Swallowing the Stars: 100x Return for Teaching Apprentices

Chapter 158 Time and Space

Under the watchful eyes of thousands of cultivators, a short figure rushed out of the tower that shone with dazzling golden light.

The figure was only about 1.4 meters tall, with messy hair. Although he looked like a young man, he had a thick beard with reddish-brown hair tied into small braids.

The young man's muscular arms were bare, with fiery red lines interwoven on them, like flowing lava.

"It turned out to be him!"

"Flodis? One of the elites who recently arrived in Chaos City, one of those who were just promoted from the Cosmic Kingdom to the core? I didn't expect a little guy at the cosmic level to actually pass the ninth level test!"

"This guy is incredibly lucky!"

All the cultivators looked at the short, muscular figure with envy.

Under the watchful eyes of thousands, the dwarf youth who rushed out of the tower did not stop and walked directly to the front of the crowd.

Immediately, thousands of cultivators stopped to watch.

"According to the rules of the King of Destiny, one is qualified to become an apprentice after passing the ninth level. It seems this kid will have to become an apprentice directly!"

"Sigh, with so many of us, we're still no match for a newcomer, a mere cosmic-level little guy."

Each cultivator had a complex expression.

At this moment, the sturdy dwarf youth had already stepped to the front, then respectfully knelt down and, according to the rules of Chaos City, under the watchful eyes of thousands of cultivators, respectfully proclaimed—

"Disciple Flordis Golden Hammer humbly begs Master to accept me as his disciple!"

"I humbly request that you accept me as your disciple, Master!" The voice echoed.

Thousands of cultivators looked on with envy.

"Ha ha……"

Qi Yuan looked at the respectfully kneeling dwarf youth and laughed loudly, "Good, from this day forward, you are my disciple!"

"Come with me."

He didn't linger and left with several disciples.

Behind them, the cultivators all looked on with envy.

To become the disciple of a Grandmaster-level expert at the Cosmic level is something to be envied!
There are many realm lords and even immortal gods here who do not have a teacher at the king level!
"You guys go first, I'll try the Wonderful Pavilion again." A Realm Lord strode towards the black tower standing on one side of the square.

"Why are you leaving? We're going too!"

"Let's go, let's go together and conquer the Tower of Destiny!"

The cultivators all sprang into action quickly.

……

In the Qiyuan Mansion, in a hall where daily cultivation takes place.

Looking at the robust dwarf youth before him, Qi Yuan couldn't help but reveal a very satisfied smile.

[Name: Floridis Golden Hammer]

[Race: Golden Hammer Dwarf]

[Realm: Universe-level, First Order]

[Attribute: Fire]

[Cultivation Style: Blacksmith]

[Base return rate: 54x]

This dwarf youth, Florides, not only possessed a base return multiplier of 54, but was also a special type of cultivator—a blacksmith.

With the addition of the 'Mystic Rune Master' Fan Yu whom he recently took in, Qi Yuan now has two disciples with 'special professions' under his command.

"Does the blacksmith mean that the dwarves of this world are also skilled in blacksmithing?"

Qi Yuan smiled to himself and sighed, then looked down at the dwarf youth standing respectfully below.

“Flodis, from what I understand, you seem to have a considerable interest in forging?” he asked with a smile.

"Reply, teacher."

The dwarf youth, Florides, spoke respectfully, "We Golden Hammer Dwarves are naturally fond of forging objects. After joining the company, I discovered that the company's treasury contains many powerful related traditions. I felt that this path was very suitable for me, so I chose to become a blacksmith."

Although cultivators are divided into two main schools: martial artists and spiritual practitioners, there are still some smaller branches.

Common professions include puppeteers, apothecaries, and beast tamers, and blacksmiths are also among them.

Strictly speaking, blacksmiths and puppeteers are actually from the same source, both belonging to the branch of the 'treasure refining' school.

However, there were very few inheritances of the art of 'treasure refining' in this primitive cosmic era, and no particularly complete school was formed. Only these branches were widely spread.

Qi Yuan had been talking about training a few disciples interested in weapon crafting not long ago, but unexpectedly, a perfect candidate like himself had come knocking on his door. "Now that you've become my disciple, I also have a gift for you."

Qi Yuan smiled and waved, and a memory crystal, wrapped in divine power, landed in front of Frodis.
"This contains a set of formation inheritances about the combination of all the basic mysteries of the Law of Fire. Take it back and study it carefully; it should be quite useful to you."

"Formation inheritance!"

Upon hearing this, Floridus's eyes lit up. As a core member of the Virtual Universe Company, and with a great interest in forging, he naturally knew that the inheritance of formations and secret patterns was very helpful to his cultivation.

"Thank you teacher!"

Florides respectfully accepted the memory crystal containing the secrets of the Eight Formations of Fire into his hand.

At the same time, the system notification he had been waiting for finally rang in Qi Yuan's mind—

[A gift of success to my disciple in the transmission of the "Eight Formations - Fire"!]

[Base return rate 54x, return begins.]

[The gifted item has brought great joy to the disciple, triggering a 100x critical hit reward, with a final return multiplier of 5400x!]

[Reward returned: One fragment of "The Array of the Void"; this return triggered a perfect critical hit, granting a special reward: One fragment of "The True Explanation of the Array Dao".]

The reward has been stored in the system space and can be claimed at any time.

Upon hearing the notification, Qi Yuan's face immediately broke into a very gratified smile.

Another perfect critical hit!
I've successfully obtained the third fragment of "True Explanation of Array Formation". I believe that after integrating this third fragment, the auxiliary effect of "True Explanation of Array Formation" will definitely be greatly enhanced!

It's unclear how many fragments would be needed to synthesize a complete "True Explanation of Array Formation," and what the final effect would be.

Moreover, compared to the special rewards, Qi Yuan was more looking forward to the "Sky Array" fragments that were part of the regular return rewards. With this one, he now had exactly five "Sky Array" fragments!
"Go and cultivate first. If you have any questions, you can come and ask me."

Qi Yuan first encouraged the newly accepted disciple for a few more words. After the disciple left, he couldn't wait to retrieve the newly acquired fragment of the "Sky Array" from his system space.

In the world ring he always carried—

Whew~ Whew~ Whew~ Whew~ Whew~
Five nearly transparent and colorless irregular crystals chased and circled around each other, constantly attracting them to approach.

The edges of the transparent crystal chips seemed to disappear into the void, becoming obscure and indistinct.

A faint, diffused light slowly spread, enveloping all the chips within it.

It lasted for several seconds, and when the faint light dissipated, a transparent hexagonal crystal appeared in the space.

"The complete 'Sky Array' has finally arrived after all these years!"

Qi Yuan scanned the area with his consciousness and instantly captured a large amount of information emanating from the hexagonal crystal.

But before he could delve deeper into the study, further changes occurred within the World Ring space—

swoosh~
The instant the hexagonal crystal condensed and took shape, another blurry stream of light shot from the corner of the World Ring and collided directly with the hexagonal crystal.

Without a sound, the newly formed hexagonal crystal and a flying rhomboid transparent crystal melted silently, merging rapidly like flowing water.

After all the changes were over, only a brand new, sixteen-sided transparent crystal with two poles and eight vertices floated in the void.

"Huh? This is."

Qi Yuan's consciousness probed into the transparent crystal, and a large amount of information rapidly flooded into his mind.

He quickly digested and organized the information.

After a long while, he finally opened his eyes with some joy.

"I never expected that collecting all the 'Sky Array' would bring such an unexpected bonus."

The two crystals, which respectively recorded the "Array of Time" and the "Array of Space," merged to form a brand-new classic text—"Time and Space"!
"Time and Space" not only fully includes all the content of "Time Array" and "Space Array", but also extends and evolves a large number of mysteries about the perfect combination of time and space based on 10081 basic time arrays and 10081 basic space arrays!

In fact, the entire "Time and Space" can be seen as a powerful secret technique that combines the profound mysteries of the laws of time and space!
Once you fully master the entire "Time and Space" secret technique, you can directly unleash power comparable to the ultimate secret technique of the Lord of the Universe!

The ultimate secret technique of the Lord of the Universe!

Qi Yuan couldn't help but feel slightly excited.

Even some newly ascended ordinary universe masters may not have time to create ultimate-level secret techniques!
However, as long as one follows the steps of this "Time and Space" to cultivate and study, and imitates it, one can gradually master a secret technique with power reaching this level.

This is equivalent to getting a supreme secret technique of the universe for free!

"The 'Time and Space' not only contains all the content of the 'Time Array' and the 'Space Array,' but also has many more profound mysteries of cultivating by combining time and space. Excellent, excellent, this is simply tailor-made for me!"

Qi Yuan smiled broadly.

The laws of time and space become increasingly difficult to cultivate towards the end, especially when time and space are combined for improvement, which is much more difficult than those who focus on cultivating only one aspect.

However, with this newly integrated "Time and Space" as a reference, his subsequent cultivation should be much simpler!
"Huh, have Yuqing and Shangqing's clones arrived too?"

Qi Yuan's eyes suddenly lit up
(End of this chapter)