Devouring the Stars: Rising from the Snow Eagle System

Chapter 148 Opening the Path of Cause and Effect

After his legacy was abandoned, Zhou Lin began to consider other options.

"Ultimate technique? If I could master the Shadowless Sword Body, I would probably be more resilient than the strongest in the universe, but it would be of little practical significance."

Zhou Lin was the first to give up on cultivating ultimate techniques, primarily because he had not yet opened up a path, and the Shadowless Sword Body was not within the scope of cultivation that a True God Heaven and Earth Realm cultivator could achieve.

Furthermore, no matter how resilient the physical body is, it cannot withstand the ever-increasing temperature.

"To get out, I'm afraid only a Void God or even an Eternal God would be able to come. I'm not even a God-ruler right now."

Zhou Lin felt somewhat anxious.

But he quickly realized something was wrong. The temperature was affecting his inner peace. Logically, he should have no worries or confusion and should be able to face any difficulties calmly.

"In this state, I think it would be very difficult to cultivate." Zhou Lin had already thought of a way to solve the problem, which was to open up a path!

Opening up a Path to the Void Realm will solve the immediate problem.

Even if the temperature is high, it will weaken when it seeps into the virtual realm. This way, Zhou Lin will have at least a few hundred more years, and he will not be disturbed within the virtual realm.

The virtual world is a realm that transcends the real world.

It has already exceeded the rules of heaven and earth. No matter what, the Heavenly Light Palace is still a part of heaven and earth, and no powerful being can dominate it with the laws.

Even if it does penetrate, it cannot penetrate completely.

Zhou Lin took out the high-level palace he had previously recognized as his master, and went inside to resist some of the light. Then he began to study the Void Realm Dao.

Once inside, the light was still everywhere, but it had become much weaker.

Heaven and earth are like a cage. No matter how much you study the rules, you are still within its scope. Therefore, the process of moving from the Creation Realm to the True God Domination Realm is a process of jumping out of the universe by relying on the Dao.

It can be considered the original version of breaking free from the cage.

Although True Gods and Heaven and Earth Realms transcend the river of time, they have not mastered their own Dao, so this power can be stripped away.

The vast Origin World contains all sorts of universes, and the structure of each universe is not necessarily the same nine types of First-Grade Divine Hearts.

Therefore, there are many kinds of rules governing the universe.

Just like the Origin World, each of them is composed of different fundamental Daos.

Zhou Lin had figured this out a long time ago, and he increasingly understood why the cultivation speed was so fast in the Chaotic Void system and the Realm Heart Continent system.

Why do lords rarely spread bloodlines in the later stages of the game?

"The Dao is the foundation." After discarding the rules of heaven and earth and abandoning his previous understanding of the Void Realm, Zhou Lin began to study the Dao of the Void Realm.

If you are bound by the rules of the prison, you will never discover your own path in this lifetime.

The universe is like a miniature source world.

Zhou Lin's progress in the Void Realm is much slower than that of Causality. In the miniature universe of the Giant Axe, his true body has activated time acceleration at great cost.

Ten thousand years inside is equivalent to only one year outside.

With Zhou Lin's terrifying divine physique, the cost of acceleration is naturally very high.

In the past, when he came to cultivate, he sacrificed part of his divine body, so that the cost of maintaining the giant axe's acceleration was very low. Now, however, he must maintain the integrity of his divine body and soul.

This is how you can maximize the speed at which your mind works.

Ten thousand years, one hundred thousand years, two hundred thousand years...

As the temperature rose, Zhou Lin's clone focused on comprehending the Illusionary Star Spear, while his main body had the Void True Demon God temporarily grant him the longsword, combining the two simultaneously for comprehension. Regarding the flow of time, the clone also activated an array to accelerate it, though certainly not at the ten-thousand-fold speed of his main body, only a hundredfold acceleration.

After seeing more and more, Zhou Lin's understanding of the Dao became more profound.

"My understanding of cause and effect was too superficial before."

Zhou Lin's previous understanding of the Divine Heart of Cause and Effect was limited to the cause and effect within the rules of heaven and earth, so its range and degree of perception were also limited.

The true cause and effect is far more complex than that.

If one could open up the path of cause and effect, and even cultivate to the realm of a true god, then even if one's true self is in the Heavenly Fool Universe, and one's relatives and friends are in the Seven Star Sea Sacred Realm, one would still be able to perceive life and death.

Time and space within a prison cell cannot constrain the perceptual distance of cause and effect.

Zhou Lin became increasingly sacred, all the countless causal lines within him were hidden, seemingly moving according to his will, and appearing to have no causal relationship whatsoever.

"Me?!" Zhou Lin opened his eyes, shocked even himself.

Even though he was in the Realm of Enlightenment, he inexplicably opened up the Path of Cause and Effect. Under normal circumstances, this would be a great thing.

But what use is it to comprehend cause and effect right now, inside the Heavenly Light Hall?

Cause and effect is not purely a path of killing. Those god-kings who cultivate the fundamental path of cause and effect can affect the essence of their opponents through their every move.

Similarly, causality can be used for defense, such as by using various other objects to deflect the force.

Although Zhou Lin had just opened up the Path of Cause and Effect, he was already able to deflect force before, so he was now even more adept at using it.

Moreover, this force can even be transferred to the enemy during a chaotic battle.

"Transferring the damage should allow me to hold out for a few more years." Zhou Lin gritted his teeth and immediately began cultivating the Void Realm Path again, which was his only possibility of getting out.

No matter how much you move it, there will be limits.

At this moment, within the miniature universe of the giant axe, Zhou Lin himself...

boom!
"Such intense heat." As the master of a miniature universe, Giant Axe immediately noticed the anomaly; Zhou Lin's entire body was radiating an astonishing temperature.

That's something no star can compare to; even if a large number of stars burned together, they couldn't achieve that effect.

Giant Axe frowned as he watched. He waved his hand to completely suppress the fluctuations, knowing that maintaining Zhou Lin's time acceleration came at a high cost.

Luo Feng only resorted to this method when he encountered the Rhinoceros Emperor Bureau.

Zhou Lin is now at a critical juncture, and the treasures he carries are extremely valuable, so even the giant axe is willing to pay such a price.

"My life has also transformed." Zhou Lin was also amazed by the changes in his body. The difference between the Heaven and Earth Realm and the Creation Realm was even greater than the difference between the World God Realm and the Heaven and Earth Realm.

There are many True Gods at the Heaven and Earth Realm, but very few at the True God Creation Realm. The difference between the two is enormous, even greater than the difference between the Heaven and Earth Realm and the World God.

One out of ten fourth-level Heavenly Gods possesses the combat power of the Heaven and Earth Realm.

Among a hundred Heaven and Earth Realm cultivators, it would be difficult to find even one with the combat power of the Opening Realm. Opening the Dao is truly astonishing!
With both bodies simultaneously blocking the attack, Zhou Lin will have several more decades to comprehend the Dao. As long as he can comprehend the Void Realm, he will have the possibility of breaking free.

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Zhou Lin's state of mind is also undergoing a transformation under these circumstances.

As time passed, no matter how hard he tried to comprehend the Dao, he still felt stuck at a bottleneck and couldn't comprehend the Dao of the Void Realm.

If he truly comprehends it, Zhou Lin's current direct output power will be no less than that of a sixth-tier being. Coupled with the almost cheating method of the Void Realm Dao, then he will truly be able to fight head-on against the strongest being in the universe.

(End of this chapter)