Chapter 424: Void Enlightenment

"This gift…"

Lin Yuan swept his gaze across the vast space within the giant rock, a slightly solemn expression emerging on his face.

This gift prepared by the Secret Realm pioneer was meant to congratulate the next Tenth-Stage entity in the Boundless Void.

Attaching extraordinary importance to this, the gift was naturally very precious, surprising even Lin Yuan somewhat.

However, in a way, Lin Yuan could also be considered a Tenth-Stage entity.

Accepting this gift was only natural.

Lin Yuan carefully examined every detail of the space within the giant rock, finally nodding slightly and saying, "A total of six hundred and seventy-eight."

Indeed.

The gift prepared by the Secret Realm pioneer was precisely Void Creatures.

Furthermore, they were Ninth-Stage Perfection Void Creature Kings, totaling six hundred and seventy-eight of them.

At this moment, they were neatly slumbering within the vast space inside the giant rock.

Void Creatures were not lives of the Boundless Void, but rather came from beyond the Boundless Void, the gaps between dimensions.

Therefore, Void Creatures were also known as gap lifeforms.

Killing Void Creatures could enhance one's own mental will.

The stronger the killed Void Creature, the higher the magnitude of the mental will index increase.

Among them, the kings among the Void Creatures were undoubtedly the best for enhancing mental will.

Lin Yuan still remembered when he killed the first Ninth-Stage Void Creature King.

It directly caused his mental will index to skyrocket from 12 million points to nearly 20 million points.

A single Void Creature King directly increased his mental will index by nearly 8 million points, and that was an increase of 8 million points based on a foundation of 12 million points?

Such a magnitude of improvement was unheard of for Lin Yuan, even in the Main Universe.

Lin Yuan even speculated that if his mental will index wasn't 12 million points, but rather one or two million points—

would killing that Ninth-Stage Perfection Void Creature King directly make his mental will index soar to 10 or 20 million points?

The higher the mental will index, the greater the difficulty of improvement.

From this, one could see just how great the value of a Ninth-Stage Void Creature King was.

Regrettably, Ninth-Stage Void Creature Kings were too rare.

Lin Yuan's Solar Nascent Soul had roamed the Void Secret Realm for hundreds of years, and so far, he had only ever encountered that single one.

Now that Lin Yuan's spacetime Fusion comprehension had reached the sixth realm, he could see through the entire Void Secret Realm at a glance, and so far, he had only discovered four Void Creature Kings.

Two of them were only at the eighth stage, while the remaining two were at the ninth stage.

These four Void Creature Kings were all hidden in extremely secretive locations within the Void Secret Realm; those Perfection Evil God True Lords would probably never discover them in tens of millions or hundreds of millions of years.

But now—

A full six hundred and seventy-eight Void Creature Kings were quietly slumbering in the space inside the giant rock.

Moreover, these six hundred and seventy-eight Void Creature Kings were all at the ninth stage, and even ninth-stage Perfection. For the enhancement of mental will, any single one of them was enough to utterly crush the only one Lin Yuan had ever killed.

"What a lavish stroke."

Lin Yuan couldn't help but marvel.

So many Void Creature Kings. I'm afraid that ever since the Void Secret Realm was pioneered until now, all the Void Creature Kings that had ever manifested combined didn't amount to this many.

Even the Void Son, the master of the Void Secret Realm, had far from ever seen so many Void Creature Kings.

Otherwise, they wouldn't have become a congratulatory gift sent by the Secret Realm pioneer to future Tenth-Stage entities.

At least in the eyes of the Secret Realm pioneer, this many Void Creature Kings could produce considerable effects for a Tenth-Stage entity.

"That's true."

Lin Yuan thought about it, a thoughtful expression appearing on his face.

When the Secret Realm pioneer originally created the Void Secret Realm and 'netted' numerous gap lifeforms from beyond the Boundless Void, they must have kept the batch of gap lifeforms with the highest quality in their own hands.

And this was also the origin of the hundreds of Ninth-Stage Perfection Void Creatures in the space inside the giant rock right now.

"With my current strength, I can also briefly break free from the Boundless Void, contact the gaps between different dimensions, and capture those gap lifeforms."

Lin Yuan rubbed his chin and thought to himself.

After his spacetime Fusion comprehension reached the sixth realm, he felt that he could break free from the shackles of the Boundless Void and head toward the dimensional gap region along the Void Secret Realm.

"Forget it."

"It's too much of a waste of time."

Lin Yuan quickly abandoned this idea.

Back then, how many years had the Secret Realm pioneer spent to capture so many Void Creatures? Tens of billions or hundreds of billions of years, with each Void Creature King taking tens of millions of years on average.

Lin Yuan's current strength was indeed somewhat stronger than the Secret Realm pioneer, but not by too much. To spend tens of millions of years to capture a single Void Creature King?

In tens of millions of years, Lin Yuan didn't even know what height he would have grown to.

The Secret Realm pioneer did this because he had nowhere left to advance.

But Lin Yuan had no need for this whatsoever.

With this time, even if he let his mental will slowly improve and grow,

it would be much faster than capturing Void Creature Kings.

"With so many Ninth-Stage Perfection Void Creature Kings, I wonder what level they can elevate my mental will index to."

Lin Yuan looked at the numerous Void Creature Kings in the space inside the giant rock, a look of anticipation appearing on his face.

According to Lin Yuan's original plan, his mental will upper limit in this Boundless Void would be around 25 million points.

Because the number of Void Creatures was right there; there simply weren't that many Void Creatures for Lin Yuan to kill.

Especially after passing 20 million points, only by killing kings among the Void Creatures could it have some effect.

But now, looking at the numerous Void Creature Kings in the inner space of the giant rock, Lin Yuan couldn't quite estimate his final upper limit of the mental will index.

"Let's begin."

Without much hesitation, Lin Yuan immediately began killing the Void Creatures in the space inside the giant rock.

Facing these Void Creatures, Lin Yuan felt not a shred of pity. They didn't even belong to the same species as him; it was just like an ordinary person slaughtering chickens or pigs.

Boundless Void.

Nearly a hundred Perfection Evil God True Lords gathered, all discussing the birth of the second Tenth-Stage entity in the Boundless Void.

"The entity that stepped into the Tenth Stage is named Martial Ancestor?"

"The Martial Ancestor wants us to cede half of our territory, leaving it for those frail ants?"

"How powerful the Martial Ancestor is; why would he be so merciful to those ants?"

"If you have an objection, go talk to the Martial Ancestor?"

"Forget it, I wouldn't dare."

One Perfection Evil God True Lord after another discussed. Although some Evil God True Lords were quite dissatisfied with ceding half of the territory, it was only dissatisfaction. Asking them to argue with the Martial Ancestor—even with ten more guts, no Evil God True Lord would do such a thing.

They had all grown to the ninth-stage Perfection; they were not those sixth-stage or seventh-stage evil gods who would go mad occasionally.

Ninth-stage Perfection evil gods were extremely rational and understood the meaning of not doing what cannot be done; the will of the Tenth-Stage Martial Ancestor could not be violated.

Moreover, ceding only half of the territory did not touch the bottom line of these Perfection evil gods, so their reaction wasn't that intense.

While the numerous Perfection evil gods were arguing and discussing,

the Void Son sat high upon the throne, somewhat absent-mindedly watching the communication among the many Perfection evil gods below.

"Hmm?"

"The Martial Ancestor has disappeared from the Void Secret Realm?"

When Lin Yuan entered the hidden space in the deepest core region of the Void Secret Realm, his aura vanished from the Void Secret Realm, which was likewise perceived by the Void Son.

"There is no aura of the Martial Ancestor in the entire Void Secret Realm?"

The Void Son carefully perceived, speculating in his heart: "Could it be that the Void Secret Realm has secrets I don't know about?"

The Void Son had ruled the Void Secret Realm for long years and considered himself extremely familiar with it.

But now, the Martial Ancestor's aura had inexplicably disappeared, making it inevitable for the Void Son to generate other guesses.

Of course, the Void Son didn't have any other thoughts; after all, for long years, he had been unable to discover the secret, and even if he were given ten or a hundred times more time, he still wouldn't be able to discover it.

"That's about enough."

The Void Son glanced below; at this moment, the numerous Perfection Evil God True Lords had almost finished arguing.

In fact, ceding half of the territory had no impact on the Void Son; it was mainly up to these Perfection Evil God True Lords to decide how much they should cede.

"The Martial Ancestor protects those ants because they can Cultivate Martial Arts?"

The Void Son thought silently in his heart, "When I have time, I should also try to see if I can Cultivate Martial Arts."

Time passed.

In the blink of an eye, ten years passed.

Void Secret Realm hidden space.

Lin Yuan sat cross-legged atop that giant rock.

The formless power of mental will swept in all directions, distorting spacetime and forming a mental storm that grandly and continuously traversed this hidden space.

"My mental will has finally reached its Ultimate limit."

Lin Yuan slowly opened his eyes, and his majestic mental will began to rapidly converge.

After ten years of absorption and continuously killing one Void Creature after another, Lin Yuan's mental will finally reached its limit.

The so-called reaching of the limit meant that continuing to kill those Void Creature Kings would result in the enhancement of his own mental will coming to a near standstill.

"My current mental will index should be between thirty-three million three hundred thousand and thirty-three million four hundred thousand?"

Lin Yuan examined himself and made an estimation.

"The mental will index in this range? Is it thirty-three million three hundred thirty-three thousand three hundred and thirty-three points?"

Lin Yuan could not determine the exact mental will index. Even within the Human Civilization of the Main Universe, where mental will could be measured, it was only a rough estimation.

Especially since Lin Yuan's current mental will index was simply too high, making it even more impossible to measure accurately. He could only rely on his own experiential perception to judge.

The range of thirty-three million three hundred to thirty-four million points of mental will reminded Lin Yuan of the number thirty-three million three hundred thirty-three thousand three hundred and thirty-three.

In the Main Universe, Lin Yuan had encountered this number many times: the number of insights into the Demon evolutionary path of the Demon Jade Tower? The number of silver-white characters in "Void Interpretation"?

And the time required for the Gate of Myriad Realms to initially accumulate a wisp of Boundary-Breaking Source Power?

And now, the mental will index that had once again reached its limit was also close to this number.

"This number probably holds a great secret," Lin Yuan thought to himself, and then immediately pushed this doubt to the back of his mind.

No matter what secrets it held, it was still too far away from the current Lin Yuan. At the very least, he would have to step into the Ultimate before he had the ability to explore and investigate it thoroughly.

"With over thirty-three million points of mental will index, even at the level of a Supreme Powerhouse, it cannot be considered weak, right?"

Lin Yuan thought quickly in his heart.

An index of eighteen million points of mental will was even the threshold of experts.

Only when a lifeform performed the Ultimate leap and permanently resided on the "shore" would its own mental will rapidly cross this line.

As for the mental will index of over thirty-three million points, which went a step further beyond this threshold, I am afraid even those Ultimates who had just entered the Twelfth Order could not reach it immediately.

Doubling one's mental will was countless times harder than doubling the strength of one's Physical Body.

"There are still two hundred and three Void Creature Kings left." Lin Yuan glanced at the Void Creature Kings in the boulder space once more.

Now that Lin Yuan's mental will index had reached its limit, continuing to kill these Void Creature Kings would no longer produce any enhancement.

It was just like how after Lin Yuan's mental will index exceeded ten million points, killing those ordinary Void Creatures no longer produced any effect.

"It's a pity that these Void Creatures originate from the dimensional gaps and cannot enter other dimensions, otherwise they would vanish into thin air."

Lin Yuan thought to himself. Ever since his Solar Nascent Soul first entered the Void Secret Realm and killed the first Void Creature, Lin Yuan had discovered this rule.

That was, Void Creatures could not enter the Boundless Void.

Strictly speaking, the Void Secret Realm was a 'net' formed from the Boundless Void toward the dimensional gaps, and in essence, it was still within the dimensional gaps.

Therefore, Void Creatures were able to survive within the Secret Realm, it was just that they couldn't get out.

But that was all. Any Void Creature, as long as it formally entered the dimension of the Boundless Void, would suffer an irreversible demise, no matter what kind of method or means of isolation was used.

This was also the reason why Lin Yuan had never seen these Void Creatures outside of the Void Secret Realm.

And since they couldn't even enter the Boundless Void, let alone the Chaos Void where the Main Universe was located, this made Lin Yuan rather regretful.

You must know that killing these Void Creatures could directly and massively enhance the strength of one's mental will. Placed in the Main Universe, this was simply a sheer fantasy.

At least given Lin Yuan's current status in Human Civilization, he had never heard of such treasures. There were things that enhanced mental will strength, but by a massive margin?

And such a simple massive enhancement without any theoretical basis whatsoever.

That is to say, as long as Lin Yuan could bring these Void Creatures to the Main Universe, even if he was unwilling to aid the enemy and only exchanged them within Human Civilization, he could exchange them for unimaginable Merit Points and twelve-star rare treasures.

There was no doubt that those Tier 10 and Eleven-Tier Evolvers of Human Civilization would spare no expense to improve their mental will, even if it was only by one or ten points.

As for the Boundary-Breaking Source Power required to bring the Void Creatures from the Boundless Void back to the Main Universe? As long as the gains were large enough, Lin Yuan wouldn't mind expending Boundary-Breaking Source Power to do so.

In essence, Boundary-Breaking Source Power was also a kind of resource, and this resource was renewable.

But unfortunately, Void Creatures could not survive in any dimension, which meant Lin Yuan's idea of reselling goods between the two realms was nipped in the bud.

In fact, even if he couldn't bring the Void Creatures to the Main Universe, Lin Yuan had means to let Human Evolvers of the Main Universe enjoy the most direct mental will enhancement brought by killing Void Creatures.

That was to directly bring the other party down to the Boundless Void, enter the Void Secret Realm, and then go kill those Void Creatures.

The Gate of Myriad Realms could perform Physical Body shuttles and could also carry items from the Main Universe in. Naturally, it could also bring other lifeforms down to the world being shuttled through.

It was merely a question of how much Boundary-Breaking Source Power would be consumed.

Since the Void Creatures couldn't leave, then they would let the Human Civilization Evolvers of the Main Universe come in.

But this method carried huge risks and easily exposed the secret of the Gate of Myriad Realms.

The means to shuttle through different dimensions—even those beings close to a Perfect Time Life could not do it directly. Yet Lin Yuan could do it so casually? And even shuttle people along with him?

The Gate of Myriad Realms was Lin Yuan's biggest trump card, far surpassing the Profound Yellow Secret Realm, Demon Jade Space, and so on. It must absolutely not be leaked by even a fraction.

Exactly because of this, even though this approach had high feasibility and the harvest could be called exorbitant profits, relying on Lin Yuan's induction with the Azure Sky World, bringing a Human Civilization Evolver down here would consume at most one or two wisps of Boundary-Breaking Source Power.

And the harvest might be most of that brought-over Evolver's lifetime savings.

But Lin Yuan resolutely refused to take this risk.

Even when Lin Yuan became an Ultimate in the future, he would not do this.

If he could step into the Ultimate, Lin Yuan could choose to appropriately reveal the Profound Yellow Secret Realm, but the Gate of Myriad Realms? Better forget it.

"Let's leave these remaining Void Creature Kings here."

Lin Yuan glanced at the space inside the boulder one last time, took a step forward, and disappeared on the spot.

Next.

Lin Yuan began to walk inside the Void Secret Realm, carefully experiencing every bit of this Secret Realm.

With his sixth-realm comprehension of spacetime, Lin Yuan could see through everything in the Void Secret Realm at a glance. But being able to see through it did not mean it was of no help.

With the aid of the Void Secret Realm, Lin Yuan was able to observe the path taken by the Secret Realm's pioneer.

Although that Secret Realm pioneer failed in their assault on the Ultimate, being able to step into the tenth stage meant that there were no problems with their potential. Failing to assault the Ultimate could not deny this point.

After all, failing to assault the Ultimate involved various factors, and bad luck was also extremely likely.

Spending five years, Lin Yuan walked through every corner of the Void Secret Realm.

Then he began to explore the entire Boundless Void.

Compared to the Void Secret Realm, the Boundless Void was much simpler, but it consumed even more of Lin Yuan's energy.

After all, the Void Secret Realm was Acquiredly opened up; even though it contained the path of a certain tenth-stage entity, it still could not compare to the Boundless Void itself.

Another five years passed.

Lin Yuan finished walking through the Boundless Void.

Then Lin Yuan randomly chose a place to sit cross-legged. The observation had come to an end, and he now stopped to reflect properly, transforming everything he had seen and felt into his own gains.

At this moment, in a certain corner of the vast Boundless Void, Lin Yuan sat cross-legged, sorting out his own insights.

He already had a massive amount of inspiration emerging, and now having experienced ten years of observation, everything gathered in his chest, finally comprehending it rapidly with his Heaven-Defying Comprehension.

[You have Heaven-Defying Comprehension; observing the Void, your comprehension of the Life and Death Reincarnation Rule has massively increased.]

[You have Heaven-Defying Comprehension; observing the Void, your comprehension of the Great Destruction Rule has massively increased.]

[You have Heaven-Defying Comprehension; observing the Void, your comprehension of the Karma fluctuation rule has massively increased.]