Swallowing the Stars: 100x Return for Teaching Apprentices

Chapter 142: Thousands of Years
time flies.

For some immortal powerhouses, it is common to roam the battlefields beyond the realm for thousands or tens of thousands of years.

Meanwhile, a thousand years have passed since Qi Yuan arrived on the island continent numbered 100.
A thousand years
Before arriving at the battlefield outside the domain, Qi Yuan's two lifetimes combined totaled less than a hundred years.

For him, a thousand years was an extremely long time.

And in these long thousands of years, many things can happen.
Over the course of a thousand years, his primary focus was naturally on comprehending the laws of time and space.

The Realm Lord stage allows one to communicate with the origin of the universe through consciousness, which is the fastest stage for comprehending the laws.

Qi Yuan possesses the powerful talents of the Jade Purity and Supreme Purity clones, along with a series of auxiliary treasures such as the "Array of Time," the fragments of the "True Explanation of the Dao of Arrays," and the spatial insight notes of the King of Zhuan Kong. He also has the near-cheating method of system experience return.
With the support of various powerful opportunities, his understanding of the laws is advancing at an unimaginable and exaggerated speed.

Especially in terms of the laws of time, he had already reached the extremely profound level of the fifth level of the "Array of Time".

With continuous cultivation, especially after his disciple Longji broke through to the Domain Lord and Realm Lord levels in a very short period of time, the insights he gained when imparting cultivation experience to his disciples increased dramatically.

He began to make rapid progress in his understanding of the laws of time, and soon fully met the requirements of the sixth level of the "Array of Time", and continued to refine his skills toward the seventh level.

In contrast, progress on spatial laws was initially quite slow.

After all, while the Zhuan Kong Wang Space Enlightenment Notes are also considered a high-level auxiliary cultivation technique, they are far inferior to the combination of the "Time Array" and the fragment of the "True Explanation of the Array Dao".

Fortunately, more than 130 years after Qi Yuan settled on the continent of island number 100 to cultivate, his disciple Noah, who had been out of contact for a long time, suddenly appeared on Red Leaf Star.
When he left the battlefield outside the domain, Qi Yuan left him an address and a contact number so that he could seek help if he encountered any trouble.

The communication account is an anonymous account that Taiqing's clone occasionally uses, and the address is naturally Hongye Star.

More than a hundred years later, Noah was surprised and delighted to suddenly encounter someone in a strange land whose face and aura were extremely similar to his friend from the battlefield outside the region.

In response, Qi Yuan only vaguely revealed that his experience with the ability to create "clones" was more special than his talent for "transformation." Qi Yuan preferred to reveal some details about this aspect.

However, Noah wasn't the type to gossip, and he didn't show any particular interest in investigating.

Qi Yuan didn't ask in detail what Noah did during the more than one hundred years he disappeared. He simply did his best to arrange for Noah and a first-level World Lord woman who was traveling with him to settle down on Red Leaf Star.

In the time that followed, Qi Yuan's Taiqing clone took the initiative to "teach on behalf of his uncle" in the name of "senior brother," often imparting to him some cultivation experience in spatial laws.

Thanks to Taiqing's 'educating' ability, Qi Yuan's experience gained from him was also greatly increased.

It was thanks to the system's experience feedback that the comprehension of the laws of space was able to barely keep up with the progress of the laws of time, and not fall too far behind.

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Besides comprehending the laws, Qi Yuan also devoted a great deal of his energy to the research and creation of secret techniques over the past thousand years.

Understanding the laws is the foundation, while the secret laws are the means to utilize that understanding.

Creating secret techniques involves combining one's own understanding with the basic insights already acquired to unleash even greater power.

With Qi Yuan's current understanding of the laws, it wouldn't be too difficult for him to create some simple secret techniques related to space and time.

The real challenge lies in finding the truly perfect 'optimal solution' that suits you best from countless combinations of basic insights.

This process is far more difficult than imagined.

Like an extremely intelligent child, he learns everything very quickly, recognizing thousands of characters and words in a short period of time, and memorizing a large number of ancient poems and articles.

However, it is not easy for him to use the words and phrases he knows to create a beautiful article from scratch that perfectly expresses his feelings, has lofty ideals, is rigorously written, and leaves no room for criticism.

Learning is easy, doing is difficult, and mastering it is even more difficult!

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In order to successfully create the most suitable secret technique for himself, Qi Yuan purchased a large number of secret techniques that explained the application of the laws of space and time through means such as the virtual universe treasure vault.

Through extensive reading, I attempted to find potential inspiration from the unique insights of those esoteric creators.

At the same time, he is further studying "The Array of Time," the spatial perception notes of the King of the Void, in order to understand the basic rules for the application of laws from a deeper level.

In addition, he also instructed the territory to expedite the search for talented individuals with suitable abilities in array formations, hoping to use the system's functions to return any existing "Void Arrays" as soon as possible.

To be fair, although Qi Yuan had many powerful opportunities provided by the system, he still lacked the guidance of a real teacher and was ultimately lacking in the basics.

Therefore, for the first three hundred years, he mainly focused on solidifying his foundation by reading a large number of classic texts, such as "The Array of Time" and the spatial notes of King Zhuankong, so as to explore, master, and eventually become proficient in the basic rules of creating combinations using secret techniques.

It wasn't until the fourth century after he arrived on the 100th island continent that he truly began to try to create a secret technique suitable for himself, based on the laws he had mastered and his own insights.

"The secret technique is a skill, a concept, of intuitively unleashing power. It should be applicable to swordsmanship, knife techniques, spear techniques, and even the use of telekinetic weapons. Initially, there's no need to be confined to the form of the weapon."

"The combination of space and time is the world, the universe... The four directions are called the universe, the past and present are called time... Space and time are profound, all-encompassing..." "Space and time are everywhere, constantly fluctuating... Space and time evolve all things..."

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Based on his own accumulation and understanding, Qi Yuan gradually constructed the prototype of his secret technique...

Time passes quietly...

400 years... 500 years... 550 years...

Around the 550th year after arriving on Island 100, Qi Yuan finally managed to roughly construct the prototype of a secret technique.

Subsequently, he stopped his secluded cultivation and began to frequently leave his secluded lair to seek out and fight various powerful alien warriors...

Although he would fight before, the frequency was not very high, at most four or five times a year. It was mainly used to relieve the depression during seclusion and to verify some of the difficulties in understanding the laws.

But the moment the prototype of the secret technique was successfully built, the frequency of his battles suddenly increased, from four or five times a year to about five or six times a month!

A powerful secret technique must be tested in countless battles in order to be constantly repaired and perfected.

Qi Yuan, through repeated battles, constantly tested the flaws in the prototype of his secret technique, and then made targeted adjustments, optimizations, and improvements.

In the last four hundred years alone, Qi Yuan went out to fight at least tens of thousands of times!
One can imagine how frantic he was in battle!
It's important to know that the alien immortals on Island 100 mostly operate in teams. Some teams have two or three immortal gods, while others have as many as seven or eight immortals traveling together.

Moreover, almost every team active here has at least one expert at the peak level of Immortal Army Lord!

After all, on this island number 100, there are 16 powerful individuals at the Marquis level, and countless experts at the peak of the Immortal Army Lord level.

If a team doesn't have a peak Immortal Army Lord level expert to accompany them, they simply won't be able to survive here.

At the beginning, Qi Yuan, with the power of a hundred times that of a peak world lord, plus his profound understanding of the laws, could unleash a combat power of almost the initial level of a Marquis.

However, his initial title of Marquis only means that his power has reached a certain level. He is not immortal and cannot burn divine power. Compared with a true Marquis of Initial Title who is immortal, he is still far inferior.

However, his burst of power at the initial level of the Marquis title was enough for him to suppress the vast majority of teams on Island 100.

Only those experts whose strength reaches the peak of the Immortal Army Lord level can truly fight him on equal terms.

As time went on, his progress in comprehending the laws continued to improve, the prototype of his secret techniques was constantly perfected, and the combat power he could unleash also skyrocketed.

Later on, even the peak Immortal Army Lord could no longer exert enough pressure on him.

Therefore, in the last two hundred years, Qi Yuan directly set his sights on the 16 overlords of the 100th island continent—

Those 16 powerful Marquis Immortals who have already condensed an immortal body!
Even a low-ranking Marquis is vastly different in strength from a peak Immortal Monarch.

Even without considering the immortality of those who are enfeoffed as marquises, their greater strength, more indestructible bodies, and more powerful law domains that have been able to integrate a trace of the laws of time or space are enough to allow them to easily crush opponents at the peak level of the Immortal Army Lord!
Therefore, when he first faced a master of this level, Qi Yuan really suffered a lot!

Although Shangqing's clone can simulate forms similar to an immortal divine body and a domain of laws through its 'transformation' talent, it is merely a facade and does not enhance its strength in the slightest.

He was weaker than his opponent in strength and physical toughness, lacked immortality and the power of laws, and couldn't even use the World Projection technique because his life core wasn't here...

When facing an opponent of the rank of Marquis, Qi Yuan was at a disadvantage in almost every aspect.

He relied entirely on his profound understanding of the laws to forcibly maneuver and fight across boundaries!
However, this forced confrontation finally brought him long-awaited pressure!

Every thrilling battle, every all-out collision, dodging, blocking, and even escaping brings him a completely new experience.

Under such intense combat conditions, the flaws of the rudimentary secret technique will be fully exposed, allowing Qi Yuan to further improve and enhance it.

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A thousand years.

Insights, battles, improvements, and advancements.

Qi Yuan's comprehension of the laws is progressing rapidly, and the secret techniques he creates are gradually improving from their initial form to a state of perfection.

Meanwhile, his original plan to expand his disciple network, after a thousand years of continuous tracking and investment, seems to have finally come to fruition...

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