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Chapter 302: Galaxy Master, Run Quickly!
Chapter 302: Galaxy Master, Run Quickly! (Seek Subscription)
Within the Devil Jade Space, there stands a nine-story black tower. With each level conquered, one can obtain precious rewards left behind by the master of the Devil Jade Tower.
Lin Yuan had acquired his World Tree, *Interpretation of Nothingness*, *Fantasy and Reality*, the Chaotic Crystals, and more from this very tower, and these treasures had proven to be immensely beneficial to him.
Even after reaching the ninth stage, Lin Yuan continued to diligently study and comprehend their secrets.
Especially with *Interpretation of Nothingness*, which offered a unique perspective on the rules of space, different from that of human civilization.
Each time Lin Yuan delved into these treasures, he gained new insights and a deeper understanding of the fundamental nature of spatial rules.
Devil Jade Space.
Lin Yuan manifested his consciousness avatar.
"This space?"
Lin Yuan carefully observed his surroundings. This was his first time visiting this place since entering the ninth stage.
Compared to when he was at the eighth stage, Lin Yuan, now in the ninth stage realm, immediately sensed the subtle essence of the Devil Jade Space.
"Completely independent of the myriad layers of space, how did the master of the Devil Jade Tower achieve this?"
Lin Yuan's expression was one of awe.
He knew that the Devil Jade Space was not located in the main universe.
After all, the master of the Devil Jade Tower had not originated from the main universe either, but the fact that the space he had created was not reliant on any spatial layer was somewhat inconceivable.
"Let's see how far I can get to on the third floor this time."
After observing his surroundings for a while, Lin Yuan began walking towards the nine-story black tower.
According to Shen Ji, the third floor of the nine-story black tower was specifically designed for extremely powerful and unique ninth-stage beings, as well as tenth-stage life forms.
When Lin Yuan was at the eighth stage, he couldn't even dream of challenging the third floor, let alone enduring its trials.
Now that he had reached the ninth stage, he didn't harbor any expectations of conquering the third floor, but he was curious about the nature of its trials.
Lin Yuan was already familiar with the trials of the first and second floors, which tested one's ability to resist pressure from all directions.
However, he suspected that the third floor might present a different kind of challenge. Although his spiritual will had been nurtured by the world force within his inner world, which spanned over 100 million li in size, it was now only slightly inferior to the spiritual will of a ninth-stage life form.
Even so, he still couldn't withstand the pressure of the third floor for even an instant, and he vaguely sensed that the trials of the black tower's third floor might be different from those of the first and second floors.
In front of the nine-story black tower stood the humanoid stone statue, Shen Ji.
"It's been a long time," the humanoid stone statue began, intending to ask Lin Yuan why he had stayed away for so long.
However, he soon realized that Lin Yuan's spiritual will had undergone a qualitative change since his last visit, and his avatar naturally blended into the myriad layers of space.
What Shen Ji saw before him was merely a projection.
"You've entered the ninth stage?"
The humanoid stone statue, Shen Ji, had a complex tone in his voice. Even though he had long known that the ninth stage would hold no difficulty for a monster like Lin Yuan, he still couldn't help but feel a sense of emotion upon witnessing Lin Yuan's rapid ascent.
"Somewhat lucky," Lin Yuan replied with a smile.
"Lucky again," Shen Ji sighed. He gazed at Lin Yuan and asked, "Are you here to attempt the third floor?"
If Lin Yuan were still at the eighth stage, Shen Ji wouldn't have recommended attempting the third floor, as it would have been pointless and wouldn't have provided any meaningful tempering.
But now that Lin Yuan had reached the ninth stage, with his talent, it was only natural for him to try.
"Go ahead."
Shen Ji stepped aside.
Lin Yuan walked straight into the black tower.
Third Floor.
The instant Lin Yuan appeared, an invisible and terrifying pressure assailed him from all sides.
However, it was as if this pressure had grabbed at nothing, as it passed right through Lin Yuan, unable to affect him.
This was because Lin Yuan's true body wasn't in the main space.
"Hmm?"
Lin Yuan took a step forward.
The pressure from all directions surged, already permeating dozens of layers of space.
He took another step.
It penetrated through hundreds of layers of space.
Ten more steps.
It permeated nearly a thousand layers of space.
At this moment, the invisible and intangible pressure swept through nearly a thousand layers of space.
Even though Lin Yuan's consciousness avatar was in the eighty-thousandth layer of space, he still faintly felt the pressure.
He continued to take a hundred steps.
The heavy pressure seemed to solidify, reverberating back and forth within the eighty-thousandth layer of space.
Witnessing this, Lin Yuan decisively stopped his advance.
"The true trial of the third floor of the black tower isn't about resisting pressure. This pressure is fundamentally impossible to resist. Even a tenth-stage powerhouse, with only a thread of spiritual will, would suffer the collapse of their avatar if they were touched or grazed by this pressure from all sides."
Lin Yuan's expression turned pensive.
The true trial of the black tower's third floor was about the occupation of spatial layers—occupying as many spatial layers as possible to evade the oppressive pressure.
In Lin Yuan's understanding, 'occupying' more spatial layers meant creating and deriving more layers of space within one's inner world.
Only by increasing the number of spatial layers within one's inner world could one achieve a corresponding improvement in their control over the myriad layers of the main world.
Currently, Lin Yuan's inner world had already expanded to eighty-seven thousand layers of space, theoretically allowing him to instantly 'occupy' eighty-seven thousand layers of space in the main world.
Lin Yuan was astonished.
To occupy thousands of millions, nearly a billion layers of space meant to create and derive the same amount of layers within one's inner world.
It was common knowledge that the fifth and final boundary of the ninth stage was the thousand million layers realm.
In other words, one would need to create a thousand million layers of space.
But now, to pass through the third floor of the Black Tower, one would need to create thousands of millions, or even nearly a billion layers of space?
"No wonder they say that only special ninth-stage beings have a chance at passing this floor." Lin Yuan thought to himself.
Although the thousand million layers realm was the final stage of the ninth stage, it did not mean that those at this realm were the strongest.
Theoretically, one could continue to create more layers of space even after reaching a thousand million.
But that was incredibly difficult. Any ninth-stage powerhouse who had managed to create a thousand million layers of space had no doubt spent countless years and effort to get to that point. Now, to ask them to continue further?
The reason why the thousand million layers realm was considered the final boundary of the ninth stage was that, after reaching that number, one could attempt to break through to the tenth stage.
"I'm still far from reaching the thousand million layers realm."
After some contemplation, Lin Yuan directly exited the Devil Jade Space.
Outside the Nine-Story Black Tower, the humanoid statue, Shen Ji, quietly observed Lin Yuan's movements.
"He's only covered a hundredth of the distance, but he's already occupied nearly ninety thousand layers of space," Shen Ji thought to himself.
"He's only recently entered the ninth stage, and yet he's already occupied nearly ninety thousand layers of space?"
Shen Ji didn't know what to say. He had never encountered such a situation before.
He had heard of those rare beings who were born with control over numerous layers of space, but for someone like Lin Yuan, who had started from a position of weakness and gradually cultivated his way up, to occupy nearly ninety thousand layers of space at such a startling pace...
"No matter how monstrous his talent, passing the third floor won't be easy. This was a trial specifically designed by the master of the Devil Jade Tower."
"Either wait until you've honestly reached the tenth stage, or thoroughly cultivate your ninth-stage powers. The latter is far more difficult than the former."
Shen Ji pondered silently.
In the Galaxy Master Star...
Lin Yuan opened his eyes.
"It seems there's no hope of passing the third floor in the short term."
Lin Yuan sighed inwardly.
Over the past five years of traversing the outer regions of the Xuanhuang Secret Realm, Lin Yuan had increased the number of layers of space in his control from the initial forty-three thousand to eighty-seven thousand.
This progress was terrifying, but to reach thousands of millions or nearly a billion layers of space, Lin Yuan knew he would need more time.
"In these five years, I've felt that I'm always on the verge of grasping the rule of time." Lin Yuan thought to himself.
Five years ago, Lin Yuan had felt that he was about to understand the rule of time, but even now, he still hadn't fully grasped it. This showed just how challenging and abstruse the rule of time was.
Even with Lin Yuan's heaven-defying comprehension talent, it was still extremely difficult. Other ninth-stage evolvers would likely spend tens or even hundreds of millions of years and still struggle to comprehend the rule of time.
In a sense, the rule of time was a pillar rule that only tenth-stage beings and above should attempt to understand. For ninth-stage beings, it was more of a formality, and they basically had no chance of truly grasping it.
"Time..."
Lin Yuan raised his right hand, and the flow of time on its surface began to distort faintly.
This time, Lin Yuan truly felt that his understanding of the rule of time was about to bear fruit.
It would only be a matter of days or months.
"I've also accumulated seventy-one strands of Boundary Source Power." Lin Yuan sensed the quantity of his Boundary Source Power and felt pleased.
Boundary Source Power was his greatest reliance, allowing him to cross dimensional boundaries and descend upon any world.
Xuanhuang Secret Realm...
After five years of traveling, Lin Yuan finally entered the inner regions.
"The aura of this place is different."
Lin Yuan carefully sensed his surroundings.
If the outer regions of the Xuanhuang Secret Realm were almost indistinguishable from the main universe, then the inner regions exuded an ancient and oppressive atmosphere.
"The calling is stronger here as well."
Lin Yuan closed his eyes slightly and began to listen.
He could now vaguely understand the content of the calling.
"Xuanhuang... Great Xuanhuang, you have finally returned."
The calling seemed to come from the distant ancient past, traversing space and time to reach Lin Yuan's ears.
"Xuanhuang?" Lin Yuan frowned slightly.
"Is this Xuanhuang a name?" Lin Yuan wondered.
The language of the calling was like nothing he had ever heard before, but strangely, he could understand its meaning just by listening.
"Let's continue onward for now."
Lin Yuan thought for a moment. Currently, the understanding of the Xuanhuang Secret Realm among the several peak civilizations, including Human Civilization, was only superficial.
The speculation that the Xuanhuang Secret Realm was connected to other cosmic eras was just a guess and couldn't be confirmed with certainty.
This was mainly because the Xuanhuang Secret Realm rejected the entry of tenth-stage and higher beings, so the strongest beings couldn't explore it, and thus, their knowledge of it was limited.
Lin Yuan seemed to sense something and looked in a certain direction.
There, amidst a boiling aura, a native lifeform several hundred thousand meters tall was engaged in a fierce battle with a member of a foreign tribe who had a long, slender tail.
With each exchange between the two, terrifying waves of energy shook tens of thousands, even millions of layers of space.
"That foreigner has cultivated at least a million layers of space." Lin Yuan observed from a distance, "And that native lifeform is also extremely powerful, not much weaker than the foreigner."
"Let's go."
After merely observing for a while, Lin Yuan turned away and headed in another direction.
He recognized the foreigner as 'Moro', a member of the Starry Sky Alliance, a rare and special lifeform.
The relationship between the Human Civilization Alliance and the Starry Sky Alliance was not a friendly one, especially since many of the bloodline evolution potions in the Human Civilization were derived from these special lifeforms.
If it weren't for the strongest members of these special lifeforms banding together to form the Starry Sky Alliance and actively participating in the battles among the peak cosmic races, the special lifeforms would likely have been captured and farmed by the Human Civilization long ago.
While these special lifeforms were individually powerful, they reproduced with difficulty, but it wasn't impossible.
Aside from those extremely rare and unique special lifeforms that were unable to form tribes, most special lifeforms possessed the ability to reproduce.
Lin Yuan didn't fear Moro, who had cultivated a million layers of space. Even five years ago, his combat strength was almost on par with a Ninth Stage lifeform at the Million Layers Realm, let alone now?
He just wanted to avoid any unnecessary trouble.
Whoosh!
Lin Yuan took an alternate route, rushing towards the core region of the Xuanhuang Secret Realm.
Several days later.
Lin Yuan's eyebrows furrowed slightly.
"Is there a human evolver nearby?"
Lin Yuan raised his right hand, and a black disc appeared in his palm.
Any lifeform that entered the Xuanhuang Secret Realm would be randomly assigned to an outer region, effectively preventing them from grouping up initially.
However, after entering, the black disc provided by the Human Civilization to each evolver could sense the presence of other human evolvers within a certain range.
As the Xuanhuang Secret Realm was open to powerful beings from various stellar tribes, it was crucial for human evolvers to unite and help each other in order to secure the greatest opportunities and treasures.
"Is that Shilan?"
Lin Yuan recognized the identity of the human evolver.
Not long ago, it was Shilan who had received him when he went to bathe in the Everlasting Spring in the Central Star Domain.
And on Battlefield B0001, it was Shilan who oversaw the battle as a Ninth Stage evolver while Lin Yuan mercilessly slaughtered the Eighth Stage invincible warriors of the Tianyu Tribe.
"Shilan seems to be on the run."
Based on the black disc's senses, Lin Yuan looked towards a certain direction.
Within countless layers of space.
A purple-haired Shilan was fleeing for his life.
"Human, hand over the treasure, and I'll let this clone of yours leave," a massive figure chasing him said, "Otherwise, your clone will die, and the treasure will still end up in my hands."
Shilan ignored him and continued to flee at full speed.
"I found that place of opportunity first. Are all humans this shameless?" The massive figure was furious, "Hand over the treasure now, and I promise to let you go."
The massive figure was enraged.
As a Ninth Stage powerhouse at the hundred thousand layers realm, just a step away from the million layers realm, he had cultivated ninety thousand layers of space.
Originally, the massive figure had discovered a place of opportunity that was about to emerge and was guarding it. But as soon as the opportunity presented itself, Shilan rushed in, grabbed the treasure, and ran off.
"Try catching me first," Shilan transmitted.
Although he didn't know what the treasure was for, the celestial phenomenon that occurred when the place of opportunity opened was extraordinary.
So, no matter what the massive figure said, Shilan wouldn't agree.
That would be ridiculous.
There was no way he was going to return a treasure he had already obtained.
"But this is troublesome."
"If this chase continues, something unexpected might happen."
Shilan was slightly anxious.
With his speed, it was unlikely that the massive figure would catch up to him.
However, their pursuit would undoubtedly attract the attention of other powerful beings nearby.
If a hostile tribe of the Human Civilization were to show up, Shilan knew he might be in real danger.
Just as Shilan was thinking of a way out of this predicament.
The black disc in his inner world suddenly transmitted a message.
"Shilan, do you need help?"
"Is Galaxy Master nearby?" Shilan was slightly startled, and he immediately identified Lin Yuan's identity through the black disc.
"Galaxy Master, you should run. This enemy is not someone you can handle," Shilan's expression changed, and he quickly responded through the black disc.
"An enemy I can't handle?"
Lin Yuan fell silent for a moment, scanning his surroundings.
"Where are you?"
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