Devouring the Stars: Rising from the Snow Eagle System

Chapter 179 Sparring with Limited Power

Zhou Lin, who was inside the tower, knew that Luo Feng had arrived from the outside world, but he remained immersed in his cultivation.

He combined the results of his cultivation in his dreams to create a unique skill called "Cause and Effect of All Things," in which a great deal of his insights were incorporated.

The first few chapters went smoothly. His greatest achievement in his dream cultivation was mastering the first of the Thirteen Swords of Annihilation, which is an extremely heaven-defying talent.

Once you master the first sword technique, a True God Sovereign can hold their own against a Void God in the initial stage. The vast majority of True God Sovereigns are unable to master such a supreme skill.

Zhou Lin was also in a dream. After breaking through to the eleventh level of "The Traveler's Secret Treasure", his realm was comparable to that of a true god. It took him hundreds of millions of years to complete the cultivation.

In terms of the Dao, after integrating his insights, he broke through the Dao of Cause and Effect.

All things and all things have their own cause and effect. After spreading his faith, Zhou Lin felt the cause and effect most deeply. He was not far from becoming a ruler in the Void Realm.

With the completion of the Dao and the breakthrough of the Void Walker system, Zhou Lin's strength underwent a tremendous change, becoming far more profound and powerful than before.

His breakthrough wasn't in the Void Realm Dao, which is about survival or illusion; it was in the Dao of Cause and Effect. When he opened up his realm, Zhou Lin was already skilled at using cause and effect to kill.

After breaking through to the level of True God Dominator, he went further and further down the path of slaughter.

"Cheng, the ruler, I am probably truly invincible in this region of the primordial universe. Only Luo Feng could possibly fight me."

Zhou Lin looked outside the tower. After becoming the master of cause and effect, his perception was completely different from before. He even understood why Luo Feng had come.

This is understandable, as the God-King, who is skilled in the Great Dao of Cause and Effect, is so strong in deducing heavenly secrets, and there is a great deal of overlap between this Dao and the branches of deduction.

However, Zhou Lin's greatest strength lies in killing. With his current power, he can know a person's true name within his perception range, and with a single thought, anyone who is not a cosmic overlord will surely die!

"It's time to transcend." With this thought, Zhou Lin instantly arrived outside the tower. Then, the deep space in front of him was peeled away, something he couldn't do before he opened up his path.

His physical body was too powerful, and he also cultivated two systems, which meant that when Zhou Lin reached the True God Heaven and Earth Realm, he was no less powerful than an ordinary person in the Creation Realm. If he wanted to transcend, he had to rely on the Dao of the Sovereign level.

boom!
A vast river of time emerges, flowing ceaselessly, its origins and destination unknown, with no end in sight.

It flows through various dimensions of spacetime in the universe. Zhou Lin can revive past beings by reversing time and spacetime, and he can also retrieve people from the river of time.

Countless beings exist within the long river of time, including billions of mortals, immortals, and cosmic venerables on this Star Soul Divine Mountain, all of whom have been submerged within it.

From the outside world, Zhen Yan and Luo Feng have been there for nearly two years.

Luo Feng waited patiently for Zhou Lin to emerge from seclusion. He couldn't rush his cultivation at the moment; the path of divine power required a long time to hone and gradually improve his genes.

Furthermore, Luo Feng has many clones. Although his main body stays here, he has not slacked off in his cultivation.

Whoosh!
The vast river of time appeared, and both of them were stunned.

Zhou Lin's excavation of the River of Time caused a great stir. When he comprehended the complete rules of heaven and earth within the cosmic sea, the Lord of Darkness could not see the River of Time.

Because that is the long river of time in the cosmic sea, the Lord of Darkness did not reside in any small universe within the cosmic sea, was not a being from that place, and had no knowledge of the rules of heaven and earth.

However, Luo Feng and Zhen Yan are still beings from the primordial universe.

Just like when the Demon Ancestor died, the lords of his smaller universes did not die with him, because they were still beings from the original universe.

Only when the era of the primordial universe ends, and billions of living beings reside in smaller universes, can they be considered as beings of the cosmic sea.

"Teacher, that figure looks like you!" Luo Feng pointed to the center of the river with his left hand, where there was a small giant who was taller than all the other creatures around him.

“It’s me.” Zhen Yan was quite surprised, but he immediately looked at the enormous Zhou Lin.

Zhou Lin's height was extremely large; even ordinary immortals probably couldn't see how tall he was with the naked eye. His enormous body almost filled the entire river basin.

The energy contained in the River of Time is extremely terrifying. Even true gods can only rescue people from it, but they cannot pose any threat to it.

"This is something that no human could possibly create!" Luo Feng was utterly shocked. He felt like an ant in the face of the vast and endless river of time.

This is the river of time in the primordial universe, many times more turbulent than the river of time in the Tianyu universe.

As soon as Zhou Lin took a step, the giant instantly stepped out of the river and onto the ground, transcending the river of time. Only then did he understand the relationship between the universe and living beings.

The rules of the source world are different.

The chaotic void does not allow living beings to escape the river of time, unless they reach the level of a true god.

The Origin Continent, this source world, allows living beings to continue to exist for a period of time by changing the river of time, such as from the primordial universe to a smaller universe, and then to the Holy Land universe.

It doesn't mean that everyone has to die when the Great Cataclysm comes.

Once transcended, one is already independent outside the river of time.

Therefore, the ruler of the universe, the strongest being in the universe, cannot be resurrected.

Otherwise, according to the normal standard of bearing backlash, even a divine incarnation during Luo Feng's God Emperor era, whose power was no less than that of a Chaos Realm expert, could not reverse time and space to revive the giant axe, nor could any universe master.

Only by becoming the master of the source world can one achieve this.

"The teacher's work is as terrifying as ever," Zhenyan remarked, even though his apprentice beside him had also created countless miracles.

But in Zhenyan's eyes, or rather in the eyes of most human powerhouses, Zhou Lin was always superior. Even if the original universe source certified that Luo Feng was the strongest in the universe sea, it was useless.

Zhou Lin stepped out, wearing a black robe. He had already removed the Flaming Origin Armor, as the supreme treasure armor was meaningless to him.

After landing, the towering giant completely merged into the heart of the original god, making Zhou Lin's soul much more complete and reaching the level of the initial stage of the Void God.

After hundreds of millions of years of cultivation in dreams, his will has undergone earth-shattering changes and has long since reached the realm of unity.

"The true god ruler of the chaotic void does not need to have a clone." As long as Zhou Lin does not cultivate to the level of a void god for the time being, he can continue to enjoy the three clones.

He looked at Zhenyan and his disciple, who were drinking in front of the palace.

"I met the teacher."

"I've met Master."

Zhou Lin laughed and said, "Luo Feng, the Lord of the Galaxy, I have been cultivating in the dream for many years, but I did not expect you to rise so quickly."

He knew how fast Luo Feng's cultivation speed was.

There is acceleration in the small universe of the progenitor of the star behemoth. If acceleration is not taken into account, he would have been the master of the universe for more than a dozen eras, and now he is the strongest in the universe sea.

After all, Zhou Lin relied on the Black Gourd before he fell asleep, so its actual combat power was naturally inferior to that of Luo Feng, who had entered the Jin World, with his burning divine power secret technique and mechanical treasures.

Therefore, the original source of the universe determined that Luo Feng was the strongest being in the cosmic sea.

"Such a powerful aura." The last time Luo Feng saw Zhou Lin was back when he was a Realm Lord. Back then, he felt that even a random Universe Lord was very strong. Naturally, he had no concept of Zhou Lin's strength. As for killing the strongest being in the universe, he could do that now too, by directly crushing them in a head-on confrontation.

"Master..."

Before Luo Feng could finish speaking, Zhou Lin interrupted, "We're like-minded people, there's no need to get hung up on these seniority distinctions. Just call me Bei Chen."

The master-disciple relationship is very important in the Swallowed Star universe, but it's completely different for the grandmaster because the two are quite far apart.

Furthermore, the lifespan of the strong is terrifying. For example, when Luo Feng was weak, he became a disciple of Hu Yanbo, and later he even had disciples who were cosmic gods.

We can't expect the Sword Emperor, a god of the universe, to call Hu Yanbo his grandmaster, can we?

Luo Feng's respect for Zhou Lin stemmed primarily from the latter's immense contributions to the human race and the profound impact of his long life and experiences at Star Soul Mountain.

Seniority doesn't mean anything.

Just like in the original novel, Luo Feng and the original ancestor went through reincarnation together, but the two could not address each other as master and grand-disciple in private.

Since everyone's strength is roughly the same, Zhou Lin is unwilling to listen to such awkward titles anymore. At most, it will be mentioned jokingly when everyone is a Lord of Hunyuan millions of years later.

"This?..." Luo Feng felt he couldn't address Zhen Yan like that in front of him.

Swish!
Zhenyan was moved away by Zhou Lin.

"Let's be casual now. You came to me for a sparring match?" Zhou Lin smiled and said, "You should understand that although I may appear to be the Lord of the Universe, that's not actually the case."

The true God, that is always the true God.

Zhou Lin's cultivation system of witchcraft may have reached a level comparable to that of extraordinary beings. Could it be said that the essence of his life is merely extraordinary?
“But in my perception, you are indeed just a universe master like me.” Luo Feng asked doubtfully, “To become the strongest in the universe, you shouldn’t have an avatar.”

Zhou Lin did not explain the complexity of his situation.

If he hadn't advanced to the level of True God Ruler, and was merely at the level of Creation Realm and then Universe Master, his combat power would truly be inferior to Luo Feng's current level.

The opponent possesses a secret technique for burning divine power, and not just one level.

In terms of energy, Luo Feng is unparalleled in the universe, not to mention that he also has the two great inheritances of the Jin World and the Broken East River, plus the Mechanical Flow treasure.

Of course, if Zhou Lin also possessed the "Severance" technique and was given a mechanical treasure similar to Luo Feng's, he would still be stronger than Luo Feng during his time in the Opening Realm and the Universe Master stage.

“Beichen, I would like to spar with you.” Luo Feng said solemnly, “I know you have been asleep for countless years and do not yet have the secret technique of burning divine power or the mechanical treasure. I can provide you with these things directly.”

Given Luo Feng's current high status in the world of Jin, he can easily give away mechanical treasures or secret techniques that burn divine power.

"There's no need. Once I take it, you won't be a match for me."

Zhou Lin shook his head, extremely confident: "Sparring in this state is actually fairer for us."

Luo Feng now possesses mechanical treasures, the "Severance" technique, and numerous inherited secret arts, while Zhou Lin has reached the level of a True God Dominator in terms of life level.

This is actually extremely fair.

"You don't even want the Mechanical Flow Treasure?" Luo Feng said again, "Bei Chen, you probably don't understand just how powerful the Burning Divine Power Secret Technique and the Mechanical Flow Treasure really are..."

"No need to say anything more."

Zhou Lin's eyes burned with intensity: "Winning is winning, losing is losing, let's just fight it out."

Luo Feng was startled.

Zhou Lin's boundless confidence and domineering attitude were somewhat infectious, and Luo Feng immediately replied, "Alright, then let's have two matches."

"Two matches?" Zhou Lin immediately understood what Luo Feng meant.

The first match took place in the primordial universe. With power limits in place, the contest was about secret techniques and the subtlety of the moves.

The second battle is in the cosmic sea, where we'll go all out.

"Hmm." Luo Feng's current level is already quite high. When he passed the test in the Jin world, he was already able to create his own seventh-order secret technique. He also accelerated his cultivation time in the inheritance space.

Luo Feng is now confident that his level of self-confidence is no less than that of most true gods.

The two left Star Soul Mountain. The battle at the sixth level was too terrifying; a flick of the finger could reduce a large area of ​​starry sea to ashes. They had to go to an uninhabited area to fight.

Swish!
Even without teleportation through the divine kingdom, Zhou Lin and Luo Feng could traverse the void extremely quickly, instantly leaving the human territory behind.

It's important to understand that the territory of humankind today is not what it used to be.

Zhou Lin laid the foundation, and Luo Feng brought the legacy of the Broken East River, which gave birth to a large number of universe masters. Although Zi Yue still interfered and funded the development of other races.

But humanity's dominant position remains unshakeable!

In the blink of an eye, the two arrived at a secret cosmic realm.

This cosmic secret realm was already in ruins, a desolate landscape with dim stars, extremely scarce energy, and no living beings.

"Make your move," Zhou Lin said calmly. "Once I make my move, you'll have no chance."

"How arrogant." Luo Feng drew his sword and slashed. He had honed his skills in the Jin world for so long that his self-created secret techniques were already at the level of true gods.

This strike is called the Light of Water and Fire.

Its power is at the sixth-tier limit, but its moves are infinitely mysterious.

The blade flashed fiercely, raging around Zhou Lin before transforming into a cage to bind him within!
Zhou Lin stood still, his right hand flicking out gently. The incredibly simple movement carried infinite mystery, freezing time and space in an instant and shattering the cage of sword light.

The sword light vanished, but the aftershocks spread for tens of thousands of light-years, shattering the desolate starry sky inch by inch.

Luo Feng was shocked. He couldn't see through the mystery contained in Zhou Lin's flick of his finger at all, so he immediately used another secret technique.

The Road to the Nine Heavens!
Chi!
The seventh-tier top-level secret technique was incredibly profound, yet Zhou Lin remained unmoved, standing still and annihilating the sword light once again with a flick of his finger!
"Too weak." Zhou Lin shook his head. The system of rules and mysteries was inherently stronger than other systems in terms of the profoundness of the same realm.

However, there will be fewer physical methods involved.

Therefore, most systems of rules and mysteries will also incorporate other systems to compensate for their own shortcomings.

Luo Feng was stunned; both he and Zhou Lin could only unleash sixth-order power.

Therefore, in terms of sparring, there was no physical combat; the two's attacks were merely a subtle exchange, and the difference in strength could be seen in a single move.

"It's your turn to make a move," Luo Feng said solemnly.

(End of this chapter)