Chapter 347: Does the Tower Master Want Me to Hone My Skills as the Galaxy Master?
Chapter 347: Does the Tower Master Want Me to Hone My Skills as the Galaxy Master? (5000 characters, please subscribe)
Galaxy Master Star.
"It's been twenty years," Lin Yuan opened his eyes and gazed upon the vast and boundless starry universe.
In the Main Universe, the stronger the tribes, the less sensitive they are to the passage of time. It is common for them to seclude themselves for hundreds or even thousands of years.
Twenty years is but a blink of an eye.
However, these two decades have brought about extraordinary changes for Lin Yuan.
Firstly, his cultivation of the *Profound Yellow Strike* and the *Profound Yellow Body* has reached the third stage.
By channeling the *Profound Yellow Strike*, Lin Yuan can constantly maintain a strength four times beyond his limit. The power he exudes with every movement is estimated to be on par with a cautious tenth-rank Ding-level being.
Of course, Lin Yuan has not yet crossed paths with any tenth-rank beings. He can only roughly gauge his position based on the recorded combat videos of tenth-rank beings from human civilization.
However, the mere idea of a ninth-rank cultivator challenging a tenth-rank powerhouse, especially one who has already transcended the initial 'Ji' level, is unfathomable.
The advancement from the ninth to the tenth rank is a major boundary breakthrough, and simply expanding a few hundred million layers of spatial dimension cannot make up for it.
Naturally, the number of spatial layers Lin Yuan has expanded is not merely a few hundred million but over two billion.
"Inner World."
Lin Yuan's consciousness descended upon his inner world.
After continuously absorbing the purple liquid from the mysterious gourd for twenty years, his inner world has officially surpassed two billion li in size.
"It seems like I'll need to reach the tenth rank before I can completely absorb the purple liquid," Lin Yuan thought to himself.
The difficulty of absorbing the purple liquid exceeded his expectations. At this rate, Lin Yuan estimated that he would need another fifty years before he could complete his transformation and ascend to the tenth rank.
Fifty years. At the current rate of absorption, it was basically impossible to achieve complete absorption.
"I wonder what changes the mysterious gourd will undergo after I finish absorbing the purple liquid?" Lin Yuan's thoughts stirred, and the grayish-purple gourd appeared before him.
Through further 'verification' with the gourd, Lin Yuan obtained some information, including the fact that the gourd was nurturing seven types of liquids.
However, it was unclear what changes the gourd would undergo after the absorption of all seven liquids.
"Slow and steady," Lin Yuan said to himself as he withdrew his attention from his inner world.
"*Steps of Space-Time*," Lin Yuan thought, recalling one of the three great protective secret arts of the Profound Yellow lineage—a secret escape art.
Compared to the swift progress he had made with the previous two secret arts, his advancement in this art was much slower.
Nonetheless, despite the slow progress, Lin Yuan had cultivated it to the extent that he could take a single step spanning a thousand million light-years.
Of course, there was a significant limitation to this—he could only take nine steps in total.
After the ninth step, Lin Yuan would have traversed nine thousand million light-years, and by then, many of his energies would be depleted, a cost far greater than simply empowering his physical body.
The depletion of his energies would leave him without any means of resistance, which was why this escape art was rarely used to its fullest extent, as the cost was simply too great.
"*Steps of Space-Time* is a fusion of time and space rules. Perhaps I'll only be able to grasp it easily after attaining a deeper understanding of the time rule?" Lin Yuan's eyes lit up with a gleam of insight.
One of the prerequisites for an eleventh-rank powerhouse to challenge the ultimate realm was the fusion of time and space rules.
Normally, an eleventh-rank powerhouse attempting to fuse space-time would have no idea where to begin. However, through this secret art, Lin Yuan caught glimpses of how to merge space-time.
"The Emperor of Profound Yellow actually managed to encapsulate the essence of space-time fusion into a secret art. How terrifying," Lin Yuan marveled.
The *Steps of Space-Time* was less of an escape art and more of a 'shortcut' to merging space-time.
It was worth noting that while the strongest beings had indeed fused space-time, there was a vast difference between doing it and explaining it. Their fusion of space-time was unique to them, and unless they had an extraordinary understanding of the essence of space-time, it was impossible for them to articulate it to others.
Yet, the Emperor of Profound Yellow had achieved exactly that.
"Even such a powerful being could disappear? Could they die?" Lin Yuan found it hard to comprehend. The strongest beings had transcended the flow of time, and as long as they were cautious, death was a remote possibility.
This was especially true for someone like the Emperor of Profound Yellow, who was among the strongest in the ultimate realm.
"In these twenty years, my understanding of the time model has reached the two-thousand one-hundred and seventy-third type," Lin Yuan said as he lifted his hands, strands of temporal energy swirling around his fingertips.
Thus far, the pioneer scholars of human civilization had summarized a total of two thousand one hundred and seventy-three time rule models.
In other words, Lin Yuan had essentially traversed the entirety of human civilization's understanding and expression of the time rule, as articulated by their pioneer scholars.
The reason he said "essentially" was because he had not yet fully grasped the final time rule model.
"This type of time rule model involves time reversal, time stop, and time acceleration? Does it encompass all states of time within the self?"
Lin Yuan contemplated deeply, his mind brimming with insights.
"If I can comprehend the time rule at the ninth rank and make my inner world independent of the Main Universe, then when I break through to the tenth rank, my final transformation..."
Lin Yuan continued his contemplation, his thoughts racing.
The eighth-rank evolvers of human civilization could create inner worlds, but these inner worlds were not entirely independent. Many of their rules, especially the time rule, were shared with the Main Universe.
To break free from this shared dependency, one had to comprehend the time rule independently and then integrate it into their inner world.
Theoretically, the earlier one comprehended the time rule and integrated it into their inner world, the greater the benefits when making a major boundary breakthrough.
A major boundary breakthrough would lead to a transformation of the inner world, and a completely independent inner world would undergo a far more significant transformation than one that was dependent on the Main Universe.
If Lin Yuan could comprehend the time rule at the ninth rank and make his inner world 'independent,' he would have two transformation opportunities when he broke through to the tenth rank and then to the eleventh rank.
In this aspect, he would far surpass those who only comprehended the time rule at the eleventh rank.
After a short while, Lin Yuan halted his contemplation.
"Time to pay a visit to the Demon Jade Space and challenge the fifth layer again." With the aid of the Demon Jade Seal, Lin Yuan descended upon the Demon Jade Space once more.
Before the fifth layer of the Black Tower, a statue in the likeness of a man, Shi Gi, regarded Lin Yuan inquisitively. "You wish to challenge the fifth layer?"
"Yes," Lin Yuan nodded.
"Very well, proceed." Shi Gi pondered for a moment before opening the doors of the Black Tower, granting Lin Yuan entry.
The fifth layer of the Black Tower.
Lin Yuan's figure appeared.
The very air shimmered with temporal fluctuations, as extreme tempos of time rushed forth.
Three decades ago, Lin Yuan wouldn't have lasted long. His previous attempt at the fifth layer, right after conquering the third and fourth layers, had only lasted an instant before he retreated.
But now?
Having nearly deciphered all the time rule models, Lin Yuan still didn't hold much hope of conquering the fifth layer, but he could at least traverse a good portion of it.
If he didn't push forward, he might even be able to endure indefinitely.
"Hmm, my understanding of the time rule has improved by leaps and bounds once more. I'm not far from unraveling the time rule entirely," Lin Yuan mused.
Outside the Black Tower, the statue-like Shi Gi observed closely, his expression devoid of surprise.
In just two to three decades, Lin Yuan had reached such heights in the realm of time rules that even an eleventh-rank being would find astonishing, let alone a ninth-rank being like Lin Yuan. However, after interacting with Lin Yuan for so long, Shi Gi had almost become accustomed to the youth constantly breaking new ground and defying expectations.
As Shi Gi watched Lin Yuan's progress in the fifth layer, he suddenly sensed something.
A hint of astonishment flickered across his stony features, and he turned his gaze toward another direction within the Demon Jade Space.
Through the misty fog, a strand of consciousness descended.
"I..." This strand of consciousness took the form of a burly man, towering at over three meters tall, his eyes gleaming with excitement as he surveyed his surroundings.
"Is this the Demon Jade Space?" The burly man scrutinized the misty fog around him.
He hailed from a powerful evolutionary family in the northern star region of human civilization, a genius unparalleled across dozens of star domains.
Nearly a hundred years ago, human civilization had proactively revealed that fragment of a body to select geniuses, and this man had been one of them. From that fragment, he had deduced an evolutionary path.
With immense effort and a hefty dose of luck, the burly man had managed to piece together this evolutionary path, causing the Demon Jade Seal to form in the depths of his soul.
"The Goddess of Wisdom once told me that those who complete their evolutionary path will enter a mysterious space where great opportunities await," the man recalled, his heart thrumming with excitement.
Without hesitation, he ventured deeper into the mist, guided by the swirling fog.
Before long, he arrived before a majestic nine-layered Black Tower.
"Another one?" Shi Gi glanced at the burly man and, in the blink of an eye, gained insight into the method this newcomer had used to become an ordinary member of the Demon Jade Tower.
"The most basic completion of one of the Demon Evolution Paths?" Shi Gi shook his head inwardly.
This was worlds apart from Lin Yuan's initial comprehension of three thousand three hundred and thirty-three Demon Evolution Paths; it was like an uncrossable chasm.
Moreover, Lin Yuan was no longer an ordinary member of the Demon Jade Tower but a core member.
"Senior," the burly man said cautiously to Shi Gi.
"Here is some information about this place," Shi Gi said, raising his right hand and imparting a wealth of knowledge into the man's sea of consciousness.
"Ugh," the man grunted, his brow furrowing as he processed the information. Only after a moment did his expression ease.
"The nine-layered Black Tower... the first, second, and third layers..." The man's eyes widened as he beheld the towering structure, awe evident on his face.
"Wait here for a moment. Someone is currently challenging the tower," Shi Gi said, giving the burly man a sidelong glance.
"Someone else is already here?" The man's face fell, realizing he wasn't the first to enter the Demon Jade Space.
"Are they challenging the first or second layer?" The man asked, having received information about the tower from Shi Gi, including the difficulty of each layer.
"Hmm?"
"The fifth layer?"
The man looked up, noticing the hazy glow emanating from the fifth layer of the tower. He immediately understood that the person within was attempting to conquer that layer.
"The fifth layer?" The man's eyes widened further. From the information Shi Gi had provided, he knew that one had to comprehend the time rule to pass the fifth layer.
Comprehending the time rule? In the man's eyes, that was a realm only ancient eleventh-rank powerhouses could hope to attain.
Black Tower, Fifth Layer.
Lin Yuan stood near the center, sensing the surging power of infinite temporal energy.
[*Your comprehension defies the heavens. By perceiving countless temporal fluctuations, you have deduced the 2,173rd type of time rule model.*]
In a daze, a illusory time rule model took form before Lin Yuan.
This time rule model seemed perfect, as if it encapsulated the myriad variations of the time rule.
"So this is the final type of time rule model?"
Lin Yuan closed his eyes. After grasping the most critical insight, his understanding of the time rule had reached a certain height. From here on out, he would have to forge his own path.
Every powerhouse who comprehends the time rule will have a unique understanding of it.
The spatial rule is vast and boundless, with countless 'facets'. To fully comprehend the spatial rule is to grasp merely one facet of its infinite nature.
The same is true for the time rule.
"It's time to leave."
Lin Yuan gazed at the remaining path ahead of him. Without a complete understanding of the time rule, he had no hope of conquering this place.
Whoosh.
Lin Yuan's figure reappeared outside the Black Tower.
"Hmm?"
"Is there someone else here?"
Lin Yuan immediately noticed the presence of the burly man.
He had descended upon the Demon Jade Space as a wisp of mental will, and his appearance and form were arbitrarily set up, intending to conceal his true identity.
"Greetings, senior!" The burly man's scalp tingled, and he quickly bowed respectfully to Lin Yuan.
In his heart, the young man before him was an ancient eleventh-rank powerhouse, and he, a mere mortal, did not even have the qualifications to look directly at him.
"Mhm."
Lin Yuan nodded slightly.
He could tell that the burly man was human.
That was enough. If the man had been from another race, or even an enemy faction of humanity, Lin Yuan would have likely used his authority as a core member to temporarily expel him.
But a fellow human? Lin Yuan had no objections to him attempting to conquer the Nine-Layered Black Tower.
The rewards obtained from the Black Tower depended entirely on one's displayed talent. The majority of cultivators who ventured here did not obtain anything too precious.
"Senior."
The burly man lowered his head, not daring to spread his senses even a bit, for fear of provoking the eleventh-rank powerhouse who had just conquered the fifth layer.
After a long while, the burly man finally summoned the courage to raise his head, only to find that the young man was already gone, leaving only the human-shaped statue of Shi Gi looking at him.
"The senior has left?" The burly man heaved a sigh of relief. "Could that senior also be human?"
From that brief glimpse, the burly man had also realized that Lin Yuan was human.
"Could it be one of the eleventh-rank evolvers from the Human Alliance?" The man's heart was still pounding with excitement.
Today, he had actually had the fortune of witnessing an eleventh-rank evolver?
Galaxy Master Star.
Lin Yuan, having deduced all the time rule models, was in a good mood.
"Right."
"After I deduced all the time rule models, Summer Qin wanted me to visit him." Lin Yuan remembered Summer Qin's instructions.
Immediately, he connected his consciousness to the virtual world.
Imposing Evolution Tower World.
Summer Qin, the pinnacle powerhouse, sat on his throne, his face suddenly twitching slightly.
"That kid wants to see me. Could it be that..." Summer Qin's thoughts were complicated. How could he have deduced all the time rule models in such a short time?
A moment later.
Lin Yuan's figure appeared.
"Your Eminence." Lin Yuan bowed slightly.
"You've deduced all the time models?" Even though he had expected this, Summer Qin still asked.
"Yes." Lin Yuan nodded. "So, I've come to see you."
"I see." Summer Qin nodded, appearing calm on the surface, but his heart was far from peaceful.
"Deducing all the time models is still some distance away from truly comprehending the time rule. Now, I need to figure out exactly where you stand in this journey towards understanding."
Summer Qin took a moment to gather his thoughts before speaking.
"Alright." Lin Yuan nodded. He, too, wanted to know how far he was from truly comprehending the time rule.
"In that case, I'll have Nalanhu spar with you, solely based on your understanding of the time rule." Summer Qin suggested.
The simplest way to gauge Lin Yuan's progress was through direct combat. However, Summer Qin, as a pinnacle powerhouse, would naturally not fight Lin Yuan himself.
Thus, he decided to have Nalanhu, the vice tower master, test Lin Yuan's abilities.
Soon.
Nalanhu, the vice tower master, appeared beside Lin Yuan.
"Your Eminence." Nalanhu bowed slightly to Summer Qin, confusion evident on his face.
"Nalanhu, spar with Galaxy Master. Remember, you can only use your understanding of the time rule." Summer Qin instructed directly.
"Spar?"
"With Galaxy Master?"
Nalanhu was taken aback.
He was a tenth-rank Alpha, and now he was being asked to spar with a ninth-rank Galaxy Master?
Wasn't this bullying? No matter how talented Galaxy Master was, and no matter how heaven-defying his performance as a ninth-rank cultivator was, he was still at the ninth rank. What could he do with his few hundred million spatial layers?
Furthermore, Summer Qin's instructions meant that Galaxy Master couldn't even use his most proficient spatial layers. This was simply too unfair to Galaxy Master.
Nalanhu felt a bit sorry for Galaxy Master.
"What does Your Eminence mean by this?" Nalanhu wondered to himself. "Could it be that Galaxy Master's cultivation has been too smooth, and Your Eminence wants to give him some challenges and hardships to temper him?"
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