Swallowing the Stars: Starting with the Battle of Geniuses

Chapter 176 Supreme Resolution, Meeting with the Virtual Universe Company Lineage

Consciousness is the foundation of the soul; it is the objective energy of the soul.

Willpower is the mindset of life, the subjective initiative of life; the stronger the inner self, the stronger the will.

In the world of Swallowing the Stars, consciousness influences will.

Even a realm lord with a weaker willpower will quickly acquire an immortal-level will after breaking through to immortality.

Breaking through to the Venerable level grants one the will of a Venerable; breaking through to the Lord of the Universe grants one the will of a Lord of the Universe.

After Hunzhen broke through to the level of the Lord of the Universe, he possessed the consciousness of the Lord of the Universe. In addition, he already had the will of a Venerable. During his hundreds of years of traveling through the universe, his will naturally reached the level of the Lord of the Universe.

This can be considered to have filled his biggest weakness.

Even without the Beast Soul Statue and the Void Armor, it's not like he was so powerful in soul ability that he was easily defeated by a strong soul-type expert among the Lords of the Universe who exploited his weakness.

Of course, under the omniscient perspective, the state of perfect harmony is close to "my mind is the mind of heaven", which is an absolutely rational god who controls himself, and his will is equivalent to an extra level.

In addition to his ability to evade the future and his ability to recover from the future, anyone who could threaten him with a soul attack must have been a super master in this field.

But the enhancement of willpower is not just about improving the ability to defend against soul attacks.

Hunzhen knew that those supreme treasures and even some peak treasures had special requirements for willpower.

Like the Star Tower, as a weapon of the God-King, it requires the ultimate will of a Universe Venerable during the Realm Lord period to recognize its master.

The core of the Chaos Golden Wings, as a treasure of the level of an Eternal True God, requires the realm lord to possess the ordinary will of a cosmic venerable to recognize it as their master.

The Supreme Being of the Universe demands the will of the strongest being in the universe, and the Lord of the Universe, in turn, requires the will of a Void True God to acknowledge Him.

The so-called supreme treasures, even the weakest ones, are all at the level of true gods. For a true being to recognize a master, one's will must at least reach the top level of the Lord of the Universe.

Otherwise, even if he collected the list of materials provided by the Mountain Guest and enabled him to transform the Discoloration Core into an ultimate treasure, he would still be powerless to do anything about it.

However, this requirement only applies to treasures that have not yet been claimed by a master; treasures that have already been claimed by a master are not subject to this requirement.

Just like... Hunzhen's two natal treasures.

Hunzhen traveled through the universe for hundreds of years, but in fact, he had already mastered the first dance of the Demon God Dance in the first few decades, and truly became a perfect life form in the universe.

Previously, his basic combat strength was considered top-tier at the third rank. His laws were special and his secret techniques were strange, so his actual combat strength was a notch higher than his paper strength, comparable to the fourth rank.

But now, with perfected genes, Hunzhen's basic combat strength has reached the fourth level, making him comparable to the Lord of Heaven.

His two innate treasures also changed after he mastered the first dance of the Demon God Dance.

After he broke through to the level of the Lord of the Universe, the Time-Shattering Demon Blade and the Void Armor were upgraded to the level of high-grade treasures.

The reason why they are comparable to top-tier treasures in Hunzhen's hands is not only because they fit perfectly in "feel," but also because they have some effects similar to domain treasures in Hunzhen's hands.

Ordinary treasures can suppress and restrict enemies, and can also be added to the user's offensive and defensive capabilities, enhancing their offensive power and defensive abilities.

The true essence of a natal treasure is to enhance both offense and defense, and its consumption is negligible compared to the enormous consumption of domain treasures.

The same type of artifact stacking, like in the Immortal Era, adds the power of two additional artifacts of the Time and Space Realms to weapons and armor.

However, at the level of supreme treasures, the consumption of divine power is incomparable. Continuing to add supreme treasures means that Hunzhen must maintain the consumption of two supreme treasure armors and two supreme treasure weapons at all times.

There are conflicts between treasures. Combinations of treasures must be carefully planned and designed to achieve a normal trend. Otherwise, you could just randomly select a thousand treasures and pile them up into a river of treasures.

The difference between a major treasure and a supreme treasure is significant; one can suppress the other, so there won't be too much conflict.

However, from ordinary treasures to peak treasures, they are actually all in the same tier.

Therefore, the consumption of divine power is incomparable to that of a single day.

In addition, the power consumption of Omniscient Vision and the ultimate move makes it somewhat of a loss unless the superimposed treasures are top-tier treasures.

And this is only in theory.

In fact, Hunzhen sensed that the effect of stacking supreme treasures was already surplus, and stacking top-tier supreme treasures was basically the limit of the two innate supreme treasure talents.

Fortunately, after evolving into a perfect life form, the two natal treasures gained the ability to devour similar treasures to evolve.

The advanced-level treasures, Time-Shattering Blade and Void Armor, can advance by absorbing ten top-tier treasure blades or armors, or one hundred treasures of the same level and type. The actual requirements may vary depending on the quality of the treasures.

Ten top-tier treasure blades are manageable, but ten top-tier treasure armors would be a real pain even for the Lord of Chaos City.

At first glance, it seems like a completely unprofitable deal; ten top-tier treasures could be exchanged for one similar peak-tier treasure.

Even if it evolves into a top-tier innate treasure, it is only comparable to a weaker peak treasure, and is actually still inferior to a true peak treasure.

actually not.

Firstly, both of Hunzhen's two natal treasures have some of the effects of domain treasures. Although they lack the ability to target enemies, they do not consume any additional divine power. This is equivalent to having extra combat power without additional equipment. It is still unknown which is better.

Different people will have different opinions on this point, depending on their own needs and fighting style.

As far as Hunzhen is concerned, he would not be willing to exchange a supreme treasure of the same level for it.

Most importantly, the market price of exchanging ten lower-level treasures for one higher-level treasure does exist, but this only applies to the factions and the two holy lands with abundant reserves of mid-level treasures in the first and second cycles of reincarnation.

Humanity's resources are limited, and the cost of acquiring one higher-level treasure is far greater than the cost of acquiring ten lower-level treasures.

This is a case of having a price but no market.

After killing the Lord of Tianheng, Hunzhen reaped considerable rewards.

The Lord of Heaven is of mechanical origin, much like the humans in the Hong Alliance, whose wealth far exceeds that of the alien races in the alliance.

He never expected that he would lose his life in this seemingly safe duel, and that an ordinary soul defense treasure, a top-tier treasure armor, a top-tier treasure weapon, and many other treasures on his body would all fall into Hunzhen's hands.

Judging from these spoils of war, if Hunzhen hadn't lost his color core and used his inherent time control, he might not have been able to kill the Lord of Heavenly Eternity. If the opponent had used a supreme weapon as the initial defense, it would have weakened Hunzhen's attack by at least 90%. After being weakened by the top-tier supreme armor, even his killing move would have at most annihilated 10% of his divine power in one go.

A single top-tier treasure armor is worth as much as several top-tier treasure weapons. In addition, Hunzhen also gained a lot of treasure points for his two great achievements in this duel: winning territory and killing the Lord of Tianheng.

These assets make it somewhat difficult for the Void Armor to evolve to the level of a top-tier treasure, but they are more than enough to evolve the Time-Shattering Demon Blade to the level of a top-tier treasure.

Now, after hundreds of years of devouring and refining, the Time-Shattering Demon Blade has finally completed its evolution.

With the improvement of his main weapon, Hunzhen's strength naturally increased again. His basic combat power was not weak among the fourth-tier, at least exceeding that of the fourth-tier unit, the Lord of Heavenly Eternity.

"Weapons, armor, and soul defense treasures."

"This set of three items for going out to kill and set fires, not to mention the weapon, the Time-Shattering Demon Blade is the most top-grade treasure weapon, and it is among the best among all the universe lords."

"Soul defense treasures are too rare and expensive. The value of a top-tier soul defense treasure is more than enough for me to upgrade the Void Armor to the top level. Even a high-level soul defense treasure is worth the price of two or three top-tier treasure armors. I simply can't afford it right now."

"As for the supreme treasure armor, to reduce the divine power consumption when stacking supreme treasures, the armor must possess spatial properties. The one belonging to the Lord of Heaven is clearly useless, but in reality, I have an unconditional opportunity to obtain a suitable top-tier supreme treasure armor..."

*Beep beep*. A text message arrived from the virtual assistant.

Hunzhen's thinking of this matter today was certainly not without reason.

The notification from the virtual assistant was at the highest level of secrecy—the highest resolution.

Humans can join the Supreme Council once they possess the combat power of a Venerable or a status commensurate with it.

Each Supreme Meeting is chaired by at least one Lord of the Universe.

However, the so-called Supreme Meeting is actually divided into two types: the Venerable level and the Lord of the Universe level.

The latter is a meeting that only the true rulers of humanity, the Lords of the Universe, can participate in.

Commonly known as the Supreme Resolution, it was chaired by the founder of the Giant Axe and is also called the "Giant Axe Conference".

The Lord of Chaos City sent a text message: "Hunzhen, the highest resolution of humanity has been unanimously passed. You are now the 19th Universe Lord of our human race."

The identity of the "Lord of Time and Space" is temporarily kept secret from alien races, including the alien universe lords within the Hong Alliance, but there is no need to do so with the human universe lord.

Just like the Lord of Darkness, who on the surface has no connection with humans, but the humans in the highest decision all know his true identity.

The latest novel is first published here!

Humanity presents itself to the outside world as 15 cosmic lords, with 3 of them, including the Lord of Darkness, hidden in the shadows.

Of course, with the addition of Hunzhen, there will be four from now on.

Just like in the original story, the Lord of Chaos City led Hunzhen to introduce the four other universe lords of the Virtual Universe Company lineage, excluding himself.

A veteran of the Virtual Universe Company, and the Lord of Dragons who was guided by the Primal Ancestor.

The junior brother of the Chaos City Lord, and the Ice Peak Lord, who is extremely strong in close combat.

Both of them are fourth-order universe masters.

Also a junior brother of the Chaos City Lord, the fifth-tier top-level Illusionist Dark Lord is bald.

A direct disciple of the Lord of Darkness, and a third-tier Lord of the Netherworld. He is the weakest member of the Virtual Universe Company lineage, and remains so even after Hunzhen's arrival.

Virtual universe, the highest point of Thunder Island.

Six enormous chairs were arranged next to the ancient, bluish-gray stone table.

Each chair is engraved with carvings on the back, recording the glorious achievements of the various universe masters of the Virtual Universe Company.

There are also three carvings on the stone table: one depicting three powerful figures respectfully bowing to one powerful figure; another depicting a single powerful figure slaughtering in all directions; and the last carving depicting two powerful figures joining forces to attack a group of powerful figures.

Hunzhen could roughly guess that the scenes were: the scene of the Primordial Ancestor taking in three disciples, the scene of the Primordial Ancestor fighting alone against the alien races of the primordial universe to establish the status of the human race, and finally, the scene of the Primordial Ancestor and the Giant Axe Founder joining hands to open up a path for mankind in the cosmic sea.

Undoubtedly, having one's glorious experiences etched on the stone table of the chair, standing atop Thunder Island, such honor can greatly inspire an individual's sense of belonging to the human race and the cohesion of the cosmic lords.

The Lord of Chaos City looked at Hunzhen, who was staring at the carving, and pointed to a seat: "Hunzhen, you can sit down too."

Hunzhen looked at his chair, the core of the carved scene being the image of himself killing the Lord of Heavenly Eternity in front of numerous Universe Venerables and several Universe Lords on an artificially formed continent.

At first glance, it clearly captures the essence of his understated and freehand style, exuding an invincible charm.

However, the face was not Milirat's face; it was a blur.

"Wow, I never expected that the Lord of Time and Space would really be you."

As Hunzhen sat down to wait, a somewhat frivolous voice came from behind him.

He was tall and thin, with sickle-shaped horns on his ears and a single eye between his eyebrows like that of Erlang Shen; he was none other than the Lord of Youhou.

At this moment, Lord Youhou looked Hunzhen up and down as if he were looking at a rare and exotic beast, and muttered to himself, "My master uncle's newest disciple in ten thousand years, Hunzhen."

"Lord of Youhou." Hunzhen smiled faintly. Apart from the Lord of Chaos City, the lord of the universe he was most familiar with was the Lord of Tianheng, with whom he had chatted.

Lord Youhou nodded to Hunzhen and gave a slight bow to Lord Chaos City.

He then laughed at Hunzhen, "Haha, you were able to kill the Lord of Heaven, so your strength is probably even greater than mine! Impressive! Impressive! You've only cultivated for ten thousand years, so you're even more impressive!"

Before Hunzhen could even offer a humble response to the praise of Lord Youhou, he heard a cold snort.

"Lord You, are you proud of being surpassed by your junior brother who has only cultivated for one era?"

A bald man appeared not far away; he was none other than the Dark Lord, the teacher of the Lord of Youhou.

"hey-hey."

Lord Youhou grinned: "Teacher, not everyone can compare to a genius like Hunzhen."

This playful demeanor completely conceals the formidable reputation he had built through his flamboyant killing spree.

"Haha, Darkness, don't be so smug. Hunzhen's talent probably surpasses both yours and mine. Comparing him to Youhou is a bit unfair! Before this, you were the only one who taught a master of the universe as a disciple!"

This is the Lord of Dragons.

As the Lord of Dragon Journey took his seat, a chilling aura swept over him. The silver-haired Lord of Ice Peak nodded to his two senior brothers and silently sat down.

Maintaining his icy demeanor, the Lord of Ice Peak glanced at the others and nodded in acknowledgment.

Suddenly, the Lord of Darkness looked at Hunzhen and grinned slightly: "Lord of Time and Space? Your title is even more domineering than your master's, and even more so than mine!"

The title of Lord of the Universe is a calling card for one's identity.

Or they may use their preferred weapon or special skill as their title.

Or perhaps it's a commemoration or an obsession.

Or perhaps... ambition.

Mastering spacetime is the core ability of the universe's rulers, and most universe rulers have also broken through by comprehending spacetime.

Moreover, normally, the Lord of the Universe would not use laws as a title, because this would inevitably arouse hostility and dissatisfaction among some Lords of the Universe who comprehend this path.

Not to mention using time and space as a name. Any normal person would think that such a person is incredibly arrogant and ambitious.

The Lord of Darkness's words were undoubtedly a warning to Hunzhen, indirectly reminding him to change his title to avoid incurring jealousy.

"I think it suits me quite well."

Hunzhen smiled slightly.

If it weren't for the word "chaos" in the title of the Lord of Chaos City, Hunzhen would have considered using "Lord of Chaos" as his title.

Yes, he really respects his teachers!

(End of this chapter)