Chapter 379: Nine Major Experts

Chapter 379: Nine Major Experts (Seeking Subscriptions)

Deep within the Cosmic Starry Sky.

A vast painting slowly unfolded.

The Supreme Powerhouses and Ultimate Existences stood outside the painting.

Carefully observing every detail of the massive painting.

Ever since that piece of "white paper" squeezed into this Universe,

And then was fixed here, unfolding in the form of a "painting".

All Twelfth Order Experts within the Universe descended here.

This piece of "white paper" was simply too mysterious and unfathomable, containing an entire Two-Dimensional World.

Any existence below the Twelfth Order would automatically undergo dimensional reduction upon approaching it.

"There is no other way."

"Even if we joined forces and refined it for millions or tens of millions of years, it would still be impossible to refine this 'painting'."

"Indeed, this painting gives me a feeling akin to the vast Universe. How could it be refined?"

"Perhaps it cannot be refined from the outside, but if we descend into the 'painting', would there be a chance to refine it?"

The Ultimate Existences rapidly communicated with one another.

During this period, they had basically used all the methods available to them.

Let alone refining the "painting", they couldn't even shake it.

Furthermore, the main reason this "painting" was finally able to stop was not because many Supreme Powerhouses intervened to stop it,

But rather because the "painting" itself flew until it was tired.

"Descend into the 'painting'?"

That one-horned Supreme Powerhouse glanced at the many other Supreme Powerhouses.

Indeed.

This method was the most promising one among all the methods they had deduced.

Yet not a single Supreme Powerhouse was willing to try it.

Supreme Powerhouses could resist the automatic dimensional reduction of the "painting".

But if they gave up resisting, they would naturally also fall into the Two-Dimensional World inside the "painting".

However, falling in was easy, but getting back out would not be so effortless.

Once any accident occurred inside, causing the fallen Clone to perish,

Then the fundamental loss would still synchronize back to the Supreme Powerhouses.

As for those Tier 10 and Eleven-Tier Experts who fell into the painting, even if their Clones died inside,

It wouldn't have much of an impact on the factions behind them; the Peak Groups Alliance would definitely not have its Foundations shaken just because a few Tier 11 lives were missing.

But Supreme Powerhouses were different.

If their strength plummeted or they suffered heavy injuries,

The impact would be extremely far-reaching, and could even cause changes in the current situation of the myriad races in the starry sky.

"Let's wait and see a bit longer."

"So many Experts from our clan have fallen in."

"Let's wait until the Heavenly Gate opens next time to see if they can come out."

Each and every Supreme Powerhouse and Ultimate Existence was very cautious.

They all realized that this "painting" was extremely important.

Whoever could refine it would be equivalent to gaining the combat power of two or three Supreme Powerhouses.

But right now, they couldn't rush it.

Two-Dimensional World.

Dongyuan City, Blood Rain Tavern.

The hunchbacked elder was dozing off.

Suddenly.

At this very moment,

The hunchbacked elder seemed to sense something.

He abruptly opened his eyes.

He saw that a young man was sitting at a seat not far away at some unknown time.

"My lord."

The hunchbacked elder's heart trembled slightly, and he immediately stood up to say respectfully,

"Coming here, I am here to make a transaction with your Blood Rain Tavern." Lin Yuan spoke, his tone calm and without fluctuations.

Over the past few years, he had successively purchased numerous cultivation resources through the Blood Rain Tavern, and the two could be considered quite familiar with each other.

Although the Blood Rain Tavern came from the Blood Rain Ancient Kingdom, it was independent of it. Its branch taverns were spread across the Twelve Ancient Kingdoms, and its reputation was extremely good.

Of course, to be completely foolproof, before coming every time, Lin Yuan would use the bronze compass to confirm whether there was any danger in this area.

Having descended into this Two-Dimensional World, Lin Yuan didn't trust anyone very much.

"Please speak, my lord." The hunchbacked elder immediately said in a low voice.

The more he came into contact with Lin Yuan, the more he felt Lin Yuan's terrifying nature.

At first, the hunchbacked elder thought Lin Yuan was an expert approaching the Witch Emperor.

But until today, Tuoba realized how ridiculous his initial thought had been. Approaching the Witch Emperor? With Lin Yuan's strength, he could be considered extremely powerful even among Witch Emperors.

As for Lin Yuan's such youthful appearance? In this world, there existed certain rare treasures, such as the blood rain tea tree of the Blood Rain Ancient Kingdom, as well as some rare treasures capable of preserving one's youth.

In the hunchbacked elder's heart, Lin Yuan should be some old monster who had lived in seclusion for an unknown number of years, and his youthful appearance was merely an appearance.

"I want some cultivation methods, Witch Ancestor cultivation methods." Lin Yuan said directly.

"Witch Ancestor cultivation methods?" The hunchbacked elder was startled inwardly, yet felt it was only natural.

Given Lin Yuan's strength, he probably only paid attention to the Witch Ancestor cultivation methods that symbolized the highest level of this world.

"My lord, any Witch Ancestor cultivation method has an extremely grand background, either originating from a certain Ancient Kingdom or coming from a transcendent faction."

The hunchbacked elder felt somewhat troubled.

With the influence and power of the Blood Rain Tavern, it was indeed capable of acquiring Witch Ancestor cultivation methods.

But acquiring a Witch Ancestor cultivation method was one thing, and daring to sell it publicly was quite another.

The characteristics possessed by Witch Ancestor-grade cultivation methods were very obvious, and they were 'monopolized' by the Ancient Countries.

Without the permission of the Ancient Kingdoms, anyone who privately spread or cultivated Witch Ancestor-grade cultivation methods would be hunted down by the Twelve Ancient Kingdoms.

"Rest assured, the Witch Ancestor-grade cultivation methods I obtain will have nothing to do with the Blood Rain Tavern." Lin Yuan said.

"Since my lord has said so, if I were to decline again, it would indeed be a bit improper." The hunchbacked elder's tone relaxed.

There were some words he dared not say explicitly, but Lin Yuan heard the meaning behind his words and made timely guarantees, making it very easy for him to handle.

"So far, our Blood Rain Tavern has collected a total of eight Witch Ancestor-grade cultivation methods. Does my lord plan to want all of them?" The hunchbacked elder probed.

"I want all of them."

Lin Yuan nodded.

The greatest significance of Witch Ancestor-grade cultivation methods to him was not cultivation, but rather peering into the essence of cultivation in this world based on their concepts.

In terms of strength, Lin Yuan, who had only descended into this world for just over twenty years, had already surpassed all past Witch Ancestors.

"Alright."

The hunchbacked elder respectfully turned and left.

A moment later,

He walked in carrying a box.

"My lord, all eight Witch Ancestor-grade cultivation methods are inside."

Using a specialized technique, the hunchbacked elder opened the box, inside which booklets were neatly placed.

Without the specific technique, even if outsiders obtained this box, it would be useless. Forcibly opening it would only trigger the self-destruction mechanism inside.

"How many wizard crystals?"

Lin Yuan glanced at it and asked casually.

"One billion wizard crystals for a single Witch Ancestor-grade cultivation method, totaling eight billion wizard crystals for all eight." The hunchbacked elder said immediately.

To acquire these Witch Ancestor-grade cultivation methods, the Blood Rain Tavern had indeed paid a considerable price.

The most crucial part was that selling these Witch Ancestor-grade cultivation methods required the Blood Rain Tavern to bear the risk of leakage.

"Put it on my tab." Lin Yuan casually picked up a Witch Ancestor-grade cultivation method, finished reading it in just a few glances, and then swept his gaze to the next one.

With the thought-processing speed of a Tier 10 from the outside world, memorizing these brief textual descriptions of cultivation methods was simpler than anything.

"Alright."

The hunchbacked elder nodded.

Having spent a few years getting along, he still trusted Lin Yuan quite a bit.

Such a Peak Witch Emperor expert would not deign to default on a bill of less than ten billion wizard crystals.

"That's right, my lord."

"The Witch Ancestor-grade cultivation methods obtained by our Blood Rain Tavern are not considered complete; the core and crucial parts are all passed down orally and are very difficult to acquire."

The hunchbacked elder seemed to think of something and immediately spoke.

Without the most crucial core parts, these Witch Ancestor-grade cultivation methods were very difficult to Cultivate deeply, and even lacking information on certain critical nodes could lead to Qi Deviation.

"I know."

Lin Yuan continued to quickly flip through and read the booklets.

He was viewing these Witch Ancestor-grade cultivation methods not for the purpose of cultivation, but merely for reference.

He only needed to figure out the overall concept of each Witch Ancestor cultivation method.

A moment later,

Lin Yuan finished reading all the Witch Ancestor-grade cultivation methods.

And then stood up to leave.

The hunchbacked elder bowed to send him off.

Until Lin Yuan disappeared.

The hunchbacked elder's expression became thoughtful. "Could it be that my lord bought so many Witch Ancestor cultivation methods…"

The hunchbacked elder swallowed hard, vaguely guessing something.

At the Peak of a Mountain Peak,

Lin Yuan's figure appeared, and he sat cross-legged.

"The exposition on the essence of power in the eight Witch Ancestor cultivation methods is still not perfect, but the directions they represent have many commendable aspects."

Lin Yuan thought to himself.

Especially the Witch Ancestor cultivation method named 'Evergreen', which came from the mysterious Evergreen Ancient Kingdom.

This cultivation method brought Lin Yuan the greatest insight, which was extending Lifespan. Experts who stepped into the Realm of Witch Ancestor using this cultivation method had twice the Lifespan of Witch Ancestors at the same level.

Of course, the 'Evergreen' cultivation method was not without its flaws; that was its poor direct combat capability. Although the Evergreen Witch Ancestor lived the longest back then, his combat power could be considered at the bottom among all Witch Ancestors in history.

But with Lin Yuan's Heaven-Defying Comprehension, he could completely take the essence and bestow the effect of 'Lifespan extension' onto his own cultivation method.

He could even greatly enhance the 'Lifespan extension' effect, far breaking the theoretical limit of the 'Evergreen' cultivation method.

Lifespan was much more important than imagined for all ten thousand races experts who fell into the Two-Dimensional World, and for Lin Yuan, it was even an escape route.

If three hundred years later, the Heavenly Gate opened and Lin Yuan failed to sweep across the numerous Eleven-Tier Peak lives and reach the front of the Heavenly Gate,

then he could only pin his hopes on the time after next when the Heavenly Gate opened.

Moreover, the interval between each opening of the Heavenly Gate was ten thousand years.

Of course, this was just the worst-case scenario. With Lin Yuan's Heaven-Defying Comprehension Ability, starting from the same baseline and after more than three hundred years of cultivation and development, those Eleven-Tier Peak lives would simply be no match for him.

"If this Evergreen Cultivation Method can be completely integrated into my cultivation method, it can extend my Lifespan by at least twenty to thirty thousand years."

Lin Yuan thought silently to himself.

The Lifespan extension here referred to extending Lifespan within this Two-Dimensional World.

Extending his Lifespan by twenty to thirty thousand years would allow him to experience the opening of the Heavenly Gate three or four times.

Over such a long period of time, even if a Supreme Powerhouse descended, Lin Yuan was confident he could soundly defeat and crush them.

"And the other seven Witch Ancestor cultivation methods can also enrich my path at the Witch Ancestor level in terms of exploring the essence of power."

Specific details of the Witch Ancestor cultivation methods flashed continuously through Lin Yuan's mind, ultimately returning to himself and integrating into the Perfection of the Witch Ancestor Realm he had created.

Main Universe.

Virtual World.

Lin Yuan and Deputy Tower Master Nalan routinely exchanged intelligence.

Deputy Tower Master Nalan and a group of human Evolvers had carved out a stronghold in the capital of a certain Ancient Kingdom, continuously developing and growing from it.

Naturally, his intelligence-gathering capabilities surpassed Lin Yuan's.

"Galaxy Star Master, among the ten thousand races experts currently in the Two-Dimensional World, ninety-eight have clearly stepped into the Witch Ancestor Realm. Among them, nine Witch Ancestors are the strongest, pulling away a distinct gap from the other Witch Ancestors."

Deputy Tower Master Nalan said in a solemn tone.

"Ninety-eight Witch Ancestors?" Lin Yuan wore a solemn expression.

Since ancient times in the Two-Dimensional World, all the Witch Ancestors born combined probably didn't even total ninety-eight.

Furthermore, although these ninety-eight Witch Ancestors belonged to the Witch Ancestor Realm, their combat prowess definitely far surpassed that of the indigenous Witch Ancestors in history.

After all, the Realm of their true physical bodies was right there.

"These are the combat videos of the nine strongest Witch Ancestors I've collected." With a slight thought from Deputy Tower Master Nalan, an illusory screen appeared before him, and the video began to play.

These videos originated from the memories of Experts who had witnessed those nine Witch Ancestors in battle with their own eyes.

Lin Yuan immediately looked at the video.

The footage in the first video showed a four-armed figure walking across a flat wasteland, with a massive number of auras faintly lurking all around.

"You ants, you still dare to gang up and assassinate me?"

The four-armed figure spoke in a disdainful tone as he took a stride forward and fiercely stomped his right foot onto the ground.

Rumble.

Terrifying force spread in all directions, tearing the earth apart as if the heavens were collapsing. The lurking ten thousand races experts who had attempted an ambush were all severely injured.

With just a single stomp, the terrifying power unleashed caused heavy casualties among the surrounding ten thousand races experts.

The four-armed figure took another step forward, arriving before an expert with sixteen pairs of wings on his back.

This sixteen-winged expert was also in the Witch Ancestor Realm, and he put up a desperate resistance against the four-armed figure.

In the end, however, the four-armed figure merely reached out his four arms and gave a gentle tear, ripping the sixteen-winged expert apart as blood splattered across the earth.

Deputy Tower Master Nalan explained from the side: "This battle originated from an assassination plot by Heaven Wing Clan Experts. The one being targeted was the 'Four-Armed Divine King' of the Starry Sky Alliance—a unique special life form in the Universe, a sixth-grade Eleven-Tier, and an expert on the same level as the 'Tree Realm Mother'."

A hint of amazement lingered in Deputy Tower Master Nalan's tone.

Although he was also Eleven-Tier, compared to Eleven-Tier Perfection powerhouses like the 'Four-Armed Divine King', there was still a massive gap.

"Indeed very strong." Lin Yuan nodded.

This Four-Armed Divine King had evidently been a Witch Ancestor for some time, and his mastery and application of his own power had reached an unimaginable level.

"This Four-Armed Divine King is arguably the strongest among all the descended ten thousand races experts thus far."

Deputy Tower Master Nalan sighed.

He continued playing the second video.

This was a battle between two Witch Ancestor-level Experts.

The auras of both sides were terrifying to the extreme. One of them had a sturdy, towering figure like a small mountain, while the other was slender and diminutive, yet wielded a blood-red saber.

Judging by their auras, the sturdier expert appeared significantly stronger, yet in reality, the battle concluded with astonishing speed.

The moment they made contact, the slender expert slashed with the blood-red saber, and with a flash of blade light, the sturdy expert was sliced in half.

"This?"

Lin Yuan's pupils contracted slightly.

An instant kill?

How could that be?

Even someone as strong as the Four-Armed Divine King had required several moves to kill that Heaven Wing Clan Witch Ancestor.

Yet the slender figure right now had actually instantly killed his opponent?

"Is it the saber?"

Lin Yuan immediately noticed the blood-red saber held in the slender figure's hand.

The saber was sharp enough to seemingly tear through the Void Realm.

"Is it an oddity? A supreme weapon?" Lin Yuan immediately thought of the bronze compass he had acquired.

Even across the video, that bronze compass gave him a similar aura.

"Indeed, it's the saber."

Deputy Tower Master Nalan nodded and said: "The saber-wielder is named 'Hou Zhu', an Eleven-Tier expert of the Prison Clan. Before falling into the Two-Dimensional World, he was roughly at the fourth-grade Eleven-Tier level."

"Hou Zhu's strength is not considered particularly outstanding among the various Eleven-Tier Experts, but because of this saber, he leaped to become an expert second only to the Four-Armed Divine King."

Pausing for a moment, Deputy Tower Master Nalan continued: "There are many oddities within the Two-Dimensional World. These oddities should all be at the twelfth-star level, capable of unleashing a sliver of extraordinary might under two-dimensional suppression."

"I see."

Lin Yuan said softly.

In fact, he had long been aware of the existence of oddities, and he currently still had one in his possession.

"The effects of such oddities vary, but their utility is immense. Many Witch Ancestors are currently searching everywhere for them."

Deputy Tower Master Nalan said.

One could look specifically at 'Hou Zhu' of the Prison Clan, who soared to prominence relying on that blood-red saber.

Next.

Lin Yuan continued watching the third video, the fourth video, the fifth video…

Among the nine strongest Witch Ancestors currently recognized in the Two-Dimensional World, six were special life forms.

The remaining three consisted of one from the Prison Clan, one from the Yu Clan, and one from Human Civilization.

Among them, the Yu Clan could be considered the most powerful group among the Peak Groups. Just like Human Civilization, they had nine Supreme Powerhouses holding down the fort, but their historical Legacy was countless times more ancient than that of humanity.

They were a terrifying group born at the very beginning of the Universe's creation.

"The Witch Ancestor of our Human Civilization barely ranks ninth," Deputy Tower Master Nalan said, shaking his head.

This was already considered decent; other Peak Groups like the Zerg and the Heaven Wing Clan failed to squeeze into the top nine entirely.

"Are there more videos?" Lin Yuan wanted to see the combat footage of the remaining Witch Ancestor-level Experts.

"There are," Deputy Tower Master Nalan nodded.

Lin Yuan continued watching for a bit longer.

Sure enough.

Starting from the tenth Witch Ancestor, there was a significant gap in strength compared to the first nine.

"Tuoba Ancient God?" Lin Yuan looked toward the twelfth video.

This meant that the expert in this video ranked twelfth among the ten thousand races experts.

"Tuoba Ancient God is also a special life form with formidable innate Aptitude," Deputy Tower Master Nalan commented from the side.

This trip to the Two-Dimensional World was undoubtedly a home-court advantage for these special life forms. In terms of Aptitude, special life forms were undeniably the strongest.

"Right, Galaxy Star Master, what Realm have you Cultivated to now?" Deputy Tower Master Nalan asked with considerable curiosity.

"Just entered the Witch Emperor Realm," Lin Yuan shook his head.

"That is already very impressive," Deputy Tower Master Nalan praised.

Although Lin Yuan was hailed as the strongest evolutionary Genius in human history, he had only recently entered Tier 10, after all, and possessed an essential gap compared to those Eleven-Tier lives.

Even so, to step into the Witch Emperor Realm merely twenty-odd years after descending was already comparable to the cultivation speed of ordinary Eleven-Tier lives.

He himself, Deputy Tower Master Nalan, had also not long since entered the Witch Emperor Realm.

In fact, among the over three hundred Eleven-Tier lives who fell into the Two-Dimensional World this time, the majority remained halted at the Witch Emperor Realm.

What Deputy Tower Master Nalan did not know was that Lin Yuan's so-called entry-level Witch Emperor Realm was already capable of rivaling Witch Ancestors.

Furthermore, when it came to excavating potential, even the strongest 'Four-Armed Divine King' fell far short of Lin Yuan.

The Four-Armed Divine King was already a Witch Ancestor, so his future cultivation speed would inevitably decrease drastically, but Lin Yuan was only at the Witch Emperor Realm and still had massive room for upward mobility.

Moreover, the closer they got to their upper limits, the greater Lin Yuan's advantage would become.

After finishing his communication with Deputy Tower Master Nalan,

Lin Yuan continued to immerse himself in perfecting and pioneering the Witch Ancestor cultivation methods.

Time flew by in the blink of an eye,

and a hundred years passed.