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Chapter 272: The Five Eighth-Tier Masters Who Have Been Lurking All Along
Chapter 272: The Five Eighth-Tier Masters Who Have Been Lurking All Along (End of Chapter)
Main World.
Milky Way Main Star.
Lin Yuan sat deep within a grand hall and slowly opened his eyes.
"Finally back," he murmured.
Lin Yuan looked around. This time, his interdimensional travel had taken him 912 years in the Spirit Realm, but less than two years had passed in the Main World.
The time flow rate was roughly 1 to 500, meaning that for every year in the Main World, 500 years passed in the Spirit Realm.
"If the time flow rate in the Spirit Realm is reduced to 1 to 100, or even 1 to several dozen in the mythical Immortal Realm above it, what would that be like?" Lin Yuan wondered to himself.
This was already very close to the time flow rate of the Main World. Even if there were ultimate beings at the pinnacle of immortality like the Dao Ancestor in the Immortal Realm, the scale of that realm was definitely not as vast as the Main World.
How many beings in the entire Immortal Realm could match the Dao Ancestor's level of power? Yet, there were some ultimate powerhouses in the Main World. Just among the human civilizations, there were nine such mighty beings.
"Origin Essence Metal," Lin Yuan whispered as he raised his right hand, and a bell-shaped treasure the size of a palm appeared.
After being nurtured by Lin Yuan for hundreds of years in the Spirit Realm and finally infused with his primal power, turning his physical body and everything else into primordial energy, the bell-shaped treasure had undergone a profound transformation. The power of Lin Yuan's physical body, tempered in the Spirit Realm for nearly a thousand years, was terrifying. When it was transformed into primal energy and merged with the Origin Essence Metal, it almost caused the metal to burst.
This was the only 'shortcut' Lin Yuan could think of to utilize his physical body from the interdimensional travels.
Since he couldn't bring back his physical body from the interdimensional travels, or at least not without paying an unbearable price, he decided to turn it into a part of the Origin Essence Metal.
Then, he could bring the Origin Essence Metal back with him.
After all, transporting the Origin Essence Metal back and forth required only a trace of Boundary Breaking Origin, and the cost didn't increase as the metal grew stronger.
"The current Origin Essence Metal is almost on par with a ninth-tier weapon. Once I break through to the ninth tier, I just need to nurture it for a while, and it will become a ninth-tier weapon," Lin Yuan said with a slight nod after carefully sensing the metal's power.
The power of the physical body he had tempered in the Spirit Realm and the primal energy from his internal world were almost comparable to those of a true ninth-tier powerhouse.
The gap between him and a ninth-tier powerhouse was only in the understanding of rules, which didn't hinder the enhancement of the Origin Essence Metal.
"It saved me a lot of trouble," Lin Yuan thought, satisfied. Although the Myriad Worlds Gate could bring back items from the interdimensional travels, including his physical body, the amount of primal energy it consumed was something Lin Yuan couldn't afford.
This current solution was perfect, at least not wasting his physical body from the interdimensional travels.
"This interdimensional travel has yielded far more than I expected," Lin Yuan said as he put away the Origin Essence Metal and took the opportunity to inspect the Mysterious Gourd.
It was time to take stock of his gains.
First was his understanding of the core space models.
Before his travel, Lin Yuan had only comprehended 2,932 types of core space models.
Now, his understanding of core space models had reached over 5,500 types.
This was equivalent to more than doubling, and the difficulty was far more than just doubled; it had increased exponentially.
There were 7,782 types of core space models in total, and theoretically, one could attempt to fuse other rules after comprehending 3,000 types of core space models.
With Lin Yuan's comprehension of over 5,500 types of core space models, he could be considered extremely brilliant even among the many eighth-tier peak powerhouses in the Main World.
Those who could suppress Lin Yuan were probably the 'favorites' of the cosmic space origin, such as the star masters of the Red Kun Clan, who roamed the stars and seas.
The Red Kun Star Master had comprehended over 6,000 types of core space rules models, but this was due to the racial talent of the Star-Sea-Roaming Kun.
Lin Yuan, on the other hand, relied solely on himself.
Moreover, how many tens of millions of years had the Red Kun Star Master cultivated for? In comparison, Lin Yuan had only cultivated for a few years.
More importantly, comprehending space rules was just one of Lin Yuan's many endeavors. The time and energy spent on it were probably not even a tenth of his total efforts.
"Internal World," Lin Yuan whispered as he directed his consciousness into his internal world.
At this moment, his internal world remained the same size as before his travel—a thousand miles in radius.
However, as Lin Yuan's spiritual will returned, his understanding of space quickly synchronized with his internal world, causing it to begin expanding rapidly.
The 5,550 types of core space models were enough to support an internal world with a radius of 750,000 miles.
In addition, before his travel, Lin Yuan had absorbed the liquid from the Mysterious Gourd, resulting in a fivefold increase in its effects.
Therefore, under normal circumstances, Lin Yuan's internal world would expand to a radius of 3,750,000 miles before stopping.
Based on the existing thousand-mile radius, it would need to expand by another 2,750,000 miles.
Whoosh!
The expansion of the internal world required a massive amount of energy intake.
Lin Yuan's expression changed slightly, and he immediately began to suppress his internal world, causing it to stop expanding.
If he allowed his internal world to continue expanding, it probably wouldn't take long for all of his energy to be drained.
The amount of energy required for an expansion of 2,750,000 miles was terrifying. In the Spirit Realm, it had taken Lin Yuan two to three hundred years to slowly increase it to this size.
Now, compressing the time of two to three hundred years into a short period was something Lin Yuan couldn't bear.
"It's a pity that I can't rely on my teacher this time," Lin Yuan nodded slightly.
During the previous expansions of his internal world, Lin Yuan had relied on the 'Red Spirit Liquid' he had requested.
This was one of the benefits of being one of the thirteen peak masters of the Red Kun lineage—the ability to request an unlimited amount of Red Spirit Liquid.
However, it wasn't that Lin Yuan had lost this benefit.
Rather, the amount of Red Spirit Liquid required to expand his internal world to a radius of 3,750,000 miles was probably heavier than the Red Kun Main Star itself.
Even if the Red Kun Star Master could provide it, they would have to sell everything they had.
And Lin Yuan didn't feel comfortable letting the Red Kun Star Master pay such a huge price.
"I still have to rely on myself," Lin Yuan thought silently.
He did have the energy to support the expansion of his internal world—the Cosmic Crystal.
However, the Cosmic Crystal was too precious to be used as fuel for his internal world's expansion; it would be too extravagant.
Lin Yuan planned to use the Cosmic Crystal to purchase another type of energy similar to the Red Spirit Liquid.
A single Cosmic Crystal could purchase hundreds of tons of this pure energy, which would have the effect of devouring hundreds of Cosmic Crystals when used for the expansion of his internal world.
The reason why Cosmic Crystals were so expensive was that they contained extremely pure and high-level cosmic energy. However, for the expansion of the internal world, pure energy wasn't as important as the sheer amount of energy required.
Therefore, using Cosmic Crystals to fuel the expansion of the internal world was a last resort and not something any evoluter would normally do.
Moreover, Lin Yuan's internal world wasn't expanding by tens or hundreds of miles but by thousands of miles.
"Not the Power of Creation, but the Power of the Cosmos," Lin Yuan said as he looked up at the internal world's firmament. The yin-yang energy of black and white, transformed into the Taiji Power, occupied one region. In addition, the twelve high-level Powers of Creation occupied another region, and the more than sixty ordinary Powers of Creation occupied a third region.
Finally, at the center of all the Powers of Creation, the Primal Power reigned supreme. Even at the first level of the Primal Power, it suppressed over a dozen high-level Powers of Creation and prevented the sixty-odd ordinary Powers of Creation from daring to approach.
"Do I now count as an invincible Eighth-Tier master?" Lin Yuan wondered, a strange expression on his face.
Theoretically, as long as one comprehends a single cosmic power, they are considered an invincible Eighth-Tier master.
But at the moment, Lin Yuan had comprehended dozens of cosmic powers, including over ten high-level cosmic powers and even the enigmatic Primal Power, a force that transcended high-level cosmic powers, whose depths remained unknown.
In the Spirit Realm, the Immortal Kings who mastered the complete power of creation, cultivating it to at least the First Level, could rival the invincible Eighth-Tier masters of the Main World.
And with Lin Yuan's strength in the Spirit Realm, he could easily kill ordinary Eighth-Tier masters.
Here, it was kill, not suppress or repel.
Even now, with his strength not fully recovered, Lin Yuan was confident that with the dozens of cosmic powers he had mastered, killing an Eighth-Tier master wouldn't be too difficult.
Even if he only mastered one cosmic power, with his thousand-mile radius internal world, Lin Yuan was undoubtedly one of the stronger Eighth-Tier masters, let alone having mastered dozens of them.
Among them was the Taiji Power, a high-level cosmic power that he had cultivated to the Third Level.
"I can feel that the so-called cosmic power has an impact on my internal world," Lin Yuan said, sensing carefully. Even back in the Spirit Realm, he had discovered that cosmic power could make his internal world more stable.
It was comparable to the Thunderstar, an eight-star top-grade cosmic treasure.
And this was just the effect of ordinary cosmic power; high-level cosmic power was even more effective, and that strand of mysterious Primal Power directly increased the stability of Lin Yuan's internal world by a large margin.
This was a qualitative change.
The more stable the internal world, the more powerful the world power it could extend, and when two Eighth-Tier masters fought, their world powers clashed, and so did their internal worlds.
With the current stability of Lin Yuan's internal world, a mere touch would cause the internal worlds of other Eighth-Tier masters to collapse.
"My current battle strength, at full power, is at least not weaker than a Ninth-Tier master," Lin Yuan assessed himself.
Since even Eighth-Tier invincibles could protect themselves against Ninth-Tier masters, Lin Yuan believed that he could hold his own against a true Ninth-Tier powerhouse.
"That's right," he suddenly remembered.
"There's also the 'Enhancement' divine ability from my physical body."
With a thought, Lin Yuan condensed a complex mark in front of him.
The 'Enhancement' divine ability was a physical body ability that Lin Yuan had awakened in the Spirit Realm, although it wasn't a passive ability like 'Blood Rebirth'.
However, this ability could definitely be considered one of Lin Yuan's trump cards.
Once activated, the 'Enhancement' ability would grant Lin Yuan a tenfold increase in strength, a terrifying boost to his combat power.
The only drawback was that it could only last for ten breaths, and after using it, he would enter a brief period of weakness.
Even so, Lin Yuan valued this ability greatly, and he had specifically spent nearly thirty years understanding it thoroughly, using his Main World physical body as a template to form the divine ability mark and bring it back to the Main World.
"The seventh interdimensional travel was intended to be a backup plan for the Heart Demon Tribulation, but the world I arrived in was too low-level. Otherwise, I should have been able to awaken another divine ability," Lin Yuan shook his head slightly.
That seventh journey had been undertaken specifically to prepare for the Heart Demon Tribulation.
"Currently, I possess three physical body divine abilities: Blood Rebirth, Moving Mountains, and Enhancement. Among them, I have yet to fully understand the divine ability mark of Moving Mountains."
Lin Yuan thought to himself.
Most of his time in the Main World had been spent on other matters, and he hadn't devoted much time to studying the Moving Mountains ability.
"Next, it's time to focus on the Martial Arts evolution path," Lin Yuan returned his consciousness to his physical body, his expression turning solemn.
After more than 900 years in the Spirit Realm, Lin Yuan had long since completed the Eighth Tier chapter of the Martial Arts evolution path and had even begun to study the fusion of rules.
"Eighth Tier chapter," Lin Yuan's mind stirred with excitement.
In the Main World, the Eighth Tier was an extremely important stage, and the ability to establish a stable Eighth Tier evolution path was considered a hallmark of becoming an Evolution Grand Master.
"First, I'll organize the Eighth Tier chapter and then upload it to the Wisdom Goddess," Lin Yuan thought to himself.
The main body of the Eighth Tier chapter was basically complete, and all that remained was some fine-tuning and adjustments.
It wouldn't take much time at all.
Half a day later...
Lin Yuan directly linked with the Wisdom Goddess.
"Honored Milky Way Star Master, the Wisdom Goddess is honored to serve you," a solemn and cold voice replied.
"I want to upload the Martial Arts Eighth Tier chapter," Lin Yuan said directly.
As soon as he said this,
The Wisdom Goddess fell briefly silent.
Then, it immediately responded: "Milky Way Star Master, you may upload it at any time."
A moment later...
Lin Yuan uploaded the Eighth Tier chapter in its entirety to the Wisdom Goddess.
In creating the Martial Arts Eighth Tier chapter, Lin Yuan had drawn inspiration from the essence of the power of creation in the Spirit Realm.
Martial artists who entered the Eighth Tier would find it easier to comprehend a certain cosmic power compared to those who followed other evolution paths.
Of course, this "easier" only meant a reduction in difficulty, and in reality, according to Lin Yuan's estimations, most Martial Arts Eighth Tiers would not be able to comprehend a cosmic power.
Even so, Lin Yuan believed that the Martial Arts Eighth Tier chapter was extremely valuable because it involved cosmic power.
Among the numerous Eighth Tier and higher evolution paths recorded by Human Civilization, how many delved into the mysteries of cosmic power?
In the descriptions of cosmic power by Human Civilization and other peak races, it was generally agreed upon that cosmic power was impossible to replicate and entirely random.
In the instant that Lin Yuan finished uploading the Martial Arts Eighth Tier chapter,
On a mysterious planet unimaginably far away from the Milky Way Main Star,
Countless giant screens flashed wildly, beginning to analyze the potential and intricacies of the Martial Arts Eighth Tier chapter.
"Detection of 'Eighth Tier chapter' involving numerous unknown cosmic powers, potential depth significantly increased, Martial Arts evolution path evaluation commencing re-determination."
"Discovery of 'Eighth Tier chapter' enhancing the understanding of rules, overall evaluation of Martial Arts evolution path increased."
"Discovery..."
"Triggering Human Civilization core contingency plan, contacting Freedom Goddess, Justice Goddess."
"Triggering Human Civilization core contingency plan, contacting the strongest, Yu Die, of the Summer Qian lineage, and the strongest, Butterfly, of the Yu Die lineage."
The three goddesses spared no expense in computational power, running simulation after simulation of the various extensions of the Martial Arts Eighth Tier chapter.
"I wonder what the three goddesses think of the Eighth Tier chapter?" Lin Yuan wondered, a hint of anticipation in his heart as he waited on the Milky Way Main Star.
He had put a lot of effort into creating the Eighth Tier chapter.
Outside the Milky Way Main Star.
In the depths of layer upon layer of space.
Led by Salar of the Dark Lin Clan, the five Eighth-Tier invincibles continued to wait patiently.
Like cunning hunters lying in ambush, they waited for their prey to appear.
(End of Chapter)
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