Swallowing the Stars: 100x Return for Teaching Apprentices

Chapter 54: The Secret Realm Ends, New Plans Begin.

"Arrays are everywhere?"

Qi Yuan silently pondered this incredibly sophisticated statement, and his heart was slightly moved.

But a moment later, he asked, as if out of the blue:
"Bumblebee, you said that since the Celestial Craftsmen are so powerful, they must have many famous experts, like King-level Immortals or Universe Venerables?"

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Upon hearing this, Bumblebee, whose intelligence had inexplicably increased significantly, seemed to freeze up for a moment.
After a moment, it replied, seemingly somewhat embarrassed:

"Master, it seems that no expert of this level has ever appeared in the history of the Celestial Craftsman Clan."

"Moreover, due to the inherent limitations of their race, only a handful of the entire Celestial Craftsman Clan are able to break through to the Immortal level."

"Therefore, in the 'Eight Formations' manual that the master obtained, only the volumes on the Metal Formation, Fire Formation, Thunder Formation, and Light Formation are the most comprehensive, while the other volumes lack content on the complete application of the laws."

"Not even a single king? And only a handful of immortals?"

Upon hearing this, Qi Yuan rolled his eyes.

I was listening to Bumblebee talk about the Celestial Engineers in such a grand and impressive way, I thought we'd stumbled upon some incredible secret, but it turns out this is all there is to it.
No wonder I couldn't find any information about the Celestial Craftsmen before. It wasn't that the Celestial Craftsmen were too powerful and required too high a search level, but rather that the Celestial Craftsmen were simply too weak.
Who would waste their energy paying too much attention to a clan that doesn't even have a king-level expert?

"Master, that's not how it is."

Bumblebee's telepathic communication kept ringing out.

"Master, the Celestial Craftsmen are limited by the inherent constraints of their race, making it extremely difficult for them to break through to the Immortal realm. However, they are exceptionally gifted in the study of formations. If we only consider their achievements in formations below the Immortal level, the Celestial Craftsmen are absolutely the best!"

"Master should have already seen the Heavenly Craft Tower from earlier; that is the highest achievement of the entire Heavenly Craft Clan in the field of array formations!"

"The Heavenly Craft Tower? Is that the tower you just snatched? What's so special about it?" Qi Yuan asked, puzzled.

“Master, the Heavenly Craft Tower is imprinted with all the Heavenly Craft Clan’s insights on the path of formations. Each floor of the Heavenly Craft Tower has a large number of training rooms, and each training room is a space of its own.”

"In this space, one can not only cultivate, live, and fight, but also listen to the countless insights of predecessors on the path of formations at any time."

"Master, formations are actually the reorganization and application of a formation master's understanding of their own laws."

"Listening to the insights of predecessors on the path of formations is actually listening to their understanding and comprehension of the fundamental laws. By constantly listening in this way, the person who enters the cultivation room will naturally experience a rapid increase in their understanding of the laws."

"I see, doesn't this sound like a weakened version of the 'Chaos Monument'?"

Qi Yuan immediately understood.

"That's not all."

Bumblebee added, "Besides aiding cultivation, the Heavenly Craft Tower is also a powerful secret-rune weapon!"

"If a World Lord-level array master, who has sufficient understanding of array formations and cultivates the eight attributes of metal, wood, water, fire, earth, wind, thunder, and light, were to activate it, the Heavenly Craft Tower could unleash a power comparable to that of an immortal god!"

"Moreover, according to the deductions of the ancestors of the Celestial Craftsmen, if the remaining four formations of wood, water, earth, and wind can be perfectly supplemented, and then activated by eight immortal-level formation masters, the eight fundamental laws will be endlessly generated, and there is even hope that the power of time and space can be evolved from nothing, directly rivaling the top-level King-level immortals and even the Universe Venerables!"

"Oh? To make the Realm Lord comparable to the Immortal, and the Immortal comparable to the top-tier King or even the Universe Venerable?" Qi Yuan was slightly surprised, but he was genuinely interested in the Heavenly Craft Tower that Bumblebee had mentioned.

For countless ordinary cultivators, the gap between an ordinary realm lord and an immortal, and between an ordinary immortal and a top-tier king, is as vast as the chasm between heaven and earth.

Let alone eight realm lords, even ten or twenty wouldn't be enough for an immortal-level powerhouse to slap a few times.

The gap between ordinary immortals and top-tier kings is so vast that it is immeasurable. A king is invincible and, given enough time, can even wipe out an army of ordinary immortals by himself!

Fighting across major realms is something only the most outstanding geniuses like Luo Feng, Bo Lan, and Rong Jun can do!
And how many Luo Fengs, Rong Juns, and Bo Lans have emerged throughout the countless eras of humankind?

Compared to the vast majority of ordinary cultivators with average talent and circumstances, this proportion is probably less than a drop of water in the ocean!
"So, this Heavenly Craft Tower is truly extraordinary."

Qi Yuan's thoughts raced, but he suddenly asked Bumblebee:

"Then how do you know these things? Also, what is your connection with this Heavenly Craft Tower? How can you sense it? And how did your intelligence suddenly increase so much, as if you suddenly had an epiphany?"

These questions had been buried in his mind since the beginning, and now he finally asked them.

If it weren't for the fact that the bloodline contract between him and Bumblebee still existed, he would have even suspected that Bumblebee had been parasitized and controlled by something else.

"Owner."

Bumblebee's voice remained completely normal. "This is another achievement of the Celestial Craftsmen that I wanted to mention."

"Our master also knows that we metal life forms have low intelligence and an innate racial limit. The ancestors of the Celestial Craftsmen have conducted extensive research on this point and finally came up with a bold solution."

"They imprinted a large number of combined arrays into the Heavenly Craft Tower to form a set of arrays similar to an intelligent computing core, and then fused the metal life form with the Heavenly Craft Tower to create a metal life form with a 'man-made brain'."

"And this metallic life form can be considered as the 'spirit core' of the Heavenly Craft Tower, used to more conveniently assist the master in mobilizing the power of the Heavenly Craft Tower."

“Master, my predecessor should be the metal life form that merged with the Heavenly Craft Tower. As a new life spirit born from the body left behind after my predecessor's fall, I still have some special connection with the Heavenly Craft Tower.”

"Not long ago, after merging with the Celestial Crafts Tower, I enhanced my intelligence and thinking ability with the help of the computing core within the tower, and also gained a great deal of knowledge about the Celestial Craftsmen."

"Oh? I see."

Qi Yuan nodded, looking as if he had just realized something.

Only now did he understand the origin of all the changes in Bumblebee.

"These Celestial Craftsmen are really something! They actually thought of equipping metallic lifeforms with an 'artificial brain' to enhance their intelligence!"

"And then there's the Heavenly Crafting Tower itself. Putting aside its combat effectiveness, those cultivation chambers where you can listen to the insights of the ancients are a treasure in themselves. You can learn a lot about formations and quickly improve your understanding of the laws."

"And there are also a large number of array-related books and secret rune imprints in the Heavenly Crafting Tower."

"I have the inheritance, I have the 'secret treasure' to aid my cultivation, and with the return system's ability to quickly acquire large amounts of resources, I should have enough to start my own sect right now."

Qi Yuan's mind raced with thoughts, and he gradually began to form a vague plan for what would happen next.
(End of this chapter)