Swallowing the Stars: Starting with the Giant of Light

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The short and stout Burning Heart Divine Tree, its entire body resembling a deep purple jade carving, with its massive canopy covering the area below, exudes a mysterious aura.

"Let me see the effect..."

Lu Yunhe sat under the tree, absorbing the aura emanating from the Burning Heart Divine Tree, and became engrossed in cultivation.

This aura was indeed extraordinary, somewhat similar to the power of origin, but it didn't have much effect on a cosmic god whose soul was already perfected, let alone on Lu Yunhe.

However, if it's the Chaos Realm, the effect is incredibly powerful, even better than the effect of billions of cosmic crystals.

In addition, another effect of the Burning Heart Divine Tree is that when absorbing energy, one experiences a burning sensation in the mind and soul.

The more you concentrate your soul, the stronger this burning sensation becomes, as if it burns away all the impurities of your mind and soul, making your mind ethereal and transcendent, thus bringing you closer to the Tao.

No matter how much one elevates their spiritual realm, it remains centered on humanity and can never truly transform into the Tao.

The purpose of the Burning Heart Tree is to bring the mind as close to the Dao as possible during the burning process, thus enhancing the soul's understanding and having the best effect on the soul.

"Hmm, the effect is so-so!"

Lu Yunhe commented, "Merely getting close to the Dao is nothing compared to truly merging with it."

Ultraman's clone merges into the Source World and integrates with the supreme rules, which also brings a profound improvement to his mind and soul.

Otherwise, how could he possibly comprehend the essence of the world that transcends the realm of cosmic gods, and comprehend the endless primordial Dao?

The fact that one can comprehend the essence of the universe at the primordial level with the realm of a cosmic god already explains the matter.

Even if a different cosmic god were to place its essence there, the source world would not have the ability to comprehend it, much less the capacity to bear it.

"Although it's not much, it does have a slight auxiliary effect on the understanding of the mind and soul," Lu Yunhe thought to himself.

Practicing the fundamental path related to the mind and soul under a tree will result in a slightly higher increase in spiritual growth.

As long as it's effective, then it's not a loss. Anyway, he doesn't need any other resources from the Fan family, and tens of thousands of merit points are too little to exchange for anything useful.

Having exchanged his cultivation time under the Burning Heart Tree, Lu Yunhe's clone remained directly within the Fan family.

While cultivating, he would occasionally visit the Secret Techniques Pavilion to repeatedly study the fundamental secret techniques within.

Each person's understanding of the original Tao has its own unique effects, and each time one observes it, one gains a completely new insight.

Of course, this will only happen if you have accumulated enough knowledge and have strong enough aptitude.

At the same time, the Fan family shop also delivered the materials that Lu Yunhe had purchased to the main body of Chaos City.

"With these materials, I can refine the ten primordial treasures, and I can even upgrade the Chaos City along the way."

Looking at the materials in front of him, Lu Yunhe realized it was a massive undertaking.

Although he couldn't create a top-tier secret treasure using the five elements (metal, wood, water, fire, earth, wind, thunder, light, time, space, and chaos), Lu Yunhe planned to create a complete set of secret treasures.

It can be said that it borrowed the effect of mechanical flow, using quantity to achieve a qualitative change.

For an ordinary person, operating so many secret treasures and the primordial Dao at the same time would be impossible, but for him, it was entirely within his capabilities.

"A treasure, a technique, and oneself—the three combined!" Lu Yunhe felt a surge of anticipation.

Anyway, without considering the issues of inheritance or dissemination, it's definitely about doing whatever suits oneself.

Besides focusing his efforts on secret techniques and treasures, Lu Yunhe also devoted himself to the study of divine bodies.

Compared to the Origin Continent, the divine bodies of the Realm Heart Continent have completely broken away from the traditional system and style. To some extent, they are no longer entirely subordinate to the Origin Dao, which is to say, the body-training style!

The divine body secret technique that Lu Yunhe cultivated before could only be described as possessing corresponding power, and it was still based on the original Dao.

If it's just about divine physical strength, it's completely inferior to beings of the same realm, lacking the corresponding systems, secret treasures, secret techniques, abilities, and so on.

For them, these were all built around the original Dao, rather than divine bodies.

Moreover, in the Realm Heart Continent, because there is no Supreme Reincarnation, a body-refining school was born.

The Ice and Snow Kingdom, one of the six ancient kingdoms, is the one that has taken this school of thought to its extreme.

However, it has not completely transcended the influence of the original Dao, and in some ways it can be considered a side path.

The reason why it can become a school of thought is naturally because it has at least one systematic cultivation path from weak to strong.

As for his "Divine Origin Technique" and Xia Zu's "Inquiry into the Primordial Chaos," the former requires the realm of a Cosmic God to master, and the latter requires the power of the Primordial Chaos to break through the restrictions of the supreme rules in order to cultivate. Therefore, both can only be considered secret techniques.

The only complete body-refining school is found in the Ice and Snow Ancient Kingdom, which leads directly to the ultimate realm.

However, obtaining a system ranging from the weakest to the ultimate cosmic god is not difficult.

In addition to these, there is also the way of bloodline, which is related to the body.

This path can be considered a great road even in the endless primordial space, and it is enough to prove one's primordial origin through it.

However, this path relies too heavily on bloodline strength, so the overall strength is not high, but it can still provide some assistance for Lu Yunhe's divine body cultivation.

The Gene Life Dao from the Origin Continent, combined with the body refining school's system, finally took root in his bloodline. The combination of the three was enough to allow Lu Yunhe to forge a true ultimate divine body.

Without special circumstances or opportunities, he was able to cultivate the pinnacle secret technique through his own talent and comprehension.

"But to be honest, the genetic life forms of the Origin Continent can be considered a kind of bloodline in themselves," Lu Yunhe thought to himself.

Integrating the bloodlines of endless life and exploring the essence of life can be considered an ultimate path.

Lu Yunhe also has an even simpler method, which is the power of Hunyuan.

Further advancement in body cultivation leads either to the transformation of the body into a world, moving towards a world system, which is similar in some ways to the so-called world-level primordial chaos.

Either it's integrated into one's bloodline; in the original work, some people went through this process and became powerful beings of the Hunyuan realm.

"But why can't we have them all?" Lu Yunhe thought to himself. The most powerful bloodline in the Hunyuan Space was the Hunyuan Ancestor, a born Hunyuan Lord.

However, there is another thing that is also a natural lord of chaos, and that is the Origin World.

In Lu Yunhe's view, the Origin World and the Primordial Chaos are really very similar, and the two can be said to be the two sources of all life in the endless Chaos Space.

Since that's the case, Lu Yunhe attempted to cultivate the Origin World as a kind of bloodline, integrating it into his divine body.

"A seed, and a direction."

Lu Yunhe's eyes lit up. The more he studied it, the more he understood the meaning of that sentence.

All paths lead to the same destination.

In particular, the fusion of Ultraman's clone into the Source World gave him a higher-dimensional perspective, making him increasingly eager to get closer to the true Dao.

Having absorbed the inheritance of the Realm Heart Continent, Lu Yunhe was completely immersed in cultivation and could clearly feel his progress in all aspects.

The primordial path, secret techniques, secret treasures, and divine bodies—all these aspects are centered around the concept of the "source world," constantly expanding, blossoming, and bearing fruit, while also converging towards that core.

"If I can cultivate myself into a source world through my cultivation level, then there shouldn't be anything in the entire endless primordial space that can stop me!"

"However, the easiest high-level power to obtain at present is still the power of Hunyuan."

buzzing...

Lu Yunhe sat cross-legged in the secret room, the flowing Hunyuan energy like a stream, accompanying his specific breathing rhythm, merging into his body from different angles, strand by strand.

If someone well-versed in the Dao of Void were to witness this scene, they would be greatly alarmed, for this was not a crude breaking of the essence of the void to draw upon the power of the primordial chaos.

Instead, it integrates itself into the world in a way that is almost like merging into the world itself, by using the power of the source world to allow the power of chaos to actively merge into itself.

The Origin World itself is constantly absorbing and releasing the power of chaos, and what Lu Yunhe needs to do is to integrate into the world and extract some of this power that has already been worn away.

After undergoing a partial transformation, this primordial energy not only became less violent but also easier to absorb.

These powers can not only be absorbed by oneself to cultivate the divine body, but also be used to refine treasures and unleash even greater power.

When trading secret treasure materials with the Fan family, Lu Yunhe also specifically asked for a lot of Hunyuan Sand. The substances extracted from the Hunyuan Space by those who are proficient in the Void Dao are, to some extent, equivalent to Hunyuan Ore.

Even forging a supreme treasure requires this material, which is extremely valuable.

When Lu Yunhe was refining the secret treasure, he also specially added this material to try to integrate the power of Hunyuan. It was just an experiment, but so far it has not had any effect. The material is still too high-end.

Soon, Lu Yunhe immersed himself in cultivation, but he did not forget the Chaos City that he had worked so hard to build. He could manage the entire territory with just a little attention.

Without anyone deliberately targeting it, Chaos City developed extremely rapidly, quickly becoming renowned throughout the Black Prison Sea, and was already accumulating wealth positively.

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Chapter 653 The Arrival of the Star Lord

Time flies like an arrow, and the Chaos City built by Lu Yunhe still stands in the Dark Prison Sea.

At first, many people were wary of the Nine Absolutes Island Lord's power and dared not get too close to Chaos City. However, since the latter had not made a move, they stopped worrying about it.

Security is at the heart of commercial transactions.

As a cosmic god second only to the Venerable Lord, the Lord of Chaos City possesses terrifying strength, and correspondingly, his credibility is also quite high.

As the ruler of chaos, or even a cosmic god, one would naturally choose the most prosperous and safest place to buy and sell things.

The previous battle has already shown that if it were in Chaos City, even the Lord of Nine Absolutes Island would be powerless against the Lord of Chaos City.

With this level of strength, the safety level in the Black Prison and Dark Sea is at its maximum, which has even spurred the real estate speculation industry, with people wanting to settle down in Chaos City.

As for the threat posed by the Lord of Nine Absolutes Island, what does the threat facing the Chaos Kingdom have to do with my Chaos City?

With the Lord of Chaos City in charge, Chaos City is one of the safest places in the entire Black Prison Sea.

Even if it's just for safety, many people want to live in Chaos City.

Within the Dark Prison Sea, anyone with sufficient strength can easily establish a core area and then expand outwards.

As the influence of Chaos City spread, the virtual universe network followed suit little by little, eventually encompassing all the people within the entire territory of the Chaos Kingdom.

In terms of communication and interaction, virtuality does indeed have unparalleled advantages, especially since the creator is also proficient in the various fundamental principles, which can fully support these people's activities in the virtual universe.

In addition, Lu Yunhe also imitated the characteristics of the Realm Heart Continent and created a so-called school, namely the Southern Cloud Sect.

Once a relatively easy-to-cultivate school of thought is established and spread, those who wish to access more profound secret techniques after completing the cultivation will need to join Chaos City.

In this process, both cultivation techniques and the resources required for cultivation must be purchased with cosmic crystals.

However, the spread of this school of thought takes a considerable amount of time and is built up gradually, and it also faces competition and suppression from many other schools of thought.

In particular, the six ancient kingdoms also sought to monopolize talent in this way.

Lu Yunhe's methods are undoubtedly undermining the enemy's foundation. It's not a big deal that it hasn't spread widely yet, but once it does, he'll have to withstand the suppression from the ancient kingdom.