Devouring the Stars: Rising from the Snow Eagle System

Chapter 161 Destroying the Prison Realm
The Thousand Prisons Universe.

After Zhou Lin concealed his presence, even the primordial will of the universe could no longer detect him.

This is not to say that the fundamental will of the universe is weak, but rather that the Voidwalker system is too powerful and its stealth is too strong.

The Thousand Prisons Universe is not vast, about the same size as the universe Luo Feng had during his time as an Eternal True God, with a diameter of only a hundred billion light-years.

Its internal structure is somewhat similar to the Tianyu Universe, divided into two parts: the Prison Realm and the Holy Realm. The Prison Realm occupies 30% of the universe space, but it has the most living beings.

The lives of the weak are as worthless as grass; they may be swallowed up as soon as they are born.

The only good thing is that the methods of devouring are everywhere here.

Even within the prison realm, one can find a path directly to the level of a true god.

The Holy Realm even possesses heaven-defying methods that allow one to directly cultivate to the Void God Unity Realm. If this were placed in the Primordial Universe, it would likely cause countless races to scramble for it.

Zhou Lin did not directly disrupt the stability of the universe. Even when he went all out, his power was only at the eighth level, but the black gourd he took out had the power of the tenth level.

The Treasure of Protection is meant to give Zhou Lin the strength to contend with any Sovereign in the Opening Realm, and to contend with any Sovereign in the Void God's Initial Stage.

Otherwise, it wouldn't be worthy of being called a guardian treasure.

"To destroy the world, I can't yet mobilize the second level of power of the Black Gourd, so I can't cause any damage to the universe." Zhou Lin decided to first take a tour of the entire Thousand Prison Universe.

Time is cheap anyway, and knowing yourself and your enemy is the key to victory.

The origin of the universe is very powerful. Even a small universe with a span of trillions of light-years can contain an eternal true god battling within it, while a universe with a span of hundreds of billions of light-years would be destroyed by the void true god over time.

However, it is still not an existence that can be shaken by a true god, and the black gourd can only cause damage at the second level.

To destroy the world, Zhou Lin would have to destroy the internal environment, such as destroying a large number of stars, landmasses, and cosmic secret realms, severely damaging the ecological environment, in order to restart the world.

Even a normal, dominant-level war would only hasten the destruction of the universe.

Currently, all the true gods in the Thousand Prisons Universe are searching everywhere for Zhou Lin's whereabouts, but they have no way of finding him at all.

The phagocytic system itself is extremely stupid!

Tens of thousands of years passed quickly, while billions of years had passed in the primordial universe.

Zhou Lin explored the entire Thousand Prisons Universe. He visited many places and saw many true gods and rulers up close. The ancient Shaluo gave him a vague sense of threat.

Generally, predatory species are at the bottom of their level, but this is not always the case.

For example, the Realm Ancestor, after cultivating to the extreme, was fearless in a great battle with the Holy Lord, and the opponent could not harm a single hair on his head even when using all his skills.

The same applies to Gushara.

He was extremely powerful from the very beginning, possessing a divine body comparable to a world god. While cultivating a devouring system, he could also conduct some research on the rules of heaven and earth.

This talent can be described as quite extraordinary. In the early cosmic era, he was already close to the level of a Void God. In a few hundred billion years at most, he is expected to reach the Unity Realm.

After leaving the Thousand Prisons Universe, coming into contact with more systems, and obtaining core inheritances, the upper limit should be the Chaos Realm, and there is also a slight possibility of becoming a Universe God.

This is the strongest opponent Zhou Lin has ever faced.

An existence with the potential to reach the Chaos Realm.

……

The Sacred Realm, the Celestial Palace.

"Brother, could he have already left?" The man in the green robe, driven by Gu Shaluo, had been searching for him continuously for nearly ten thousand years.

But they didn't even see a trace of Zhou Lin.

For the past ten thousand years, Gushaluo has remained in his stronghold, never leaving easily. He sits on his tall throne, appearing as vast as the origin of the universe.

He doesn't seem like a strong person who cultivates the Devouring System at all.

“He won’t leave.” Gu Shaluo replied calmly, “You’re already impatient with such a short time. Your willpower is too weak. The origin of the universe tells me that he wants our cosmic era to reincarnate.”

The Devouring System doesn't prioritize mental will.

The man in the green robe is still not at the first level, and is not even as good as many world gods in the Tianyu Universe. These true god rulers are a little impatient in their search and have been devouring the creatures of the prison realm.

The sense of crisis in Gushalo's heart has never disappeared. He was born at the beginning of the cosmic era and devoured a large number of lives with his absolutely ferocious strength.

He has taken over most of the relics and inheritances from the previous era.

Gu Shaluo also knew that beyond this universe, there were even more vast worlds and more advanced systems, and he could even comprehend some of the Great Dao himself.

Moreover, Gushaluo has a secret that is unknown to others, which is also the means by which he is able to rise above other true gods.

Recently, his sense of crisis has become increasingly severe.

Zhou Lin was ready to start causing destruction. He was currently in the Divine Ring World of the Thousand Prisons Universe, which was located in the Prison Realm of the Thousand Prisons Universe.

The place where Gushaluo and the others were located was the Holy Realm.

Only true gods, or extremely powerful gods of the fourth heaven, are qualified to enter the Holy Realm to live. The creatures of the Prison Realm are like poultry they raise.

The Holy Realm also has naturally born mortals and gods. If they cannot become realm gods within a certain period of time, they will be captured and used as food.

In the later stages of the cosmic era, the Holy Realm will also be in chaos. In order to transcend to become Void Gods, those True Gods will also do everything in their power to devour each other.

Therefore, Zhou Lin only hopes that this universe will become extinct as soon as possible.

He was sitting by the lake admiring the scenery. A thin mist covered the lake, and the water was so clear that you could see the mud and sand at the bottom. It was a rare sight in this prison.

In the center of the lake stands a magnificent city lord's mansion, where the god Boer of the Third Heaven resides. He always harbors the dream of entering the Holy Realm and considers himself different from those insignificant beings.

"In another sixty years, when the number of living beings in the city reaches ten trillion, I should be able to break through to the fourth level after I devour them all." There was longing in Pol's eyes.

They yearn to enter the Holy Realm and become superior beings. After joining a faction there, they can even receive a fixed amount of living beings as a reward and be guided in cultivation by a true god.

This is also the dream of all cultivators in the prison realm.

"After seeing so much filth, I'm a little reluctant to leave." Zhou Lin stood up and stretched. He went through the map of the Thousand Prison Universe in his mind and already had a detailed plan.

Starting from the Prison Realm, and then slowly destroying the Holy Realm, once both maps are dismantled, the entire Thousand Prison Universe will likely be on the verge of restarting. Because destroying the Holy Realm is too difficult, and the world's suppression is too great, he cannot instantly traverse countless star seas as he could in the Prison Realm; he can only obediently travel through the time tunnel.

Boom!
Zhou Lin lightly stepped onto the lake surface, and a terrifying power swept across the sky and the earth. The lake shattered like glass; to be precise, the entire world shattered.

That was the power of spacetime. Zhou Lin shattered this dimension of spacetime. No one could resist such terrifying power.

"No!"

Bohr roared in despair. The moment Zhou Lin stomped his foot, he felt the aura of death, but the spatial fluctuations spread out like ripples, completely tearing him apart as well.

The world of the Divine Ring, nearly the size of the Milky Way in the primordial universe, vanished in seconds, as if it had never existed in this universe.

Rumble!
The Thousand Prisons Universe experienced a major upheaval. Even the True God Venerables among them would find it difficult to destroy a region spanning 100,000 light-years, because their destructive power was too weak and their resources too scarce!
The Devouring System is inherently a bottom-tier system. These True God Sovereigns are not even as powerful as the Chaos City Lord in terms of realm, and their equipment is a hodgepodge.

Everyone was shocked, but Gushaluo remained calm.

"I've been waiting for you for a long time." Gu Shaluo stood up, and the universe began to rotate around him, as if the power of an array was stirring.

Swish!
Gusharo arrived outside the Divine Ring World and then sealed off the surrounding trillions of kilometers of space, making the area where he stood completely centered on him.

It was as if the very origin of the universe had descended!

"Outsider, it's finally time for you to make your move." Gushaluo looked no different from a human, with clear eyes, unlike the madness of other demons.

His mental fortitude remained exceptional, forging a sharp and resolute mind amidst mountains of corpses and seas of blood.

After Zhou Lin shattered the Divine Ring World, he did not leave immediately. After watching the explosion, Gu Shaluo had already arrived, a speed that shocked him.

It's important to know that the Divine Ring World is at least tens of billions of light-years away from the Holy Realm, and it also requires crossing the gate between the Prison Realm and the Holy Realm.

Even among the true gods and rulers of the Tianyu Universe, many cannot arrive in an instant; only a few, such as the Time-Space Island Master and the Blood Blade God Emperor, can.

The moment the two met, they both understood that they could not coexist. Zhou Lin was marked by the will of the universe and exuded a strong aura of destruction.

Normally, the universe would reject such outsiders, and in the worst cases, they would be unable to absorb energy from heaven and earth to replenish themselves. However, the Thousand Prisons Universe is not that extreme.

It seems that the cosmic god who created this universe also wanted his creatures to experience some hardships, because it was a breeding method akin to raising poisonous insects.

Zhou Lin needs to fight until the Great Cataclysm of the Cosmic Era before he can return to the original universe, while Gu Shaluo absolutely cannot accept the Great Cataclysm happening now.

Therefore, a battle between the two is inevitable.

"To cultivate to such a level in this environment, I admire you, I truly admire you." Zhou Lin stood with his hands behind his back: "But if you want to keep me here, I'm afraid you're a little short on the mark."

"That's not necessarily true." Gu Shaluo was full of confidence. He raised his hand and created billions of array bases, which floated in an area of ​​ten trillion kilometers, vaguely forming an array!
Within the formation, all spatial manipulations are prohibited.

A powerful being with a normal devouring system can only seal a space by breaking the spell with force, but Gu Shaluo did not think that violent means would have any effect on Zhou Lin, so he set up an array again.

"Array techniques? He, a true god ruler of a devouring system, actually knows this move. It even has a faint sense of the complete rules of heaven and earth."

Zhou Lin's brows furrowed slightly. This task was much more difficult than he had imagined. Obtaining a small universe of a trillion light-years was indeed no easy feat.

“Alien race, I feel that if I could devour you, I might be able to directly reach the Void God level.” Gu Shaluo licked his lips, but his eyes remained clear.

As soon as he finished speaking, a scene of mountains of corpses and seas of blood seemed to appear in his mind, an overwhelming surge of willpower, but Zhou Lin remained completely unmoved.

"kill!"

Zhou Lin pulled out the black gourd, and the destructive wave swept across the universe, directly incinerating everything within a range of hundreds of billions. No true god or sovereign would dare to withstand such a wave head-on.

Unless it's a true god from the primordial universe, only able to withstand it by relying on the weakening effect of the supreme treasure armor.

Tenth-order power. Although this power is rather clumsy, lacks any profound Dao, and is awkward to control, it is still tenth-order!
"What is this?!" Gu Shaluo's expression changed drastically. He sensed the aura of death emanating from Zhou Lin's black gourd. He felt that if he were to take it with his physical body, he would definitely be burned.

If Zhou Lin reaches the level of a true god and can unleash the second level of power of the black gourd, then he will truly be able to burn the heavens and boil the seas, and in just a few moves he could cause the great destruction of the universe!
Rumble!
This fluctuation could even turn around. Although it wasn't as mysterious as Zhou Lin's own move, it still left Gu Shaluo in a very sorry state, with both of his hands being burned into nothingness.

Gu Shaluo's gaze remained calm. He had been completely unprepared; otherwise, Zhou Lin's attack would not have been so easily fatal.

"If I kill you, no one in the Thousand Prisons Universe can stop me." Zhou Lin continued to unleash the power of the black gourd, his movement technique surpassing even that of Gu Shaluo!

Chi!
Just then, a palm spanning eight hundred billion miles pressed down on Zhou Lin, and other attacks came from all directions.

The number of true god rulers in the Thousand Prisons Universe is several times greater than that in the Heavenly Fool Universe, and this is only at the beginning of the era. This shows just how fast the Devouring System is progressing.

The intricacies of the rules require a steady and methodical approach, while also ensuring that one's mental and physical will improves accordingly; otherwise, it's impossible to mobilize such formidable strength.

Zhou Lin was well aware of this, and he was equally shocked by the reproductive ability of life in the Thousand Prisons Universe, which seemed to be related to the Dao created by that cosmic god.

The same is true of the Tianyu Universe. It appears to be many times smaller than the original universe, but the number of living beings it can produce is roughly the same.

The divine realm contains billions of gods.

The Thousand Prisons Universe also contains billions of gods, and countless mortals.

Rumble!
The destructive energy of the black gourd shifted to other true gods and rulers.

"Join forces!" Gu Shaluo also went berserk, his body bursting with a large amount of blood light, and he and the other True Gods and Sovereigns launched a powerful attack, actually resisting the destructive wave.

Zhou Lin laughed heartily, put away the black gourd, and his figure quickly merged into the world, completely concealing his aura, making it impossible to detect him.

"Gushaluo, your methods are too weak to stop me."

After saying this, Zhou Lin quickly left, his hands emitting dazzling starlight, tearing open the seal and leaving this universe. He only wanted to see the methods of the cultivators in this universe.

To be precise, Zhou Lin wanted to see Gu Sha Luo's methods. The things the other party had revealed so far were very strange, and Zhou Lin suspected that he was hiding his true strength.

The subtle sense of threat he exuded was completely inconsistent with his earlier behavior, leading Zhou Lin to believe that the other party was definitely hiding something.

Just like he also hid two clones.

Gushaluo stood still and did not give chase, and the other true gods and rulers dared not pursue him either.

The great formation was easily torn to dust, leaving only countless fragments of treasures flying everywhere.

The devouring system is always extremely cumbersome.

Although their progress is rapid, if these True God Sovereigns were to actually fight, they would likely be crushed by the stronger Opening Realm cultivators, not to mention Pang Yiqingjun.

(End of this chapter)