Chapter 400: Taking Stock of the Harvest

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In the depths of the cosmic starry sky, there lies a desolate star field. As far as the eye can see, spanning hundreds of thousands of light-years, not a single planet is to be found.

Just then, a faint ripple of spatial fluctuation appeared, and Lin Yuan's figure materialized out of thin air.

"Where am I?"

"The territory of the Star Alliance?"

Lin Yuan immediately used the position of his true self as a 'coordinate' to determine his current location.

"I didn't expect Senior Bai Zhi to send me here," Lin Yuan shook his head slightly. The half-meter-tall old man had casually tossed him out before leaving this universe, which was surrounded by dozens of Ultimate Existences.

Following Lin Yuan's wishes, the farther the better. After all, there were countless Ultimate Existences encircling 'Bai Zhi' at the time.

If he had been thrown out nearby and the anomaly was noticed by those Ultimate Existences adept in the Spatial Dao, it would have spelled trouble.

"I wonder if I'll ever have the chance to meet Senior Bai Zhi again," Lin Yuan muttered as he merged with the depths of the layered space, gazing towards an incredibly distant location where a massive spatial rift was slowly healing.

His journey into the lower-dimensional space had given Lin Yuan profound insights and led him to speculate more about the Myriad Worlds Gate.

These so-called lower-dimensional spaces were merely products created by near-perfect temporal life forms to explore other dimensional worlds.

In other words, even near-perfect temporal life forms were unable to break through dimensional restrictions and roam freely across different dimensions.

However, the Myriad Worlds Gate seemed to accomplish this with ease.

"Could the Myriad Worlds Gate be a treasure belonging to a perfect temporal life form?"

Lin Yuan speculated, his heart stirring. From the half-meter-tall old man, he had learned of the terrifying power of perfect temporal life forms—they were nearly omnipotent and could effortlessly overturn timelines if they so desired.

"Never mind.

"It's too early to think about these things now."

Lin Yuan reined in his thoughts.

He wasn't even a Supremacy yet, so contemplating perfect temporal life forms held little meaning.

Besides, the Myriad Worlds Gate had already acknowledged him as its master. When his strength reached that level, everything would become clear.

"I should return as soon as possible."

Lin Yuan scanned his surroundings and, confirming that there were no Star Alliance powerhouses nearby, prepared to head back to the territory of human civilization.

The Star Alliance possessed a vast territory but was typically 'sparsely populated.'

After all, the Star Alliance was primarily composed of numerous special life forms.

These special life forms were far less prolific in reproduction compared to human civilization. Even the most ordinary special life forms would likely have a birthing cycle spanning decades or even centuries.

Of course, the most prolific reproducers among them were the insectoids.

However, the creation of insectoid warriors by the insectoids couldn't be strictly considered reproduction. Insectoid warriors were completely under the control of the hive mind and lacked independent consciousness, so they didn't qualify as life forms.

As for the reproduction of the true insectoid tribe members, it was even slower than that of most special life forms.

"Let's go."

With a step, Lin Yuan's figure vanished, only to reappear a million light-years away.

After comprehending the rule of space-time fusion, Lin Yuan's traveling speed had increased exponentially. Taking a million light-years in a single step was already him holding back, preventing the creation of excessive spatial fluctuations that might attract the attention of powerful special life forms within the territory.

If Lin Yuan went all out, he could easily take steps spanning tens of millions of light-years or even billions. After comprehending the rule of space-time fusion, distance had lost most of its meaning to him.

If he could further improve his understanding of the rule of space-time fusion to the second or third level, the distance he could traverse in a single step would be even more astonishing.

"What if I combine it with the 'Nine Steps of Space-Time'?" Lin Yuan shook his head slightly, planning to test his absolute speed limit when the opportunity arose.

Main Star of the Milky Way.

Lin Yuan sat cross-legged, a smile spreading across his face.

Although the journey into the two-dimensional world had been fraught with danger and risked the erasure of his Solar Nascent Soul, affecting his martial foundation, the rewards were equally immense.

Firstly, he had gained everything from the powerful beings of the Myriad Races—their physical bodies, souls, and their profound insights into the rules. All of this knowledge now belonged to Lin Yuan.

According to the half-meter-tall old man, aside from the insights into the rule of space-time fusion, none of the other knowledge had undergone 'smelting' or 'purification.'

Lin Yuan would need to be cautious when studying this knowledge, but it still far exceeded his expectations. It was at least infinitely easier than trying to comprehend everything from scratch.

Secondly, there were those 'wondrous objects.'

It was worth mentioning that during his time in the two-dimensional world, which spanned tens of thousands of years, Lin Yuan had naturally acquired numerous wondrous objects as he explored every corner of that world.

While these objects weren't particularly useful in the two-dimensional world—at least not to Lin Yuan, who had been invincible there—bringing them out would make them invaluable treasures, weapons, and artifacts of the Twelve Stars.

"If I had known that only one victor could emerge, I could have extorted those peak clans one more time," Lin Yuan shook his head.

When the Heavenly Gate opened for the second time, Lin Yuan was the one who pushed it open. The other powerful beings of the Myriad Races subconsciously believed that they could do the same, so they didn't try to stop Lin Yuan from bringing out the wondrous objects.

"Hmm?"

"There's actually no need for the Solar Nascent Soul to travel."

A thought suddenly occurred to Lin Yuan.

He remembered another identity he possessed—the Lord of the Primordial Realm.

The Primordial Realm was a realm opened up by Emperor Xuanhuang, rooted in this very universe. As the Lord of the Primordial Realm, Lin Yuan could enter it at any time by using the Primordial Seal, as long as he was within the boundaries of this universe.

Then, he could use the Primordial Realm as a 'transit point' to return to the Milky Way Galaxy.

Within the Star Alliance's territory.

Lin Yuan, who had been on his way, suddenly stopped. He activated the Primordial Seal embedded in his soul, and his figure swiftly vanished, pulled into the Primordial Realm.

"Master." The six-armed figure stood respectfully, bowing to Lin Yuan.

As the 'spirit' of the Primordial Realm, it could sense everything that happened within. Naturally, it was aware of Lin Yuan's entrance into the realm.

Lin Yuan glanced at the six-armed figure and instructed him to leave.

"Yes," the figure replied respectfully before withdrawing.

"Now I'm safe." Lin Yuan heaved a sigh of relief. Even on the Milky Way's main star, he wouldn't be completely secure with all the wondrous objects he was carrying. But here in the Xuanhuang Secret Realm, there was not the slightest danger.

"Let's take a look at this silver mirror."

Lin Yuan took out the silver mirror.

Buzz.

Freed from the constraints of the two-dimensional world, the silver mirror seemed to be reviving, emitting vast spatial fluctuations as if a small universe were being created.

However, as the master of the Xuanhuang Secret Realm, Lin Yuan could harness the power of the entire realm, so he had no trouble controlling it.

"Do I need to refine it to reopen the space contained within after bringing it out?" Lin Yuan mused. Being in the main universe, this ultimate weapon's power had revived, and only through refinement could he begin to wield it.

Of course, refining the silver mirror would be no challenge for Lin Yuan.

Back in the two-dimensional world, Lin Yuan had already infused it with a large amount of mental energy, which was equivalent to half the refinement process.

Now, completing the refinement was simply a matter of time, and it would be accomplished within a month or two at most.

Of course, this was just the refinement; to truly unleash the ultimate weapon's power and restore its might would be beyond Lin Yuan's current abilities. At the very least, he would need to reach the eleventh tier and undergo another significant transformation in strength.

In the history of human civilization, there had been rare occasions when powerful evolvers wielded ultimate weapons, venturing into medium-sized or small-scale alien battlefields and creating permanent spatial rifts.

In reality, it was still the ultimate beings behind the scenes who were wielding the ultimate weapons. Ordinary eleventh-tier evolvers, even if they exhausted all their energy, would not be able to unleash an ultimate weapon's full twelve-tiered strike.

During the refinement of the silver mirror...

Lin Yuan took out the five globes of crystalline light, his rewards as the victor. As for the wondrous objects, those were what Lin Yuan had painstakingly gathered in the two-dimensional world, so they couldn't be considered part of the reward.

Among the five globes of light, one emanated a pure aura—the one representing the myriad races' strong comprehension of the spatial-temporal rule.

As for the other four globes, they appeared slightly 'murky'.

"Let's look at this one."

Lin Yuan randomly chose one of the four globes and cautiously projected his consciousness into it.

In an instant...

Lin Yuan's consciousness began to buzz.

"What?" Lin Yuan was astonished.

He had transformed into a flame giant, a towering figure that was tens of millions of kilometers tall, currently sleeping in a vast ocean of lava.

"Is this the Muddy Flame King? An eleventh-tier perfect-legendary life form?" Lin Yuan immediately recognized the flame giant from its characteristics.

The Muddy Flame King was the skinny old man who had joined forces with four other eleventh-tier perfect-legendary powerhouses to besiege the Four Divine Emperors during the first opening of the Heavenly Gate.

In the two-dimensional world, the Muddy Flame King had a slender build, but in the main universe, he was a unique life form, second only to the Four Divine Emperors and the Mother of the Tree World. Otherwise, he wouldn't have dared to attempt an attack on them.

"This is too incredible." Lin Yuan clearly sensed the subtle structure of the flame giant's body, the myriad innate abilities, and the profound rules involved even in something as simple as its breathing.

"So this is a unique life form?"

Lin Yuan withdrew his consciousness from the globe, his eyes shining with wonder.

Compared to humans, unique life forms were far too powerful. Especially these one-of-a-kind beings, like the flame giant—they were born at the sixth tier and could easily reach the ninth or tenth tier just by sleeping. Advancing to the eleventh tier was also a relatively effortless task for them.

In the myriad races of the starry sky, even the Star Sea Divine Dragon, a pinnacle bloodline, only reached the sixth tier upon maturity. To progress to the seventh or eighth tier, it would need to work hard on its own.

Most Star Sea Divine Dragons would never reach the eighth tier.

But unique life forms? They were the 'darlings' of this universe, naturally progressing to the pinnacle without much effort.

Of course, precisely because of this 'smooth sailing,' unique life forms had a low probability of reaching the ultimate stage. To become an ultimate being, talent and innate ability alone were not enough.

Among the countless ultimate beings in the current universe, the majority were those who had risen from humble beginnings.

"Continue."

After some thought, Lin Yuan projected his consciousness into another globe.

Rumble, rumble.

This time, Lin Yuan transformed into a silver-armored, golden-horned alien, engaged in a fierce battle with a powerful life form.

Rumble, rumble.

Space continued to collapse.

As the silver-armored, golden-horned alien fought, its comprehension and mastery of the rules were fully revealed to Lin Yuan.

"The rule of matter... This silver-armored, golden-horned alien has a profound understanding of the rule of great destruction." Lin Yuan mused, "And its physical body, while not as extraordinary as the Muddy Flame King's, is still remarkably unusual in certain aspects."

Lin Yuan continued to delve deeper into the insights, and the four globes of crystalline light that the half-meter-tall old man had given him, which had not undergone specialized 'smelting' or 'purification,' began to make more sense.

While they didn't provide as direct an understanding as the globe containing the spatial-temporal fusion rule, they held no less value for Lin Yuan. With his heaven-defying comprehension talent, countless insights flashed through his mind.

"I now have a direction for the Martial Tenth Tier!"

By observing every aspect of the myriad races' powerful beings, Lin Yuan had gained concrete ideas for the Martial Tenth Tier.

"Physical body!"

"Soul!"

Lin Yuan's eyes sparkled with excitement.

The physical body and the soul were the foundation of martial evolution. Starting from the Martial Fourth and Fifth Tiers, Lin Yuan's martial evolution path had focused on rule comprehension and the development of his internal world.

The foundation of human civilization was indeed far inferior to that of those long-established special life forms.

However, just because it started off inferior didn't mean it would always be that way. The Tenth Tier that Lin Yuan was currently working on was rapidly absorbing the strengths of those special life forms.

Theoretically speaking, if Lin Yuan continued with this approach, creating and perfecting the Tenth Tier, as long as there were martial evolutionaries in the future who cultivated it, they would not be inferior to those special life forms in any way.

By observing the physical bodies, souls, rule insights, and even memories of the myriad powerful beings, Lin Yuan not only gained tremendous help in opening and perfecting the Tenth Tier of martial arts, but also benefited himself greatly.

Lin Yuan's physical body was slowly transforming towards perfection, and his understanding of various rules, especially the fusion rules of the pillar-level, was also rapidly improving.

Time passed.

In the blink of an eye, two months had gone by.

Lin Yuan's expression stirred as he looked towards a floating silver mirror in the distance.

"It has finally been preliminarily refined successfully," Lin Yuan nodded slightly.

This ultimate weapon, the silver mirror, had no owner to begin with, and on top of that, Lin Yuan had constantly infused it with his mental energy in the two-dimensional world.

From the start of the refinement process until now, there had been almost no setbacks or obstacles.

Swish!

After the preliminary refinement of the silver mirror, Lin Yuan's consciousness entered the world within it.

Boom!

Within the two-dimensional world, the world inside the silver mirror was merely a narrow space of ten square meters.

But at this moment.

As Lin Yuan's consciousness merged with it, he was stunned.

An immense and vast world presented itself before Lin Yuan.

"The size of this world is at least ten thousand light-years in diameter, right?" Lin Yuan muttered to himself, but in terms of size, the internal universe of a supreme being was about the same.

"Such a massive world, once fully activated, is no less powerful than a supreme being exerting their full strength." Lin Yuan thought to himself.

However, to fully activate the silver mirror, one would have to be at least a supreme being. Even if Lin Yuan entered the eleventh tier, he could only barely activate it slightly; as for fully activating it, that was out of the question.

"Let's take a look at the other wondrous objects."

Following his senses, Lin Yuan arrived at a huge stone platform where numerous wondrous objects were placed. As he counted them, there were over a hundred in total.

Along with the silver mirror's departure from the two-dimensional world, it began to revive, and these wondrous objects were also gradually awakening.

If they weren't inside the world of the silver mirror, but in the main universe, the combined fluctuations of these hundred-odd 'wondrous objects' would likely affect hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of light-years.

"Among these wondrous objects, eleven of them belong to human civilization."

Lin Yuan picked out eleven objects from the hundred-odd wondrous objects.

During the tens of thousands of years in the two-dimensional world, Xuan Yuan Do and numerous human civilization evolvers had been searching for these wondrous objects, eventually gathering a total of twenty-two, which they handed over to Lin Yuan.

According to the agreement between Lin Yuan and the supreme being, Xia Qin, Lin Yuan could keep fifty percent of the twenty-two wondrous objects after bringing them out.

"So many wondrous objects,"

Lin Yuan looked at the remaining nearly one hundred wondrous objects, his heart throbbing with excitement.

Even an ultimate existence would likely be tempted by so many wondrous objects.

"Calm down, calm down."

Lin Yuan took a moment to compose himself. Although these wondrous objects were incredibly precious, their practical use to Lin Yuan in his current state was not significant.

Lin Yuan's current life stage was still too low, and he was unable to fully utilize these wondrous objects.

"Slow and steady."

Lin Yuan carefully brought the eleven wondrous objects of human civilization into his internal world.

"No problem."

Lin Yuan nodded. These eleven wondrous objects, these eleven twelve-star treasures, weapons, and artifacts, had their power completely restrained and floated quietly in his internal world.

"I should send these wondrous objects to Supreme Being Xia Qin."

Lin Yuan placed the eleven wondrous objects in a separate section of his internal world, while the silver mirror and the other wondrous objects were kept in the Xuanhuang Secret Realm.

After finishing these tasks, the Solar Nascent Soul left the Xuanhuang Secret Realm.

Main Star of the Milky Way.

Lin Yuan sat cross-legged, and a figure silently appeared before him.

It was the Solar Nascent Soul.

"You're back?"

A smile appeared on Lin Yuan's face.

"Supreme Being Yu Die has been waiting for me for some time," Lin Yuan's mind stirred, and the Solar Nascent Soul left the main star of the Milky Way and arrived in a starry sky.

Days earlier, an incarnation of Supreme Being Yu Die had appeared outside the main star of the Milky Way to ensure Lin Yuan's safety.

After all, Lin Yuan was the only survivor among the myriad powerful beings in the White Paper, although this fact was unknown to the other races. Still, human civilization had to be cautious.

"Thank you, Supreme Being Yu Die."

As the Solar Nascent Soul flew out, Lin Yuan bowed slightly to the illusory figure in the starry sky.

"It's nothing."

Supreme Being Yu Die smiled and gently said, "Let me take you to the third major site of human civilization. The other supreme beings want to see you."

"The other supreme beings?" Lin Yuan was slightly puzzled.

"Yes, Xia Qin and the other seven want to meet you." Supreme Being Yu Die looked at Lin Yuan.

"Eight supreme beings?" Lin Yuan was breathless. If you add the one in front of him, that's nine supreme beings.

The nine supreme beings of human civilization had all appeared just to see him?

Unless it was a matter of life and death for human civilization, the nine supreme beings rarely gathered in one place, as most of them had their own matters to attend to.

(End of Chapter)

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