Devouring the Stars: Rising from the Snow Eagle System

Chapter 259 The Path of Integration
After wandering around the world for half a day, Zhou Lin did not encounter any other challengers. Suddenly, he heard a strange sound coming from ahead, as if something was being chewed.

Upon hearing the sound, Zhou Lin quickened his pace. This was very likely a test, and a test meant points. Passing through the wisps of mist, he saw a strange creature before him.

"Could it be a low-level Chaos Origin?" Zhou Lin was somewhat shocked.

This bizarre creature was extremely terrifying in appearance. Its flesh was rotting and flowing with black blood. It crawled on the ground with its bent limbs, and there was nothing in its eye sockets.

It was chewing on the gloomy fog, seemingly absorbing some kind of energy from it. Upon noticing someone approaching, it immediately went on alert.

"Roar!"

The eerie creature let out a low growl and then pounced forward with incredible speed, even faster than the Earth God King.

It should be noted that even a Level B combatant cannot fly in this trial world, and this strange creature's pounce clearly involved floating in the air.

Zhou Lin was instantly terrified. The power was at least at the peak of the King level, or even higher. His nine clones attacked at the same time. He had a considerable number of top-level secret treasures related to causality in his world, which armed three of his clones.

In other words, Zhou Lin now has three main combat agents.

Although the other six clones are not invincible, their combined strength is still considerable.

His current strength comes from the combination of two paths.

Normally, dual cultivation wouldn't be this strong, but Zhou Lin is at the perfect level, a top-grade inheritor of dual cultivation, and now he has even comprehended the rudimentary form of the fusion path.

The perfect level of inheritance is far beyond the supreme secret transmission.

Because the supreme secret of the Realm Heart Continent, which guides the way to the Ultimate Realm, involves some of the mysteries of the God Emperor level.

The perfect and special-grade inheritances are meant to allow a God-King to reach the pinnacle of his level. Zhou Lin is currently at this pinnacle, able to unleash invincible power at the second level of the Cosmic God realm!

Even without any secret treasures, Zhou Lin is stronger than an ordinary Ultimate Realm cultivator.

The World Sea emerged, suppressing everything with its strongest energy. This was his specialty: overwhelming others with sheer power. Ordinary emperors and monarchs would be instantly killed.

boom!
Unexpectedly, the strange creature shattered the boundless world sea with a single slap, and countless waves were instantly destroyed.

"What?!" Zhou Lin exclaimed in disbelief.

This strange creature's power has clearly surpassed the upper limit of the Origin Continent, reaching the level of a God Emperor, but its movements are somewhat clumsy.

Could it be that the two progenitors also unlocked the limit of their power?
Or perhaps, only the strange creatures tested by the palace itself are acceptable?
If it's the first possibility, then Zhou Lin is really afraid that he will encounter the Ancestor of Flame Wind. For a late-stage God Emperor who has attained enlightenment, crushing him would be no different than crushing a chicken.

The second option is alright.

"Hmm, the lord went to such lengths to design this, it certainly wasn't to make me face a late-stage God Emperor." After thinking it over, Zhou Lin felt relieved.

If their power wasn't restricted, they might as well have let the two progenitors of Yanfeng just kill them all.

Zhou Lin easily dodged the strange creature's attacks.

Chi!Chi!Chi!
Each of its attacks contained a dense aura of death; its power at the early stage of the God Emperor level was truly terrifying, with a qualitative difference compared to Zhou Lin.

After all, Zhou Lin's profound abilities were not yet at the ultimate level. He often relied on his size to overwhelm others, but the strange creature was a true early-stage God Emperor. Even if its moves were clumsy, it could still overwhelm him.

"Eternal Night, descend!" Zhou Lin prepared to unleash his soul technique, but the boundless darkness was abruptly cut off by an unknown force as soon as it appeared.

Clearly, this world doesn't want him to pass the test using soul techniques, but rather to fight this bizarre creature head-on to the bitter end.

Yuan hoped that Zhou Lin could hone his combat skills.

The Great Way, the rules, are essentially the embodiment of combat skills.

The lords mastered the Dao at the Hunyuan level, so their combat skills were stronger than those of other progenitors. They might even have greater power than the progenitors, but in terms of skill, they were not as good as the lords.

"If I can design it, I can definitely pass the test." After adjusting his mindset, Zhou Lin immediately began fighting the strange creature.

Even with all nine clones attacking simultaneously, and their power unrestricted, Zhou Lin's combined attack still couldn't reach the level of an early-stage God Emperor; that was an absolute chasm.

Emperor Xia also had nine clones, but even if they joined forces, they were not enough to cross a level.

Moreover, Zhou Lin's current strength is the absolute manifestation of power, and the further he progresses, the more he needs mysterious support; simply accumulating power will not be useful.

"kill!"

The World Sea in Zhou Lin's hand boiled, and an endless silver world began to bloom, countless times larger than the universe, pressing forward relentlessly.

"Roar!"

But the bizarre creature simply swept a single claw across, instantly annihilating countless worlds.

Fortunately, there were other clones assisting, whether it was the destruction of the world or the void, or the mysterious cause and effect, which managed to hold back the strange creature.

Even with the combined efforts of the nine clones, they only managed to fight to a draw.

"I need to improve my profound understanding." Zhou Lin was very perceptive, and after a few moves, he realized the key to breaking the deadlock.

His power level is at the peak of the King level, but his moves are not much more mysterious than those of the strange creatures, so overall he cannot be compared with other invincible beings.

Other invincible beings possess power reaching the pinnacle of the King level, yet their profound mysteries overwhelm even the early-stage God Emperor bloodline, allowing them to fight to a draw.

Zhou Lin himself was aware of this shortcoming.

Reaching this level at the second level of the God King realm is already extremely difficult. No matter how strong a perfect or special-grade inheritance is, it cannot change one's realm.

How can one enhance their profound understanding?

Although it was during a fierce battle, Zhou Lin was quite at ease. The strange creature was perhaps even dumber than the ordinary early-stage God Emperor bloodline.

Zhou Lin quickly turned his attention to Yuan Shidao.

The ultimate realm of fusion is comparable to the early stage of a God Emperor, and the early stage of a God Emperor is even comparable to the late stage of a God Emperor.

The Dao of Fate is not as numerous as the Dao of Life and Death. The secret techniques of just four meridians are comparable to the normal five meridians. If the five meridians were to merge, they would probably be comparable to ordinary ultimate realm techniques.

Rumble!
Zhou Lin fought fiercely with the strange creatures, and at the same time began to create his own fusion Dao techniques.

The initial version of the technique was not enough to completely suppress the strange creature.

One needs to integrate the techniques of the Five Meridians to reach a level comparable to, or even higher than, some ultimate realms, so that one can suppress the strange creatures in terms of profound mystery and win.

"Lifeless." While fighting the strange creature, Zhou Lin was also observing his opponent's every move.

For example, the blood on its body and the breath it exhaled were themselves a strong aura of death, polluting this world. Zhou Lin also noticed this.

Within the deathly aura, the strange creatures move even faster, so Zhou Lin continuously dissolves the deathly aura with each attack.

Everything in the Trial World was designed by the Lord, or rather, the artifact spirit. After all, during the current war, Yuan couldn't possibly keep an eye on the Origin Continent all the time.

Even if Zhou Lin has great talent, he has not yet realized it.

"Death energy, polluting the world?" Zhou Lin's hands were shrouded in mist, and he stood on the boundless ocean of the world. He then directly used his move to try to cut off this part of the world.

click!
A part of the world was cut off, but it quickly returned to its lifeless state. *Sizzle!*
The strange creature became increasingly intelligent as the battle progressed. It discovered that Zhou Lin's six clones were not strong enough, so it began to target his weaknesses, unleashing powerful and heavy attacks.

"I originally created a move by fusing calamity, fruition, world, and chaos. Now I can try to fuse life and death into it." Zhou Lin was starting to find it increasingly difficult to cope.

He must develop a technique that integrates the five meridians as soon as possible.

when!when!when!
The ten figures fought fiercely, and the world was shrouded in deathly aura.

The desert was shattered, dust billowed for billions of kilometers, and the sound of clashing weapons echoed across the vast expanse. Zhou Lin sat cross-legged within the world, bathed in boundless holy light, and managed to withstand the opponent's fierce attack.

Zhou Lin kept using various fusion techniques, but to be precise, they were only rough combinations, and the one move that truly fused the essence was still lacking.

Zhou Lin unleashed a variety of dazzling lights and karmic calamities, with life force and death energy devouring each other, even touching the realm of time.

The world is complete only when it contains the past, present, and future.

In a daze, Zhou Lin saw himself fighting a fierce battle with a strange creature in the past, and then the two of them fought their way into the future, where the world kept breaking apart and he kept creating.

With his perfect divine body and nine avatars supporting him, Zhou Lin's energy is practically limitless!
"I will kill you!"

After nearly a year of intense fighting, Zhou Lin created the first version of the Five Meridians Fusion Technique, but it was only a rough creation and its stability still needed to be tested.

The most important aspect of the method of integrating the two paths of world and cause and effect is stability. If the created world does not have stability, it will collapse directly.

"The Great World of Reincarnation!" Zhou Lin flipped his hand and struck out, instantly creating a killing move by transforming the illusory world into reality. A world with a structure that closely resembled the Origin Continent descended.

The world trembled continuously, and then was enveloped by bizarre creatures.

"Roar!!"

The eerie creature roared. In the past, it had always used brute force to break through Zhou Lin's attacks, and even if the world turned into a sea, it could not withstand his vast power!
A claw was swung out, but they were now locked in a stalemate.

"Hahahaha!" Zhou Lin laughed loudly, "I knew it. This attack from the initial stage of the Five Meridians is comparable to the profound mystery of the Ultimate Realm. With my power to unleash it, how could you, a fool, possibly break through it so easily?"

After saying that, he continued to use various killing moves and secret techniques to fight!

puff!
Zhou Lin punched the strange creature in the chest, causing it to cave in. Then, the tribulation clouds unleashed boundless lightning, tearing apart its flesh.

"Roar!!!" The strange creature's roar sounded painful no matter how you looked at it, and Zhou Lin used various techniques to suppress it at the same time.

Compared to the true early-stage God Emperor bloodline, it is far inferior. First of all, its combat skills are low, and it has no special methods.

Those god-kings who tap into the potential of their bloodlines all possess some mysterious techniques, but this strange creature can only exhale death energy, pollute the heavens and earth, and perform ordinary attacks.

In the end, it could only fall at Zhou Lin's feet. It only had the power of an early-stage God Emperor, with no mystery to speak of, and it couldn't even defeat a normal invincible opponent.

With a slight improvement in his abilities, Zhou Lin could kill him with ease.

[Challenger: Zhou Lin]

[Congratulations on killing a Undead! You have earned 100 points.]

[Completed the kill with the strength of a second-level God King, triggering a double points reward: Congratulations, points x3]

Zhou Lin has now earned 300 points.

He needs to continue his journey, and must complete a full halfway through before he can unlock the exchange. The final treasure is located in the eighth level.

All entrants must face eight trials, but encounters with other god-kings are not included in these trials.

"I can't rush off right away." Zhou Lin sat cross-legged on the ground and continued to cultivate and comprehend the Dao. The first opponent was already so formidable.

What should you do if you encounter a true bloodline-based god-emperor in the early stages?

That's still considered good. Zhou Lin even suspected that he might be given a low-level Chaos Origin God in the early stage of God Emperor, which would be the real challenge. With his current strength, he would probably only get beaten up.

The previous technique, Samsara Great World, was already a secret method of the Dao of Fate at the second level of the God King realm, so Zhou Lin now has a better understanding of the Dao he has created.

"Om~"

Zhou Lin was stunned. The space he was in had inexplicably accelerated time by dozens of times. It should be noted that the more powerful a life form is, the less likely it is to enjoy this kind of treatment.

Many semi-primordial cultivators who have attained enlightenment can only obediently maintain the normal flow rate when they go into seclusion.

By comprehending the flow of time, Zhou Lin first solidified the foundation of his own world, the two fundamental paths of cause and effect, and created a secret technique for the second level of the God King realm.

He had always studied high-level secret techniques at a lower level.

Now, opening up secret techniques at the same level is a piece of cake, especially with two profound inheritances to draw upon, and various worlds and mystical techniques of cause and effect being researched.

After spending seven million eight hundred thousand years, Zhou Lin began to study the various branches of the Dao of Fate.

After creating the Great World of Reincarnation, he already had the initial outline of a branch in his mind. Now that he has solidified the foundation, his understanding is completely different.

No one can say how many branches a single path of fusion has.

Even in two source worlds, the same primordial Dao will have different branches.

For example, the Great Dao of Birth and Death can combine with the Great Dao in thousands of ways, but Luo Feng can only choose the part he needs.

He cultivated the branch he needed to the ultimate level, and wherever he went, he was at the ultimate level.

Even the ultimate realm has not exhausted all mysteries.

Some of the secret techniques created by the second level of the God King realm are so powerful that even those at the Ultimate Realm would find them astonishing.

Zhou Lin used to want to reach the ultimate goal and explore all the mysteries of a path, but when he actually tried, he found that it was not that simple at all.

"I have now come to understand that there are five major branches: the Eternal Branch, the Heavenly Branch, the Extreme Branch, the Beginning Branch, and the End Branch."

In Zhou Lin's perception, this path should be able to yield two more branches.

The eternal lineage is, in fact, the sublimation of the world.

The realm of origin is the superposition of the world after the causal and effect paths merge.

The extreme point, the beginning, is also the direction of the world; the end is the true path of slaughter.

Whoosh!
Having figured out the path to integration, Zhou Lin felt much more confident.

Fortunately, a strange creature helped him perfect his skills, allowing him to defeat stronger opponents with weaker strength, which greatly improved his level.

Some practitioners of martial arts and martial arts have this kind of training method.

For example, using planetary-level power to challenge stellar-level swordsmen, or using immortal power to fight against Venerables.

These can all be helpful to one's skills.

(End of this chapter)