Chapter 285: Second Layer of the Black Tower

Space Rules are one of the pillar rules of the Universe's operation.

What are pillar rules? They mean that without Space Rules, the Universe would become imperfect or even collapse.

All existence and all things must rely on space; it is the foundation of all things.

Lin Yuan had completely mastered the Space Rules. Even if it was just one aspect of them, his perception of the outside world was completely different.

Before fully comprehending the Space Rules, Lin Yuan was like a fish in water, and what he saw and felt was limited to the inches around him. But after comprehending the Space Rules—

It was as if he had leaped out of the water, allowing him to see more and look further.

"The Space Rules might not be as profound as the Time Rule, unable to reverse the flow of time or resurrect lives that died in the past, but its penetration into all things is deeper."

Lin Yuan thought to himself.

Only at this moment had he reached the Tier 9 level in all aspects. Without mastering the Space Rules, even if Lin Yuan's combat power and destructive power exceeded the Tier 9 threshold—

But if he were to fight a Tier 9 expert, the other party could leave whenever they wanted. Relying on their utilization of space, they could 'toy' with Lin Yuan at a higher level.

Just like a whale living at the bottom of the sea, even if it possessed heaven-shaking power, it could not threaten life on land.

"Mastering space is just the beginning. Next, I must integrate the Taiji Rule and various types of Cosmic Power with the complete Space Rules to walk my own path."

Lin Yuan's heart surged with emotion. The path to Tier 9 was right before his eyes; he only needed to complete the final rule integration to step into Tier 9.

Among all races in the Cosmic Starry Sky, Tier 9 could fully be considered a foundation-level existence. For many weak and ordinary ethnic groups, their most powerful ancestor was only at this level.

"My Internal World?"

Lin Yuan's consciousness descended into his Internal World, discovering that the Internal World, which was originally just over a hundred million miles, was once again expanding mightily.

Fortunately, Lin Yuan had anticipated this and took out the pre-prepared Taiwei Pure Crystal, integrating it into the Internal World.

Swish.

Before long.

The Internal World expanded to a size of 1.31 billion miles in radius.

The heavy World Power operated. Facing such massive World Power, ordinary Eighth Order Invincibles would only be crushed, unable to even put up any resistance.

"With the support of my current Internal World, absorbing the green liquid of the Mysterious Gourd completely should not pose any difficulty."

Lin Yuan thought to himself. In recent years, he had tried absorbing the green liquid, but was always stuck at the very last bit. Now, he estimated he could easily get past it.

"Absorb the green liquid first."

Lin Yuan's consciousness returned to the outside world. He took out the grayish-green gourd, turned the spout downward, and immediately began absorbing it.

Thousands of light-years away from the Alien Race Battlefield numbered B0001.

A black spaceship finished wormhole transit and revealed itself.

"Is that the Alien Race Battlefield numbered B0001?" Inside the spaceship, Lin Yuan looked toward the behemoth thousands of light-years away.

The Alien Race Battlefield numbered B0001 was the first Medium Alien Battlefield opened up by Human Civilization, with a size of about twelve light-years.

Even powerful Eighth Order Invincibles could fight to their heart's content on this battlefield without having to hold back.

"Forget it, I'll just use Great Teleportation for the remaining journey."

Lin Yuan walked out of the spaceship. After fully comprehending the Space Rules, any casual Great Teleportation could span hundreds of light-years, and there was no 'cooldown period'. It was much more efficient than the spaceship's wormhole transit.

Of course, using Great Teleportation to travel consumed a lot of energy. If he wasn't in a hurry, it was still better to use the spaceship for wormhole transit.

It was only because there were only a few thousand light-years left that Lin Yuan planned to travel via Great Teleportation, purely wanting to try out the feeling of traveling with Great Teleportation.

Swish.

At the edge of the 0001 battlefield.

Lin Yuan's figure appeared, looking at the battlefield before him.

"The spatial fluctuations are obvious, much denser than that Medium Alien Battlefield where the Taiyin Primordial Spirit is located," Lin Yuan thought to himself.

The spatial fluctuations on the Alien Race Battlefield came from the continuous slaughter of countless Experts and the presence of permanent spatial rifts.

As the oldest Alien Race Battlefield,

in the distant past, the intensity of war would often escalate,

with Tier 10 Evolvers holding supreme weapons personally taking the field.

The width and length of the permanent spatial rifts they tore open were also much greater than those of other Medium Alien Battlefields.

The spatial rifts of ordinary Small Alien Battlefields were roughly ten to several tens of meters, while the spatial rifts of Medium Alien Battlefields mostly exceeded ten thousand meters, between 10,000 and 20,000 meters.

Meanwhile, the largest permanent spatial rift on the 0001 battlefield reached 30,000 meters.

This was not an ordinary spatial rift, but a permanent one—a 'wound' that even the operation of the Universe's instinct could not heal.

"Let's go check out that 30,000-meter-long permanent spatial rift first."

Lin Yuan restrained his aura and headed toward the target's location. Being on the Alien Race Battlefield, the spatial fluctuations were obvious; even with the complete Space Rules mastered, it was best not to cast the Great Teleportation technique.

Because it was very easy to be affected by the fluctuating space, leading to a deviation from the destination, or even getting briefly lost deep within multiple spatial layers.

Galaxy Main Star.

Lin Yuan suddenly opened his eyes. The green flames inside his body burned crazily before finally returning to calm.

"I've finally completely absorbed it."

Lin Yuan's consciousness descended into the Internal World once more. Looking at the vast heaven and earth that had quietly reached 1.332 billion miles in radius, a look of satisfaction appeared on his face.

For Human Evolvers who normally mastered the complete Space Rules, the limit of their Internal World was ten million miles in radius. For those special life forms with Peak Bloodlines, such as the Star Sea Roaming Kun or other spatial special life forms, the upper limit of their Internal World was roughly tens of millions of miles in radius.

To possess an Internal World exceeding a hundred million miles at Tier 8, estimated to be only those rare special life forms that could not even form an ethnic group.

The Universe is fair. Giving birth to all living beings and things, the stronger a life form's innate Bloodline was, the lower and more difficult its reproductive ability would be.

Human Civilization had a terrifying reproductive capability, but the vast majority of talents were very mediocre.

The Star Sea Roaming Kun possessed a powerful innate Bloodline, but reproduction was extremely difficult. Yet no matter how difficult it was, the Star Sea Roaming Kun could barely form an ethnic group.

As for some special life forms, their numbers were so scarce that they couldn't even form an ethnic group. The terrifying nature of these special life forms could not be judged by conventional logic.

Deep within the Cosmic Starry Sky, many domineering 'Ancient Gods' were born from this category.

"Next is… the cyan liquid?"

Lin Yuan flipped his right hand, and the Mysterious Gourd appeared before him.

At this moment, the color on the surface of the Mysterious Gourd began to slowly change, transforming from the previous grayish-green to grayish-cyan.

"Absorb."

Lin Yuan inverted the gourd, and a drop of deep cyan liquid dripped out.

Rumble.

The cyan liquid entered his throat, turning into pure cyan flames that began to burn Lin Yuan's internal organs.

Several days passed.

Lin Yuan tried several times, and his Internal World expanded to 1.45 billion miles in radius.

"Any further improvements hereafter won't happen at such a fast speed." Increasing the base size by more than double in such a short time was entirely thanks to Lin Yuan's Internal World having reached its foundational limit.

Afterwards, it basically had to be slowly improved, adapting to the burning of the cyan flames bit by bit.

"Over the past few years, the accumulation of Boundary-Breaking Source Power has finally reached thirty wisps again."

Lin Yuan's mind sank into his consciousness, sensing the amount of Boundary-Breaking Source Power.

Before conducting the eighth transit, Lin Yuan had accumulated a total of thirty-six wisps of Boundary-Breaking Source Power.

Descending into the Spirit Realm consumed ten wisps; carrying the Mysterious Gourd and Primal Refined Gold consumed two wisps.

Finishing the eighth transit, twenty-four wisps of Boundary-Breaking Source Power remained.

And as time passed in recent years, Lin Yuan's Boundary-Breaking Source Power reached thirty wisps once again.

"There's no rush for the ninth transit."

Lin Yuan wore a contemplative expression. Right now, he was at the critical period of rule integration. Conducting a transit at this time would only affect the time it took to step into Tier 9.

After breaking through to Tier 9, when his cultivation fell into a temporary Bottleneck, it wouldn't be too late to consider transiting.

Anyway, for Lin Yuan, cultivating was the same everywhere. Whether transiting worlds or being in the Main World, he could rapidly enhance his strength.

The biggest benefit of world-transiting for Lin Yuan was being able to witness cultivation systems outside of the Main World and gain benefits by utilizing the differences in dimensional realms.

For example, the Spirit Realm had little suppression on Cosmic Power. Lin Yuan seized the opportunity to comprehend dozens of types of Cosmic Power, including more than ten types of higher Cosmic Power and one Origin-level Cosmic Power.

If this were placed in the Main World, it would basically be impossible to achieve. Even if Lin Yuan relied on his Heaven-Defying Comprehension to forcefully accomplish it, it would waste a huge amount of time and delay subsequent cultivation.

In the Spirit Realm, various Creation Powers were placed before Lin Yuan, which was equivalent to having the right direction, making comprehension naturally fast.

But in the Main World, Cosmic Power could not be replicated. Lin Yuan could only comprehend it from scratch, and in the end, he might even take the wrong path.

"Now that I have comprehended the Space Rules, I can actually try to break through the second layer of the Black Tower."

Lin Yuan's heart stirred slightly. Over the past few years, when he broke through the second layer of the Black Tower, it was entirely with the purpose of honing his application of Cosmic Power.

He had never even thought of passing it.

But now, Lin Yuan wanted to give it a try.

Comprehending the complete Space Rules was a complete qualitative change for Lin Yuan, and it was an all-encompassing qualitative change.

In terms of offense, defense, life preservation, and so on, all had gained qualitative improvements.

Tier 8 Experts, as long as they comprehended the complete Space Rules, could make those Eighth Order Invincibles suffer. Even if many Eighth Order Invincibles surrounded and attacked them, it would be impossible to do anything to an existence who had mastered the complete Space Rules.

A life form that had comprehended the Space Rules could roam through countless spatial layers with a single thought. Those Eighth Order Invincibles probably wouldn't even be able to touch them.

Hum.

A trace of Lin Yuan's mental will, following the Mo Yu Mark, instantly descended into the Demon Jade Space.

Before the towering Nine-Layer Black Tower, the humanoid stone statue Shen Ji looked at Lin Yuan with a smile and said, "Here to break through the second layer again?"

Over the past few years, Lin Yuan would come to break through the second layer of the Black Tower whenever he rested, and the humanoid stone statue Shen Ji had long gotten used to it.

Watching Lin Yuan break through the second layer was, for it, one of the few pleasures in the boring and long years.

It was countless times better than falling into a near-eternal slumber.

"Mhm."

Lin Yuan nodded.

The next moment.

Lin Yuan arrived at the second layer of the Black Tower.

The humanoid stone statue Shen Ji still stood outside the Black Tower, and scenes emerged before it, which were precisely the sights inside the second layer of the Black Tower.

"I wonder when this little guy plans to hone his Cosmic Power until."

The humanoid stone statue Shen Ji thought silently in its heart.

It had long seen that Lin Yuan was using the second layer of the Black Tower to hone his own Cosmic Power.

Boom!

The moment Lin Yuan appeared on the second layer of the Black Tower, a heavy pressure assaulted him from all directions.

If it were before, Lin Yuan would definitely have urged multiple types of Cosmic Power to resist at the first moment. The pressure coming from the second layer was not something a mere trace of mental will could block.

But now?

After mastering the complete Space Rules—

Lin Yuan formed an 'absolute space' around himself with a single thought.

Absolute space was a high-end application of spatial power, eliminating the enveloping pressure from the spatial level. Lin Yuan's surroundings seemed to be only within a range of about a zhang, but in essence, they were separated by countless spatial layers.

Facing absolute space, ordinary Tier 8 Evolvers wouldn't even need to talk about getting close; all their attacks would fall into multiple spatial layers.

A Tier 8 life form that mastered the complete Space Rules might not be able to kill Eighth Order Invincibles, but it could definitely make Eighth Order Invincibles extremely uncomfortable.

For example, banishing an Eighth Order Invincible deep into the spatial layers.

There was no distinction of up, down, left, or right. It wasn't an easy matter for an Eighth Order Invincible to break free; they might even end up trapped for decades.

"There's no need to even mobilize Cosmic Power?"

Lin Yuan raised an eyebrow. Right now, he was standing on the second layer, and the surrounding space was faintly distorted, completely diluting and dissipating all the enveloping pressure.

However, Lin Yuan was also clear that his current location was the initial position of the second layer. As he continuously approached the central staircase, the surrounding pressure would become greater and greater.

By then, relying solely on absolute space, it would be difficult to perfectly withstand all the pressure.

Especially upon entering the middle area, the endless pressure would condense into illusory creatures attacking Lin Yuan.

"Let's see how far I can go."

Lin Yuan didn't have much confidence in passing the second layer of the Black Tower. It was mainly because after comprehending the complete Space Rules, his strength had greatly increased, and he wanted to come and give it a try.

Success would be even better; failure didn't matter either.

Lin Yuan practically regarded the second layer of the Black Tower as a standard for testing his own strength.

According to the humanoid stone statue Shen Ji, challengers who could pass the second layer of the Black Tower were basically Experts among Tier 9.

Although many means of a Tier 9 life were not limited to the mastery of various rules and Cosmic Power, that was also a very important aspect of it.

If Lin Yuan could pass the second layer of the Black Tower, even if he couldn't be considered an expert among Tier 9, he would still be stronger than more than half of Tier 9 Experts.

Outside the Nine-Layer Black Tower.

The humanoid stone statue Shen Ji was watching Lin Yuan's performance with great interest.

Every time Lin Yuan came to break through the second layer of the Black Tower, it would pay close attention, which could pass the boring time.

However, when it saw Lin Yuan just standing there, easily withstanding the heavy pressure coming from the second layer of the Black Tower without relying on Cosmic Power—

It was instantly stunned.

"This…" The humanoid stone statue Shen Ji carefully observed Lin Yuan, especially lingering its attention for a long time on the slightly distorted space around him.

"This little guy has comprehended the complete Space Rules?"

The humanoid stone statue was somewhat dazed. It remembered that a few years ago, Lin Yuan's comprehension of the Space Rules wasn't anything special, but there was definitely still a long distance away from completely mastering it.

How could he have suddenly comprehended it now?