Swallowing the Stars: Starting with a Meteor Tear

Chapter 236 Ten Thousand Years, the Master of Weapon Refining

The founder of the giant axe acted with extreme decisiveness.

Five years after Zhou Yang fell into that abyss, in a dangerous place called "Magic Light Cave" in the inner region of the Peak Realm, the Giant Axe Founder directly blocked two Universe Lords of the Zerg Alliance.

Without any unnecessary words, a major battle broke out!

Those two Zerg Alliance Universe Lords didn't have Zhou Yang's teleportation abilities. Faced with the spacetime sealing of the Giant Axe Founder, they were almost powerless to resist!

Ultimately, one of the two universe masters was killed and completely perished by the Giant Axe Founder, while the other, having another avatar, chose to self-destruct to avoid being suppressed and sealed.

In the first battle, two Zerg cosmic overlords perished!

Among them is a fourth-tier Universe Lord from a Zerg subordinate race, and another is a Zerg Queen at the Universe Lord level, who are the true elites of the Zerg!

The fall of these two was a huge blow to the entire Zerg Alliance!

The founder of the Giant Axe even declared that he had no say in battles between people of the same level.

But if someone tries to bully the weak by relying on their higher cultivation level, he wouldn't mind killing a few more universe lords to show off his abilities!

In a distant cosmic region, a piercing shriek echoed from a queen's palace that was traveling at speeds exceeding ten thousand times the speed of light!

"Melanie is completely fallen? Humans, giant axe, damn it all! They all deserve to die!"

On the throne, the Zerg Queen's once alluring face twisted in agony, her crimson eyes filled with endless hatred and resentment!

Not only her, but all the Zerg queens below also had sorrowful faces and were howling mournfully!

"Humans, they deserve to die, they all deserve to die!"

"Kill! Smash into the human race and avenge Melanie!"

Throughout the Zerg race, the number of Zerg Queens is extremely limited, and each one is the very core of the Zerg!

Not to mention a Zerg Queen of the universe level, who is definitely the true pillar and foundation of the Zerg.

The fall of a Zerg Queen of the universe's level has truly stung the Zerg's weak spot!

The Zerg Queen and all the Zerg Mother Queens were filled with resentment and roars, their hatred and resentment towards the creator of the giant axe who killed their people!

However, they failed to realize that Zhou Yang, whom they had attacked not long ago, held a much more important position among humans than a Zerg queen!

In the eyes of all the high-ranking human powerhouses, Zhou Yang is very likely to break through to become the strongest in the universe in the future, and his importance is no less than that of the Chaos City Lord!

Especially for the founder of the giant axe, he received guidance from the primordial ancestor in his early years. When the primordial ancestor was suppressed, he hoped that the human race would be well led, and he has always taken this as his responsibility.

Now, a genius universe master in his race, who had the potential to break through to become the strongest in the universe, was shamelessly targeted and assassinated by the Zerg, and even fell into the abyss of the Ten Thousand Caves Gorge. This undoubtedly made him truly furious!

Enraged, he disregarded his status and attacked the two Zerg faction's Universe Lords.

The killing was both an act of venting and a warning!

This is a warning to the Zerg and other races and forces that have grudges against humanity: humanity also has the strongest beings in the universe. If you can shamelessly target my human universe's ruler, then I will naturally not care about my status anymore and will also kill your strong beings, and I will kill them even more ruthlessly!

It must be said that the warning from the founder of the giant axe was very successful.

Although the Zerg warriors were angry and resentful, under the naked threat of the Giant Axe Founder, they could only suppress their hatred for the time being and ultimately did nothing more extreme.

This small clash between the Zerg and Terrans has now come to a temporary end.

For an extremely long period afterward, the fighting and strife among the various races in the primordial universe continued unabated.

However, everyone seemed to have regained their previous understanding, and there were almost no more scenes of the universe's ruler or the strongest being targeting a growing genius without any scruples.

Time slips away quietly.

Tens of thousands of years passed quickly.

Since the dazzling Lord of Reincarnation of the original human race fell into the abyss of the Ten Thousand Caves Gorge, there has been no new news about him.

Some believe he perished completely in the abyss of that cave, while others believe that because his main body perished and his treasures were lost, his clone is hiding in the human territory to recover his strength.

Countless powerful figures in the cosmic sea still frequently discuss this genius who rose to prominence like a comet.

Some admired, some felt sorry, but others were secretly pleased and delighted.

However, all of this is temporarily irrelevant to Zhou Yang.

Wanku Gorge is a place with extremely deep caves.

"Whoosh whoosh whoosh~~~"

A massive opening, millions of kilometers in diameter, constantly sucks in the chaotic energy within the entire passage, creating vast vacuum zones.

Zhou Yang's clone, clad in black armor, took the opportunity to advance along this vacuum area.

As he continued forward, he sensed that he had traveled at least tens of thousands of light-years along this dark cave.

Upon arriving here, the concentration of black mist, fierce winds, violent lightning, and flames in the cave had reached an alarming level.

Based on the extent of damage that the absorbed energy caused to the new universe, Zhou Yang estimated that even the strongest being in the universe would be immediately torn apart and annihilated into nothingness if exposed to that energy!

He had to expand the suction channel to a diameter of a million kilometers before he could barely create a safe passage for himself to move forward.

"So that's how it can be done. Interesting, really interesting. I had completely overlooked this step before."

In the new universe, Zhou Yang's true form was laughing heartily.

A small purple tower floated silently in front of him. The tower had three layers, each layer of which was imprinted with intricate runes.

He raised his hand and waved it, and the three-story purple tower immediately flew forward, growing larger as it went.

"Boom!"

When it landed, the original small purple tower had transformed into a majestic divine tower with a height of tens of millions of kilometers!

Layers of mysterious patterns flowed around, and an invisible aura emanated from the divine tower. Upon sensing it, it had actually reached the level of a top-tier treasure!

"I never expected that observing those mystical stone carvings would so profoundly impact my art of weapon crafting. Now I can truly call myself a 'Grandmaster of Weapon Crafting'!"

Zhou Yang couldn't help but feel delighted.

Throughout the journey, he mainly relied on that clone to navigate the outside world.

His main focus, however, was on studying the secret patterns and carvings on the cave walls.

These engraved patterns seem to contain a trace of the secrets of crafting artifacts by an ancient civilization before the endless cycle of reincarnation.

What might have been a trivial mystery to that ancient civilization was quite profound for Zhou Yang today.

Although he possessed the treasure-refining inheritance of the Mountain Hermit, the inheritance, though profound, required him to spend a great deal of time to comprehend and understand it.

The subtle mystery contained in the cave carvings directly led him into a series of illusions, making him feel as if he were witnessing scenes of ancient civilizations refining treasures. The impact was even more direct and clear.

Moreover, Zhou Yang also realized a misconception he had been having all along, based on the stone carvings in the cave.

When crafting a supreme treasure, the material itself is only one aspect; the secret patterns contained within it are even more important.

Although Zhou Yang had previously studied the Chaos Runes to an extremely high level and was almost able to fully understand all the mysteries of the eight fundamental laws, no matter how he combined and transformed the various mysteries he had mastered, he was still unable to make it reach the power of a high-grade treasure.

However, after seeing the cave carvings, he understood the reason!

He had previously assumed that the combination of individual runes was a variation and application of all the profound laws and mysteries.

There are eight lower-level basic laws, each of which has 10081 basic mysteries, totaling 80648 mysteries.

Once you master all 80648 profound principles, you can create all kinds of laws and secret patterns by arranging and combining them.

However, after seeing the cave carvings, he realized that he was wrong, or rather, that his perspective was too one-sided.

It is true that there are 80648 basic profound mysteries in the eight lower-level laws, but when combining them, you are not limited to these 80648 profound mysteries. You can apply the same profound mysteries multiple times to different parts of the body!

For example, if he wants to refine a fire-type treasure, he can imprint the 10081 profound meanings contained in the fire-type laws two, three, or even more times to form a multi-layered fire-type secret rune!

In this way, the number of secret rune combinations he can master can be virtually expanded infinitely!

Even the Chaos Runes he was studying were the same; a single Chaos Rune encompassed the laws of spacetime, which in turn could be divided into eight lower-level laws.

But is mastering the Chaos Runes all there is to it?

If we combine the two Chaos Runes, or extract a portion from each of the two Chaos Rune diagrams and combine them, wouldn't that be a new combination?

Perhaps in the mind of the mountain dweller, these are all simple and easy questions, so he did not emphasize this point in his teachings.

Zhou Yang had previously only refined heavy treasures or ordinary treasures, and had never used such complex runes before. He hadn't thought about it in this direction for a while, and had temporarily fallen into a cognitive misconception.

However, he immediately realized what was happening after being slightly touched by the stone carvings in the cave.

This realization, coupled with hundreds of millions of years of research in the new universe's time acceleration region, led to his rapid advancement in the integration of laws and the art of treasure refining.

Now he has not only made new progress in the research of fusion techniques, but has also successfully refined his first 'top-level treasure'!

A top-tier treasure, a treasure that even many universe lords would covet and fight over!

Before this, in the entire primordial universe, including the Mountain Guest, there were only four master craftsmen capable of forging 'top-tier treasures'.

But now, we have to add Zhou Yang to the list!

"Haha, even if I don't gain anything else afterward, this trip will still be worthwhile!"

Zhou Yang was in a pretty good mood.

However, he did not truly retreat from the situation.

Having come this far, I'd feel a bit unsatisfied if I didn't go and see the final destination!

"Whoosh whoosh whoosh~~~"

Inside the cave passage, Zhou Yang's black-armored clone continued to advance.

The chaotic and violent energies, such as black mist, gales, lightning, and flames, in the cave were continuously absorbed by the new cosmic passage, clearing a safe passage for him.

Zhou Yang's clone in black armor continued to advance along this safe passage, encountering almost no obstacles along the way.

Soon, nearly five thousand years had passed.

Zhou Yang has been in this cave passage for over 15,000 years.

Finally, on this day, as the new cosmic passage continued to absorb energy, the black mist ahead gradually faded, and a hazy ray of light appeared in the fog ahead.

(End of this chapter)