Chapter 347: Does the Tower Master want me to temper the Galaxy Star Master?

Galaxy Main Star.

"Twenty years have passed." Lin Yuan opened his eyes and looked toward the endless Cosmic Starry Sky.

Among the myriad races in the Main Universe starry sky, the more of an expert one was, the less sensitive they were to the passage of time. It was completely normal for a closed-door cultivation session to last for hundreds or thousands of years.

Twenty years was barely even a nap.

However, the changes these twenty years brought to Lin Yuan were exceptionally huge.

First was that his cultivation of Mystic Yellow Strike and Profound Yellow Body had both reached the third stage.

Operating Mystic Yellow Strike, Lin Yuan could constantly maintain four times the power beyond his own limits. The power erupted with every gesture would likely make ordinary D-grade Tier 10 cautious.

Of course, Lin Yuan had not yet fought against any Tier 10. He merely roughly found his own positioning from the combat video images of Tier 10 recorded by Human Civilization.

However, using a Tier 9 body to fight Tier 10 Experts, and not even those who had just entered Tier 10 at the 'Ji' grade, was already mind-boggling.

The span from Tier 9 to Tier 10 was a major Realm leap, which could not be made up for by simply opening up a few hundred million more spatial layers.

Of course, the spatial layers Lin Yuan opened up were not a few hundred million, but over two billion.

"Internal World."

Lin Yuan's consciousness descended into the Internal World.

After twenty years of continuously absorbing the purple liquid within the Mysterious Gourd, Lin Yuan's Internal World had officially broken through a radius of two hundred million miles.

"It seems that wanting to completely absorb the purple liquid will only be possible upon reaching Tier 10," Lin Yuan thought to himself.

The difficulty of absorbing the purple liquid was even higher than he expected. Now, Lin Yuan had only about fifty years left before completing his transformation and stepping into Tier 10.

Fifty years of time. According to the current efficiency of absorbing the purple liquid, it was basically impossible to achieve complete absorption.

"I wonder what changes the Mysterious Gourd will undergo after absorbing all the purple liquid?" With a slight movement in Lin Yuan's mind, a grayish-purple gourd appeared in front of him.

Through the gourd's 'verification', Lin Yuan obtained some information, which included information about the seven types of liquids nurtured within the gourd.

But what changes the gourd would produce after absorbing all seven types of liquids was unclear.

"Take it slow."

Lin Yuan no longer paid attention to the Internal World.

"Space-Time Step." Lin Yuan thought of the escape secret technique among the three Dao-protecting secret techniques of the Xuanhuang Lineage.

Compared to the rapid progress of the first two secret techniques, Lin Yuan's progress on this secret technique was much slower.

But no matter how slow, Lin Yuan had still cultivated it to the extent of ten million light-years per step.

Of course, the ten million light-years per step here had extreme restrictive conditions, which was that he could only stride a total of nine steps.

After nine steps, Lin Yuan would span ninety million light-years, and by then, the numerous energies within his body would be exhausted, a cost far more serious than using the Physical Body Divine Ability 'Reinforcement'.

Energy exhaustion meant Lin Yuan would not even have the ability to resist, so this escape secret technique generally would not span nine consecutive steps, as the cost was simply too great.

"Space-Time Step is the fused application of Time Rule and Space Rules. For me, perhaps only after comprehending the Time Rule thoroughly will it be easier to comprehend some?"

Lin Yuan's eyes lit up slightly.

One of the prerequisites for a Tier 11 powerhouse wanting to impact the Ultimate was fusing the Time Rule and Space Rules.

Normally, Tier 11 powerhouses had no clue at all about fusing space-time, but Lin Yuan saw traces of space-time Fusion in this secret technique.

"Your Majesty Xuan Huang is actually able to reveal the essence of space-time Fusion in the form of a secret technique. How terrifying…"

Lin Yuan was filled with yearning.

Rather than calling Space-Time Step an escape secret technique, it was better to call it a 'shortcut' for fusing space-time.

You must know that although Supreme Powerhouses had all fused space-time, doing and speaking were completely two different concepts. The space-time fused by Supreme Powerhouses was their own space-time; unless they had incredible understanding of the essence of space-time, they simply couldn't explain it to the outside world.

Yet Your Majesty Xuan Huang achieved it.

"Such Experts will also disappear? Will also die?" Lin Yuan found it somewhat hard to understand. Supreme Powerhouses jumped out of the Time River; as long as they were a bit careful, wanting to die was difficult.

Let alone Experts within the Ultimate like Your Majesty Xuan Huang.

"In twenty years, my comprehension of time models has also reached the two thousand one hundred and seventy-third type." Lin Yuan raised his hands, wisps of time power winding and intertwining at his fingertips.

Up to now, the pioneer great scholars of Human Civilization had only summarized a total of two thousand one hundred and seventy-three Time Rule models.

That is to say, Lin Yuan had basically walked through the cognition and expression summarized by those pioneer great scholars of Human Civilization regarding the Time Rule.

The reason why it was said to be basically was because Lin Yuan had not yet thoroughly comprehended the final Time Rule model.

"This kind of Time Rule model involves time reversal, time stopping, time acceleration? All time states converge into one?"

Lin Yuan carefully perceived, and flashes of inspiration continuously emerged in his mind.

"If I can comprehend the Time Rule thoroughly at Tier 9, making the Internal World independent of the Main Universe, the final transformation when stepping into Tier 10…"

Lin Yuan thought to himself while comprehending.

Eighth-Order Evolvers of Human Civilization opened up an Internal World, but the Internal World here was not a complete and independent world. Its numerous rules, especially the Time Rule, were shared with the Main Universe.

To get rid of this sharing, one could only comprehend the Time Rule themselves and then integrate it into the Internal World.

Theoretically speaking, the earlier one comprehended the Time Rule and integrated it into the Internal World, the greater the benefits obtained when making a major Realm leap.

A major Realm leap would cause the Internal World to transform, and the degree of transformation achieved by a complete and independent Internal World was far higher than that of an Internal World attached to the Main Universe.

If Lin Yuan comprehended the Time Rule at Tier 9 to make the Internal World 'independent', he would have two transformation opportunities in the future when breaking through to Tier 10 and breaking through to Eleven-Tier.

In this aspect, he would leave those Experts who only comprehended the Time Rule at Eleven-Tier far behind.

Tier 11 powerhouses comprehended the Time Rule and integrated it into the Internal World to achieve 'independence', but the 'independent' Internal World had not experienced the previous transformations, making its foundation much weaker.

When impacting the Twelfth Order, sublimating towards the internal Universe to the extreme, the difficulty would naturally be much higher.

"Try as much as possible."

Lin Yuan thought to himself. In the records of Human Civilization, there were examples of Tier 10 Evolvers comprehending the Time Rule and then elevating the foundation of the Internal World by a notch when promoting to Eleven-Tier.

But a Tier 9 Evolver comprehending the Time Rule? At least Lin Yuan had never heard of it currently.

Tier 9 Evolvers could barely sense slight time fluctuations. Asking them to comprehend the Time Rule thoroughly was somewhat asking too much.

"There is still a little bit left before I can comprehend this kind of time model." Lin Yuan continued to comprehend.

A moment later.

Lin Yuan stopped comprehending.

"Take a trip to the Demon Jade Space and try the fifth floor once more." Lin Yuan descended to the Demon Jade Space with the help of the Mo Yu Mark.

The fifth floor of the Black Tower tested the comprehension of the Time Rule. According to the human-shaped stone statue Shen Ji, one had to comprehend the complete Time Rule to get through.

Lin Yuan was still some distance away from thoroughly comprehending the Time Rule now, but trying to break through the fifth floor and utilizing the various time environments there might just allow him to comprehend that final Time Rule model.

Although Supreme Being Xia Qin told Lin Yuan that he could ask him about any cultivation problems, aside from truly falling into a Bottleneck and shackle, Lin Yuan was still unwilling to trouble a Supreme Powerhouse.

The final time model trapping him right now was not considered a Bottleneck or shackle by Lin Yuan, and it wouldn't hold him back for long.

Swish.

In front of the Nine-Layer Black Tower.

The human-shaped stone statue Shen Ji looked at Lin Yuan and tentatively asked, "Want to break through the fifth floor?"

"Yes." Lin Yuan nodded.

"Go in." The human-shaped stone statue Shen Ji thought for a moment, opened the Black Tower door, and let Lin Yuan enter.

Hum.

The fifth floor of the Black Tower.

Lin Yuan's figure appeared.

Swish swish.

Time fluctuations rippled, and various extreme time flow rates surged up instantly.

If it were thirty years ago, Lin Yuan wouldn't have been able to persist for long at all. Last time he broke through the third and fourth floors in one go, Lin Yuan tried the fifth floor and retreated in just an instant.

But now?

Having nearly comprehended all Time Rule models, although Lin Yuan still had no hope of passing the fifth floor, he could at least persist in walking through a small half of it.

If he didn't try to move forward, he could even persist indefinitely.

"Hmm… His comprehension of the Time Rule has advanced by leaps and bounds once again. Being far from comprehending the Time Rule thoroughly can no longer be considered distant…"

Outside the Black Tower, the human-shaped stone statue Shen Ji observed carefully, not feeling a shred of shock in his heart.

In a mere twenty or thirty years, Lin Yuan had reached such a height in the field of the Time Rule. This could be considered mind-boggling even placed on a Tier 11 life, let alone Lin Yuan, a Tier 9 life?

But having interacted with Lin Yuan for such a long time, the human-shaped stone statue Shen Ji was already almost used to Lin Yuan constantly breaking various miracles.

Just as the human-shaped stone statue Shen Ji was watching the scenes on the fifth floor…

Suddenly.

The humanoid stone statue seemed to have noticed something.

A trace of surprise appeared on its expression.

At the same time, it looked toward another direction in the Demon Jade Space.

Amidst the hazy mist,

a trace of mental will descended.

"I" — this trace of mental will took the form of a burly man standing over three meters tall, looking around with extreme excitement.

"Is this the Demon Jade Space?" The burly man carefully examined the surrounding mist.

He came from a large evolutionary Family in the northern star region of Human Civilization, and was a peerless Genius who crowned dozens of Star Domains.

Nearly a hundred years ago, Human Civilization proactively made that section of the corpse public to some geniuses. Since then, the burly man had comprehended an evolutionary path from within the corpse.

After endless painstaking effort and with a huge component of luck, the burly man finally managed to complete that evolutionary path, condensing the Mo Yu Mark deep within his Soul.

"The Goddess of Wisdom told me that completing and comprehending an evolutionary path would lead into a mysterious space, where there would be a great Opportunity."

The burly man felt thrilled in his heart, and immediately followed the surrounding mist as he walked deeper inward.

Not long after,

the burly man arrived before a towering Nine-Layer Black Tower.

"Another one is here?" The humanoid stone statue Shen Ji glanced at the burly man. In the blink of an eye, he learned all the information about how the other party had become a regular member of the Demon Jade Tower.

"The most ordinary completion of some demonic evolutionary path?" The humanoid stone statue Shen Ji shook his head inwardly.

This gap was far too vast compared to when Lin Yuan comprehended all three thousand three hundred and thirty-three demonic evolutionary paths, acting like a natural chasm.

Furthermore, Lin Yuan had long since ceased to be a regular member of the Demon Jade Tower; he was now a core member.

"Senior." Seeing the humanoid stone statue Shen Ji, the burly man asked cautiously.

"Hmm, here is some information about this place." The humanoid stone statue Shen Ji raised his right hand and poured a great deal of information into the burly man's mind.

"Ugh—" The burly man furrowed his brows tightly, and only gradually relaxed after a moment.

"The Nine-Layer Black Tower, the first layer, the second layer, the third layer……" The burly man looked toward the towering Black Tower before him, a hint of shock appearing on his expression.

"Wait a moment, someone ahead is still breaking through." The humanoid stone statue Shen Ji glanced at the burly man and said casually.

"Someone is breaking through ahead?" The burly man felt a bit lost. He wasn't the first one to enter the Demon Jade Space?

"Are they breaking through the first layer or the second layer?" Having received the information transmitted by Shen Ji, the burly man knew the difficulty of passing each layer.

"Hmm?"

"It's the fifth layer?"

The burly man looked up toward the upper levels and noticed that the fifth layer of the Black Tower was glowing with a hazy light, immediately realizing that the person ahead was breaking through this layer.

"The fifth layer?" The burly man widened his eyes. From the information transmitted to him by the humanoid stone statue Shen Ji, he knew clearly that to pass the fifth layer, one had to comprehend the Time Rule.

Comprehend the Time Rule? In the burly man's eyes, this was a Domain that only ancient Tier 11 powerhouses could hope to stand in.

"Just which Tier 11 powerhouse is breaking through?" The burly man was inwardly shocked. If not for the fact that what had descended here was only a wisp of mental will, he would probably have fled far away without hesitation.

Tier 11 powerhouse. If it were in reality, a single thought from them would probably be enough to obliterate him hundreds of millions of times. Approaching such Experts would make anyone's scalp tingle.

The fifth layer of the Black Tower.

Lin Yuan stood near the middle position, feeling the endless power of time surge.

[Your Comprehension Ability is Heaven-Defying, and through perceiving numerous time fluctuations, you have comprehended the two thousand one hundred and seventy-third time model.]

In a trance, an illusory Time Rule model gathered before Lin Yuan.

This Time Rule model possessed a sense of perfection, seemingly gathering the numerous changes of the Time Rule.

"Is this the final Time Rule model?"

Lin Yuan closed his eyes. After comprehending the most crucial point, Lin Yuan's perception of the Time Rule had reached a certain height. To go further, he needed to walk his own path.

Every expert who comprehended the Time Rule had a different perception of it.

The Space Rules were vast and endless, containing many 'faces'. The so-called comprehension of Space Rules was merely comprehending a certain face of the vast Space Rules.

The Time Rule was the same.

"It is time to leave."

Lin Yuan looked at the remaining distance ahead; he had not yet comprehended the Time Rule, so there was no hope of passing through.

Swish.

Lin Yuan's figure appeared outside the Black Tower.

"Hmm?"

"Is there someone else here?"

Lin Yuan noticed the burly man's presence at a glance.

The wisp of mental will he had descended into the Demon Jade Space had its appearance and figure set casually, with the intention of concealing his own identity.

"Greetings. Greetings, Senior." Scalp tingling, the burly man hurriedly spoke respectfully toward Lin Yuan.

In his heart, the young man before him was an ancient Tier 11 powerhouse, and he didn't even have the qualification to look directly at the other party.

"Mm."

Lin Yuan nodded slightly.

He could see that the burly man was a human.

That was enough. If the burly man were of another alien race or even a hostile race to humanity, Lin Yuan would probably use his authority as a core member to temporarily expel him.

But humans? As a fellow clan member, Lin Yuan didn't mind the other party trying to break through the Nine-Layer Black Tower.

The rewards obtained from the Nine-Layer Black Tower depended entirely on the talent one displayed. The rewards obtained by the vast majority of trainees were not overly precious.

"Senior."

The burly man lowered his head, not even daring to spread a trace of perception, deeply afraid of displeasing the Tier 11 powerhouse who had just finished breaking through the fifth layer.

After a long while, the burly man mustered up the courage to raise his head, only to find that the space before him had long been empty, with only the humanoid stone statue Shen Ji watching him.

"Senior has left?" The burly man let out a heavy sigh of relief inwardly. "Senior is also a human?"

Through that fleeting glance just now, the burly man also realized that Lin Yuan was human.

"I wonder which Tier 11 Evolver of our Human Alliance he is?" The shock in the burly man's heart still hadn't dissipated.

Today he had actually been fortunate enough to see a Tier 11 Evolver?

Galaxy Main Star.

Lin Yuan had comprehended all Time Rule models, and his mood was quite good.

"Right."

"Supreme Being Xia Qin told me to go find him after I comprehended all Time Rule models." Lin Yuan recalled Supreme Being Xia Qin's instructions.

Immediately, his consciousness connected to the Virtual World.

The towering Evolution High Tower world.

Supreme Being Xia Qin sat upon the throne, his expression suddenly changing slightly.

"That little fellow wants to see me, could it be……" Supreme Being Xia Qin's thoughts were complex. How long had it been, and he had already comprehended all Time Rule models?

A moment later,

Lin Yuan's figure appeared.

"Supreme Being." Lin Yuan bowed slightly.

"You've comprehended all time models?" Even though he had some expectations in his heart, Supreme Being Xia Qin still asked another question.

"Yes." Lin Yuan nodded. "That's why I came to find you, Supreme Being."

"I see." Supreme Being Xia Qin nodded. He looked calm on the surface, but his heart was quite unsettled.

"Comprehending all time models is still some distance away from fully comprehending the Time Rule. I now need to figure out exactly where you are within this distance."

Supreme Being Xia Qin steadied his mind and spoke.

"Alright." Lin Yuan nodded; he also wanted to know how far away he was from fully comprehending the Time Rule.

"How about this, I will let Nalan spar with you purely based on perceptions of the Time Rule." Supreme Being Xia Qin said.

Wanting to know where Lin Yuan stood, the simplest method naturally was to spar with each other, but Supreme Being Xia Qin naturally wouldn't fight Lin Yuan himself.

Therefore, he intended to let Deputy Tower Master Nalan come and test Lin Yuan.

As a Tier 10 Grade A expert who was about to comprehend all Time Rule models, Deputy Tower Master Nalan was just right to test Lin Yuan's bottom line.

Soon,

Deputy Tower Master Nalan also appeared beside Lin Yuan.

"Supreme Being." Deputy Tower Master Nalan bowed slightly toward Supreme Being Xia Qin, looking somewhat puzzled.

"Nalan, you will spar with the Galaxy Star Master. Remember, you can only use your perception of the Time Rule." Supreme Being Xia Qin said directly.

"Spar?"

"With the Galaxy Star Master?"

Deputy Tower Master Nalan was somewhat stunned.

He was a dignified Grade A Tier 10 expert, and he was being asked to spar with the Tier 9 Galaxy Star Master?

Wasn't this bullying someone? No matter how strong the Galaxy Star Master was, and no matter how Heaven-Defying his performance was at Tier 9, he was still Tier 9. What did it matter if he opened up hundreds of millions of space layers?

Furthermore, the Supreme Being meant for them to spar entirely based on perceptions of the Time Rule, meaning the Galaxy Star Master couldn't even use his most proficient space layers.

This—this was bullying the Galaxy Star Master way too much.

Deputy Tower Master Nalan even felt a bit of pity.

"What does the Supreme Being mean by this?" Deputy Tower Master Nalan thought to himself inwardly: "Could it be that seeing the Galaxy Star Master cultivating too smoothly, he wants to give him some setbacks and hardships, and thus asked me to temper the Galaxy Star Master?"