Swallowing the Stars: 100x Return for Teaching Apprentices

Chapter 188 Breakthrough, Lord of the Universe

A wisp of the Chaos City Lord's consciousness passed directly through the barrier of the Chaos Ruins and instantly descended into a hall of the Qiyuan Mansion.

Almost at the same moment.

In the main hall, Qi Yuan Taiqing's clone, who had been sitting cross-legged with his eyes closed, happened to look up.

Their gazes seemed to transcend the barriers of time and space, meeting in the void.

"Huh, you already..."

The vast consciousness that had been probed suddenly fluctuated slightly.

"Lord, I need to go out for a while. Please allow me to speak with you later."

Taiqing's clone smiled slightly at the enormous will descending from the void.

Then, his entire figure instantly transformed into wisps of hazy, clear energy and quickly dissipated.
Within the endless divine kingdom.

woohoo~~~
The enormous golden auspicious cloud twisted and turned.

Immediately afterwards, a brand new Taiqing clone stepped out from the golden auspicious clouds.

At the same time, in the temple below, Qi Yuan's main body, Yuqing clone, and Shangqing clone all looked up at the same time.

"Hahaha, spacetime is now unified, completely under my control!"

At this moment, the main body and all the avatars burst into laughter, their booming laughter causing the endless space-time of the entire divine kingdom to tremble.

The next second—

"boom!!!"

The primordial laws of the universe descended directly, and their boundless pressure instantly enveloped the entire divine kingdom!

whoosh whoosh~~~
In the void above the divine kingdom, an incredibly vast phantom of the ocean of primordial laws began to emerge.

The enormous, twisting vortex was initially a multicolored vortex, but in an instant it transformed into a black and white vortex.

Enormous vortexes, alternating between white and black, stretched endlessly, carrying boundless power!
At the center of that enormous vortex was a passage, a passage connecting the 'Ocean of Cosmic Laws' and the Qiyuan Divine Kingdom. This passage alone had a diameter of hundreds of billions of kilometers!

Rumble~~~
A massive vortex, interwoven with black and white, spun rapidly, and within that enormous vortex channel, with a diameter exceeding 10 billion kilometers, a torrent of divine power and seawater began to pour forth!

Like the collapse of the ocean, boundless divine power caused the seawater to pour down with a deafening roar!

In this endless torrent of divine power, over 99.99% of the divine power was directly swallowed up by the three auspicious clouds of pure energy above the temple. Only four insignificant trickles flowed towards Qi Yuan's main body and his three avatars!
However, that was a massive vortex channel with a diameter of over 10 billion kilometers pouring out divine power seawater!

Even if they are just trickles, the divine power of the seawater that pours out every second is an astronomical figure!
"Absorb, transform!"

Qi Yuan's main body and his three avatars were all trying their best to absorb the surging torrent that was descending, in order to enhance and transform their divine bodies.

His divine power level was originally equivalent to 'a hundred times the normal peak of a King' level,' which is 'ten million times the peak power of a World Lord' level.

However, at the moment when he had mastered the laws of space and time in a completely synchronized way like never before and began to receive divine power, his level of divine power immediately began to soar rapidly!
From the 'Peak of Kinghood' level, he directly skipped the Universe Venerable stage and soared to the 'Lord of the Universe' level, a direct increase of ten thousand times!
Such a terrifying surge means that the speed at which it absorbs and transforms divine power is naturally incredibly terrifying!
The faster the absorption, the faster the divine power seawater will pour out of the endless vortex channel!
Especially with those three golden auspicious clouds of pure energy, which were like 'super gluttons', the speed of absorption increased by more than ten million times!
Rumble~~~
It was as if the barrier between heaven and earth had been broken, and endless divine power and seawater poured down wildly, like layers of ocean crashing down, completely filling the void!

Qi Yuan, however, was still somewhat dissatisfied.

With a thought, a fist-sized, dreamlike crystal shimmering with hazy, colorful light appeared before him.

Click~
The dreamlike crystal shattered silently, and the incomparably dazzling 'immortal essence' inside immediately flowed out.

"Suck--"

All the 'Immortal Essence' transformed into a thin stream of color and instantly entered Qi Yuan's mouth.

Instantly, an incredibly powerful and mysterious force began to take effect within his body, stimulating his life genes to undergo the most fundamental transformation.

His genetic level began to rise at an extremely rapid pace—

200倍.300倍.500倍.800倍.1000倍.1100倍！
1100 times!
In a short period of time, his life gene level soared from 100 times to 1100 times stronger!

Normally, even if there are enough resources to improve one's genetic level, it would still take a considerable amount of time just to absorb those resources and increase one's divine power level by thousands of times.

However, driven by the rare treasure of heaven and earth, 'Immortal Essence,' this process was compressed into an instant!
As the genetic level of the entity increases, the three huge auspicious clouds floating above the temple also begin to undergo some mysterious transformations.

At the same time, golden threads spread down and wrapped around the three clones, pushing their genetic levels to rise simultaneously, and even their divine bodies began to slowly increase in height.

For ordinary life forms in the universe that can reproduce normally, even if they improve their genetic level through various methods, they can generally only increase it by a hundredfold.

This is the limit!
Many cosmic overlords have reached this point.

However, after becoming the Lord of the Universe, they have become beings who transcend time and space. They become the masters of time and space, and even their title is 'Lord of the Universe'!
For realm lords, immortals, and cosmic sovereigns, a hundredfold increase in the level of life genes is the limit. However, for cosmic sovereigns, as beings transcending time and space, they can surpass the hundredfold limit and use various methods to maximize their life gene level, continuously striving towards a perfect gene level of 10081 times!

As their life gene level increases, their divine bodies will naturally become stronger, and even their size will gradually increase!

The constraints of volume and the genetic level of life disappear the moment one reaches the level of the master of the universe!

Rumble~~~
With this improvement, the speed at which divine power was absorbed and transformed throughout the entire divine kingdom soared once again!

A vast ocean of divine power crashed down.

In just a moment, Qi Yuan's main body and the divine bodies of his three avatars were completely transformed.

Immediately afterwards, the torrent of divine power that had been frantically poured into the three auspicious clouds of pure energy also dissipated after persisting for a moment.

whoosh whoosh~~~
Soon, the entire divine kingdom quickly returned to calm, the oppressive force of the primordial laws of the universe quickly receded, and the illusory ocean image gradually disappeared amidst bursts of rumbling.

Unlike when one enters immortality, at that time the energy of the divine ocean is absorbed to one's heart's content, and will continue until the entire body is completely transformed into an immortal divine body.

However, when one enters the realm of a Cosmic Venerable or a Cosmic Lord, the time available to absorb divine power becomes extremely short, and the amount absorbed depends entirely on one's own ability.

However, with the terrifying support of the pure qi and auspicious clouds, Qi Yuan's speed in absorbing and converting divine power was naturally unparalleled!

In that short period of time, the total amount of ocean divine power and seawater he absorbed from the primordial laws of the universe reached a level that would drive a person mad!
After a while, everything had dissipated.

Three enormous auspicious clouds, now completely transformed into dazzling gold, drifted quietly in the void above the entire divine kingdom.

Below, on the ground, Qi Yuan's main body and three avatars stood majestically.

Even Qi Yuan's seemingly smallest physical form exudes an incredibly violent and domineering aura, as if it wants to crush everything.

At this moment, the height of the three clones had reached nearly three thousand kilometers, and even the height of the main body had reached more than one thousand kilometers, which had surpassed the original height of the Three Pure Ones clones!
Each of the clones possessed an incomparably majestic aura, resembling giants about to create the world!
A feeling of immense power welled up in Qi Yuan's heart.

His divine power level has soared from the previous 'hundred times the peak of the King level' to the current 'one thousand one hundred times the level of the Lord of the Universe', a direct increase of more than one hundred thousand times!
What a terrifying upgrade this is!
In addition, with the increase in the height and volume of the divine bodies, the total amount of divine power contained in each divine body has increased by countless times compared to before!
Divine power level increased!

The size of the divine body has increased!

This also represents a huge surge in strength!
"Finally, this moment has finally arrived!"

Qi Yuan's main body and his numerous avatars stood on the endless land of the divine kingdom.

At this moment, an unprecedented sense of confidence and pride surged wildly within his chest!
The realm of the Lord of the Universe can basically be considered the strongest level of combat power that the original universe could support.

Now that he has broken through to this realm, and with his three clones and the golden auspicious cloud containing almost infinite divine power as his support, as long as he doesn't go so far as to cause all his clones to fall into the extremely dangerous place of the cosmic sea at the same time, the probability of his demise can be said to be almost zero!

Moreover, and more importantly, once he reaches this point, he can almost recklessly use the system's abilities to improve himself at will!

After all, even if he did reveal some secrets, who would dare to casually cast covetous glances at him?

And as long as he can use the system's functions to raise his strength to a sufficiently high level in a very short time, he will be even more fearless in the future!

"Now that I've broken through to the level of the Lord of the Universe, I can start to improve rapidly in many aspects!"

Qi Yuan's main body and his three avatars all flew down to the core of the divine kingdom, into that magnificent divine palace.

The four divine beings sat down casually in the temple and began to think about the areas they needed to focus on in the coming period.

"The first thing is to improve my life genes! After breaking through to the Lord of the Universe, the bottleneck of the hundredfold gene limit has disappeared, and my life genes can be improved again. As long as I have enough resources, I can directly improve my life genes to the perfect gene level of 10081 times!"

Qi Yuan pondered to himself.

Unlike Luo Feng in the original novel, who possessed the heaven-defying "Nine Tribulations Secret Manual," if he wanted to improve his genetic level, he could only do so like a normal universe master, using a large amount of resources and materials.

"The races in the Hong Alliance are mainly flesh-and-blood beings. I should be able to gather a lot of resources in the Hong Alliance to improve myself. With the help of the system's return function, it shouldn't be too difficult to gather enough resources to upgrade to the 10081-fold perfect gene level!"

He secretly determined the direction, but then began to pay attention to other aspects.

"The second thing is to upgrade the treasures! When I return to the human race this time, my authority to exchange for treasures should be upgraded to the highest level. Moreover, according to the race's tradition, newly promoted universe masters can receive a top-tier treasure as a gift for free. At that time, I will use this treasure as 'starting capital' to at least collect a complete set of top-tier treasures. If I have a complete set of top-tier treasures, both my survivability and combat power will be greatly improved!"

"Besides these two most effective aspects, a long-term plan is also necessary."

"Further research into the most powerful secret techniques of the Universe Lord level, using the power gained after breaking through to the Universe Lord level to recruit and cultivate more outstanding disciples, and research the Treasure Refining Path—these are all areas where improvement is possible!"

Qi Yuan kept sorting things out and soon had a clear plan for the direction of his next efforts.

"But before that, let's go see the legendary Lord of Chaos City first."

(End of this chapter)