Chapter 4 Does the Tower Master Want Me to Temper the Galaxy Master? (5000 words, please subscribe)
Milky Way Main Star.
“Twenty years have passed.” Lin Yuan opened his eyes and looked towards the vast, boundless cosmic starry skies.
In the primary cosmic starry sky of all races, the stronger the being, the less sensitive they are to the passage of time. It is perfectly normal for them to meditate for hundreds or thousands of years.
Merely twenty years can hardly be considered a nap.
Yet, the changes this period brought to Lin Yuan were exceptionally significant.
Firstly, both the “Mysterious Yellow Strike” and the “Primordial Yellow Physique” had reached their third stage of cultivation.
By invoking the “Mysterious Yellow Strike,” Lin Yuan could maintain a power that exceeded his own limits by four times at all moments. With every gesture, the power he could unleash was so great that even ordinary Tenth Rank Grade D might proceed with caution.
Of course, Lin Yuan had yet to engage with any Tenth Rank beings; his assessment came only from human civilization’s recorded battle videos, where he estimated his own capabilities.
It was almost unthinkable for a Ninth Rank to battle an Eleventh Rank Powerhouse, especially not one at the early ‘Ji’ level of Tenth Rank.
The leap from Ninth to Tenth Rank represented a crossing of a great realm, not something that can be compensated for by simply creating billions more of spatial layers.
Of course, the number of additional spatial layers that Lin Yuan had created was not just a few billion, but over twenty billion.
“Inner World…”
Lin Yuan’s consciousness descended into his inner world.
After twenty years of continuous absorption of the purple liquid inside the mysterious gourd, Lin Yuan’s inner world had now officially broken through to two billion square miles.
“It seems that completely absorbing the purple liquid will only be possible after reaching Tenth Rank,” Lin Yuan thought to himself.
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The difficulty of absorbing the purple liquid was even more than he had anticipated. Now, Lin Yuan was only about fifty years away from completing his metamorphosis and stepping into Tenth Rank.
Fifty years… Given the current efficiency of absorbing the purple liquid, complete absorption seemed virtually impossible.
“I wonder, what changes the mysterious gourd will undergo after the purple liquid is fully absorbed?” With that thought, Lin Yuan watched as a grey-purple gourd appeared before him.
After another verification through the gourd, Lin Yuan received some information, including the nurturing of seven types of liquids inside the gourd.
However, what changes would occur after the absorption of all seven liquids was unknown.
“Let’s take it slowly.”
Lin Yuan no longer focused on his inner world.
“The ‘Step of Space and Time’…” Lin Yuan thought of the life-saving secret technique from the three great Dao-protecting secret skills of the Profound Yellow Lineage.
Compared to the rapid progress in the previous two skills, his advancement in this particular technique was considerably slower.
However, slow as it might be, Lin Yuan had cultivated it to the extent that he could traverse tens of millions of light-years in a single step.
Of course, this ability to step tens of millions of light-years came with one significant limitation: he could only take a total of nine steps.
After nine steps, Lin Yuan would have crossed ninety million light-years, at which point many of his internal energies would be depleted, a cost far greater than using his Physical Body Divine Ability ‘Strengthening’.
Running out of power meant Lin Yuan would have no ability to resist, so generally speaking, he would not take all nine steps in succession, as the cost was too great.
“The ‘Step of Space and Time’ is the integrated use of both the Rule of Time and the Space Rules. Perhaps for me, only after fully comprehending the Rule of Time could it become easier to grasp some of it?”
Lin Yuan’s eyes sparkled faintly.
One of the prerequisites for an Eleventh Rank Powerhouse to make an ultimate breakthrough is to fuse the Rule of Time with the Space Rules.
Normally, Eleventh Rank Powerhouse seeking to meld time and space had no clue how to start. However, in this secret technique, Lin Yuan saw faint traces of such fusion.
“His Majesty Xuanhuang actually managed to reveal the essence of the fusion of time and space through a secret technique; it’s terrifying…”
Lin Yuan was in awe.
The ‘Step of Space and Time’ is less of a life-saving technique and more of a ‘shortcut’ to the fusion of time and space.
While all Supreme Beings have fused time and space, to achieve it is one thing, and to articulate it is another. The fusion of time and space by Supreme Beings is their own; unless they have an extraordinary understanding of the essence of time and space, it is otherwise impossible to explain to others.
Yet Xuanhuang had done it.
“How could such a powerful being vanish? How could he die?” Lin Yuan found it hard to comprehend. Supreme Beings who had stepped out of the river of time would find it difficult to die, even if they tried to, provided they were cautious.
All the more so for an ultimate being like His Majesty Xuanhuang.
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“In twenty years, my comprehension of the time model has also reached the 2,173rd variety…” Lin Yuan raised his hands, and strands of the power of time intertwined around his fingertips.
So far, the pioneer scholars of human civilization have cumulatively summarized 2,173 varieties of Rule Models of Time.
This means that Lin Yuan has almost completely walked through the perceptions and expressions of the Rule of Time as summarized by those pioneer scholars of human civilization.
The reason he said “almost” is that Lin Yuan had yet to fully comprehend the last Rule Model of Time.
“Does this Rule Model of Time involve reversing time, stopping time, accelerating time? Do all states of time converge into one?”
Lin Yuan pondered carefully, with flashes of spiritual light continually emerging in his mind.
“If I can comprehend the Rule of Time while at Ninth Rank, making my inner world independent from the main universe and then undergo the final transformation upon stepping into Tenth Rank…”
Lin Yuan continued his speculation while considering various possibilities.
Human civilization’s Eighth Layer Evolvers create their own inner worlds, but these inner worlds are not completely independent; many of their rules, especially the Rule of Time, are shared with the main universe.
To break free from this shared state requires one’s own comprehension of the Rule of Time and then integrating it into the inner world.
Theoretically, the sooner one comprehends and integrates the Rule of Time into their inner world, the greater the benefits when crossing a Great Realm.