Devouring the Stars: Rising from the Snow Eagle System

Chapter 149 Receiving the Inheritance: The First Close Call with Death

With the help of the Dao of Cause and Effect to share the burden of output, Zhou Lin was able to concentrate more on comprehending the Dao.

The light inside the palace grew increasingly intense, and the temperature continued to rise.

Fortunately, this temperature increase seems to have nothing to do with the flow of time, so even if Zhou Lin activates a hundredfold acceleration, his condition is exactly the same as when he is in the outside world.

Similarly, slowing down time has no effect.

Another seven years have passed...

“Dead…dead?” Zhou Lin suddenly sensed the dissipation of a causal link, and the Bone Nether Lord, who had also been swept into the inner domain by spacetime, was dead.

With his current level of cultivation, he would hardly make any mistakes in sensing cause and effect, unless he was also a practitioner of the Dao of Cause and Effect, in which case he could help the Lord of Bone Nether shield himself.

Therefore, there is only one possibility for the disappearance of the Bone Lord's cause and effect.

That is to die completely.

“He was a member of the Skeleton Clan, a clan far more powerful than humans, yet he still died in the inner region of Liuchong Mountain.” Zhou Lin frowned.

The core areas of the three forbidden zones are just like this, too terrifying for the Lord of the Universe.

Once a person dies, the cause and effect disappear. Zhou Lin was too lazy to think about the Lord of the Bone Netherworld anymore and devoted himself to his cultivation.

Unrepayed kindness is a consequence of karma.

Unresolved hatred is also a cause and effect.

Being entangled in karma can hinder progress, especially for a practitioner like Zhou Lin who follows the path of karma.

……

Many more years passed, and as the temperature continued to accumulate, Zhou Lin's two divine bodies were almost unable to withstand it, making it difficult for him to cultivate even with his exceptional mental state.

I can't figure it out.

Zhou Lin stared blankly ahead, his entire body radiating intense heat. With time accelerated ten thousand times, his true form had cultivated for hundreds of thousands of years.

But it's still just a little bit short, and that little bit either requires a sudden enlightenment or hundreds of thousands of years of grinding.

It's hard for Zhou Lin to have a sudden realization in his current state. If we're talking about the thrill of death, his clone is walking on the edge of death, but his main body is still safe and sound.

With his survival factor maxed out, Zhou Lin is currently in a very difficult situation, barely teetering on the edge of life and death.

The Void Realm Divine Heart was one of the first divine hearts Zhou Lin mastered, but it lost its value after he became a Realm God. His accumulation in this area was far inferior to that of Cause and Effect.

Opening up a path is very difficult, especially opening up two paths in succession, which is extremely difficult.

"If I can't comprehend the Dao of the Void Realm, and the Dao of Cause and Effect can't save me, I still have another way, which is to accept the inheritance of the Void Walker." Zhou Lin did not continue to comprehend the Dao.

He knew he had temporarily gone astray, and that he couldn't comprehend the Dao of the Void Realm in his current state of mind.

Perhaps after leaving this world, Zhou Lin will naturally comprehend the Dao of the Void Realm after spending some time, but right now, no matter how hard he tries, it will be in vain.

Zhou Lin struggled with whether or not to accept the Voidwalker's legacy.

If successful, even without being transported to the outside world, he could easily become ethereal and might even be able to step out of the space-time tunnel here.

This is Zhou Lin's first inheritance of the Cosmic God.

The other rules and mysteries, including the Sword Master's Shadowless Sword Body, are not particularly profound. He wasn't even at the Chaos Realm when he created this unique skill.

Compared to the legacy of the Voidwalkers, it is utterly insignificant.

Zhou Lin originally planned to establish his own path and even cultivate to the True God Dominator Realm to ensure everything was foolproof before accepting this inheritance.

Being a Voidwalker requires more than just a divine body; it also demands a high level of comprehension.

Everyone's comprehension will grow. For example, Luo Feng was not as good as Bo Lan at the beginning, but in the end he was able to naturally comprehend the Hunyuan Dao.

The same was true for Dongbo Xueying. He was not as good as Qingjun or Xueren Shendi at the beginning, but he made rapid progress later on.

Zhou Lin wanted to wait until his comprehension improved further before accepting the Void Walker's inheritance, as that would increase his chances of success, and he didn't want to waste the opportunity.

"It's impossible for everything to wait until I'm fully prepared before I can proceed."

After much deliberation, Zhou Lin decided to accept the Void Walker's inheritance. He couldn't accept the loss of these treasures and true artifacts that he possessed.

When Dongbo Xueying received the inheritance of the Void Walker, he had just formed the True Body of Ten Thousand Demons and his realm was only the Opening Realm, which was not much different from his current level.

Zhou Lin also gained a special life divine body and a supreme treasure armor.

Finding the inheritance in the system panel, Zhou Lin gritted his teeth and clicked to accept the inheritance.

Swish!
Both the clone and the original body temporarily disappeared from their original locations.

"Gone?" Giant Axe stared blankly, Zhou Lin had simply vanished from his miniature universe, and he didn't even understand how he had done it.

As the master of a miniature universe, the giant axe reigns supreme within it, possessing immense power capable of easily suppressing the strongest beings in other universes.

Once you get here, that's your absolute territory.

Zhou Lin disappeared without a sound. Even the giant axe, which had been reversing time and space, couldn't figure out what was going on. It could only suppress its anxiety and wait silently.

……

A very mysterious space.

It was completely empty, except for a barren grassland with a few withered grasses stubbornly growing. There was nothing else.

Swish!
When the main body and the clone arrived here at the same time, Zhou Lin could not perceive any cause and effect, nor could he sense the existence of the primordial universe.

In front of Zhou Lin was a black gourd.

"A black gourd?!" Zhou Lin's eyes almost popped out of their sockets. This thing was very familiar to him; it was a protective artifact crafted by the God of the Universe.

This is also the first step in the lineage of the Voidwalker.

This small black gourd contains power no less than that of the Sun Star of the Heavenly Fool Universe, enough to incinerate a ruler, and if released at full power, it could even strike the cosmic era reincarnation in one move!

You must understand that no matter how small the Tianyu Universe is, it was still created by the God of the Universe, and its interior is still vast, spanning hundreds of billions or trillions of light-years!
At this moment, a method suddenly appeared in Zhou Lin's sea of ​​consciousness.

This is the method used to manipulate the black gourd. Although it doesn't have as many characters as other unique skills, it is extremely profound and full of mysteries.

To enter this system, even a true god or a Void God in the initial stage may not succeed; it is extremely challenging to comprehend the Dao of the Void.

If Zhou Lin fails to master the skill within five years, he will be removed from the inheritance space and returned to the same location.

Although the Origin Continent does not have this fundamental Great Dao, the void is omnipresent, and Zhou Lin himself can also comprehend the rules of other chaotic voids.

At first glance, Zhou Lin could glean a great deal of knowledge from all the characters, but they were all wrong and far removed from the true teachings.

These characters should not be treated as a whole; they need to be studied separately.

"Luckily, I know how Dongbo Xueying comprehended it, otherwise I would have wasted a lot of time." Zhou Lin breathed a sigh of relief; this first hurdle was not difficult for him.

The black gourd shouldn't require testing his character; in other words, as long as he can control it, he can directly receive the inheritance.

The methods gleaned from each character are ultimately the same, only containing some errors that need to be corrected gradually. Knowing this, Zhou Lin's comprehension speed was extremely fast. After leaving the Heavenly Light Palace, the burning sensation disappeared, and he felt much more relaxed.

It took more than two months to complete the first character.

The second and second characters both took only seventeen days to complete.

The fourth character took ten days.

Zhou Lin's comprehension speed increased rapidly; he found the right method from the beginning, avoiding many detours.

……

Just one year later, Zhou Lin placed the black gourd on the barren lawn, unleashed his immense destructive power with both hands, and began to condense it into golden characters.

Golden characters seeped into the black gourd's body...

Zhou Lin had previously tried to sense the inside of the black gourd, but his proud power of great destruction would be instantly annihilated if he entered it.

Just like the contrast between a drop of water and the ocean, the sun star is a celestial body that can incinerate a true god, but after Zhou Lin's golden characters entered, they transformed into a kind of ethereal power and began to control the black gourd.

To control the ocean with a single drop of water—what does that mean?

The power of nothingness manipulated the black gourd, and the terrifying power it emitted made Zhou Lin's divine heart tremble. If he leaked even the slightest bit of power, he would be instantly annihilated.

Zhou Lin even suspected that if the power of this black gourd were to be fully unleashed, it might be able to shatter the entire Liuzhong Mountain, after all, that was the power of the Chaos Realm, which was too terrifying.

He could only manipulate a tiny bit of power, no matter how hard he tried.

This tiny bit of power is nothing to the black gourd, but even so, it can still pose a significant threat to those universe lords.

However, these universe lords in the Cosmic Sea all possess protective armor, and with the aid of supreme weapons to weaken their power, their ability to survive is extremely strong.

In the Heavenly Fool Universe, those Venerables and Dharma Protectors of the Mother Ancestor Sect were slaughtered by the Black Gourd because they survived either by relying purely on their divine bodies or by relying on the Dao.

The Snow Eagle Era was a time of poverty, which affected the lower-level beings as well. As a result, the vast majority of them were strong in their understanding of the Dao and had a fast pace of enlightenment.

Investing a lot of resources versus raising children frugally is not as meaningful in the long run as raising them frugally. Enlightenment is the key, and although the Origin Continent has more powerful individuals than the Realm Heart Continent.

However, the number of those who have attained the ultimate level of enlightenment is vastly different.

"Congratulations, you have grasped the method of protecting the treasure."

At this moment, a boy wearing a red bib jumped out. He was the spirit of the black gourd: "Now drip your blood on the black gourd, and it can be refined."

Upon hearing the sound, Zhou Lin quickly dripped blood onto the black gourd. Afterward, this protective treasure was no longer so terrifying to him; instead, it felt familiar.

Inside was a vast and mysterious magic array that enveloped an enormous fireball, the temperature of which was probably many times higher than the limit of the Heavenly Light Palace.

Even the eternal true god who dares to delve into it will be burned to nothingness.

"I've hit the jackpot! With this black gourd in hand, I can definitely kill those universe lords now." Zhou Lin was very excited. He didn't expect that this inheritance would also include a protective treasure.

"What's there to be smug about? If you can't even get to the level of a Voidwalker, I'll still leave." The artifact spirit said with a sneer, "Being able to control me doesn't mean you can get to the level."

Rumble~
As soon as the spirit finished speaking, the boundless grassland suddenly began to change, and stars appeared in the sky, as if the world had been transformed.

The earth turned gray-black, and just as Zhou Lin sat cross-legged on it, a violent wave struck.

This surge of energy passed through Zhou Lin's body without any resistance, proceeding effortlessly. Both his main body and his clone acted simultaneously; if it hadn't succeeded…

The result might be that he or she actually dies.

This is the first life-or-death crisis that Zhou Lin has faced in his cultivation journey so far.

If he succeeds, he will leave this place with the black gourd and the identity of the Void Walker, and from then on he will soar to great heights and enjoy endless glory.

Failure goes without saying; if they cannot withstand the first wave of chaotic void power, both the main body and the clone will be instantly annihilated.

The divine heart of the original being was frozen and shattered along with it.

The chaotic void, that vast and boundless void, is capable of freezing even a ruler to death. Even after being weakened, it is impossible for an ordinary True God Venerable to withstand it.

Zhou Lin's Shadowless Sword Body was the first version, and he wasn't sure if it could withstand the attack.

But he never regrets the decisions he makes.

After the fluctuations penetrated into his body, they traveled along the core of his divine heart, eventually forming a ring of gray threads on the smaller version of Zhou Lin's body.

"The Traveler's Secret Treasury..." Zhou Lin began to comprehend this message.

This method has sixty levels, with each ten levels considered a major level.

The eleventh level is equivalent to the Dominator Realm, which is equivalent to the strongest being in the original universe, and also the true god-ruler of the Void Walkers.

In terms of strength, Zhou Lin could probably chase down and kill that group of the strongest beings in the universe.

The difference between having a cosmic god's legacy and not having one is enormous.

Zhou Lin sat cross-legged on the spot. He only needed to activate the first level of the technique, and the void energy from a distant place would descend. If he couldn't resist it, he would be in danger of perishing.

Those with strong physical bodies can remain on the surface even when subjected to the erosion of that void energy.

If the physical body is weak, the energy of the void will harm the divine heart of the deity.

Zhou Lin activated the first level of the technique.

……

boom!
Across an unknown distance, even reaching a region close to the Origin Continent, power finally descended upon the infinitely vast and cold void.

The void of the cosmic sea is far from reaching such power.

This power completely surpasses the existing power of the universe, which is equivalent to cultivating with the power of Hunyuan. However, the Void Dao itself is like this.

Later stages of cultivation involved creating clones, which relied on the power of Hunyuan.

The previous one relied on the power of the chaotic void, using various forces inside and outside the cage to break the shackles of heaven and earth.

"It's so cold..."

Zhou Lin frowned and said, "The power of the void has traveled an unknown distance to arrive, and it has been weakened countless times compared to the original, but it is still so cold."

His cultivation over the years has been quite peculiar. First, he experienced the scorching heat in the Heavenly Light Palace, and then he received the inheritance of the Void Walker, which was extremely cold.

A hazy gray energy appeared around Zhou Lin's body.

He had already removed the Flaming Chaos Armor because he was afraid the armor would corrode, so he could only resist with his bare body.

It should be noted that Zhou Lin's body is as tough as a top-tier treasure armor; even a slight leak of his aura could kill a fourth-level Heavenly God.

But in the face of this energy, they appear so insignificant.

Sizzle~

Zhou Lin's skin emitted a constant sound of corrosion, and his skin and flesh were rapidly being eroded. Even the physical body of a true god could not withstand that kind of power.

Too scary!
(End of this chapter)