Chapter 488

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“Discovered?”

Lin Yuan did not panic. He quickly withdrew his perception.

As long as their mastery of time-space fusion rules has not reached the seventh level, at most they can vaguely sense Lin Yuan’s probing, but as for pinpointing his location? Basically impossible.

That is the advantage of seventh-level time-space fusion rules—the initiative rests entirely with Lin Yuan.

If he were not worried the Calamity Race might employ some technique to attack him across space by tracking his perception, he wouldn’t even have bothered to withdraw it.

In the deepest reaches of the Calamity Race’s territory—the unknown region, before the mysterious wooden cabin—

That figure who had pushed the door open stood quietly, eyes vigilant as he looked all around.

“What’s going on?”

A voice inside the wooden cabin asked in puzzlement.

“I sensed a powerful presence spying on us,” the figure outside the cabin replied slowly.

“Spying on us?” The voice from inside the cabin fell silent for a moment.

“This ancestral cabin is the foundation of our Calamity Race. Which of the current cosmic epoch’s young twelfth-rank evolver has the ability to detect our ancestral cabin?”

The Calamity Race’s strongest pillar is this ancestral cabin. It’s how they managed to survive from the previous cosmic epoch into the present one.

“I truly felt we were being watched.” The figure outside the cabin spoke firmly.

“To sense the ancestral cabin’s existence, that person must at least be a peak Path-Clearing twelfth-rank, and also be aided by a powerful time-space treasure.”

“Peak Path-Clearing…” The voice in the cabin grew grave.

“There’s still a long way to go before this cosmic epoch ends. You’re saying a peak Path-Clearing twelfth-rank has already emerged so soon?”

Under normal circumstances, even a complete cosmic epoch might struggle to birth a single peak Path-Clearing twelfth-rank. And if it did happen, that usually would be near the epoch’s end. Right now, not even a tenth of the cosmic epoch has passed, so there shouldn’t be conditions for a peak Path-Clearing to exist.

“If not a peak Path-Clearing, who else could discover the ancestral cabin?” the figure outside murmured.

Even if one possesses a formidable time-space treasure, they still need the corresponding realm and time-space comprehension to wield it. The threshold for that is precisely peak Path-Clearing. Of course, someone who has reached seventh-level time-space insight could do it too—but that’s even harder to achieve than becoming a peak Path-Clearing.

Neither the voice in the cabin nor the figure outside even considered that possibility.

“That figure stepping out of the cabin should be one of the two twelfth-rank evolvers of the Calamity Race,” Lin Yuan quickly withdrew his perception, thinking to himself.

Though the Calamity Race has only two twelfth-rank experts, they can still suppress the other eleven peak factions to the point that none dares make a move, because these two are both at the pinnacle of Path-Clearing.

“The Calamity Race… They’re not really a threat to me.” After thinking for a moment, Lin Yuan realized that although those two peak Path-Clearing powerhouses can crush other twelfth-rank ultimates, they don’t dare fight with their full strength. Their true enemy is the will of the universe. Should they go all out, they’d be locked onto and immediately suppressed.

If the consciousness of the Immortal Realm can mobilize its world’s power to subdue the Immortal Dao Ancestor, then the consciousness of an entire universe—vast on a scale one hundred times greater than the Immortal Realm—can easily suppress a peak Path-Clearing being.

Now that he roughly understood the cosmic starfield, Lin Yuan acted on a thought and appeared at a large battlefield.

“A permanent spatial rift.”

He looked at the rift not too far away that connects to the space beyond the universe.

“My perception can cross the spatial rift…” At his mental command, beyond the universe, in the boundless chaos void, wisp after wisp of chaotic energy converged to form a figure—another incarnation of Lin Yuan.

“I haven’t been hit by the universe’s backlash.” Lin Yuan kept watch on his surroundings.

Although a twelfth-rank ultimate isn’t permitted to leave the cosmic starfield, that applies only to their true body. A single incarnation, bearing minimal power, can leave. But it usually doesn’t matter much.

Even a twelfth-rank ultimate with sixth-level time-space insight, after sending out an incarnation, wouldn’t be able to venture too far before the link to the main body breaks and the incarnation collapses. And in the chaos void, the pervasive chaos energy would rapidly erode an incarnation lacking sufficient power, meaning it can’t last long.

But Lin Yuan is different. Seventh-level time-space insight allows him to maintain a connection between his incarnation and his main true body across great distances. Moreover, having mastered the rule of chaos, Lin Yuan can form an incarnation purely from chaotic energy. In the chaos void, it’s like a fish in water—no need to fear erosion.

“I can use this incarnation to explore the chaos void.”

A smile spread across Lin Yuan’s face. The chaos void is vast beyond measure and brims with countless opportunities. Whether it’s the domain-extreme aurora from outside, or that sheet of white paper that contains a two-dimensional world, or the many treasures that fell into the universe in ages past—they all originate from the chaos void.

If Lin Yuan can explore it in advance, the benefits for him would be unimaginable. Of course, the chaos void contains numerous dangers, but since Lin Yuan is sending only an incarnation, if he encounters something overwhelming, he can simply dispel the incarnation.

“So that’s the universe.”

Outside the universe, Lin Yuan turned back toward the colossal entity behind him. Even within the boundless chaos void, the universe is an unimaginably massive celestial body—one that even a Dominance-stage powerhouse can’t harm. In terms of sheer size, the universe stands on the same level as a Chaos-stage existence.

“Let’s go.”

Lin Yuan lingered for a moment, then picked a direction and headed into the chaos void.

On the Milky Way’s main planet, Lin Yuan’s Yin Primordial Soul usually resides there to watch over things.

“Martial Path Eleventh-Rank Text...”

Seated cross-legged, Lin Yuan recalled every bit of knowledge regarding the Eleventh-Rank portion of the Martial Path. Long ago in the Immortal Realm, Lin Yuan had already fully established and perfected the Eleventh-Rank for martial cultivation, building over thirty thousand time-space fusion rule models, as well as countless other rule models.

This was one of Lin Yuan’s greatest gains in the Immortal Realm. Because he had comprehended several million kinds of pillar-level fused rules, his grasp of rule principles exceeded that of humanity’s Strongest ones, enabling him to accomplish what even they could not: he constructed time-space fusion rule models from the first to the fifth level.

“With these rule models, the future path of martial evolvers will be much easier.”

Lin Yuan thought to himself. Having models to guide them is like having a correct route plus shortcuts—so much simpler. Furthermore, the time-space fusion rule models he created can be referenced not only by martial evolvers, but also those on other evolution paths, though the effect there would be less dramatic.

Even so, Lin Yuan could already imagine the immense impact the Eleventh-Rank portion of the Martial Path would have on human civilization. For now, humanity hasn’t even fully perfected a time rule model. Even if someone mastered all known time-rule models, they still couldn’t fully comprehend the rule of time. But Lin Yuan has gone a step further, establishing time-space fusion rule models up to the fifth level.

“That’s about it.”

After repeatedly reviewing it for possible omissions, he found none and proceeded to contact the Goddess of Wisdom.

“Esteemed Tenth-Level Citizen, Scholar Lin Yuan. The Goddess of Wisdom is pleased to serve you.”

Her voice was solemn and cool.

“I want to upload the Eleventh-Rank portion of the Martial Path,” Lin Yuan said directly.

“The Eleventh-Rank portion of the Martial Path?” The Goddess of Wisdom paused briefly, then replied, “Esteemed Tenth-Level Citizen, Scholar Lin Yuan, you may upload it now.”

The moment she finished speaking, Lin Yuan began uploading his arranged Eleventh-Rank Martial Path text.

Compared to the earlier first-through-tenth-rank texts, it took much longer this time, as the content was massive.

Even the simplest time-space fusion rule model takes up a thousand or ten thousand times the data of everything from the first through tenth ranks combined—let alone the thirty thousand or so models Lin Yuan created.

And besides those time-space rule models, there were numerous other rule models, including less common ones.

It took more than ten minutes before Lin Yuan finished uploading the entire Eleventh-Rank Martial Path.

“Esteemed Tenth-Level Citizen, Scholar Lin Yuan, please stand by...”

Having received the entire text, the Goddess of Wisdom immediately contacted humanity’s Strongest ones. As early as the release of the Ninth-Rank portion, she could no longer independently provide an objective assessment of the martial path, and had to rely on the judgment of humanity’s top experts. All the more so for the Eleventh-Rank portion.

In the virtual world, nine towering thrones gradually came into view, each occupied by a lofty figure.

“The Martial Path’s Eleventh-Rank text? That youngster, the Milky Way Star Lord, has already completed and perfected it?”

“Haha, I’m curious to see what the Eleventh-Rank Martial Path looks like.”

“Indeed. The first through tenth ranks were already impressive.”

Before long, all nine of civilization’s Strongest ones had gathered, each appearing intrigued.

“You old fogeys...” The Strongest one, Xia Qin, rolled his eyes.

“Don’t pressure the Milky Way Star Lord too much. After all, it’s still just the Eleventh-Rank portion. Why are you so excited?”

He wasn’t looking down on Lin Yuan; he just didn’t expect the Eleventh-Rank text to surpass the sense of marvel that accompanied the unveiling of the Ninth- and Tenth-Rank texts. At present, the Martial Path stands at tenth place in the ranking of humanity’s evolution methods.

Above it are the nine supreme evolution paths of the Strongest ones. Even if updated to the Eleventh Rank, it presumably can’t surpass any of those top-tier paths.

Xia Qin himself couldn’t think of how one could refine and perfect an Eleventh-Rank Martial Path in such a way that it might match the brilliance of the Ninth and Tenth Ranks.

“Xia Qin, you’re protective of the Milky Way Star Lord,” said the Strongest one known as the Void God with a soft laugh.

“Alright, so we’ll just read the Eleventh-Rank text normally, without getting our hopes too high.”

At that, the other Strongest ones exchanged glances and nodded slightly.

While they conversed, the Goddess of Wisdom finished delivering the entire Eleventh-Rank Martial Path to each of them.

“Eleventh-Rank text...”

Xia Qin skimmed it first, feeling a hint of nervous anticipation. But—

After only a few breaths’ time, Xia Qin’s expression changed.

“This?!”

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