Swallowing the Stars: Starting with the Battle of Geniuses

Chapter 190 The Lord of the Five Chaos, His Plan Completed

Inside the spaceship, two powerful members of the Divine Eye Clan were rapidly flying towards the outer region.

"Jiujian, are you sure the news you heard is true?"

"The news about the Five Lords of Chaos has spread like wildfire; I'm not the only one who knows. It's one thing if I'm the only one being deceived, but could dozens of other Universe Lords have been fooled as well?"

These two are none other than the Lord of the Five Chaos and the Lord of the Ultimate Arrow, a fifth-order universe lord and a fourth-order universe lord, respectively. In this inner region, they are considered to be among the strongest.

After hearing the explanation from the Lord of Arrows, the Lord of the Five Chaos nodded in agreement.

Not long ago, they heard rumors that a supreme treasure had appeared in the outer region of the spaceship.

Even for the Divine Eye Clan, the strongest and most powerful clan of the first era who has accumulated the most profound knowledge among the three great cycles of reincarnation, the ultimate treasure is still extremely valuable.

Unlike the Third Reincarnation Era, where exploration of the cosmic sea is still in its early stages, some secrets are still purely speculative, and some even regard the cycle of reincarnation as a conspiracy of the original universe, they are the masters of the universe in the first era. Even if they have not become the strongest, some of their knowledge surpasses that of the strongest in the Third Reincarnation Era.

They knew that only if the strongest of their tribe could survive the cycle of reincarnation could they and their tribe have a chance to continue living; otherwise, only inevitable destruction awaited them.

In order to increase the chances of the strongest members of their race breaking through the cycle of reincarnation as much as possible, these cosmic lords also went mad one by one.

They frantically explore dangerous places, seek out traditions, and collect treasures.

Because without madness, the only outcome is death.

Even if it's just a top-tier treasure, it can enhance the strength of the strongest members of the race, but it can still strengthen the power of the Lord of the Universe, thereby increasing exploration efficiency and indirectly increasing the power of the strongest members.

What's more, it's a supreme treasure?

If it were a supreme treasure with effects that were almost as powerful as the ultimate treasure, or a treasure that was extremely compatible with a certain God Eye Clan True Lord, it might just become a glimmer of hope?

Although, theoretically, good treasures are rare in the outer realms, and even if a top-tier treasure occasionally appears, it's usually only the lowest grade among them. (A word from the Winged Spirit)

But some things are really hard to say; it all depends on whether you fight for them or not.

"Haha, we were just lucky!"

The Lord of Arrows suddenly laughed loudly at the Lord of Five Chaos, "Most of these wanderers in the outer realms are only at the second or third tier, and those at the fourth tier, who are roughly my level, are basically the strongest! If we hadn't happened to wander near the outer realms, we really wouldn't have been able to seize the treasure! But now, Lord of Five Chaos, if you and I join forces, we'll most likely be able to easily take that supreme treasure!"

Upon hearing this, the Lord of the Five Chaos also smiled.

And the outcome was exactly as the Lord of Arrows had predicted.

When they arrived, the struggle for the treasure was still ongoing.

The arrival of the two was like a final blow. The Lord of the Five Chaos and the Lord of the Arrows joined forces in perfect harmony and successfully seized the sculpture that remained in a seated posture with its head bowed and chin propped up.

The two of them naturally failed to notice that this sculpture had a subtle difference from the original—he was wearing underwear.

After all, before this, only Hunzhen and Zuoshanke had personally seen the Thinker sculpture in this universe.

……

More than two hundred years have passed since the two rulers of the Five Elements obtained the Thinker sculpture.

This Thinker sculpture is not a treasure, but a special and wondrous treasure.

Unable to recognize the master, the two assumed it was an inherent characteristic of the sculpture and failed to realize its true purpose, so they temporarily stored it in the World Ring.

Then they returned to the inner domain of their main battlefield, the spaceship.

Even though it was the same inner domain, countless light-years away, a faint glint flashed in Hunzhen's eyes.

"I can't stay any longer," Hunzhen thought to himself.

In the past few days, he has confirmed through simulation records and the Omniscient Vision that the Machine Race will launch another operation.

This time, they released news of the birth of a supreme treasure that was right in the heart of the rampaging demon god, in an attempt to divert attention from it.

Hunzhen, using his omniscient vision to change tactics, quickly identified several ways to solve this problem.

Or perhaps it's a delaying tactic, to postpone the departure of the rampaging demon god and the progress of the mechanical race's invasion.

Or they could act like detectives, presenting clues and evidence beforehand to expose the conspiracy.

But none of these are solutions to the problem.

The mechanical race then employed a series of increasingly sophisticated tactics.

This is a "major trend" brought about by the power of a group.

Minor matters may be defied, but the general trend is difficult to reverse.

Hunzhen, relying on his omniscient vision, was able to repeatedly delay the time it would take for the great waves to breach the dam.

But the price was that this repeatedly eroded the already meager bond between him and the rampaging demon god.

Is it worth it to attract the malice of another true god who might have been on the side of an ally, just for a maximum of one or two hundred more years of cultivation?

I really felt it wasn't worth it.

With the mindset of a rampaging demon god, a non-friend might not be a stranger, but rather a direct and immediate enemy.

He might suddenly realize that Hunzhen has been using him all along, and then all the frustration and resentment he felt towards the mechanical race would be transferred to Hunzhen.

Moreover, emotional outbursts are often not something that happens overnight.

Hunzhen could only foresee the next ten years, but by the time he foresaw the moment when the rampaging demon god turned against him, the situation was likely already beyond repair.

To avoid this huge variable, Hunzhen made a decisive move and chose to leave before the mechanical race could truly unleash their inescapable trap.

Such a prediction was like punching cotton for the mechanical father god who was secretly observing and planning; it was incredibly frustrating.

"Damn it, our machine race is united as one, where did this traitor come from?"

The mechanical god secretly grumbled to himself, but quickly calmed down and thought with a gloomy expression, "Well, his initiative to leave the circle saves me a lot of trouble."

The encirclement has not yet been formed.

But since Hunzhen had voluntarily left the space of the black-patterned stone pillar, the mechanical race's father god would certainly not sit idly by.

"Hmph, this slippery Lord of Time and Space! But you are ultimately just a Lord of the Universe. Even without those arrangements, you still can't escape my grasp!"

The mechanical father god was not far from the space of the black-patterned stone pillar.

He certainly couldn't allow his own race's universe lord to carry out the encirclement.

He couldn't bear to part with not only the ruler of his own race's universe, but also the ruler of an alien universe within the Machine Race Alliance.

He had not yet witnessed the time-stopping abilities of the Lord of Time and Space, but he figured the Lord of Yellow Dragons wouldn't lie about it. With the Lord of Time and Space's top-tier sixth-order combat power, a single time stop could potentially kill even fourth-order or some fifth-order universe lords with weaker defenses!

Sending these cosmic lords to surround the lord of spacetime is basically giving them away for free! Even the most extravagant spendthrift wouldn't do it this way.

So he naturally thought of his tens of thousands of mechanical puppets.

However, these puppets were too far away from his true self to be under precise control.

One of his original plans was to release ten percent of the mechanical puppets, allowing some of the mechanical race's venerable ones to act as relay stations, receiving signals from him as the central hub, and thus achieving remote control.

A puppet is a fourth-tier combat power. Although it lacks various special methods and is only a numerical accumulation of fourth-tier values, its advantage lies in its strong defensive capabilities.

In this way, the Lord of Time and Space can be surrounded and entangled at the lowest cost, making it impossible for him to escape.

Currently, these thousand mechanical puppets are not yet fully deployed and cannot communicate with each other. If they are deployed too easily, they may be defeated one by one by the Lord of Time and Space.

Each mechanical puppet was the apple of the eye of the Mechanical God, so naturally he couldn't bear to send them out at this time to delay the Lord of Time and Space.

But that's enough to serve as his eyes and ears.

Using these eyes and ears as their sight, the mechanical father god quickly began the pursuit.

On the side being chased, Hunzhen sensed the location of his energy avatar on the Thinker sculpture and kept moving closer to the location of the Five Hun Lords.

At such a distance, even rare treasures like the Thinker sculpture can only be sensed vaguely.

However, Hunzhen had long ago transformed his one-unit avatar into an inanimate object and attached it to the sculpture.

The ability to sense oneself is like quantum communication; no matter how far apart the two are, it has no effect, and therefore the information is incredibly clear.

This practice is not unusual. Most universe lords who venture into the cosmic sea from the primordial universe leave an energy avatar in the primordial universe to facilitate communication within their race.

Furthermore, due to this obscuring, the condition for the Thinker sculpture to recognize its master—"completely enveloping at least 99% of the sculpture's surface area with divine power"—cannot be met, thus preventing others from recognizing it. This has left the two Lords of the Five Chaos still unsure of how this treasure recognizes its master.

Previously, Hunzhen sent the Lord of the String Sword to venture into the outer realms of the cosmic ship in order to use the Lord of the String Sword's future vision to search for the location of the Five Hun Lords.

Once its location was confirmed, the Thinker sculpture, which was attached to a unit of incarnation, was launched, and the extraordinary phenomenon of the birth of a supreme treasure was created, attracting the attention of many cosmic lords.

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Of course, he actually carried out this operation when he confirmed that the Thinker sculpture would eventually fall into the hands of the Lord of the Five Chaos.

This can be considered one of the very few times he used the ability of the Magic Three Thousand to transform non-living things.

For beings at the level of the Lord of the Universe, ordinary illusions are naturally difficult to conceal, and their life force can be detected at a glance.

The Thinker sculpture is merely an embodiment of a unit of energy. One percent of the life essence of the Lord of the Universe is at the level of a Universe Venerable. One-thousandth is not enough to completely fall into immortality, but it is probably enough to defy the heavens, be crowned king, and become invincible to the level of a primary Venerable.

Such a level can only be reached by the Lord of the Universe through an energy incarnation.

Ordinary energy avatars are merely aggregates of energy released from the main body; they cannot be considered life forms, let alone possess any talents, and are fundamentally different from the ability of a clone.

It is impossible for nature to transform into an inanimate object.

If another cosmic lord were to use an energy avatar to transform into the shape of the Thinker's underwear, the truth would be immediately recognizable.

However, the Magic Three Thousand is exceptionally unique.

Its essence is to enhance the ability of avatars, giving the avatars the characteristics of clones.

Unless the Lord of the Five Chaos knew the true nature of the Three Thousand Magical Abilities beforehand, he would never have considered the possibility that "a Primary Venerable One transformed and attached himself to the Thinker sculpture."

In this way, they successfully deceived the two universe masters of the Divine Eye Clan.

Thus, Hunzhen achieved his two initial goals.

First, it allows for the location of the Five Chaos Lords at any time, eliminating the need for multiple deductions through the Omniscient Vision afterward, as the time required for this is difficult to determine.

Secondly, the "time bomb" of the Thinker sculpture was buried around it.

Of course, this approach is not without risk.

If the Lord of the Five Chaos had planned to return to the small universe of the True Lord of the Divine Eye to recuperate beforehand, and had the True Lord of the Divine Eye appraise this rare treasure, it would be virtually impossible for the hidden incarnation of the Chaos True Lord to escape the detection of a True God.

That would be tantamount to wasting this extremely valuable treasure, letting it fall into the hands of the Divine Eye Clan.

Of course, before being truly examined by the true god, he would automatically make that energy avatar dissipate to prevent his origins from being discovered.

Fortunately, so far, everything has gone relatively smoothly.

The layout is now complete.

Hunzhen's goal was to lure the mechanical race's father god to the side of the Five Hun Lords, so as to achieve a "successful reunion".

In his perception, the location of the Lord of the Five Chaos was not too far from the space of the black-patterned stone pillar.

It won't be long, only about fifty years!

He traveled silently, and the mechanical god silently followed.

Hunzhen possesses the ability to avoid risks through omniscience, and in dangerous places like the inner domain of the cosmic vessel, his flight speed is faster than that of ordinary true gods.

However, the Machine God directly targeted Hunzhen and followed the route Hunzhen had taken, thus avoiding the risks as well.

In addition, although its own palace treasure, which is shaped like a large black sphere, is not at the level of the strongest treasure, it is still among the top level of the peak treasures, and its flight speed is ultimately a notch faster than that of the Wolf Heart Tower.

It's only a matter of time before we catch up with Hunzhen.

However, Hunzhen would not sit idly by and wait for death. He would deliberately pass by places where the danger line would change drastically due to slight time differences, and pass through at the right time, so that the mechanical father god would arrive at the corresponding position just as the crisis broke out.

Compared to fighting on the front lines, this tactic clearly allows for a better utilization of the omniscient perspective.

For Hunzhen, the perilous places of the three most dangerous locations are all friendly forces.

The advantages this brings are no less than directly obtaining a supreme treasure!

However, such advantages ultimately require a map to be fully utilized.

Dangerous places are ever-changing; avoiding one danger doesn't mean you've completely survived a calamity.

It is possible to pass through a dangerous place and nothing happens for more than a hundred years, but at a certain point in time, a huge disaster suddenly breaks out without any warning.

These are all uncertain.

The future that a truly omniscient vision can see is currently far less advanced than what can be recorded in simulations.

The ability to predict ten years in advance, which is simulated and recorded, can only be triggered once a day.

This means that without a map, Hunzhen would not dare to wander around in dangerous places.

Hunzhen fled, pursued by the mechanical god.

Decades passed in the blink of an eye. After the mechanical god suffered countless setbacks, and even the treasure palace developed some cracks, and the reserves of supplies were greatly depleted, the distance between the two gradually narrowed.

However, as the positions of the two changed, the position of the Lord of the Five Chaos was naturally not static either.

For Hunzhen to simultaneously approach the Five Lords of Hunzhen during his escape was far more difficult than simply achieving one of them.

As time went on, he was eventually forced to enter an area where the description of the dangerous terrain on the map was rather vague, but there were still reference points to confirm the location.

This means that it will be much more difficult for Hunzhen to use terrain traps to harm the mechanical race's father god.

In the future he foresaw, the Sims had been caught up by the Machine Father God more than once.

The simulated humans seen in the Omniscient Vision do not possess the Omniscient Vision's abilities and are far weaker in combat. They failed to escape the clutches of the Machine Father God several times and perished tragically.

Even the true form of Hunzhen in the mortal world eventually faced situations where he could not avoid being caught up. However, thanks to his omniscient vision, he always ventured into dangerous situations, preventing the mechanical father god from leaving his "cage" or summoning a large army of mechanical puppets to fight. As a result, his combat power dropped significantly, and he successfully escaped time and time again.

However, as a result, the Wolf Heart Tower also developed cracks, following the appearance of the large black sphere of the Mechanical Race Father God.

Fortunately... before the Wolf Heart Tower suffered excessive damage, he finally "saw" the opportunity to change the course of the game.

(End of this chapter)