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Chapter 498: The Kindness of the Jie Clan
Chapter 498: The Kindness of the Jie Clan (End of Chapter)
"Startled?"
Lin Yuan looked at the Xia Qin ultimate powerhouse, feeling no surprise.
Ever since the discovery of the Xuanhuang Secret Realm, countless Twelfth-Tier Ultimates had desired to refine the secret realm, yet none had succeeded as intended.
They couldn't even pinpoint the exact coordinates of the Xuanhuang Secret Realm, let alone refine it?
Now that he had become the master of the Xuanhuang Secret Realm, it was only natural that he would astonish all the Twelfth-Tier Ultimates.
"I happened to reach the deepest part of the Xuanhuang Secret Realm during my exploration," Lin Yuan explained casually.
"I see." A smile appeared on Xia Qin's face. He didn't care about how Lin Yuan had refined the Xuanhuang Secret Realm; he was merely concerned about the fact that the Xuanhuang Secret Realm now belonged to Lin Yuan.
"Good, good, good!"
"Lin Yuan, you probably don't know the significance of the Xuanhuang Secret Realm to our human civilization!" Xia Qin exhaled lightly and said solemnly.
"Significance to human civilization?" Lin Yuan was slightly taken aback.
In his opinion, the Twelfth-Tier Ultimates who wanted to refine the Xuanhuang Secret Realm did so because they speculated that there were important legacies within the realm that would play a crucial role in their evolutionary path.
Indeed, that was the case.
The three Great Dao protection secret arts of the Xuanhuang lineage were extremely beneficial, not just to Twelfth-Tier Ultimates in the Dao Initiation Realm, but even to those in the Dominator Realm and the Chaos Realm.
But what did it have to do with the significance to human civilization?
To prevent the widespread dissemination of the three secret arts of the Xuanhuang lineage and to prevent their enemies from finding ways to counter them, Emperor Xuanhuang had left a rule prohibiting their transmission to other powerhouses.
Lin Yuan couldn't quite figure out what significant meaning the Xuanhuang Secret Realm held for human civilization. Was it the Xuanhuang beasts within the realm? Or the Xuanhuang crystals?
While the Xuanhuang crystals were indeed valuable, for human civilization as a whole, they were merely a type of scarce resource. One couldn't say that they held a significant meaning on a grand scale.
"For human civilization, the most precious thing is the secret realm itself." Xia Qin looked at Lin Yuan.
"The secret realm itself?" Lin Yuan's expression turned pensive.
"Yes, the secret realm itself." Xia Qin nodded. "The Xuanhuang Secret Realm can isolate cause and effect in space-time. Even we Twelfth-Tiers are unable to see through the Xuanhuang Secret Realm and interfere with what's inside."
"Among the twelve peak cosmic groups, there is a certain intensity of warfare on the surface, but underneath, it's a different story. Those alien races are always keeping an eye out for any talented evolvers in our human civilization."
"Sixth-Tier and above is still manageable. Even if they perish, they can be resurrected through their life imprints."
"But below Sixth-Tier? Many talented evolvers below Sixth-Tier are directly cursed and killed by the alien races as soon as they show signs of rising, and they can't even be resurrected." Xia Qin explained.
"Indeed." Lin Yuan nodded in agreement.
He had also been targeted for cursing by the alien races before, but his identity had been well-guarded. The alien races could only lock onto a large area, and even so, they had forcefully carried out the curse, choosing the three-eyed clan genius among the contemporaries seven-star cave testers.
Lin Yuan considered himself lucky, and with the lesson from the previous mishap involving the Red Kunlun Star Master's disciple, who had perished at the hands of the alien race ten thousand years ago, he was cautious.
But what about the other talented human civilization evolvers? Every year, countless talented evolvers below Sixth-Tier died under the curses of the alien races.
Among the peak alien races, there were Tenth-Tier and Eleventh-Tier powerhouses specifically tasked with cursing the human civilization's Fourth-Tier and Fifth-Tier geniuses.
The cost for Tenth-Tier and Eleventh-Tier powerhouses to curse Fourth-Tier and Fifth-Tier geniuses was not too high, and any damage they sustained was recoverable.
The Ultimates were powerless to do anything about this situation.
After all, there were only nine Ultimates in human civilization, and their main focus had to be on the Twelfth-Tier aliens.
They couldn't possibly keep an eye on every evolving genius within the civilization.
Furthermore, human civilization had never stopped attempting to assassinate important geniuses of other alien races.
"What do you mean, Ultimate?" Lin Yuan understood what Xia Qin was trying to say.
"Indeed, with the Xuanhuang Secret Realm, we can store a strand of the mental will of important evolving geniuses below Sixth-Tier in human civilization."
"This way, even if they encounter a curse, they will still be able to survive." Xia Qin said.
The essence of life lay in the mental will.
The core of the clone technique was also to divide a portion of the mental will and enter it into a new body.
As long as the mental will remained, the physical body and soul could be quickly restored.
"Although the pillars of our human civilization are the Tenth-Tier evolvers, the Eleventh-Tier evolvers, and us Twelfth-Tiers, we all grew from weakness. If the evolving geniuses below Sixth-Tier survive, our human civilization will have a future." Xia Qin spoke with a sigh.
Take Lin Yuan, for example; he had grown from the First-Tier to the Third-Tier.
"Yes." Lin Yuan nodded.
For any race, the foundation always lay at the bottom.
Only with a large number of bottom-tiers could there be a continuous birth of middle-tiers, high-tiers, and top-tiers.
Among the ordinary races in the cosmic starry sky, many races gathered all their resources to support a single powerful individual, but such races lacked vitality. Should something unexpected happen to that powerful individual, the race would face calamity.
"Rest assured, I will set a threshold. If someone wants to store a strand of their mental will in the Xuanhuang Secret Realm, they must pay a price. If some evolving geniuses cannot afford the price for the time being, they can pay later when they are able to." Xia Qin considered things comprehensively.
Since the Xuanhuang Secret Realm was Lin Yuan's private property, one couldn't just freeload off of it.
"That's a minor matter." Lin Yuan shook his head, unconcerned.
It wasn't as if he was opening up the entire Xuanhuang Secret Realm. He only needed to make room in a corner to store some mental will, which was too simple for him.
After learning that Lin Yuan was the master of the Xuanhuang Secret Realm, Xia Qin no longer brought up the matter of Lin Yuan's physical body traveling to the Central Star Domain.
In terms of safety, the human civilization's strongholds and ancestral lands were undoubtedly less secure than the Xuanhuang Secret Realm.
Throughout history, during the most intense battles between human civilization and other peak races, many ancestral lands had fallen, and the Central Star Domain had even become a battlefield.
But the Xuanhuang Secret Realm?
It had remained untouched to this day, no matter how the Twelfth-Tier aliens probed, they gained nothing.
Lin Yuan's physical body was undoubtedly much safer in the Xuanhuang Secret Realm than in any other place in human civilization.
However, in the end, Xia Qin still reminded Lin Yuan to be cautious, as the Twelfth-Tier aliens might not make any moves.
After all, Lin Yuan had already grown to a formidable extent, and with the protection of the Xuanhuang Secret Realm, even Xia Qin couldn't think of a way to deal with him.
But if the Twelfth-Tier aliens did make a move, they would surely have a high chance of success, and that would be the most dangerous situation.
Galaxy Main Star.
A figure silently appeared outside the main star, shrouded in a black robe, without a trace of aura, quietly observing the planet beneath him.
"Is this the main star of the Galaxy Star Master?" The figure hidden under the black robe murmured, not forgetting his mission. He immediately used the Star Platform to enter the Galaxy Main Star.
Before long, the black-robed figure descended onto the Galaxy Main Star and made its way towards the central Star Master's Palace.
Star Master's Palace.
The red-skinned, green-eyed Eighth-Tier aliens reported, "Master, a member of the Jie Clan wishes to see you."
"The Jie Clan?" Lin Yuan opened his eyes, slightly puzzled.
The Jie Clan was the most mysterious and formidable of the twelve peak cosmic groups, striking fear into the hearts of the other eleven peak groups, thanks to the two Peak Dao Initiation powerhouses sitting at its apex.
Even if these two Peak Dao Initiation Ultimates couldn't directly intervene, they were still Peak Dao Initiation powerhouses, and who knew what tricks they might have up their sleeves?
Because of this, the Jie Clan held the most revered position among the twelve peak cosmic groups.
"Interesting." Lin Yuan mused, "Let him in."
Soon, the black-robed figure entered the Star Master's Palace.
"Greetings, Galaxy Star Master." The black-robed figure bowed respectfully, its eyes darting cautiously towards Lin Yuan, who sat cross-legged in the distance, holding a faint, illusory book.
The book was obscured, and some power seemed to be blocking it from view, but even just seeing the book itself made the black-robed figure's heart tremble.
"Is this the Galaxy Star Master?" The black-robed figure's heart raced as it regarded Lin Yuan. Despite being an Eleventh-Tier life form from the Jie Clan, it felt as though it were facing one of its own Ultimate ancestors when confronted with the Galaxy Star Master, who was also an Eleventh-Tier entity.
"The Jie Clan sent you here in secret. What is this about?" Lin Yuan closed the illusory book he had been holding and glanced at the black robe the figure was wearing.
This black robe was a rare spacetime treasure that could conceal any aura, making it difficult for even Twelfth-Tier Ultimates to detect its presence if they weren't careful.
With his seventh-level spacetime comprehension, Lin Yuan could discern the robe's purpose and was curious about the reason for the figure's covert arrival.
The figure's extreme caution suggested that it didn't want anyone else to know about its presence, not even the most powerful beings of human civilization.
"I was sent by my clan's ancestor to inform you of something," the black-robed figure said, its voice steady. "The Twelfth-Tiers of the Tianyu Clan, the Insect Clan, the Prison Clan, and others plan to join forces and use that drop of bizarre blood to deal with you, Galaxy Star Master."
"Bizarre blood?" Lin Yuan's heart stirred as he immediately thought of the strange life form that had fallen into the universe at its creation.
The strongest beings of human civilization had not been involved in that incident, as humanity had not yet come into existence. They only knew of the terrifying nature of that strange life form through ancient records.
"Has the Myriad Transformation Mother Emperor of the Insect Clan obtained a drop of blood from that strange life form?" Lin Yuan asked, his expression thoughtful.
"Indeed," the black-robed figure confirmed. "That drop of bizarre blood is the source of chaos and corruption, and it is lethal to any life form below the Twelfth-Tier."
"Please be cautious, Galaxy Star Master," the figure quickly added.
It then revealed the plans and schemes of the alien Twelfth-Tiers, including the drop of bizarre blood as the core element, one of the few treasures that could potentially affect Lin Yuan's true body.
Lin Yuan listened quietly, but he felt no worry.
The plan of the Insect Clan and the other alien Twelfth-Tiers was based on the assumption that Lin Yuan's true power was what he had displayed in the super-large battlefield.
However, after his journey to the Immortal Realm, Lin Yuan's strength had increased tremendously, and he was now comparable to a typical Twelfth-Tier Ultimate.
To be precise, after obtaining the treasure from Cang Wei Yang, a Peak Dominator powerhouse, Lin Yuan's battle prowess was estimated to surpass that of a typical Twelfth-Tier Ultimate, reaching a level close to the Myriad Transformation Mother Emperor and Xuanyuan's strongest members.
While the drop of blood from the strange life form was indeed fearsome, it was clearly ineffective against Twelfth-Tier life forms, or else the Myriad Transformation Mother Emperor would have used it long ago.
The most crucial factor was that to make use of that drop of bizarre blood, they would need to completely suppress one of Lin Yuan's avatars or incarnations, which was virtually impossible.
With Lin Yuan's current mental will and soul strength, even a Dominator powerhouse would be unable to suppress him so thoroughly that he wouldn't have a chance to react.
"Why is the Jie Clan telling me this?" Lin Yuan's thoughts raced as he finally turned his gaze towards the black-robed figure.
Lin Yuan himself knew his situation, but the Jie Clan was not aware of this, so why would they divulge such a secret?
"My clan's ancestor did not say," the black-robed figure replied in a low voice, its own confusion evident. It, too, wondered why its ancestor had sent it on this mission, but in the Jie Clan, the ancestor's word was law, and their commands were to be obeyed without question.
"Very well," Lin Yuan said, waving his hand dismissively.
The black-robed figure immediately withdrew.
"It seems I can't stay in the Galaxy Main Star any longer," Lin Yuan thought to himself.
Although the scheme of the alien Twelfth-Tiers posed no real threat to him, if they did band together and launch an attack, the collateral damage from their battle would be catastrophic for the Galaxy Main Star and the surrounding life-bearing planets.
When Twelfth-Tier Ultimates clashed, the destruction they wrought spanned light-years.
Lin Yuan had to consider the countless citizens of the Galaxy Main Star.
"The aliens will use causality to pinpoint my location, but if my avatars and incarnations are not in the Galaxy Main Star, they won't have a reason to target it specifically," Lin Yuan reasoned.
While he valued the lives of the citizens, the aliens would not share his concern.
Moreover, there were powerful beings of human civilization present, and if the alien Twelfth-Tier Ultimates destroyed one of their star domains today, they would face retaliation from human civilization's strongest beings tomorrow, who would raze ten of the aliens' star domains in response.
"From now on, my two great Nascent Souls and numerous incarnations will mostly traverse the desolate star domains," Lin Yuan decided.
Of course, during this period, he would use his rule comprehension to obscure the causality of his avatars and incarnations.
With his current rule comprehension, even Twelfth-Tier Ultimates would find it difficult to pinpoint his exact location.
As for hiding all his avatars and incarnations in the Xuanhuang Secret Realm? While the Secret Realm could indeed isolate them from spacetime causality, they wouldn't be able to sense the fluctuations of the rules within it.
Lin Yuan certainly didn't want to engage with the alien Twelfth-Tiers, but that didn't mean he feared them.
"At the rate my internal world is transforming, it will reach its peak in at most a hundred years, and then I can attempt to break through to the Ultimate stage," Lin Yuan thought to himself.
Within the next hundred years, if the alien Twelfth-Tiers managed to find one of his incarnations through causal connections, Lin Yuan wouldn't mind playing along.
But if they couldn't lock down his location, then in a hundred years, he would directly break through to the Twelfth-Tier Ultimate stage.
(End of Chapter)
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