Swallowed Star: Primordial Artifact

Chapter 307 Fetching Water from Bamboo Basket
The Chaos Stone and the Chrysalis of Time

One large and one small, one still and one in motion, forming a striking contrast.

Although the Chaos Stone has low energy, only at the peak of the World Lord level, it contains all ten fundamental laws of the universe. The level of these laws is high enough to attract the attention of many universe lords. The Time Cocoon, on the other hand, has powerful energy, after all, it is the core material of the fundamental treasure.

The Chaos Stone was formed from the energy of the inner world of nine hundred million kilometers, while the Time Cocoon was finally formed by the Three Extremes Abyss absorbing the energy of the source land over a long period of time.

"Buzz!" "Buzz!"

The resonance between the two echoed in the void.

The boundless essence contained within the Time Cocoon flows like a surging tide, continuously pouring into the Chaos Abyss. This energy is the accumulation of the Time Cocoon over billions of years, and is the fundamental source of its core material as a primordial treasure.

However, at this moment, they seemed to have found their destined home, and along the veins of the Chaos Abyss, they nourished the Chaos Stone.

The Chaos Stone pulsated violently under the impact of energy, sometimes swelling like a full moon and sometimes contracting like a crescent moon. Each change in form was accompanied by a subtle reorganization of the laws and patterns on it.

At the same time, Jiang Ye's inner world was also expanding in this energy storm, and the cellular structure inside his body was also quietly changing in this storm, with his life gene level rising in a slow but stable manner.

In the universe, there are many ways to enhance the genetic lineage of life, such as using "Blood Crystal"—the blood of the Beast God, as well as many other methods.

However, Jiang Ye's life gene level has already reached eight thousand times that of ordinary humans, making it extremely difficult to improve further. In addition, the influence of the Creation Jade Disc makes the conditions for improvement even more demanding.

Jiang Ye had tried many treasures (such as Blood Crystal) but failed one by one. At this time, his body's cellular structure was constantly improving. Although the process was as slow as a snail's crawl, Jiang Ye could feel the subtle changes.

Rumble~~ Rumble~~ The heavens and earth trembled.

Keep getting bigger and bigger...

Gradually, a secret pattern radiating golden light began to appear on the surface of the Chaos Stone, like lines carefully drawn by a painter, with each stroke gradually increasing.

As more and more energy was absorbed, the speed at which the runes were generated also increased, and an incredibly complex rune pattern was taking shape. Although the runes on the Chaos Stone itself were already extremely complex, the newly appearing runes still appeared unique. Although they only accounted for less than one-tenth of the total, they contained immense power.

Within the inner world, the Chaos Abyss is like a giant furnace, rapidly absorbing massive amounts of energy.

At the same time, it also generates a huge amount of energy.

The Chaos Stone, on the other hand, is like an extremely picky child, only having a special fondness for the energy essence containing endless laws, which it greedily absorbs.

As for the relatively mixed energies, they transformed into countless gray mists within the inner world, spreading out and then being absorbed by the inner world. This made the expansion of the inner world even more frantic, like an ever-expanding universe.

Strangely, as the inner world expanded wildly, the Chaos Origin Core within the Dark Thunder King's Kingdom remained unchanged, as if this energy feast had nothing to do with it.

It seems that the benefits of devouring the Time Chrysalis did not extend to the "Chaos Primal Core".

"Strange," Jiang Ye thought to himself. "When I expanded my inner world, the Chaos Core kept transforming until it reached the ninth level of the World Lord realm. Could it be that the distance was too great?" But he quickly put these doubts aside.

"never mind!"

"Anyway, as my inner world continues to expand, the divine kingdom that will form in the future will become more stable and powerful." Jiang Ye looked forward to it even more. "I just don't know how far my inner world can expand after absorbing this high-level primordial treasure material, the Time Cocoon."

Under normal circumstances.

A world ring with a diameter of 1 million kilometers consumes only a few units of cosmic crystals. The reason it's so cheap... is because world lords can resonate with the origin of the universe, drawing upon endless cosmic power to gather cosmic crystals. Because it's so easy and abundant, the price is low.

A world with a diameter of billions of kilometers consumes 1 million Chaos Units of Cosmic Crystals.

A world with a diameter of trillions of kilometers consumes "1 trillion" units of cosmic crystals.

However, what Jiang Ye is using at this moment is the Time Cocoon, a supreme treasure of origin, whose energy level is beyond imagination.

With its powerful assistance, Jiang Ye's inner world was like a wild horse that had broken free of its reins, breaking through to a scale of one billion kilometers in a short time, and then advancing triumphantly all the way.

50 billion kilometers!
……

One hundred billion kilometers!

……

Six hundred billion kilometers!
……

As the inner world broke through the 600 billion kilometer boundary, the entire space seemed to begin to hum under the strain.

The secret patterns on the surface of the Chaos Stone have taken shape, with countless white lines intertwining to form a mysterious pattern, in which faint phantoms of stars moving and spacetime distorting flow.

The energy transfer speed of the Time Cocoon is getting faster and faster, pouring into the Chaos Abyss almost frantically. Jiang Ye's consciousness is enduring the impact of the massive energy that surges in during this short period of time, and fine blood lines appear in his eyes.

When the inner world reached 900 billion kilometers, dazzling rays of light suddenly descended from the void, like an inverted galaxy. These rays of light contained endless power of the origin of time, and they all surged into the Chaos Stone.

The secret patterns on the surface of the Chaos Stone trembled violently and began to detach from the stone, hovering above the Chaos Abyss and forming a huge white vortex.

……

Feeling his own continuous transformation, Jiang Ye was overjoyed, but on the surface he was still arguing with the Venerable Li Qiong of the Northern Frontier Alliance.

“Alright, since that’s the case, then—” Venerable Liqiong had barely finished speaking when he looked up at Jiang Ye in astonishment.

Jiang Ye also keenly noticed the unusual change above and subconsciously looked up in the direction of Venerable Li Qiong's gaze. The two of them stared intently at the scene... The 100 spacetime rifts that had surrounded the Time Cocoon had completely disappeared after a strange disillusionment, and never reappeared.

"Hmm?" Jiang Ye immediately noticed that energy was surging within the Time Cocoon, like boiling water. If the previous Time Cocoon had been settled for hundreds of millions of years, it was like a calm and deep lake, extremely solid and stable.

After losing a large amount of energy, it has now become unstable and turbulent, like a full bottle that doesn't rattle but a half-full one. With the energy reduced, it exudes an even stronger aura.

"The spacetime rift has disappeared?" Venerable Liqiong looked at the Time Cocoon, which was surging with energy and exuding a powerful pressure. His scarlet eyes instantly revealed a look of wild joy, and he couldn't help but laugh loudly: "It's formed! It's finally formed! Hahaha, the Time Cocoon is mine. There's no need to waste any more words with this despicable human."

Whoosh!
Venerable Liqiong couldn't wait to rush over and reach out his hands to grab the Time Cocoon, his eyes filled with greed and desire.

"Crack!"

Suddenly, the Time Cocoon trembled violently, and a crack appeared abruptly on its crystal surface. This unexpected change startled Venerable Liqiong, who stared wide-eyed at the Time Cocoon in astonishment, as if he could not believe what was happening before his eyes.

"What's going on? This, this, this..." Venerable Liqiong stared intently at the Time Cocoon. Although he had collected some information about the Time Cocoon, he had never seen a real Time Cocoon in person, let alone witnessed it come to fruition.

So for a moment, he was filled with confusion and doubt. He felt that a fully formed Time Cocoon should not look like this, but the spacetime rift had clearly disappeared. According to the information he had, this was clearly proof of its formation.

"Kakakaka~~"

As if in a chain reaction, a second crack appeared on the crystal cocoon, then a third crack... The cracks spread rapidly like a spider web, becoming more and more numerous.

"No, no..." Venerable Liqiong panicked, but he was helpless and could only watch the crack continue to widen.

In the blink of an eye, the oval cocoon with 100 facets was covered with cracks. Then, a terrifying energy suddenly erupted. In an instant, the energy emitted by the Time Cocoon was incomparably powerful, as if it had transformed into a blazing sun, illuminating the entire mountain belly as bright as day.

This sudden change surprised Venerable Liqiong slightly, and he wondered to himself, "Could it be a case of destruction followed by rebirth? This energy is so special that it actually caused a tremor in time, and such a strong one at that. It seems that the power of the Time Cocoon is indeed incredibly strong."

Even now, Venerable Liqiong still holds onto hope, expecting the Time Chrysalis to undergo a miraculous transformation.

Jiang Ye, however, focused intently on sensing the transformation within his body. New runes were being imprinted onto the Chaos Stone at an increasingly rapid pace. By the time the Time Cocoon was covered in cracks and fissures, a complete and extremely complex set of runes had formed on the Chaos Stone, radiating a soft white glow.

The moment the secret rune was fully formed, the continuous flow of Time Cocoon essence energy abruptly stopped, and no more essence energy was transmitted.

"It looks like a final burst of energy, a last gasp." Jiang Ye was very clear that in that short moment, the essence and energy transmitted by the Time Cocoon was enormous. The evolution was complete.

Jiang Ye clearly felt the enormous changes that had occurred within himself, and the feeling of being perfectly in sync with the surrounding laws of time grew stronger. If the relationship between Jiang Ye and the fundamental laws of time before was like that of a fish and river water, interdependent yet still bounded, then Jiang Ye at this moment was like a "drop of water" and "river water," perfectly integrated, becoming a part of the laws of time.

One trillion kilometers

"My inner world... has reached its limit!"

The Time Ancestral Dragon clone within his body gazed into all directions, its eyes filled with shock and disbelief, as if it were dumbfounded by the scene before it.

"However, it seems that my life gene level has not improved much!" Jiang Ye roughly felt the slight increase in his own power.

"Never mind, I'll study its mysteries later. It seems the Time Cocoon is about to die," Jiang Ye thought to himself, not daring to linger any longer.

"Venerable Liqiong, you just keep an eye on that Time Cocoon. I won't keep you company." Jiang Ye looked down at the Three Extremes Abyss.

Previously, Venerable Liqiong had been carefully protecting the Three Extremes Abyss with a divine power shield, maintaining the shield at all times, fearing that Jiang Ye's self-destruction would damage the Three Extremes Abyss.

However, when the spacetime rift disappeared and Venerable Liqiong determined that the Time Cocoon had taken shape, he no longer focused on maintaining the Three Extremes Abyss, and the divine power shield naturally disappeared.

"Whoosh!" Jiang Ye suddenly rushed towards one of the blue pools below, his figure flashing and disappearing in an instant.

"Ok?"

Venerable Liqiong glanced down in slight surprise and muttered to himself, "Disappeared. Disappeared after entering the Three Extremes Abyss? Did this human die in the Three Extremes Abyss, or did he escape?" The information he had was obviously not as detailed as Jiang Ye's. Venerable Liqiong only knew that the Three Extremes Abyss was a place that provided the Time Cocoon with the primordial energy of the universe, but he did not know that it was three mysterious abyssal passages.

"So what if he's gone? The Time Cocoon has already taken shape. Even if he notifies someone, it'll probably be too late." Venerable Liqiong looked up at the Time Cocoon radiating powerful energy before him with anticipation, his eyes burning with greed once more.

The pupa of time shines brightly at this moment, radiating boundless light!

Peng!
As if a fragile piece of glass had been shattered in an instant, the Time Cocoon, radiating immense energy, exploded without warning, its countless fragments instantly transforming into pure energy in mid-air and dissipating into the mountain's interior.

“This, this, this…” Venerable Liqiong’s scarlet eyes were filled with astonishment and disbelief.

"how is this possible?"

"How could it shatter?" Venerable Liqiong never expected that this was related to Jiang Ye, because he had been staring intently at Jiang Ye, who had never touched the Time Cocoon.

"I've never heard of the Time Cocoon breaking apart. Could it be that the despicable human rushed into the Abyss of the Three Extremes, causing this strange reaction?" Venerable Liqiong looked down at the Abyss of the Three Extremes, racking his brains, but he couldn't think of any other reason. Only Jiang Ye's act of rushing into the Abyss of the Three Extremes seemed extremely strange to him.

"No, no—" Venerable Liqiong refused to believe this cruel reality, his heart filled with anger and resentment.

He had been planning for tens of thousands of epochs. Over these endless years, he had been waiting for the day when the Time Cocoon would take shape. Especially in the last five thousand epochs, he discovered that the Time Cocoon had taken shape and was about to take shape. So he sent his subordinate soul servant, Star Wing King, to sweep through it every day to prevent other powerful beings from taking the spoils at the last moment.

This is a Time Cocoon! It is an unparalleled treasure capable of being refined into "Original Treasures".

Moreover, the Time Cocoon is a core material of a high-level primordial treasure, far more valuable than some items that can barely be called treasures. Any treasure... any core material of a primordial treasure is enough to drive countless cosmic venerables mad, to fight for it at any cost.

And he, after enduring such a long and arduous period, ended up with nothing to show for his efforts.

(End of this chapter)