Chapter 299: The Strongest Strike
Chapter 299: The Strongest Strike (End of Chapter)
"Who is calling me?" Lin Yuan was amazed as he felt a faint, elusive summons that seemed as if it could be severed at any moment, yet it also felt indelibly profound. It was a highly contradictory sensation.
"Which direction is it coming from?" Lin Yuan gazed into the depths of the starry void, sensing that the summons originated from there.
"Is it the Xuanhuang Secret Realm?" Lin Yuan's expression turned solemn as he looked in a direction that encompassed numerous star domains and alliances.
The Xuanhuang Secret Realm was just one among them.
However, Lin Yuan instinctively felt certain that the call was indeed coming from the Xuanhuang Secret Realm.
"Is it because I cultivated the 'Xuanhuang' evolution path?" Lin Yuan's mind raced with thoughts.
Ever since the discovery of the Xuanhuang Secret Realm, countless human evolvers and powerful beings from other races had ventured within to explore.
Yet, he had never heard of anyone who had received a summons from the Xuanhuang Secret Realm.
Lin Yuan didn't consider himself particularly special, so the only possible explanation was the 'Xuanhuang' evolution path.
This was also his sole connection to the Xuanhuang Secret Realm.
Although Lin Yuan hadn't made the 'Xuanhuang' evolution path his core focus, it was one of the many auxiliary paths he cultivated, and he did have the exclusive 'Xuanhuang' power circulating within his body.
"The relationship between the evolution path my teacher obtained and the Xuanhuang Secret Realm is even more profound than I had imagined." Lin Yuan thought to himself.
Could it be that just because he cultivated the 'Xuanhuang' evolution path, he was being summoned from across countless galaxies and light-years?
Moreover, this summons seemed to ignore all forms of isolation on his home planet, which was truly shocking.
Of course, it was also possible that it was just a slight summons without any substantial power, but even that was extremely unbelievable.
"Xuanhuang Secret Realm?" Lin Yuan narrowed his eyes slightly.
He had already been quite interested in this cosmic secret realm, and now that he felt its call, he was even more intrigued. Lin Yuan wanted to know the source of the summons—was it the secret realm itself, or something within it?
"It seems I'll have to pay a visit to the Xuanhuang Secret Realm." Lin Yuan made up his mind.
In fact, apart from ninth-tier evolvers, even sixth-tier ones who possessed the ability to roam the stars would begin to explore various secret realms.
There were quite a few semi-public secret realms within the jurisdiction of the human civilization, and these realms occupied relatively shallow spatial layers. With the reinforcement of powerful evolvers, they could maintain their entrance and exit channels to the main universe for extended periods.
As long as evolvers paid a certain price, they could enter these realms.
This was something that almost all evolvers would do.
Lin Yuan, who had cultivated to the ninth-tier, had never once explored a secret realm, which was rather unusual.
But now, the faint summons from the Xuanhuang Secret Realm had sparked his curiosity, and he wanted to venture within to explore.
After all, no matter the outcome, Lin Yuan didn't think he would suffer any losses. There was no real risk of death, and the worst that could happen was the destruction of his primordial spirit within the realm.
With Lin Yuan's foundation, reconstituting a new primordial spirit wouldn't be difficult.
"Every time the Xuanhuang Secret Realm opens, it remains accessible for a hundred years. When the time is up, it will close, and any outsiders still within the realm will instantly perish."
"As for the cause of death, it's unclear. Even those powerful beings who left their main bodies outside and deliberately kept their clones inside the realm don't know how their clones died."
"Therefore, the first ironclad rule of entering the Xuanhuang Secret Realm is to leave before it closes."
Lin Yuan reminded himself silently.
If one exceeded the time limit, not only would their clone perish, but most individuals also didn't possess Lin Yuan's ability to easily reconstitute their primordial spirit.
Moreover, any gains and harvests made within the realm would also be left behind.
That would truly be a case of losing both the soldier and the battle.
Lin Yuan's mind flashed with detailed intelligence about the Xuanhuang Secret Realm—this was the immense advantage of having the backing of a peak clan.
If it were the strong individuals from ordinary or weak clans who managed to enter the Xuanhuang Secret Realm, their chances of making gains and escaping safely would be slim.
Without knowledge of the realm's secrets and taboos, they might easily perish in some corner.
Of course, the human civilization had gathered a plethora of information about the Xuanhuang Secret Realm, all of which had been obtained at the cost of countless predecessors' lives.
The next day, Lin Yuan left the peak of Qing Shan, concluding his trip to bathe in the Eternal Spring.
"If the price wasn't so steep, I would've loved to bring my two main primordial spirits here for a dip." Lin Yuan shook his head slightly.
Although the effects of the Eternal Spring weren't as profound as the Mysterious Gourd, it was still quite beneficial for enhancing the potential of one's physical body.
However, the cost was exorbitant—it required five million merit points? And that was the internal price for members of the human civilization.
"In the Human Civilization Alliance, merit points can practically get you anything."
Lin Yuan once again recognized the importance of merit points. Upgrading one's citizen rank was just one of the most cost-effective uses.
There were many resources within the human civilization that couldn't be obtained with civilization currency or universal currency, nor through bartering. Only merit points served as the key to accessing them.
With sufficient merit points, one could even potentially purchase the Eternal Spring, one of the twelve cosmic treasures of the Star Universe.
However, that would require an astronomical number of merit points.
"Time to go."
Lin Yuan entered the spatial channel that led away from his home planet and, in the blink of an eye, arrived at the transit planet.
"Now that I think about it, I also have some assets in the Central Star Domain, don't I?"
Lin Yuan seemed to recall something as he glanced at a particular location.
It wasn't entirely accurate to call it an asset—it was a planet.
A research planet.
After becoming an Evolution Grand Scholar, Lin Yuan had automatically gained possession of a research planet in the Central Star Domain, a place where 'every inch of land was worth its weight in gold'.
The value of a research planet far surpassed that of a high-level planet, especially one located in such a vast region as the Central Star Domain.
Moreover, the research planet came equipped with various computational machinery and an entire team of professors and experts at his disposal.
Lin Yuan's directive for this research planet was to tackle the various difficult problems published by the human civilization's official authorities, slowly solving them to earn corresponding merit points.
In fact, if Lin Yuan had chosen to stay on the research planet and dedicate himself to solving the civilization's problems, he would have earned even more merit points.
However, there was no need for that, as tackling those issues would have been a waste of Lin Yuan's heaven-defying comprehension talent.
Ten months later, Lin Yuan traversed half of the human civilization's territory and returned once more to the Galaxy Star Domain.
"I'm finally back."
Lin Yuan took a step, crossing a distance of five to six hundred light-years, and soon arrived at the Galaxy Main Star.
"This trip to the Central Star Domain took me nearly two years." Lin Yuan appeared silently in the Star Master's Hall, exchanging a glance with Tai Yin's primordial spirit before sitting down with his legs crossed.
Even with his nonstop use of the Great Relocation Art, it had taken him this long.
If he had chosen to travel by spaceship, he might not have returned for five or six years.
"Spatial Layers."
Lin Yuan closed his eyes slightly, sensing the myriad spatial layers within his body.
Although he had spent most of the past two years traveling, his cultivation and enlightenment had not been hindered. In this period, he had reached the milestone of cultivating four thousand and three hundred spatial layers.
"To enter the ninth tier with dozens of ordinary cosmic powers, over ten higher cosmic powers, and one primordial-level cosmic power, the creation of spatial layers is simply child's play."
Lin Yuan shook his head slightly. According to his speculation, it would take at most ten years to reach the milestone of a hundred thousand spatial layers, perhaps even less.
For other ordinary ninth-tier evolvers, they would only begin with a single-digit number of spatial layers, and the process of opening each new layer would be arduous. It may take them tens or even hundreds of thousands of years to reach the milestone of ten thousand spatial layers.
"However, since my cultivation path is so straightforward, other Martial Arts evolvers who reach the ninth tier will still need to take their time to open up their spatial layers."
Lin Yuan suddenly thought.
Even though he hadn't yet cultivated to the peak of the ninth tier, he needed to consider the ninth tier of the Martial Way. Future Martial Arts evolvers would likely be unable to replicate Lin Yuan's path of comprehending dozens of cosmic powers.
In fact, the vast majority of eighth-tier Martial Arts evolvers would not be able to comprehend cosmic powers at all.
Without the boost provided by cosmic powers, ninth-tier Martial Arts evolvers would not have a significant advantage over other ninth-tier evolvers when it came to opening spatial layers.
Those who could cultivate to the ninth tier would have an incredibly refined evolution path. The gap between their cultivation method and the Martial Way at the same level would not be that significant.
Of course, this excludes the potential for growth.
In the eighth tier of the Martial Way, the final value judgment given by the three goddesses was far higher than that of other evolution paths at the same level. This was because they recognized the potential of the eighth tier of the Martial Way and the fact that the number of eighth-tier evolvers who could master cosmic powers far exceeded that of other evolution paths.
"I've also been working on the time rule these past two years, and I think I'm close to a breakthrough." Lin Yuan thought to himself.
Comprehending the time rule at the eighth tier and the ninth tier were completely different in terms of difficulty.
Now, Lin Yuan could sense the fluctuations of the time rule, and his understanding of it was deepening with every passing minute and second.
"Once I grasp the fundamentals of the time rule, I'll be able to control time acceleration to a certain extent, which will provide a significant boost in combat."
Lin Yuan pondered silently.
Reversing time and flowing against its current was an ability that could only be attained after fully comprehending the time rule.
However, the ability to accelerate time and other similar techniques could be achieved with just a basic understanding of the time rule.
"Over these years, I've also accumulated sixty strands of boundary-breaking source power."
Lin Yuan sank his consciousness into his mind, gazing at the Gate of Myriad Worlds, and sensed it slightly.
The permanent spatial rift that was thirty thousand meters long in Battlefield B0001 allowed Lin Yuan to accumulate boundary-breaking source power at a rate of one strand every hundred and fifty days.
In the past few years, Lin Yuan had broken through to the ninth tier and took some time to recuperate, which added up to about one or two decades. Before this, he already had thirty strands of boundary-breaking source power.
Together, they barely exceeded sixty strands.
"Sixty strands of boundary-breaking source power are enough to support a single physical shuttle."
A smile appeared on Lin Yuan's face.
A physical shuttle was not only a different method of transportation compared to consciousness descent, but it was also an almost invincible means of escape.
Even when facing the strongest opponents, they might be able to occupy countless spatial layers in the main universe, but they wouldn't be able to pursue him across dimensions.
So far, the only method Lin Yuan had seen that could transcend dimensions was the Gate of Myriad Worlds.
"Go to Battlefield B0001 and bring back the Sun Divine Soul."
Lin Yuan looked at the Moon Divine Soul and instructed it.
Now that the Moon Divine Soul had caught up with the main body in absorbing the liquid from the Mysterious Gourd, it was time for the Sun Divine Soul to do the same.
Battlefield B0001.
Lin Yuan's Sun Divine Soul disappeared without a sound.
The Moon Divine Soul took its place, gazing at the permanent spatial rift in the distance, thirty thousand meters long.
"This is truly astonishing."
"Is this the power of a strike from a pinnacle existence?"
Lin Yuan stared at the permanent spatial rift, marveling inwardly.
Before reaching the ninth tier, when Lin Yuan looked at this permanent spatial rift, he could only perceive its most superficial and obvious appearance.
But now, as a ninth-tier evolver, he could see through the countless spatial layers with a single glance. Lin Yuan discovered that this permanent spatial rift not only tore through the space of the main universe but also ripped through the spaces within the countless spatial layers.
He didn't know how many spatial layers had been affected, but it was at least over forty thousand layers that he could observe.
Lin Yuan could imagine that in the distant past, there was an evolver wielding a pinnacle weapon who casually struck forward.
This strike was domineering and overwhelming, without any technique involved. No matter which spatial layer you hid in, all of them would be torn apart, leaving you with nowhere to escape.
This was the power of a pinnacle strike!
Galaxy Main Star.
The Sun Divine Soul returned smoothly.
After breaking through to the ninth tier, Lin Yuan's speed of travel increased significantly. Even without the World Tree to replenish their mental energy, the two divine souls were far more efficient than before.
The distance from Battlefield B0001 to the Galaxy Star Domain was much shorter than the distance from the Galaxy Star Domain to the Central Star Domain.
"Now, begin absorption."
Lin Yuan handed the Mysterious Gourd to the Sun Divine Soul.
Then, he closed his eyes and continued his cultivation.
In the blink of an eye, half a month passed.
The Sun Divine Soul had also absorbed the liquid in the Mysterious Gourd up to the fifth type, the green liquid, catching up with Lin Yuan's progress.
Rumble!
Within the Sun Divine Soul's body, the Flame World expanded, and countless spatial layers were derived, causing the entire Flame World to reach a size of over one hundred million li in circumference.
"Not bad, not bad at all."
Lin Yuan glanced at the Sun Divine Soul with satisfaction.
Although it was said that after comprehending the complete spatial rule, the size of one's inner world would no longer be limited by the number of rules mastered, and it would uniformly reach a size of one million li in circumference, the type of rule one cultivated would still influence the 'nature' of one's inner world. The Sun Divine Soul's inner world was the Flame World, while the Moon Divine Soul's inner world was the Icy World.
As for Lin Yuan's true body, his inner world was no different from the normal world.
"I wonder if I were to transform the Sun Divine Soul from a real entity back into a divine soul, would its inner world retain its size?"
Lin Yuan's thoughts stirred slightly.
"Never mind, I'll try that later."
Lin Yuan's thoughts converged, and he said, "Let's go and take a look at the Xuanhuang Secret Realm."
The Sun Divine Soul's physical body was condensed according to Lin Yuan's true body, and it cultivated the various evolution paths that Lin Yuan practiced, including the 'Xuanhuang' evolution path.
Now, the call from the Xuanhuang Secret Realm could be sensed not only by Lin Yuan's true body but also by the two divine souls.
Whoosh!
The Sun Divine Soul stood up and disappeared from the spot.
(End of Chapter)
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