Swallowing the Stars: Starting with the Battle of Geniuses

Chapter 144 The Traceless Pearl's Main Battle Form - The Time-Space Harp, Heading to the High-End Battle Zone of the First Battlefield

At first glance, Hunzhen seems to have both a simulation system and futuristic vision, so such a loss is highly inexcusable.

However, it should be noted that future vision also requires energy.

Moreover, the more complex the situation and the more powerful the targets involved, the more energy is consumed.

the most important is……

The simulation system's capabilities are actually all bound to the original user.

Whoever is bound to that life core is the true entity.

Even though the essence of the incarnation is also the true form, there is still a distinction between primary and secondary aspects.

This is even more true for simulated recordings.

The limited amount of information that can be obtained from a single simulation recording is not a new topic.

With one hundred avatars, the amount of information recorded in a single simulation would be far from sufficient to describe each individual's situation in detail.

In fact, during each simulation, the simulation record only provides a brief overview of the situation in the extraterritorial battlefield.

Unless there is particularly important information or a major change, such as the loss of the Traceless Pearl, it is mentioned in just a few words.

The simulation record will always focus on the subjective key points from the perspective of the original deity.

For example, the second avatar who stayed in Chaos City had been quietly cultivating, and there hadn't been any mention of him during this period.

As far as Hunzhen himself is concerned, there's nothing seriously wrong with him, so why is it being reported?

It's impossible for him to be the only one creating bureaucracy, holding a detailed meeting every now and then.

Human One was well aware that his experience in the extraterrestrial battlefield was largely unreliable to the simulation system, and he had to rely on his own hard work and effort.

During the hundred years that the original self has been cultivating in seclusion within the Ancestral God Sect, Hunzhen, as the number one incarnation, has also reaped considerable rewards.

You should know that I have always been cultivating my understanding of the laws and never studying combat techniques or ultimate skills.

Whether it's "so close yet so far" or "completely deleted," they are actually the research results of this Hunzhen!

According to the Lord of Chaos City, the "Traceless Pearl" is a special treasure for killing, and its upper limit in terms of attack power can reach the level of a high-grade treasure.

However, its most important characteristic is that it is "unbound by form". It can be transformed into armor, palaces, or seals. In theory, apart from the original type of treasure, it can be transformed into any other type. Depending on the user's level of development, it can barely reach the level of a high-grade treasure.

Even if it is only moderately developed, it still possesses the power of an ordinary treasure when it reaches its limit.

An ordinary high-grade treasure is enough to make a universe master envious, but a special treasure like the Traceless Pearl, with its infinite potential, is worth no less than a inferior top-grade treasure, especially for universe masters who lack different kinds of treasures and have only recently broken through.

For someone like Hunzhen, who needs to independently develop secret techniques and suitable combat weapons, it's something he wouldn't trade even for a top-tier treasure.

A century has passed, and although the complete combat technique has not yet been perfected, through countless battle experiences, Hunzhen has simplified the complex and determined the main weapon type that the Wuji Pearl can transform into.

As the Lord of Chaos warned, although the Traceless Pearl can have infinite variations, its greatest function is, in essence, a special tool for research and development.

The ability to freely switch between weapon types during battle is indeed very cool and dazzling to the enemy.

However, the process of change is not without gaps. For ordinary immortals, such gaps may not be a big deal, but for immortals at the King level, such gaps are a fatal weakness.

To unleash the full potential of this ultimate weapon, it is ultimately necessary to determine a primary combat form, using its unconventional nature as a supplementary means or a special trump card.

And Hunzhen did just that.

Inspired by his first kill of the Immortal Lord Fenghou in the form of chains nearly a century ago, and inheriting the long-standing habit of using primordial spirit weapons as his main weapons, and after having his many avatars switch between hundreds of different psychic weapons, Hunzhen finally chose the form of a string, or rather, a thread.

Using the strings as a carrier of mental power, it is very easy to unleash the ever-changing characteristics of the Traceless Pearl, enabling all sorts of imaginative combat tactics.

Although the strings are thin and fragile, they are easily damaged in battle, but that only happens in battles involving supreme treasures.

In this extraterrestrial battlefield where only those at the King level possess immortality, even a peak King-level expert cannot sever the string instantly.

Even if it is cut or damaged, it doesn't matter. With the self-repairing ability of the Traceless Pearl, it can be completely repaired in just a few seconds even if there are millions of strings.

Using musical strings as weapons, the most direct means of killing is to use the strings as countless blades to cut and slash.

The so-called "complete deletion" means that the Hunzhen here cannot use it yet, but the main body can use the powerful time characteristics of the Time-Sorrow Demon Blade to release the expected ultimate move in advance.

In Hunzhen's conception, this "string sword" attack technique can be divided into three levels.

The first level, "String Sword Strangulation," uses a string sword to perform the "Spatial Strangulation" law or the "Time Strangulation" law formed by the disorder of time acceleration/deceleration.

The second layer, "complete deletion," uses the harmonious laws of time to remove the material and informational characteristics of the target from the perspective of time.

The third layer, "Dimensional Zero," builds upon the second layer by incorporating harmonious spatial laws. It uses the ability to reverse time and space as a law-based attack to completely annihilate the target.

Some observant viewers may have noticed that there are no spatial attack methods in the first to third levels of the String Sword Attack Technique.

The reason is simple: in Hunzhen's conception, the strings themselves carry the concept and symbol of "time".

He uses space as his instrument and time as his strings. The Traceless Pearl is the prototype of his future main weapon and also a beacon guiding his path.

The space woven from countless strings naturally forms a vast spacetime domain. Too lazy to give it a name, Hunzhen simply calls it the String Sword Domain.

It is no exaggeration to say that when the String Sword Domain is activated, Hun Zhen is using the Traceless Pearl as both a supreme weapon for killing and a supreme domain treasure.

The inherent characteristics of the spacetime domain go without saying.

While possessing immense suppressive power, the string can also be used to create a spacetime blockade at any time, preventing targets from escaping or intercepting them.

In addition, within this string sword domain, as long as the string is plucked, Hunzhen can instantly teleport to another string with almost no loss.

He doesn't even need to teleport; by influencing the local area of ​​the String Sword Domain, he can infinitely stretch the space-time between himself and his opponent. This is called "So close yet so far".

Of course, fully unleashing the String Sword Domain consumes an enormous amount of resources.

To minimize losses, even with the expansion of the miniature string sword domain, Hunzhen can still unleash the string sword strangulation attack.

At the same time, the incomplete String Sword Domain cannot achieve the unconditional teleportation mentioned earlier, but it can barely achieve "a world apart within reach".

Plucking the strings to unleash various secret techniques is like playing a symphony of time and space against the backdrop of this vast universe. It is for this reason that Hunzhen named this form and combat technique "Time and Space Strings".

Ultimately, secret techniques are based on the understanding of laws.

Hunzhen's understanding of the laws was already quite high, but the combat secret technique he was studying required an even higher level of understanding of the laws than he currently possessed.

Even with the support of his ancestral master, the Time-Space Demon God, and the two great sources, he can only currently expand his complete String Sword Domain to a radius of one thousand kilometers.

With the limit of the power of the Traceless Pearl, it can expand a sword domain with a radius of one hundred billion kilometers and maintain the sword's lethality and the domain's strength at their peak.

If faced with a large number of people or a pursuit or lock-on at the extreme distance, the maximum radius is one light-year, and the destructive power and domain strength of the string sword will be reduced to one-tenth of its peak.

At Hunzhen's current level, he can only barely unleash less than one ten-millionth of the theoretical limit of the String Sword Domain by relying on a huge amount of energy.

If not limited to the form of a string, Hunzhen actually has other forms that can unleash the power of the Traceless Pearl to a greater extent, not only in the two paths of time and space, but also by incorporating the understanding of the laws of Yin and Yang and the Five Elements! Its power can directly rival the "Complete Deletion" that even the original incarnation cannot currently unleash!

However, its overall capabilities are far inferior to the string form, and it was ultimately abandoned by Hunzhen as its main battle form.

Just like Luo Feng in the original work, after determining the main battle form of the Traceless Pearl and the prototype of the secret technique, Hunzhen also consulted the Lord of Chaos City early on, asking his teacher to arrange many opponents for him in the virtual universe.

However, compared to Luo Feng, his secret technique, which lacks a blueprint and relies mainly on self-innovation, obviously needs to be honed against more specific opponents.

Luo Feng had 2000 opponents and reached the level of the ultimate secret technique of the Lord of the Universe.

Hunzhen needs to defeat 10000 opponents to reach the ultimate secret technique level of the Lord of the Universe.

In detail:

Defeat 2000 opponents to reach the top level of becoming a king (top-level secret technique).

Defeat 4000 opponents to reach the level of a Cosmic Venerable (ordinary peak secret technique).

Defeat 6000 opponents to reach the level of a cosmic overlord (Ultimate Secret Technique of Cosmic Overlord).

Defeat 8000 opponents to reach the level of an ordinary universe master (the pinnacle secret technique of the universe master).

Defeat 10000 opponents to reach the level of Chaos City Lord (Ultimate Secret Technique of the Lord of the Universe).

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The process of simplifying complexity and achieving true understanding has been underway for only a few years since the secret method was first created.

With the aid of a simulation system, nearly ten thousand years have actually passed.

Hunzhen had only defeated his 2000th opponent not long before.

On the one hand, this illustrates the difficulties of pioneering innovation.

On the other hand, it also illustrates the vast difference in talent between Hunzhen and Luo Feng.

Even after many trials and transformations, in terms of natural talent alone, Hunzhen is still far inferior to Luo Feng.

In addition, there is another reason that has slowed down Hunzhen's progress.

"The training effect of the ordinary areas of this first battlefield has been greatly reduced."

"It's time to get going."

He thought silently to himself.

The first battlefield is much more dangerous than the seventh battlefield, but it only greatly increases the probability of becoming a Marquis or Immortal.

The current Hunzhen has ten incarnations combined to occupy the power of a hundred incarnation units, approaching the peak of the Marquis level, but lacks the immortal body of the Marquis level and the means to burn divine power.

When a hundred incarnations merge into one, occupying the power of a thousand incarnation units to form a single primordial incarnation, one possesses combat power approaching that of a peak-level king.

If one's life essence is unleashed, one can be comparable to a weaker King-level expert.

This is without even taking into account the Traceless Pearl.

If one uses the Traceless Pearl to unleash the String Sword Domain... one possesses near-invincible combat power comparable to a King.

"It's time to head to the 'Blood Sacrifice Continent'."

Just as the Seventh Battlefield has a main continent called "Flame Sacrifice Continent", the First Battlefield also has a "Blood Sacrifice Continent".

However, compared to the Yanji Continent, the native inhabitants of the Xueji Continent had already been wiped out by numerous alien races.

As its name suggests, the Blood Sacrifice Continent is entirely crimson, as if it were stained with the blood of countless beings who perished here.

Previously, I did not enter the Blood Sacrifice Continent for training. Firstly, I wanted to familiarize myself with the battlefield. Secondly, I had been studying the laws in Chaos City, and my combat abilities and experience points had not been updated for a long time. Thirdly, I wanted to hone the combat tactics of various psychic weapons through more frequent battles with lower intensity in order to select the main combat form of the Traceless Pearl.

Now that this step has been taken, Hunzhen naturally set off for the Blood Sacrifice Continent.

When discussing the Blood Sacrifice Continent, the Flame Sacrifice Continent must be mentioned as a comparison.

On the Yanji Continent, there are still combat forces below the Immortal level. Among the Immortal Gods, Immortal Military Lords account for about two-thirds, Marquis-level accounts for about one-third, and King-level accounts for very few.

The Blood Sacrifice Continent is completely different. There may still be Realm Lords here, but they are all powerful Realm Lord Generals, and basically all have immortal-level combat power. It is also a severely affected area targeted by the joint punitive order of the three races in a short-term and subtle way.

As the second most advanced and bloody battlefield outside the domain after the "Star Tower", among the immortal forces, the immortal military lords still account for the largest proportion, but only less than three-fifths.

Of the remaining immortal combatants, 90% are marquises and 10% are kings.

Compared to the near absence of King-level Immortals on the Yanji Continent, on the Xueji Continent, one out of every twenty-five Immortal-level powerhouses encountered is a King-level Immortal—a terrifying ratio.

In a battlefield of this caliber, Hunzhen naturally adjusted his team's configuration.

First, the team was divided from nine to six. The avatar with the alias "Xingluo" who possessed the Traceless Pearl, along with two other avatars, each possessed a power of one hundred units of avatar strength, and each had combat power above the peak of the Marquis level.

The remaining six squads maintained their ten-person squads, with each squad leader possessing twenty to thirty units of avatar power, barely reaching the Marquis level in combat strength. Two squads formed a company, with each company guarding an avatar possessing one hundred units of avatar power, advancing and exploring like searchlights.

Two squads plus a company commander, all at the pinnacle of their power, constitute a complete company. Three companies, with "Star Luo" as the battalion commander, constitute a complete battalion.

This adjustment significantly reduced the scope of the investigation, but allowed for a greater concentration of resources.

Each squadron has a certain ability to resist when encountering a king-level powerhouse with the peak combat power of the Blood Sacrifice Continent.

Once a single Immortal King is entangled and the Captain holding the Traceless Pearl successfully arrives to provide support, it will be difficult for him to escape once he activates the String Sword Domain.

Once the three squadrons are assembled and their power is unified to form the Origin Incarnation, even a King-level expert will be included in the Hunzhen's menu!

However, although Hunzhen (the incarnation of the extraterrestrial battlefield) can fight against the invincible king when all its abilities are unleashed, it is limited by the lack of means to burn divine power, so its killing ability is naturally far from comparable to the real invincible king.

It can easily kill a beginner-level King, and after using the spacetime confinement, it can easily wear down and kill a high-level King.

Upon reaching the peak of the Kinghood, not only are they all extremely capable of preserving their lives, but even with Hunzhen's current String Sword Domain, they cannot be restrained or imprisoned when they burn their divine power.

Unless you're extremely lucky enough to encounter a peak-level King who is extremely countered by him, there's basically no chance of killing him.

In other words, in terms of pure killing ability, it is not as good as the ordinary limit of being a king.

"Hmm? We've already encountered a king being crowned so soon?"

The captain raised an eyebrow and, through the connection between the avatars, received a synchronized view from the second squadron of the first company. A figure of a machine race king, resembling a Zaku from Mobile Suit Gundam, came into view.

What he saw meant that he saw every single one of the entire brigade's incarnations.

At that moment, dozens of people sped and gathered, rushing towards the area where the first squadron was located.

(End of this chapter)