings in the entire Primordial Universe.

The Primordial Star contains endless treasures; with the right opportunity and strength, one may obtain powerful and precious artifacts. After the Primordial Star opened, you, too, used an avatar to disguise yourself and enter.

[After years of secluded cultivation, you have already created several ultimate secret techniques for cosmic masters. Therefore, with your strength, as long as you don't encounter a powerful cosmic lord on the original planet, you should have no problem surviving.]

[The only downside is that the primordial planet is vast and boundless, and the appearance of treasures is entirely random. Although your strength is astonishing, obtaining treasures will still require a great deal of luck.]

[At 268 million years old, time continues to flow, and in the blink of an eye, you have already spent 20,000 years on the original planet.]

During this time, your clone, relying on its formidable strength, either seized rare treasures or slew alien enemies attempting to besiege you, thus achieving some success.

However, as time passed, your strength spread throughout the universe, until eventually few people dared to provoke you. Even after your encounter on the original planet, alien races who weren't confident they could survive against you would immediately retreat, significantly reducing your gains.

During this time, you also happened to witness the birth of a high-level treasure. Originally, with your strength, you had a great chance of obtaining that high-level treasure. However, when the treasure appeared, a universe lord from another force happened to be nearby, and so you encountered him while vying for the treasure.

[The number of primordial stars is vast, but the number of Universe Lords in the primordial universe is extremely rare. Therefore, when encountering a Universe Lord during a struggle for supreme treasures, most powerful beings will consider themselves unlucky and relinquish the treasure to the other party. Universe Lords also possess pride and naturally wouldn't target Universe Venerables whose strength is significantly inferior to their own.]

[However, in the struggle for that supreme treasure, you, who had long wanted to test the strength of the Lord of the Universe, did not give up immediately, but instead faced the Lord of the Universe head-on. This enraged him, and he attempted to kill you on the spot.]

However, your strength has now become extremely powerful, ranking among the top even among the most powerful cosmic overlords. Your opponent, on the other hand, is merely the leader of a powerful race, whose strength is only average among the many cosmic lords in the vast universe. Therefore, although your opponent suppressed you after the battle, they were helpless against you, and you thus confirmed your true strength.

[The moment your full power was unleashed, it immediately attracted the attention of several super beings in the human race, who then became even more secretive about you.]

[But not long after, you suddenly received news that your friend Luo Feng had appeared on the Primal Star. Luo Feng had only recently broken through to the Immortal God realm, and although his strength was comparable to that of an ordinary Universe Venerable, he was still in great danger on the Primal Star, where powerful beings were everywhere.]

For the safety of your friend Luo Feng, you plan to team up with him to venture into the Primordial Star. However, before you can even find him, a shocking piece of news suddenly spread throughout the vast universe: the human Daohe King has actually possessed the strength of a top-tier cosmic overlord.

[This news was utterly unbelievable, even to you. After all, you know Luo Feng's strength very well, yet he's already caught up with you?]

[Just after your conversation with Luo Feng, you learned that he had already possessed the strength of a top-tier cosmic overlord even before breaking through to the Cosmic Venerable realm. This unbelievable news shocked you.]

[You must understand, your divine body, secret techniques, and supreme treasures are all top-tier within the Universe Venerable realm, which is why you possess the strength of a top-tier Universe Overlord. Luo Feng is merely an Immortal God; even with perfect genes, how could he possibly possess the strength of a top-tier Universe Overlord?]

[Subsequently, the other three major races that had fought against humanity for countless years also launched assassination attempts against Luo Feng. However, Luo Feng remained unharmed and even reappeared publicly on the Primordial Star, attempting to kill a top cosmic overlord of the demon race.]

[After Luo Feng's operation failed, it immediately attracted the attention of super-strong individuals from the other three peak races. As a powerful figure on the human side and a close friend of Luo Feng, you naturally had to go and help him. Therefore, after sending your precious treasures back to the Divine Kingdom, you set off to assist Luo Feng.]

[Just after you fought your way out and reunited with Luo Feng, the other three top-tier races each dispatched their Universe Lords to deal with Luo Feng, including one Universe Lord extremely skilled in soul control. Fortunately, your Ting Ni clone is an energy-based life form, born without a soul; even if it were killed by the enemy, the loss would only be some precious treasures.]

However, in the ensuing battle, Luo Feng miraculously withstood the combined attacks of several Universe Lords with a single blow. With the help of many human Universe Lords, he then brought you back to human territory. Luo Feng's strength was thus recognized by countless powerful beings throughout the universe, and he was hailed as the Galactic Lord.

Compared to Luo Feng's astonishing achievements, even with your strength as a top-tier cosmic overlord, you still appear somewhat lackluster. Of course, you haven't let this discourage you; instead, you continue to cultivate diligently, hoping to break through to the realm of a cosmic master as soon as possible.

[At 267 million years old, time continues to flow, and thousands of years have passed in the blink of an eye.]

On this day, you are searching for treasure on a primitive planet when you suddenly receive a notification to convene the highest meeting of the human race.

At the highest council, numerous super-beings of humanity gathered many exceptionally talented immortal gods and cosmic venerables from within the human race, hoping that they could travel to a mysterious place to complete an extremely difficult task.

[You learned from your teacher, the Lord of Dragons, that this was an incredibly extraordinary opportunity. Therefore, you, who possess the ability to create clones and can be resurrected after death, also signed up for this difficult mission.]

[Subsequently, numerous super geniuses from the human camp quickly gathered, and then, led by a supreme being of the human race, arrived at an extremely mysterious place.]

After overcoming some trials in this mysterious place, you have finally arrived at a safe location and begun to analyze a chess game known as the "Rhinoceros King's Game."

[In order to comprehend the chess game more quickly, the divine avatars of all of you were sent into the miniature universe of the strongest being of the Giant Axe. The strongest being of the Giant Axe also used an extraordinary method to accelerate the flow of time within the miniature universe to more than ten thousand times the flow of time in the original universe.]

However, while you were studying the Rhinoceros King's Chess Game, you suddenly had a sense of déjà vu. Others spent a long time trying to understand a single game, but you were able to easily analyze each game.

However, being cautious by nature, you didn't immediately begin analyzing the game, but instead maintained a similar pace of solving the puzzle as everyone else.

However, as time went by, the sense of déjà vu that you felt while analyzing the 'Rhino King's Formation' gradually disappeared, and your analysis speed slowed down considerably.

[977 million years old. In the blink of an eye, more than seven million years have passed since you comprehended the 'Rhinoceros Emperor's Formation'.]

During this time, your friend Luo Feng and another Cosmic Venerable have successively completed the first test of analyzing the 'Rhino King's Formation,' while you have only just reached the 897th formation. This has put considerable pressure on you, and you have subsequently devoted yourself even more fully to analyzing the 'Rhino King's Formation.'

[Of course, during this long period, while analyzing the Rhinoceros Emperor's Formation, you also created another set of ultimate secret techniques for a Cosmic Venerable, making your strength even more comprehensive.]

[Simulation ended...]

"As my strength increases, my progress in the simulations becomes slower and slower!"

Looking at the simulation experience, which was quite similar to the previous ones, Yang Wu sighed inwardly.

Since breaking through to the Universe Venerable realm, his comprehension has improved once again. Even if he were still at the Realm Lord stage, he would probably be able to easily create his third ultimate secret technique before his lifespan ends.

"However, compared to the most outstanding geniuses of the three reincarnation eras, I am still somewhat lacking!" Yang Wu sighed inwardly.

This statement is based entirely on previous simulation experiences.

Even before this simulation, Yang Wu had already undergone dozens of simulations during his time as a Cosmic Venerable, accumulating over 20,000 epochs in total.

In the original story, the analysis by the Rhinoceros Emperor Bureau lasted for three epochs. Under a time flow rate of ten thousand times, the analysis would take 30,000 epochs.

Judging from Yang Wu's analysis speed, at most, 30,000 epochs would only be enough time to break through the first bottleneck in analyzing the Rhinoceros Emperor's Formation.

However, in the original work, there were more than 300 strong people who were able to break through the first bottleneck. Although their talents were quite amazing in the entire universe, they were still far inferior to Luo Feng, the Azure Blood Venerable, and others.

But that's normal!

According to Yang Wu's speculation, those who can break through the first bottleneck within 30,000 epochs have the potential to become the strongest beings in the universe, while those who break through the second bottleneck have the potential to become true gods of the void...

Similarly, the third bottleneck represents the eternal true God, while the fourth bottleneck represents the potential for sainthood!

After all, among the countless generations of inheritors of the Duan Donghe lineage, only one God-King has appeared—the third-generation patriarch. If the fourth bottleneck represents the potential to become a God-King, then the trials of the Duan Donghe lineage are far too difficult.

Yang Wu's talent and comprehension are now comparable to those of many universe masters among the human race. However, becoming a universe master will require some time and opportunity!

"Fortunately, after so many years, I haven't wasted my time. I've still managed to create a few sets of the ultimate secret techniques of the Universe Venerable!" Yang Wu thought to himself.

When Yang Wu defeated Qingyao Venerable using the peak secret technique of the Universe Venerable, he had already barely possessed the strength of a top-tier Universe Overlord. Now, having created the ultimate secret technique of the Universe Venerable, his strength is probably among the top below the Universe Lord.

"Moreover, as I spent more and more time in the simulation, my willpower also rose to the level of a cosmic master!"

For the strong, improving their willpower can be both simple and difficult.

Back when Yang Wu was still a Realm Lord, he already possessed the will of a Venerable. However, his will did not improve accordingly during these two consecutive breakthroughs, since the time it took for Yang Wu to break through was simply too short.

However, as time went by, and with the support of the time simulator, Yang Wu's willpower continued to improve steadily.

After more than 20,000 years of simulation, it is not surprising that his will has risen to the level of the Lord of the Universe.

Just as Yang Wu was deep in thought, three more reward options reappeared on the simulator panel.

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

[First, his martial arts cultivation at age 977 million.]

[Part Two: Martial Arts Insights at Age 977 Million.]

[Part Three: Simulated Life Experiences.]

"I choose reward two!" Yang Wu immediately made his choice.

Just after Yang Wu made his decision, a tremendous surge of martial arts insights flooded into his mind.

Among these insights into martial arts, there aren't many about the laws anymore. After all, Yang Wu only has one last step left in understanding the laws of time.

Among these martial arts insights, the most numerous were those concerning his self-created secret techniques and the Rhinoceros Emperor's Formation. These insights flooded into Yang Wu's mind like a tidal wave.

A set of ultimate secret techniques of a cosmic sage is incredibly complex and profound, yet at this moment it seems to be completely imprinted in Yang Wu's mind, and he can use it at will with just a thought.

"Now that I possess two ultimate secret techniques, my strength is likely to surpass that of the Ancestral Tree Venerable!"

"There are better solutions to many of the things that will happen next!" Yang Wu thought to himself.

(End of this chapter)