Devouring the Stars: Rising from the Snow Eagle System

In the vast Hunyuan Space, only a very small number of powerful beings exist in the Origin World.

Even many source worlds do not have a passage to the outside world like the Origin Continent. Many God-Kings at the Ultimate Realm retreated for several reincarnation eras before figuring out the Great Realm-Breaking Teleportation Technique.

Especially after witnessing the environments of these worlds firsthand, Zhou Lin understood why the worlds were filled with powerful beings, born stronger, and many times more brutal.

The Source World is too merciful to the beings within it.

“Within three thousand eras, these beings will either become God-Kings or die.” Yun Jie shook his head: “The rules of the Holy Realm are cruel; only by ascending can one live a better life.”

The true gods of the Origin Continent can live for 30,000 epochs, but the Chaos Realm here only has a lifespan of 3,000 epochs. Fortunately, since they do not become God Kings, the rules of hunger do not restrict them.

As for Yun Jie's suggestion of ascending to immortality and living a good life, Zhou Lin thought to himself that it might be even worse.

If that Emperor Venerable only possessed the combat power of a perfect King-level expert, relying on his profound abilities to rival someone who had just entered the Emperor-level, he might have had some of his things stolen when he went to the Holy Realm.

Joining a faction requires doing odd jobs and slowly accumulating experience over many years. Becoming a semi-primordial cultivator who has attained enlightenment and can eventually become a high-level primordial cultivator through bloodline is already the limit.

"Cloud-bound Dharma Protector".

"Cloud-bound Dharma Protector".

Along the way, they would occasionally encounter cultivators dressed in light gold robes, who appeared to be staff members of the Holy Palace. They would respectfully bow to Yun Jie.

Judging from his appearance, Yun Jie must hold a high position in the Holy Palace.

"If he only has the ultimate level of unarmed combat power, or even slightly lower, and he can have this status, then I should be able to unleash my full power in my prime."

Zhou Lin was incredibly quick-witted; he soon pieced together a fairly complete picture of the Holy Palace's ecosystem, including the structure of its powerful members and the strength required for ascension.

The two walked along a winding, golden staircase. Teleportation was strictly prohibited at the top of the staircase, and they had to walk trillions of kilometers on foot.

"This is the pilgrimage route of our Holy Palace. In every era, believers kneel and prostrate themselves at every step, just to meet the great Emperor."

From Yun Jie's words, Zhou Lin could also sense his fanatical worship of the Emperor, and perhaps he had done something similar in the past.

After walking up the steps for the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, the two finally reached the end. Before them was a rainbow-colored mist; passing through it would lead them into the Holy Palace.

The palace complexes outside are merely decorations; the true sacred palace exists in an independent space, containing countless books and a vast amount of resources!
When Zhou Lin entered, he also arrived in an endless and vast world. With his eyesight and perception, he could not find the end. Before him was a huge palace.

The Holy Palace, which has ruled the Holy Realm for countless years!
The Holy Palace stands above the clouds, stretching for billions of light-years, radiating boundless light that illuminates every inch of the land, and at its very top is the image of that Emperor.

Following Yun Jie, Zhou Lin was quickly led to a side hall, which was also responsible for absorbing newly joined cultivators.

In the hall, only an elderly man with white hair sat in a rattan chair. When he saw someone enter, he slowly got up, rubbed his eyes, and said slowly, "Yun Jie, is this another new recruit you've taken in? I'm already this old, why are you still causing trouble? Can't you let me live a couple more years?"

"Live two more years?" Zhou Lin seized on the key phrase again.

It seems that even in this sacred realm, one cannot truly lie down and rest. Besides hunger, there are other factors that could cause a god-king to die?
This white-haired old man exuded an aura of decline!
Although his aura was not weak and he was at the ultimate level, he still seemed to have a life force fading away, like a candle flickering in the wind.

"In the Holy Realm, if you don't hunt exotic beasts to eat meat, you will starve to death. If you eat too much, you will be poisoned. If the poison accumulates to a certain level, you will die. You must ascend as soon as possible."

Seeing Zhou Lin's confusion, Yun Jie offered an explanation.

"..." Zhou Lin didn't know what to say. In the lower plane, one would die if they didn't ascend. It turned out that it was still the same here. What about the next world?!
Everyone is being forced to move forward; the rules are incredibly strict.

Even the rules of the world that Zhou Lin himself experienced were more binding than the rules of the source world!
No wonder the Star Lord sent him out to experience different worlds.

This is the true and immense wealth for a cultivator of the fundamental Dao of the world.

“The Holy Palace only needs those who have attained enlightenment. Oh? And an Ascended One at that. Then he must be an Ascended One.” The white-haired old man spoke quickly: “I couldn’t even detect the aura of an Ascended One. I’m really getting old.”

After saying that, he threw out a long robe and a crest: "Take it, Yun Jie. There is no deputy palace master in the palace right now, so the entry procedures will have to be completed later."

Yun Jie nodded and led Zhou Lin away from the side hall.

“When the Emperor was around, there was no need for this kind of trouble, but now the three deputy palace masters are vying for power, and newcomers have to go through them to win over their subordinates.” Yun Jie explained, “With your strength, Bei Chen, your status will definitely be no less than mine, and you might even become a Golden-Clad Protector.”

Zhou Lin said nonchalantly, "They're not here, but I've already received the robes and insignia. Can I go and take a look at the Ascended Person's manual beforehand?"

"It's a small thing."

Yun Jie laughed and said, "I'll take you there right away. All the books on ascended beings in my Holy Palace are available for viewing at will, without any prerequisites."

During their conversation on the way, Zhou Lin gained a clear understanding of the basic structure of the Holy Palace and the exact strength of the three deputy palace masters.

Yun Jie said that there are only two conditions for ascension: the Bloodline Stream must reach the ultimate level, and the Enlightenment Stream must reach the ultimate perfection.

Above the ultimate level is the initial stage of the God Emperor, and the difficulty of reaching the ultimate perfection in the Enlightenment Path is extremely high.

The difficulty is many times greater than becoming a God Emperor through bloodline.

Look at the Holy Lord and the Stone Monster, monsters who have lived through countless reincarnations, they are only at the Ultimate Realm level with bare hands.

Even a sword master with supreme secret techniques cannot achieve this level of strength bare-handed.

Let alone the Sword Master, even if it were the Xia Emperor in the early stages without the Supreme Treasure, he would at most be considered invincible. The Undying Underworld Emperor might have such strength with his heart blood.

However, practitioners will all make more and more progress.

The third version of the Hunyuan Body Refinement created by Emperor Xia and Dongbo Xueying, even in its initial version, allowed their physical bodies to reach the King-level perfection. Even without carrying supreme treasures, they could rival the early stage of the Bloodline God Emperor through its profound mysteries.

After passing through a large group of palaces, the two finally arrived at a bamboo building. The bamboo building was trillions of feet tall, but it was not very large and looked quite ordinary.

"Thank you, Brother Yun Jie." Zhou Lin bowed in thanks, then showed his emblem and entered the small bamboo building.

The pale gold robes and gray emblems are the symbols of identity for members of the Holy Palace. The emblem on the cloud ring is silver, representing the Silver-Clad Protector.

Upon entering the bamboo building, one is greeted by a vast collection of jade scrolls, filled with various kinds of Taoist scriptures.

There was no one guarding the bamboo building, because without the emblem, one was not qualified to enter. Zhou Lin detected all the jade tubes in an instant, totaling more than 30 million scrolls.

Among them, the first and second levels of the God King realm account for more than 20 million volumes.

There are only one million volumes in the ultimate realm.

The Holy Palace has collected ancient and modern texts from all star fields, and this is how many they have gathered. According to Yun Jie, the history of the Holy Realm is already beyond verification.

The oldest book dates back 300 billion billion years! Such a long period of time has left behind these god-king level books.

"A million volumes of books, yet none of them contain the Great Dao of the World's Origin, though there are a few volumes on Cause and Effect." Zhou Lin instantly flipped through all the books.

You can quickly skim through the content without looking at it in detail.

The other texts related to the world are all at the second level of the God King realm, which are still somewhat useful to Zhou Lin now, as he needs to use them to understand the rules of the world!
Zhou Lin casually found a corner to sit down and first read through the ultimate secret manuals of the Dao of Cause and Effect, gaining a basic understanding of cause and effect in this world.

"Cause, effect, calamity, these are still the three paths."

Although they have the same name, they share the same fundamental Dao, but their branches will not be exactly the same. The rules are quite absurd, and Zhou Lin felt that the causal channels of this world were very weak.

The power of the Calamity Vein is outrageously strong!
A God-King at the ultimate level of cause and effect can even use some of the world's rules to bring about calamities, such as accelerating the release of toxins in others' bodies or even speeding up their hunger!
The Calamity Vein is essentially a manifestation of calamities within the universe.

This sacred realm is plagued by endless calamities, and the power of the Calamity Vein is outrageously great, making it almost impossible to find an opponent of the same level. However, it is very difficult to achieve the perfect King-level body refinement through causal cultivation.

Without the guidance of supreme secret teachings, and without any living beings to learn from, one must comprehend it on one's own. To comprehend a perfect King-level physical body technique—what a monstrous talent that is!

Zhou Lin's evaluation of that emperor also rose to a new level.

“Hunger, botox.” Zhou Lin was clearly studying the secrets of cause and effect, but he vaguely discovered the rules of the world and their influence on cause and effect.

Cause and effect are themselves part of the rules of the world.

From the causal divine heart in the universe during its weak period, to the opening of the causal path, and then to the causal origin path, it was just a change of map, but none of them transcended the concept of the world.

The world encompasses everything and contains everything.

To be precise, even if one cultivates to the level of the Chaos Origin Dao, cause and effect are still part of the rules and mysteries of the Chaos Origin Space.

In a sense, isn't the Hunyuan Space also a kind of world? The material world, the universe, the cosmic sea, the source world, and the Hunyuan Space are actually an increase in the levels of worlds.

The vast majority of paths also increase with the level of the world.

Zhou Lin grasped this key point, which didn't significantly help the two paths reach their ultimate realms, but his understanding of the Dao of Fate surged dramatically, bringing him very close to merging with it.

Once the two meridians are merged, it will be the fusion of the second level of the Dao God King realm.

"I finally understand the relationship between the world and its rules." Zhou Lin temporarily put aside his idea of ​​cultivating the Way of the World and focused all his attention on comprehending the ultimate truth.

He didn't understand before why the God of the Universe, having created the universe, couldn't grant a single being within it eternal life, allowing it to transcend the river of time.

Even after the end of the cosmic era, beings that have not transcended will never be able to be resurrected; only the master of the source world can do so.

Because the God of the Universe is not above the rules!
The master of the source world controls the rules. The lord can set the rules at will, revive living beings at will, and even make them born into the Chaos Realm.

Even the fundamental Dao of the world is not above the rules, and the entire God Emperor stage, and even the stage of breaking the law with force, requires transcending the rules!
"In another 300 million years, it shouldn't be a problem for my world or causality to reach the ultimate realm." Zhou Lin continued to browse through other books.

He would look at anything that could help his spiritual practice, not just cause and effect and the world, but also the laws and principles of emptiness, life, destruction, matter, and the immeasurable.

Zhou Lin occasionally glanced at the Dao of Skills, and seeing how countless living beings had created this fundamental Dao also deeply moved him.

They cultivated themselves for a full forty million years.

…………

Boom! ! !

The bamboo house door was violently forced open, and a figure in a gray robe walked in. Yun Jie followed behind him, looking dejected, and upon closer inspection, his breathing was somewhat disordered.

His robe, which symbolized the Holy Palace, was stripped off, and his hands were bound behind his back.

"Without going through the proper procedures and verification, you are not yet a member of my Holy Palace."

The gray-robed man said coldly, "Yun Jie, when did your authority as a silver-robed protector become so great? Do you still have any doubts about me stripping you of your protector status?"

Yun Jie lowered his head and remained silent. He didn't know why the Palace Master of Sheng Yan Palace in his lineage had lost the struggle, and the gray-robed man and another deputy palace master had joined forces to successfully take over.

It's pointless to say anything now. Why would such a trivial matter strip a Silver-Clad Protector of his status? Not even the rules of the Holy Palace explicitly state this.

The procedures for entering the palace, which require the approval of the deputy palace master, are already outside the rules. It is ridiculous to use them to strip Yun Jie of his status as a protector.

The gray-robed man rebuked Zhou Lin in a stern voice, his aura completely undisguised and extremely terrifying. Even ordinary bloodline ultimate realm cultivators would tremble before him. Clearly, he wanted to give Zhou Lin a warning.

"You audacious madman! How dare you, a non-member of our Holy Palace, look at our Holy Palace's scriptures!"

"Come over here and kowtow to Palace Master Fuxu, begging for her forgiveness!"

The gray-robed man's henchmen were also angrily rebuking him.

"You have disturbed my cultivation." Zhou Lin's tone was icy. "Furthermore, Yun Jie is my friend. Do you want to create a huge karmic debt with me by treating him like this?"

The gray-robed man was taken aback.

"Insolence!!!" a silver-clad protector roared, "Leave my Holy Palace's Scripture Pavilion, or I will have you torn to pieces!"

There were many ancient books in the area where Zhou Lin was, and they dared not act rashly for fear of damaging these countless jade slips, which were the fruits of the Holy Palace over countless years.

It can be described as a vast ocean of Taoist scriptures.

Even the deputy palace master would occasionally come in to study it, and no one dared to damage it in the slightest.

"Come out now, and I might consider sparing your life." The gray-robed man said with a gloomy face, "If I were to take action, I would extract your soul and burn it for trillions of years, making you wish you were dead."

“Brother Beichen, I’ve dragged you into this.” Yun Jie sighed, “Now I can barely protect myself…”

Zhou Lin took a step and instantly left the Sutra Repository.

"You're quite sensible. Capture him and lock him up in the Immortal Prison along with Yun Jie," the grey-robed man, Fu Xu, commanded.

"Yes!"

Several silver-clad protectors immediately stepped forward to capture Zhou Lin. (End of Chapter)