Swallowing the Stars: 100x Return for Teaching Apprentices

Chapter 168 Going deeper
woohoo~~~
The undercurrents surged wildly, and the surrounding space and time shifted in the blink of an eye.

"boom!"

The moment the surrounding undercurrents were washed away, an unimaginable, frantic suction force descended upon Qi Yuan's body!
The frenzied absorption was comparable to a black hole, accompanied by incredibly powerful pressure and tearing force!

Snapped!Snapped!
Even the black dragon armor on its body trembled under this incredibly powerful destructive force, as if it were about to shatter at any moment!
Even with the protection of the powerful armor, Qi Yuan's divine body was still being annihilated uncontrollably.

The frenzied annihilation, coupled with the burning and depletion of his own divine body, caused his total divine body mass to rapidly decline—

96% 92% 88% 84%
"not good!"

At this moment, Qi Yuan's expression truly changed!

It should be noted that in the fourth transformation of the "Nine Transformations of the Divine Silkworm" at the amplitude state, he is stronger than some cosmic venerables in terms of divine body level!
Moreover, what is currently here is Qi Yuan's Shangqing clone. Although the height of his divine body is not that exaggerated, it is still more than 300 kilometers, which is more than a thousand times or even ten thousand times larger than the divine bodies of most human universe venerables!
However, even with the added blessing of divine power and the powerful armor, he still couldn't withstand the terrifying force that constantly enveloped his body, sucking, pressing, and tearing.

His total divine body volume is decreasing at a crazy rate. In just a short while, the total amount of divine body volume that has been annihilated is equivalent to the total divine body volume of countless ordinary human universe venerables!

That is, the moment he successfully enslaved Tian Yuwang, he tried his best to get close to him and put him into his personal space. Otherwise, with the remaining divine body of Tian Yuwang, he would probably have been annihilated into nothingness the moment he appeared here.

"Such terrifying destructive power! This is the depths of the eighth level of the Abyss, and we are about to reach the ninth level!"

Based on the number and density of the small floating worlds around him, Qi Yuan instantly determined his current location.

"Near the Ninth Hell, the tidal currents caused by the collapse of that small world have brought me to this perilous place. This is troublesome!"

Qi Yuan's expression changed slightly.

The eighth level of the Time-Space Prison is so powerful that even a Cosmic Venerable would have his divine body annihilated if he entered it. The most terrifying ninth level is a death sentence for any Cosmic Venerable who falls into it!
Qi Yuan was only present as an avatar, so he wasn't worried about dying. However, he was reluctant to give up the few precious treasures he had just acquired!

Even if the clones perish, they can be reassembled through the golden auspicious clouds of the divine kingdom. However, these treasures are lost, and it will take a lot of effort to obtain them again.

After all, given the current level of understanding and cultivation of his disciples, the weapons and armor that match them are at most at the level of 'Lofu Pipa' and 'Chrysalis Armor'.

Items of this level are far from being able to be returned as treasures of the highest rank.

whoosh whoosh~~~
Under the immense power of absorption and tearing, Qi Yuan's divine body was being consumed rapidly, and his entire divine body was being pulled by that absorption power, constantly flying towards the direction of the ninth level of the Abyss.

"No, we can't just sit here and wait to die, otherwise all the efforts of the past ten years will have been wasted!"

Qi Yuan's consciousness raced, searching for any possible way to escape.

"Yuqing's clone's divine power is replenished!"

With a thought, his Jade Purity clone, hidden within the World Ring, channeled streams of pure divine power into his Upper Purity clone outside, ensuring the integrity of his power.

hiss hiss hiss~~~
The divine body continuously diminishes and recovers, continuously diminishes and recovers!
"Even with Yuqing's clone replenishing my strength, it only allows me to hold on a little longer. What should I do?"

Qi Yuan quickly scanned the area, and suddenly his eyes lit up as he locked onto a small bubble world not far ahead.

At this moment, the small bubble world was also being drawn by that sucking force, slowly flying towards the center of the Time-Space Prison.

However, the world itself is incredibly vast, and the speed at which it is being swallowed and flown is much slower than that of Qi Yuan's body.

"Yes, the small world! Let's hide in the small world for a while!"

"boom!"

With his divine power burning and actively flying along the suction force, his speed reached its limit, and he quickly arrived in front of the bubble world in his sight.

"Chichi~~"

With a swing of his divine sword, he cleaved a gap in the world's membrane, just wide enough for one person to pass through, and then quickly passed through the gap.

"Huhuhu~~~"

The cracks in the world's membrane healed rapidly, completely blocking the raging spatial-temporal turbulence and the forces that sucked and tore it away.

After checking his own condition, Qi Yuan, who was temporarily safe, couldn't help but show an expression of immense relief.

In just a short while, the total amount of divine bodies of the two clones was more than half consumed, and the remaining divine body of the Jade Purity clone, which was used as a supplement, was less than 20%.

If this small world weren't nearby, or if it were farther away, his two clones would probably have been completely annihilated by the external spacetime tides!
Wow~~~
A large number of treasures that restore divine power were taken out, and the two clones began to rapidly absorb them to restore divine power.

Through more than a decade of mass killings, he seized a large amount of similar resources from the foreign kings he had killed or enslaved.

In order to restore the divine bodies of those slaves who had been granted the title of king, he selected some of the more precious ones with better restoration effects and used the return system to give them a 'super bonus'.

Therefore, the high-quality resources he now possesses for restoring divine power are truly enormous.

While recovering his divine power, he was also quickly reflecting on his current situation.

Although he is temporarily safe, if he cannot escape in time, his two clones will ultimately perish. In particular, the bubble world he is in is still deepening towards the ninth level of the Abyss. Although the speed is said to be slow, it is only relative to the speed at which Qi Yuan is being swallowed and flown.

In fact, the speed in this bubble world can reach close to half the speed of light!

He was already extremely close to the Ninth Level of the Abyss. At this rate, it would probably take him less than three days to completely enter the Ninth Level of the Abyss of Time and Space!

At that time, if his divine body were to reappear in the outside world, it would probably be torn apart and destroyed in less than a fraction of a second, leaving him with no hope of escape!
That being said, when it came to actually thinking of a way to escape, he had absolutely no idea.

After all, even with the current external environment, a true cosmic master wouldn't last long after entering, so what good ideas could he possibly come up with?

"Forget it, let's just take it one step at a time. Since we can't escape anyway, let's see where this bubble world will take me in the end! As for this treasure, we can always find another opportunity later."

With nowhere to run, he quickly became relieved, continuing to recover his divine power while calmly sitting in this small world awaiting the final outcome.

"Qiyuan, I heard that you fought a great battle with the Heavenly King of the Mechanical Race and both of you fell into the eighth level of the Time-Space Prison. What's going on?"

First, Xuanming King and several others from the Hongmeng sent an email to Qi Yuan inquiring about him. Then, several grandmasters, including Juekun King from Chaos City, also contacted him.

How did you find out about this?

Qi Yuan was somewhat curious.

"It was spread by the Zerg's Riftlord. He was nearby at the time and happened to see you being swept away and disappearing by the Tidal Current."

"Haha, I just happened to run into a small world collapsing and was swept into a deeper part of the Time-Space Prison by the undercurrent. My clone is currently in a small world and is safe for the time being."

"Everyone, I need to focus on dealing with potential dangers and trying to free my clone, so I won't chat with you any longer."

Qi Yuan gave a brief reply and then ended the communication.

After all, he had revealed many of his trump cards in the battle with the Emperor that day, and he naturally did not want to mention too many details.

……

The core area of ​​the Time-Space Prison.

Outside the small world, turbulent tides surge, and even a cosmic venerable would be instantly torn apart and annihilated into nothingness if he fell into them.

Inside the small world, however, was an exceptionally peaceful and tranquil scene.

However, as this small world continues to delve deeper into the core of the Time-Space Prison, it is unknown how long this peace can last.

"When they are in the outer perimeter, those small worlds will sometimes drift inward and sometimes outward, but when they reach this core area, all of these small worlds are swallowed up and drawn deeper inward."

Qi Yuan quickly completed the restoration of the divine bodies of his two clones.

In the days that followed, he stayed in this safe little world as it continued to fly deeper into the Time-Space Prison.

Occasionally, it would also tear through the membrane of the small world to explore the surroundings.

As they delve deeper, the spacetime tides—or rather, the vortexes formed by incredibly chaotic spacetime forces—become more than tides!
A terrifying vortex of spacetime devoured and distorted everything.

The deeper one goes, the more utterly confused one's senses become—

The space seemed to be stretched infinitely, or compressed to the extreme.

Looking out through the membrane of the small world, every inch of emptiness that can be seen simultaneously presents two completely opposite appearances.

Sometimes it feels like the beginning of the universe, when the starry sky was boundless and vast, and each of those shining stars was an incredibly vast world that stretched for tens or hundreds of billions of kilometers!
At times, it feels like being in the midst of dust and mustard seeds, where a single floating point of light contains countless fragments of broken spacetime.

At the same time, time loses its measure here, and fragments of the past and future surge and intertwine like a blizzard.

Just as I was witnessing the birth of a new bubble world, I found that it had already collapsed into a tiny point like a 'singularity', while my consciousness remained stuck at the moment of its "birth".

The feeling is like standing in different time dimensions, looking at the same point, but seeing completely different scenes.

Chaos, utter chaos!

A fantastical and twisted world beyond anything that can be normally imagined!

And in this incredibly chaotic and distorted spacetime, Qi Yuan's 'bubble world' continued to deepen and deepen.

With the chaotic flow of time, he could no longer accurately determine how long the process had lasted.

Until this moment, as if the universe had shifted, Qi Yuan's two avatars, whose ages had become unknowable, disappeared along with that small world into an incomparably strange and magnificent place...

(End of this chapter)